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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
John Henry Newman letter to H. M. Moule
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The papers include 16 volumes of Newman's diaries with entries from 1856 to 1897. There are 12 volumes of general notes, many from classes she attended at Andover Seminary and from reading she did in homeopathic medicine and mental healing. There are also 98 sermons, some complete and other in outline, accompanied by an index; 18 manuscripts, including an article on boarding-house life; and several miscellaneous notes and copies of manuscripts. There is one letter written by Emma Newman and 14 letters addressed to her. There are assorted other items including some fragmentary biographical material and ephemera.
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In this letter, written while Burroughs was on the S. S. Mongolia, he discusses his recent trip to California where he visited Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Yosemite, where he was given a tour by John Muir. The letter is signed "John Burroughs," but text is in the hand of Dr. Clara Barrus; the envelope is postmarked Honolulu, Hawaii, May 11, 1909. The letter is addressed to John W. Childs of Floral Park, Long Island, New York.
mssHM 82577
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An autograph letter, with envelope, written to "Dear Nellie" who lived in Wisconsin. The letter, written from Fort Lyon in Colorado Territory at the height of the Civil War, describes the tumultuous circumstances of the 9th Wisconsin Light Artillery, then serving as part of the post's garrison after the Union Army had withdrawn all regular troops to conduct the campaigns against the Confederate insurrection. Meadows apologizes to Eleanor Hand, who would later become his wife, for his lack of letters, but goes on to express his feelings for her, and discusses whether he should re-enlist. Meadows also outlines his episodes of detached duty to posts such as Fort Larned, Kansas, and protecting the settlers and overlanders from the perceived threat of hostile Native Americans.
mssHM 84109
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Letters dated August 6, 1930 and October 31, 1930. Accompanied by Poems of the Colonials of the Southwest: typescript of four poems in Spanish, each with an accompanying English translation, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. With dating of the poems in the hand of the author. The poems are referred to in the letter dated October 31, 1930.
mssHM 41068-41070
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Typed, signed letter from David Starr Jordan at Stanford University to Los Angeles lawyer and writer, Arthur M. Ellis. In the letter, Jordan discusses biology, evolution, and literature by various evolutionists and naturalists including: Charles Darwin, J. Arthur Thomson, Stanford professor Dr. W. W. Thoburn, and Henry F. Osborn. The letter is accompanied by a pamphlet listing books by David Starr Jordan, and two printed poems by Jordan ("Unarmed and Unafraid" and "There Was A Man").
mssHM 83100