Born to be hanged: the log of the life of Captain Harry W. Lyon, as told to Lorrin L. Morrison

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  My own Walker, journal of a dutiful wife, 1789-1801

  Manuscripts

  A typewritten, carbon copy transcription of the journal of Anna Walker edited by Edward Hall; the journal describes her life married to George T. Walker and his career in the British army. The transcription has Hall's autograph notes, additions and corrections; the pages have been trimmed down to different sizes and the page numbering is not consistent with some numbers repeated or skipped. Also included: the original "Perry Instantaneous Binder" and a paper folder with an autograph note by Hall: "Copy 170 2 of Revised version of 1789-1801 period (produced in 1952)."

  mssHM 82875

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  Kelley, Williams H. and others. Testimonial to Captain M. A. Healy ... from the Masters & Owners of the North Pacific Whaling Fleet. San Francisco

  Manuscripts

  The collection contains 39 pieces of correspondence, 4 diaries, a letterbook from the U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service ship, "Bear," two large scrapbooks, and an illuminated manuscript testimonial to Capt. Healy in a leather pouch. Three of the diaries (1884, 1890, & 1891) are by Healy's wife, Mary Jane Roach Healy, and the fourth is by his son, Fred A. Healy (written aboard the "Corwin"). The scrapbooks contain clippings related to Capt. Healy's adventures in Alaska as well as general articles about Alaska, its population, whaling, the missionary Sheldon Jackson, and reindeer.

  mssHM 47618

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  Life sketch of Simon Baker [microform]: 1952

  Manuscripts

  Microfilm of the typed life history of Simon Baker by Melba Dolores Hogenson. The brief autobiography traces Baker's childhood, his conversion to Mormonism, the death of his wife and his marriage to Charlotte Leavitt in 1845, his move to Utah, his trade with gold miners in 1849-1850, his various mission and colonization trips in Utah and Nevada, and many notes on his personality and personal anecdotes. The autobiography is preceded by five manuscript pages identified as "journal before 1848" (it is not clear if these pages refer to Baker).

  MSS MFilm 00398 item 01

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  Horoscope for Sultan Amir Zadeh Rustam

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  This volume is the horoscope of Sultan Amir Zadeh Rustam. It was written in 822 AH in Persian (with some Arabic) by Yahya ibn Imad bin Yahya Al-Munajjim al-Kashi. It is probably the copy presented to the Sultan. It includes finely illuminated borders and sarlauh on initial pages but dampstained. Some color is fading. The volume also includes some notes about the manuscript, probably from the 1940s.

  mssHM 71897

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  Le prisonnier de la Bastille, la fin des mousquetaires, 3 tableaux

  Manuscripts

  An autograph manuscript in three sections, written in French, possibly in the hand of Alexandre Dumas; there are pencil notes stating it is partially written by Dumas, but he also employed many assistants to help with his work. It includes settings and stage directions for the tableaux 1-3. The approximate date of the manuscript is 1861 which would mean the manuscript could have been written while Dumas was living in Italy. The manuscript has some damage to the edges of the pages and in the center of the final pages. It is accompanied by materials which provide additional provenance information: autograph notes about the manuscript in an unknown hand; Janet Saville letter to Robert M. Foster, October 18, 1951, with envelope; Thorndike Saville, Jr., letter to David M. Foster, November 16, 2010, with envelope and copy of bank record.

  mssHM 84107

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  Edward E. Ayer reminiscences

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  The "Reminiscences of Edward Ayer's first trip from home..." (HM 68693) is a 1924 version of a narrative by Ayer detailing his many and varied experiences in the American West from 1860 to 1864. Most of the narrative deals with his time as a California Volunteer. The 1923 manuscript "Why I love Prescott's 'Conquest of Mexico'" (HM 68694) describes how Prescott's book opened up the world of books and history for Ayer. Both manuscripts are typewritten carbon copies, and the 1923 item is signed and dated by Ayer. The third item, HM 16784a, is a bound volume of 187 pages, entitled "Early Reminiscences of Edward E. Ayer." Inscribed to the Huntington Library by Ayer, it contains typescript versions of the "Reminiscences of Edward Ayer's first trip from home..." and of twelve other memoirs of various trips and adventures abroad -- in Europe, Asia, Central America and in the American West. It also includes typescripts of two letters from Ayer to the Board of Directors of the Field Museum. HM 16784b (also 187 pages) is a variant version of HM 16784a, and includes a print of a portrait of Ayer. HM 16784b is inscribed by Ayer to William Hertrich, gardener to Mr. Huntington and later superintendent of grounds and buildings at the Huntington.

  mssHM 68693-68694, HM 16784 (a-b)