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Copies of letters of Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Devereux (2nd Earl of Essex), Henry Brooke (8th Baron Cobham), Sir Philip Sidney, William Cecil (Baron Burghley), Thomas Egerton (1st Viscount Brackley), and other prominent persons.
mssHM 102
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A manuscript copy of a printed text concerning the divorce case of Frances (Howard), Countess of Essex and Robert, Earl of Essex and the trial of Sir Thomas Overbury's poisoners; copied out in an unidentified hand. In limp vellum covers with the initials "W B" decorating front and back covers; with the signature of "Wm Browne" pasted onto front page, this is possibly the signature of William Browne (1590-approx. 1645), the English poet. The text ends with "The Proceeding against Sir Tho. Monson, at the Guild-hall...May 24, 1616" so is missing a portion of the printed text; following the trial text is one page of autograph notes dated 1620.
mssHM 1553
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Collection contains letters and documents related to the following subjects: Fall's terms of office as senator for New Mexico and secretary of the Interior (1912-23), family affairs (1907-41), and personal business (1912-23); politics and government (both in New Mexico and on a national level); New Mexico (especially land, water, forest, and mineral questions); Mexico (including the testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee Investigating Mexican Affairs); reclamation projects (especially the Colorado River Project and Elephant Butte Dam); Indian Affairs (particularly with the Apache, Navajo, and Pueblo tribes); Alaska. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Holm Olaf Bursum (31 pieces), Thomas Benton Catron (5), George Curry (20), Harry Micajah Daugherty (15), Henry Ossian Flipper (25), Warren Gamaliel Harding (25), Herbert Clark Hoover (10), Charles Evans Hughes (23), Franklin Knight Lane (24), Robert Lansing (21), Henry Cabot Lodge (13), Stephen Tyng Mather (10), Theodore Roosevelt (10), Woodrow Wilson (15).
mssFA
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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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Letterbook of correspondence between Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, then Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire, the Privy Council, and various sheriff, bailiffs, and Justices of the Peace, mainly Sir Henry Griffith, and other Yorkshire officials. The correspondence deals with military affairs in wapentakes of Buckrose and Dickering; also, with muster lists, assessments, papers regarding poor relief, etc., copies of letters from Sir Thomas Postumus Hobby, Matthew Hutton and others. The letter book is in two volumes: Vol. I - 131 pages, 33 x 23 cm., sewn into a fragment of a 15th century manuscript on vellum; Vol. II - 44 pages, 30 x 21 cm., both volumes with damaged pages and loss of text.
mssHM 50657
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This handwritten reminiscences covers Chambers military service from his enlistment in the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment up to his wounding at the Wilderness and his time at a field hospital recovering. In it, he details his company's movements; his life in camp; watching his friends die; and their experiences in the following battles: Williamsburg, Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Mechanicsville (Beaver Dam Creek), Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. Chambers gives a nice, detailed narrative of the fight in the Wilderness including his getting shot in the shoulder, his time in a field hospital, and his furlough home to Mississippi. In his manuscript, Chambers often talks about the following officers: Robert E. Lee, Henry Heth, Joseph R. Davis, Joseph E. Johnston, John Bell Hood, William H. C. Whiting, and Stonewall Jackson (his death). The manuscript also includes handwritten copies of two orders received by Chambers and one newspaper clipping (in pages 94-95) regarding orders by General Lee, General Heth and General A. P. Hill .
mssHM 74857