Manuscripts
Adriana Haynes Physick letter to Lyttleton Physick
Image not available
You might also be interested in
Image not available
Emma King letter to Arthur Lee Kellogg
Manuscripts
Writing to "my dear little Artie," Emma King congratulates her nephew on his fifth birthday.
mssHM 4278
Image not available
Noah Haynes Swayne letter to Ogden Hoffman
Manuscripts
Letter from Noah Haynes Swayne to Odgen Hoffman, sent from Washington, D.C. Swayne thanks Hoffman for sending him a letter and pamphlet, and remarks on "the Roland case."
mssHM 19023
Image not available
Mary Jane Brooks letters to Thomas and Priscilla Marsh
Manuscripts
In this first letter (HM 19797, dated 1853, September 14), Mary Jane Brooks describes her journey to California "according to agreement" to her sister Priscilla and her husband Thomas Marsh. Much of this letter contains Brooks' description of Kingston, Jamaica, where she stopped en route to California. She laments that she has not yet found a man to run away with her. HM 19798, written August 12, 1886, and includes an envelope. Brooks is still in San Francisco, and writes of people she is seeing and letters written and received. The last letter in this sequence was written 1886, September 2. Brooks writes that she has reached her sixtieth birthday, but feels "old beyond my years." She discusses the possibility of getting her share of the farmstead left by her father, and hopes her sister will cooperate.
mssHM 19797-19799
Image not available
Sarah Siddons letter to Patty Wilkinson
Manuscripts
One-page fragment of a signed letter in which Siddons communicates that she will be staying with Lady Barrington, who was mourning the death of her son, until she is "wanted in Edinborough." The letter is addressed "To Miss Wilkinson."
mssHM 11385
Image not available
Maria Benedicta Saez will
Manuscripts
The will was written in Los Angeles, California on December 10, 1855; it is written in Spanish. In it, Saez states her age, her husband and children. She states that she wants to be buried at the Catholic Cemetery in Los Angeles; her house is to be given to her oldest son with some land going to her daughter Maria del Rosario; and the profits from her garden should be distributed amongst her children. With the manuscript is a typed English translation.
mssHM 75100
Image not available
Ella Middleton Shute letters to Louie Earle Williams
Manuscripts
Series of letters from Ella Shute to her friend Louie Earle Williams, written when Ella was living in Wheatfields, Arizona, "12 miles from the mines" (she asks Louie to direct her letters to Globe City). Ella writes of her family life, their many illnesses ("every one here seems like dead people," she wrote in 1876) since moving "to the mines," and the cost of goods. She also writes of her son Walter (whom she refers to as Charles Clifton until 1878), including an incident where he was run over by a wagon wheel in 1879, and the birth of her son Eugene in 1878. She notes that her father, brothers Frank and Henry, and husband George are "at work in the mines," but that "we are not making any thing only a living." Frank also briefly worked at the Miami Mill Company until it burned down in May 1879. Ella speculated that it might have been arson, and lamented that the incident had caused many families to move away and had detrimentally affected the Middletons' and Shutes' mining interests. She also writes of dry conditions in August 1879, and that "the Indians ha[ve] burned every thing out and it will take a great deal of rains to bring every thing out again." Ella writes that she is unsure of the population of Wheatfields but that there are "so many young men down here that wants to get married but there is...few girls and they won't get married unless they get a rich man." She also mentions that her brother Henry and sister Hattie have gone away to school at the Picket Poste, and urges Louie to have her father move their family to Arizona. Also included is a letter to Louie from her friend Jennie A. Huckaby in Alexander, Illinois. Jennie writes that she envies Louie's work in a milliner's shop ("let's both learn [the trade] then we can set up a shop together"),that she hopes to be well enough to return home to Iowa soon, and of her "cherished wish" to go to California. She concludes that there "is nothing going on here except a negro excursion to Chicago."
mssHM 76737-76747