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Zoeth Skinner Eldredge letter to Professor Josiah Royce
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Josiah Royce letters to Henry L. Oak
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This group of manuscripts is a series of letters from philosopher and historian Josiah Royce to Henry L. Oak, a librarian in California who was part of the founding of the Bancroft Library, which was known as the Pacific Library in its early years. The letters are dated between 1884 and 1886. In HM 20132, Royce writes of the book on California history that he is writing, with advice from Oak. Details of Royce's interview with General John C. Frémont and a possible conspiracy are in HM 20147 and HM 20133. Royce tells of his trip to Washington D. C. to search for "the Frémost documents" in HM 20134, where he failed to find a trace of "any secret instruction" for Frémont. It appears that Royce may have found such evidence in Oak's collections at the Bancroft Library, and considers presenting it to Frémont to gauge his reaction. Royce gives Oak permission to use whatever information from the interview he may find interesting for his own purposes. In his own book, he has included "an elaborate attack on Frémont's honor." Most of the letters are concerned with Frémont's apparent indiscretion and Royce's pending book on the matter, and Royce is keeping Oak informed as Oak's information played an important role in Royce's developing story. HM 20138, dated 1885, August 29, has cross-hatch writing on the first page. By mid-1886 (HM 20143, June 20), Royce's book has been published, and he discusses the resulting reviews and criticism. In July, Royce is happy to accept a list of suggestions from Oak to improve a future edition of his book (HM 20144, July 26), and upon the finding of a mistake in his book, asks Oak to "keep this on file as record of my discovery of my own blunder" while also requesting him to "let me know in case there should be any noteworthy attack on my book from any respectable source" (HM 20145, July 29).
mssHM 20132-20147
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Benjamin J. Edson letter to Josiah [Edson]
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Letter from Benjamin J. Edson in Genoa, Nevada, to Josiah (probably his brother Josiah Edson) regarding mining claims in Nevada. Edson writes of a letter he sent to Robert Moir, and of Josiah asks that "I would like to hear from you...as to prospects, even although a longer delay might be necessary to perfect any project that might be thought of."
mssHM 16527
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Lynden Ellsworth Behymer letter to Nina M. Ward-Fernald
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The letter discusses the hiring of Ernestine Schumann-Heink for an upcoming concert at San Bernandino High School. He writes advice on how other medium and smaller cities have managed to sustain a flourishing concert season. He hopes that Mrs. Ward-Fernald will assist the High school in the symphony concert they were planning and suggests that they engage Emma Calvé. Letter is on Behymer's own professional letterhead with a cancelled cover: Los Angeles, Calif. Oct 20, 1922 6 PM.
mssHM 43195
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James Hervey Simpson letter to Josiah Simpson
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An autograph, signed letter from James Hervey Simpson to his brother Dr. Josiah Simpson, with envelope. The letter was written three weeks before the 1864 election and Simpson is responding to his brother's concern that it is "injudicious" for him to become involved in presidential politics. Simpson had contributed a long letter to the anti-McClellan pamphlet "Gen'l McClellan's Record. His Sympathy with the South," (1864) a publication attributed to Edgar Conkling. The letter is accompanied by two items which quote Simpson's views on McClellan: a copy of this 1864 pamphlet, with edits by Simpson, and a newspaper clipping from the "Cincinnati Daily Times" with Simpson's letter to the editor (November 12, 1864).
mssHM 84054
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Josiah Foster Flagg notebooks
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The two notebooks contain engineering notes taken by Flagg while on trips through Argentina, Peru, and California in 1872 and 1874. In his notebooks, Flagg describes architecture, buildings, machinery, bridges, tunnels, railroads, mines, and other machines and structures that he observes on his journeys. The notebooks are illustrated with Flagg's sketches of these structures and machines as well as containing his descriptions of their design and construction. While in California, Flagg took notes on the San Francisco cable cars, on various mines and mining methods and particular on the New Almaden Mines. Flagg briefly mentions the people he meets during his journeys. Also included is a photograph of Josiah Foster Flagg.
mssHM 66485-66486
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David Starr Jordan letter to Max Farrand
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This letter discusses the losses due to the San Francisco Earthquake including the church, the arch, the new library, the gymnasium and the new part of the museum. However, Jordan stresses that the University is not as badly off as it could be. Written on Leland Standford Junior University, Office of the President letterhead with cancelled cover postmarked Stanford, CA May 5, 1906.
mssHM 16697