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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
West wind: the life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe: manuscript
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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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Rare Books
213180
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Manuscripts
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth's journal, which is in the form of a letter to his wife Nancy Goodrich Ellsworth, covers Ellsworth's 1832 trip, starting at Fort Gibson, across what is now Oklahoma. His travel companions were Washington Irving, Joseph Charles Latrobe, and Albert, Count de Pourtalés. The journal includes details regarding the group's route, the physical description of the area, and the group's interactions with the Pawnee and the Osage Indians. Ellsworth also tells about several buffalo and wild horse hunts in which he and Washington Irving participate. The journal was published in 1937 with the title Washington Irving on the prairie.
mssHM 66493
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The volume contains the orders of Engineer-in-Chief Charles S. Bulkley, and Chief of Marine Charles M. Scammon from May 1865 to December 1866. The orders deal with the following issues: destinations for the ships including San Francisco, California, Victoria, B.C., Sitka, Alaska, the Bering Strait, Siberia and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiǐ, Russia; directions to certain ports; the rules and regulations of the expedition; the promotions, transfers, and punishments of sailors; work to be done by the land parties; ship repairs; the selling and buying of furs; and interactions with the native Alaskans. The volume also mentions the body of Robert Kennicott being brought aboard; Kennicott was the Chief of the Scientific Corps of the expedition and died in Alaska in May 1866.
mssHM 67915
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Most of Farquhar's diaries, which are arranged, chronologically, include his daily activities but also include reminiscences about his life and family history and musings on a variety of topics. There is one "Account Book and Memo Book" from 1902 to 1907 and one "Journal" which includes Farquhar's memories of his life (it includes no daily entries). His earlier diaries (1906-1911) were written while he was living in Washington; the later diaries were written while he was living in California. In his diaries Farquhar also talks about the attack on Pearl Harbor, World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, his brother-in-law Rear Admiral William R. Furlong, the bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's surrender. Many of the volumes have loose clippings with them, the majority of which are obituaries for people Farquhar knew. The manuscripts include copies of several of his writings including '49, And what of the years?, and History of Livingston, California. These books deal with early California pioneer history, the Gold Rush, and the Chinese in California. There are also two manuscripts regarding the genealogy of the Burgess and Farquhar families. These manuscripts, which are arranged alphabetically by title, are all carbon copies with Farquhar's handwritten edits.
mssHM 71720-71742
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Most of Farquhar's diaries, which are arranged, chronologically, include his daily activities but also include reminiscences about his life and family history and musings on a variety of topics. There is one "Account Book and Memo Book" from 1902 to 1907 and one "Journal" which includes Farquhar's memories of his life (it includes no daily entries). His earlier diaries (1906-1911) were written while he was living in Washington; the later diaries were written while he was living in California. In his diaries Farquhar also talks about the attack on Pearl Harbor, World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, his brother-in-law Rear Admiral William R. Furlong, the bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's surrender. Many of the volumes have loose clippings with them, the majority of which are obituaries for people Farquhar knew. The manuscripts include copies of several of his writings including '49, And what of the years?, and History of Livingston, California. These books deal with early California pioneer history, the Gold Rush, and the Chinese in California. There are also two manuscripts regarding the genealogy of the Burgess and Farquhar families. These manuscripts, which are arranged alphabetically by title, are all carbon copies with Farquhar's handwritten edits.
mssHM 71720-71742
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The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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