Manuscripts

Collection of early twentieth century envelopes

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Description: Envelopes addressed to Mrs. C.J. Beeson and Mrs. Laura Porter, both of Pasadena, CA; and others.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1919-1922.
Call number: mssHM 84512
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of December 2022.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

[Prose and poetry, late 15th/early 16th century]

Manuscripts

Poems and prose by William Lichfield, John Lydgate, Geoffrey Chaucer and others. Also includes the Gospel of Nicodemus, excerpts from John Trevisa's translation of Higden's Polychronicon and a medical recipe.

mssHM 144

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Berthold Auerbach collection

Manuscripts

This collection includes letters and notes to Scribner & Co., written from Berlin, Germany, with stamped and addressed envelopes; the collection also includes "Adam und Eva auf den landwirth..." printed proof sheets with autograph notes by Auerbach and others.

mssAuerbach

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James Wolfe collection of letters, autographs, and drawings

Manuscripts

Letters, manuscripts, autographs, drawings, and prints related to James Wolfe, collected for their autograph value. Most of the letters are addressed to Wolfe's mother and concern's his effects and papers. The correspondents include Thomas Bell, Wolfe's aide-de-camp; Welbore Ellis, the 1st Baron of Mednip; Philip Hardel, a London goldsmith; Thomas Fisher, an executor of Wolfe's estate; William Pitt, the Elder, , and Samuel Francis Swinden, Wolfe's tutor, George Warde and Charles Warde. Also included are letters from Mrs. Wolfe to Wolfe's friend William Weston (1740, Dec. 16); Lord Shelbourne to Wolfe (1758, January); Wolfe's fiancee, Katherine Lowther to Mrs. Wolfe (1759, Oct. 25), and a note, in the hand of Thomas Bell, written at Montmorenci instructing "Major Dalling to come to Headquarters with both the captured women").

mssHM 9667-9695

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19th- and early 20th-century scripts and scores

Manuscripts

This collection contains the records of the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater established in Pasadena, California, in 1917. Materials consist primarily of theater programs, scrapbooks, business records, correspondence, clippings, scripts, school catalogues, brochures and ephemera, indexes, photographs, original drawings of set and costume designs, and research materials originally housed in the organization's library. The materials document the performance history of the various theaters of the Playhouse and also contain partial administrative records and school records, with particular strength in coverage for the "Mainstage" theater and an extensive run of programs and performance photographs. The core records are strengthened by the complementary personal paper collections of directors, performers, and others associated with the Playhouse.

mssPlayhouse

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Pasadena. Raymond Hotel. 1200 South Fair Oaks. Front of Raymond Hotel showing very early twentieth-century automobiles

Visual Materials

The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.

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Edmund Clarence Stedman collection

Manuscripts

Collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, poems and ephemera related to Edmund Clarence Stedman. The manuscripts include a review of Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas (1896); the poems include "Madrigal," "Souvenir de Jeunesse," and "Custer." The correspondence includes letters from, among others, Frances Allitsen, William Henry Babcock, Ambrose Bierce, James Gowdy Clark, Albert Stanburrough Cook, Robert Lowell, John Williamson Palmer, Whitelaw Reid, James Ryder Randall, John Jerome Rooney, and Frank Dempster Sherman; some of the letters are addressed to Laura Hyde Woodworth Stedman. The ephemera includes a group of dinner place cards with the signatures of the guests on the versos and a photographic print of Richard Grant White.

mssStedman

Collection of early twentieth century envelopes

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