Manuscripts

Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress

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Description: Drawing done by John Fiske after seeing a panorama of Pilgrim's Progress. With note by Fiske explaining the drawing.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1853.
Call number: mssHM 43262
Creator: Fiske, John (1842-1901)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of February 1995.
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Schubert : [a biographical sketch] [1 volume; cover title: "A Sketch on Franz Schubert"]

Manuscripts

Bound with: Fiske, John. An Evening with Schubert, St. Louis, 1893 March 6 [program of a recital] Paine, John Knowles. [Memoir on Fiske's love of music] Fiske, Abby Morgan (Brooks). Note on Fiske's sketch on Schubert, 1905

HM 18887

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John Fiske Addenda

Manuscripts

The majority of the collection is made of up correspondence by John Fiske and his family. It includes letters by his mother Mary Fiske Bound Green Stoughton. There are several letters written to Fiske's step-father E. W. Stoughton. Prominent participants in the collection include: editor George S. Hellman, writer and literary critic William Dean Howells, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Daniel Webster, Charles Francis Adams, artist James E. Taylor, Reverend Samuel Longfellow, artist Carl L. Brandt, and artist Albert Bierstadt. There are letters by Secretary of State William M. Evarts appointing Edwin Stoughton as minister to Russia (1877) and the letter accepting Stoughton's resignation from that position (1879). Subjects include: Fiske and his work and writings, Ignatius Donnelly, Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, Prince Kropotkin, and the assassination of Alexander II in 1881. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author. There are several folders of ephemera relating to both E. W. Stoughton and John Fiske. Stoughton's ephemera relates to his time as minister to Russia including his passport and invitations to events. The "Photographs" folder contains five photographic items related to Russia as well. Fiske's ephemera includes copies of publications with articles by Fiske in them (including Appleton's Journal).

mssFiske addenda

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The Five White Mice: short story

Manuscripts

Also enclosed: autograph, signed note by Joseph Conrad explaining that Stephen Crane gave this manuscript to Conrad and he is giving the manuscript to John Quinn for safe-keeping, 1912.

mssHM 3995

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Color-blindness report of Dr. B. Joy Jeffries: incomplete copy

Manuscripts

This report, done by Dr. Jeffries, was done for the city of Boston and is the result of testing done by the doctor in the public schools of Boston. This copy is incomplete and it ends mid-sentence on the 12th page. On the cover is a handwritten note: "Prof. John Tyndal [sic] with the Compliments of the Author."

mssHM 75952

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Recollections of Sixty Years of Engineering by John H. Quinton

Manuscripts

This typewritten memoir by Los Angeles engineer, John Henry Quinton, begins with his childhood in Enniskillen, Ireland. He continues with his decision to find work in America as an engineer after seeing an advertisement in a book for the Central Pacific Railroad Company. After a rough voyage at sea on board the steamship Circassian, he landed in San Francisco, California with $40 in his pockets in 1873. In California, Quinton writes about various ventures, from ill-conceived irrigation projects to the inception of a colony called the "California Colony," which was the foundation for the city of Fresno. At one point in the memoir, Quinton interjects with a note about his temperament. "I have already stated in these pages that I was endowed with a hasty temper as a boy, and showed it so frequently that my mother, who was a very wise woman, warned me that it would sometimes get me into serious trouble. Fortunately as I grew older I learned to retrain my temper, and although it came near getting me into serious trouble several times it never really got me into serious trouble" (p. 202). He concludes the memoir with a few kind words about Frederick Haynes Newell, the First Director of the United States Reclamation Project, and taking up work since he did in 1908.

mssHM 83618

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[Pilgrim]

Visual Materials

This collection forms part of the John Haskell Kemble maritime collection compiled by American maritime historian John Haskell Kemble (1912-1990). The collection contains 125 artworks dating from 1828 to 1981, with subjects pertaining to and/or depicting maritime vessels, including commercial and military ships. Most are oil paintings, with some watercolors also included.

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Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress

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