Manuscripts

Queen Mary correspondence with C.H. Collins Baker regarding the King's paintings ; note written by Edward VII

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Description: The nineteen letters include: a note written by Edward VII, enclosed in a letter from the Lord Chamberlain's Office (HM 82777); letters written from C.H. Collins Baker to Queen Mary (HM 82779, 82785, 82795); and letters written Queen Mary to C.H. Collins Baker (HM 82778, 82780-82784, 82786-82794). The letters between C.H. Collins Baker and Queen Mary discuss various paintings in the Royal collections, various Royal palaces and the purchase of paintings by the Queen. The letters are written from St. James's Palace, Windsor Castle, the National Gallery, Buckingham Palace and Sandringham; many letters with envelopes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1901-1930.
Call number: mssHM 82777-82795
Creator: Baker, C. H. Collins (1880-1959)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Edward VII note was a gift of C.H. Collins Baker, June 3, 1936.

Diary and documents of Edward Lewis Baker

Manuscripts

The small group of items includes a 1865 diary by Baker, two programs, one letter, a bill for expenses at Shurtleff College, and a high school commencement speech given by him in 1876. In his diary, which only covers January to April 1865 and is written from Springfield, Illinois, Baker writes on Friday, April 14 "Assassination of Mr. Lincoln." On the 15th he writes "The city draped in mourning and horror stricken at the terrible news. Meeting of citizen, etc. Mr. Johnson sworn into office." On Sunday the 16th he writes "Heard Hubbard preach on death of Lincoln - 2nd Baptist Church. General gloom." And on Monday the 17th he writes "Meeting to make arrangements for Lincoln's funeral." The letter was written by Baron Lionel Sackville-West while Baker was in Buenos Aires. There is also a program for an event to raise money for the "Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution" (1888).

mssHM 75683-75687

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Documents regarding slave Mary

Manuscripts

Certificate of No Incumberance [sic] written and signed by Benjamin Jones, Clerk of the Probate Court, Hancock County, Mississippi. He states that there is no "Record in my Office, any judgment, mortgage, or lien against the Negro girl Mary, the property of Nicholas Carron" (1851, Dec. 9). The document is a copy. HM 79205.

mssHM 79205-79206

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H. C. D. Baker letter to his family

Manuscripts

In this letter addressed to "Dear brother and sister," H.C.D. Baker writes of his current situation in Sacramento. With lithograph on final page depicting the plights of fictitious miner "John Smith."

mssHM 16548

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Mary Jane Brooks letters to Thomas and Priscilla Marsh

Manuscripts

These manuscripts are a series of letters from Mary Jane Brooks to her sister Priscilla Marsh and brother Thomas Marsh. HM 19790 is dated 1853, December 14 and 15, and lists the current price of goods in San Francisco. Mary Jane Brooks also writes of her family and friends. In the next letter (HM 19791, dated 1854, February 28), Mary Jane Brooks writes further of family and friends. HM 19792, dated 1854, July 14, tells of a fire in San Francisco, but the Brooks home was undamaged. Mary Jane Brooks writes in the next letter (HM 19793, dated 1855, July 28) that her father is not doing well. He has quit working, and "thinks he is not long for this world." HM 19794, the final letter in this sequence, is dated 1856, March 4. Father is still alive, but is ailing, and Mary Jane Brooks urges Priscilla to prepare their mother for his passing. The letters are written from San Francisco, and all are signed "Aaron and Mary Jane Brooks" but letters are in the handwriting of Mary Jane Brooks. With one-page typescript of an additional letter, dated 1856, July 5.

mssHM 19790-19794

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Mary Austin letters to Dorothea Lummis Moore

Manuscripts

These three letters are written from Mary Austin in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Dorothea (Rhodes) Lummis Moore. The letters discuss mutual friends, Austin's writing, and reading, and are dated September 23, 1930 (HM 45149); November 28, 1932 (HM 45150); and December 12, 1932 (HM 45151). Among the topics mentioned are D.H. Lawrence, Ida Tarbell's list of fifty famous women, Austin's autobiography, and Austin's effort to get a Guggenheim fellowship to work on an Indian art book.

mssHM 45149-45151

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Mayo, C.H. (Clarence Hastings). Receipt to C.E. Mayo

Manuscripts

The collection consists primarily of letters, most of which were written by C. H. (Clarence Hastings) Mayo to his family back home in Warwick, Massachusetts. Mayo describes the nature of his employment (or the lack thereof), the various towns in which he lives, cattle ranching, agriculture, and his impressions of the landscapes of New Mexico, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Colorado. He occasionally discusses national politics (in particular the election and assassination of President James A. Garfield) and frequently refers to his business activities with or on behalf of William Windom. There are also occasional references to Native Americans, Nelson Appleton Miles, Sitting Bull, and William T. Sherman in a few of the letters. Mayo writes home frequently, and his letters are most often addressed to his father (Edward F. Mayo), mother, sister (Kittie Mayo), and brother (Ned). There are also two letters in the collection from William Windom and one from an Uncle Richards.

mssHM 61658-61711

Queen Mary correspondence with C.H. Collins Baker regarding the King's paintings ; note written by Edward VII

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