Manuscripts
Richard E. Barnes letters to George Barnes
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George Ellary Hale letter to Seth Barnes Nicholson
Manuscripts
This autograph letter, written by George Ellery Hale to Seth Barnes Nicholson, concerns Nicholson's employment at the Mount Wilson Observatory and an eclipse. He expresses, "...I sincerely hope you may see your way clear to stay with us. We can certainly give you better facilities for research than you could get elsewhere, and you may also count on an adequate increase in salary." This letter was written in Florence, Italy.
mssHM 83603
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Richard E. Gutstadt letter to publishers of Anglo-Jewish periodicals
Manuscripts
Letter requests Anglo-Jewish publishers to refrain from commenting on Grant Madison's recently published "The conquest of a continent" published by Scribner and Sons for the purpose of stifling the sale of the book.
mssHM 66233
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John H. Barnes letters
Manuscripts
One letter is addressed to Miss Townsend, and the other is addressed to Laurence Hutton.
mssHM 11325-11326
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Richard Armour letter to Paul Zall
Manuscripts
This letter, written to fellow writer Paul Zall, chiefly talks about British poet Barry Cornwall and Armour's book Barry Cornwall: a biography of Bryan Waller Procter. Armour also talks a little bit about some of his other published works. The letter is written on "Claremont Men's College Memorandum" letterhead.
mssHM 78350
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Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary letter to George Rockwood
Manuscripts
In this letter, written to New York City photographer, George Rockwood, Peary is paying for and asking about photographs of himself (that Rockwood took and sent to him) that he had received yet. Peary also promises to send Rockwood a copy of his "Arctic narrative" (his book Northward over the "great ice," published in 1898). The letter may be written by another person, but Peary signed it. There is also a note, possibly by Rockwood, "Have ordered 1dz" on page two.
mssHM 79890
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Beer, E. Letter to Maria Bidgood Jarman Ford Barnes
Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of correspondence related to the Jarman family, Mormon converts who immigrated from England to Utah in the 1860s. It includes statements by Maria Bidgood Jarman Ford Barnes regarding her divorce from her abusive, polygamous first husband; 26 letters sent to Maria from her son Albert while he was serving on a mission trip to England from 1894-1895; and various letters from other family members and friends, including the Dickert family, who describe their life in Germany, and a friend who served on a mission to Switzerland in 1897.
HM 79941.