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Lord Mayors of London autograph scrapbook
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Richard Wykham, Sulgrave near Banbury, England, letter to Sir Issac Heard, London
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Autograph letter signed. Regarding Washington family genealogy in England. With seal and seven color family crests/ coats of arms. (4 pages)
HM 74699
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Liber amicorum
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This is a manuscript album or Stamp Book "wherein Kings, Princes, the Great Turk & many noblemen and learned men in favour of [Francis Segar] have subscribed their Names, with devices & mottos, & etc..., with 58 emblazoned and engraved coats of arms." This album was in the Segar family for most of the 18th century, during which time Segar's great-grand nephew, Simon Segar, tore out several signature pages and all of its illustrations; Simon Segar did add a note of explanation about the missing pages in the beginning of the album.
mssHM 743
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Scrapbook volume
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Original scrapbook volume with empty pages, except for three pages of pressed botanical specimens. The verso of the flyleaf has the ms. ink inscription: "Louise Virenda Blandy, in remembrance of April 12. 76, with much love, from Adelheid."
mssHM 57251-57339
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Queen Victoria letter to Sir George Scovell and others
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Collection of letters: Queen Victoria to Sir George Scovell, 1847 December 18. Volume also includes correspondence by Sir Henry William Paget, Duke of Kent, Lady Sarah Churchill, and Lord Thomas Erskine.
mssHM 4556-4566
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Anonymous autograph diary written aboard the ship Herculean and in California
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The diary contains 122 pages, 109 of which have writing on them. Most of the entries are in blue ink but there are also some in pencil. The ship "Herculean" left Boston in November 1849 filled with gold-seekers for California, traveled around Cape Horn, and arrived in San Francisco in May 1850. The volume begins with a list of the names of the crew and passengers on board the Herculean and is filled with tales of the ocean journey and shipboard entertainment, including a description of a stop in Valparaiso, Chile. The entries between May 6 and June 18, 1850 describe the city of San Francisco and also the towns of Stockton and Benicia, discuss prices in California for labor and lumber, and contain an account of his tent being robbed
mssHM 59965