Manuscripts
Memorandum books of John Brown
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Account book of Brig John Freeman
Manuscripts
This account book contains the expenses of building and outfitting the ship, a list of the owners with their shares, recorded receipts and expenditures, and dividends paid to the owners. In the volume is a letter (1865, March 10) regarding payment of dividends to the ship's owners.
mssHM 74898
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John Brown Collection
Visual Materials
A collection of photographs, prints and ephemera pertaining to abolitionist John Brown and his family. Images include portraits of Brown, his family members, supporters and other abolitionists; participants in the raid on Harper's Ferry and officials involved in Brown's trial; views of Harper's Ferry and buildings related to the raid; and views of Brown's grave and home in New York. There are also several views of Jason and Owen Brown's Las Casitas homestead in the mountains near Pasadena, California, and a scene of mourners gathered at Owen Brown's grave. The collection was compiled by Horatio Nelson Rust (1828-1906), who was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, and became a friend and supporter of John Brown. He also helped raise funds for Brown's family after John Brown's death, and was a friend to Brown's children Ruth, Jason and Owen, who moved to the Pasadena area in the 1880s. Rust was an early Pasadena resident and booster, as well as a U.S. Indian agent, collector of archeological artifacts and horticulturist.
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Cardella E. Brown letterpress copybook and autograph albums
Manuscripts
Three volumes belonging to Cardella E. Brown. The first is a letterpress copybook containing approximately 100 outgoing personal letters Brown wrote from 1859 to 1861 while he was living in Hartford, Connecticut and working as a clerk at Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company. The letters are addressed to Brown's parents, siblings, a cousin, and other family members and friends. The detailed and candid letters are written in a conversational tone devoid of usual epistolary formalities. The letters comment on a wide range of topics, including Brown's personal life and sexuality, goings on in Hartford, and state and national politics of the 1860 election year. He talks in detail about Stephen A. Douglass, the anticipated secession of South Carolina, the Buchanan administration, and the hanging of John Brown.
mssHM 83477-83479
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Moore & Bixby wool book
Manuscripts
Book containing the annual sheep shearings of Moore & Bixby, from San Justo Rancho and Saca Ranch in San Benito County, California. With notes about amounts gathered, sold, prices, and contitions of the wool. The volume is mostly blank.
mssHM 84343
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Frank Mason Brown diary
Manuscripts
Eighteen pages of the volume are Brown's diary entries for June 19 to July 6. He describes the group's activities as they made their way down the Colorado River, starting at Cataract Canyon and ending at Marble Canyon. Brown details their progress down the river and the scenery around them. He describes the Dirty Devil River, Glen Canyon, the San Juan River, and the Grand Canyon; he briefly mentions Robert Brewster Stanton. The other seventeen pages are notes Brown made regarding the natural resources (timber, petroleum, minerals, coal) of the Colorado River region.
mssHM 64276
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning notebook
Manuscripts
Notebook contains copies of manuscript poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Poems are in the handwriting of Henrietta Barrett.
mssHM 4932