Manuscripts
Bacon, Henry Douglas. Memorandum books, etc
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Page, Francis W. Memorandum book relating to affairs of Page, Bacon & Co
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
BC 1284
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Page, Daniel Dearborn Memorandum book [including family notes]
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
BC 1276 (vols. 1-2)
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Page, Francis W. Account and memorandum books [includes family notes]
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
BC 1285 (vols. 1-2)
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H. D. Bacon papers
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This collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of California financier Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, California); and the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, California. Significant persons represented in the collection include Frank Page Bacon (19 items), Henry Douglas Bacon (164 items), Julia Ann (Page) Bacon (54 items), Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow (57 items), James Buckland (31 items), William Tell Coleman (31 items), R. A. Fisher (18 items), Samuel Gaty (273 items), Walton G. Hughes (117 items), William Birdie Hyde (19 items), J. G. Mahany (19 items), Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (76 items), Daniel Dearborn Page (33 items), Francis W. Page( 33 items), Henry Starr (21 items), John D. Weems (15 items), Langston C. Winston(27 items), and Thomas M. Yerkes(100 items). Some notable items include: Bacon, Henry Douglas. Letters to Daniel D. Page and Francis W. Page concerning the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co., and efforts to recoup. 1855, Jan. - May Barlow, Samuel L. M. Letter to Henry D. Bacon concerning attempts to avert southern secession. 1860, Nov. 30 Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston. Letter to Henry D. Bacon explaining his use of military mines during the Schleswig-Holstein War. 1864, Sep. 15 Letters to Bacon from mining agents in Mexico, describing the political unrest and resultant obstacles to business. 1865-1866 Gaty, Samuel. Letters to Henry D. Bacon concerning attempts to get a land bill through the Illinois legislature by means of lobbying and bribery. 1866, Nov.-1867, June Carr, Jeanne C. and Winston, Elizabeth M. Letters to Henry D. Bacon concerning the Pasadena Library Society. 1883, Jan. - Feb. Hyde, William Birdie. Letters to Henry Douglas Bacon about Leland Stanford and the Southern Pacific. 1873, Aug. 14 - 22 Cambell, James and others. Letter to Henry D. Bacon differentiating between the Pasadena and San Pasqual school districts. 1879, Dec. 26 Bacon, Henry Douglas. Incomplete manuscript of his dedicatory speech for the Bacon Art and Library Building. 1881, Aug. Grant, Ulysses S., City Point, Virginia. Endorsement of Shaffner's system of artillery mining, 1865 March 22, contemporary copy (BC 2560, box 10)
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Anderson Family Papers
Manuscripts
This collection primarily contains letters and some manuscripts concerning William Marshall Anderson and the Anderson family, mainly for the period of 1838-1938. It covers family affairs, legal practices and business affairs of William Marshall Anderson, including his involvement in the McArthur lawsuit; the Catholic Church and its financial involvement in Ohio; the northwest United States in 1830s, archeological mounds; Mexico in 1865, civil engineering, bounty land grants to Virginia revolutionary soldiers; Richard Clough Anderson and George Rogers Clark, also William Marshall Anderson's diaries, including his trips to the Rocky Mountains (1834), Mexico (1865), and Mississippi (1871); family and business correspondence of Robert Marshall Anderson, including letters re: construction of Robert M. Anderson's home in Circleville, Ohio, designed by Charles S. Keefe. Anderson family members represented in the collection include Larz Anderson, Charles Anderson, Robert Anderson, Thomas McArthur Anderson, Richard Clough Anderson, Robert Marshall Anderson, Ellen Columba Ryan Anderson, and Mary Anderson Olds. Anderson, Charles, 1814-1895. As author: 10 pieces; as addressee: 4 pieces Anderson, Ellen Columba Ryan. As author: 16 pieces (1858-1898); as addressee: 30 (1858-1891) Anderson, Larz, 1803-1878. As author: 13 pieces (1856-1877); as addressee: none Anderson, Richard Clough, 1829-1878. As author: 6 pieces (1864-1878); as addressee: none Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871. As author: 8 pieces (1825-1871); as addressee: 2 pieces (1842-1843) Anderson, Robert Marshall, 1862-1939. As author: 22 pieces (1872-1939); as addressee: 87 pieces (1879-1939) Anderson, Thomas McArthur, 1836-1917. As author 5 pieces (1864-1901); as addressee 7 pieces (1876-1901) Anderson, William Marshall, 1807-1881. As author: 53 pieces (1838-1880); as addressee: 115 pieces (1837-1880) Clarke, Powhatan Henry, 1862-1893. As author: 6 pieces (1875-1893); as addressee: none Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. As author: 7 pieces (1843-1867); as addressee: none Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894. As author: 1 piece (1865); as addressee: none Ellison, Robert Spurrier. As author: 11 pieces (1935-1939); as addressee: 22 pieces (1935-1941) Juncker, Henry Damian, 1810-1868. As author: 1 piece (1855); as addressee: none Longworth, Nicholas, 1782-1863. As author: 1 piece (1851); as addressee: none McArthur, Duncan, 1772-1839. As author: 2 pieces; as addressee: 1817 and 1837 Magruder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871. As author: 1 piece (1866); as addressee: none Olds, Joseph. As author: 12 pieces (1885-1901); as addressee: 8 pieces (1866-1903) Olds, Mary Anderson, b. 1846. As author: 12 pieces (1877-1896); as addressee: 1 piece (1885) Purcell, John Baptist, 1800-1883. As author: 4 pieces (1855-1868); as addressee: 1 piece (1868) Piatt, Donn 1819-1892. As author: 5 pieces (1884-1891); as addressee: none Sherman, Ellen Boyle Ewing, 1824-1888. As author: 1 piece (1872); as addressee: none Thurman, Allen Granbery, 1813-1895. As author: 1 piece (1875); as addressee: 1 piece (1851) The Rocky Mountain diary of William Marshall Anderson was published on various occasions in 1838-1967. His Mexican diary has been published in: An American in Maximilian's Mexico, 1865-1866: the diaries of William Marshall Anderson / edited by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz. (San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, 1959).
