Box 60
Container
Contains 56 Results:
Frederick Charles Plumptre, 1859
File — Box: 60, Folder: 38
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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...
Dates:
1859
Alan Pryce-Jones, Late 20th century
File — Box: 60, Folder: 41
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A note addressed to British critic and journalist Alan Pryce-Jones from an unidentified sender, most likely late 20th-century. Written in blue ballpoint pen on a cream-colored notecard, monogrammed AFE, with an envelope embossed with an address in Newport, Rhode Island. The contents refer to the sharing of various books and video tapes.
Dates:
Late 20th century
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, 1958 - 1963
File — Box: 60, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials related to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), a British society dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage. Four items: two letters, and two tickets, one with an included envelope. The earlier letter, dated November 3rd, 1958 is signed by Society secretary Monica Dance, and provides information about the General Meeting to be held on the 13th of the same month. An envelope and ticket to the meeting accompanies it, signed by a number...
Dates:
1958 - 1963
James W. Patterson, Late 19th century
File — Box: 60, Folder: 32
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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),...
Dates:
Late 19th century
Ludgrove School Football Poem, Circa 1911
File — Box: 60, Folder: 6
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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...
Dates:
Circa 1911
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932
File — Box: 60, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents
A typed letter on stationary from the State of New York Executive Chambers addressed to J. Bond Smith (1890-1961) and signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dated November 21st, 1932. Smith was part of the Washington DC-area Franklin-Garner club, and the contents consist of thanks for an “enthusiastic message of good will” sent from the club to then-President-elect Roosevelt. The letter has been pasted onto a piece of board, and there is some adhesive residue. Two pieces of paper with notes are...
Dates:
1932
Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton, 19th century
File — Box: 60, Folder: 15
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...
Dates:
19th century
Owen Seaman, 1906
File — Box: 60, Folder: 50
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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...
Dates:
1906
Henrietta A. Shaw, 1878 - 1886
File — Box: 60, Folder: 52
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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...
Dates:
1878 - 1886
Thomas H. Seymour, 1853 - 1854
File — Box: 60, Folder: 51
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Two letters in French addressed to American diplomat and politician Thomas H. Seymour from members of the Ministry of the Imperial Court in Russia. One from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is dated 1853 and invites Seymour to a Ball held that July, and one from the War Ministry is dated 1854 and thanks Seymour for his help with State affairs. Also included is a 1982 letter to Scheetz from political officer Thompson R. Buchanan (1924-2020) responding to a request for information on the...
Dates:
1853 - 1854
Michael Benedict Snitka, 1844
File — Box: 60, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents
A Russian Imperial decree certifying the deed to the estate of Michael Benedict Snitka in Ashmyany (Ашмяны), in modern-day Belarus. Stamped and dated 1844, though events in the years 1841 and 1837 are also mentioned. A sheet of 20th-century paper with a transcription in Russian and note on the contents in English is also included.
Dates:
1844
Ladies of Llangollen, 1817
File — Box: 60, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
A letter from Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, known collectively as the “Ladies of Llangollen,” dated February 24th 1817, and addressed to a “Mrs Parker.” This is Sarah Browne Parker (1779-1854), the wife of amateur engineer and agriculturist Thomas Netherton Parker (1772-1848) of Sweeney Hall in Owestry. The contents are an invitation to a social gathering, and the Ladies comment that they “rely on Mr. Parker’s infallible Barometer to promise us fine weather” – this being one of Parker’s...
Dates:
1817
Persian Documents, Circa 1903
File — Box: 60, Folder: 33
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Two documents in Farsi apparently from early 20th-century India, likely c. 1903. The document with the stamp allows the bearer to carry items on a train journey, and has an English inscription reading “Written in my presence.” The second item may be a copy of an earlier document: according to an English note on the verso, it relates in some capacity to Maharaja Duleep Singh, who was the Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, King of Punjab, and Maharaja of Lahore between 1843 and 1849. The English...
Dates:
Circa 1903
John Murray Publisher's Pamphlet, 1927
File — Box: 60, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
A small pamphlet of four leaves printed by the London publisher John Murray in 1927. The pamphlet advertises their catalog of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) and boasts “There is a Conan Doyle book for every taste.”
Dates:
1927
Envelope of Mixed Signatures, Circa 1900
File — Box: 60, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
A small envelope of the late 19th or early 20th century with the inscription “The right honorable The Lord John Manners” (1818-1906) containing four signatures cut from letters: two are not wholly legible, and the other two belong to British writer and scientific educator Arabella Buckley (1840-1925) and British mathematician W.K. Clifford (1845-1879). It is not immediately clear whether the signatures were collected by Manners, or if the envelope itself was collected as a signature.
Dates:
Circa 1900
Gertude Lyons, 1920s
File — Box: 60, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents
Materials related to Washington DC-based soprano Gertrude Lyons and the production of her program “Musical Memories of Adelina Patti” in the early 1920s. The collection is in two parts: first, two programs from performances of the Patti program, which apparently consisted of Lyons singing the Italian soprano’s most famous songs while dressed in a replica of the gown worn by Patti in a famous portrait by Franz Winterhalter. Second, two undated letters in Lyons’ hand addressed to a “Miss...
Dates:
1920s