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Pedigree of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

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Description: Official heraldic pedigree of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, created with an intention to demonstrate his suitability to be a royal consort. The pedigree was prepared by Robert Cooke.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: between 1564 and 1566.
Call number: mssHM 68350
Creator: Cooke, Robert (-1592)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Illuminated manuscript on vellum with two large multi-colored coats of arms and 189 smaller multi-colored multi-colored heraldic devices worked into the elaborate borders of silver "ragged stave" foliage. The super ex-libris is the heraldic device of Robert Dudley featuring a bear and "ragged stave" between initials "R" and "L."

Leicester's Commonwealth: manuscript

Manuscripts

A contemporary attack on Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, formerly attributed to the Jesuit Robert Parsons. More properly titled "The Copy of a letter written by a master of art of Cambridge...concerning...some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his friends in England."

mssHM 90

Heroica eulogia

Manuscripts

Presentation copies of grants relating to the earls of Leicester, collected by William Bowyer, keeper of the royal archives at the Tower of London and presented by him to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532?-88). Interspersed among the deeds are eulogies in verse of previous earls of Leicester and of others, and of the kings who granted the various charters; at the end, satiric anticlerical verses.

mssHM 160

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[Palmer Family genealogical roll of arms

Manuscripts

Modeled on genealogical rolls of the late medieval kings of England, this roll of arms, signed by Robert Cooke, Clarenceaux King of Arms, claims to display the ancestry of the Palmer family from the eleventh- or twelfth-century progenitor Henry Palmer to the four sons of Edward Palmer (ca. 1550-1624), a wealthy landowner in England and the New World. A crusader and a member of Henry VIII's Troop of Gentlemen number among the sixty-nine men and women identified here. The earlier portions of the genealogy, clearly calculated to show off illustrious ancestors and to highlight important connections through marriage, are difficult to verify. This roll does not provide the dates of birth or death for anyone in the Palmer pedigree, and only a few are linked definitively to a particular monarch's reign or to a specific historic event.

mssHM 83385

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Robert Selden Garnett letters

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These are two letters written by American officer Robert Selden Garnett. HM 46544, dated 1849, August 23, is addressed to A. Somervail Garnett ("My dear Somervail," Robert writes), and is written following the wrecking of the ship Edith off the California coast. Robert assures Somervail that he will do all he can to keep Somervail enrolled at Harvard until his education is completed, and gives Somervail advice concerning his chosen occupational path, particularly the importance of mathematics and surveying. Robert urges Somervail to be steadfast in his studies, but not at the expense of his social life, which Robert considers as important as school. Robert closes by saying he hopes to return to Washington by December 1. In the second letter (HM 46545, dated 1849, September 30), Robert writes to Caleb Lyon concerning the authorship of a proposed "seal or coat of arms for the new state of California" as well as a constitution for the pending state. Robert claims to be the sketcher of the original seal, and gives Lyon the authority to reveal him as such, should he deem it proper.

mssHM 46544-46545

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Photocopies relating to Robert Nathan

Manuscripts

In this small group of photocopies, there are correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, and poems relating to Robert Nathan. Also included is the program to Robert Nathan's memorial service.

mssHM 54962 (A-P)

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Collection of Robert Frost letters and poems, (bulk 1894-1916)

Manuscripts

This collection contains 59 pieces of correspondence and poems of American poet Robert Frost, chiefly consisting of handwritten poems and letters sent by Frost to Susan Hayes Ward (1835-1916), poetry editor for The Independent, from the mid 1890s to the 1910s. Items consist of: thirty letters from Robert Frost to Susan Hayes Ward (HM 7656, HM 25338-25366); eighteen loose poems signed by Robert Frost (HM 7638-7646, HM 7648-7655, HM 7657); two poems whose authorship was repudiated by Frost; apparently in the hand of Elinor M. Frost (HM 1201, HM 7647); a collection of 17 handwritten poems presented by Frost to Ward for Christmas 1911 (HM 7237); a letter from Robert Frost to William Hayes Ward, the editor of The Independent (HM 25337); two letters from Elinor Frost to Susan Hayes Ward (HM 25367-25368); three letters from Frost to Huntington Library staff authorizing access to his papers (HM 10799, HM 47622, HM 48305); and two letters from Frost related to autographs (HM 13810, HM 59545).

mssHM 1201; mssHM 7237; mssHM 7638-7657; mssHM 10799; mssHM 13810; mssHM 25337-25368; mssHM 47622; mssHM 48305; mssHM 59545

Pedigree of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

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