Manuscripts

Sketch of Fort Ludlow, Washington Territory

Description: Sketch of Port Ludlow mill and townsite as it was in 1856. Also: drawing of house built by Joshua Thorndike in 1856.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: after 1916
Call number: mssHM 39177
Creator: Gardner, William Bunker(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Lloyd Graves, October 1965.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

William Bunker Gardner papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, a letter book, manuscripts, a journal, a sketch of Fort Ludlow, Washington, a map, and documents. There is one logbook related to the voyage of the Ship Sarah Parker to San Francisco via Cape Horn, from 1852 to 1855, visits to North Pacific ports, and the return trip to Massachusetts. The journal in the collection is by Charlotte Coffin Gardner. The collection also contains a few accounts for the ships Courier, Mary Mitchell, and Flora. There is also correspondence in the collection from 1920 to 1965, most of which is between Grace Brown Gardner, the granddaughter of William B. Gardner and Charlotte Gardner, and Eleanor Jane Graves. This correspondence focuses on the Gardner journal and early Nantucket inhabitants. There are also photographs of William B. Garner and Charlotte Gardiner, dated between 1850 and 1870.

mssHM 39123-39180

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Correspondence, maps

Manuscripts

mssHM 39123-39177

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Letter book, journal, ships' log, photographs

Manuscripts

mssHM 39178-39180

A sketch of the lower falls, and ferry of Saratoga, thirty six miles above Albany and nine miles below Fort Edward. [cartographic material]

Manuscripts

Manuscript plan, a copy by Patrick Mackellar, and drafted probably around 1756, before the fort was built on Georges Island. Kashnor, in the Museum Book Store catalog, locates Georges Island on the Hudson River, just above the junction with Fish Creek River in Saratoga County. The location of Georges Island, or its modern-day name has not been verified.

mssHM 15458

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Sketches of my life :

Manuscripts

Memoir by James William Nixon recalling events of his life from the time of his youth in St. George, Utah. He recounts attending Martha Cox's school, his baptism by William Empy, the family's move to Mt. Trumbull, his childhood occupations (including caring for cattle and horses, running his father's mill, and driving oxen), lumber hauling, the death of his father, his work on Tobe Whitmore's cattle ranch, his travels throughout Utah, his romance with Effie Woolley, his mission work in the midwestern United States and California, and his travels throughout California including San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino.

mssHM 16951

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Samuel Johnson Collection

Manuscripts

This collection contains 21 letters and drawings related to or by English writer Samuel Johnson that were previously bound together in one volume. Items include six letters by Samuel Johnson to various recipients: publisher Thomas Longman (HM 20824); Samuel Richardson (HM 20821); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (HM 20825); Nathan Wetherell (HM 20826); and two letters to John Taylor (HM 20822, HM 20827), as well as an 1841 letter from Taylor (HM 20823) and notes by Johnson scholar George Birkbeck Hill (HM 40967) about the June 23, 1784, letter from Johnson to Taylor. There are also single letters from Alexander Johnson (HM 20828); William Seward (HM 20829); James Boswell to his daughter (HM 20830); Hester Lynch Piozzi (HM 20831); Sir Joshua Reynolds (HM 20832); and William Cowper (HM 20833) to various individuals (not Samuel Johnson). There are also seven drawings and one 1916 newspaper clipping. The drawings include an unfinished drawing of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, and others (HM 40960), copies of portraits of Johnson, and images of locations related to Johnson. Items were originally bound in a folio black straight-grained morocco binding that was disbound in 1975.

mssHM 20821-20833, HM 40960-40967

Sketch of Fort Ludlow, Washington Territory

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