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Neeta Marquis papers
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Neeta Marquis papers
Manuscripts
The collection is chiefly comprised of personal and business correspondence of author Neeta Marquis; there is also correspondence between her parents while her father was in the Union Army during the American Civil War as well as his early letters from California. There are also photographs, ephemera, newspaper clippings, printed items related to literary societies, poems, manuscripts, notes, and scrapbooks and datebooks belonging to Neeta Marquis. The majority of the collection documents Neeta Marquis' literary career, but other subjects that can be found are the American Civil War; Lincoln's assassination; gold miners in California and early California history and American western-themed stories by Marquis and other authors. Correspondents represented in the collection include several notable individuals and authors: Louis Adamic, Hartley Burr Alexander, Reginald Barker, Earl Derr Biggers, Don Blanding, Bliss Carman, Stephen Chalmers, Robert Glass Cleland, Upton Close, Sam T. Clover, Thomas Y. Crowell, Homer Croy, Robert H. Davis, Estelle Doheny, John Foster Dulles, John Chipman Farrar, Hildegarde Flanner, Hermann Hagedorn, W.D. Hoffman, Margaret Hosmer, Rupert Hughes, Joseph Henry Jackson, George Wharton James, Will James, Helen Keller, Charles Fletcher Lummis, John Russell McCarthy, John Steven McGroarty, Seumas MacManus, Carey McWilliams, H.L. Mencken, Bailey Millard, Anne Shannon Monroe, Dorothea Moore, Ted Olson, Dorothy Parker, Lawrence Clark Powell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Hazel Snell Schreiber, Norma Shearer, Upton Sinclair, Charles A. Siringo, Pauline Stiles, Harriet Williams Russell Strong, Jim Tully, Sir Hugh Walpole, and Louise Ward Watkins. Additional correspondents include American Literary Association, Automobile Club of Southern California, Book Club of California, California Federation of Women's Clubs, California Temperance Federation, Arthur H. Clark Company, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Los Angeles Times, Macmillan Company, Poetry Society of America, Saturday Evening Post, and Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers.
mssMarquis
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Jennifer Lorson collection of Don Marquis materials
Manuscripts
This small group of material consists of a biography, a book jacket, an autograph inscription, and an interview with Marquis and dates from 1921-1988. HM 83911 (a): The biography, possibly unpublished, is related to a journalist's visit to Marquis in the 1930s. HM 83911 (b): A book jacket for Archy and Mehitabel published in 1933. HM 83911 (c): The inscription for best wishes is addressed to F.W. Skiff and dated December 1921. HM 83911 (d): The interview with Marquis was conducted by Don H. Kennedy, who failed to take any notes during the interview in June 1931. At the conclusion of the interview, Marquis sat down at his typewriter and typed out two pages of questions and answers to aid Kennedy. Included with the manuscript is a typewritten letter signed by Kennedy recounting his interview with Marquis, as well as a photocopy of a letter Marquis wrote him on July 3, 1931, after the interview was published.
mssHM 83911 (a-d)
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Matthew Gilbert Upton papers
Manuscripts
Letters and articles by Matthew Gilbert Upton of San Francisco, California. Includes some material related to the Customhouse in San Francisco.
mssHM 19271-19292
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Petition to Marquis de Villagarcía, Viceroy of Peru
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Two-page request written by Luis Godin (1704-1760) to José Antonio de Mendoza, Marquis de Villagarcia (1666?-1745) , Viceroy of Peru, concerning confirmation of the terms of Godin's employment as a professor of mathematics and cosmology, and seven pages of supporting documentation. The document notes that this position had become available upon the death of its prior holder, Pedro de Peralta (1663-1743). Pages include signatures and marginalia.
mssHM 81071
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La requeste du Sieur Marquis de Bonniuet, presentée au serenissime Roy de la grand' Bretaigne
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The Marquis de Bonnivet was implicated in the murder of Henry IV and compelled to leave France. He sought refuge in England and requested the King's aid in investigating the matter.
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An excellent ballad, of the noble marquis and patient Grissel. To the tune of, The bride's good morrow
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ESTC T33701 ; Date of publication and publisher's name suggested by cataloger. ; Attributed to Thomas Deloney.;Based on book 10, novel 10 of the 'Decamerone' by Giovanni Boccaccio. ; Verse - "A noble marquis".;Printed in five columns with the woodcut and title above the first two each column, except the third and fourth, are separated by lines of ornamental type.
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