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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Frederic Remington letters to Bert Phillips
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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
The collection consists primarily of letters gathered by Ida Husted Harper relating to the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of these letters are to suffragists Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton; senders include Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, Samuel May, Sallie Holley, Francis Jackson, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Tilton, Wendell Phillips, George F. Train, Mary Livermore, Victoria Woodhull, Clara Barton, Mary Booth, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Fanny Villard, Felix Adler, Julia Ward Howe, Annie Besant, Angelina Grimke Weld, Frances E. Willard, Kate Field, Jane Stanford, and Robert Dale Owen, among others. Other correspondents in the collection include Theodore Parker, Gerrit Smith, William T. Stead, Abigail Mott, and Lydia Mott. There is one letter from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1872 November 5 (HM 10549). In addition, there are a number of letters in the collection to Ida Husted Harper, most of them regarding her biography of Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement. Harper's correspondents include Eugene V. Debs, Frances E. Willard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Julia Ward Howe, Mary Livermore, Amalia Condert, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida Tarbell, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (aka "Dorothy Dix"), Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alva E. Belmont, and Anna Howard Shaw. Materials created by US presidents in this collection include James A. Garfield autograph letter signed to Sara Andrews Spencer, 1880 January 19 (HM 10571); William McKinley typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1898 February 27 (HM 10649); William H. Taft typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1904 February 11 (HM 10704). The collection contains eight letters from Theodore Roosevelt to: Susan B. Anthony, 1898 December 12 (HM 10654) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 February 7 (HM 10723) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 May 22 (HM 10724) typescript letter signed with secretarial signature Ida Husted Harper, 1918 June 1 (HM 10725) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1918 September 16 (HM 10727) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections, postscript; includes transcription of typescript Ida Husted Harper, 1918 October 31 (HM 10729) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1919 January 3 (HM 10731) typescript letter signed; enclosure is TR letter to George H. Moses on same date; includes Harper note regarding letter George H. Moses, 1919 January 3 (HM 10570) typescript copy; enclosure of letter to Harper on same date
mssHM 10497-10731
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HM 80229: a letter ([1914, Jan.]) from May Morris to Edward Perry Warren (A.L.S., 1 p.); has an A.N.S. by Warren on the bottom of the letter. Also enclosed is a photocopy of the Times column with a letter by May Morris, referred to in her letter to Warren.
mssHM 80229-80230
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This material includes 17 autograph letters (with envelopes) from Gerald Hamilton to Alan Clodd (HM 83212-83228), offering to sell Christopher Isherwood related material; 3 B&W photographs of Hamilton (HM 83229), and a 1964 typewritten letter form John Symonds to Hamilton (HM 83230).
mssHM 83212-83230
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The autograph manuscript is a list of plays written by Buckstone (1841, HM 63334) and the letter is to My Dear Sir (1853, HM 63335).
mssHM 63334-63335
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Three letters from Christopher Isherwood to the American author and poet, John B.L. Goodwin. HM 83696, autograph letter written from London, England (Sep. 18, 1961) ; HM 83697, typewritten letter written from Santa Monica, Calif. (Sep. 23, [1963]) ; HM 83698, also a typewritten letter from Santa Monica (Aug. 30, [1964]). The letters discuss mutual friends John Osborne, Somerset Maugham, Tony Richardson, and Don Bachardy; also Isherwood's current work: Down There on a Visit (1962), A Single Man (1964), the screenplay for The Loved One (1964), Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965), and Goodwin's book, A View of Fuji (1963). All letters are in excellent condition; HM 83697 contains autograph notes in red ink on the bottom of the page.
mssHM 83696-83698
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This letter accompanies the autograph draft of Ayckbourn's play, A trip to Scarborough [HM 53486], donated to New Victoria Theatre for a fund-raising auction
mssHM 53485