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James St. Aubyn journal

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Description: This manuscript journal was kept by James St. Aubyn from 1819 to 1859. The journal details his many visits to the theatre throughout the 1820s both in London and Paris; he mentions numerous actors, actresses, and productions. The journal also covers his many trips to the country to visit family and friends, as well as visits to the Continent to see his father. Included are mentions of Harriet Smithson Berlioz, R. W. Elliston, Maria Foote, Frances Maria Kelly, John Philip Kemble, John Liston, William Charles Macready, Daniel Terry, Charles Mayne Young, and others.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1819-1859.
Call number: mssHM 63181
Creator: St. Aubyn, James (1783-1862)(Opens in new tab)

James St. Aubyn journal of a tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy

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A nice example of a Grand Tour journal, written throughout in a clear sloping hand, commencing on June 22, 1819. In his journal, St. Aubyn describes his four-month journey through France, Switzerland, and Italy, and his return to England. In black ink, with later printed b/w illustrations loosely inserted. Original green boards, rebacked with green paper spine. Boards a little rubbed, but generally well-preserved.

mssHM 81168

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James St. Aubyn journal

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The journal is bound in leather covers which have become damaged and fragile; it is marked 'Vol. 1' on the title page. The journal is a record of St. Aubyn's life of attending the theater, hunting and horse racing, attending balls, conducting love affairs and travelling throughout England in pursuit of these activities.

mssHM 80304

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James St. Aubyn stud and kennel book, notes, and letters

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This small group of material contains:

mssHM 81078-81081

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James Gow journal

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The majority of the journal contains prescriptions Gow made for his customers and the recipes for those prescriptions. The volume also contains two other sections: a female relative of Gow's recorded 19th century poetry in parts of the book and there is also a section titled, "Journal of a Seaman in the Forecastle." This diary section contains accounts from 1851 to 1852 of an anonymous sailor who sailed from Boston to San Francisco in a clipper and then chronicles his time in Port Adelaide, Australia. There are also two pages of what may be the ship's manifest.

mssHM 74486

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James Buchanan, Wheatland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, letter to William H. Miller :

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In a letter presumably about the 1856 presidential election, Buchanan mentions a visit to his home by George Humes; he also mentions his prospects in several Pennsylvania counties and the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

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Homer E. Jenne journal

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Homer E. Jenne started his journal January 1, 1880. The Jenne family lived in Soquel, California. Although Homer helps out on the family ranch, he is a certified teacher and taught at several rural schools in Santa Cruz County. Jenne discusses his search for employment; studying for and taking teachers' exams; his hardships as a teacher; his courtship of and marriage to his neighbor Millie Cahoon; a trip to Portland and Dalles, Oregon and Washington State; visits to Santa Cruz; and his purchase of a ranch in Ben Lomond, California. Homer sold books to earn extra income as well as invented a calculating machine, for which he was pursuing a patent when the journal ends. The last 26 pages of the journal are Jenne's financial accounts for the years 1880-1882.

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James St. Aubyn journal

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