Manuscripts

Mary Alice Lynch diary

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Description: Also cabinet card of Alice Mary Lynch.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1855-1865.
Call number: mssHM 84203
Creator: Lynch, Alice Mary(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Alice Kavanagh Akin and Dorothy Kavanagh Crull, September 1980.
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Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour

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The commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour containing journal entries, newspaper clippings, stories, and pressed flowers. Some items date as early as 1837 and the last entry is dated 1896. The spine is damaged and covers are loose.

mssHM 63807

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Frank Lynch papers

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Correspondence from Frank Lynch written to his family. With a photograph of Lynch.

mssLynch

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Mary Alice Smith Gray letters to Calvin Oliver Power

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Twenty letters from Mary Alice Smith Gray to Calvin Oliver Power, written between 1918 and 1923. The letters talk about her past, the family news, including the rapidly deteriorating health of John Wesley Gray, and the "dues" she received from Power for the appearances on his show. The letters are undated, scribbled in pencil in a halting and clearly unskilled hand and signed "Mrs. Gray" or "Orphant Annie."

mssHM 44514

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Mary Alice Prentice Huntington letter to "My dear cousin,"

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This letter from Mary Alice Prentice Huntington to a cousin, written from Ross Valley, north of San Francisco, discusses her mother's poor health and a possible trip to India. She also encourages her cousin to visit her in San Francisco.

mssHM 84149

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Anne C. Lynch Botta poems

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This collection contains the following: "A modern hero" [a sonnet] inscribed to Cyrus Field; "Ab astris" [poem in 13 lines]; "Accordance" [a sonnet]; "American Civilization" [a paper read before the "Wednesday Afternoon Club" of New York]; "Endurance" [a sonnet]; and "Prometheus" [a sonnet]. Notes of authentication by Julia M. Lynch.

mssHM 14492-14497

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Hester Lynch Piozzi Thraliana

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A manuscript diary kept by Hester Lynch Piozzi, from 1776 to 1809; with anecdotes, autobiographical fragments, marginal notes, and some correspondence copied into the volumes. In 1776, her husband, Henry Thrale, gave her the six blank diary books with the title "Thraliana" on the covers. Though called a diary, the work was intended to be like a French "Ana" which was a gathering of anecdotes; the English model was called a "Table-talk" and was meant to gather together anecdotes, quotations, observations, stories, verses, and whatever the author wished to remember. The focus of the first volumes is Samuel Johnson as they contain anecdotes and stories about his life; Piozzi used these as a basis for her "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson" (1786). After Henry Thrale died in April 1781, the work became more of a diary of her thoughts and life. The volumes are covered in unfinished calf with red labels with the title "Thraliana" on the front cover of each volume. All of the volumes have a ruled left hand margin which contain comments, dates, and other information deemed important by Piozzi.

mssHM 12183

Mary Alice Lynch diary

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