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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscript volume of poems and letters dedicated to Elizabeth Barber
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Manuscripts
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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 journal titled "Notes on Travel" covers the period from Sept. 19 to the end of December of 1859. It begins with a detailed description of the trip to New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Virginia, and North Carolina; the latter portion includes discussion of the state's economy and social customs. The largest portion of the journal describes Augusta, Union Point, and Queensborough, Ga. The journal richly details the conditions of Negro slaves and their customs, including long descriptions of a prayer meeting, a wedding, and "corn shucking;" political life, (including an account of a Democratic meeting in Augusta, the state elections and discussion of the role of the Know-Nothing party in local politics); his debates with local planters about slavery; the mores, local customs, social life, economics, education, and religious practices (Barber was a Methodist.) Also included is a short glossary of Southern terms (ff. 78-78v).
mssHM 68483
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The letters were written by Elizabeth Bowen over a period of 18 years to various people involved with the Society of Authors: Mary Elizabeth Barber (HM 60393), Ralph Cooke (HM 60394-60397), C. Gilardino (HM 60398), and Denys Kilham Roberts (HM 60399-60402)
mssHM 60393-60402
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Correspondence of Martha D. Stone and her extended family. Martha D. Stone's correspondence contains letters and documents on family history, including those from 1908 to 1909. Besides the family members, the correspondents include Greenlee D. Letcher, Lawrence Washington (1836-1926) and Frank P. Flint. Also included are four letters, 1916 to 1918, from Jordan M. Stone describing his life in Banning and Pasadena, California, and photographs of Jordan M. and William Welch Stone at Hollister Ranch, California. Jonathan C. Gibson's correspondence includes two letters to his wife written while away from home; the letter of October 18, 1817, contains a vivid description of the flood of emigrants headed to "Mizura;" the letters to his daughter written between 1840 and 1846 discuss family and local news of Culpeper County and details of some cases that he argued. Also included is a letter, 1821, January, from his kinsman and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Fayette Ball (1791-1836), describing bills under consideration. Letters that Frances Ann Gibson Welch Burt and J. Mallory Welch exchanged in the summer of 1844, during her visit to Virginia. In the letter of August 10, 1844, written on pro-Clay pictorial stationery, she described a "Whig festival" in Dandridge, attended by some "thousand persons;" and on August 26, 1844, she gives an account of a Methodist camp meeting in "Prince William Springs." Also included are letters from her friends and relatives. The letter, January 1, 1847, of her friend Mary V. Moore describes her stay at the Olympian Springs, Kentucky, her wedding to a young man she met there, and the busy social life of a newlywed in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. There are also the journal and letters of Mary Emma (Mamie) Cathell Grace (1861-1937), a native of Philadelphia who attended New Orleans High School. The first portion of the diary covers the school year of 1878, the entries describe school studies, including lessons taught by Susan Blanchard Elder (1835-1923) and Mary Humphrey Stamps (1835-); the Mardi Gras festivities, particularly the parade staged by the Knights of Momus, the outbreak of yellow fever, etc. The second portion of the diary gives an account of her trip to Philadelphia to meet her father and siblings. In 1885, Mamie married Dr. Jesse Edward Grace (1852-1895) and moved to Weimar, Texas. The collection also includes photographs, newspaper clippings from The Asheville Citizen, and ephemera.
