Manuscripts

Seabreezes

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Description: This volume is a handwritten juvenile magazine that was written and edited by an anonymous English child and named for the uplifting effects of a sea breeze. There are thirteen issues in this single volume. Each issue contains poetry, puzzles, and laid-in illustrations, both original and printed, and discusses topics such as natural history, geography, world history, and queries from the readers. There is an alphabetical index with some of the names of the contributors.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1884 September 22-December 12.
Call number: mssHM 84498
Provenance: Purchased from Jarndyce Antiquarian Bookseller, March 2025.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Our own magazine

Manuscripts

The two volumes contain thirty issues of a handwritten magazine created by the Orr siblings. The issues contain drawings, watercolors, serialized stories, poems, short stories, educational pieces, puzzles, readers correspondence, and editorials. Besides the Orr siblings, there were numerous other young contributors, some of whom are listed in the volumes.

mssHM 84499

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English song book

Manuscripts

An anonymous compilation of about sixty songs, without musical notation, including love songs, sea songs, drinking songs, parodies (on Chevy Chase, and on Hamlet's soliloquy beginning "To dance or not to dance," written in an Oxford ballroom), and others. A Table of Contents is given at the front of the volume. There are many blank pages.

mssHM 69649

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Letters to Emily Gertrude Thomson

Manuscripts

Volume includes letters, postcard and letter cards written from Eastbourne and Christ Church, Oxford, England; many letters with envelopes. Also includes a pen and ink drawing of Alice for the book Original Games and Puzzles.

mssHM 35977-36018

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mssHM 74525-74540

Manuscripts

This material includes three manuscripts and thirteen letters; one manuscript is a lullaby by Aurelia Dora Howells, and one is by William Cooper Howells, "Memoranda of My Personal History," which was the basis for his volume Recollections of Life in Ohio. The thirteen letters include a letter by Vevie Frechette, letters by Joseph Howells, William Dean Howells' uncle, letters by Mildred Howells, William Dean Howells' daughter, a letter by William Cooper Howells, and two letters by William Dean Howells.

mssHM 74525-74540

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Howells Family Papers

Manuscripts

This material includes three manuscripts and thirteen letters of the Howells family; one manuscript is a lullaby by Aurelia Dora Howells, and one is by William Cooper Howells, "Memoranda of My Personal History," which was the basis for his volume Recollections of Life in Ohio. The thirteen letters include a letter by Vevie Frechette, letters by Joseph Howells, William Dean Howells' uncle, letters by Mildred Howells, William Dean Howells' daughter, a letter by William Cooper Howells, and two letters by William Dean Howells.

mssHM 74525-74540

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Reginae Eloquentiae Dotes Exerciations Oratoriae : De Phyisognomia : De Sphaera articiali

Manuscripts

A Jesuit educational manuscript combining extensive treatises on rhetoric and geography with a shorter consideration of physiognomy. Though anonymous, a colophon describes the work as having been translated (or transcribed) from his "Eruditissimo Preoeceptore Gardemeau." It is closely written in a single, minute, but neat hand, and contains engraved frontispieces to the three parts depicting Christ, Saint Joseph and Saint Agnes; each frontispiece has the imprint of Parisian engraver and printseller Jacques Honervogt, as well as one unsigned plate depicting the Annunciation. The short treatise on physiognomy outlines the principles of the science of understanding the soul through the physical features of the face. "De Sphaera articiali" includes descriptions and maps of the continents, Asia, Africa and the Americas, while a stub suggests the map of Europe has been removed. The volume has very minor worming to the lower portions of a few leaves and some damage to the spine; covers are contemporary yellow tawed sheep with partially intact ties, with a later paper spine label.

mssHM 83316

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