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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Caroline Brady bill of sale of slaves to Henry A. Ellison
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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
Bill of sale for 52 Negro slaves -- 10 men, 13 boys, 18 women, and 11 girls, bought by John Joyce from William McKerras, attorney for James Moncrief of Kingston, Jamaica.
mssHM 69814
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This manuscript is a bill of sale for one half of the ship Walter Scott, sold to George B. Upton by John W. Barrett. The ship is registered at the port of Nantucket, and Cromwell Bunker it its current shipmaster. Printed form, filled in and signed by hand.
mssHM 4159
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This is an undated letter by Saulcy to an unknown recipient. It is in French.
mssHM 81232
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This is a receipt for sale of a suite of 24 plates for Piranesi's drawings of the Pantheon. It is in French. It is dated "9 Ventose,l'an XII."
mssHM 81234
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This group of items is comprised of three letters by Jessie Benton Frémont to George Whitwell Parsons, an article written by Jessie Benton Frémont, and a letter by George Whitwell Parsons to William Jennings Bryan. The Frémont letters discuss an article Jessie was writing on her husband, her father, the Bear Flag Revolt, and California history; an incomplete copy of that article is included in the group. The Parsons letter to Bryan consists of a request by Parsons to Bryan to speak to the members of the YMCA of Los Angeles; at the bottom of the page is a signed note by Bryan saying that it is "impossible."
mssHM 66102-66106
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This handwritten treatise, by an unknown author, covers the general subject of mechanics including laws of motion, gravity, velocity, etc. It includes many hand-drawn illustrations and graphs. It is undated and incomplete. It was probably written in the United States in the 1800s.
mssHM 75699