Manuscripts

Personal memoirs, typescript

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Description: Typescript copy of original of Rev. Benjamin Wooster's 1838 memoirs created by Kate G. Cummings for Joseph Northrop in March 1905.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1838.
Call number: mssHM 8045
Creator: Wooster, Benjamin(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of July 1953.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Notes on the history of electrical science: typescript of book

Manuscripts

Copy of 51-page typescript of book written by Lyle D. Feisel and two pages of correspondence between Feisel and Bern Dibner. The typescript concerns the history of electrical science and includes chapters on the work of scientists including William Gilbert, Otto von Guericke, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Augustin Coulomb, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Hans Christian Oersted, André-Marie Ampère, Georg Ohm, Michael Faraday, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Wilhelm Weber, and James Clerk Maxwell. In a letter written by Feisel to Dibner enclosing the typescript and dated 1972, February 28, Feisel mentions earlier correspondence between the two and describes the Notes, thanking Dibner for his interest in the history of electrical science. In a letter written in response dated 1972, March 7, Dibner mentions a list of publications on the history of electricity and magnetism and invites Feisel to join the Society for the History of Technology.

mssHM 83072

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Memoirs and family histories of Edna Zyl Modie

Manuscripts

Includes two memoirs of Edna Zyl Modie which recount her early life, a brief family history, and various travels in southern California. Also includes a typescript Modie's grandfather William T. Harvey's brief autobiography and family history, and a retelling by Modie's father's counsin Andrew Snyder of his experiences in a store robbery by Tiburcio Vasquez in Monterey in 1872.

mssHM 73986-73989

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Civil War memoirs of John G. Lemmon

Manuscripts

Memoirs of the Civil War service that John G. Lemmon wrote in 1866. The memoirs incorporate Lemmon's field diary that covered the period from his enlistment in August 1862 and his improsonment in August 1864, his letters home, and some of his official documents. The manuscript includes a survey of "Hospitals at Nashville (ff. 17 v-- 18) and two hand-drawn maps: "Sketch of Nashville and its Defences as it appeared in the winter of 1863 & 4. Draws at Store-Room Hospital No. 1 January 1864," (ff. 20-21 v.) and an untitled map of the vicinity of Rome and Kingston, Ga.,

mssHM 553

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Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs

Manuscripts

Drafts, correspondence, press dispatches, and reports; locations: United States and Berlin. Includes Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as commissioner to Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs, 1889 March 19 (HM 27450).

mssHM 27329-27485

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Memoir of Trip to California

Manuscripts

A collection of the personal and professional papers of Edward Davis Townsend. Included in the collection are official and private correspondence, chiefly letters addressed to him, military records, journals, memoirs, and a few photographs. Two journals cover the 2nd Seminole War from 1837 to 1838, and his service in California from 1851 to 1856. The latter was incorporated into a memoir entitled "A Trip to California;" both accounts are accompanied by pencil sketches. An unfinished memoir covers Townsend's life and career until the beginning of the Mexican War. The collection also contains a group of personal and political correspondence of Elbridge Gerry, including pieces related to his diplomatic and political career from 1772 to 1814, and the correspondence of Ann Thompson Gerry and Eliza Gerry Townsend. Also included are a copy of Samuel Auchmuty's 1761 sermon on 1 John 5:7, and contemporary copies of Jefferson Davis's letters to his wife Varina Howell Davis from 1861 to 1865. The collection also includes a spool of thread with a hidden note in it, 1861 February 10, and a cotton ball from the steamer Emma, which was loaded with cotton when its crew burned it at Fort Pulaski on August 31, 1862, to prevent its capture by the Union forces under the command of William B. Barton.

mssHM 41698

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Memoir of Early Life to the Mexican War

Manuscripts

mssHM 41697

Personal memoirs, typescript

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