Manuscripts

Seville-Golladay correspondence, (bulk 1866-1872)

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Description: This group consists of four manuscripts, eleven letters, and three folders of ephemera. Three of the manuscripts are lyrical epitaphs written to commemorate the deaths of various people in no particular order. The fourth manuscript is a personal statement by Mary Elizabeth Seville Hill herself, in which she explains family connections as well as her own point of view with regard to the letters. The letters are mostly written by Mary Elizabeth, commonly called "Mary Lizzie," to her Southern cousins after the Civil War. The letters themselves contain references to their education, the presence of African Americans in schools, the aftermath of the Civil War, and general family news, such as illnesses and marriages. One letter in the group discusses the survival of the other letters in the group, and is written by a descendant of the Southern cousins to May Hill Arbuthnot, 1884-1969. Lastly, the ephemera consist of two hand-embroidered clothing fragments and a collection of newspaper epitaph clippings.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1848-1935.
Call number: mssHM 79825-79839

Correspondence, 1872-1895

Manuscripts

This collection contains 104 letters from American author Samuel Clemens (also known as Mark Twain) to his friend and confidante Mary J. Mason Fairbanks. In addition, there are also single letters from Clemens to Fairbanks's husband Abel Whitmore Fairbanks (HM 14232) and the Fairbanks's children Charles Mason Fairbanks (HM 14317), and Mary Paine Fairbanks Robinson (HM 14292). The collection also includes one letter to Mrs. Fairbanks from Olivia Langdon Clemens (HM 14262).

mssHM 14219-14325

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1789-1872

Manuscripts

The Mary Beatrice Fox papers consist of maps, land papers, diaries, correspondence, and documents related to the Fox family and the greater Pasadena, California area from 1789 to 1961. Of note in the collection are the diaries of Mary Beatrice Fox, from 1889 to 1909, and those of her mother, Sarah Mary Baker Fox, from 1889 to 1899. These diaries illustrate life in the Los Angeles and Pasadena areas during this period. The collection also contains two letters from Julia Morgan, which were written from Paris, 1896 and 1898, and one 1862 letter from C. Meinerth to Charles James Fox regarding photography.

mssFox

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Correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera

Manuscripts

The collection consists mainly of letters and questionnaires written between 1904-1908 on the topic of mid-19th-century Los Angeles. Most of the questionnaires, composed by Mary A. Forman, include a correspondent’s answers, and most of the letters were written to Forman in response to her questionnaires or other inquiries. Forman presumably conducted the correspondence as a result of her involvement in the Auld Lang Syne Club. There are also a few other documents that she probably acquired as part of her research, including a small number of letters written by Southerners (possibly relatives of A. J. King) during the Civil War and a few 19th-century California letters, most of them written in Spanish. The purpose of most of Mary Forman's inquiries was to obtain very specific details or confirmation of details of Los Angeles history, from what kind of roof a certain house had to which band of Apaches killed a certain man. Because of this, the responses cover a markedly wide range of topics, and the number of authors and other people involved is unusually large for a collection of this size. General topics addressed in the documents include Los Angeles history, California state and local government, crime, medicine, architecture, education, land allotment, churches, agriculture, Native Americans, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Photocopies of photographs and a brief biography of Mary A. and Charles Forman, compiled by John Steven McGroaty in Los Angeles: From the Mountains to the Sea, published in 1921, can be requested with the paper versin of this finding aid.

mssHM 68517-68598

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Elizabeth Bowen letters to various members of the Society of Authors

Manuscripts

The letters were written by Elizabeth Bowen over a period of 18 years to various people involved with the Society of Authors: Mary Elizabeth Barber (HM 60393), Ralph Cooke (HM 60394-60397), C. Gilardino (HM 60398), and Denys Kilham Roberts (HM 60399-60402)

mssHM 60393-60402

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Brock Collection: Correspondence of William R. Hill, (bulk 1828-1834)

Manuscripts

Personal correspondence, chiefly letters addressed to William R. Hill from his friends and family members. The letters contain discussions of state and national politics, literary news, and personal and family matters.

mssBR Box 94 (1)

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William Eve papers, (bulk 1880-1891)

Manuscripts

This small group of items consists of letters, sketches, photographs, a photograph album and ephemera (and are arranged in that manner, then chronologically). The majority of these items deal with Eve's railroad trip from New York to Salt Lake City and his time in Salt Lake City, Ibapah, and Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah as well as Soda Springs, Idaho. In Eve's letters, which are written to his parents, he details his trip West including a tragic collision with a wagon that killed men and horses, the scenery he passes, and his arrival in Salt Lake City. He also talks about mining, sheep herding, farming, seeing the boxer Jim Corbett fight, the Blackfeet (Siksika) Indians and life in the West. Throughout all of his letters, which he is writing to entice his family to also come to America, Eve compares America and its people to England and its people. His sketches include things he sees in the West such as several American Indians, a miner's drill, a coyote, scorpion, and a locust. One of his letters contains a small panorama drawing of Gold Hill, Utah. The collection contains several notes and sketches from Eve's time in London. There are also three letters to William Eve by his sister Elizabeth Eve; these are written from New York City in the early 20th century. The photographs are of Eve family members around the turn of the century. The photograph album contains photographs from a flood in Salt Lake City in 1926 and some pictures of the family camping. The ephemera is a 1959 issue of the Utah American Legion's publication "Utah Legionnaire."

mssHM 70876-70888

Seville-Golladay correspondence, (bulk 1866-1872)

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