Manuscripts

Frank Colyer letters

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Description: Letter dated 1932, August 7, from Sir Frank Colyer to "Prof. Duckworth" of Cambridge. In this letter, Colyer states "I am writing a paper on variations of the teeth and want to verify the statements made by Bateson in his book on 'Materials for Variations.'" He asks if someone can show him specimens while he is at Cambridge (he then lists the specimens he wishes to see). HM 79063.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1927-1932.
Call number: mssHM 79063-79064
Creator: Colyer, Frank (1866-1954)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

Henry I. Colyer Correspondence

Manuscripts

The Colyer Collection contains the Civil War correspondence of Union soldier Henry I. Colyer, consisting chiefly of letters to his parents, siblings, and friends in Chittenango, New York. The letters discuss war, political, and family news and contain detailed factual accounts of the camp life -- rations, barracks, soldiers' finances, conscripts and substitutes, desertions, drinking, courts martial, hospital, prisons, demobilization, etc.

mssHM 28943-29056

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Edmund Kean letter to John Lee

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This letter is written to John Lee at Theatre Royal, Richmond, Surrey. Kean asks "What day do I open in Cheltenham?" He also complains about money and someone he calls a "stupid son of a bitch." The letter is not dated but the letter has the posted date of 1831, August 1.

mssHM 78383

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Zoeth Skinner Eldredge letter to Professor Josiah Royce

Manuscripts

The letter is an inquiry as to whether or not Professor Royce ever received the complementary copy of The Beginnings of San Francisco that he sent in May of 1913. Letter is accompanied by cancelled cover addressed to Prof. Josiah Royce, Harvard College, with a San Francsico postmark of Sep 14, 1914 at 6:30 PM.

mssHM 4007

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Note regarding Samuel F. B. Morse

Manuscripts

The note, which is in Dana's hand, reads: "Prof. S. F. B. Morse lives at Hudson or Poughkeepsie but write to care of Western Union Telegraph Company, New York & he will get the letter."

mssHM 75948

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Frank J. Fay letters

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Letters by Frank J. Fay to Patrick Hoey, James Montgomery, and Irish actress Sara Allgood, written from Dublin, New York City, Chicago, Liverpool, and London. The main topic of the letters is Fay's work as an actor and director, and in one letter he writes about Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.

mssHM 26354-26389

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Frank J. Fay letters

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mssHM 26354-26389

Frank Colyer letters

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