Manuscripts

William Godwin promissory note to Charles Parr Burney

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Description: An autograph document signed by William Godwin, London, England. The promissory note is made out to Rev. C. P. Burney for the amount of thirty-seven pounds, the note is to come due in three months; Burney signed the verso of the note.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1817 July 23.
Call number: mssHM 84135
Creator: Godwin, William (1756-1836)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Transferred from the Rare Books Department, September 2000. Removed from: Prometheus unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley (call number 497098)
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital sermon... : manuscript

Manuscripts

Handwriten manuscript by William Godwin. Bound with a copy of the sale catalogue of Mr. Sotheby and Son, of Godwin's Library in 1836 and clipping of Lot 305A from the Forman sale in 1920.

mssHM 43327

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Alcayaga, Manuel and Antonio Aguayo. Promissory note

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Note: The relationship between the signed parties is somewhat unclear. The agreement appears to be between Alcayaga and Aguayo, with Carmen Sibrian acting as a witness. Damian Marchan's role is not fully explained (in Spanish)

HM 70792

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Edward Meyer Kern bill to the United States for services rendered

Manuscripts

This is an invoice for three months' extra pay due Lieutenant Edward M. Kern for his service as part of the California Battalion under the command of John C. Frémont during the United States' conflict with Mexico. Printed form filled in by hand, with handwritten note on back confirming Kern's service, but unsigned. Dated 1851, November.

mssHM 4208

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Charles Villiers Stanford note to unknown recipient

Manuscripts

This is a signed, handwritten note by Stanford to an unknown recipient. In the note he apologizes for not having a copy of his Elegaic Ode (his 1884 musical composition to Walt Whitman's 1865 elegy for Abraham Lincoln, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd).

mssHM 81268

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Charles Bukowski note to Mr. Dawdy

Manuscripts

A typewritten signed note typed on a half sheet of paper. In the note, Charles Bukowski declines an invitation to participate at the Los Angeles Book Fair, Books West.

mssHM 84416

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William Hill letter to James Bateman, official of the South Sea Company, 1711 December 3

Manuscripts

Letter from William Hill offering to sell a manuscript chart book of the South Sea (the west coast of South America) by William Hacke to the South Sea Company. Hill states that he purchased the South Sea waggoner, or Buccaneer's atlas from Hacke "about 18 yeares agoe" for 70 pounds sterling. The letter goes on to explain that Hill is currently confined to the Poultry Comptor for a debt of around 30 pounds sterling, and the proceeds from the sale of this rare atlas would help restore him to his home and family as well as be of benefit to the South Sea Company.

mssHM 20096

William Godwin promissory note to Charles Parr Burney

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