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J.D. Kember letter to George Cruikshank

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Description: Letter from J.D. Kember, Secretary of the Temperance Society, inviting George Cruikshank to a temperance festival.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1857 March 18.
Call number: mssHM 84198
Creator: Kember, J.D(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from John Windle, January 1997.
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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George Cruikshank letters

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The collection contains seventy-one letters addressed to George Cruikshank or his wife, Eliza Cruikshank. Most of the correspondence is concerned with Cruikshank's participation in the Temperance movement and many are requests for his presence at temperance society meetings. Some letters concern Cruikshank's art as well as his, and Eliza's, personal life. Correspondents include William Henry Merle, Charles Rogers, John Sheringham, H.E. Taylor and John Drayton Wyatt.

mssHM 41191-41261

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George Cruikshank letters

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mssHM 41191-41261

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On Guard: a pencil sketch of George Cruikshank Palford as a little boy

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Includes an autograph letter from George Cruikshank to George Cruikshank Palford, April 4, 1854 (mssHM 35320).

mssHM 35319-35320

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Elizabeth Whitney Putnam letter to J.D. Whitney, Sr

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Typescript of a letter from Elizabeth Whitney Putnam to her father J.D. Whitney, Sr., written shortly after the arrival of Elizabeth and her daughter Katharine in San Francisco. In the letter Elizabeth describes the difficulties of ocean travel, her voyage from the east coast to Panama on board the Georgia, her experiences crossing the Isthmus of Panama on foot and riding mules, a detailed firsthand account of the wreck of the Tennessee in the Pacific Ocean, and her final arrival in San Francisco aboard the Goliath, which also hit rocks off the California coast.

mssHM 73686

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L.T. Moore letter to J.D. Yarrington

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Enclosed in: letter from J.D. Yarrington to Isaac E. Gates, 1889 October 29. Subjects: Kilgore Claim.

mssHEH

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J.D. Duncan letters to A.H. Campbell

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In these two letters to his brother, J.D. Duncan writes that he has arrived in the town of Stockton, California from Wisconsin and plans to head north to the gold mines. A year later, he writes that he has found work with "a large Ditch Company." He writes of the current state of crops, of the scarcity of gold, and the danger posed by Indians. Nevertheless, J.D. believes there is still "plenty of gold to be had." HM 25788 is dated 1857, February 4, and HM 25789 is dated 1858, September 13, and both were written in Stockton, California.

mssHM 25788-25789

J.D. Kember letter to George Cruikshank

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