Box 27

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A small leather-bound journal belonging to a “Miss Lewis” of 7 St. Peter’s Place, Brighton – at that time a lodging house for young women – dated 1855. The entries, in both English and French, appear to chronicle a year in Paris.

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Five pieces of correspondence dated 1908-1909 from the personal papers of Charles James Stanley Howard, at that time styled Viscount Morpeth. Three letters are addressed to Morpeth himself, and two are in his own hand written to an unidentified woman known only as “Kathleen.”

Scope and Contents Correspondence and other ephemera from the paper of Eric Clarke, a British-German musician resident in the United States. The materials relate to a contest Clarke is advertising for the best new musical round composition: there are several letters to American musical publications asking them to print an advertisement for the competition, as well as a copy of the announcement itself, and several letters related to the entries. Also included are copies of The New Music Review and Church Music...

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One notebook from Andrew Baxendine & Sons, Bookseller to University of Edinburgh, with a few dozen pages of notes on Henry Sidgwick’s The Method of Ethics. A slip of paper inside is from the 14 May 1940 Cambridge University Reporter and contains notes in the same hand, thereby providing an approximate date.

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A collection of personal papers and other materials related to American minister Abraham Norwood (1806-1880). Included are 4 diaries; a number of sermons and notes for preaching; printed material relating to or written by Norwood, and an annotated typescript of the Norwood family genealogy compiled by Abraham’s sister Augusta Silsby Foster in 1902. A curatorial file created by Scheetz is also included.

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Seven pieces of correspondence sent to Washington DC Police superintendent William G. Moore between 1866 and 1874. Writers include a variety of personalities such as William Prescott Smith, Master of Transportation for the B&O Railroad, Senator James W. Patterson of New Hampshire, and General F.T. Dent, brother-in-law of future president Ulysses S. Grant.

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11 pieces of correspondence in both Welsh and English addressed to Welsh scholar and Oxford chair in Celtic Sir Idris Llewelyn Foster, dated between 1940 and 1974. Also included are four Welsh-language newspaper clippings and what appear to be notes or research, also in Welsh.