Manuscripts
Original vellum bindings
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Correspondence, documents, and original bindings
Manuscripts
The material consists of letters, reports, and documents related to the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro in Peru in the years 1544 to 1548, and is mainly related to Pizarro and Pedro de la Gasca. The material is in Spanish and was created between 1537 and 1580. The material was originally bound into two volumes and was disbound after it was acquired by the Huntington Library; the original vellum bindings were retained and are housed in box 21.
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Original album bindings
Visual Materials
Very large leather album with brass bindings. Empty pages inside, with cut-outs where photographs were once inserted. Some handwriting in pencil on pages.
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[Prewitt, Thomas]? "The Chief Retires…:" [short story?], MS. (typewritten: 19 p.), ([1935?])
Manuscripts
Incomplete. With extensive water and insect damage, with some loss of text; pages very fragile -- please handle carefully.
HM 71498
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Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Goodrich. 1 letter to James Duff Akins, 1908-, L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1961, June 21), Washington (D.C.)
Manuscripts
Signed by: Herbert A. Fierst. With extensive water damage, with some loss of text; pages very fragile -- please handle carefully and do not remove from mylar.
HM 71502
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Prewitt, Thomas. "Unrecorded Notoriety:" [novel: later draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 37 p.), ([1935])
Manuscripts
Incomplete; with autograph corrections by Zoë Akins (in pencil). With extensive water damage, with some loss of text; pages very fragile -- please handle carefully and do not remove from mylar.
HM 71500
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Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Goodrich. 2 letters to Hastings & Lasker, (1961), Washington (D.C.)
Manuscripts
Addressed to: Ross R. Hastings; signed by: Herbert A. Fierst. With extensive water damage, with some loss of text; pages very fragile -- please handle carefully and do not remove from mylar.
HM 71503-71504