Manuscripts

Correspondence, Manuscripts & Poems

Description: The collections consists of 53 letters, poems and other manuscripts written by various members of the Leigh family and other people in their circle. The letters are mainly concerned with the intimate, mundane, playful and tragic aspects of family life from the early modern period until the middle of the 19th century. There is also a small number of poems, written by or copied out by family members, a Hymn, a speech, and a travel account. The collection also contains the 19th century volume, titled in gild on spine "Original Family Papers &c. Vol. 1. MSS." Letters and other material purchased by the Huntington Library Collectors' Council have been removed from the volume by the Huntington Library Conservation Department. An unknown number of letters were removed from the volume prior to the Huntington Library purchase.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1686/87-1866
Call number: (HM 81608-81660)

Leigh family papers

Manuscripts

The collections consists of 53 letters, poems and other manuscripts written by various members of the Leigh family and other people in their circle. The letters are mainly concerned with the intimate, mundane, playful and tragic aspects of family life from the early modern period until the middle of the 19th century. There is also a small number of poems, written by or copied out by family members, a Hymn, a speech, and a travel account. The collection also contains the 19th century volume, titled in gild on spine "Original Family Papers &c. Vol. 1. MSS." Letters and other material purchased by the Huntington Library Collectors' Council have been removed from the volume by the Huntington Library Conservation Department. An unknown number of letters were removed from the volume prior to the Huntington Library purchase.

mssHM 81608-81660

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19th century Album [material removed]

Manuscripts

mssHM 81608-81660

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Album. Titled in gild on the spine, "Original Family Papers &c. Vol. 1. MSS"

Manuscripts

All letters and other material have been removed from the volume by the Huntington Library Conservation Department.

mssHM 81608-81660

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Correspondence and manuscripts

Manuscripts

This series includes letters, documents, manuscripts, and poems related to the Leigh family of Adlestrop and their extended family, friends, and business and political associates. There is a large group of letters from William Leigh (1691-1757) to his younger brother Theophilus Leigh (1693-1785), Master of Balliol College, Oxford; and a second large group of letters from Theophilus Leigh to his daughter Mary "Molly" Leigh Leigh (1731-1797). The material is written by multiple generations of the Leigh, Chandos/Brydges, Hastings, and Cooke families, and also includes letters written by women and children. The letters discuss domestic, religious, business, and political issues in England during the 17th and 18th centuries. Subjects include health, illness, and death; marriage and childbirth; education and university life; patronage; and politics and government. The material in this series contains page numbering, annotations, and notes made by Mary Leigh Leigh and others in her time, as well as other owners over the centuries.

mssLeigh

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Manuscript Volume; Correspondence; Ephemera

Manuscripts

The collection of correspondence, documents, engravings, and ephemera of the Westall brothers assembled at the Huntington Library. Included are the correspondence of William and Richard Westall, a bound volume of Richard Westall's illustrations, and printed pieces and photograph reproductions of various and paintings and illustrations.

mssHM 54281-54318, HM 63286

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Correspondence and manuscripts

Manuscripts

Collection of letters and manuscripts of Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather. The collection incorporates various items acquired between 1905 and 1927 and has been assembled at the Library. The collection includes two manuscripts of Richard Mather: "An exhortation to our Countrymen of Lancashire, by Richard Mather and William Thompson," and 64th and 65th lectures. Increase Mather's manuscripts include a notebook containing observations on the matter of Henry Palmer and the church in Haverhill, Massachusetts, "An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences,” a fragment of a sermon, and an address "To the Inhabitants of Boston at their Publick Meeting," signed by Cotton Mather and Benjamin Colman. Cotton Mather's manuscripts include his sermon and notes for a sermon, a list of marriages performed, and a presentation inscription to Ebenezer Bradshaw and George Hughes, apparently cut out from the flyleaf of a volume. There are Increase and Cotton Mather's letters to Sir William Ashurst, treasurer and governor of the New England Company, the chartered company that established the Massachusetts Bay colony. There are also five letters by Increase Mather, 1712 to 1718 and 14 letters by Cotton Mather, 1712 to 1718.

mssMather

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