Manuscripts

Richard M. Nixon letter to Donald E. Pearson

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Description: In this typewritten letter, Nixon is thanking Donald E. Pearson for his support. Signed "Dick Nixon." On "Richard Nixon" letterhead. With envelope.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1962 April 23.
Call number: mssHM 84335
Creator: Nixon, Richard M (1913-1994)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Carol Pearson, April 1998.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Mrs. John Barton McDougal letters from American politicians

Manuscripts

These four letters are replies to letters that Mrs. McDougal wrote to these four American politicians: Senator Harry F. Byrd, Senator William F. Knowland, Senator Robert F. Taft (this one is addressed to Mr. John Barton McDougal), and Vice-President Richard Nixon (signed "Dick Nixon").

mssHM 75982-75985

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Elliot, Jeffrey M. To Octavia E. Butler

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L.S. (typewritten: 1p.); 28cm. Newton, Mass. Also: three portrait photographs of Octavia E. Butler by Richard Todd. With envelope.

OEB 4969

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Benjamin M. Read letter to Walter Douglas

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In this signed typewritten letter on Benjamin Read's professional letterhead, he thanks Walter Douglas for his prompt response to his letter and thanks him for his assistance, adding that he will give him credit in the next edition of the Illustrated History of New Mexico. Read also says that he would like to call on Douglas in the near future to examine the documents he has. He further requests additional information on the Gerónimo de Rivera Rendón bigamy case of 1603 along with Douglas's own credentials and citations. He closes by writing that he is send Douglas a copy of his large History of New Mexico by tomorrow's express.

mssHM 31542

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Louis François de Pourtalés letters to E. Meriam

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Two autographed letters signed, from Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 25 and August 27, 1857, from Louis François de Pourtalés to E. Meriam, of New York, requesting information about an earthquake off the California coast in August, 1856, and subsequently thanking Meriam for information received.

mssHM 70411-70412

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Richard E. Barnes letters to George Barnes

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Six letters written by Richard E. Barnes from Diamond Springs, California (about 5 miles south of Placerville), to his brother George Barnes. The letters give an interesting flavor of life in a gold rush community in the late 1850s. Barnes talks about wages, prices, problems with mail and communications, hunting adventures including a friend getting shot accidentally, a friend's bear fight with a grizzly, the vigilance committee, and his longing for people to write him and to go back home. Barnes goes into some detail about the mines and mining in the area and money being earned and lost.

mssHM 82353-82358

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Richard Herne Shepherd letter to Algernon Charles Swinburne

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An autograph, signed letter from Richard Herne Shepherd to Algernon Charles Swinburne requesting Swinburne to kindly accept Shepherd's new bibliography of William Makepeace Thackeray.

mssHM 84134

Richard M. Nixon letter to Donald E. Pearson

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