Box 60

Scope and Contents A typed letter from Quaker missionaries Otto and Edith Peetz to their friend Hilda, enclosing a copy of their new paper “Notes about some Aspects of Quaker Mission Work.” The letter, dated October 24th, 1958, suggests that the contents of the paper may be somewhat controversial, and refers to several personal matters that impacted its writing. Also included is a letter from the aforementioned Hilda to her friend Selma apparently passing on the paper along with seven small pages of what...

Scope and Contents A copy of The Will of Sir Richard Philipps, Bart., Baron Milford (Extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury) as printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps’ Middle Hill Press in the 1850s. 12 folio pages. Also included is a single sheet of folio-sized paper bearing 12 vignettes of a castle with the words “Turris Lativiensis 1854 Middle Hill” with space for a number to be added. This is the Broadway Tower at Middle Hill, Phillipps’ Worcestershire estate from which he ran his...

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Three letters sent from English playwright Arthur Wing Pinero to various recipients. Two handwritten, one typed and signed. One letter dated October 8th, 1893 is personal in nature, while the other two relate to various events and engagements at the Theatre Royal, London with one on Theatre Royal letterhead dated January 11th, 1921. Curatorial materials compiled by Scheetz are also included.

Scope and Contents A homemade notebook containing a diary apparently belonging to a young woman resident on a farm outside of Portland, Maine. The contents, covering January 1st, 1838 to February 17th, 1841, most relate to observations about the weather, visitors, trips, and the details of daily life ranging from births and death to blueberrying with friends. Mentions of going “to meeting” on the Sabbath suggest this may be a Quaker family. In the final third of the diary, passages appear in a kind of code,...

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8 letters, 6 handwritten and 2 typed, written and signed by English novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes. The contents are wide-ranging, including ordering books from a catalogue, family, responding to invitations, and discussing the death of her husband in 1940. Various recipients (Mrs. Eliot, Mrs Hyman, Mrs Philips, Miss Price, “Dearest Nelly” etc), with dates ranging from 1915 to 1946.

Scope and Contents A single leaf of paper containing a handwritten draft of 35 lines of English poet W. Mackworth Praed’s “The Legend of the Drachenfels.” The text as presented here differs slightly from that published by Edward Moxon in 1864. Moxon’s edition notes that the poem was written in 1829, providing a potential date for the draft. The poem is written in ink in a neat hand, and there are annotations in pencil noting differences from the printed edition and including the observation “This is Praed’s...

Scope and Contents A large folded sheet of paper containing the Welsh poem known as Kanu Ygwynt or “Song of the Wind” from the early medieval Book of Taliesin alongside a literal translation by English poet Thomas Love Peacock as published in The Halliford Edition of the Works of Thomas Love Peacock by H.F.B. Brett-Smith & C.E. Jones, Volume VIII (1934). A note on the verso suggests this is Peacock’s own hand. A second note in pencil reads “22 Bathwick Hill Bath” and may provide some hint toward...

Scope and Contents Five pieces of correspondence in the hand of English cleric and academic E.B. Pusey, dated between 1843 and 1879. The letters are as follows: Letter 1 is undated, written on Christ Church Oxford notepaper and addressed to Mr. Fincher. Letter 2 is similarly undated, damaged and missing the end of its final sentence, addressed “My dear Madame,” and apparently providing advice to a mother whose son has recently been admitted to Oxford: “You have heard of the unsettled state of the faith of some...

Scope and Contents Correspondence in the hand of British classicist W.H.D. Rouse. 9 items total: 2 letters of a personal nature on Perse School letterhead addressed to English editor and publisher A.H. Bullen (1857-1920), one dated 30 March 1918. The remaining 7 letters are all addressed to a “Miss Lister” – this is almost certainly the H. Lister who was once a teacher at the Manchester High School for Girls and published on Classical literature. Rouse’s first three letters to Lister (dated February through...

Scope and Contents A lined notebook of the late 19th century, bound in burgundy leather with marbled paper covers and a label on the front reading “Receipt Book” and “Tecumseh Michigan.” The contents are a variety of medicinal and household recipes ranging from cures for common ailments to dyes and cleaning solutions. Inside the notebook is a small pink pamphlet advertising Mrs. C. Gardner’s soap and a small piece of paper with biographical information on Revolutionary War soldier Josiah Morse (1763-1839),...

