Manuscripts

Adam Sedgwick letter to Richard Owen

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Description: Autograph signed letter from Sedgwick to English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Richard Owen, regarding "some new bones from our 'Green Sand' - certainly one new species of Pterodactyl." Sedgwick was coming to London to present the bones to Owen at the British Museum. Includes a lithograph portrait of Adam Sedgwick by J. H. Lynch after a drawing by S. Lawrence [1844]. The portrait is signed by Adam Sedgwick.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [1860?], January 8.
Call number: mssHM 72875
Creator: Sedgwick, Adam (1785-1873)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc., February 23, 2011.

John Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts, letter to Richard Rush :

Manuscripts

Letter expressing Adams' views on aristocracy as natural, that inequalities of influence exist in nature, must be levelled by law; also discusses the "privileged order of beauty" and the example of Emma, Lady Hamilton. Item is bound with an engraved portrait of Adams and an auction or sale advertisement of the Adams letter.

mssHM 21696

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Isaac Owen letter book

Manuscripts

Typewritten copies of letters by and to Reverend Owen for the Methodist Church in various cities in northern California. With envelope of related used envelopes. Copies made in 1919 from letters in the Methodist Church in Berkeley, California by Mrs. Miller, Owen's sister.

mssHM 48972

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Photographic portraits of Richard Owen, 1804-1892, and Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895

Manuscripts

The collection includes correspondence, photographs, prints, ephemera and clippings. Highlights include an 1875 letter from Charles Darwin (with his son, William Erasmus Darwin) to Lawson Tait regarding mice tails, and a portrait taken by Henry Barraud (1811-1874) which is believed to be the last photograph taken of Darwin. There are also cartes-de-visite photographs of Darwin, as well as printed portraits and other ephemera. Also of note are three letters by Richard Owen, plus photographs of him. The collection also contains a few modern negatives from items in the Warren D. Mohr/Charles Darwin Collection of rare books at The Huntington.

mssMohrDarwin

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Thomas Adams letter to Granville Sharp

Manuscripts

An autograph, signed draft letter from Thomas Adams to Granville Sharp; the letter is a retained copy, heavily corrected and annotated. An extensive letter which covers multiple topics including the militia, legal matters, political business, estate business (Adams lists the many trees he has planted on his Eshott Hall estate), and the African Prince John Henry Granville Naimbanna, who died in 1793.

mssHM 83693

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John Adams speech to the King of England :

Manuscripts

Draft of John Adams's speech on the occasion of presenting of his letter of credence to George III on June 1, 1785. With a note by James G. Palfrey dated January 7, 1854, attesting that the manuscript "was given to me on this day by his grandson, Charles Francis Adams." Includes engraved portrait of John Adams, approximately 1830-1833; "drawn & printed by Childs & Inman, Philadelphia" and "Pub'd by Peabody & Co., New York." Speech is hinged to mounting paper; bound in full green Morocco; gilt stamped cover and spine. Cover title: "John Adams. Holograph Manuscript of his Speech on Being Presented to the King of England as American Ambassador. 1785." Spine title: "John Adams. Original Manuscript."

mssHM 783

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Letters and essays of Owen Hugh O'Neill

Manuscripts

The majority of the letters are written by Owen Hugh O'Neill to his father and brother, Malachy O'Neill, who were still living in Kilross, Ireland. The letters discuss his trip to California including his stay at Fort Bridger, Wyo., and his arrival in Salt Lake City, Utah, with Johnston and the newly appointed Governor Alfred Cumming. O'Neill makes observations regarding the mounting confrontation between the U.S. Government and Army, Brigham Young, and the Mormon Church. In his other letters, some of which are to various friends, O'Neill discusses the Civil War and his life in California. In his letter dated 1863, Oct. 24, Malachy O'Neill discusses Ireland's view of the Civil War and the mass numbers of the Irish immigrating to the United States. The essays, which are not dated, seem to be have been written by O'Neill while he was a student and deal with various subjects such as mathematics and how to write an essay. Also included is a notebook kept by O'Neill regarding mathematics and sailing

mssHM 66359-66377

Adam Sedgwick letter to Richard Owen

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