Manuscripts
Historical discourses: manuscript
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Franklin Dickerson Walker papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera and photographs, mostly pertaining to Walker's biographical research on Jack London (1876-1916). Included within the collection are copies of letters written by Jack London and his wife, Charmian London.
mssHM 45153-45237
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Certificate of land warrant
Manuscripts
This item is a numbered certificate indicating that an individual has paid $500 to the Independence Loan Fund of the Republic of Sonora, for which he will receive one league of land in the public domain. Printed form, numbered 68, and signed by William Walker, but no name of the payer is entered. It was Walker's intent to create a Republic of Sonora, but his plans were not sanctioned by either Mexico or the United States.
mssHM 4105
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The bells of El Camino Real
Manuscripts
In the 1920s, Harriman became interested in California history and the bells of the California missions and she traveled the El Camino Real surveying the missions and their bells. In the manuscript she discusses the history of the following missions and their bells: San Gabriel Arcangel, San Juan Capistrano, San Buenaventura, San Diego, San Juan Bautista, San Luis Rey, and Santa Barbara. The manuscript was put together by Harriman's friends after her death in 1925; it includes a foreword by David Starr Jordan. The manuscript was never published.
mssHM 66767
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Manuscripts, Documents and Ephemera
Manuscripts
The collection contains 69 letters (primarily between members of the Brinley family and Edward Brinley, Jr.), 18 documents (largely relating the career of Edward Brinley, Jr.), a journal kept by Brinley on board the USS North Carolina, Oct. 1840-May. 1841, and the U.S.S. Delaware from Dec. 1843-Mar. 1844, and a portable wooden writing desk owned by Brinley. The early correspondence deals with Edward's childhood and education, his first naval appointment aboard the U.S.S. North Carolina including details about the various ports-of-call. His letters of the 1844-1845 period deal with his service on the U.S.S. Falmouth in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean during the prelude to the U.S.-Mexican War. Edward's letters of the 1846-1850 period deal with his service aboard the U.S.S. Preble during its cruise of the Pacific. Brinley's comments on the economic, ecological, and political phenomenon of the Pacific throughout these letters. The California gold rush, U.S. economic colonialism in present-day Hawaii, U.S. whaling in the Pacific, and the Chinese Opium trade are among the issues extensively discussed. His letters of 1856 were written during his service on the USS Potomac in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. They include discussions of the "filibusterer" William Walker's short-lived takeover of Nicaragua. The letters of Francis W. Brinley, Edward, Jr.'s most frequent correspondent, are dominated by family news and fatherly advice regarding the merits of hard work and respect for authority. Francis's letters do contain some interesting portraits of quotidian life as a businessman in Perth Amboy, NJ, however. The two letters of Thomas Brinley paint a dismal picture of his failed attempt at making a fortune in 1850s California. The remainder of the correspondence relates primarily to the everyday affairs of the Brinley family.
mssHM 74000-74090
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Manuscript account of George Clymer
Manuscripts
The first 13 pages of Clymer's manuscript contain notes from his journals, with random observations, about his time in Southern California, including Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Monterey. Clymer talks about the people he sees, their clothes, customs, dwellings, etc. He also describes California's weather, landscape, agriculture and crops. The remaining 83 pages are written in a narrative style and concern Clymer's time in South America, including Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Clymer also briefly discusses the political history of the area, touching on the Peru-Bolivian Confederation in the late 1830s, and mentioning the lengthy string of wars fought in Peru and elsewhere since independence from Spain; as well as, the effects of civil war in Bolivia. He also talks about his voyage in the Pacific, the sea creatures he sees, the calmness of the Pacific Ocean, etc. The manuscript has numerous corrections and additions, indicating that Clymer perhaps intended it for publication, or at least for a more personal public audience.
mssHM 72090
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An Introduction to ye Christian faith: manuscript
Manuscripts
A personal catechism, transcribed in the hand of and with a preface by Lady Barbara Slingsby Talbot, the author's daughter, in 1687.
mssHM 43213