Manuscripts

Maria Fitzherbert letter to William Porden

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Description: An autograph, signed letter addressed to "Sir" and dated on the verso, "1803 dec 12;" on the top of the page, in pencil in another hand, is written "To Wm Porden." The letter only briefly mentions the Prince of Wales and is mainly about the installation, placement and use of a stove in a house that is being built. William Porden was the architect who designed Steine House in Brighton, England, for Fitzherbert; she lived there from 1804 until her death in 1837. The letter was mounted on board by a previous owner.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1803 December 12.
Call number: mssHM 84133
Creator: Fitzherbert, Maria Anne (1756-1837)(Opens in new tab)

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 Edgeworth letter to Walter Scott

Manuscripts

Also enclosed in the volume: William Wordsworth letter to R. Shelton Mackenzie, October 18, 1842, and A. MacGeorge, Jr., letter to Maria Edgeworth, October 21, 1842. With typewritten transcriptions bound into volume and a second typewritten transcription laid into the back of the volume.

mssHM 84511

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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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George William Curtis letter to Matilda Lieber

Manuscripts

New Brighton, New York. Letter in the handwriting of Mrs. Curtis.

LI 1181

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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.

Two men in Kaiser Meadow shelter cabin used during snow surveys

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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.

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Maria Fitzherbert letter to William Porden

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