Manuscripts
Theophilus M. Magaw papers
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Lewis N.T. Allen papers
Manuscripts
Includes Allen's pocket diary that he kept from Sept. 4, 1863 to Apr. 9, 1864, a fair copy of his Civil War diary probably created in the 1870s, and his correspondence that covers the period of his military service.
mssHM 72226-72266
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Theophilus Leigh letter, Balliol College, to John Wiltshire
Manuscripts
Followed by: a second letter from Leigh to Wiltshire to be shown to Tryphena Leigh (Theophilus' sister).
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Samuel Frank Dexter papers
Manuscripts
Letters, diaries, essays, and other papers of Samuel Frank Dexter. The large portion of the collection consists of the letters that Dexter wrote to his children during the 1901 trip to California. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1902, Dexter and his wife took a trip to California in 1901 leaving their children in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. An expansive and consistent writer, his almost daily letters home to his children describe in minute detail their experiences and observations of various parts of California such as Alameda County, Bakersfield, Kern County, La Jolla, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Mount Lowe, Pasadena, Redlands, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Gabriel, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz County, and Santa Monica. Other places of interest that Dexter wrote about to his children include the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, descriptions of the California coast, and accounts of a trip taken in North Mexico. He also wrote frequently along their railroad trip to California, describing such places as Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, and Iowa. A noted naturalist and authority on ornithology, Samuel Frank Dexter and his friend Anthony (Gideon Anthony) Hamilton traveled to Sequoia National Park, California, in 1902. Included in this collection is the diary that Dexter kept during their excursion. Other correspondence came from Mattie J. Chase, who along with her family, lived in Vienna, Austria and wrote to her sister Anna Fannie Dexter detailing their life there. In addition to being a prolific letter writer, Dexter wrote a couple of essays that describe and illuminate life in Charleston, South Carolina and Rhode Island.
mssHM 65822-65938
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George D. Patten papers
Manuscripts
The collection includes the Civil War letters of George D. Patten and William B. Patten to their mother Sarah S. Patten and sister Hannah, and a pocket diary of William B. Patten, 1864. There are letters from Sarah S. Patten to her sons, a photograph album, and miscellaneous envelopes from the Civil War era. The letters from George D. Patten to his mother are posted from various places in Iowa, Louisiana, and Virginia, between January 1864 and December 1865, and cover the Red River Campaign, including the advance from Franklin to Alexandria, Battle of Sabine Cross Roads (or Battle of Mansfield), Pleasant Hill, Cane River Crossing, and Alexandria; encampment in Morganza, expedition from Morganza to the Atchafalaya, and Fort Madisonville; and Sheridan's Shenandoah campaigns including the Battle of Winchester, September 1864.
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George D. Patten papers
Manuscripts
The collection includes the Civil War letters of George D. Patten and William B. Patten to their mother Sarah S. Patten and sister Hannah, and a pocket diary of William B. Patten, 1864. There are letters from Sarah S. Patten to her sons, a photograph album, and miscellaneous envelopes from the Civil War era. The letters from George D. Patten to his mother are posted from various places in Iowa, Louisiana, and Virginia, between January 1864 and December 1865, and cover the Red River Campaign, including the advance from Franklin to Alexandria, Battle of Sabine Cross Roads (or Battle of Mansfield), Pleasant Hill, Cane River Crossing, and Alexandria; encampment in Morganza, expedition from Morganza to the Atchafalaya, and Fort Madisonville; and Sheridan's Shenandoah campaigns including the Battle of Winchester, September 1864.
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Rosario Curletti Collection of A. M. Ebbets Papers
Manuscripts
This collection was donated in honor of Southern California anthropologist Rosario Curletti. The collection consists of the 1849 sea voyage diary of Arthur Mercein Ebbets (121 pages) and supplementary material, including six letters by Charlotte White Penniman Ebbets, written while during her 1853 voyage on the steamer Tennessee (which ran aground near San Francisco); 14 folders of biographical manuscripts about Arthur written by his daughter Charlotte Penniman Ebbets; other family manuscripts, including family trees; and correspondence of Rosario Curletti regarding the diary and letters. It was Charlotte Penniman Ebbets who who supplied Rosario Curletti with several items in the collection. Nineteen pages of pencil drawings by Arthur Ebbets, depicting scenes from his 1849 voyage, accompany the diary. Seven other early California and Panama items supplement the Ebbetts items, including drafts of short stories or memoirs by K. V. Hastings ("A Visit to Acapulco," "A Day on Shipboard," and "From Panama to Aspinwall"), a copy of a long letter by Elizabeth Whitney Putnam detailing her journey west (she and her child sailed aboard the Tennessee and the Georgia on the same voyage as Lottie Ebbets), and Spanish and English versions of the diary of Pablo de la Portilla, a Mexican captain attached to Santa Barbara Presidio who led an unsuccessful 1824 expedition against a group of Chumash Indians who had rebelled against the San Buenaventura mission. Finally, the collection originally included a photocopy of the Augustin W. Hale diary, the original of which the Huntington holds in the Hale papers. Hale also sailed to California on the Pacific in 1849, and the he and Ebbets were apparently friendly. Details and references in the two collections overlap occasionally. In addition, the ships Pacific and Tennessee are both discussed in detail in the John Goodman Papers at the Huntington.
mssHM 69651-69707