This an extra-illustrated volume containing letters by notable French authors. There is often an engraving of the writer, as well as an English transcription of the letter. The authors include: Adèle Hugo, Eugène Sue, Victorien Sardou, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas (the younger), Alphonse Daudet, Gustave Flaubert, Comtesse de Genlis, Gyp, and François Guizot. There is also a one-page manuscript by Alexandre Dumas (the younger).
An autograph manuscript in three sections, written in French, possibly in the hand of Alexandre Dumas; there are pencil notes stating it is partially written by Dumas, but he also employed many assistants to help with his work. It includes settings and stage directions for the tableaux 1-3. The approximate date of the manuscript is 1861 which would mean the manuscript could have been written while Dumas was living in Italy. The manuscript has some damage to the edges of the pages and in the center of the final pages. It is accompanied by materials which provide additional provenance information: autograph notes about the manuscript in an unknown hand; Janet Saville letter to Robert M. Foster, October 18, 1951, with envelope; Thorndike Saville, Jr., letter to David M. Foster, November 16, 2010, with envelope and copy of bank record.
Two autographed letters signed, from Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 25 and August 27, 1857, from Louis François de Pourtalés to E. Meriam, of New York, requesting information about an earthquake off the California coast in August, 1856, and subsequently thanking Meriam for information received.
Collection of 20 manuscripts, of various formats, unbound, France, 1766-1799, includes a manuscript map drawn in brown ink. This collection spans an important period in the history of mining and metallurgy. The topics discussed include the working of mines in the Harz mountains, discovery of a new coal field, and liquidation of mercury mines. There is also a letter signed by botanist Michel Adanson, an autographed letter signed by the Marquis de Luchet, a letter by Robert de Lo-Looz, and a manuscript by François-Valentin Mulot.
An undated volume of navigational and geometrical exercises with related diagrams, constructions, explanations, illustrations, spheres, maps, and a brief contemporary copy of the ship's log for a voyage from England to the West Indies from March to August, 1642. The volume includes one reference to letters of marque against Portugal. There are many blank pages and several pages torn out.
Legal and financial records of the Kern County Land Company. The majority of the material deals with land development, but there are several items dealing with water-supply in Kern County. There are also approximately 45 stock certificates for Luz Electrica de Jalapa, in Spanish, dated 1893, and four copies of an 1895 edition of The Californian.
This collection primarily contains autograph letters from prominent architects, artists, authors, engravers, playwrights, and sculptors from the 19th century in England. These autograph letters appear to have been collected by Anna C. Stryke. Another portion of the correspondence contains letters from Richard Hancock, an English naturalist written to Stryke from 1924 through 1926. Items of interest include travel diaries to Hawaii, written by Stryke and her sister, Mary C. Stryke in 1935. There are also a number of drawings, sketches, and watercolors found in ephemera.
