The Claremont Colleges Special Collections Autograph and Manuscript Collection, 1501-1993 and undated

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Title:
The Claremont Colleges Special Collections Autograph and Manuscript Collection
Dates:
1501-1993 and undated
Creators:
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888; Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896; Cartwright, John, 1740-1824; Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928; Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928; Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964; Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912; Lawrence, A. W. (Arnold Walter), 1900-; Lawrence-Archer, J. H. (James Henry), 1823-1889; Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953; Talbot, Clare Ryan
Abstract:
The Claremont Colleges Special Collections Autograph and Manuscript Collection collection was formed by Special Collections of The Claremont Colleges Library to house its various singular manuscript materials created by authors, politicians, and scientists, and other notable figures. The collection includes handwritten letters, typescripts, certificates, photographs, and ephemera. The materials within this collection range widely in creation date and subject, from an illuminated manuscript leaf from approximately the 16th century, to a check to Eleanor Roosevelt from the Griffith Park Democratic Women, letters from Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), and Yoshiko Tanabe’s letter from a Japanese internment camp in the 1940s.
Extent:
5.4 Linear Feet (1 document box, 4 flat boxes, and 1 oversized flat box)
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English , Spanish , Japanese , and Latin .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], The Claremont Colleges Special Collections Autograph and Manuscript Collection (H.Mss.1045). Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains manuscripts by various historical figures and lesser known writers. Items range from an illuminated manuscript leaf from approximately the 16th century, to a check to Eleanor Roosevelt from the Griffith Park Democratic Women, to Yoshiko Tanabe’s letter from a Japanese internment camp in the 1940s. Materials are primarily written in English, with Latin and Japanese texts. Correspondence from literary figures such as English poet Matthew Arnold, nature writer Mary Austin, novelist Pearl S. Buck, and American food writer M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy) Fisher are a part of this collection. Some notable figures in the collection include United States Presidents John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Washington, as well as correspondence by scientists Albert Einstein and Louis Pasteur. There are letters by French businessman, artist, and traveler Jean Beraud-Villars, Pomona College graduate and administrator Robert J. Bernard, landscape gardener and landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, and American cartoonist Gluyas Williams. Also included in this collection are the William R. Stokes Civil War papers which are comprised of certificates of commission, army pension documents, E. H. Gelston and Company correspondence, attorney Allan Rutherford correspondence, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers correspondence, and personal papers.

Biographical / historical:

This is an artificial collection created by Special Collections of The Claremont Colleges Library to contain manuscript materials relating to and created by notable authors, politicians, scientists, and historical figures. The collection includes letters, typescripts, certificates, photographs, and ephemera. These manuscripts were found laid in books housed in Special Collections, donated by professors and friends of the Claremont Colleges, or purchased.

Acquisition information:
Acquired through donations and purchases.
Processing information:

Data entry by Patricia Fouts (2014), data expanded by Tanya Kato (2016), and Sara Chetney (2017). Items in this collection were primarily processed at the item level. Items are foldered and housed in acid free boxes. The folders are labeled with “HM” numbers representing “Honnold Manuscript” and numeration is continuous throughout the boxes.

Arrangement:

Titles are arranged in alphabetical order.

Materials are arranged alphabetically at an item level. For search and reference purposes, the items are arranged into artificial series.

Accruals:

Additions to the collection are anticipated.

Physical location:
Please consult repository.

About this collection guide

Date Prepared:
© 2017

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], The Claremont Colleges Special Collections Autograph and Manuscript Collection (H.Mss.1045). Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California.

Location of this collection:
800 N. Dartmouth Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711, US
Contact:
(909) 607‑3977
specialcollections@claremont.edu
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