Manuscripts
Liber amicorum
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Mary Lupton album amicorum
Manuscripts
This autograph album contains a miscellany of poetry, prose and drawings penned between 1822 and 1829 by various friends and acquaintances of Lupton; there are 98 pages of text, 11 full page drawings in watercolor or pencil, with the remaining pages blank. The album includes a broad variety of literary and religious content: poetic extracts from Cowper; a sketch of lake Windermere, lines of poetry in the hand of the poet James Montgomery and another poem in the hand of French artist Alphonse Dousseau.
mssHM 82836
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Volume of letters written to Charles Edward Tisdall
Manuscripts
A bound volume of letters and autographs from eminent contemporaries, the majority addressed to Tisdall; there are also clippings and printed material. Tisdall often included biographical notes and information about each letter writer; the inside front cover has the bookplate of "Rev Doctor Tisdall" and the title page contains the notes and signatures of Bertram Forsyth, English actor and dramatist. Please note: a previous owner cut and tore numerous pages from the volume so from an original total of 84 pages only 38 remain; the spine and corners have some damage.
mssHM 82899
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Mary Stuart Bailey journal
Manuscripts
HM 2018 is the original journal of thirty handwritten pages, dated April 13, 1852 through November 8, 1852. Also included is a negative photostat of the 1850 Federal Census of Lucas County, Ohio, showing entries for Mary Stuart Bailey, her husband Dr. Frederick E. Bailey, and Harriet Bailey, as well as four typewritten pages showing burial plots in Association Cemetery (Sylvania, Ohio), wherein rests Harriet Bailey. HM 2019 is a typescript of an extract of the journal, through October 31. Also included here are two typewritten pages by Mrs. W.W. Hicks relating further information about the Baileys, and a map of the Salt Lake Trail. The journal itself is Mary Bailey's account of her journey. She stops in St. Louis, Missouri to see friends, and gives shelter to some Indians in "destitute condition." After a hard journey, they reach California in October, and Bailey writes in her final entry, "I do not think we shall be as well off as at home."
mssHM 2018-2019
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[De Vinne fragments : collection of title-pages, dedications, printer's devices, etc. taken from books published throughout Europe]
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Collection of title-pages, dedications, frontispieces, printer's devices, colophons, and other printing examples removed from books published in Europe from 1500-1800. The majority of examples are from Great Britain and the Netherlands, but German and French publications are represented as well. The fragments are mostly mounted, sometimes several to a page. Some fragments are tipped in. Three title pages are laid into the beginning of volume 1. Items which have been identified as within scope of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) have been matched and assigned individual call numbers composed of the call number, plus page number (e.g. 114920:1; 114920:441, etc.). Items matched to the ESTC may also be searched individually in the catalog. Individual internal title pages from Austin, William. Devotionis Augustinianae flamma, or, Certaine devout, godly, and learned meditations. London, 1637 (ESTC S106869) are scattered throughout the two volumes.
114920
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Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell album of letters, photographs, and printed material
Manuscripts
An album created by Sydney Cockerell; cover is dated 1898. The album contains autograph letters, many with envelopes, photographs, and printed material; some pages have been annotated by Cockerell. Previous to the acquisition by the Huntington Library some of the pages have been removed and some items have been removed from the pages which remain.
mssHM 36896-36934
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G. E. Dyke-Poore seaweed specimen album
Manuscripts
A Victorian album of seaweed and algae specimens collected and preserved by G. E. Dyke-Poore. The album contains twenty-three seaweed specimens mounted on cards and then mounted on pages bound in the album; there are also four additional specimens mounted onto loose pages laid into the back of the album. The specimens are carefully pressed onto each card and labeled with their Latin names; the specimens seem to have been gathered in Jersey, with one specimen from The Heads, Tasmania. The album is bound in contemporary pink and gilt illustrated paper covers (possibly homemade), with the remainder of green silk ties. Mounted onto the verso of the front cover is a little green card which says "Collected, Arranged, and Mounted by Miss G. E. Dyke-Poore, Jersey" and there is also a short poem inscribed by Miss Dyke-Poore at the beginning of the album.
mssHM 84128