Scope and Contents A letter written to a British schoolboy taking the form of a humorous poem detailing a series of football losses to a rival school. The recipient, named Lees, was apparently ill or otherwise unable to play the games the author discusses: “no doubt you have already heard how badly we were beat/And how at Stanmore we received a horrible defeat./Of course we can excuse ourselves with many specious pleas,/We had to face the Stanmore lads without our little Lees!” Stanmore refers to the...

Scope and Contents Two letters, undated, in the hand of British poet and politician Richard Monckton Milnes, accompanied by a manuscript copy of the poem “A Literary Squabble” by fellow writer James Planché (1796-1880), which provides a humorous commentary on Milnes’ assumption of the title Baron Houghton. The poem is on two leaves of very thin “onion skin” paper now housed in plastic, and written in a very neat cursive hand. It is unclear whether this is Planché’s own hand, though it does not appear to be a...

Scope and Contents Three letters in the hand of British writer Owen Seaman, all on letterhead from Punch magazine, where he served as editor. The first two letters, dated January 4th and 10th 1906, are addressed to a Mr. Hueffer – presumably the English author and war correspondent Oliver Madox Hueffer (1877-1931), brother of the writer Ford Madox Ford and grandson of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown – and offer good-natured rejections for submitted works. The third letter, dated February 21, 1906,...

Scope and Contents A small red autograph book belonging to Henrietta A. Shaw of Brooklyn, New York. A note in her hand on the first page is dated October 11, 1883 when she would have been around 22 years old. Approximately 40 ink and pencil inscriptions from friends and family addressed alternately to “Hettie” and “Hattie” are contained within, dated between 1878 and 1886. Two colored stickers of apples and pears are also included, as well as a news clipping on the death of her father Peter Shaw in 1908. A...

Scope and Contents A printed leaflet featuring an epistle entitled “To the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of Friends in Great-Britain, Ireland, and America” printed for the Meeting for Sufferings of the Society of Friends in London, and dated to “the sixth day of the seventh month” 1751. The letter is concerned with the adjustment of the Quaker computation of time to fit the new Christian calendar as decreed by Parliamentary statute as of January 1st, 1752. Following this is a discussion of the ethos behind...

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Three pieces of correspondence in the hand of American politician and newspaperman Whitelaw Reid. Two letters on New-York Tribune letterhead addressed to a Charles Smith alternately thanking him for his compliments on the paper’s “action in the Claflin case” (November 6, 1873) and responding to an inquiry on “the sermons of Dr. Taylor” (October 8th, 1875). The third letter, dated April 17th, 1887, sends condolences to a Mrs. Sturms.

Scope and Contents Three pieces of correspondence, two small notes and one letter, in the hand of British poet Samuel Rogers. All are undated, though the two smaller notes, which contain invitations to dinner for a Mr. Spedding and a Mrs. Graham, are written from St. James Place in London where Rogers moved in 1803. This Mr. Spedding is likely the English author James Spedding (1808-1881). The larger letter is addressed to J.F. Tuffen, Esquire of Park Lane. Like Rogers himself, Tuffen is known to have been a...

Scope and Contents Materials related to British diplomat, poet, and politician James Rennell Rodd. One letter on blue letterhead from 17 Stratford Place and dated July 8th 1908, inquires whether its recipient, a Mr. Morley, would consider acting as a summer tutor for the sons of Lord Minto while the latter is away in India. A second letter addressed “my dear W” and dated October 24th, 1933 is accompanied by a pamphlet of Rodd’s English Association essay “Romance in History” inscribed “To W.R. from R. of R.”...

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A letter from Jersey City lawyer Joseph M. Noonan to fellow attorney Francis E. Maitland, written on personalized letterhead and dated August 12th, 1904. The contents pertain to the versions and terminology of Magna Carta, and Noonan refers to an enclosed copy of the text, which is also included in the collection. The Latin pamphlet, printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford in 1879, is heavily annotated in pencil.

Scope and Contents Three letters on blue paper in the hand of British academic Frederick Charles Plumptre, all written from University College, Oxford, where he held the position of Master. Each letter is addressed to the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor John Lucas Tupper (c. 1824-1879) and concerns payment for his statue of the Swedish botanist Carl von Linnaeus which was created for what Plumptre calls “the New Museum.” This is the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Parks Road, constructed between 1855...