Manuscripts

Rich family material: documents, transcripts and printed material

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Description: A collection of documents, typewritten transcripts and printed material; it includes: a 1643 naval document signed by Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (HM 82943), a 1743 annuity receipt signed by Sir Robert Rich and Elizabeth, his wife (HM 82944), typewritten transcriptions of documents (1597/98-1642) relating to various Rich family members (HM 82945-82947) and printed material (1836-1933) that includes an engraving, and clippings relating to the Earls of Warwick and the Earl of Holland (HM 82948).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1597/98 - 1933.
Call number: mssHM 82943-82948
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Guy C. Rich, January 22, 1954.
Associated people: Holland, Henry Rich, (1590-1649.); Rich, Edwin, (1692-1773.); Rich, Elizabeth Griffith, (1685-1768.); Rich, Robert, (active 1600.); Rich, Thomas, (1911-1984.)

Heroica eulogia

Manuscripts

Presentation copies of grants relating to the earls of Leicester, collected by William Bowyer, keeper of the royal archives at the Tower of London and presented by him to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532?-88). Interspersed among the deeds are eulogies in verse of previous earls of Leicester and of others, and of the kings who granted the various charters; at the end, satiric anticlerical verses.

mssHM 160

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Commonplace book. English poetry : manuscript ; correspondence, manuscripts, poems and printed material

Manuscripts

This material includes a commonplace book and a miscellaneous group of letters, manuscripts, poems and printed material; some of the miscellaneous material may have been bound together at one time. The miscellaneous material includes: Francis Atterbury letter to Alexander Pope (HM 83576) ; List of book titles by John Bradshaw (HM 83577) ; note by Alexander Chalmers (HM 83578) ; verses by Charles Caleb Colton (HM 83579) ; poem by Alexander D'Arblay (HM 83580) ; printed poem by William James Linton (HM 83581) ; note and letter by Alexander Pope (HM 83582-83583) ; verses by Robert Vansittart ; poem by Edward Waller (HM 83585) ; and a poetical commonplace book with marbled paper covers (HM 83586).

mssHM 83576-83586

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Lady Charlotte Bury's diary, 1805-1810 : transcripts

Manuscripts

The material includes: HM 82895 (1) Mary Isabel Fry's research notebook, notes, genealogical information, and maps (16 pieces) ; HM 82895 (2) Lady Charlotte Bury's diary, typewritten transcription (142 p.) ; HM 82895 (3) diary, typewritten transcription with annotations, corrections and footnotes (180 p.).

mssHM 82895 (1-3)

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Rich family photographs

Manuscripts

Modern reproductions of 25 black and white photographs showing members of the Rich and Hunter families. Individual portraits include several of Charles Coulson Rich in middle and old age, three photographs of Sarah DeArmon Pea Rich in her 60s and 70s, and a photograph of Sarah Jane Rich Miller in her early 80s. Other portraits show Joseph C. Rich at age 19 (taken during his work on his father's mission to England in 1860), as a young attorney, at about the time he became judge of the Fifth District of Idaho, and with his wife, Ann Eliza Hunter Rich. Additional photographs depict Ann as a young girl, Joseph and Ann's three children (Edward, Susanna, and Sarah Jane), Ann's father Edward Hunter (taken in Salt Lake City in 1881), and Ann's mother Ann Standley Hunter. Also included are six family tree style pages with photographs depicting Charles Rich's wives and children, including his first wife Sarah DeArmon Pea, second wife Eliza Ann Graves (1811-1879), third wife Mary Ann Phelps (1829-1912), fourth wife Sarah Jane Peck (1825-1893), fifth wife Emeline Grover (1831-1917), and sixth wife Harriet Sargent (1832-1915).

mssHM 72988 (1-25)

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Transcripts of arguments for claims no. 7, 17, 33, 34, 35, 43

Manuscripts

These are typewritten transcripts, with paper covers; the transcripts were made for Sir Charles Fitzpatrick by Smith & Hulse, Shorthand Reporters, Washington, D.C. HM 82865 (1-2) are transcripts for claims No. 7, 33, 34, 35, 43 (March 11-12); HM 82865 (3-5) are transcripts for the "R.T.Roy" claim No. 17 (March 12-14). HM 82865 (3) also contains 2 pages of autograph notes by Fitzpatrick and 7 typewritten pages of notes on other legal cases.

mssHM 82865 (1-5)

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Robert Bohle interview with Christopher Isherwood : transcript

Manuscripts

This interview took place on April 18, 1971 at the California home of Christopher Isherwood. The material includes a typewritten, corrected transcript of the interview which contains corrections and comments by Isherwood (in pencil) and Bohle (in pen) (HM 83267); the transcript may not be complete as it begins on page 6. Also included is the original audiocassette of the interview and (4) compact disc copies (HM 83268 a-e).

mssHM 83267-83268

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