Manuscripts
Reynolds family record of births, marriages, and deaths
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Jesup Family record: marriages, births, deaths
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters (including 1 letter book), manuscripts (including 50 diaries), documents (including 55 account books, 12 cash books, and 5 miscellaneous volumes), and photographs related to the lives and activities of various Janin family members and the extended Janin-Blair-Jesup-Croghan families. Subject matter in the collection includes: politics and government in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana; society and customs in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans; Blair House (Washington, D.C.); land titles in Indiana Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Missouri; the Ocean Canal and Transportation Company, which ran from Louisiana to St. Louis; the history of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, from the time of purchase by John Croghan in 1839 until 1932, when it became a national park (at which time Violet Blair Janin was the primary owner); and mining in Australia. Persons represented in the collection include: James Lawrence Blair, Mary Jesup Blair, Violet Blair Janin, John Croghan, William Croghan, Albert Covington Janin, Louis Janin, Julia Clark Jesup, Thomas Sidney Jesup, George M. Wheeler, and Lucy James Blair Wheeler. Organizations represented in the collection (with which Violet Blair Janin was affiliated) include: Daughters of the American Revolution, National Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, National Cathedral Association, National Society of Children of the American Revolution, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
mssJaninf
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Account and sitters book of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Manuscripts
This bound volume contains Sir Joshua Reynolds' two account books and alphabetical list of sitters for the period from 1755 to 1789. The volume also includes six pieces of manuscript notes (10 p.) slipped into back of volume. This volume is possibly in the hand of an early biographer and dates from the mid to late 19th century.
mssHM 63180
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McAllister family records, (bulk 1851-1857)
Manuscripts
This small group consists of legal family papers, including a deed, articles of agreement, and an estate document. Also in the group are photostat copies of register entries and certificates of the Fairbanks and Brooks families, as well as copies of two journals written by John Daniel Thompson McAllister (1827-1910), that detail his missionary trip to Europe, his involvement in the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858, and his journey in a handcart company from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Salt Lake City, Utah.
mssHM 65244-65247
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Catálogo de lo más importante para examines de lo moral
Manuscripts
This volume contains a list of the traits and behavior considered most important by Fray Escudé, for both religious and personal conduct. Bound in limp leather. In Spanish.
mssHM 631
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Leigh family papers
Manuscripts
The collections consists of letters, poems and other manuscripts written by various members of the Leigh family and other people in their circle. The letters are mainly concerned with the intimate, mundane, playful and tragic aspects of family life from the early modern period until the middle of the 19th century. There is also a small number of poems, written by or copied out by family members, a Hymn, a speech, and a travel account. The collection also contains the 19th century volume, titled in gild on spine "Original Family Papers &c. Vol. 1. MSS." Letters and other material purchased by the Huntington Library Collectors' Council have been removed from the volume by the Huntington Library Conservation Department. An unknown number of letters were removed from the volume prior to the Huntington Library purchase.
mssHM 81608-81660
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Sir Edward Dering personal and political journal and papers
Manuscripts
The bound volume has limp vellum covers, with some damage to the spine. The family material (18th-20th centuries) contains information about the Dering Motto, Crest and Arms, a printed auction catalogue for the sale of the "Contents of the Mansion Surrenden..." (1928), a printed handlist of Dering MS (U1107), and disbound scrapbook pages of printed clippings, pictures, family and genealogical history; with a few autograph and typewritten notes and letters.
mssHM 55605