Manuscripts

Mamie Adams letter to Alice Sanford

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Description: In her letter, written to her sister Alice Sanford in Virginia, Mamie Adams writes about the children in her kindergarten class and the activities they do. The letter also mentions different aspects of the school operations, teacher training, and the Parent-Teacher Association. Adams also writes about her difficulties in being a widow and her financial struggles. With envelope.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1937 December 16.
Call number: mssHM 83994
Creator: Adams, Mamie(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Buckingham Books, January 2020.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Mamie Marie Walton - Jackson collection of photograph albums

Visual Materials

A collection of three photograph albums, one college scrapbook, 103 loose photographs, and ephemera documenting the education, family life, teaching career, and travels of Mamie Marie Walton-Jackson (1916-2009). The materials span approximately from 1916 to 1968. The college scrapbook includes images, lists, and ephemera representing Walton-Jackson, her classmates, instructors, and campus life. The three photograph albums cover Jackson's wedding day, her husband, her son Durante, family-related events; her career as a home economics instructor at Buford High School from nineteen fifty one through nineteen fifty two, pupils, fellow instructors; and vacations in the West and Southwest. The loose photographs and ephemera cover the aforementioned areas. The six pieces of loose ephemera include a Mother's Day card from her son, a newspaper clipping about her niece Janice, a cable car ornament, a napkin from the Buford High School 1953 Junior-Senior Prom, a small Faculty label, and a small Clark College label. Among the photograph albums and loose photographs are color as well as hand-colored images of a younger Mamie, Jerry, Durante, and friends and family.

photCL 695

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John Adams, Philadelphia, letter to Joseph Palmer :

Manuscripts

Adams writes from Philadelphia, "I believe no assembly ever had more extensive and complicated objects before them than our Congress. We shall be united." He discusses the two bearers of the letter, Aquilla Hall and Josias Carvill Hall of Maryland, "two young military adventurers" (probably Aquila Hall, Jr. and Josias Carvil Hall, two signers of the 1775 Bush Declaration of support for Boston and freedom).

mssHM 25026

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Frankenburg, Charis. 9 letters (1941-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Lymm, England

Manuscripts

She was left a wealthy widow from her husband's death in WWI. She has used her money to support a hospital for deformed children. She also takes in other children during the war. She also includes excerpts of her sons' letters about their war experiences.

mssAdams

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Thomas Adams letter to Granville Sharp

Manuscripts

An autograph, signed draft letter from Thomas Adams to Granville Sharp; the letter is a retained copy, heavily corrected and annotated. An extensive letter which covers multiple topics including the militia, legal matters, political business, estate business (Adams lists the many trees he has planted on his Eshott Hall estate), and the African Prince John Henry Granville Naimbanna, who died in 1793.

mssHM 83693

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John Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts, letter to Richard Rush :

Manuscripts

Letter expressing Adams' views on aristocracy as natural, that inequalities of influence exist in nature, must be levelled by law; also discusses the "privileged order of beauty" and the example of Emma, Lady Hamilton. Item is bound with an engraved portrait of Adams and an auction or sale advertisement of the Adams letter.

mssHM 21696

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John Adams, Philadelphia, letter to Abigail Adams, Braintree, Massachusetts :

Manuscripts

Letter regarding Adams' extended separation from his family in which he lists the multiple tasks involved in the founding of the new nation. Contemporary copy of a letter that was intercepted by the British.

mssHM 27214

Mamie Adams letter to Alice Sanford

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