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New England's Chevy-Chase : poem

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    The Virgin : poem

    Manuscripts

    Manuscript (holograph) poem, "The Virgin," with 2 stanzas in 8 lines, together with another incomplete poem and fragmentary memoranda.

    mssHM 13187

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    Chevy Chase Land Company notice of stockholders meeting

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

    mssHEH

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    Bukowski, Charles. An Importation: poem

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    MS.S., typewritten, 2p. With the author's autograph corrections. Note: formerly titled "an affair I had which I have never written about in poem, story or novel-."

    BUK 1889

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    LONDON, Jack. A Heart: [early draft of poem]

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    Ms. 4 pp. fol. (typewritten). Author's autograph corrections. Following the above: Early draft of poem beginning: "Modern man, with insight keen" [Oakland, California].

    JL 739

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    To a Young Italian Lady: poem

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    A signed, autograph seven stanza poem, with typewritten transcription. Also included in the volume are six autograph letters, with typewritten transcriptions, from Ainsworth to various addressees and two black and white engravings of Ainsworth.

    mssHM 14981-14987

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    Voyages round the World : with selected sketches of voyages to the South Seas, north and south Pacific oceans, China, etc

    Manuscripts

    An autograph manuscript of Edmund Fanning's memoir "Voyages round the world...;" it includes a title page, introduction, and chapters I-XXV. The manuscript is written in both pen and pencil, on various sizes of paper, with corrections and additions; it is incomplete with some chapters missing. In addition to the manuscript, there are unidentified supplementary autograph notes and a draft of Fanning's proposal to Congress for the opening of trade with New South Wales.

    mssHM 84119