Manuscripts
William A. M. Burden reports and memorial volume
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Indian volume on horse diseases
Manuscripts
The volume is about horse diseases, medicine, and treatments. It contains 14 colored illustrations. Possibly from north India. With note about manuscript.
mssHM 1116
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Indian drawings volume
Manuscripts
The volume contains 20 colored drawings featuring Indian people in various professions and dress. Drawings have descriptions in French. Drawings on vellum, interleaved with bark. Possibly created in the Deccan Plateau. Contains auction description.
mssHM 1115
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Manuscript volume of poems and letters dedicated to Elizabeth Barber
Manuscripts
This book was began in 1835 by Amos W. Collins, a Quaker living in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. It is a collection of letters, quotations, and poetry all dedicated to Elizabeth Barber, a friend of Collins' and probably another citizen of Hopkinton. Most of the volume is made up of blank pages.
mssHM 80570
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Memorabilia regarding Percy Bysshe Shelley's memorial
Manuscripts
There are 8 card photographs in this small group of manuscripts relating to Percy Bysshe Shelley's memorial in Viareggio, Italy. In addition, there is a speech made by Colonel Shelley Leigh Hunt at a public banquet given at Viareggio, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Shelley memorial, September 30, 1894. A list of 10 names is also part of this group, these individuals appear to be part of the inauguration. These items are contained in an incomplete volume with pages 795-800 about the Shelley family.
mssHM 80443 (A-C)
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William M. Miskimins diary
Manuscripts
Miskimins' diary starts in Bridgeville, Guernsey County, Ohio and ends in Cambridge, Henry County, Illinois. In his diary, Miskimins, talks about daily farm life, chores, bartering for land, livestock and food, the local court system, legal problems and social events. Miskimins also talks a lot about attending his Baptist church, Bible class as well as raising money for his church.
mssHM 70755
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Letter book of William Upton
Manuscripts
The first half of the volume deals with Upton's work in the construction of a dry dock at Sevastopol in the Crimea, including its funding, design, progress, and the constant supplying of materials. The second half of the volume details his life as an engineer and refugee during the Crimean War and his efforts to find further employment and full reimbursement for his loss of property at the outbreak of the war. Upton talks in detail about how his neighbors in Sevastopol had to flee their villas at the approach of troops, and the looting of his property. There are copies of letters by Upton begging for a new job after the war. He wrote several notable people including Lord Raglan and even Emperor Napoleon. The volume also includes a proposal to beautify, improve and develop the banks of the River Thames which Upton sent to the editor of the Illustrated London news in 1856. A letter to Upton (1855, May 7) and a draft of another letter were found In the front cover of the volume. About half of the volume is made up of blank pages; Upton only wrote in the first half of the volume.
mssHM 74299