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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Autograph Note by James Lovell
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
A collection of 422 items from 1835 to 1886, it consists of military, personal, and family papers of Mansfield Lovell. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, dispatches, communications, reports, and other military records accumulated by Lovell during his military career, particularly his command of Department No. 1. Correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Johnson K. Duncan, Joseph E. Johnston, and others. Also included are Lovell's letter books, special and general order books, and items relating to Lovell's Court of Inquiry. The collection also includes a group of manuscripts dealing with Lovell's Mexican War experience, including his journals from 1848 to 1849, correspondence, memoranda, and other items. Personal and family papers include letters to Mansfield Lovell from his brother Joseph Lovell written from Yale, Williams College, Poughkeepsie Collegiate School, and elsewhere from 1836 to 1847, Lovell's valedictory address at West Point, notes on travel in Virginia, New York, and Canada from 1842 to 1843, correspondence between Mansfield Lovell and Emily Plympton Lovell from 1862 to 1863, and miscellaneous papers dealing with the family property.
mssML
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Autograph note reads, "Respectfully forwarded approved." Signed by Adolph von Steinwehr.
mssHM 80182
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Two letters from Edmund Lovell Ellsworth to his son Edmund Ellsworth. In the first, the elder Ellsworth describes his situation at the newly acquired Cluff Ranch, including the natural resources of the area, and the process of and prospects for agriculture and the raising of livestock. Ellsworth then discusses various business matters including his desire to purchase a saw mill. He closes with family concerns including George's accident with "the Winchester," and the death of "Lulu," presumably a family member. And in the second letter, Ellsworth lectures his son on living according to the dictates of the Church of Latter Day Saints and the importance of family. He follows with a lengthy description of his trial for polygamy or "cohabitation" with multiple women, his conviction, and subsequent prison term at the Territorial Prison at Yuma, Arizona. Also included is a note written by the donor.
mssHM 70166-70167
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Letters, manuscripts, autographs, drawings, and prints related to James Wolfe, collected for their autograph value. Most of the letters are addressed to Wolfe's mother and concern's his effects and papers. The correspondents include Thomas Bell, Wolfe's aide-de-camp; Welbore Ellis, the 1st Baron of Mednip; Philip Hardel, a London goldsmith; Thomas Fisher, an executor of Wolfe's estate; William Pitt, the Elder, , and Samuel Francis Swinden, Wolfe's tutor, George Warde and Charles Warde. Also included are letters from Mrs. Wolfe to Wolfe's friend William Weston (1740, Dec. 16); Lord Shelbourne to Wolfe (1758, January); Wolfe's fiancee, Katherine Lowther to Mrs. Wolfe (1759, Oct. 25), and a note, in the hand of Thomas Bell, written at Montmorenci instructing "Major Dalling to come to Headquarters with both the captured women").
mssHM 9667-9695
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The first letter was written to Mr. Boyd in the third person as Ellen Tree and not signed (HM 63345); the second was written to [Mr. Lovell] and signed Ellen Kean (HM 63346).
mssHM 63345-63346
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An autograph document signed by William Godwin, London, England. The promissory note is made out to Rev. C. P. Burney for the amount of thirty-seven pounds, the note is to come due in three months; Burney signed the verso of the note.
mssHM 84135