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Dorothea Moore letters

Description: The collection consists of letters from Dorothea Moore to her first husband, Charles Fletcher Lummis. They describe the life of a woman in medical college in the 1880s and bring out a little-known period in the life of Charles Fletcher Lummis.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1883-1884
Call number: mssMoored
Creator: Moore, Dorothea (1860?-1942)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Ronald Woodlin, August 1974.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

1884

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters from Dorothea Moore to her first husband, Charles Fletcher Lummis. They describe the life of a woman in medical college in the 1880s and bring out a little-known period in the life of Charles Fletcher Lummis.

HM 40140-40187

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1883

Manuscripts

HM 40104-40139

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Mary Austin letters to Dorothea Lummis Moore

Manuscripts

These three letters are written from Mary Austin in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Dorothea (Rhodes) Lummis Moore. The letters discuss mutual friends, Austin's writing, and reading, and are dated September 23, 1930 (HM 45149); November 28, 1932 (HM 45150); and December 12, 1932 (HM 45151). Among the topics mentioned are D.H. Lawrence, Ida Tarbell's list of fifty famous women, Austin's autobiography, and Austin's effort to get a Guggenheim fellowship to work on an Indian art book.

mssHM 45149-45151

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Charles L. Moore correspondence

Manuscripts

These letters by Charles L. Moore, which were written to his cousin Edmund H. Tindall in Illinois, include details about Moore's life on a farm in Compton, California. He talks about the weather, his family's crops, gold miners in Mammoth, and his personal life and social activities. Two of the letters were written by Moore's sister Jennie.

mssHM 68395-68405

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William Moore Papers

Manuscripts

This collection contains the papers of William Moore (born 1827), an early settler and surveyor in Los Angeles, California, in the following series: manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, ephemera, and oversize. The manuscripts include Moore's daily diaries as well as his field books. The diaries contain short entries reflecting his business activities. The field books contain sketches and calculations of his various surveying projects. The small series of correspondence includes letters from friends written to Moore and his wife. The correspondence also includes one letter from Moore to his wife about his discovery of gold during a mining expedition in 1878. The legal documents include contracts, deeds, indentures, leases, and promissory notes. The two oversize ledgers include notes and drawings of Moore's various surveying projects.

mssMoore, William papers

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Julia Moore indictment

Manuscripts

This indictment is a charge of murder against Julia Moore, of Nevada County, California, who caused the death of a pregnant woman named Lucy E. Nuttall. The accusation is as follows: "[Moore] did feloniously, unlawfully and of her malice aforethought make a violent assault...and there did violently, wound, bruise and ill treat, and a certain instrument made of silver or other metal, and in the shape and form of a hook, the said Julia Moore, the said instrument up and into the womb and body of the said Lucy E. Nuttall...to cause and procure the said Lucy E. Nuttall to miscarry, abort and bring forth the said child." Both the baby and Lucy E. Nuttall died.

mssHM 68279

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