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Charles P. Burney album of drawings

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Description: A contemporary half-leather album with a metal clasp containing illustrations by Charles P. Burney dating from approximately 1801 to 1805. Interior of the album's front and back pages are signed by Burney. End of album signature includes "Mert Coll." below name. Illustrations are in watercolor, pen and ink, and pencil; largely depicting views of various regions in Great Britain (Yorkshire, East Anglia, Wales, etc.), Roman monuments, profiles of people, and animals. Images illustrate cottages, cathedral facades, castles, country landscapes, architectural ruins, horses, goats, dogs, donkeys, and other figures. The sketches are largely titled and dated by the artist. Some sketches of regions in York and Sussex from 1804 include the signature, "P.S.M." Also included in an envelope are two loose sketches from the sketchbook depicting allegorical figures Melpomene and Chronos.
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Production date: approximately 1801-1805.
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William Godwin promissory note to Charles Parr Burney

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An autograph document signed by William Godwin, London, England. The promissory note is made out to Rev. C. P. Burney for the amount of thirty-seven pounds, the note is to come due in three months; Burney signed the verso of the note.

mssHM 84135

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Horticultural drawings of camellias

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A set of eight illustrations depicting varieties of camellias in bloom and an accompanying text card. Six of the eight illustrations include either pasted textual descriptions of the flowers on the verso or handwritten notes on the recto. Some of the illustrations are dated and include descriptions for "Camellia Japonica; Christine Lee; Candidissima; Fanny Bolis; and Mathotiana Rubra." The printed text card reads, "Original horticultural drawings made for J. Horace McFarland. 1930-1934. Well known as the 'Rose Doctor,' the great horticulturalist J. Horace McFarland was also responsible for the City Beautiful Movement in America. These drawings are lovely and unique artifacts of his grand enthusiasm for flowers and art." The illustrations are hand colored, done in crayon, pencil, and colored pencil in varying shades of red, white, and pink, with green leaves, yellow stamen, and brown stems. The dates on the individual illustrations range from 1933 to 1935, and do not all match the dates on the accompanying text card. The artist is unknown, but the drawings were likely created as reference or possible publication for J. Horace McFarland.

priPEF 107

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Anita V. Anfenson album of botanical illustrations

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An album containing watercolor and pencil illustrations by Anita V. Anfenson of wildflowers and botanical plants native to California. Some of the illustrations also include pastel embellishments. The illustrations date from 1941 to 1944 but are not bound in chronological order. In addition to the year of creation, each specimen is identified by the artist with its common and Latin name, and all illustrations are signed "A. Anfenson" in ink. Illustrations include images of wild hollyhock, California poppy, California bluebells, yucca palm, California thistle, California wild rose, thistle poppy, violet snapdragons, ragwort, woolly milkweed, chicory, jimson weed, and more. Illustrations might have been created by Anfenson while she was employed by the Works Progress Administration.

priPEF 114

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Album of poetry and drawings

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A commonplace book, possibly kept by an individual or individuals in or near Manchester, England, in the late 1820s to 1830s, containing handwritten transcriptions of published poems and some prose, some original poems, and 26 watercolor and pencil illustrations by multiple artists depicting flowers, landscapes, ships, women, caricatures, etc. Primarily transcriptions of works (chiefly single poems) by poets including Laman Blanchard; Lord Byron; Thomas Campbell; S. T. Coleridge; W. B. Colleyer; Thomas Dale; Mrs. Charles Gore; John Hall; Mrs. Hemans; Thomas Hood; Letitia E. Landon; Elizabeth W. Mills; Milton; James Montgomery; Rev. John Moultrie; Mrs. Norton; Robert Pollock, Pope; Charles Swain; Rev. C. Hare Townsend; F. Tyrell; and a poem "pretended to be" from Shakespeare about "Anne Hathaway"; as well as extracts from an essay "Genius and Talent"; "Marriage" from Roger's Human Life; and Symmons's Life of Shakespeare. The artwork includes various signatures and initials including "John Houghton, 2 January 1830"; "R. J. 1836"; I. L. Williamson Aug 13, 1828"; "J. L. Williamson, 1830"; "Lizzy"; "F. Priestley, 16 Oct. 1830"; "P.N."; "H.B."; "L.W."; and "C.B.M." One poem, which appears to be an original, entitled "A Request," is signed "I. Baker."

