Manuscripts

Robert Burton journal

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Description: In the journal, Burton recorded his various medical appointments. He included patient name, diagnosis, services rendered, and payments received. There is also some pages dealing with daily life and travels. The four additional items include two pages of quotations and two ledger pages. The journal is written in pencil and some of the handwriting has faded and is illegible.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1845-1853.
Call number: mssHM 74091
Creator: Burton, Robert (active 1845)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

James Gow journal

Manuscripts

The majority of the journal contains prescriptions Gow made for his customers and the recipes for those prescriptions. The volume also contains two other sections: a female relative of Gow's recorded 19th century poetry in parts of the book and there is also a section titled, "Journal of a Seaman in the Forecastle." This diary section contains accounts from 1851 to 1852 of an anonymous sailor who sailed from Boston to San Francisco in a clipper and then chronicles his time in Port Adelaide, Australia. There are also two pages of what may be the ship's manifest.

mssHM 74486

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Mary Stuart Bailey journal

Manuscripts

HM 2018 is the original journal of thirty handwritten pages, dated April 13, 1852 through November 8, 1852. Also included is a negative photostat of the 1850 Federal Census of Lucas County, Ohio, showing entries for Mary Stuart Bailey, her husband Dr. Frederick E. Bailey, and Harriet Bailey, as well as four typewritten pages showing burial plots in Association Cemetery (Sylvania, Ohio), wherein rests Harriet Bailey. HM 2019 is a typescript of an extract of the journal, through October 31. Also included here are two typewritten pages by Mrs. W.W. Hicks relating further information about the Baileys, and a map of the Salt Lake Trail. The journal itself is Mary Bailey's account of her journey. She stops in St. Louis, Missouri to see friends, and gives shelter to some Indians in "destitute condition." After a hard journey, they reach California in October, and Bailey writes in her final entry, "I do not think we shall be as well off as at home."

mssHM 2018-2019

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William B. Rice letterbook

Manuscripts

This letterbook contains about 75 letters written by William B. Rice while doing business in Hawaii. He makes references to various aspects of Hawaiian life; an outbreak of smallpox; possible annexation by the United States; Hawaiian royalty; Judge William Little Lee; whaling; finances; ships arriving in Honolulu; and business and commerce in the islands. Note: Many of the letters are almost illegible; much of the ink has faded, and the volume is in fragile condition.

mssHM 75981

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Jacob Townsend Journal

Manuscripts

This journal includes some pages of accounting from 1843-1848, with the bulk focused on the author's voyage from Boston to California. Journal was rebound October 1983. Includes separated binding.

mssHM 47354

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Robert Honyman journal

Manuscripts

A daily record of a journey by horseback, stage, and packet from Virginia to New England and return. The subject matter contains a description of the roads, the countryside, crops; business conditions in the cities visited, prices of food and lodging, political conditions, war prepartions in Boston, church services and political meetings; descriptions of the layout of cities and buildings; references to prominent persons and others whom he met en route; mentions the annoucement of "the dreadful news of the comencement of the war by the affair of Lexington" April 27, while in Baltimore.

mssHM 818

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E. Holbrook journal

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a collection of pages from the journal of E. Holbrook. The pages are dated between 1846 and 1863, and appear to have been removed from longer manuscripts. Most of the journal describes Holbrook's travels through California and attempts at searching for gold. He sees soldiers at drill and participates in the 1854 state election. In July 1857, he writes of the robbing of a Chinese camp by men disguised as Indians and Mexicans. When witnessing a hanging in December 1858, Holbrook writes, "its time public executions were done away with." In 1859, he returns home to New York. In 1861, Holbrook calls the period of secession "exciting and important months in the history of our country and of liberty universally."

mssHM 2280

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