Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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
Visual Materials
Portrait of Susan B. Anothony, seated, left profile, a book in her lap.
photCL 323 vol. 1 (7)
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Manuscripts
The collections consist primarily of letters from various American and British authors to James Fields, mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic monthly. The collection, and especially the addenda, also includes letters to Annie Fields concerning literary matters. There are also poems, manuscripts, and correspondence by and about the following individuals: Thomas Aldrich, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jessie Benton Frémont, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (better known by her pen name Grace Greenwood), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helena Modjeska, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. The collection also contains essays, notes, speeches, notebooks, photographs, and articles. The collections chiefly deal with the activities of Ticknor and Fields, as well as Fields' and his wife's own literary efforts. The following authors are subjects in the collections: Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Milton and Percy Shelley. Presidential items in this collection include John Adams autograph bill for legal services to Thomas Pratt, 1767 October 14 (mssFI 5102) and two autograph letters signed from William H. Taft to Annie Adams Fields, 1914 February? and 1914 March 10 (mssFI 4098, mssFI 4099).
mssFI
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Manuscripts
A collection of poems and correspondence related to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The autograph poems by Emerson include: "Fate," "To Rhea," "The Visit," "Astraea," "Berrying," "Merlin," and "Uriel." The poems are written on the same type of paper which was removed from an album. The correspondence includes letters written by Emerson and letters addressed to him. Correspondents include Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, John Sullivan Dwight, Edward Waldo Emerson, Frederic Rowland Marvin, Henry David Thoreau, and Edwin Percy Whipple.
mssEmersonrw
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Manuscripts
A collection of poems and correspondence related to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The autograph poems by Emerson include: "Fate," "To Rhea," "The Visit," "Astraea," "Berrying," "Merlin," and "Uriel." The poems are written on the same type of paper which was removed from an album. The correspondence includes letters written by Emerson and letters addressed to him. Correspondents include Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, John Sullivan Dwight, Edward Waldo Emerson, Frederic Rowland Marvin, Henry David Thoreau, and Edwin Percy Whipple.
mssEmersonrw
Manuscripts
Black and white portrait style photograph of Harrison Gray Otis, seated, profile and bust length view, with gray suit, wing collar and dark tie, oval brooch on tie knot. Tear near left center of photograph. Fold line near bottom left corner.
mssLAT 000017
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Rare Books
This collection contains 324 booklets from the Little Blue Book and related series published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The collection includes booklets dating from 1921 to 1943, with the bulk dating from the 1920s. The titles in the collection range from reprints of literary classics by authors such as ancient Greek tragedians, William Shakespeare, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to contemporary writings by geologist Carroll Lane Fenton, historian Will Durant. More than 150 authors are represented and the booklets often focus on topics such as free thought, philosophy, religion, evolution, natural history, biographies of scientists and historical figures, and guides and essays about philosophers and authors. The booklets are primarily identified as part of the "Little Blue Book" series on the front cover, but there are some titles from the Five cent pocket series; the Ten Cent pocket series; the Appeal pocket series; and the Pocket series.
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