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Sidney Herbert correspondence

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Description: Letters, about 96, to Sidney Herbert's from leading lay and clerical figures (including many associated with the Oxford movement) regarding his pamphlet titled Proposals for the better application of cathedral institutions to their intended uses; in a letter to the Very Rev. the Dean of Salisbury. [London, George Woodfall and Son, 1849]. With envelope of loose items that were found in the volume.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1849.
Call number: mssHM 60957 (1-96)
Creator: Herbert of Lea, Sidney Herbert (1810-1861)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Book Shop, 1952.

Leonard Herbert Swett papers addenda

Manuscripts

Small addenda consisting of biographical material, genealogy, and a few printed items compiled by Leonard Herbert Swett and related to Leonard Swett (1825-1889) and Abraham Lincoln. Includes two manuscript portions of the "Life of Leonard Swett" by Leonard Herbert Swett, which gives a biographical account of his father's life including his experiences in the Mexican-American War, his travels to California, and his involvement with the 1860 and 1864 Lincoln campaigns; a portion of "Mr. Lincoln's Own Story of His Life as Told to Leonard Swett;" an essay praising Lincoln's character by Leonard Herbert Swett; a notebook of Swett family genealogy; a copy of The Marriage Service (1925) containing a marriage certificate for Harold Ashley Burnham and Laura Rose Swett; a program from the ceremonies surrounding the unveiling of the Lincoln statue at Lincoln Park in Chicago (1887); and a printed pamphlet by Harry E. Pratt entitled "The Repudiation of Lincoln's War Policy in 1862: Stuart-Swett Congressional Campaign" (1931).

mssHM 80143-80150

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Marriage indenture between John Egerton, First Earl of Bridgewater, Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Castle Island, and his son, Richard Herbert, Lord Chirbury, upon Chirbury's marriage to Mary Egerton

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Indenture between John, First Earl of Bridgewater, Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Castle Island, and Richard Herbert, Lord Chirbury (son and heir of Lord Herbert), at the time of Richard Herbert's marriage to Bridgewater's daughter Mary Egerton; by which Lord Herbert settles upon his son revenues from certain lands in Monmouthshire and an annual income of £600, signed by Bridgewater at the foot and with seven witness signatures, including John Donne the younger, son of the poet, on the verso.

mssHM 82616

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Sidney Dillon letter to Edward Henry Rollins

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The letter is in the handwriting of Jay Gould (1836-1892), and is followed by a note from Gould to Rollins

mssHM 53641

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Sidney W. Hardy journal

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This volume chronicles Hardy's voyage from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco. He includes details regarding the conditions on the ship and problems among the crew leading to the dismissal of the second mate while the ship was at port at Valparáiso, Chile. The journal also covers Hardy's attempt at mining as well as his experience in owning a store that sold supplies to miners. Hardy makes a specific reference to some Indians who came to his store regularly to trade gold for supplies; these Indians were probably the Yokuts who mined for gold along the Stanislaus River.

mssHM 62959

Arcadia : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-180; f. 180v blank. [Philip Sidney] Arcadia. Incipit: //To maike so great thoughe vndeserued judgmente of me. And even so. Explicit: may awake some other spirit, to exercise his penn in that, wherwith myne ys already dulled. Finis. The Last booke or Acte. English. J. Robertson, ed., Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia) (Oxford 1973) 14-417, here lacking the first 6 leaves; HM 162 mentioned by Robertson, p. xliv, and cited in the critical apparatus as As. See also B. Dobell, "Sidney's Arcadia" in the Athenaeum, 7 September 1907, p. 272, where this manuscript is first identified as the Old Arcadia. B. Dobell, "New Light upon Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia," Quarterly Review 211 (1909) 74-100, esp. p. 80. R. W. Zandvoort, Sidney's Arcadia: A Comparison between the Two Versions (Amsterdam 1929), this manuscript described on p. 13, with a plate of f. 122 as frontispiece. W. A. Ringler, Jr., "Master Drant's Rules," Philological Quarterly 29 (1950) 70-74 (call number given erroneously as HM 116). W. A. Ringler, Jr., ed., The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford 1962), this manuscript with details of the text described on p. 528.

mssHM 162

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Herbert Hoover letters

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Eleven typed letters written and signed by Herbert Hoover and one letter written to Hoover by an unidentified correspondent. Hoover wrote the letters in various capacities, including as President of the United States and as Secretary of Commerce. The letters concern a range of topics, including mining; Georgius Agricola's De Re Metallica; a conference on radio held in 1925; and municipal planning. The correspondence also includes responses to speaking invitations and greetings.

mssHM 83004-83015

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