Manuscripts

Greek-Xochicuicatl, and letters

Description: The collection contains poems written by John Myers O'Hara, as well as two letters from O'Hara to Leslie E. Bliss, Head Librarian of the Huntington Library. The letters, dated 1940 and 1942, concern O'Hara's poems.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938-1942
Call number: mssHM 44944-44956
Creator: O'Hara, John Myers (1870-1944)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of John Myers O'Hara, March 1943.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Christ-Grecian

Manuscripts

The collection contains poems written by John Myers O'Hara, as well as two letters from O'Hara to Leslie E. Bliss, Head Librarian of the Huntington Library. The letters, dated 1940 and 1942, concern O'Hara's poems.

mssHM 44944-44956

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John Myers O'Hara papers

Manuscripts

mssHM 44944-44956

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A.E. (Albert Eugene) Gallatin letter to Robert O. Schad

Manuscripts

Also included with letter is a carbon copy of the reply from Leslie E. Bliss, Huntington Librarian, to A.E. Gallatin, April 21, 1943.

mssHM 63169

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Thomas Kearny letters

Manuscripts

The majority of these letters are between Thomas Kearny and Leslie E. Bliss, Librarian of the Henry E. Huntington Library. These letters are about Kearny's book on Philip Kearny and Stephen Watts Kearny and possible manuscript material at the Huntington that Kearny should see. Kearny also talks about Robert E. Lee, John Charles Frémont, Allan Nevins, and Commodore Robert F. Stockton. There also two letters by Huntington employee Norma B. Cuthbert to Leslie E. Bliss and fellow employee Reginald B. Haselden regarding Thomas Kearny's research.

mssHM 74867-74879

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Jeannette Carolyn Wilson photograph album of the Huntington Library, and other material

Visual Materials

An album of about 200 photographs, 1942 to 1949, compiled by a former Huntington Library employee, Jeannette Carolyn Wilson, containing many snapshots of employees at the library and elsewhere. Subjects include: people standing outside the library; the tea room; aviary building; oak trees; employees playing cards and socializing; staff Christmas parties; snow on the grounds in January, 1949; women with cameras, taking photographs; and library staff loading books to be shipped offsite for safekeeping during World War II. The album also has some personal vacation photographs, a few clippings about the Huntington, and three letters from reference librarian Mary Isabel Fry, some with news of the Huntington. Wilson probably took many of the photographs, and possibly appears in the album. Though most people are unidentified, some recognizable library employees are: Carey Bliss, Leslie Bliss, Lyle H. Wright, Margaret Meracle, Robert Glass Cleland, Mary Isabel Fry, William Parish, Graydon Spalding, and Erwin F. Morkisch.

photCL 625

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We three: Henry, Eddie, and me

Manuscripts

Self-published family memoir and history compiled by Harriet Williams Myers in 1945. Focuses on biographies of Myers and her brothers Henry Smith Williams and Edward Huntington Williams, including anecdotes about their childhoods and a compilation of their later accomplishments. Includes the text of an articles on birds by Henry Williams, the text of various songs and poems meaningful to the family, and the text of obituaries for Henry and Edward Williams. Also includes several printed illustrations, some original photographs of members of the Williams family, and a letter from the author explaining her reasons for writing the book, dated January 1945.

mssHM 75361

Greek-Xochicuicatl, and letters

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