Manuscripts
John Daniel Cooke correspondence
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John Daniel Cooke correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence between John Daniel Cooke and several American and English authors and artists. Most of the correspondence concerns Cooke's attempts to find speakers for the University of Southern California's Phi Beta Kappa and Epsilon Phi lectures. Some of the correspondence also focuses on the connections between literature and film as Cooke taught a class on screenwriting and was actively interested in the field. Correspondents include Van Wyck Brooks, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Jessie Conrad, Homer Croy, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, Hamlin Garland, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Maurice Leonard Jacks, Aldous Huxley, Edgar Fogel Magnin, Conrad Nagel, John Boynton Priestly, George Winfield Scott, Milton Sills, Upton Sinclair, Hugh Walpole and Darryl Francis Zanuck.
mssHM 39572-39624
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John Percy letter to Edward William Cooke
Manuscripts
The letter from John Percy to Edward William Cooke regards a Royal Academy exhibition, Cooke's travels, art, and Percy's wife's health.
mssHM 83090
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Henry David Cooke papers, (bulk 1846-1881)
Manuscripts
A collection containing 169 items; mssHM 47644-47748: Personal and professional correspondence of Henry D. Cooke. Included are the correspondence, deeds, bonds, agreements, contracts, accounts, and other financial and business records. The correspondence with Laura S. Humphreys Cooke and John Sherman constitute two larger groups of letters. Other correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, Salmon Portland Chase, Jay Cooke, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Julia Dent Grant. The letters cover Cooke's travels in Panama and Chile, life in California (including news of the gold discovery), his political activities, business interests, and family matters. Also included are: a political cartoon entitled "The exhausted receiver," by J.P. Davis and S. Peer, Cyrus West Field's proposal on "the establishment of a submarine telegraph communication between the West coast of America and the eastern shores of Russia, China, etc." addressed to Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, and a contract and specifications for an organ for St. John Episcopal Church in Georgetown (1870) commissioned by Cooke to Henry Erben. The ephemera contains visiting cards, invitations, receipts, tax forms, stock certificates, etc. There is also the 1956 correspondence of his grandson Henry Dave Cook with Leslie Edgar Bliss, the Librarian of the Huntington Library, regarding possible acquisition of Henry D. Cooke's papers.
mssCooke
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Correspondence: John Aiken
Manuscripts
Personal and professional papers of Conrad Aiken. The collection includes his correspondence, (chiefly letters addressed to him), dealing with his business and literary affairs, manuscripts of his works, with some photographs and ephemera.
mssAIK 1-4904
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John Kendall correspondence and papers
Manuscripts
Two folio notebooks containing copies of the correspondence and papers of John Kendall. The materials were apparently collected in preparation for a biography of John Kendall
mssHM 64532-64533
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John Daniell papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 790 items from 1868 to 1945; it includes correspondence (including 29 letter books), documents, and photographs related to the career of Captain John Daniell, Sr. (1839-1898) and his son, mining engineer John Daniell, Jr. (1874-1960). Subjects include: the operation and development of the Michigan mines and related railroads; labor conditions; the activities of rival companies; mining finance; stock market speculations; and national and international mining syndicates. There is also some information on mining in Arizona and Montana. Over 500 letters in the collection addressed to John Daniell, Sr. are chiefly from Albert S. Bigelow and officers of the Bigelow-Clark Syndicate in Boston, Massachusetts. Three letter books and correspondence belonging to John Daniell, Jr. are concerned with mining in Finland, Arizona, and Montana, where the younger Daniell worked as a mining engineer from 1899 to 1923.
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