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Correspondence and documents (>1600-1631)


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    Correspondence and documents (>1657, Feb. 5-1670)

    Manuscripts

    The material in the addenda consists of: Box 1 Correspondence and documents (>1600-1631) ; Box 2 Correspondence and documents (1632-1653) ; Box 3 Correspondence and documents (>1657, Feb. 5-1670). The subject matter in this collection: the Temple family, mainly during the period preceding and including the Civil War: family affairs (domestic quarrels, lawsuits, marriage arrangements); the management of the household and estates, chiefly at Stowe, Burton Dassett, Padbury and Finmere; relations with servants, tenants, and tradesmen regarding rents, the procuring of provisions, clothing and materials, and the landscaping of Stowe; and occasional reports on the current political situation.

    mssHM 46350-46536

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    Correspondence and documents (1632-1653)

    Manuscripts

    The material in the addenda consists of: Box 1 Correspondence and documents (>1600-1631) ; Box 2 Correspondence and documents (1632-1653) ; Box 3 Correspondence and documents (>1657, Feb. 5-1670). The subject matter in this collection: the Temple family, mainly during the period preceding and including the Civil War: family affairs (domestic quarrels, lawsuits, marriage arrangements); the management of the household and estates, chiefly at Stowe, Burton Dassett, Padbury and Finmere; relations with servants, tenants, and tradesmen regarding rents, the procuring of provisions, clothing and materials, and the landscaping of Stowe; and occasional reports on the current political situation.

    mssHM 46350-46536

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    Temple family addenda

    Manuscripts

    Three boxes of correspondence and documents (>1600-1670); the subject matter in this collection: the Temple family, mainly during the period preceding and including the Civil War: family affairs (domestic quarrels, lawsuits, marriage arrangements); the management of the household and estates, chiefly at Stowe, Burton Dassett, Padbury and Finmere; relations with servants, tenants, and tradesmen regarding rents, the procuring of provisions, clothing and materials, and the landscaping of Stowe; and occasional reports on the current political situation.

    mssHM 46350-46536

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    Correspondence, documents, gamekeeper's notebook, and ephemera (1871-1929)

    Manuscripts

    The material in the addenda consists of: Box 1 - Correspondence, documents, gamekeeper's notebook, and ephemera (1871-1929), HM 82950-82968 ; Box 2 - Photographs of John Land, various estates and workers (1890-1928), HM 82969-82978 ; Box 3 - Oversize photographs of the comte de Paris, various family members, and Stowe House (1890-1900), HM 82979-82986.

    mssHM 82950-82986

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    Correspondence and Documents -- 1866-1959. HM 73612-73655

    Manuscripts

    It is possible this Miscellany collection was assembled by Schutz as part of his own research as an historian, as well as the letters and documents collected as autographs for his interest as a collector; the material covers a wide range of years, authors and subjects: Ephemera, Correspondence and Documents are arranged chronologically in Box 1: 1693-1865, and Box 2: 1866-1959. The material includes one piece of printed Ephemera (1693); the early American manuscript material includes correspondence and documents by William Burnet, Thomas Hutchinson, Thomas Pownall, and William Shirley. The 19th century material includes correspondence and documents related to, among others, the American and British politicians and historians, George Bancroft, John Bright, Richard Cobden, John Davis, Charles William Eliot, Henry Hallam, Anthony Ashley Cooper (Earl of Shaftesbury), Robert Cecil (Marquess of Salisbury), and Robert Winthrop. The 20th century material includes correspondence by Charles Edward Chapman, Joseph Hodges Choate, Max Farrand, Hiram Johnson, Louis Knott Koontz, Robert Andrews Millikan, Frederic Lgan Paxson, and Frederick jackson Turner.

    mssHM 73570-73655

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    Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence (1843-1931)

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of two boxes. Box 1: Volumes and Documents, approx. 1575-1822, HM 83505-83510; significant authors include Thomas Day, Francesco Dolce, Colin Mackenzie, and Giovam Batista Muzio. Box 2: Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1843-1931, HM 83511-83529; significant authors and correspondents include John W. Ballantyne, Samuel W. Butler, Robert P. Harris, Richard H. Horne, William T. Howard, Madame Viviane Jeannin, William G. MacCallum, Edward E. Mackenzie, James W. Mandigo, Richard Owen, Francis R. Packard, George C. Peachey, William S. Playfair, J. Whitridge Williams, and Leroy M. Yale.

    mssHM 83505-83529