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  Ethel M. and Marian J. Mazynski papers

  Manuscripts

  The collection consists of the four-volume autobiography of Ethel Mary Mazynski and two shorter autobiographical manuscripts by her; two typescript diaries describing the Mazynskis' trip to the United States and their ensuing cross-country journey; assorted military, career, and family records; correspondence with Robert F. Karolevitz and Ross S. Fenn regarding the Kosciuszko Squadron and the book Flight of Eagles : The Story of the American Kosćiuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War 1919-1920 / Robert F. Karolevitz and Ross S. Fenn (Sioux Falls, S.D. : Brevet Press, 1974); and photographs and ephemera.

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  Records, correspondence, ephemera

  Manuscripts

  The collection consists of the four-volume autobiography of Ethel Mazynski and two shorter autobiographical manuscripts by her; two typescript diaries describing the Mazynskis' trip to the United States and their ensuing cross-country journey; assorted military, career, and family records; correspondence with Robert F. Karolevitz and Ross S. Fenn regarding the Kosciuszko Squadron and the book Flight of Eagles : The Story of the American Kosćiuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War 1919-1920 / Robert F. Karolevitz and Ross S. Fenn (Sioux Falls, S.D. : Brevet Press, 1974); and photographs and ephemera.

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  Glossed Gospel of Mark : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 2-88. Latin. Glossed. On f. 88v, a collect to Mark; on f. 89, near-contemporary notes in light plummet; on f. 89v, miscellaneous added notes, s. XIII, pertaining to the biblical text; on . f. 90, added s. XIV: twelve lines of a hymn accompanied by neumes on four-line red staves: "[E]xpurgetur zima vetus, reprobetur meta metus ..." mentioning the English saints Thomas, Edmund, Edward, Alphege, and Alban.

  mssHM 55670

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  Manuscripts

  Manuscripts

  The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera, the majority written by Evelyn Waugh and related to his later works. The manuscripts include Decline and fall, Ninety-Two days, and material related to Basil Seal rides again, A Little learning and The Loved one. The majority of the correspondence is with Chapman and Hall, is business-related and covers the years 1961-1968; other business correspondents include A.D. Peters, Associated Book Publishers Ltd, Methuen & Co., and Penguin. Other correspondents in the collection include: Robert Murray Davis, Anne Adelaide Ford, Hugh Heckstall-Smith, James G. Hepburn, Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, Sir Victor Mallet, Alfred Robert McIntyre, Howard Irwin Ross, Christopher Sykes, Arthur Waugh, Laura Waugh and Joel Wells. The ephemera includes Inter-Office business correspondence, compact disks, clippings, photographs, including an original Carl Van Vechten photograph, printed material and original storage boxes; the oversize folder contains one LP phonograph record.

  mssEW 1-322

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  Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Ephemera

  Manuscripts

  The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, printed material and ephemera all related to astronomer Francis Gladheim Pease, his astronomy work, and the telescopes he designed. There are 13 letters by George Ellery Hale as well as a copy of an offprint of "Building the 200-Inch Telescope" by Hale (originally published in Harper's Magazine, November 1929). There is an offprint of "The Spectra of Four of the Temporary Stars" written by Pease and Walter S. Adams (published in Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory No. 87 in 1914). The correspondence includes several prominent individuals including: Giorgio Abetti, Walter S. Adams, John A. Anderson, Andrew Carnegie (typed copy), Edward H. Davis, Elmer Grey, George Ellery Hale, Fred E. Harvey, Herbert E. Ives, Thornwell Jacobs, George Wharton James, Helen Keller (photocopy of letter), Albert A. Michelson, Robert A. Millikan, James R. Page, F. E. Wright, and the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. There is also one letter addressed to Thomas Edison. The manuscripts include several items by F. G. Pease including a "Figuring Book" which contains his work on various telescopes and contains blueprints and a manuscript entitled "Notes on a 25-Foot Reflector."

  mssPease addenda

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  Manuscripts

  Manuscripts

  The collection contains source material about Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893) which was gathered by Laurence R. Cook and later by Andrew F. Rolle. It contains original manuscripts which date from 1940-1983 (mainly student theses), correspondence (1951-1983), notes, copies of other materials, audiotapes, photographs, and microfilm. Subjects represented in the collection include: Beale's role in the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army Camel Corps, Decatur House (Washington, D.C.), exploration of the Southwest and establishment of roads, Tejón Ranch, Fort Tejón, cattleman Henry Miller, and George R. Gliddon. There are also two negatives of a photograph of Navy Admiral David Dixon Porter. There is also a microfilm copy of correspondence by Stephen Mallory White, as well as letters from Beale to James K. Polk and John M. Clayton. There are also letters that came from the Robert Todd Lincoln collection of the papers of Abraham Lincoln and a letterbook kept by Robert F. Stockton.

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