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  Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell album of letters, photographs, and printed material

  Manuscripts

  An album created by Sydney Cockerell; cover is dated 1898. The album contains autograph letters, many with envelopes, photographs, and printed material; some pages have been annotated by Cockerell. Previous to the acquisition by the Huntington Library some of the pages have been removed and some items have been removed from the pages which remain.

  mssHM 36896-36934

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  mssHM 63186-63262

  Manuscripts

  The collection contains correspondence and ephemera from and about Sir Sydney Cockerell. The recipient of these letters is Muriel J. Hughes, an American scholar who met Sir Sydney Cockerell through a mutual friend. Muriel J. Hughes corresponded with both Cockerell and later his secretary Dorothy Hawksley. The majority of the correspondence is from Sydney Cockerell to Muriel J. Hughes. Some of the letters were dictated to and written by Dorothy Hawksley for Cockerell, who signed each letter. The letters from May 1962-1965 are from Dorothy Hawksley to Muriel J. Hughes after Cockerell's death. In a few of his letters Sir Sydney Cockerell mentions his son, Christopher, who invented the Hovercraft. Sydney Cockerell also occasionally mentions British celebrities, such as Bernard Shaw.

  mssHM 63186-63262

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  Sir Sidney Carlyle Cockerell Papers

  Manuscripts

  The collection contains 55 letters from English museum curator Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) chiefly to American scholar Muriel J. Hughes (born 1903), as well as some additional letters to Hughes from Cockerell's secretary Dorothy Hawksley (1884-1970), and a few later pieces of ephemera. Cockerell to Muriel J. Hughes, whom he met through a mutual friend. Some of the letters were dictated to and written by Dorothy Hawksley for Cockerell, who signed each letter. The letters from May 1962-1965 are from Dorothy Hawksley to Muriel J. Hughes after Cockerell's death. In a few of his letters, Sir Sydney Cockerell mentions his son, Christopher, who: invented the Hovercraft. Sydney Cockerell also occasionally mentions well-known British celebrities, such as Bernard Shaw.

  mssHM 63186-63262

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  Portolan atlas, Italian : [cartographic material] : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-14v. [Francesco Ghisolfi] Latin. Contains 11 maps, etc.: 1, Blank except for decorated border and "Phillipps MS 22796" inscribed in center; 2, Western Mediterranean; 3, Table of declinations and armillary sphere; 4, the 2 hemispheres (showing western America linked to Asia); 5, Oval map of the world; 6, Planisphere with signs of zodiac and figures representing seasons; 7, Indian Ocean, Africa, Arabia, India, and part of Asia; 8, Central Mediterranean and Italy; 9, Pacific Ocean with portions of North and South America, East Indies, part of China; 10, Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean Sea; 11, Western Mediterranean, Iberian peninsula, Northwest Africa; 12, Eastern coast of North America, South America, Atlantic Ocean, Europe (including Scandinavia), Africa, Near East; 13, World in 5 gores (decorated at top and bottom with signs of the zodiac and other figures); 14, Black Sea.

  mssHM 28

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  Pontifical : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-214v. [Pontifical]. Latin. ff. 1-3, Table of contents up to f. 193v, with reference to folio numbers; ff. 3-193, Pontifical; f. 193r-v, On the robing of the bishop; ff. 193v-214, Benedictions for the temporale, the sanctorale, the common of saints, the dedication of a church, the anniversary of the dedication of a church, the ordination of a bishop, the coronation of a king, and various other occasions; f. 214v, blank; Back pastedown ("215" in contemporary foliation), note in Spanish added in a cursive hand, on the laying of the corner stone, 15 May 1501, for the cloister of the cathedral under the foreman Gonbal de Hory, and the mass said on that occasion by Bishop Guillen Remon de Moncada (Tarazona, 1496-1521) in the chapel of Bishop Andrés (presumably André Martínez Férriz, Bishop of Tarazona, 1486-95).

  mssHM 1078

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  Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell papers

  Manuscripts

  The collection contains correspondence and ephemera from and about Sir Sydney Cockerell. The recipient of these letters is Muriel J. Hughes, an American scholar who met Sir Sydney Cockerell through a mutual friend. Muriel J. Hughes corresponded with both Cockerell and later his secretary Dorothy Hawksley. The majority of the correspondence is from Sydney Cockerell to Muriel J. Hughes. Some of the letters were dictated to and written by Dorothy Hawksley for Cockerell, who signed each letter. The letters from May 1962-1965 are from Dorothy Hawksley to Muriel J. Hughes after Cockerell's death. In a few of his letters Sir Sydney Cockerell mentions his son, Christopher, who invented the Hovercraft. Sydney Cockerell also occasionally mentions British celebrities, such as Bernard Shaw.

  HM 63257.