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Grace R. Simmons diaries
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Grace R. Simmons lived on a farm in the Pasadena, California area with her husband John L. Simmons and son Edward. Grace Simmons was the granddaughter of abolitionist John Brown, through her mother Ruth Brown Thompson. The collection includes 21 diaries written by Grace Simmons, describing her life and activities.
mssHM 31174
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The Story of My Early Life in California
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A brief account of Clara Shaw's life in California, including a description of traveling to California from Wisconsin in 1858. Shaw also discusses her experiences with Indians, and describes her life as the wife of a rancher in Adobe Meadows, California.
mssHM 70165
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Daniel M. Evans letter to editors of the People's Advocate
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In this letter, Daniel M. Evans, who was a journalist in London, England before moving to Stockton, California in 1879, is offering his services as a journalist to the Stockton weekly newspaper People's Advocate. The newspaper had just published its first issue and Evans liked it so much that he wanted to work for them.
mssHM 67908
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Reminiscences of Professor Allan Nevins at the Henry E. Huntington Library
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A photocopy of a corrected typewritten manuscript. It is a memoir of Allan Nevins' time at the Huntington Library and was written by John Steadman, Nevins' contemporary during his years at the Huntington. The memoir includes trips to Mexico, and various places in California, including Death Valley and Idyllwild. He includes many humorous Huntington Library stories about witty lunches, walks on the grounds, and playing lawn-bowling. Notable people mentioned in the memoir include, among others: Robert O. Dugan, John F. Kennedy, Mary Elizabeth Massey, Cholmondeley M. Nelson, John E. Pomfret, and A. L. Rouse.
mssHM 84055
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Pocket diary of Thomas D. Evans
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Complete diary for the year 1864. The daily entries describe Evans' duties filing provision returns, drawing rations, supplies, and ammunitions, etc., gives accounts of camp life, the wounded and fallen in battles, Confederate prisoners, deserters, and guerillas, military operations, news (including a note about Santiago fire of Dec. 1863), and the recruitment in Pittsburgh, and follows Franz Siegel and David Hunter in Shenandoah Valley in the spring and summer of 1864. The accounts of the hospitals are rather sketchy, on the account of his wounded arm; Evans did mention a Christmas dinner and concert organized by Sanitary and Christian Commissions.
mssHM 68427
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My own Walker, journal of a dutiful wife, 1789-1801
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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