Manuscripts

Liber amicorum

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Description: This is a manuscript album or Stamp Book "wherein Kings, Princes, the Great Turk & many noblemen and learned men in favour of [Francis Segar] have subscribed their Names, with devices & mottos, & etc..., with 58 emblazoned and engraved coats of arms." This album was in the Segar family for most of the 18th century, during which time Segar's great-grand nephew, Simon Segar, tore out several signature pages and all of its illustrations; Simon Segar did add a note of explanation about the missing pages in the beginning of the album.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1599-1611.
Call number: mssHM 743
Creator: Segar, Francis(Opens in new tab)
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Mary Lupton album amicorum

Manuscripts

This autograph album contains a miscellany of poetry, prose and drawings penned between 1822 and 1829 by various friends and acquaintances of Lupton; there are 98 pages of text, 11 full page drawings in watercolor or pencil, with the remaining pages blank. The album includes a broad variety of literary and religious content: poetic extracts from Cowper; a sketch of lake Windermere, lines of poetry in the hand of the poet James Montgomery and another poem in the hand of French artist Alphonse Dousseau.

mssHM 82836

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Volume of letters written to Charles Edward Tisdall

Manuscripts

A bound volume of letters and autographs from eminent contemporaries, the majority addressed to Tisdall; there are also clippings and printed material. Tisdall often included biographical notes and information about each letter writer; the inside front cover has the bookplate of "Rev Doctor Tisdall" and the title page contains the notes and signatures of Bertram Forsyth, English actor and dramatist. Please note: a previous owner cut and tore numerous pages from the volume so from an original total of 84 pages only 38 remain; the spine and corners have some damage.

mssHM 82899

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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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Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell album of letters, photographs, and printed material

Manuscripts

An album created by Sydney Cockerell; cover is dated 1898. The album contains autograph letters, many with envelopes, photographs, and printed material; some pages have been annotated by Cockerell. Previous to the acquisition by the Huntington Library some of the pages have been removed and some items have been removed from the pages which remain.

mssHM 36896-36934

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G. E. Dyke-Poore seaweed specimen album

Manuscripts

A Victorian album of seaweed and algae specimens collected and preserved by G. E. Dyke-Poore. The album contains twenty-three seaweed specimens mounted on cards and then mounted on pages bound in the album; there are also four additional specimens mounted onto loose pages laid into the back of the album. The specimens are carefully pressed onto each card and labeled with their Latin names; the specimens seem to have been gathered in Jersey, with one specimen from The Heads, Tasmania. The album is bound in contemporary pink and gilt illustrated paper covers (possibly homemade), with the remainder of green silk ties. Mounted onto the verso of the front cover is a little green card which says "Collected, Arranged, and Mounted by Miss G. E. Dyke-Poore, Jersey" and there is also a short poem inscribed by Miss Dyke-Poore at the beginning of the album.

mssHM 84128

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[Nerium oleander]

Manuscripts

A botanical album created by Mary Parker, Countess of Macclesfield; she started the album in 1756 when she was 30 years of age. Flower painting had become a fashionable occupation for the wives and daughters of the great houses of England and Mary Parker achieved exceptional ability under the tutelage of Georg Ehret. The album contains 48 watercolor and gouache paintings on parchment; depicted are both sides of the plant's leaves and also shown are more than one reproductive stage for each specimen: with the early formation of the blossom, the growing petals, and the full expression of the flower. The images in the album depict numerous plant specimens, sometimes with butterflies and other insects, most likely local to the Macclesfield estate, Shirburn Castle, in Oxfordshire. Many of the illustrations are identified by names predating Carl Linnaeus' binomial plant nomenclature in his "Species Plantarum" (1753), while other notations on the illustrations include Linnaeus' names. The album is bound in a contemporary, richly gilt morocco wallet binding, with interior green silk ties; the binding is likely by Richard Montagu. The pages in the album are marked with the Macclesfield armorial blind stamp. It has a lock and key fastening, and while the original key is present, the lock has been deactivated by a professional restorer, please do not attempt to use the key; also present is a red velvet bookmark.

mssHM 84100

Liber amicorum

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