Manuscripts
Alphonse Daudet letters
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Constant Coquelin letters
Manuscripts
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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Christopher Isherwood letters and postcards to Annie Avis, Emily Machell, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood ; Richard Isherwood diary
Manuscripts
This material includes 7 letters and postcards written by Christopher Isherwood to his nanny, Annie Avis (1911-1933, HM 83257-83261, 83263-83264); 1 letter to his grandmother, Emily Machell-Smith (1921, Dec. 28, HM 83262); 1 postcard to his mother, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood (1937, Mar. 22, HM 83265). Also included is a diary kept by Christopher Isherwood's brother, Richard Isherwood for the year 1956 (HM 83266); there is an inscription from Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood and various B&W photographs pasted into the volume, including photographs of Christopher Isherwood and Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood.
mssHM 83257-83266