Manuscripts

Correspondence and ephemera

Description: Contains family letters written from Arizona Territory, California, and Idaho. Also included is a small amount of ephemera.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1885-1892
Call number: mssHM 50671-50759
Creator: Curtis (Family)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Elizabeth C. McPhail, September 1984.
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Curtis family correspondence

Manuscripts

A collection of family correspondence containing 110 items; the letters are chiefly to Delia Augusta and Sarah Henrietta Curtis from their brothers. The letters include discussion of the Curtis sisters' studies and education, family news, the Civil War, life in Ohio, Tennessee, Arizona, and California, from 1820 to 1892; also included are a few letters of Henry James and Clarissa Fisher Curtis. The collection also contains a typewritten summary and outline of the Curtis family letters (1984) and ephemera.

mssHM 50671-50759

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

Contains family letters written from Massachusetts, Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Nebraska, and California. A number of these letters are photocopies. Also included is a typed summary and outline of Curtis family letters (1984).

mssHM 50671-50759

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Correspondence, Ephemera

Manuscripts

The collection is chiefly made up of correspondence written by various members of the Hurlbert and Chenowith families to Andrew J. Hurlbert, his wife Mary Chenowith Hurlbert, and their daughter Ida May Hurlbert. The Hurlbert family lived in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire; their letters deal with family matters and their day-to-day activities. The Chenowith family lived throughout the American southwest including Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Texas; their letters deal with farm life, descriptions of the Southwest, financial problems, family matters, fears of Indian attacks, the movements of Victorio and the Mimbreño Indians, murders in town, mining in New Mexico, and a shoot-out over a ranch property where a bullet grazed the head of Rachel Chenowith (Mary Hurlbert's mother).

mssHM 65102-65241

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Correspondence and Ephemera

Manuscripts

The collection consists entirely of correspondence and a small amount of printed ephemera. The correspondence includes a small number of letters by other authors, including Anna J. Bird, William Cooper Hunneman, Carl A. Loeffler, Elihu Root and William Howard Taft. The majority of the letters in the collection are by Henry Cabot Lodge; these include a very small number of personal letters but are mainly letters by Lodge to other political letters of the time or to his Massachusetts constituents.

mssHM 73270-73569

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Correspondence, Photographs and Ephemera

Manuscripts

The documents demonstrate the range of legal, financial, and real estate-related transactions initiated by or concerning the Oreña Family and their associates. Included in this series are title deeds, land claims, and land grants pertaining to the family's properties in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. Also included are receipts and invoices. The manuscripts include four works pertaining to the Oreña Family as well as other early California families, namely the de la Guerra family. The series also contains two typewritten manuscripts: the first is Occurrences in California, as reported by Angustias de la Guerra Ord and the second is Carlota Koch's "La Guipuzcoana," which chronicles the lives of Gaspar Orena, Cesareo Lataillade, Maria Antonia de la Guerra, and those of their acquaintances. The correspondence includes personal and business letters to and by the Oreña Family members and their associates. Among the authors is Alfred Robinson (b. 1806-d.1895), author of Life in California (1891). Four photographs of the Columbus Library in Seville, Spain comprise the fourth series. These black-and-white photos were taken in September 1955. The photographer, who included only his/her initials of "AK," indicated that the images are not available for publication. Finally, three items comprise ephemera. These include two 1891 arguments issued by the Supreme Court of the State of California relating to the case of C.E. Lataillade, Plaintiff and Appellant, vs. Gaspar Oreña, Defendant and Respondent. The final item in this series is an autographed note written on a fragment of an ANP-ANETA News Bulletin, dated April 23, 1951.

mssHM 70914-70978

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Correspondence and ephemera

Manuscripts

The letters are all written by Ami Inuzuka to her friends Hardin and Raemond Craig. The first thirteen letters were written while the Inuzukas were interned at the Gila River Relocation Center in Rivers, Arizona. Inuzuka talks about life in the camp, the activities put on by the War Relocation Authority, the weather conditions, the employment situation, the family's plan to move back to Pasadena after the camp closes. In the rest of her letters, Ami discusses her life in Los Angeles, her family, and the difficulties of growing older. With the letters are two photographs including one of the Inuzuka family in 1960.

mssHM 66300-66345

Correspondence and ephemera

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