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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Mr. & Mrs. Cruikshank draft of a note concerning the celebration of the silver wedding anniversary
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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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Includes an autograph letter from George Cruikshank to George Cruikshank Palford, April 4, 1854 (mssHM 35320).
mssHM 35319-35320
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Also: memo about payment of architects' fees; report showing expenditures on residence of Howard Huntington, 1907 September 3; papers, blueprints, and photographs related to construction of Huntington residence; copy of letter from Pacific Electric Co. to Huntington, 1908 September 29; certificate of E.O. Nay Co. re: plumbing installation 1910 May 4. Note: five architectural drawings were removed from this folder and placed in the Huntington Institutional Archives in June 1998.
mssHEH
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An autograph, unsigned letter written in pencil with envelope; it is a draft of a circular letter with corrections and additions. The contents of the letter were adopted by a committee appointed by a mass meeting of the citizens of Bossier Parish, Louisiana, held at Cottage Grove, July 31, 1886. The purpose of the committee is described as a practical movement for the abolition of miscegenation and in the letter directs interracial couples to leave Bossier Parish for a more tolerant community where miscegenation and social equality will be accepted. The pictorial envelope portrays the Montgomery Female College, Christiansburg, Virginia, and is addressed to Dr. James S. Milling of Dickinson Cross Roads, La.; James S. Milling (1831-1895) was a native of South Carolina who moved to Louisiana in 1857, and fought with the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The envelope also contains a list of names written on the verso in pencil.
mssHM 84056
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Also includes the printed galley proofs, a Prefatory Note on the manuscript by George S. Hellman, and an autograph letter by George William Curtis to Elizur Wright, December 29, 1857 (mssHM 34696).
mssHM 34695-34696
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This collection consists of 35 business letters. The bulk of the letters are written from Council Bluffs, Iowa Territory to Alexander Lopez, a businessman, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letters illustrate the difficulties of frontier business dealings, as Lopez is seeking to recover monies owed to him by merchants in Council Bluffs. The exchanges last over a decade from 1861-1872. In the first letter written on February 23, 1861 from Council Bluff, McBride and Bowen propose to trade their debt for stock in Council Bluffs & St. Joseph Railroad. McBride and Bowen clearly state they could not pay Lopez money. R.L. Douglass, the attorney representing the Lopez, writes "I have never felt myself at liberty to secure any thing but money in payment, yet Mess. McB & B seem possessed with the idea that they can pay with wild lands at high prices" (Mar. 5, 1861). Approximately three months later, payment has yet to be made by McBride and Bowen. Douglass writes to Lopez stating that McBride and Bowen have violated the agreement. "I am now well satisfied that they will never pay you one cent in cash" (May 27, 1861). Lopez finds the contents of Douglass' letter written on May 27, 1861 surprising because he was initially "favorably impressed towards him [McBride]" (June 4, 1861). A letter written on July 16, 1861 by S. Clinton to W.A. Drown reveals that the firm of McBride and Bowen paid $10,000 to "settle up their business" and creditors will now repossess the property owned by the firm "or do worse." In the same letter, the offer for railroad stock is on the table, which Lopez declines. Eventually, the matter ends up in court and Lopez settles for the only asset left in McBride's possession: stock. The remaining correspondence concerns Lopez's attempt to sell the stock and his payment of taxes owed on the lots. On the upside, Douglass reports in a letter written on March 4, 1867 that the railroad and lot stocks are improving and Lopez may realize his money out of them.
mssHM 81400-81434
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A typewritten signed note typed on a half sheet of paper. In the note, Charles Bukowski declines an invitation to participate at the Los Angeles Book Fair, Books West.
mssHM 84416