Manuscripts

John Percy letter to Edward William Cooke

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Description: The letter from John Percy to Edward William Cooke regards a Royal Academy exhibition, Cooke's travels, art, and Percy's wife's health.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1878, July 23.
Call number: mssHM 83090
Creator: Percy, John (1817-1889)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006. Gift of Cyril Stanley Smith.
Dimensions: 19 cm
Associated people: Smith, Cyril Stanley, (1903-1992,); Cooke, Edward William, (1811-1880,)
Associated organization: Burndy Library,

John Daniel Cooke correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection contains correspondence between John Daniel Cooke and several American and English authors and artists. Most of the correspondence concerns Cooke's attempts to find speakers for the University of Southern California's Phi Beta Kappa and Epsilon Phi lectures. Some of the correspondence also focuses on the connections between literature and film as Cooke taught a class on screenwriting and was actively interested in the field. Correspondents include Van Wyck Brooks, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Jessie Conrad, Homer Croy, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, Hamlin Garland, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Maurice Leonard Jacks, Aldous Huxley, Edgar Fogel Magnin, Conrad Nagel, John Boynton Priestly, George Winfield Scott, Milton Sills, Upton Sinclair, Hugh Walpole and Darryl Francis Zanuck.

mssHM 39572-39624

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John Daniel Cooke correspondence

Manuscripts

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John Gould letter to Edward H. Rodd

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Autograph letter from London signed John Gould, to the ornithologist Edward H. Rodd, discussing the Great Black Woodpecker.

mssHM 83616

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Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington, 1834-1925. 1 letter to [Edward Smyth Pigott, 1824-1895], A.L.S. (4 p.), ([ca. 1882]), London (Eng.)

Manuscripts

This collection contains a small number of manuscripts, documents, photographs and ephemera; the majority of the collection consists of Pigott's personal and professional correspondence, both from his work as a journalist and as the Examiner of Plays. The majority of the correspondence is addressed to Pigott but there is also a significant group of letters addressed to his nephew, Henry Drummond Smyth Pigott. In 1873, Edward Pigott was put forward as a candidate for the position of Secretary for the Royal Academy; ultimately, he was not elected to the position but there are a large number of testimonial letters by people in the art, academic and political fields, supporting Pigott's candidacy. The personal letters include discussions of the leading topics, politicians, and celebrities of the day; the professional letters mainly deal with stories to be published in Pigott's newspapers and the workings and people of the Victorian theatre, including letters about plays which, for some reason, were not accepted for performance. Notable correspondents include: Wilkie Collins, Francis George Seymour (Marquess of Hertford), Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton), Henry Du Pré Labouchere, Theodore Martin, John Everett Millais, Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane, Goldwin Smith and Edmund Hodgson Yates.

PIG 133

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John Stuart Mill letters to William Edward Hickson

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mssHM 6288-6320

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Huntington, Henry Edwards, 1850-1927. 1 letter (1920, June 2) to C.L. Haskell

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The Artwork series is arranged alphabetically and contains exhibition catalogs, article clippings, fliers, publications, and brochures. For the most part, there are two groupings for each of these categories, one that revolves around Arthur Rozaire and the other which mentions fellow artists. The exhibition catalogs span from 1919-1921. Rozaire's works were showcased at both the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in Canada and the Museum of History, Science and Art in Los Angeles. The fliers, brochures, and publications publicize Rozaire's upcoming exhibitions. There is a large gap in the time span among the Rozaire clippings. Most of the clippings are from 1908-1922 when Rozaire was alive. Margaret Rozaire saved these clippings and her grandson, Charles, fashioned a scrapbook out of them. The next group of clippings was collected by Charles and range from 1988-1998. The focus of these clippings was articles that mentioned his grandfather and any exhibitions in which his art was to be displayed. The items relating to Butterfield & Butterfield include a contract that Charles Rozaire signed with the auctioneer house to sell some of his grandfather's paintings, receipts, and sell notices when items sold. The Genealogy series is arranged alphabetically and includes article clippings from newspapers and other publications mentioning family members, the diary of Jerome Caldwell, genealogical charts and tables revolving around the family's history. There is also an autograph book kept by Clara Caldwell dated 1887, certificates for Jerome Caldwell to teach first and second grade in the 1870s, funeral programs, financial records, and a location notice from various Caldwell and Rozaire family members.

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