Manuscripts
Speculum Episcoporum, or, The Apostolique Bishop, being a breiff account of the lyfe & death of that Reverend Father in God D. William Bedell Lord Bishop of Kilmore: manuscript
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A breefe memoriall of the lyfe and death of Doctor James Spottiswood Bishopp of Clogher in Ireland: manuscript
Manuscripts
Includes a continuation of the biography in another hand.
mssHM 44590
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Commonplace book. English poetry : manuscript ; correspondence, manuscripts, poems and printed material
Manuscripts
This material includes a commonplace book and a miscellaneous group of letters, manuscripts, poems and printed material; some of the miscellaneous material may have been bound together at one time. The miscellaneous material includes: Francis Atterbury letter to Alexander Pope (HM 83576) ; List of book titles by John Bradshaw (HM 83577) ; note by Alexander Chalmers (HM 83578) ; verses by Charles Caleb Colton (HM 83579) ; poem by Alexander D'Arblay (HM 83580) ; printed poem by William James Linton (HM 83581) ; note and letter by Alexander Pope (HM 83582-83583) ; verses by Robert Vansittart ; poem by Edward Waller (HM 83585) ; and a poetical commonplace book with marbled paper covers (HM 83586).
mssHM 83576-83586
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Pocket-book containing exercises and maneuvres for Light 6-pounders...: manuscript
Manuscripts
Includes pen drawings and diagrams. Illustrations for maneuvres that were "devised for the use of the Royal Regiment of Artillery by William Congreve in 1778, and Alexander Young Spearman in 1796."
mssHM 767
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Life of Franklin Pierce :
Manuscripts
Partial autograph draft (HM 10850) of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Life of Franklin Pierce (1852) including a two-page preface and pages numbered 24-39, 53-77, and 84-88 (49 pages); also present is a handwritten copy of an article about Pierce by the Chief Justice of New Hampshire, which is not in Hawthorne's hand and is inserted following page numbered 37 (9 pages). Date on preface is 1852 August 27, with location Concord, Massachusetts. Draft pages correspond to text on pages 36-65, 84-122, and 132-140 of the 1852 published edition. Also present in volume are six autograph letters signed from Nathaniel Hawthorne to publisher William D. Ticknor, 1852 August-September (HM 10851, HM 10853, HM 10856, HM 10857, HM 10858, HM 10860) and six autograph letters signed from Franklin Pierce to William D. Ticknor or to Ticknor & Co., 1852 August-September (HM 10852, HM 10854, HM 10855, HM 10859, HM 10861, HM 10862); letters primarily discuss editorial work on the draft and publication of the book. All items are inlaid in leather binding, presumably by collector William K. Bixby, with binding title: Original Manuscripts and Letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne / Life of Pierce. Volume includes Bixby's bookplate.
mssHM 10850-10862
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Manuscript, Correspondence, Documents and Photographs
Manuscripts
This collection consists of one manuscript by Richard F. Burton, and letters and documents, by, among others, Isabel Burton, Richard Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron, William Marcus Coghlan, J. A. Froude, Charles George Gordon, J. A. Grant, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Quentin Keynes, Alexander William Kinglake, David Livingstone, Mary Lovell, Victoria L. Maylor, Edwards H. Metcalf, Edward Henry Palmer, Bernadette Rivett, Stephen Tabachnick, John Hanning Speke, Henry M. Stanley, and William H. Wood. The collection also includes artwork, lithographs, maps, photographs, printed material and Burton related research material gathered by Burke Casari.
mssHM 78795-78885, 80305-80324
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Correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera
Manuscripts
The collection consists mainly of letters and questionnaires written between 1904-1908 on the topic of mid-19th-century Los Angeles. Most of the questionnaires, composed by Mary A. Forman, include a correspondent's answers. The documents address Los Angeles history through a wide array of topics, including California state and local government, crime, medicine, architecture, education, land allotment, churches, agriculture, Indians, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Significant persons represented or discussed in the collection include George W. Hazard, Andrew Jackson King, Tomás A. Sánchez, Washington Bartlett, J. M. Guinn, L. A. Ingersoll, Juan Caballeria, William Heath Davis, Oscar Macy, John C. Frémont, Stephen C. Foster, Robert F. Stockton, Stephen Watts Kearny, Jonathan D. Stevenson, Thomas Foster, George Hansen (Hanson), Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, William R. Rowland, J. Kuhrts, George Lehman, Laura E. King, and Mary E. Johnston. Photocopies of photographs and a brief biography of Mary A. and Charles Forman are available in the finding aid.
mssHM 68517-68598