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Thaccount gyven by Michael Lok of the third voiage of Martin Furbusher for the discourye of Cathaj &c by the Northwest parties: manuscript
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Commonplace book. English history: manuscript
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Accounts of foreign and domestic affairs of Charles I, including the English landing on the Isle of Ré, the Seige of La Rochelle, Privy Council proceedings involving Sir John Corryton, and a description of "the Late deceased Prince of Bohemia."
mssHM 45148
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Letterbook of correspondence with Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, Sir Henry Griffith and other Yorkshire officials regarding military affairs in wapentakes of Buckrose and Dickering
Manuscripts
Letterbook of correspondence between Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, then Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire, the Privy Council, and various sheriff, bailiffs, and Justices of the Peace, mainly Sir Henry Griffith, and other Yorkshire officials. The correspondence deals with military affairs in wapentakes of Buckrose and Dickering; also, with muster lists, assessments, papers regarding poor relief, etc., copies of letters from Sir Thomas Postumus Hobby, Matthew Hutton and others. The letter book is in two volumes: Vol. I - 131 pages, 33 x 23 cm., sewn into a fragment of a 15th century manuscript on vellum; Vol. II - 44 pages, 30 x 21 cm., both volumes with damaged pages and loss of text.
mssHM 50657
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Steiner, Michael C. (1983-1990)
Manuscripts
This collection is organized to preserve, whenever possible, Robert Hine's original order. This includes most of his original folder titles, the original order of folders, and the original order of some of the boxes. The collection contains Hine's professional work as a historian of the American West and a writer, and includes research notes, photocopied manuscripts, newspaper clippings, interviews, correspondence, and other research related papers. As such, the original order of Hine's papers reflects his process of collecting and referencing them as he worked on various book projects. In some instances, his original folders provide insight into the kinds of questions or themes he was pursuing in the course of his work. Hine also revised the organization of these papers as he prepared them for donation to the Huntington Library in the late 1990s. Despite Hine's own curatorship, some of his papers remained unsorted and unorganized at the time of this collection's cataloging. Those have been organized by the cataloger to reflect, as much as possible, Hine's own organizational methods.
mssHine
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Manuscript account of the life of Plummer Edwards Jeffries
Manuscripts
Account of the life of Plummer Edward Jeffries as recollected and written by his daughter Ida J. Fitzgerald. The account includes a voyage to California in 1850 via New York and by steamer to the isthmus of Panama where he suffered from a form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River before finally reaching San Francisco and the golf fields and mining towns. He returned to his dry-goods business in Philadelphia, married and had a child (the author) before returning to California in 1854 by the same route. In Moore's Flat, Nevada County he purchased horses and started a livery stable business while continuing with placer mining. The account details the adventurous trip undertaken by his wife and baby daughter to join him in Moore's Flat and describes the family's life there and his success with the livery stable and stage lines. The account goes on to describe the family's move to and hardships in Meadow Lake. The account further documents his fortunes and moves to Graniteville, North Bloomfield, San Francisco, Vallejo and finally Oakland.
mssHM 31175
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Glen Canyon rafting trip manuscript
Manuscripts
This manuscript, a mimeographed copy, provides a detailed account of a recreational raft trip through Glen Canyon on the Colorado River, in Utah, during the summer of 1958. The anonymous author describes the river, the scenery, the behavior of and interactions of the members of the excursion and their enjoyment of the adventure. There is a full-page map of their route and two pages of illustrations. The last six pages lists the 36 participants of the trip.
mssHM 83993
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Record of a voyage to the Orient in 1918
Manuscripts
Kinney's journal starts the day he leaves California and ends the day he gets back four months later. In it, he includes details about his work on board the ship, the daily inspections, the conditions on the ocean, the meals he has, and the various stops along the route including: Hawaii, Japan, China, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. Kinney gives detailed descriptions of Honolulu, Hawaii; Tokyo and Kobe, Japan; Shanghai, China; Manila, Philippines; and Hong Kong. The typed journal includes photocopies of pages from Kinney's original diary, photographs, maps, advertisements, menus, passenger lists, and various other things he collected during his voyage.
mssHM 75688