Manuscripts
Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour
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Mary Alice Lynch diary
Manuscripts
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mssHM 84203
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Commonplace book. Agriculture
Manuscripts
This commonplace book originates in England, after 1783, and primarily contains entries regarding agriculture. Numerous sketches of farming equipment, including thrashing and churning machines, as well as advice for planting vegetables, caring for livestock, and the nature of various geographical locations regarding farming are included. Scattered throughout the book are transcriptions of letters and portrait sketches. The user of this book is unknown; while the name "Margaretta G. Haynes" is written on the inside cover, the handwriting does not match that of the entries.
mssHM 79057
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Brock Collection : Commonplace book of Linneus Bolling, (1794-1799)
Manuscripts
Commonplace containing miscellaneous accounts, notes, recipes, poems, memoranda, etc. The manuscript contains two notebooks, with facing pagination. Most records were entered between 1794 and 1799, with few entries dated 1792 and 1806.
mssBR 752
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Commonplace book. English poetry and songs : manuscript ; hymns, poetry, correspondence and printed material
Manuscripts
The material includes: HM 82903 (1) - a commonplace book of English poetry, songs and hymns (1865-1902); 92 pages with additional blank pages, entries written in several hands of various ages. There is an autograph note on the inside front cover: "This book was given to me by Lady Abercomby, Lady Dysarts oldest friend at Adelaide House, St Leonards."
mssHM 82903 (1-6)
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Mary Alice Smith Gray letters to Calvin Oliver Power
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Twenty letters from Mary Alice Smith Gray to Calvin Oliver Power, written between 1918 and 1923. The letters talk about her past, the family news, including the rapidly deteriorating health of John Wesley Gray, and the "dues" she received from Power for the appearances on his show. The letters are undated, scribbled in pencil in a halting and clearly unskilled hand and signed "Mrs. Gray" or "Orphant Annie."
mssHM 44514
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Alice Jones MacMonnies Papers
Manuscripts
The correspondence in the collection almost entirely consists of letters sent to Alice Jones MacMonnies from about 1917 until 1929. The bulk of the correspondence is from Alice's mother Georgina Sullivan Jones, and the letters focus on news regarding family members and acquaintances, including General John Pershing. Georgina writes of sculptor Prince Paul Troubetzkoy's commission to create a bust of Henry E. Huntington in 1917 and of her hatred of Troubetzkoy, and relates being angered by a discussion that rated Troubetzkoy and Auguste Rodin as the greatest living sculptors with no mention of MacMonnies. Other letters describe events related to World War I, such as the raising of funds for French orphans and news of a friend's brother who was killed in an "aeroplane accident" in France. An undated letter from Alice's nephew Gregory Jones (the son of her half-brother Roy) describes war conditions in St. Rhomble, France, and the "defiant" attitude of German prisoners-of-war toward the French and American soldiers. A series of 1925 letters recount Georgina's trip through Spain and France, and other topics covered throughout the correspondence include Georgina Jones Walton's play Light of Asia (1927), the Jones' mining interests in Alaska, Alice's interest in New York real estate, and memories of John P. Jones, whom Georgina wished had "lived to see the wonders that science has accomplished and what has been done in the film world" (1933). A few letters from Alice regarding the Jones estate before and after Georgina's death, including a notebook of property values from 1924, are also included. The diary volume was kept by Georgina Sullivan Jones during her 1896 European tour with Alice following her graduation from Bryn Mawr, and chronicles their voyage across the Atlantic on board the St.Paul of the American Line, as well as their travels through London, Paris, Berlin, Beyreuth, Munich, Innsbruck, Venice, Milan, Rome, and Zurich.The photographs of Alice MacMonnies and her sisters Georgina and Marion range from her childhood to adult years, including her 1896 class photo from Bryn Mawr College.
mssHM 76195-76259