mssAD 1-454
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Frances Power Cobbe Correspondence
Manuscripts
Letters addressed to Frances Power Cobbe cover women's suffrage and rights; antivivisection, her social work in Bristol, and her moral and religious writings; comments on her books and articles. Correspondents include Mary Carpenter, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Charles Darwin, Earl of Shaftesbury, James Anthony Froude, Keshub Chunder Sen, James Martineau, Theodore Parker, Felix Pecaut, and others. Bray, Caroline (Hennell). 1895, May 21. Re: George Eliot. Cobbe, Charles, Abp. of Dublin. To his son, Charles Cobbe. 1750, Mar. 17. Letter of advice on going abroad. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. 1875, May 7. Re: vivisection. Froude, James Anthony. Interesting series of letters. Galton, Sir Francis. 1877, Aug. 27. Re: motives for murder. Kesavachandra Sena. 1878, Apr. 26. Re: the marriage of his young daughter. Montefiore, Claude G. 1882, Dec. 4. On inter-racial marriage with Jews. Parker, Theodore. 1848, May 5. On religion. Russell, John, styled Viscount Amberly. 1874, Nov. 10 & 25. Letter about Frances Power Cobbe's essay on Mill. Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Balfour). 1890, Jan. 10. On premonitions, telepathy, and hallucinations. Spencer, Herbert. 1872. Criticism of Miss Cobbe's Darwinism in Morals. Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1884, Mar. 9. Re: his friendliness toward dogs and his views on vivisection. Amos, Sheldon (3 pieces, 1879-83) Bonheur, Rosa (4 pieces, 1869-98) Boyle, Eleanor Vere (Gordon) ((3 pieces, c.1890?) Brown, Edward Harold, Bp. of Winchester (8 pieces, 1878-89) Butler, Frances Anne (Kemble) (5 pieces, c. 1865-90) Carpenter, Mary (23 pieces, 1858-77) Carpenter, William Benjamin (4 pieces, 1867-73) Channing, William Henry (5 pieces, 1860-83) Colenso, John William, Bp. of Natal (11 pieces, 1863-74) Collins, William Wilkie (3 pieces, 1882-83) Cooper, Anthony Ashley (7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 238 pieces, 1877-85) Darwin, Charles Robert (5 pieces, c.1870-75) Darwin, Emma (Wedgewood) (4 pieces, c.1870-90) Eastlake, Elizabeth (Rigby) , Lady (3 pieces, 1885-89) Edwards, Amelia Ann Blandford (3 pieces, 1888-89) Fawcett, Millicent (Garrett) (3 pieces, c.1885-90) Froude, James Anthony (34 pieces, 1861-92) Greg, William Rathbone (3 pieces, c.1870-80) Herbert, George Robert Charles (13th Earl of Pembroke, 4 pieces, 1888) Hoare, John N (4 pieces, 1894) How, William Walsham, Bp. of Wakefield (5 pieces, 1889-94) Hutton, Richard Holt (8 pieces, 1875-92) James, Henry (3 pieces, 1893) Jowett, Benjamin (4 pieces, 1860-65) Kesavachandra Sena (14 pieces, 1863-78) Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (5 pieces, 1865-90) Lilly, William Samuel (3 pieces, 1885-86) Manning, Henry Edward, Cardinal (5 pieces, 1882-89) Martineau, James (26 pieces, 1865-97) Morley, John (1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, 5 pieces, 1880) Morris, Sir Lewis (3 pieces, 1881-c.1887) Newman, Francis William (3 pieces, 1859-76) Paget Walpurga Ehrengarde... (4 pieces, 1891) Parker, Theodore (17 pieces, 1848-60) Pécaut, Félix (12 pieces, 1863-71) Pécaut, J Elie (5 pieces, 1898) Ponsonby, Sir Henry Frederick (4 pieces, 1884-87) Rhys, Sir John (3 pieces, 1891-93) Ritchie, Anne Isabella ... (3 pieces, c.1875-82) Roberts, William Page (3 pieces, 1886-87) Spencer, Herbert (5 pieces, 1866-c.1875) Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn (10 pieces, 1871-79) Taylor, Helen (3 pieces, 1868-74) Taylor, Sir Henry (3 pieces, 1879-82) Tennyson, Hallam (2d Baron Tennyson, 4 pieces, 1882-94) Tyndall, John (4 pieces, 1865-c.1875) Upton, Charles Barnes (3 pieces, 1883-86) Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold) (10 pieces, 1888-94) Watson, Sir William (3 pieces, c.1890-1900) Webster, Augusta (3 pieces, 1878-81) Welldon, James Edward Cowell (4 pieces, 1886-92) Wilberforce, Albert Basil Orme (7 pieces, c.1890-92)
mssCB 1-854