Manuscripts

Manuscripts, letters

Description: A collection of manuscripts and letters related to Helen Hunt Jackson. The autograph manuscripts include 21 poems and three prose works entitled: "Bits of Travel at Home," "One Woman and Sunshine," a draft of an article on Jeanne C. Smith Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, California, and "The Story of Clotilde Danarosch." The largest part of the correspondence is made up of Helen Hunt Jackson's letters to William Hayes Ward, the editor of the New York Independent. Also included are seventeen letters to Ray Palmer and his wife Ann Maria Waud Palmer; thirteen letters to Mary Elizabeth Fowler, the first government schoolteacher at Soboba in the San Jacinto Valley; four letters to Henry Chandler Bowen, the editor and proprietor of the Independent; four letters to Mrs. D. J. Whipple who ran a boarding house in San Diego and later Los Angeles; two letters to Richard Egan, a Los Angeles County supervisor; and two letters by William Sharpless Jackson and Charles C. Painter.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1852-1873

Helen Hunt Jackson collection of manuscripts and letters

Manuscripts

A collection of manuscripts and letters related to Helen Hunt Jackson. The autograph manuscripts include 21 poems and three prose works entitled: "Bits of Travel at Home," "One Woman and Sunshine," a draft of an article on Jeanne C. Smith Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, California, and "The Story of Clotilde Danarosch." The largest part of the correspondence is made up of Helen Hunt Jackson's letters to William Hayes Ward, the editor of the New York Independent. Also included are seventeen letters to Ray Palmer and his wife Ann Maria Waud Palmer; thirteen letters to Mary Elizabeth Fowler, the first government schoolteacher at Soboba in the San Jacinto Valley; four letters to Henry Chandler Bowen, the editor and proprietor of the Independent; four letters to Mrs. D. J. Whipple who ran a boarding house in San Diego and later Los Angeles; two letters to Richard Egan, a Los Angeles County supervisor; and two letters by William Sharpless Jackson and Charles C. Painter.

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The manuscripts include two complete copies of Pflueger's book New paradise lost as well as draft pages and notes for the novel. There are also papers and essays written by Helen in high school and later in life as well as copies of writings and poems by Helen and others. The diaries span the years 1911 to 1979. The diaries include daily entries with detailed information about Helens' daily activities: visits to friends, seamstress work, trips taken, etc. She also talks a lot about her religious beliefs and her struggles to be a good Christian. The majority of correspondence is written by others to Helen but there are a few pieces of correspondence by her (retained copies). There are several letters to and from Rev. Gilbert P. Symons of the Forward Movement of the Episcopal Church and others dealing with her religious beliefs and search for a church to attend. There is also one letter by Edgar Bergen (1941, Apr. 15) in response to a letter Helen wrote to him and "Charlie." There are also a few letters regarding her book New paradise lost (1940). The ephemera includes a variety of material including account books, address books, bank statements, biographical information, financial papers, medical papers, calling cards, church bulletins, dress patterns, family estate papers (including a copy of Helen's will), greeting cards, newspaper clippings, photographs, school notebooks and a recipe book. Some of the newspaper clippings deal with Sierra Madre, California. There are also three rolled items: two diplomas from the Minneapolis School of Music (1919-1920) and a painting of Helen Pflueger.

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Manuscripts, Schoch – Poems

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Manuscripts and correspondence: Alma-Tadema - Charles Collins

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A collection of letters, most of which were written to William Holman Hunt. It includes letters from, among others, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Lear, Sir John Everett Millais, Edward Poynter, and William Blake Richmond. The collection also includes manuscripts and ephemera.

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The collection consists chiefly of letters to George Lundy Hunt from family and friends, with a few business letters, dating from 1864-1877. Subject matter includes life in Ontario, Canada, and in Victoria, British Columbia; history of the Cariboo Mining District of British Columbia; gold and copper mining in Calaveras County, California; and the Fenian Invasions of Canada from 1866-1870. Also included is Hunt's diary for the year 1867, when he was in the mining town of Campo Seco, California, and a few pieces of manuscript fragments, legal documents, and ephemera.

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