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Early California Theater Promptbooks

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Description: Each of these seven promptbooks contains an act from one of three plays from the late 19th Century. They include Acts 1-3 of Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor, (HM 70516-70518), Acts 2-3 of Our Boys by Henry James Byron, (HM 70514-70515), and Acts 2-3 of The Bells by Leopold Lewis, (HM 70512-70513). They were collected by Barton Hill, a British -born actor active in American theater in the 1860s.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1877.
Call number: mssHM 70512-70518
Provenance: Purchased from Michael A. Morrison, Ph.D., Theatrical Memorabilia, August 2008.
Associated people: Byron, Henry J. (1835-1884.); Hill, Barton, (1828-1911.); Lewis, Leopold, (1828-1890.); Taylor, Tom, (1817-1880.)
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Chester mystery cycle : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 6-150v. [Chester Mystery Cycle]. Incipit: Ego sum alpha et omega i, primus et novissimus. I god moste of maiestye/ in whom begininge none may bee. Explicit: therfore excuse you withowten were/ I may not well I wysse. Deo gratias. This ys the laste of all the xxiiiitie pageantes and playes, played by the xxiiites craftesmen of the Cyttie of Chester wrytten in the yeare of our lord god 1591 and in the xxxiiiith yeare of the reigne of our sovereigne Ladye queene Elizabeth, whom god preserve for ever Amen. Finis. [added in a different script:] By me Edward Gregorie scholler at Bunburye the yeare of our lord god 1591. Rubric: Drapers Playe. Incipit pagina secunda qualiter deus docuit mundum, Deus. English. IMEV 716. R. M. Lumiansky and D. Mills, eds., The Chester Mystery Cycle. EETS ss 3 (London 1974) , using this manuscript as the base text, collated against the 5 other manuscripts; HM 2 described in the introduction, pp. xii-xiv and in the notes, pp. 533-47. See also The Chester Mystery Cycle: a reduced facsimile of Huntington Library MS 2 with an introduction by R. M. Lumiansky and D. Mills (San Marino and the University of Leeds 1980). Other complete editions of the Chester cycle, including the Banns, by T. Wright for the Shakespeare Society (1843-47) and by H. Deimling and Dr. Matthews for EETS es 62, 115 (1892, 1916) ; for a list of the partial editions, see Lumiansky and Mills, EETS ss 3, pp. xli-xlii . This manuscript lacking the first 5 leaves (as shown by contemporary foliation); the missing text (the Banns and Play 1) supplied in HM 2 on the introductory ff. I-XII from London, Brit. Lib., Harley 2013 in the nineteenth century.

mssHM 2

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Christina Rossetti and others letters

Manuscripts

This material includes (1 letter) by Charles Bagot Cayley (HM 66092), (3) by Christina Rossetti (HM 66093-95), (1) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (includes printed portrait of D.G. Rossetti, HM 66096), (1) by Gabriele Rossetti (in Italian, HM 66097), and (2) by William Michael Rossetti (HM 66098-99).

mssHM 66093-66099

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New Icarian Community records in Adams County, Iowa

Manuscripts

Ledgers containing minutes of the general meetings of the New Icarian Community for the periods: 1) 1873, Oct. 25 -- 1878 Jan. 19 (HM 76731); 2) 1878, Mar. 2 -- 1878, Sept. 7 (HM 76732); and 3) 1880, June 26 -- 1884, Feb. 22 (HM 76733).

mssHM 76730-76735

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Letters between Henry David Thoreau and Isaac Hecker

Manuscripts

Four letters between Henry David Thoreau and Isaac T. Hecker consisting of: a letter to Thoreau from Hecker, New York, 1844 July 31, A.L.S. 3 pp. (HM 20110); a letter to Thoreau from Hecker, New York, 1844 August 15, A.L.S. 3 pp. (HM 20108); a letter to Hecker from Thoreau, 1844 August 14, A.L.S. 3 pp. (HM 20109); and a letter to Hecker from Thoreau, [1844], A.L.S. 2 pp., with a note by Hecker on the verso (HM 20107).

mssHM 20107-20110

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Transcripts of arguments for claims no. 7, 17, 33, 34, 35, 43

Manuscripts

These are typewritten transcripts, with paper covers; the transcripts were made for Sir Charles Fitzpatrick by Smith & Hulse, Shorthand Reporters, Washington, D.C. HM 82865 (1-2) are transcripts for claims No. 7, 33, 34, 35, 43 (March 11-12); HM 82865 (3-5) are transcripts for the "R.T.Roy" claim No. 17 (March 12-14). HM 82865 (3) also contains 2 pages of autograph notes by Fitzpatrick and 7 typewritten pages of notes on other legal cases.

mssHM 82865 (1-5)

Gorgeous street carnival and pageantry of the "medical students" in their grand entree and glittering street parade!!

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Image of an advertisement for the comic opera “Our College Boys; or, the medical students on a lark” from 1881; a professor and two women with bells of horseback lead a parade procession of medical students in robes and mortarboard caps carrying hand bells through the streets as well as banners that read, "The great English sensation," "The medical students," and "Our college boys" as throngs of people look on from the roadside and from buildings nearby.

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