Manuscripts

William Hill letter to James Bateman, official of the South Sea Company, 1711 December 3

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Description: Letter from William Hill offering to sell a manuscript chart book of the South Sea (the west coast of South America) by William Hacke to the South Sea Company. Hill states that he purchased the South Sea waggoner, or Buccaneer's atlas from Hacke "about 18 yeares agoe" for 70 pounds sterling. The letter goes on to explain that Hill is currently confined to the Poultry Comptor for a debt of around 30 pounds sterling, and the proceeds from the sale of this rare atlas would help restore him to his home and family as well as be of benefit to the South Sea Company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1711 December 3
Call number: mssHM 20096
Creator: Hill, William(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased by George D. Smith from C. L. F. Robinson sale, Anderson Galleries, Lot 136, April 30, 1917, This letter accompanied the copy of Hacke's Buccaneer's atlas which was acquired by the Huntington in the C. L. F. Robinson sale, Anderson Galleries in 1917. The atlas has been cataloged separately, see mssHM 265.
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Dimensions: 29 cm
Associated people: Bateman, James
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Buccaneer's atlas : approximately 1684

Manuscripts

The atlas also known as "The Great South Sea of America," as well as the "South Sea waggoner" contains a description of the sea coasts in the South Sea of America from the port of Acapulco to the Le Maire Straits. The atlas depicts ports, harbors, anchoring islands, sands, rock and other navigational dangers. The 132 charts are of a pictorial nature; the coast-line is laid down as in a plane map, but back from the water's edge the country is rendered as seen from the sea. The mountains and hills are given in their natural colors; towns, churches, bridges, and even isolated houses, with all other landmarks of use to navigators, have been inserted by the mapmaker, and voluminous directions are given for the entering of harbors, the avoidances of shoals and rocks, distances, together with notices of where ships were wrecked, where Sawkins (one of Sharpe's colleagues) was killed, and other historical landmarks. Charts 52 and 53 are on the same sheet. The large chart of the west coasts of Central and South America which was originally bound at the beginning of the volume was removed in December 1948 and placed in a separate portfolio.

mssHM 265

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Sir James Bateman correspondence

Manuscripts

Bateman's detailed letters to Hill over a four-year period from 1697 to 1700 concerning military remittances to the Continent as well as advice and reports on his private investments on Hill's behalf, with technical references to explanations of the wide variety of financial instruments of the 1690s including the new Exchequer Bills, interest bearing bonds, stocks, etc., and filled with specific quotations of prices, interest, discount rates, and dividends. There are passing references to the politics of the relationship between the Bank of England and the British Treasury, to relations between the Old and New East India Companies, to King William's War, and to other administrators and politicians, but the over-riding content is financial. There are also three letters in French from Cornelius Kreps in Ghent to Hill, 1699-1701, also concerning finance, and three accounts of expenses for English soldiers in the hospital at Bylocke, Ghent, 1693-1698.

mssHM 78000-78036

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Letters relating to the Old South catalogue

Manuscripts

This volume includes 78 letters written to Hamilton Hill and George Bigelow regarding their volume An historical catalogue of the Old South Church. Many of the letters are written by prominent religious figures in New England. Many of them are thanking Hill and Bigelow for creating the volume and sending them a copy. Also included are 4 certificates of receipt of the book.

mssHM 78298 (1-82)

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Newton Bateman letters

Manuscripts

Letters to Newton Bateman primarily written by his brother, E.B. Bateman. In addition to news of family and acquaintances, including the death of his son, E.B. writes from St. Louis of the unsanitary conditions of urban life and of prostitution (1848); from Fort Leavenworth of military preparations during the Mexican-American War, of his unofficial service as surgeon to Col. Easton's Missouri Infantry Volunteers, of his travels from Jefferson Barracks to Fort Leavenworth, and of Capt. George de Korponay (1848); from Jacksonville, Illinois, of the "college and academy in St. Louis" (1848); and from Stockton, California, of the cost of goods, difficulty with the mail, and of gold miners leaving for "better diggings" in Australia (1850-1853). Also included are a mathematics textbook circular, a letter from William Peel "P.M." referring to Daniel Anderson's property, and a letter from a friend of Newton's named Peter who writes of St. Charles College, Bateman's options with the school and his potential pay, and of the shooting death of a man named Sterling by Gran or Grun, of which Peter writes "Oh how I would like to make a speech in his defense...Should the Jury pronounce him guilty, it would be an outrage upon humanity were he executed."

mssHM 75002-75010

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Brock Collection: Correspondence of William R. Hill, (bulk 1828-1834)

Manuscripts

Personal correspondence, chiefly letters addressed to William R. Hill from his friends and family members. The letters contain discussions of state and national politics, literary news, and personal and family matters.

mssBR Box 94 (1)

RKO Theatre, 801 South Hill, Los Angeles. 1931

Visual Materials

A view of the entrance to the RKO Theater located at 801 South Hill, at the corner of Hill and 8th, in Los Angeles. Large cardboard "8"s are suspended from the ceiling and signs announce 8 RKO vaudeville acts. A ticket office is on the far right.

photCL Whitt 1144 ; Whitt neg. 0479

William Hill letter to James Bateman, official of the South Sea Company, 1711 December 3

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