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Collection
Identifier: MS.1997.009
Abstract
Letters written to and from writer and social reformer Hannah More, as well as other manuscript and visual materials relating to the lives of More and her contemporaries.
Dates:
1748-1933; Majority of material found within 1748 - 1830
Collection
Identifier: MS.2020.001
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of original correspondence and other secondary source material on Hannah More, gathered by Mary Alden Hopkins in the course of her research for the book Hannah More and Her Circle (1947). Materials include original outgoing letters from and incoming letters to Hannah More, typescripts of letters in this collection, copies and transcripts of More letters and materials held by other institutions, correspondence between Hopkins and...
Dates:
1777-1943
Collection
Identifier: MS.2013.020
Abstract
The More House Archive consists of the family archive of the Hope-Nicholson family, who lived at More House at 52 Tite Street in London for a century, beginning in 1892. The house was first purchased by Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge and the house archive contains materials produced by them, their daughter and son-in-law Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson, and grandchildren (particularly Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster and Felix Hope-Nicholson), as well as other members of their extended...
Dates:
1587-1997; Majority of material found within 1870-1945
Collection
Identifier: Press coll Archives Nash
Scope and Contents
This collection contains printed ephemera and other materials designed and printed by John Henry Nash while he lived in San Francisco, California and Eugene, Oregon. The collection contain a large number of Christmas and New Years greeting cards, dating from 1914-1936 for the Creech and March families. Another notable client was photographer Dorothea Lange. The collection also contains corporate advertisements for local clothing stores and restaurants in San Francisco particularly. There are...
Dates:
1900-1947
Collection
Identifier: MS.2007.017
Abstract
This collection contains material created and collected by Wallace and Corry Nethery. Correspondence, drafts, research notes, and ephemera are included for a number of Nethery's books. Materials related to Nethery's work as a librarian at the University of Southern California are included as well. Photocopies of letters to, from, and about Elisabeth Jungmann are numerous. The subject matter for most of the books and papers relate to Max Beerbohm, Charles and Mary Lamb, Elisabeth Jungmann,...
Dates:
1931-2000
Collection
Identifier: M1-H24m
Scope and Contents
This finding aid describes the contents of the music periodical The New Musical Magazine from 1783 to 1786.
Dates:
1783-1786
Collection
Identifier: MS.2015.006
Abstract
This collection is comprised primarily of correspondence made within a circle of scholars of the early modern and Restoration period regarding the publication of a comprehensive, scholarly edition of works by 18th-century thinker Daniel Defoe. The primary correspondents are Maximillian E. Novak (UCLA) and Manuel Schonhorn (Southern Illinois University), who have been editors of the Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe Edition Series since the project was first started in 1968 - then under a...
Dates:
1967-2004
Collection
Identifier: MS.2016.003
Abstract
This collection contains 35mm color slides taken by George John Palé from about 1944 to 1965 and document his World War II service in Europe and the Philippines, as well as his postwar family life in Arizona.
Dates:
about 1944-1965
Collection — Box: MS.2021.032
Identifier: MS.2021.032
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a mixture of ephemera from theatrical productions, relating to the works of Oscar Wilde and photographs of actors associated with contemporary productions of Wilde's plays. The MS.2021.032 box also includes a provisional catalog from sellers describing contents' relation to Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
1887-1913
Collection
Identifier: * PQ1211-P62
Abstract
This collection of 548 plays was bound into 42 volumes between 1814-1819 and includes plays, mostly comedies, from the 1780s through the early 19th century, although the majority of the plays come from the time of the French Revolution.
Dates:
1780-1805