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Volume of letters written to Charles Edward Tisdall
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Charles Darwin letter to B. D. Wrangham
Manuscripts
A full transcription of the letter follows: "Dear Sir, I am much obliged for your kindess in having copies & sent me the long & striking passage from Kepler. I remain Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, Ch Darwin." A copy of the passage accompanies the letter. The letter is written from Beckenham, Kent and includes the addressed envelope.
mssHM 72756
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A volume of navigational and mathematical exercises and illustrations
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An undated volume of navigational and geometrical exercises with related diagrams, constructions, explanations, illustrations, spheres, maps, and a brief contemporary copy of the ship's log for a voyage from England to the West Indies from March to August, 1642. The volume includes one reference to letters of marque against Portugal. There are many blank pages and several pages torn out.
mssHM 69650
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Sir Edward Dering gardening journal
Manuscripts
This bound volume has worn, brown leather covers, with some damage; there are many blank pages, some of which are ruled but otherwise blank.
mssHM 55606
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Charles Warren Stoddard poems and letters
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Volume of blank pages with two handwritten poems, "The Cocoa Tree" and "The parables of nature," by American writer Charles Warren Stoddard and three letters from Stoddard to American writer Edmund Clarence Stedman, his wife, Laura Woodworth Stedman, and their son Arthur Stedman tipped in. The letter to Edmund Stedman is written around a small lithograph, "Bird's Eye View of the Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Ind.", published by Shober & Carqueville Lith. Co. of Chicago.
mssHM 24342-HM 24345
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Scrapbook volume
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Original scrapbook volume with empty pages, except for three pages of pressed botanical specimens. The verso of the flyleaf has the ms. ink inscription: "Louise Virenda Blandy, in remembrance of April 12. 76, with much love, from Adelheid."
mssHM 57251-57339
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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