Manuscripts
mssHM 47409-47532
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George Bird Grinnell Papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains 124 pieces of correspondence to and from George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) and his associates involved in wild life and national park conservation, use of water resources on public lands for irrigation, national parks, and the publishing of books and articles related to those activities. Correspondents represented by three or more letters: Bade, William Frederic. 3 letters Brooks, Allan. 5 letters Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel. 3 letters Grinnell, George Bird. 16 letters Hallock, Charles. 5 letters Osgood, Wilfred Hudson 3 letters Robinson, Anna A. 4 letters Stigand, C. H. 4 letters Yard, Robert Sterling. 10 letters
mssHM 47409-47532
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Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., letter to George W. Woodruff :
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Letter regarding the creation of the Federal Commission on the Conservation of Natural Resources, also known as the National Conservation Commission or the Pinchot Commission. Woodruff, who was the U.S. Assistant Attorney General and affiliated with the Department of the Interior at the time, was appointed to the Lands section of the commission. The National Conservation Commission's report was submitted in 1909.
mssHM 55582
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mssHM 75705-75763
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The collection consists of personal, family, legal and business correspondence of a Herefordshire gentry family with strong ties to the London legal community and with some slight connection to their more important relative James Brydges 1st Duke of Chandos (1673-1744). Of particular interest to the correspondents are: (1) the social activities and illnesses of their friends, family, and servants; (2) a long-running dispute over the repair of the chancel of Tibberton's church, involving a dispute with the Dean and Chapter of the diocese over tithes to be used for the repairs, and involving William Brydges' legal research in London's government archives to substantiate his position; and (3) very substantial buying and selling of various estates and other lands, chiefly as an investment. Brydges engaged the noted Bath architect John Wood (1705?-1754) to work on a newly acquired property in Bristol. There are relatively few references to the Duke of Chandos or to national affairs.
mssHM 75705-75763
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mssHM 54509-54568, mssHM 54686
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The collection consists primarily of letters between William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) and John Lucas Tupper (approximately 1823-1879). The correspondence spans the entire life of their acquaintance, beginning in 1849 and ending with Tupper's death in 1879. Subject matter covers a wide range of topics, including descriptions of Hunt's journeys to Palestine, his quarrels with Thomas Woolner, his response to the death of Thomas Combe, his everyday ordeals as a painter, his struggles to create various paintings, his and Tupper's views on Pre-Raphaelite principles, and their differing opinions on politics and other topics. There is also one autograph poem by William Holman Hunt. Additional correspondents are: Annie Amelia French Tupper, Marion Edith Waugh Holman Hunt, Gladys Mulock Holman Hunt, and George Tupper. There are a few pieces of ephemera related to William Holman Hunt including a catalog of an exhibition of his works at Leicester Galleries, London, 1906.
mssHM 54509-54686
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mssHM 54459-54508
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The collection consists of letters written on Whiting's overland journey to California in 1849 and his life after his arrival. There are also memoirs written by his wife, Susan Helen Colegrove Whiting, who came to California via Panama in 1852. The collection also contains military papers related to Billington Crum Whiting's service in the New York militia (1834-39) as well as genealogical records and 8 photographs.
mssHM 54459-54508
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mssHM 74320-74342
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The collection consists of letters written by Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell, to her friend and neighbor, Henry Norman. The letters span the years 1931 to 1938, and discuss her life, family and friends, the current authors of the day, including Michael Field, James M. Cain, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, as well as current political events and the rise of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
mssHM 74320-74342