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Correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera
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Mary A. Forman Papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists mainly of letters and questionnaires written between 1904-1908 on the topic of mid-19th-century Los Angeles. Most of the questionnaires, composed by Mary A. Forman, include a correspondent's answers, and most of the letters were written to Forman in response to her questionnaires or other inquiries. Forman presumably conducted the correspondence as a result of her involvement in the Auld Lang Syne Club. There are also a few other documents that she probably acquired as part of her research, including a small number of letters written by Southerners (possibly relatives of A. J. King) during the Civil War and a few 19th-century California letters, most of them written in Spanish. The purpose of most of Mary Forman's inquiries was to obtain very specific details or confirmation of details of Los Angeles history, from what kind of roof a certain house had to which band of Apaches killed a certain man. Because of this, the responses cover a markedly wide range of topics, and the number of authors and other people involved is unusually large for a collection of this size. General topics addressed in the documents include Los Angeles history, California state and local government, crime, medicine, architecture, education, land allotment, churches, agriculture, Indians, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Photocopies of photographs and a brief biography of Mary A. and Charles Forman, compiled by John Steven McGroaty in Los Angeles: From the Mountains to the Sea, published in 1921, can be requested with the paper versin of this finding aid. Some correspondence is in Spanish.
mssHM 68517-68598
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Authors B-J (HM 68517-68559)
Manuscripts
Authors B-J, including: Caballeria, Juan, fl. 1905; Davis, William Heath, 1822-1909; Foster, Thomas, d. 1863 Guirado, R. C., fl. 1905; Hazard, George Washington, 1842-1914 Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner, 1843-1922 Ingersoll, Luther A.,b. 1851; and Johnston, Mary Alice Eaton, b. 1850
mssHM 68517-68598
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Authors K-Y (plus anonymous); Ephemera (HM 68560-68598)
Manuscripts
Authors K-Y (plus anonymous and ephemera), including: King, Andrew Jackson, 1833-1923; King, Laura Evertson, d. 1925; Kuhrts, J. Macy, Oscar, fl. 1905; and Rowland, William R., b. 1846.
mssHM 68517-68598
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Mary A. Forman papers addenda
Manuscripts
Similar to the main collection, this addenda consists of mainly letters and questionnaires written between 1905-1908 on the topic of mid-19th-century Los Angeles. Most of the questionnaires, composed by Mary A. Forman, include a correspondent's answers, and most of the letters were written to Forman in response to her questionnaire or other inquiries.
mssHM 81435-81469
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Manuscript, Correspondence, Documents and Photographs
Manuscripts
This collection consists of one manuscript by Richard F. Burton, and letters and documents, by, among others, Isabel Burton, Richard Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron, William Marcus Coghlan, J. A. Froude, Charles George Gordon, J. A. Grant, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Quentin Keynes, Alexander William Kinglake, David Livingstone, Mary Lovell, Victoria L. Maylor, Edwards H. Metcalf, Edward Henry Palmer, Bernadette Rivett, Stephen Tabachnick, John Hanning Speke, Henry M. Stanley, and William H. Wood. The collection also includes artwork, lithographs, maps, photographs, printed material and Burton related research material gathered by Burke Casari.
mssHM 78795-78885, 80305-80324
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Correspondence, Ephemera
Manuscripts
The collection is chiefly made up of correspondence written by various members of the Hurlbert and Chenowith families to Andrew J. Hurlbert, his wife Mary Chenowith Hurlbert, and their daughter Ida May Hurlbert. The Hurlbert family lived in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire; their letters deal with family matters and their day-to-day activities. The Chenowith family lived throughout the American southwest including Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Texas; their letters deal with farm life, descriptions of the Southwest, financial problems, family matters, fears of Indian attacks, the movements of Victorio and the Mimbreño Indians, murders in town, mining in New Mexico, and a shoot-out over a ranch property where a bullet grazed the head of Rachel Chenowith (Mary Hurlbert's mother).
mssHM 65102-65241