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    The Tower of London. A Historical Romance, Chapters XXX-XXXIII

    Manuscripts

    An autograph manuscript, incomplete; a rough draft with corrections and various sizes of pages. Also included are two leaves giving a list of woodcuts.

    mssHM 14958

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    Stella Whitman Prentice album of remembrance

    Manuscripts

    Stella Whitman Prentice's album of remembrance contains drawings, quotes, messages from friends, pressed flowers, illustrations from printed materials, and other entries.

    mssHM 84278

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    Songs. Tennyson

    Manuscripts

    A large, bound manuscript of Alred, Lord Tennyson, poems; with selected poems related to various characters. Each selection has a black and white printed engraving with painted illuminations and illustrated printed versions of the poems. The first page contains the dedication: To Alice C. Teale / A Birthday Remembrance / with best wishes / from F. W. Joy.

    mssHM 84406

  • Playground, Polytechnic Elementary School, 1030 East California, Pasadena. April 29, 1938

    Playground, Polytechnic Elementary School, 1030 East California, Pasadena. April 29, 1938

    Visual Materials

    Children on the playground of Polytechnic Elementary School at 1030 East California. The children are playing on boxes, swings, and a climbing frame. Other unused boxes are stored in a sandbox.

    photCL 402 (35676)

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    Journal : fragments

    Manuscripts

    Manuscript (holograph) of fragments of the journal of Henry David Thoreau in 3 envelopes. Envelope I contains 30 leaves are assigned by F.B. Sanborn to a period before 1848, including 20 consecutive leaves for 1843 September 24-1844 January 7. Envelope II contains 52 leaves said by Sanborn to be portions of a Journal volume covering the greater part of 1848, the whole of 1849, and more than 3 months of 1850. There is a partial index to this volume in Thoreau's hand. Envelope III contains a miscellaneous group of 13 leaves, dated about 1842-1850 that were segregated by reasons of publication.

    mssHM 13182

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    Vachel Lindsay poems and ephemera

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    Three untitled poems by Vachel Lindsay: two from the fly-leaves of his Bible beginning "It is well to" and "Who cares for the man who is right?" and one from the front of a volume of "Great God Brown" by Eugene O'Neill owned by Lindsay's niece Catharine Wakefield, beginning "The butterflies came in," each with autograph notes by Lindsay's sister Olive Lindsay Wakefield. Also, printed pamphlet celebrating Lindsay including his poem "On the Building of Springfield" with an autograph note from Olive to Norman Corwin on the verso.

    mssHM 82027-82030