Manuscripts

Collection of palm-leaf manuscripts

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Description: Five palm-leaf manuscripts, most likely from India and Sri Lanka. Includes at least one copy of the Mahabharata.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1800-1900.
Call number: mssPalm
Provenance: Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, October 1992.
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Indian palm-leaf manuscript

Manuscripts

Manuscript written in Tamil on palm leaves. The subject of the text is unidentified.

mssHM 84333

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A modern copy of a medieval Ola by Ceylon (Sri Lanka) artists. The covers are of Jak wood, painted by an artist connected with one of the Buddhist monasteries; the carved ivory button is by a well-known native engraver and the cord was made by a neophyte. The writing on the prepared leaves of the Talipot Palm was done by a scribe in another monastery.

mssHM 68488

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Bible leaf

Manuscripts

One leaf from a 13th century copy of the Bible. It contains the text of Deuteronomy 13.

mssHM 1178

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Airplane at Palm Springs and Alexander Milton Ross copy photographs

Visual Materials

Consists of three photographs. One copy print is an EHM photo of the front end of an American Airlines - DC 2 at Palm Springs prior to the establishment of the Palm Springs Airport. Two are identical copy print portraits of Alexander W. Ross. Both prints are also signed and dated 1982.

photPF 1350-1359

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Miscellaneous envelopes from Woolf to Sydney-Turner

Manuscripts

The collection consists primarily of letters from Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, a college roommate and friend. Thirty-eight letters date from Woolf's college days at Cambridge, twenty-two are from the period when Woolf served as a civil servant in Sri Lanka, and four letters date from the period after his return to England in 1911. One letter was written from Spain during his honeymoon with Virginia. Although most of the letters do not concern literary matters, there are two poems by Woolf in the collection: "2:30 A.M." and "To Ponamma."

HM Miscellaneous Folder 2.

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Leonard Sidney Woolf note to Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner

Manuscripts

HM 42181.

Collection of palm-leaf manuscripts

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