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Account and sitters book of Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Description: This bound volume contains Sir Joshua Reynolds' two account books and alphabetical list of sitters for the period from 1755 to 1789. The volume also includes six pieces of manuscript notes (10 p.) slipped into back of volume. This volume is possibly in the hand of an early biographer and dates from the mid to late 19th century.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1850?.
Call number: mssHM 63180
Creator: Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Transferred from Art Reference Library, June 1993. Gift of Mr. Collins Baker?, approximately 1930?.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua. Letter to Thomas Percy [Bishop of Dromore] and Anne Percy

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Letter (3rd person), 1 page. In the handwriting of Sir Joshua Reynolds' sister, Frances Reynolds. Transcribed in Ingamells, ed. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds (Yale University Press, 2000) page 236.

HM 20832

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Letters between Sir Joshua Reynolds and Valentine Green regarding "Sarah Siddons as 'The Tragic Muse,'"

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mssHM 80749-80752

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The book of Joshua

Manuscripts

The Book of Joshua according to the Samaritans. With auction description.

mssHM 1122

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Reynolds family record of births, marriages, and deaths

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A manuscript volume containing the records of the births, marriages, and deaths of the Reynolds and Wathern Loderidge family over a span of 112 years, with a gap in entries beginning in August 1923 and resuming after July 1843. The entries vary in detail and length, some simply record the birth or death, while others provide the names of family members present and the emotions felt by various family members. The small volume is in moderately good condition, with contemporary limp green calf wrappers, inscribed on the front wrapper "Family Records;" there are four pages loosely inserted into the volume.

mssHM 83788

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William P. Reynolds letter to John Rice Reynolds

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In this letter to his brother, William Reynolds gives advice for his studies, and tells of the search for gold in California.

mssHM 4157

Volumes of Joshua Reuben Clark [microform] : 1865-1889

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Microfilm of various volumes kept by Joshua Reuben Clark from 1865-1889. The reel includes a book of lot claims (1865); an 1867 diary that records Clark's travels overland to Montana, his impressions of Salt Lake City and the Mormons, his conversion to Mormonism, and living in Utah through 1869; a volume that opens with a list of names and dates of enlistment for soliders at Green Township, St. Joseph County, and is followed by Clark's Civil War diary for 1862; a volume with records of the School District No.1, Grantsville City, dated 1871-1889; and a volume labeled Rochester, Minnesota, 1863, and which includes various lists and reminiscences including "Latin and English Names of Plants and Medicines," "Montana as it Was," recalling Clark's 1866 visit, "History of Daily Occurrences from Sauk Center, Minnesota, to Fort Bridger, Utah Territory" dated 1864, assorted notes, and some family history. The reel also contains a few notes and letters related to Grantsville schools, certificates for mining claims in Montana (1865-1866), a typed family record, an autobiography entitled "History of the Early Life of Joshua Reuben Clark, Sr.", and a teaching license for Clark from the General Board of Education of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1898).

MSS MFilm 00372

Account and sitters book of Sir Joshua Reynolds

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