Manuscripts

Monograph typescripts of Sears Jayne

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Description: The first volume (HM 78270) is a monograph entitled "The poetry of Robert Parry;" the second volume (HM 78271) is a monograph entitled "Shakespeare's Phoenix and Jonson." Both of these volumes were written by Sears Jayne and never published (but bound in 1991 by a binder in Massachusetts). These are photocopies of typescripts of the text.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1991.
Call number: mssHM 78270-78271
Creator: Jayne, Sears (1920-2015)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Sears Jayne, August 8, 1991.
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Donald A. Sears correspondence

Manuscripts

A group of thirty-five letters, mainly letters from various authors to Donald A. Sears, and several letters from Sears to various authors, regarding the Book of the Month Club, the Book of the Month Club Writing Fellowship Program, and other literary matters. Correspondents include Ray Bradbury, Ralph Ellison, May Sarton, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.

mssHM 59436-59470

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Lincoln's Radical Reconstruction typescript draft

Manuscripts

Copy of a typescript draft of Merlin Stonehouse's unpublished monograph Lincoln's Radical Reconstruction, which discusses Abraham Lincoln's views on post-Civil War reconstruction with several chapters focusing on specific states. Volume is spiral bound. Also present is an undated Huntington Library memo regarding the monograph and historian Allan Nevins' opinion of it (1 page) and a business card of Merlin Stonehouse.

mssHM 84038

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Poetical manuscript commonplace book

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A verse miscellany, entitled "Poetical Manuscript Commonplace book" on the spine and "English Verses, Time of James and Charles the First" within the volume; it is written in a single neat italic hand, probably written in Oxford, England, approximately 1635, and associated with Christ Church College, Oxford University. The volume contains 108 poems, almost all of which are presented anonymously; there are mentions of race and skin color and more than 60 of the poems concern women, love, or marriage. Some of the poems are attributed to, among others, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Henry King, Thomas Randolph, and William Strode. The volume has 19th-century foliation and a list of contents in the front. The volume is bound in contemporary calf, sewn on four alum-tawed slips, covers with a single gilt rule border, head of spine has some damage, and the end leaves were replaced in approximately 1830; also, with a catalogue cutting pasted inside front cover and a morocco-backed slipcase.

mssHM 84418

Sears, Roebuck and Company, unloading tires, 530 East Colorado, Pasadena. 1931

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Two men stand next to a delivery truck at Sears, Roebuck and Company at 530 East Colorado. The men are unloading tires, which are stacked high in the back of the truck.

photCL 402 (33091)

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Sydney Ross typescripts and letter to Bern Dibner

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Six typescripts, one periodical with an article, and one letter written by Sydney Ross and sent to Bern Dibner. The collection contains three versions of Faraday Consults the Scholars, a lecture given by Ross at the Burndy Library in 1957; HM 83202 and HM 83202 a typescript versions of the talk from 1957 and 1960, and HM 83204 is a typescript of the author's prepublication edition of Faraday Consults the Scholars: The Origin of the Terms of Electrochemistry. Materials also include a typed letter from Ross to Bern Dibner dated 1958, December 9; three typescripts by Ross on various topics in the history of science; and an issue of Rensselaer Research, Summer, 1958, with an article by Ross.

mssHM 83202-83209

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Searing family papers

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A collection of 2,245 items from 1810 to 1941, it consists of correspondence, bills, receipts, banking documents, court papers, tax and school records. The vast majority of the papers pertain to William E. Valentine (1820-1896?) and his financial and real estate affairs; this material consists chiefly of bills, accounts, deeds, tax records, and banking papers. A few items concern other members of the Valentine and Searing families, including material on the U.S. Sanitary Commission. The collection also includes one map of building sites located in Long Island in 1872, and 26 family photographs.

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Monograph typescripts of Sears Jayne

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