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Manuscripts
On the Artistic Qualities of the Woodcut Books of Ulm and Augsburg in the 15th Century
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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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Manuscripts
A collection of manuscripts and correspondence related to Robert Browning. The manuscripts include two autograph quotations, "Christmas Eve and Easter Day" and "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix," and the autograph poem "Red Cotton Night-Cap Country." The collection also includes a forgery of a fragment of a poem (mssHM 46121). The majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence which includes letters by, among others: Willam Allingham, Eliza Bridell-Fox, Henry Fothergill Chorley, Frances Power Cobbe, Sidney Colvin, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Hepworth Dixon, Mary Gladstone Drew, Amelia B. Edwards, Havelock Ellis, William Johnson Fox, Frederick James Furnivall, Anna Maria Fielding Hall, Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, Emily Henrietta Hickey, John Camden Hotten, Charles Godfrey Leland, William Charles Macready, Edward Moxon, John Ruskin, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Frederick Wedmore, and William Hale White.
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A collection of manuscripts and correspondence related to Robert Browning. The manuscripts include two autograph quotations, "Christmas Eve and Easter Day" and "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix," and the autograph poem "Red Cotton Night-Cap Country." The collection also includes a forgery of a fragment of a poem (mssHM 46121). The majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence which includes letters by, among others: Willam Allingham, Eliza Bridell-Fox, Henry Fothergill Chorley, Frances Power Cobbe, Sidney Colvin, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Hepworth Dixon, Mary Gladstone Drew, Amelia B. Edwards, Havelock Ellis, William Johnson Fox, Frederick James Furnivall, Anna Maria Fielding Hall, Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, Emily Henrietta Hickey, John Camden Hotten, Charles Godfrey Leland, William Charles Macready, Edward Moxon, John Ruskin, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Frederick Wedmore, and William Hale White.
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This collection contains the archival and manuscript portion of the Sanford and Helen Berger collection and primarily contains manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera created by or related to 19th century English artist, decorator, poet, and printer William Morris (1834-1896) and his circle. Though this collection is named the William Morris Papers, the Bergers also collected manuscript and printed material related to nineteenth and twentieth century British Pre- Raphaelites, Fine Printing and private presses (Kelmscott Press and the Doves Press), architects, illustrators, and the Arts & Crafts movement (Morris & Co.). The William Morris Papers are perhaps unique among the Huntington's other holdings in that they are an integral part of a much larger collection of stained glass, furniture, tiles, pottery, art work and printed books, making it one of the premier nineteenth century Arts & Crafts collections in the world. The papers consist of the following series: 1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-2, Oversize Material Box 19, Folder 1)) are arranged alphabetically by author and title. Included in this series are: a minute book, notes, personal reminiscences, lectures, poems, prose narratives and essays. This series includes manuscripts by many authors, most notably by: Edward Burne- Jones, Sydney C. Cockerell, Walter Crane, John Henry Dearle, William F. De Morgan, Frederick E. Startridge, Alice Macdonald Fleming, William Minto, William Morris, Eden Phillpotts and Charles Canning Winmill. 2. Correspondence (Boxes 3-13) is arranged alphabetically by author. This series includes letters from notable people in the literary, arts, fine printing, publishing and architectural fields in England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Georgiana Burne-Jones, T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Sydney C. Cockerell, Walter Crane, Evelyn De Morgan, William F. De Morgan, H. Buxton Forman, Arthur Hughes, Edward R. Hughes, William Holman Hunt, W.R. Lethaby, J.W. Mackail, John Everett Millais, Jane Burden Morris, May Morris, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Simeon Solomon, Emery Walker, Philip Webb and Charles Canning Winmill. 3. Ephemera and Miscellaneous (Boxes 14-18, Oversize Material Box 19, Folders 2-5) is arranged by subject. It comprises approximately 300 items and includes: photocopies of Account Books and various letters, printed material, material removed from scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, material related to Philip Henderson's Morris biography and material related to Peter Stansky's work on The House of Wolfings.
