Manuscripts

Diary and letterbook

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Description: This journal or diary, kept at irregular intervals over nearly forty years (fullest for the 1720s), gradually morphs into a letterbook recording copies of Thomlinson's correspondence. Early entries discuss with some frankness his family and prospects, his own and his family's business and legal mattters, daily life and gossip, books and rading (including The Tatler), politics and current events, sermons, occasional medicinal rcipes and cures, and accounts of his corresepondence.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1721-1759.
Call number: mssHM 70982
Creator: Thomlinson, John (1692-1761)(Opens in new tab)
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Seal Islands - Letterbook/Diary

Manuscripts

Bound journal and letterbook created by Otis while in the Seal Islands, Alaska. NEEDS CONSERVATION. BOARDS OFF COMPLETELY. PLEASE USE WITH CAUTION.

mssLAT

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J.B. Mathewson letterbook

Manuscripts

Letterbook containing mining business related correspondence by J.B. Mathews and Carl F. Muir.

mssHM 84305

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Joseph Symson commercial letterbook

Manuscripts

This manuscript volume contains 2,041 office copies of correspondence sent out, mainly, by Symson but also his sons, so the volume is written in several different hands; the letterbook covers just under a decade and includes both business and personal affairs with notes of debts owed and some family correspondence. Shortly after acquiring the letterbook in 1985, the Huntington replaced the contemporary covers which the sale catalogue described as "blind-panelled reverse calf (both covers detached and badly worn);" the original covers were preserved and are housed separately.

mssHM 50670

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Charles A. Thackston letterbook

Manuscripts

Letterbook of outgoing letters sent by San Francisco merchant Charles A. Thackston from May 15, 1852, to February 13, 1853. Most of the correspondence relates to Thackston's business contacts in New York, and references shipping, power of attorney, and notes on various residents of San Francisco. Some of the correspondence appears to be personal, possibly written to Thackston's brother. In a bound letterbook labeled "Leonora Thackston, Scrap Book, 1870."

mssHM 75059

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I.N. Hoag letterbook

Manuscripts

This letterbook contains correspondence from the California Vine-growers' and Wine and Brandy Manufacturers' Association and an invitation to the General Convention on February 21, 1872.

mssHM 35293

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Frederick Thomas Perris letterbook

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Letterbook kept by Fred Thomas Perris while he worked as an agent for Cronyn and Perris, general merchandise of Salt Lake City. The volume references Perris' Mormon customers, including Brigham Young. It includes entries from New York, St. Louis, and North Platte, Nebraska, among other cities.

mssHM 35296

Diary and letterbook

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