Manuscripts

Arthur Leon Campa poems and letters to Louis Untermeyer

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Description: Letters dated August 6, 1930 and October 31, 1930. Accompanied by Poems of the Colonials of the Southwest: typescript of four poems in Spanish, each with an accompanying English translation, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. With dating of the poems in the hand of the author. The poems are referred to in the letter dated October 31, 1930.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1930.
Call number: mssHM 41068-41070
Creator: Campa, Arthur L (1905-1978)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Louis Untermeyer, April 1975.
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Mary Austin manuscripts and letters to Louis Untermeyer

Manuscripts

This collection contains five letters to Louis Untermeyer from Mary Austin and typewritten carbon copies of "Hymns of the Penitentes," an essay about the Indian Penitente group of New Mexico and their chants and hymns (HM 41060), and "Rimas Infantiles of New Mexico," an essay on the cradle songs of New Mexico (HM 41061), with corrections in ink by the author. The letters, dated June 24, 1930 (HM 41062); July 18, 1930 (HM 41063); September 10, 1930 (HM 41064); October 19, 1930 (HM 41065); and November 12, 1930 (HM 41066), primarily discuss Native American and Southwest poetry and songs, prompted by Untermeyer's work on a projected anthology of Indian verse.

mssHM 41060-41066

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José Joaquín Arrillaga letter to unidentified addressee

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This letter, written to an unknown addressee, concerns the immoral conduct of Joaquin Marquez and Tomas Cota and how cases of adultery and other crimes should be dealt with in the future. Dated 1791, October 31.

mssHM 16560

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Arthur Korn photograph of King Edward VII, the first photograph transmitted by long-distance photography, and Korn's autograph letter, signed

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Collection is comprised of a photograph, an autograph letter, signed by A. Korn, and a newspaper clipping. The photograph (a portrait of Edward VII) is the first image transmitted by wire to a British newspaper, the Daily Mirror. It is inscribed by A. Korn in the margin: "mit fal. Grüssen Arthur Korn". Accompanying is an autograph letter, signed, in German, to an unidentified correspondent, dated London, 1907, November 9. This letter also contains an integral leaf containing a draft of the receipent's response dated Sunday, November 1 [1907]. The third and final item is a German newspaper clipping, in Fraktur, announcing Korn's shared prize in theoretical physics and his successful work in phototelegraphy.

mssHM 82990

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John Braham letter

Manuscripts

Regarding the Colosseum. With a newspaper clipping of a performance at the Royalty Theatre on October 31, 1787.

mssHM 11399

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Sabatelli report to French King Louis Phillippe I

Manuscripts

Manuscript titled "General plan d'une machine pour enfoncer les pilotis maintenant en usage a Davenport (sic), avec l'explication"; report written by James Nasmyth (Sabatelli) to the French King Louis Philippe I, dated London, 21st October 1845, concerning James Nasmyth's steam pile driver; includes colored wash drawing dated 1846. The report is written in English.

mssHM 83604

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Arthur Bond Cecil collection

Manuscripts

A collection of correspondence and poems collected by Arthur Bond Cecil; some of which were collected for the autograph value. The majority of the collection consists of poems and letters by George Sterling, including, among others, "Adullam," "The Hawk's Nest," "Nepenthe," and "The Strange Bird." There is also a notebook of poems by Sadakichi Hartmann; a letter from Issac Hull to Samuel W. Dana; James Ryder Randall poems; a John Singer Sargent letter; a James McNeill Whistler letter; and letters to Mitchell Kennerley, Frances Marion, James Rolph, and Upton Sinclair. There are also a few letters concerning material Cecil has in his collection; many of the letters with envelopes.

mssHM 46270-46320

Arthur Leon Campa poems and letters to Louis Untermeyer

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