Manuscripts

James M. Barrie letters

Description: The collection contains ninety-eight letters written by Barrie to his agent, Reginald Edward Golding Bright. The letters are both brief and official and concern themselves with production aspects of Barrie's plays such as royalties, contracts, revivals, and casting decisions.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1907-1927
Call number: mssHM 40736-40833
Creator: Barrie, J. M (1860-1937)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's, July 1973.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Bright, Reginald Edward Golding, (1875-1941,)
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James M. Barrie letters

Manuscripts

The collection contains ninety-eight letters written by Barrie to his agent, Reginald Edward Golding Bright. The letters are both brief and official and concern themselves with production aspects of Barrie's plays such as royalties, contracts, revivals, and casting decisions.

mssHM 40736-40833

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Letters of J. M. Barrie

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272427

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J. M. Seibert letterbook

Manuscripts

The letterbook includes both personal and business correspondence of J. M. Seibert, the Wells, Fargo & Company general agent in Mexico City. Subjects discussed are: William Jennings Bryan, Edward Henry Harriman, John J. Valentine, and real estate, copper, gold, and silver mining, coffee plantations, and business schemes in Mexico. There are also detailed descriptions of Mexico, and more specifically, Mexico City. The majority of the letters deal with Seibert's personal investments and business dealings; although some of the discussion pertains to Wells, Fargo & Company's investments and real estate purchases

mssHM 63953

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Antonio María Bucareli y Ursúa letters to Felipe Barri and Felipe de Neve

Manuscripts

This set of four letters deals with various aspects of administration of the Spanish colonies of New Spain, including the missions. HM 16573 and HM 16574 (which also contain photograph facsimiles) are addressed to Felipe Barri, and dated November 30, 1771 and June 4, 1772. HM 16575 and HM 16576 are addressed to Felipe de Neve, and dated November 12, 1774 and March 26, 1776. In Spanish.

mssHM 16573-16576

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James B. Pinker letters

Manuscripts

The collection consists of 61 letters addressed to the literary agent James Brand Pinker or to his sons, Eric (1891-1973) and Ralph (1900-1959), from a number of literary figures. The letters mostly discuss business matters handled through Pinker's London or New York offices. The collection includes letters from Freda Uhl Strindberg concerning the legal and financial affairs of Russian writer Mikhail Petrovich Art︠s︡ybashev (1878-1927); there are also letters in the collection concerning the affairs of writer Arnold Bennett.

mssHM 42393-42453

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James B. Pinker letters

Manuscripts

mssHM 42393-42453

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