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Small & Co journals

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Description: The present journals record in diary form (vol. 1 for 1914, vol. 2 for 1918) the daily legal work of Small & Co., listing meetings and correspondence with, recommendations to, and actions taken involving a wide variety of (mostly local) clients. Matters covered include a representative range of the concerns of a local firm of solicitors: conveyancing, wills and trusts, debts, taxes, lawsuits, etc. Among the clients there are numerous references to Mary Grenville Morgan-Grenville, Baroness Kinloss of Stowe, and to her son Richard George Morgan-Grenville, Master of Kinloss, who was killed in action in World War I in 1914.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1914-1918.
Call number: mssHM 71381
Creator: Small & Co. (Law firm of Buckingham, England)

P1.1 - Group Portraits

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P1.1 - Group Portraits - Appliance Solicitors. [A group portrait of four appliance salesmen standing outside a SCE local office. Not long after the Appliance Department was established in 1910.]

photCL SCE 02 - 00176

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American Stocks: a memorandum by the London brokerage firm of Thomas Mullett & Co

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A detailed financial memorandum on the purchase and sale, terms of interest, and exchange rate mechanisms for investment in United States government bonds and in shares of the Bank of the United States at Philadelphia.

mssHM 73700

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La Quinta Inn: Desert Development Co., Hotel Resort, Cottages, Pool, Cyrus Pierce residence & Walter Morgan residence (Palm Desert, California)

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Date built: 1927, 1937 ; Architect: Kaufmann, Gordon B. ; Description: Exterior and interior views of La Quinta resort, Cyrus Pierce house and Walter Morgan house. ; Publication(s): "La Quinta, California," California Southland, Vol. 9, April 1927, p. 33; "La Quinta on the Desert," California Southland, Vol. 9, December 1927, p. 29; "La Quinta - the Lure of the Desert," California Arts and Architecture, Vol. 37, p. 44, January 1930; "House for Cyrus Pierce, La Quinta," Architectural Record, Vol. 68, August 1930, p. 125; "La Quinta Hotel and Cottages at Indio," Architectural Record, Vol. 74, November 1933, p. 345; "House of Walter Morgan, La Quinta, Indio," Architectural Record, Vol. 75, February 1934, p. 148; "La Quinta.' Wustemhotel, Indio." Der Baumeister 34, April 1936, p. 141.

photCL 415

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La Quinta Inn: Desert Development Co., Hotel Resort, Cottages, Pool, Cyrus Pierce residence & Walter Morgan residence (Palm Desert, California)

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Date built: 1927, 1937 Architect: Kaufmann, Gordon B. Description: Exterior and interior views of La Quinta resort, Cyrus Pierce house and Walter Morgan house. Publication(s): House for Cryus Pierce, La Quinta," Architectural Record, Vol. 68, p. 125, Aug. 1930; "House of Walter Morgan, La Quinta, Indio," Architectural Record, Vol. 75, p. 148, Feb. 1934; "La Quinta, California," California Southland, Vol. 9, p. 33, April 1927; "La Quinta Hotel and Cottages at Indio," Architectural Record, Vol. 74, p. 345, Nov. 1933; "La Quinta on the Desert," California Southland, Vol. 9, p. 29, Dec. 1937 & Vol. 10, p. 32, Feb. 1928; "La Quinta - the Lure of the Desert," California Arts and Architecture, Vol. 37, p. 44, Jan. 1930; "La Quinta.' Wustemhotel, Indio." Der Baumeister 34, p. 141, Apr. 1936. Missing copy prints for nos. 329, 380.

photCL 415

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James St. Aubyn journal

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The journal is bound in leather covers which have become damaged and fragile; it is marked 'Vol. 1' on the title page. The journal is a record of St. Aubyn's life of attending the theater, hunting and horse racing, attending balls, conducting love affairs and travelling throughout England in pursuit of these activities.

mssHM 80304

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D.J. Barber journal

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The journal titled "Notes on Travel" covers the period from Sept. 19 to the end of December of 1859. It begins with a detailed description of the trip to New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Virginia, and North Carolina; the latter portion includes discussion of the state's economy and social customs. The largest portion of the journal describes Augusta, Union Point, and Queensborough, Ga. The journal richly details the conditions of Negro slaves and their customs, including long descriptions of a prayer meeting, a wedding, and "corn shucking;" political life, (including an account of a Democratic meeting in Augusta, the state elections and discussion of the role of the Know-Nothing party in local politics); his debates with local planters about slavery; the mores, local customs, social life, economics, education, and religious practices (Barber was a Methodist.) Also included is a short glossary of Southern terms (ff. 78-78v).

mssHM 68483

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