Manuscripts

Alphonse Daudet letters

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Description: Four of these letters were written by Alphonse Daudet to unknown recipients (HM 7837-. There are also two letters by his wife Julia (HM 78379-78380) and his brother Ernest (1921, HM 78378). These letters were written in Paris and are in French.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1880-1921.
Call number: mssHM 78374-78380
Creator: Daudet, Alphonse (1840-1897)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Loren Rothschild, July 2008.
Associated people: Daudet, Ernest, (1837-1921.)

Victor Hugo: a short sketch

Manuscripts

Written in the hand of an amanuensis; annotations in Alphonse Daudet's hand.

mssHM 28163

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These six letters are in French and were written by Coquelin from Paris and London. The recipients of the letters are unknown and the letters are undated. One letter has a transcript and two are glued on paper.

mssHM 78367-78372

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Rachel letters

Manuscripts

The first letter (1839, April 21 - HM 78387) was written by Rachel to Adélaide, Princess of Orleans. The second letter (before 1858 - HM 78388) is not dated and the recipient is unknown. Both letters are in French and were written from Paris.

mssHM 78387-78388

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Henri Moissan letters to unknown recipients

Manuscripts

Two letters by Moissan (in French and written from Paris) to unknown recipients:

mssHM 81088-81089

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James Gordon Bennett letters

Manuscripts

These three letters, written by an unknown author to newspaper editor James Gordon Bennett, address the Oregon Question. HM 4001 is dated 1846, January 17, and is signed "The Ghost of Morgan." HM 4002 is dated 1846, January 25, and is signed "Pericles." HM 4003, the longest letter at four pages, is dated 1846, January 26, and is signed "Oregon."

mssHM 4001-4003

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Jacob Whitman Bailey botanical drawings and letters

Manuscripts

This material includes a series of botanical drawings by Jacob Whitman Bailey (HM 83530-83533); some of the drawings are dated 1832 and include carefully labeled, detailed drawings of cryptogamia and phenogamia, some with extended descriptions. The autograph letters by Bailey (HM 83534-83537) are dated 1833, January-July, and are written to his step-father, Professor George Washington Keely in Waterville, Maine. The letters are written when he was stationed at Moultrie, South Carolina and Bellona Arsenal, Virginia as an Army lieutenant; the letters are written at the time of the Nullification Crisis and discuss the crisis as well as slavery in South Carolina and Virginia. Also included is the original cover (HM 83538) of the volume which contained the Bailey material; the cover has the original pasted down paper label with an autograph list of contents, written in an unknown hand.

mssHM 83530-83538

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