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A narrative ; or an historicall account of the most materiall passages in the life of John Rastrick... : manuscript
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Account of Stow Park, England: manuscript
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This manuscript is about Stow Park in Lincolnshire, England. It gives a descriptive and historical account of Stow and the nearby town Gainsborough. The manuscript appears to be part of a larger manuscript; it contains "Part VIII" and "Part IX," and the pages are p. 98-118. It is incomplete and it ends mid-sentence.
mssHM 80991
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A true and historical relation of the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury. With the severall arraignments and speeches of those that were executed thereupon. Also, all the passages concerning the divorce between Robert late Earle of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard: with King James's and other large speeches. Collected out of the papers of Sir Francis Bacon, the Kings Attorney-Generall: manuscript
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A manuscript copy of a printed text concerning the divorce case of Frances (Howard), Countess of Essex and Robert, Earl of Essex and the trial of Sir Thomas Overbury's poisoners; copied out in an unidentified hand. In limp vellum covers with the initials "W B" decorating front and back covers; with the signature of "Wm Browne" pasted onto front page, this is possibly the signature of William Browne (1590-approx. 1645), the English poet. The text ends with "The Proceeding against Sir Tho. Monson, at the Guild-hall...May 24, 1616" so is missing a portion of the printed text; following the trial text is one page of autograph notes dated 1620.
mssHM 1553
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Thomas T. Eckert manuscript account book
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Personal account book of Thomas T. Eckert, the head of the Washington office of the United States Military Telegraph, for the year 1864. The manuscript fills a Pocket Diary 1864 (New York: Published Annually for the Trade); a 2 cent U.S. revenue stamp is affixed to the title page (an unusual version of the Liberty head).
mssHM 83457
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Manuscript account of the life of Plummer Edwards Jeffries
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Account of the life of Plummer Edward Jeffries as recollected and written by his daughter Ida J. Fitzgerald. The account includes a voyage to California in 1850 via New York and by steamer to the isthmus of Panama where he suffered from a form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River before finally reaching San Francisco and the golf fields and mining towns. He returned to his dry-goods business in Philadelphia, married and had a child (the author) before returning to California in 1854 by the same route. In Moore's Flat, Nevada County he purchased horses and started a livery stable business while continuing with placer mining. The account details the adventurous trip undertaken by his wife and baby daughter to join him in Moore's Flat and describes the family's life there and his success with the livery stable and stage lines. The account goes on to describe the family's move to and hardships in Meadow Lake. The account further documents his fortunes and moves to Graniteville, North Bloomfield, San Francisco, Vallejo and finally Oakland.
mssHM 31175
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The Life and Letters of John Muir: Volume I by William Frederic Badè (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 11 from a draft of chapter 7, page 149: "leaf + flower seems to have its winged representative overhead. Dragonflies soot in vigorous zigzags through the dancing swarms + a rich profusion of butterflies - the leguminosae of the insect kingdom make a fine addition to the general showy plants. Many of these at this elevation are a comparatively small + as yet but little known." Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 180): Sycamores on the San Felipe • Facing page 50: Hickories and Oaks on the Hickory Hill Farm. [1915] • Facing page 98: Bluffs along the Mississippi at McGregor, Iowa. • Facing page 102: The Wisconsin River at Portage, Wis. • Facing page 112: Across Lake Mendota toward the Buildings of the University of Wisconsin. [1915] • Facing page 158: The Meadow at Fountain Lake. [1915] • Facing page 170: The Hodgson Garden at Cedar Keys. [From an old photograph taken in 1867] • Facing page 178: An Orchard in Santa Clara Valley. • Facing page 182: Calochortus (Mariposa Tulip). • Facing page 198: Mt. Hoffman from Lake Tenaya. • Facing page 204: Yosemite Valley in Winter. • Facing page 230: The Glacier on Mt. Lyell. • Facing page 232: The Brown Cone of Mt. Dana. • Facing page 260: Emerson's House at Concord, Mass. • Facing page 298: Lake Tenaya, looking south. • Facing page 310: Hetch Hetchy Valley. • Facing page 326: An Earthquake Talus at the Foot of El Capitan, Yosemite Valley. • Facing page 328: The Upper Yosemite Fall. • Facing page 336: Sentinel Rock. • Facing page 340: "Bossy Cumuli" in the Sierra. • Facing page 364: The Royal Arches. [From near the point where Mr. Muir built his cabin in 1872] • Facing page 368: Sierra Primrose (Primula suffrutescens) on the summit of Clouds' Rest. • Facing page 380: Lewisia pygmaea (Alpine Bitter-root). • Facing page 388: Across the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin. • Facing page 392: In the Kern River Canyon. • Facing page 396: In the Great Tuolumne Canyon. • Facing page 398: Portrait of Mr. Muir in 1873.
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Manuscripts by Leonard John Rose, Sr.; Going West Accounts, manuscripts on California pioneers and emigrant narratives; Ephemera
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Leonard John Rose, Jr. was an amateur historian and this collection contains drafts of his memoirs and descriptions of 18th and 19th century California social life and customs. In "A Serial in Three Parts," L. J. Rose, Jr. thoroughly describes the livestock management practices and horsemanship of Mexican cowboys in 18th and 19th century California. In Gringos Grandees he further illustrates the social life and customs of Mexicans and Native Americans living in a small village in the San Gabriel Valley. In this manuscript, L. J. Rose, Jr., narrates his and his father's life stories, with accounts of his family's move west, success in wine production and horse breeding, but it is also a local view of Los Angeles and California history in the second half of the 19th century. The writing in this collection of Leonard John Rose is limited to his accounts of leading a failed California bound emigrant train from the Midwest. The third section contains short biographies of L. J. Rose and Calvin F. Fargo, narratives of the Rose Party, and the diary of Martha True Fargo, L.J. Rose, Jr.'s mother-in-law. The diary provides a social history of women in Portage, Wisconsin in 1864. The ephemera section of this collection revolves around newspaper and magazine clippings about the Rose family, their homes and estates, their prize winning horses, and their wine production. Some of the newspaper articles are from the Los Angeles Times and the Illustrated Los Angeles Herald, while the magazine articles include a 1950 three part series entitled, "Pastime of Millions" by Carleton F. Burke in The Thoroughbred of California.
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