Manuscripts
Harriet Williams Russell Strong papers, (bulk 1860-1896)
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Collection of Russell-Strong family photographs
Visual Materials
A collection of 35 photographs and postcards of the family of Harriet Williams Russell Strong and her husband, Charles Lyman Strong. The collection contains photographs of family members including Harriet Strong, her daughters, a carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Strong's brother, Civil War General George Crockett Strong, and two photographs of his gravestone monument in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Some of the photographs of the Strongs were taken on the grounds of Ranchito Del Fuerte, the family ranch in Whittier, California, and there are also photographs and printed drawings of pampas grass, which they grew on the ranch. A studio portrait of Harriet Strong and her four daughters is reprinted in a newspaper clipping in the collection. Also includes cabinet card portraits of Civil War General Benjamin H. Grierson and his son First Lieutenant Charles H. Grierson. The studio portraits include imprints of E. & H.T. Anthony from a negative of Brady's National Portrait Gallery; N. H. Reed; Fitz W. Guerin; George Steckel; and Steckel Fults Studio. There is an ink drawing of a Ranchito del Fuerte window and bookshelf dated 1895 and signed "C.A. Meeks."
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Russell, Majors and Waddell records, (bulk 1838-1868)
Manuscripts
A collection of 508 items from 1838 to 1903, it consists of the business and legal records of Russell, Majors and Waddell. It includes material about freighting operations, the mercantile business, land transactions in Kansas and Missouri, and the Pony Express. The company also hauled supplies for the U. S. Army during the 1857 to 1858 Utah Expedition (Utah War). The material consists of business papers, documents, correspondence (both business and personal), bills, receipts and ephemera. Persons represented in the collection include: Robert B. Bradford, Charles Byers, Alexander Majors, William Hepburn Russell, John W. Waddell, Robert Fielding Waddell, and William Bradford Waddell.
mssRW
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A brief sketch of the lives of Henry Butler and Harriet B. Russell
Manuscripts
Short biography of Henry Butler and Harriet B. Russell, which traces the Mormon conversion of Butler's family and their journey from England to Utah. It also gives a brief account of Russell's family background and a history of the couple's life in Utah and Arizona, including their homebuilding, family life, and involvement in the Church.
mssHM 66490
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Strong, Harriet Williams Russell, 1844-1926 to James De Barth Shorb
Manuscripts
The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
mssShorb papers
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Harriet Hale Rix diaries
Manuscripts
The two diaries, which Harriet kept in 1882 and 1884, detail her life as a young single woman in San Francisco. She describes her social activities including parties, family camping trips, visits to the theater and her frequent trips to the library (she keeps lists of the books she reads in the back of the diaries); she also talks a lot about school and her family; she often mentions her sister Annie, who is away from home much of the time working as a teacher. Harriet often discusses the current political issues of the time including Chinese immigrants in California.
mssHM 66246-66247
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Elizabeth Mary Russell, Countess Russell Papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts, journals (scattered years between 1896-1941), journal typescripts, ephemera, and correspondence by Countess Russell. There is also correspondence addressed to Countess Russell in the collection, and manuscripts by Mathilde Blind (Love's completeness : a poem), E.M. Forster (Nassenheide), Geoffrey Kerr (A scenario), and Katherine Mansfield (Poems). 1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-3), are arranged alphabetically by author and title. The manuscripts cover a wide span of Elizabeth Russell's writing career beginning with plays she wrote in 1905 to amuse her children and including a prose piece she wrote in 1940 about traveling with a dog. Included in this series are: articles, book reviews, essays, plays, short stories, and travel accounts. The series also includes manuscripts by other authors, most notably, Augustine Birrell, Mathilde Blind, E.M. Forster, Geoffrey Kerr, Katherine Mansfield, and Amélie Rives. 2. Journals (Boxes 4-8), are arranged chronologically. The journals cover the years 1896-1899, 1901-1902, 1904, 1910, 1912-1916, 1918-1941. The journal volumes vary in length from just a few pages to several hundred pages; also, several of the volumes are only partially filled. 3. Journal Typescripts (Boxes 9-12), are arranged chronologically. The typescripts were typed at the request of Elizabeth von Arnim Butterworth in preparation for the biography of her mother, Countess Elizabeth Russell, Elizabeth of the German Garden, which she published in 1958 (written under the pseudonym, Leslie De Charms). The typescripts provide valuable assistance in reading the journals, especially when Elizabeth Russell's handwriting is difficult to decipher. Evidently, an original copy and at least two carbon copies were made at that time and the majority of the typescripts in the collection are carbon copies; the typescripts also contain many autograph notes made by Elizabeth von Arnim Butterworth. 4. Correspondence (Boxes 13-39), is arranged alphabetically by author. This series consists mainly of personal letters written by Elizabeth Russell, including letters to her daughters, Elizabeth von Arnim Butterworth (687 letters), Eva von Arnim-Schlagenthin (22 letters), Beatrix von Hirschberg (41 letters). This group includes letters to other family members and friends, including letters written to Marie Luise Backe (61 letters), Henry Herron Beauchamp (12 letters), Alexander Stewart Frere (237 letters), Katherine Mansfield (42 letters, copies and autograph), Maud Ritchie (87 letters), and Hugh Walpole (112 letters). This series also includes letters written by Sir Sydney Beauchamp, Sir Max Beerbohm, Poultney Bigelow, Augustine Birrell, E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, Odette Kuen, Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), Lady Constance Malleson, Katherine Mansfield, George Moore, John Middleton Murry, Bertrand Russell, John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl, George Santayana, Ethel Smyth, and H.G. Wells. 5. Ephemera (Box 40), is arranged alphabetically by title. The ephemera consists mainly of articles by and about Elizabeth Russell, articles about John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl, miscellaneous receipts, cards, and notes, and a large scrapbook of reviews of books by Elizabeth Russell (1898-1905). Strengths of the collection: This collection has several strong subject points for the purpose of research. Elizabeth Russell's journals, together with her personal letters, provide an almost complete portrait of her life, including her literary triumphs, love affairs, and personal tragedies. In her journals and letters she describes the life of the leisured upper class ladies (of whom she was one) and gentlemen in the years between the world wars in England and on the Continent. Though Elizabeth Russell was born in Australia she always considered herself thoroughly English and thus her writing provides a unique view of the many places she lived and visited, especially of Germany and the German people. The collection also contains many letters and manuscripts which describe life during World War I and the beginning years of World War II in France, England and the United States; there are also many references to Adolf Hitler, the Nazis, the treatment of the Jewish people, and the Battle of Britain. The collection does have areas of weakness; there is a lack of manuscript material for Elizabeth Russell's works, especially of material from the writing of her many published novels. We also know, from published accounts, Elizabeth Russell requested her daughter to destroy letters and material which were deemed to be of an embarrassing nature, thus an unknown amount of love letters and personal papers were burned in 1958.
mssER 1-1787