Manuscripts
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Correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, and photographs of the Ward and Thoreau families. The correspondence consists of letters to Prudence Ward from Sophia, Maria, and Helen Thoreau and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn's letters to Anne J. Ward (1905, some with enclosed manuscripts). Also included are individual letters by Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Edmund Quincy Sewall, and George Washington Ward. The letters discuss the Alcott family, Mary Merrick Brooks, Lidian Jackson Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and the Thoreau family; American Antislavery Society, Cherokee Nation, Southworth & Hawes daguerreotypes, family affairs, social news, etc.
mssHM 68710-68772
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood correspondence
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A collection of letters, pen and ink drawings, etchings, sketches, diary pages, manuscripts, and poems by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The material was originally housed in one volume which was disbound by Huntington Library staff in 1975; the original binding (mssHM 12961) is housed in Box 3. The material is still window-mounted on original pages from the volume, many of the letters with envelopes.
mssHM 12895-12980
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