Miscellaneous manuscripts collection, circa 1750

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Summary

Extent:
136.5 linear feet (261 boxes, 6 cartons, and 20 oversize boxes) and 2.5 linear feet (1 unprocessed flat box, 2 unprocessed document boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Miscellaneous manuscripts collection (Collection 100). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of miscellaneous 18th, 19th, and 20th century manuscript materials, typewritten transcripts, holographs, and facsimiles. Includes literary manuscripts, correspondence, letters, diaries, scripts, legal documents, photographs, and audio tapes related to various prominent literary, political, and intellectual figures.

Processing information:

Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff.

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Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Manuscripts.
Letters.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Portions of collection unprocessed. Material in the boxes 204-280 are unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Miscellaneous manuscripts collection (Collection 100). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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