Manuscripts

Maria F. Noatts letters to Alfred G. Gray

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Description: These two San Francisco letters from Maria F. Noatts to her friend, Alfred G. Gray, dated July 2, 1852 and July 28, 1853, describe her work running a boardinghouse and convey news of gold mining and miners in the city of Columbia, California
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1852-1853.
Call number: mssHM 56915-56916
Creator: Noatts, Maria F(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Pacific Book Auction Galleries, sale 116, lot 279, October 17, 1996.
Associated people: Gray, Alfred G., (active 1852-1853,)

Maria F. Watts letter to "Mrs. Foster,"

Manuscripts

Maria Watts thanks the otherwise unidentified Mrs. Foster for her visit, and offers advice for her possible move to the California town of Oakland, including details concerning the purchase of property. She advises Mrs. Foster not to delay, for she believes the price of land will increase sharply in the very near future.

mssHM 31265

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Mary Alice Smith Gray letters to Calvin Oliver Power

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Twenty letters from Mary Alice Smith Gray to Calvin Oliver Power, written between 1918 and 1923. The letters talk about her past, the family news, including the rapidly deteriorating health of John Wesley Gray, and the "dues" she received from Power for the appearances on his show. The letters are undated, scribbled in pencil in a halting and clearly unskilled hand and signed "Mrs. Gray" or "Orphant Annie."

mssHM 44514

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Maria Anne Fitzherbert letter to W. Jutsham concerning Captain John Willett Payne

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This letter to a W. Jutsham of 6 Milson Street, Bath, postmarked July 1795, thanks him for his welcome news of the recovery from illness and restoration to better health of "Captain Payne" (later Rear Admiral John Willett Payne, 1752-1803), the British naval officer responsible for bringing Caroline of Brunswick to England for her disastrous marriage to the Prince of Wales.

mssHM 73721

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Ted ? Letter to Maria Jarman DeGrey

Manuscripts

The collection primarily consists of correspondence related to the Jarman family, Mormon converts who immigrated from England to Utah in the 1860s. It includes statements by Maria Bidgood Jarman Ford Barnes regarding her divorce from her abusive, polygamous first husband; 26 letters sent to Maria from her son Albert while he was serving on a mission trip to England from 1894-1895; and various letters from other family members and friends, including the Dickert family, who describe their life in Germany, and a friend who served on a mission to Switzerland in 1897.

HM 79948.

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[ ]. 1 letter to Frances Maria Kelly, 1790–1882

Manuscripts

Mostly personal correspondence and letters from admirers. Correspondence apparently regarding Mary Ellen Greville, Frances Maria Kelly's adopted(?) daughter. One letter from Frances Maria Kelly to Charles Kent, 1875, Sep. 28, regarding her version of the events that inspired Charles Lamb's "Barbara S---." Also Frances Maria Kelly's "Dramatic Recollections" notebook. Anne Jackson Mathews' notebook with material used in her biography of Charles Mathews.

HM 62769.

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-----. 21 letters to Frances Maria Kelly, 1790–1882

Manuscripts

HM 62634–62654.

Maria F. Noatts letters to Alfred G. Gray

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