Manuscripts
Maria Fitzherbert letter to William Porden
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Maria Anne Fitzherbert letter to W. Jutsham concerning Captain John Willett Payne
Manuscripts
This letter to a W. Jutsham of 6 Milson Street, Bath, postmarked July 1795, thanks him for his welcome news of the recovery from illness and restoration to better health of "Captain Payne" (later Rear Admiral John Willett Payne, 1752-1803), the British naval officer responsible for bringing Caroline of Brunswick to England for her disastrous marriage to the Prince of Wales.
mssHM 73721
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Maria Benedicta Saez will
Manuscripts
The will was written in Los Angeles, California on December 10, 1855; it is written in Spanish. In it, Saez states her age, her husband and children. She states that she wants to be buried at the Catholic Cemetery in Los Angeles; her house is to be given to her oldest son with some land going to her daughter Maria del Rosario; and the profits from her garden should be distributed amongst her children. With the manuscript is a typed English translation.
mssHM 75100
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[Barnes, Maria Bidgood Jarman Ford?]. Letter to "my dear William."
Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of correspondence related to the Jarman family, Mormon converts who immigrated from England to Utah in the 1860s. It includes statements by Maria Bidgood Jarman Ford Barnes regarding her divorce from her abusive, polygamous first husband; 26 letters sent to Maria from her son Albert while he was serving on a mission trip to England from 1894-1895; and various letters from other family members and friends, including the Dickert family, who describe their life in Germany, and a friend who served on a mission to Switzerland in 1897.
HM 79912.
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Ann Renaudet Chevalier letter to Charles Willson Peale
Manuscripts
This autograph letter signed is addressed to Mr. Peale at the Museum (Peale retired from the museum in 1810, this letter may be for him or one of his sons who replaced him). Chevalier writes, "Sir, Please to receive in your Museum a little pensionnary that came last night to take refuge in the house where I live: It is a screetch-owl of the smallest and beautiful kind, I had always been told that such birds were ominous creatures; but the contrary I now find in the opportunity this offers me, by presenting you with it, to do something with that perhaps may prove agreeable to you. I am with respect, Anne Renaudet Chevalier."
mssHM 83617
Two men in Kaiser Meadow shelter cabin used during snow surveys
Visual Materials
Two men in Kaiser Meadow shelter cabin used during snow surveys. They are feeding wood pieces into the wood-burning stove. A pot of coffee and a bucket of water are on the stove hot plates. There is a kerosine lamp on the stove warmer and a crank-ringer telephone on the wall.
photCL SCE 05 - 53298
Dixon's carburet of iron stove polish
Visual Materials
Image of three copies on one sheet of an advertisement for Dixon's Carburet of Iron Stove Polish showing nine African-American children crowd around their Uncle Obadiah who is seated near a stove and holding a package of stove polish; description of product in pidgin English and image of a package of stove polish on verso.
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