mssHM 25901

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Charles Warren Stoddard Autograph Album

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This collection consists of an autograph album containing handwritten notes, letters, poems, and drawings by approximately 200 friends and acquaintances of American author Charles Warren Stoddard, including leading American literary figures, journalists, poets, critics, politicians, and actors of the late 19th century. Among the many notable contributors are Samuel Clemens, Bret Harte, and Joaquin Miller. The earliest item in the book is an 1863 dedication by Thomas Starr King, and continues with contributions primarily from members of San Francisco literary society beginning in the mid-to-late 1860s through the late 1890s, as well as from friends in other locales where Stoddard lived or traveled including Louisville, Kentucky; Washington, D.C.; Massachusetts; New York; and Hawaii. A letter from L.C. Bayles (page 23) introduces lines of verse with the note "in accordance with your request," reflecting Stoddard's curation of the album as a compendium of verse and personal sentiments tailored towards friendships and literary musings. The volume includes two photographs of groups of men and women, captioned, "Riverdale, N.Y., July 4th 1890" (page 116). There are manuscript poems and lines of verse, often penned specifically for Stoddard, from literary friends including Isaac Hull Adams; Daniel Dulany Addison; Benjamin Parke Avery; William Barry; Fred Buel; James F. Bowman; George Burrows; Carrie Carlton; Bliss Carman; Pierre Cauwet; Robert W. Chambers; Sarah M. Clarke; Ada Clare; Katherine E. Conway; Ina D. Coolbrith; R. M. Daggett; Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren; Malcolm Douglas; Theodore F. Dwight; Eugene Field; Hamlin Garland; Grace Greenwood; Bret Harte; Jerome Hart; John Hay; Charles Hinton; Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; William Dean Howells; Daniel E. Hudson; Thomas A. Janvier; Tremenheere Johns; Ralph Keeler; George Kennan; Orpheus C. Kerr; Alice Kingsbury (Cooley); Rudyard Kipling; Emilie Lawson; James Linen; Fitz Hugh Ludlow; Adah Isaacs Menken; John Malone; Joaquin Miller; Morton Mitchell and Laddie Mitchell; James Whitcomb Riley; James Jeffrey Roche; Edgar Saltus; Richard Henry Savage; Emma D.E.N. Southworth; Frank Soulé; Bella Z. Spencer; Horatio Stebbins; Maria Longworth Storer (with sketches); J. D. Strong; M.D. Strong; H. A. Stuart; T. R. Sullivan; Bayard Taylor; Charles Wadsworth; Charles Henry Webb; May Wentworth; George Edward Woodberry; and R. C. Wyllie. Prose and letters from L. C. Bayles; Frederick Billings; Ezra S. Carr and his wife, Jeanne C. Smith Carr; Samuel Clemens; Laura Cuppy; G. B. Densmore; Annie Fields; Archibald C. Gunter; Francis King Harte; Louise E. Holden; Jules Luquiens; C. T. H. Palmer; Theodore Roosevelt; Anna Josephin Savage; Rodney L. Tabor; Charles A. Wetmore; Virgil M. Williams; and Thérèse Yelverton. Drawings include ones by Reginald B. Birch; John S. Bugbee; Arthur Lemon; G. Thomas; and Theodore Wores. There are also brief notes and/or signatures of individuals including Charles Francis Adams; Henry Adams; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Ada, Dyas; Louise Imogen Guiney; Iza Duffus Hardy; Clarence King; Francis D. Millet; Thomas Nelson Page; Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Dudley Warner; and Lydia Woodworth. The contents are handwritten on blank pages in an "Album" published by Leavitt & Allen, consisting of 241 pages including an engraved title page and frontispiece and [8] other engraved plates with illustrations by Creswick, W. H. Bartlett, W. Tombleson; J. Smillie and T. Addison Richards; engravings by J. Sartain; J. Bannister; Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Smillie; J. White; and C. T. Giles. Edges gilt.

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Charles Broughton notebooks

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The collection consists of 21 volumes belonging to artist Charles Broughton from 1888 to 1944. Each volume is a combination of diary, journal, commonplace book, and sketchbook. The cross-hatching sketches, drawn by Broughton, are of animals, places, outdoor scenes, historical figures, and common people (perhaps Broughton knew them or came across the individuals and sketched them). Some of the sketches also relate to Broughton's travels, as well as the First and Second World Wars.

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