Manuscripts
William B. Rice letterbook
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Charles A. Thackston letterbook
Manuscripts
Letterbook of outgoing letters sent by San Francisco merchant Charles A. Thackston from May 15, 1852, to February 13, 1853. Most of the correspondence relates to Thackston's business contacts in New York, and references shipping, power of attorney, and notes on various residents of San Francisco. Some of the correspondence appears to be personal, possibly written to Thackston's brother. In a bound letterbook labeled "Leonora Thackston, Scrap Book, 1870."
mssHM 75059
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Joseph Symson commercial letterbook
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This manuscript volume contains 2,041 office copies of correspondence sent out, mainly, by Symson but also his sons, so the volume is written in several different hands; the letterbook covers just under a decade and includes both business and personal affairs with notes of debts owed and some family correspondence. Shortly after acquiring the letterbook in 1985, the Huntington replaced the contemporary covers which the sale catalogue described as "blind-panelled reverse calf (both covers detached and badly worn);" the original covers were preserved and are housed separately.
mssHM 50670
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J. M. Seibert letterbook
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The letterbook includes both personal and business correspondence of J. M. Seibert, the Wells, Fargo & Company general agent in Mexico City. Subjects discussed are: William Jennings Bryan, Edward Henry Harriman, John J. Valentine, and real estate, copper, gold, and silver mining, coffee plantations, and business schemes in Mexico. There are also detailed descriptions of Mexico, and more specifically, Mexico City. The majority of the letters deal with Seibert's personal investments and business dealings; although some of the discussion pertains to Wells, Fargo & Company's investments and real estate purchases
mssHM 63953
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Sir George Pocock letterbook
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Letterbook of Pocock's outgoing correspondence during the operations of the Seven Years' War, including reports of the battles of Cuddalore (1758, Apr. 29), Negapatam, (1758, Aug. 3), the siege of Madras (1758, Dec.- 1759, Feb.), the battle of Pondisherry (1759, Sep. 10); and the siege of Havana. Correspondents include the Secretaries of State for Northern and Southern Departments Robert D'Arcy, the 4th earl of Holderness and William Pitt, Secretary to the Admiralty John Clevland, and others.
mssHM 1000
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George Gostling letterbook
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Letterbook of George Gostling, Doctors Commons proctor for prize administrations in High Court of Admiralty. The volume has a modern binding, with the label of Robert A. Cassall, Stationer, pasted onto inside front cover; there is some water damage, especially in the beginning of the volume, with some loss of text.
mssHM 55660
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Diary and letterbook
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This journal or diary, kept at irregular intervals over nearly forty years (fullest for the 1720s), gradually morphs into a letterbook recording copies of Thomlinson's correspondence. Early entries discuss with some frankness his family and prospects, his own and his family's business and legal mattters, daily life and gossip, books and rading (including The Tatler), politics and current events, sermons, occasional medicinal rcipes and cures, and accounts of his corresepondence.
mssHM 70982