Manuscripts
Letter from Arabella Huntington to Caroline Holladay
You might also be interested in
Image not available
Letter from Arabella Huntington to Caroline Holladay
Manuscripts
A letter from you is a great pleasure. With best love to you. ____ the babies and your mother. I am always, affectionately Belle. Kiss Harriet for me I am very fond of her.""Monday December 1, My dearest Caroline I am sending you this by Edward who leaves in a day or so. We were surprised but very glad to see him. Have been in town for just two weeks & I find
msssHEH 422
Image not available
William H. Taft, Hot Springs, Virginia, letter to Hamilton Holt, New York :
Manuscripts
Taft writes to the managing editor of The Independent magazine that he would like to assist Holt but is not able to do anything until August, asks him to write again later in the month. Taft states that "The Independent has been very good to me and has supported me, especially with respect to the colored disaffection, and I am anxious to respond if I can, but you know human energy has its limitations."
mssHM 23528
Image not available
Charles Darwin letter to C.W. Stoddard
Manuscripts
A full transcription of the letter follows: "Dear Sir, I am obliged for your extremely courteous letter. It is of course a great satisfaction to me to hear that my work has in any way interested an interested and observing person. I am little surprised at what you say about certain plants not fruiting or flowering in the Sandwich Islands; though this is very common in hotter countries. There is nothing I shd enjoy so much as to visit California, but I am growing old & my health is weak. With my best thanks, I beg leave to remain Dear Sir Yours faithfully, Ch. Darwin. P.S. I am obliged for your enclosures." The letter, written from Beckenham, Kent, is dated May 5; no year is given. The letter is in reply to one sent by Charles Warren Stoddard on 11 April 1870 (see the Darwin Correspondence Project).
mssHM 72755
Image not available
Kate Sanborn letter to Samuel Clemens
Manuscripts
In this letter, Sanborn is telling Clemens to not send her "either of the books," for which she had asked. She states that "Doxey will get me...[one] and the other I shall not have time to read. I ought not to have suggested it - you are so busy. Sincerely, Kate Sanborn." The letter is dated "July 2."
mssHM 79098
Image not available
S. P. (Samuel Pierpont) Langley letter to Henry S. Mackintosh
Manuscripts
This letter was written by Langley to Henry S. Mackintosh, an American teacher and author. It is on Smithsonian Institution letterhead. The letter reads as follows: "I am very glad to see your hand again, and perhaps I can best answer your inquiry by enclosing you a copy of a report from the Administrative Assistant in the National Museum, in reference to the feathered cloak. If you wish anything more done through the Museum, let me know, though I rather think you would do quite as well with private parties. Very sincerely yours, S. P. Langley."
mssHM 80278
Image not available
John Burroughs letters to "Dear Sir,"
Manuscripts
John Burroughs wrote this letter from West Park, New York. It reads: "Yours of the 20th was duly read. I am writing very little these days, and am cautious about binding myself by promises. But if I should chance to have anything that would be suitable for your columns I will let you have it. Very sincerely John Burroughs."
mssHM 82587