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Mather family collection
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Sermons and notes
Manuscripts
Collection of letters and manuscripts of Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather. The collection incorporates various items acquired between 1905 and 1927 and has been assembled at the Library. The collection includes two manuscripts of Richard Mather: "An exhortation to our Countrymen of Lancashire, by Richard Mather and William Thompson," and 64th and 65th lectures. Increase Mather's manuscripts include a notebook containing observations on the matter of Henry Palmer and the church in Haverhill, Massachusetts, "An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences,” a fragment of a sermon, and an address "To the Inhabitants of Boston at their Publick Meeting," signed by Cotton Mather and Benjamin Colman. Cotton Mather's manuscripts include his sermon and notes for a sermon, a list of marriages performed, and a presentation inscription to Ebenezer Bradshaw and George Hughes, apparently cut out from the flyleaf of a volume. There are Increase and Cotton Mather's letters to Sir William Ashurst, treasurer and governor of the New England Company, the chartered company that established the Massachusetts Bay colony. There are also five letters by Increase Mather, 1712 to 1718 and 14 letters by Cotton Mather, 1712 to 1718.
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Correspondence and manuscripts
Manuscripts
Collection of letters and manuscripts of Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather. The collection incorporates various items acquired between 1905 and 1927 and has been assembled at the Library. The collection includes two manuscripts of Richard Mather: "An exhortation to our Countrymen of Lancashire, by Richard Mather and William Thompson," and 64th and 65th lectures. Increase Mather's manuscripts include a notebook containing observations on the matter of Henry Palmer and the church in Haverhill, Massachusetts, "An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences,” a fragment of a sermon, and an address "To the Inhabitants of Boston at their Publick Meeting," signed by Cotton Mather and Benjamin Colman. Cotton Mather's manuscripts include his sermon and notes for a sermon, a list of marriages performed, and a presentation inscription to Ebenezer Bradshaw and George Hughes, apparently cut out from the flyleaf of a volume. There are Increase and Cotton Mather's letters to Sir William Ashurst, treasurer and governor of the New England Company, the chartered company that established the Massachusetts Bay colony. There are also five letters by Increase Mather, 1712 to 1718 and 14 letters by Cotton Mather, 1712 to 1718.
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Pack horses in a snowy Mather Pass, Sierra Nevada, 1932
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Pack horses in a snowy Mather Pass. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "The Pack train, Mather Pass, waiting for snow to be cleared. 1932. 'High Sierra.'"
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Allicocke family volumes
Manuscripts
Allicocke, John, 1658-1713. Personal account book itemizing family expenses, including: curing his sons of smallpox, schooling and his son's expenses at Oxford, boots and shoes, a hunting jacket, wages to servants, charwomen, grooms, mowers, haymakers, etc. Full contemporary vellum binding in good condition but pages are loose, please handle carefully; 70 pages, 1699-1712. HM 82446.
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Mathers, A. C. 1 letter to Louise A. Mathers and Anna Mathers
Manuscripts
The collection is composed entirely of correspondence between various members of the Mathers family. The bulk of the collection consists of letters between Harry and his mother, A.C. Mathers, and his wife, Nettie Mathers. Harry's letters reflect his experiences working as a surveyor in the railroad and mining industries in California and northern Mexico during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Correspondence between A.C.Mathers, Harry Mathers, and Nettie Mathers also discusses the personal details of the Mathers' family life, especially Harry and Nettie's children. The collection also includes some letters between A.C., Harry, and Nettie and the couple's sons, Donald, Frank, and Paul Mathers. There are also a few letters between Nettie and her parents, C. Dibble and C. A. Dibble, as well as a few from her siblings, Ethel, Karl, Katie, and "Stell." The collection's 134 letters are arranged in folders alphabetically by author and then by addressee. Within each folder, letters are sorted chronologically. The last folder contains empty envelopes that could not be matched to letters in the collection.
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Brigitte and Harry Spiro autograph collection
Manuscripts
Including letter from Jack London to George Stirling (December 2, 1905), letter from Cotton Mather to Richard Henchman (ca. 1713), letter from Albert Einstein to Dr. Ludwig Silverstein (March 20, 1941), letter from Harry S. Truman to Leonard Lyons (December 20, 1955), signed document from Queen Isabella of Spain requesting jewels be sent to her daughter, Catherine of Aragon (May 28, 1501), signed document from Queen Isabella of Spain regarding altercloths, two letters from Katherine Mansfield to sisters "Chaddie" and Jean ([August?] 21 and [July?] 30, 1921) with 2 photographs and 2 letters from Marion Ruddick to Dr. Arnold Whitredge (February 9 & 23, 1949), letter from Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell (October 18, 1938), signed letter from Czar Nicholas II regarding the Spanish-American War (1898), and an archive of 41 letters from Albert Schweitzer to Dr. Bonema (November 26, 1931-May 4, 1934). Box 2 includes a binder of facsimiles of the collection.
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