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Reales cédulas : typewritten transcription

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Description: Typewritten transcription made from Volume III of Archivo General Publica, Mexico, "Reales Ceduleas." Documents are dated 1647.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: undated.
Call number: mssHM 84256
Creator: Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from F. Scholes, September 1931.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Oral history of Edith and Lessing Rosenwald: transcript

Manuscripts

Copy of transcript of an oral history conducted by Janet Rosenwald Becker, who interviewed her parents, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald and Lessing Rosenwald. The oral history, originally dated 1978, November 11, recounts the histories of both the Rosenwald and the Goodkind families from the 19th century to the 1970s. The typescript also includes a photocopy of a four-page handwritten letter dated March 1910 from Lessing Rosenwald's mother, Augusta Nusbaum Rosenwald, to her children, and a two-page typewritten transcription.

mssHM 83093

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To a Young Italian Lady: poem

Manuscripts

A signed, autograph seven stanza poem, with typewritten transcription. Also included in the volume are six autograph letters, with typewritten transcriptions, from Ainsworth to various addressees and two black and white engravings of Ainsworth.

mssHM 14981-14987

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Philetus W. Norris journals

Manuscripts

A manuscript originally bound in three volumes; volume I covers the years 1870 to 1875, volume II 1877 to 1878, and volume III 1876 to 1894. Volume I is made up of Norris' original printed letters to Michigan papers pasted down on paper sheets, with extensive additions, corrections, and notes; Norris was revising this material to publish in book form. Volume II contains another trip to the west in 1877 and volume III contains miscellaneous material which Norris intended to incorporate into his book. The volumes include interesting details and reports of the state of the west at that time, and also mention the battlefield of General George A. Custer and Yellowstone National Park; volume III contains an autograph map of the general area of the park, dated 1894. The pages were removed from the original damaged boards by the Huntington Conservation Department and placed in folders and three boxes; the original boards were retained and kept with the disbound material.

mssHM 506

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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: handwriting specimen, letter and transcript

Manuscripts

Handwriting specimen of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, plus accompanying letter and transcript prepared by Blumenbach's son. The five-line handwriting specimen is dated 1834, December 28, and is found on a folded sheet with two pages of writing; two lines of this text are in French and three lines, including Blumenbach's signature, are in German. The specimen is annotated and translated into English by Blumenbach's son and by an unidentified person. The second page of the sheet contains a letter from Blumenbach's son to an unidentified recipient addressed as My dear Sir and dated 1836, April 27, describing the handwriting specimen; this letter is in English. Also contains a one-page undated typed transcription and partial translation of Blumenbach's lines and of the start of the son's letter, as well as biographical information about Blumenbach, prepared by an unidentified person; this page contains annotations in pencil relating to the material's archival location.

mssHM 83022-83023

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Pulpit publications, 1660-1782: being a new edition of "The preacher's assistant"...with introductory matter, indexes, statistical tables, and other interpretative apparatus : manuscript

Manuscripts

These volumes are Spaulding's computer generated bound copies which he wanted deposited at the Huntington Library; though the final printed series comprised six volumes there were eight volumes deposited at the Library. Volume I: The Index Volume ; Volume II (Parts I & II): John Cooke, The Preacher's Assistant (1783, from the British Library copy) ; Volume III: Sermons Listed by Biblical Text ; Volume IV: Sermons Listed by Author's Names ; Volume V (and Revised Volume V dated February 4, 1988): Publications Listed by Year ; Volume VI: Sermons Listed by Year of Printing.

mssHM 52297

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1818-1820. Correspondence, transcripts, and other records related to the nomination of Juan Nazario Peimbert to the office of Asistente Real

Manuscripts

The chronologically-arranged documents demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, ecclesiastical, military, and genealogical records initiated by government representatives, lawyers, litigants, clerics, and laypersons from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the records are legal and contractual, including wills, testimonies, inheritance cases, power of attorney contracts, and financial agreements between individuals and/or institutions. Administrative and ecclesiastical records mostly include appoiintments to secular and religious offices as well as some Inquisition and genealogical documents. Military records document pensions, compensations, and other payments made by the Royal Treasury to former military officers. Prominent persons and places of colonial and national Mexico and Guatemala are represented in the collection, such as Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, first count of Revillagigedo and viceroy of New Spain from 1746-1755; Juan Nazario Peimbert, lawyer who proposed the formation of an Indian army in the event of a French invasion in 1809; and Juan Antonio de Vizarrón, Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain from 1734-1740.

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