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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Journal Critical & Miscellaneous
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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
Journal kept as a record of religious thoughts; New York City, New Rochelle, and elsewhere.
mssHM 30501
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Manuscripts
This manuscript is a collection of pages from the journal of E. Holbrook. The pages are dated between 1846 and 1863, and appear to have been removed from longer manuscripts. Most of the journal describes Holbrook's travels through California and attempts at searching for gold. He sees soldiers at drill and participates in the 1854 state election. In July 1857, he writes of the robbing of a Chinese camp by men disguised as Indians and Mexicans. When witnessing a hanging in December 1858, Holbrook writes, "its time public executions were done away with." In 1859, he returns home to New York. In 1861, Holbrook calls the period of secession "exciting and important months in the history of our country and of liberty universally."
mssHM 2280
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In the journal, Burton recorded his various medical appointments. He included patient name, diagnosis, services rendered, and payments received. There is also some pages dealing with daily life and travels. The four additional items include two pages of quotations and two ledger pages. The journal is written in pencil and some of the handwriting has faded and is illegible.
mssHM 74091
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The majority of the journal contains prescriptions Gow made for his customers and the recipes for those prescriptions. The volume also contains two other sections: a female relative of Gow's recorded 19th century poetry in parts of the book and there is also a section titled, "Journal of a Seaman in the Forecastle." This diary section contains accounts from 1851 to 1852 of an anonymous sailor who sailed from Boston to San Francisco in a clipper and then chronicles his time in Port Adelaide, Australia. There are also two pages of what may be the ship's manifest.
mssHM 74486
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This is a collection of thirteen sketches done by John Hovey during his journey to California. Also included is a one-page description of four of the drawings, in Hovey's hand. One of the drawings appears to be a facsimile. All of this content has been removed from HM 322, Hovey's journal of his voyage, and the drawings here have been replicated in the journal by Hovey, and in color.
mssHM 4386
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Daily journal of transactions kept by Sir James Hodges as Town Clerk of the City of London.
mssHM 19970