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mssHM 47409-47532

Description: The 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 & articles related to those activities.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1879-1951.
Call number: mssHM 47409-47532
Creator: Grinnell, George Bird (1849-1938)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Joseph Rubenfine, May 1979.
Associated people: Badè, William Frederic, (1871-1936.)

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

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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.

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mssHM 54509-54568, mssHM 54686

Manuscripts

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

Manuscripts

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.

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mssHM 74320-74342

Manuscripts

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

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Electric lighting : it's state and progress

Manuscripts

A firsthand description of the production and introduction of electric light into London, by an electrical engineer working in England. In particular, it details two 19th century lighting apparatuses: the Rapieff electric light apparatus, and the Jablochkoff system of lighting. Bird appears to have been directly involved in the electrification of South London.

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