Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope diary

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  Heny Edwyn Stanhope copybook of General Orders, and directions to officers of H. M. Squadron under the command of the Vice Admiral of the Blue

  Manuscripts

  Written between March 18 and December 31, 1807, at Woolwich and Copenhagen.

  mssHM 671

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  Moses Parsons diaries : Byfield, Mass

  Manuscripts

  Moses Parsons's diaries for the years 1774-1783. The volume also contains two diaries of Gorham Parsons for the years 1773 (ff.1-10) and 1777 (ff. 42-47 v.)

  mssHM 59827

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  Stanhope, Sir Henry Edwyn, Bart. Letter to Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville

  Manuscripts

  The collection consists of correspondence and documents pertaining to the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States as reflected in Admiralty reports and memoranda, particularly concerning: strategy and ship deployment of British Admirals Cochrane, Schanck, and others on the American and West Indian stations; the superiority of American over British frigates and attempts to remedy the situation; a little information about the American navy and American military preparedness.

  HM 81142

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  Henry Jones diaries

  Manuscripts

  This collection consists of seven diaries kept by Henry Jones from 1837-1871. Jones' daily entries, often accompanied by philosophical reflections, sentiments, and opinions, begin in November 1837 and continue largely uninterrupted until the end of 1858. Entries for the year 1860 consist of only a few in December. The diary resumes in 1864 and continues until July 1870, when Jones departs for Nebraska. In his diaries, Jones' presents a detailed account of his personal life and his relationship with friends and family, along with the life of the Quaker communities in Gwynedd, Upper Dublin, Montgomery Township, and other villages in Pennsylvania. He relates information on the antebellum and Civil War era because of his frequent trips to Philadelphia, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey. Also included are three cartes-de-visite: one of Henry Jones and two of Mary Yerkes Shoemaker. Jones meticulously documents the local, state, and national abolitionist meetings, conventions, lectures, including women's organizations, that Jones attended for almost 30 years. He writes about his ties with Hicksite Quaker preachers, leading non-Quaker abolitionists, and social reformers, including Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and John Mercer Langston. He describes political meetings and conventions between 1838 and 1896, including temperance meetings, festivals, the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1838, the Whig, and then Republican party nominating conventions. He reveals his opinions on economic and political issues, revivalism, phrenology, "animal magnetism," telegraph, alternative medicine, and spiritualism. He also lists books read, including the writings of Frederick Douglass, Lydia M. Child, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  mssHM 83955-83964

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  Andrew Henry diaries

  Manuscripts

  Two diaries kept by Andrew Henry while he was performing mission work in the United States and Great Britain from 1840 to 1843. The first volume begins with his departure from Nauvoo, Illinois, in November 1840, and focuses on his subsequent missions to Illinois, Ohio, New York State, and his departure and voyage to Great Britain. The second volume records his mission work in England and Ireland (including Northern Ireland) through August 1843.

  mssHM 52739 (1-2)

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  Nordahl, Henry A. Diary (1904)

  Manuscripts

  This collection consists of diaries from the Nordahls' college years, correspondence from their courtship, and correspondence from friends and relatives during their time overseas. There are three university student handbooks - one from the University of California and two from USC. Each of these includes handwritten notes as well as printed rules and expectations for incoming and continuing students. There is also a Boy Scout Diary from 1918, which includes a printed scouting handbook and handwritten notes. Ephemera materials include an Epworth League University M.E. Church program from January-June, 1909, a 1910 Underscored Edition Gospel of John, a 1914 USC joint reception booklet, receipts for dues paid to the Modern Woodmen of America, calling cards, and a single receipt dated 1948. Subjects include the Boy Scouts of America, the China Inland Mission, the Pacific Improvement Company, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Methodist Episcopal Church, the YMCA, the YWCA, and the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. In most cases, these subjects are mentioned only briefly in letters or diaries, though Boy Scouts of America, the YMCA, and the YWCA are more thoroughly discussed in the printed sections of the Boy Scout diary and student handbooks.

  HM 71650