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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Maria Anne Fitzherbert letter to W. Jutsham concerning Captain John Willett Payne
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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An autograph, signed letter addressed to "Sir" and dated on the verso, "1803 dec 12;" on the top of the page, in pencil in another hand, is written "To Wm Porden." The letter only briefly mentions the Prince of Wales and is mainly about the installation, placement and use of a stove in a house that is being built. William Porden was the architect who designed Steine House in Brighton, England, for Fitzherbert; she lived there from 1804 until her death in 1837. The letter was mounted on board by a previous owner.
mssHM 84133
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In this letter, written while Burroughs was on the S. S. Mongolia, he discusses his recent trip to California where he visited Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Yosemite, where he was given a tour by John Muir. The letter is signed "John Burroughs," but text is in the hand of Dr. Clara Barrus; the envelope is postmarked Honolulu, Hawaii, May 11, 1909. The letter is addressed to John W. Childs of Floral Park, Long Island, New York.
mssHM 82577
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Letter by Queen Anne commanding the Earl of Rochester to attend her coronation. With seal and engraved portrait of Queen Anne.
mssHM 357
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Maria Watts thanks the otherwise unidentified Mrs. Foster for her visit, and offers advice for her possible move to the California town of Oakland, including details concerning the purchase of property. She advises Mrs. Foster not to delay, for she believes the price of land will increase sharply in the very near future.
mssHM 31265
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This material includes a Memorandum book, 2 manuscripts, 8 letters and 12 bills and receipts. The Memorandum book, bills & receipts include detailed records of expenditure on specific books, apparel, hairdressing, accomodation, a harpsichord, dancing lessons, food and many other personal items; all of the items provide an overview of the cost of a polite Georgian upbringing for a young woman in the late 1770s and 1780s. The manuscripts include a Valentine Day poem and an Account of Frosts; the letters, written by various male suitors, contain expressions of love and esteem.
mssHM 81748-81770
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Also enclosed in the volume: William Wordsworth letter to R. Shelton Mackenzie, October 18, 1842, and A. MacGeorge, Jr., letter to Maria Edgeworth, October 21, 1842. With typewritten transcriptions bound into volume and a second typewritten transcription laid into the back of the volume.
mssHM 84511