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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
A collection of 9,601 items from 1786 to 1973, which consists of professional and personal material related to Edwin Francis Gay's life and multifaceted career. The collection documents his career in the civil service, at Harvard University, the New York Evening Post, and the Huntington Library; there are also some papers related to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Subjects include European economic recovery after World War I; international economic relations after World War II; United States business; and Gay's voluminous research notes on European and American economic history. Also included are Gay's notes on the Temple family papers in the Stowe collection at the Huntington Library and correspondence and papers relative to Herbert Heaton's book Scholar in action : Edwin Francis Gay (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1952). The collection also includes business, family and personal correspondence, documents, genealogy, printed material, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. Also present is Woodrow Wilson telegram to Edwin Francis Gay, 1919 September 17 (GY 3292) in Box 124.
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The collection contains correspondence, documents, minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs, poetry, and printed materials pertaining to the Llano del Rio Colony and its successor, Newllano. Subjects represented throughout the collection as a whole include the Llano and Newllano colonies, socialism in the United States, socialist societies, Job Harriman, Morris Hillquit (1869-1933), George T. Pickett (1876-1959) and Sidney Young.
mssLlano del Rio
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The collection consists of letters, and some verses, written by Walter Savage Landor, most of which are to John Forster, from 1838 to 1858. There is one letter by John Forster, 1866 November 5; four letters by Landor’s Australian cousin, lawyer and writer Edward Wilson Landor, from 1867 to 1870; and a letter by English publisher Frederic Chapman to John Forster, 1869 May 7. There are also two folders with photographs and newspaper clippings.
mssHM 27238-27328
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The letters from Robert H. Williams to his parents and fiancée Elizabeth Goff contain detailed accounts of duty at Muddy Branch, Maryland; military operations at Berryville Pike, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and expeditions to Danville and Petersburg, Virginia; camp life, promotions; discussion of war politics and commanding officers, especially Philip Henry Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman; and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The collection also contains a letter to Robert H. Williams from his father regarding the Pike's Peak gold rush, a letter to him from Elizabeth Goff, and a letter from his brother Richard describing Tennessee at the end of the war. James M. Goff's letters to his father and younger brother Oscar in Delavan, Wisconsin describe camp life, the march from Kentucky to Tennessee, and life in Libby prison. There is also one photograph album, loose photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.
mssHM 28864-28884
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The collection is single-item cataloged and contains 759 items including 92 manuscripts. Most of the manuscripts are documents regarding the advertising, circulation, and financial concerns of The Los Angeles record, The San Diego sun, and The San Francisco daily news from the early 1910s. The other substantial manuscripts are diaries of Adaline Rhoads and Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads detailing the social life and customs of late-19th century Indiana and early-20th century Southern California. Adaline Rhoads wrote about her daily chores, the activities of her children and her travels. Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads also details his attempts to mend his health through exercise, various diets, bathing in magnetic wells and two visits to the Battle Creek Sanitarium in the late 1890s. Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads also detailed the family's journey from Anderson, Indiana to San Diego, California and their later move to La Jolla, California. The collection contains 102 pieces of correspondence, the majority of which are addressed to Horace Emerson Rhoads regarding the newspaper business. There are also a significant number of letters from Horace Emerson Rhoads regarding the newspaper business and the San Diego Athletic Club. There are letters concerning San Diego and California politics, including three letters regarding the purchase of an airplane for the governor of California. Rhoads received letters on the subject of honorary membership in the Los Angeles Record Newsboys' Club. The collection also contains letters regarding participation in La Jolla events and politics.
mssHM 70519-70711