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Three volumes consist of Burden's personal copies of unpublished and possibly unique pioneering reports on the U.S. aviation industry during its formative period between the two World Wars and one volume is a memorial volume dedicated to Burden (after his death):
mssHM 80286-80289
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Correspondence of Martha D. Stone and her extended family. Martha D. Stone's correspondence contains letters and documents on family history, including those from 1908 to 1909. Besides the family members, the correspondents include Greenlee D. Letcher, Lawrence Washington (1836-1926) and Frank P. Flint. Also included are four letters, 1916 to 1918, from Jordan M. Stone describing his life in Banning and Pasadena, California, and photographs of Jordan M. and William Welch Stone at Hollister Ranch, California. Jonathan C. Gibson's correspondence includes two letters to his wife written while away from home; the letter of October 18, 1817, contains a vivid description of the flood of emigrants headed to "Mizura;" the letters to his daughter written between 1840 and 1846 discuss family and local news of Culpeper County and details of some cases that he argued. Also included is a letter, 1821, January, from his kinsman and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Fayette Ball (1791-1836), describing bills under consideration. Letters that Frances Ann Gibson Welch Burt and J. Mallory Welch exchanged in the summer of 1844, during her visit to Virginia. In the letter of August 10, 1844, written on pro-Clay pictorial stationery, she described a "Whig festival" in Dandridge, attended by some "thousand persons;" and on August 26, 1844, she gives an account of a Methodist camp meeting in "Prince William Springs." Also included are letters from her friends and relatives. The letter, January 1, 1847, of her friend Mary V. Moore describes her stay at the Olympian Springs, Kentucky, her wedding to a young man she met there, and the busy social life of a newlywed in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. There are also the journal and letters of Mary Emma (Mamie) Cathell Grace (1861-1937), a native of Philadelphia who attended New Orleans High School. The first portion of the diary covers the school year of 1878, the entries describe school studies, including lessons taught by Susan Blanchard Elder (1835-1923) and Mary Humphrey Stamps (1835-); the Mardi Gras festivities, particularly the parade staged by the Knights of Momus, the outbreak of yellow fever, etc. The second portion of the diary gives an account of her trip to Philadelphia to meet her father and siblings. In 1885, Mamie married Dr. Jesse Edward Grace (1852-1895) and moved to Weimar, Texas. The collection also includes photographs, newspaper clippings from The Asheville Citizen, and ephemera.
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A collection of approximately 489 items from 1846 to 1949, it consists of personal and family papers of William James Potter, accumulated by Elizabeth Babcock Potter. The collection includes journals, correspondence, a letter book, commonplace book, poems, manuscripts, and ephemera. William James Potter's journals document his early career, preceding his New Bedford ministry; the chaplain's notebook that he kept in 1863 contains records of inspections of hospitals and military prisons, names, cases, and addresses of the inmates. Correspondence includes the letters exchanged between William J. Potter and Elizabeth Potter written between 1860 and 1870. There is also Elizabeth Potter's 1859-1860 letter book and letters from Elizabeth Potter to her mother Lydia Delano Babcock written during her visit to Algonac, the Delano estate, near Newburg, in Orange County, New York, in the summer and fall of 1856; as well as letters written during her stay with William James Potter at Camp Distribution, near Alexandria, Virginia, from November 1863 through May 1864. Also included are the Potters' correspondence with his sisters Mary Ann Potter Howland, Ruth Potter Almy, and Ruby H. Potter Tillinghast. William James Potter's correspondence with his friends, includes correspondents John Albee, Henry W. Brown, and George W. Bartlett (the latter discusses Maine Civil War politics), and letters from Elizabeth's numerous friends and colleagues. Also included is a group of letters from Elizabeth's brother, James Delano Babcock who was engaged in the shipping business and China trade, written from San Francisco, Singapore, Yokohama, and Sitka (Alaska) between 1856 and 1876. Elizabeth Babcock Potter's manuscripts include her commonplace book from 1858 to 1865, a 1851 autograph book, her poetry, mostly religious, and a notebook where she recorded stories of her children from 1869 to 1875. There is also a small group of fragments containing a collection of excerpts from sermons of Andrew Preston Peabody; various notes for sermons, religious poetry, some by Elizabeth Babcock Potter, fragments of letters to her and her parents, including a description of a trip to Scotland (probably by her brother James) and a vivid account of Morgan's first raid to Kentucky in July 1862 and Perryville campaign, written by a friend of Elizabeth's, a Kentucky teacher.
mssHM 74646-74695
mssHM 74686
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