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The autobiography of a pocket handkerchief

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Description: Final draft. Bound in leather boards. Originally published in the first four issues of Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXII (January-April 1843): 1:1-18; 2: 89-102; 3:158-167; and 4:205-213. All the leaves are blank on the verso, save for leaf 56. On leaf 26, note to Rufus Griswold, editor of Graham's Magazine, regarding the need for proofs and the character Adrienne. Author's name is misspelled on the cover.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1842-1843
Call number: mssHM 34535
Creator: Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William K. Bixby, 1918.

Autobiography of a pocket-handkerchief

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The Wormwood review v. 4 no. 1 (issue 13)

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Publisher: Wormwood Review Press (Storrs, Conn.) Related Content: "Why Johnny can't read" ; "the hours" (p. 19, 23, poems) Note: The poem by Arone features a stanza on Bukowski. "C220" written in ms. in upper right corner of p. [1]. Laid in: typescript [1] leaf letter to Toby Holtzman of Boesen's Books from Robert C. Fay suggesting that the store carry the magazine "dust"; printed [1] leaf description of "dust" magazine. Related Content Author: Phyllis Onstott Arone ; Charles Bukowski

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Leaf from Captain Cook's journal May 3-6, 1770, containing the account of the discovery and naming of Botany Bay : manuscript ; engraved portraits, views and miniature

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A bound volume with the journal leaf tipped in; also with engravings of portraits by William Hodges, John Webber and Nathaniel Dance of James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks and Botany Bay, proofs of engravings of the Copley Medal and a Nathaniel Hone miniature of Cook, on metal, and enameled. The volume is bound in a full red levant morocco with the title on the front cover: "The Only Surviving Leaf of Captain Cook's Journal Containing the Entries Relating to the Discovery and Naming of Botany Bay May 4th 5th & 6th 1770." Please note: In the passage referring to the naming of the bay, the words "Sting Ray Bay" have been deleted, and "Botanist Bay" written in.

mssHM 965

Book of Hours, use of Châlons-sur-Marne : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-77v. [Book of Hours]: f. i r-v [added 16th c.]: Prayer to the Virgin; ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-8v, 10-11: Pericopes of the Gospels (and on f. 11r-v, continuation of the responsorial prayer from f. i verso); ff. 13-14v: Obsecro te; ff. 40, 39, 41-43, 23, 12, 20-22, 27, 15, one leaf missing, 30, 25-26, 34, one leaf missing, 9, 16, two leaves missing, 19, one leaf missing, 35-36, one leaf missing, 37-38, one leaf missing; 24, two leaves missing, 29: Hours of the Virgin, apparently use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 44-54v: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 54r-v: prayer added, 16th c., in the same hand as on f. i r-v: [M]ediatrix ..., [A]uxiliatrix ..., [R]eparatrix ...; ff. 31-32, 17-18, 33, 28, 55-71v: Office of the Dead, use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 72-77v: Prayers in Latin and French to the Virgin with a woman as suppliant; f. 77r-v: completion of prayer from f. 54v: [I]lluminatrix ..., [A]lleluiatrix ...

mssHM 1265

Eyn schone Arstedyge boeck van allerleye ghebreck vnnde kranckheyden der mynschen

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For a note on the contents of this book, see BM 15th cent. where it is treated as a Low-Saxonn version of the Herbarius. Madsen lists as Promptuarium medicinae. Title page has a woodcut illustration of doctors attending a patient. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.4 x 20.5 cm. Text in two columns. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [*⁸ a-b¹⁰ c-n⁸ o-p⁶]. Imperfect: leaf [*]1 (the title page) lacking. Initials in red or blue; rubrication in red. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards; remnants of two clasps.

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Autobiography and journal of James Holt

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The first part of the manuscript is an autobiography recorded by James Holt which covers the years from approximately 1824 until the late 1840s. It recounts his childhood experiences in England, including his time as a printer's apprentice, his religious background, his introduction to Mormonism through one of his printing masters, his disappointment that his family did not share his zeal for the new faith, his receiving word of the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith ("massacred by a mob in Carthage Jail...although many false reports had...been circulated, this we felt to be true," he wrote), a copy of his patriarchal blessing, a blessing for Sarah Rostron, parody song lyrics (I am Brave Old Oak), some family genealogy, and an extract from a work on "Apostolical [sic] succession." The second, brief part of the manuscript is a diary kept by Holt while he was living in Salt Lake City in 1853. He writes of training with the Nauvoo Legion (although he was probably already in Utah at the time) and of "suspicious appearances among the Indians" leading a group of mounted men going south to arrest all "strolling Mexicans, Spaniards and other strangers" who may have been supplying the Indians with guns "in exchange for Indian children." The final paragraph of the diary was written in an unknown hand and recounts Holt's death in 1856. Included with the manuscript are notes on the Holt family, a sketch, and two maps.

mssHM 35255

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Autobiography and journal of James Holt