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Consists of correspondence, documents, and various legal papers of Lady Strangford and her husband, Percy Ellen Frederick William Smythe, the 8th Viscount Strangford, as well as three travel journals kept by Lady Strangford from October 1876 to March 1877 documenting her life and travels in Bulgaria during the Turko-Bulgarian war, and her efforts in establishing military hospitals. Some items in the collection are in French and Arabic. Correspondence includes two letters from Mary Ann Evans Cross (George Eliot), dated 1874; a letter from Edward Lear, discussing his literary activities in Italy, etc. in June 1886; a June 9, 1867, letter from Harriet Martineau containing long discussion and analysis of Maria Edgeworth and her edition of Richard Lovell Edgeworth's autobiography; and an April 28, 1871, letter from Anna Eliot Ticknor discussing her life with George Ticknor. Alexander I, King of Bulgaria (1 letter); Frederick Temple Blackwood, 1st Marquis of Dufferin (6 letters); Sir Stafford Northcote (1 letter); and William Henry Smith (2 letters). There is also a November 17, 1886, letter from Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria, and an invitation to the May 8, 1838, coronation of Queen Victoria.
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This collection consists of 84 items including legal documents and correspondence. The collection is composed of three series in accordance with the types of sources: Manuscripts (Box 1), Correspondence, and Ephemera (Box 2). The items in each series are placed in chronological order. The Manuscripts contain legal documents related to several court cases including Miguel Aguirre, et al. vs. Patrick William Riordan (Archbishop of San Francisco), et al., where Foley was an attorney for the plaintiffs, and Jonathan S. Dodge vs. John C. Cline, where he served for the defendant. The first case was taken to court by the Aguirres, who believed that the Catholic Church owed to the family an interest in the Pious Fund of California, which has its origin in the 17th century. As for this case, the collection includes the notes prepared by him and/or someone else for the case. The second case was fought by a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the sheriff of the county. As Foley was also involved as an attorney for R. S. McKenzie in the financial contracts between M. Levinson, Jean R. Patterson, Newton Evans, and McKenzie, there are manuscripts related to that case as well. Related to the case, there is also a bill from the Mortgage Company of Canada to R. S. McKenzie as well as a certificate created by R. S. McKenzie. In addition, the collection includes some sources related to the business of Richard Phelan since Foley was a stockholder of the Esmeralda Quicksilver Mining Company ran by Phelan. The Correspondence includes both personal and business letters written and received by Foley. He received letters from Fred S. McGahan, Richard Phelan, Grant Cordrey, Marie Phelan, James H. Barry, S. I. Mossawir, Dolores Aguirre de Pico, Minnie Foley, and Chas G. Halpin. Other participants include: Pedro Bot, F. M. McAuliffe, Mortgage Company of Canada, Motor Vehicle Department (California), Stewart McKenzie, and Newton Evans. Finally, the ephemera includes a memo pad of Foley's, business envelopes of F. M. McAuliffe and the law offices of Gage and Foley, business cards of Gage and Foley and Bernard Morrow, and two photographs of two different men.
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A collection of approximately 489 items from 1846 to 1949, it consists of personal and family papers of William James Potter, accumulated by Elizabeth Babcock Potter. The collection includes journals, correspondence, a letter book, commonplace book, poems, manuscripts, and ephemera. William James Potter's journals document his early career, preceding his New Bedford ministry; the chaplain's notebook that he kept in 1863 contains records of inspections of hospitals and military prisons, names, cases, and addresses of the inmates. Correspondence includes the letters exchanged between William J. Potter and Elizabeth Potter written between 1860 and 1870. There is also Elizabeth Potter's 1859-1860 letter book and letters from Elizabeth Potter to her mother Lydia Delano Babcock written during her visit to Algonac, the Delano estate, near Newburg, in Orange County, New York, in the summer and fall of 1856; as well as letters written during her stay with William James Potter at Camp Distribution, near Alexandria, Virginia, from November 1863 through May 1864. Also included are the Potters' correspondence with his sisters Mary Ann Potter Howland, Ruth Potter Almy, and Ruby H. Potter Tillinghast. William James Potter's correspondence with his friends, includes correspondents John Albee, Henry W. Brown, and George W. Bartlett (the latter discusses Maine Civil War politics), and letters from Elizabeth's numerous friends and colleagues. Also included is a group of letters from Elizabeth's brother, James Delano Babcock who was engaged in the shipping business and China trade, written from San Francisco, Singapore, Yokohama, and Sitka (Alaska) between 1856 and 1876. Elizabeth Babcock Potter's manuscripts include her commonplace book from 1858 to 1865, a 1851 autograph book, her poetry, mostly religious, and a notebook where she recorded stories of her children from 1869 to 1875. There is also a small group of fragments containing a collection of excerpts from sermons of Andrew Preston Peabody; various notes for sermons, religious poetry, some by Elizabeth Babcock Potter, fragments of letters to her and her parents, including a description of a trip to Scotland (probably by her brother James) and a vivid account of Morgan's first raid to Kentucky in July 1862 and Perryville campaign, written by a friend of Elizabeth's, a Kentucky teacher.
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