Manuscripts

Little Friend: cast list and story of the film

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Description: A mimeographed copy of the credits, cast list and lengthy story for the film "Little Friend," based on the novel by Ernst Lothar; produced by the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd., and directed by Berthold Viertel. The scenario and dialogue were written by Margaret Kennedy and Christopher Isherwood and the 1934 film depicts a young girl at the center of her parents' deteriorating marriage. The copy is stained and creased with slight tears on the bottom of the pages; with light foxing on all pages.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1933.
Call number: mssHM 83794
Creator: Gaumont British Picture Corp(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Paul Rassam, March 2017.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Traité des matières colorantes

Manuscripts

An extensively annotated extra-illustrated work in two volumes: a chemist's working copy of a significant treatise on the development of chemical procedures of dyeing textiles. Volume 1 contains 544 pages with 39 textile samples; volume 2 contains 646 pages with one folded engraving, illustrations, and 34 textile samples. Both volumes contain annotations on separate sheets, with some intertextual annotations as well. In addition, there are twelve cloth samples of indigo dyeing, with detailed manuscript notes on the samples, which are unique to this copy of the work by Schützenberger. The volumes are bound with contemporary calf spines, marbled paper boards; there is some foxing and slight staining on a small number of pages.

mssHM 84114

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Glen Canyon rafting trip manuscript

Manuscripts

This manuscript, a mimeographed copy, provides a detailed account of a recreational raft trip through Glen Canyon on the Colorado River, in Utah, during the summer of 1958. The anonymous author describes the river, the scenery, the behavior of and interactions of the members of the excursion and their enjoyment of the adventure. There is a full-page map of their route and two pages of illustrations. The last six pages lists the 36 participants of the trip.

mssHM 83993

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Three prescriptions for Charles Hatchett

Manuscripts

Three prescriptions for medications for Charles Hatchett, one on each of three pages; the prescriptions are dated August 5, August 6, and August 8, 1796. The page dated August 5 is creased and torn.

mssHM 82720-82722

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Rage in heaven : screenplay and ephemera

Manuscripts

A mimeographed screenplay with paper covers and autograph notes and additions; co-written by Christopher Isherwood and Robert Thoeren. "Rage in Heaven" was a noirish psychological thriller based on a novel by James Hilton (published in 1932), starring Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, and George Sanders. The film was directed by W.S. Van Dyke after the original director, Robert Sinclair, quit. Richard Thorpe was brought in to direct the retakes and this appears to be his shooting script. Also enclosed is a printed press campaign booklet (8 p.) for the film.

mssHM 83255

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Carroll B. Andrews film of participants and guests at the Sea Wolf premiere

Manuscripts

Footage of Charmian London and other dignitaries, including Ronald Reagan, at the premiere of the Sea Wolf film in March 1941 at the Sebastiani Theater in Sonoma, California, and the picnic following at the London Ranch in Glen Ellen (on a 8 mm reel). The footage was filmed by Dr. Carroll B. Andrews. Accompanying the reel is a copy of the Sonoma Index Tribune article about the premiere, 2008 January 18.

mssHM 84097

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Film

Manuscripts

Motion picture film of Sonya Levien and friends, ca. 1935 - ca. 1959. There is an unedited master film reel, edited copy, a VHS videotape copy for circulation, and a digital copy. The following information was supplied by Tamara Hovey Gold, May 1993. The following is clarification of some shots which may be obscure on the film: 001,2 Tony Luhan -- Pueblo Indian chief whom Mabel Dodge Luhan married. 002,1 Tony Luhan. 003,1 Mary Binney and Spud Johnson -- Mabel Dodge Luhan's friends. 033,4 Angelino -- lived with Frieda Lawrence after D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence's death. 007,1 Tamara, Tissie Bok (sister of Derek Bok, President of Harvard), Sophie Huxley. 077,5 Tamara and Richard Buhlig. Buhlig, concert pianist and teacher and friend of Schoenberg's. Andreis Deinum -- documentary film-maker. Frank Waters -- novelist, wrote many books on Indians, lives in Taos. 009,1 Buhlig -- Dr. Fischer (friend) -- Schoenberg. 011,2 Error in title - not Erika Mann but Elizabeth Meyers (friend). Erika Mann, correctly titled, is in next shot in the chaise lounge. 011,5 Schoenberg and son Rudy. 012,0 Daughter Nuria - became Mrs. Luigi Nono. 012,4 Donan Jeffers. 012,0 Garth Jeffers. 015,1 Matthew Huxley. 015,5 Angelino and group. (The Prague section shows students from other countries volunteering in rebuilding of Lidice which had been razed by the Nazis and its population murdered.) Dorothy Brett - daughter of Vicomte Esher - ran away from home to study art at Slade School ... then followed D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence to the U.S. where she typed his manuscripts and painted. Her portrait of Lawrence hangs in National Portrait Gallery in London. The Big House - is Mabel's in Taos.

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