Collection of manuscripts and letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1852-1887 (bulk 1871-1885).

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Collection of manuscripts and letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1852-1887 (bulk 1871-1885).

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Collection of autograph manuscripts and letters of Helen Hunt Jackson was assembled at the Library from the collection acquired from Patrick Kevin Foley, a noted bookseller and collector in 1923, supplemented by various gifts and purchases in 1934, 1980, and 1986. Autograph manuscripts include 21 poems and three prosaic works -- "Bits of Travel at Home," "One Woman and Sunshine," (draft of an article on Mrs. Jeanne C. Smith Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, CA.), and "The Story of Clotilde Danarosch." Helen Hunt Jackson's letters to William Hayes Ward (1835-1916), the editor of the editorial of the New York Independent, constitute the largest part of the correspondence (89 letters, written between 1871 and 1885). Also included are seventeen letters to Ray Palmer (1808-1887) and his wife Ann Maria Waud Palmer written between 1852 and 1854; thirteen letters to Mary Elizabeth Sheriff Fowler (1841-1921), the first government schoolteacher at Saboba in the San Jacinto Valley (1882-1885), four 1882 letters to Henry Chandler Bowen (1813-1896), the editor and proprietor of the Independent, four letters to Mrs. D. J. Whipple who ran a boarding house in San Diego and later Los Angeles; and two letters to Richard Egan (1842-1923), a Los Angeles County supervisor, written in 1884. Also included are two letters by William Sharpless Jackson (1836-1919) and Charles C. Painter (d. 1895).

145 pieces.2 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Jackson, William S. (William Sharpless), 1836-1919

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William Sharpless Jackson was born (1836) and raised in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He served as an apprentice in the machinist trade in Wilmington, Delaware. For the next six years, he engaged in the lumber trade and car industry. Afterwards William S. Jackson worked for the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company in Duluth. This job introduced him to William Jackson Palmer, who invited him to work for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company. In 1871, William S. Jackson moved to Colo...

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted co...

Foley, Patrick Kevin, 1856-1937

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Patrick Kevin Foley (1856-1937) was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 1881. He started as a travelling book salesman and later became a general agent for subscription book houses. He developed into a bibliographical expert and a great antiquarian bookseller, starting in business in 1896. His knowledge of New England authors was considerable and in 1897 he published American Authors, 1795-1895. A Bibliography of First and Notable Editions Chronologically Arranged with Notes. Foley ...

Palmer, Ray, 1808-1887

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Ward, William Hayes, 1835-1916

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William Hayes Ward, 1835-1916, born Abington, Mass. Editor, Assyriologist, author. Educated 1856 Amherst, 1859 graduated Andover Seminary, 1885 LLD Amherst. Ordained Congregationalist minister. Associate editor, later editor-in-chief of "The Independent" (New York weekly) between 1868-1913. Director of Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia 1884-85. President of American Oriental Society. Wrote Biography of Sydney Lanier, What I Believe and Why, etc. Samuel Sydney McClure,1857-19...

Carr, Jeanne C. Smith

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Jeanne Caroline Smith Carr was born in Vermont and married Ezra Slocum Carr, a physician and professor, who taught at the University of Wisconsin before they moved to California in 1869. Ezra became a professor at the University of California, and in 1875 when he was elected state superintendent of public instruction, his wife was made assistant superintendent. The Carrs settled in Pasadena in 1880, where Jeanne's long interest in botany inspired the development of their home, "Carmelita," a gar...

Egan, Richard, 1842-1923.

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Richard Egan was a surveyor and judge by trade. He served as Los Angeles County supervisor from 1885 to 1889 and also served on a commission to develop the Orange County public highways. An Irish immigrant, he had arrived in San Francisco during the Gold Rush and eventually moved to San Juan Capistrano after amassing a sizeable fortune. He was active as a surveyor during much of the 1870s. From the description of Richard Egan manuscript maps of Orange County,...

Bowen, Henry Chandler, 1813-1896

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Palmer, Ann Maria Waud,

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Fowler, Mary Elizabeth Sheriff, 1841-1921,

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Painter, C. C. (Charles Cornelius)

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