Ephemeris: manuscript

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  Journal and commonplace book of Sir William Drake

  Manuscripts

  Sir William Drake's personal and political diary and commonplace book that covers events from Nov. 30, 1631 to the outbreak of the Civil War. Included are extensive notes on books, the law courts in London, and the Long Parliament

  mssHM 55603

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  The booke and diare of the ambassadors jorney to Rome: manuscript copy

  Manuscripts

  This is a 19th century copy of Sir North's diary of a journey he took to Rome in 1555 as an ambassador of England to Pope Julius III. Accompanying him on his journey was Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely and Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu. With manuscript note inserted.

  mssHM 81033

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  Manuscripts and correspondence

  Manuscripts

  This collection consists of correspondence and papers regarding Edward Bunker, Jr. (1847-1914) and his duties as a Mormon bishop of Bunkerville, Nevada. People such as H.B. (Hiram B.) Clawson, Henry Eyring (1838-1901), and L. John (Leonard John) Nuttall (1834-1905) are represented in the collection.

  mssHM 63428-63492

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  Diary and letterbook

  Manuscripts

  This journal or diary, kept at irregular intervals over nearly forty years (fullest for the 1720s), gradually morphs into a letterbook recording copies of Thomlinson's correspondence. Early entries discuss with some frankness his family and prospects, his own and his family's business and legal mattters, daily life and gossip, books and rading (including The Tatler), politics and current events, sermons, occasional medicinal rcipes and cures, and accounts of his corresepondence.

  mssHM 70982

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  James Gow journal

  Manuscripts

  The majority of the journal contains prescriptions Gow made for his customers and the recipes for those prescriptions. The volume also contains two other sections: a female relative of Gow's recorded 19th century poetry in parts of the book and there is also a section titled, "Journal of a Seaman in the Forecastle." This diary section contains accounts from 1851 to 1852 of an anonymous sailor who sailed from Boston to San Francisco in a clipper and then chronicles his time in Port Adelaide, Australia. There are also two pages of what may be the ship's manifest.

  mssHM 74486

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  Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

  Manuscripts

  Copies of letters, treatises, and accounts of legal proceedings, chiefly in England, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, including accounts of the rebellion, trial, and execution of the Earl of Essex, a copy of the "Liber Intrationem [in Camera Stellata tempore Regis Henr. Septimi]", other proceedings in Star Chamber, Sir Henry Wotton on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, etc.

  mssHM 41952