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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Sir Christopher Myngs: copy of biographical entry from dictionary of national biography
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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
Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.
mssHM 82902
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Note: very fragile -- handle carefully; pages torn from a ledger. A "joke" entry between Burne-Jones and William Morris, copied out by John Henry Dearle, 1860-1932, from Burne-Jones' 1886, Dec. 2, entry in his Account book. A facsimile copy of the Account book is cataloged in Ephemera.
MOR 1
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A manuscript copy of a printed text concerning the divorce case of Frances (Howard), Countess of Essex and Robert, Earl of Essex and the trial of Sir Thomas Overbury's poisoners; copied out in an unidentified hand. In limp vellum covers with the initials "W B" decorating front and back covers; with the signature of "Wm Browne" pasted onto front page, this is possibly the signature of William Browne (1590-approx. 1645), the English poet. The text ends with "The Proceeding against Sir Tho. Monson, at the Guild-hall...May 24, 1616" so is missing a portion of the printed text; following the trial text is one page of autograph notes dated 1620.
mssHM 1553
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The collection consists of manuscripts by Partington, James Agate, Jessie Conrad, R. B. Cunninghame Grahame, John Kirkby, and H. D. C. Pepler; these manuscripts include articles, essays, personal narratives, poems, and short stories. The correspondence mainly relates to Partington's work with the Bookman's journal, his books about Sir Walter Scott, and his various literary endeavors. The main subjects of these letters reflect the work and interests of Partington, including bibliography, forgery, and the authors Joseph Conrad, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Thomas James Wise. There are also letters by Partington, mainly carbon copies, and a small group of letters from his family and friends. The collection also includes his research files and a small amount of ehpemera.
mssPAR 1-1402
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This photostat copy was made from a carbon copy of a typescript owned by Mathilda King Griffin in 1955. It covers John King's life from his birth in Camp Floyd, Utah up to 1947 when he was eighty-five. His formative years taking care of cattle and his work as a cowboy in Boulder, Utah are detailed. Also included is genealogical information about his children.
mssHM 66752
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This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
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