The majority of Mormon manuscripts at the Huntington were acquired individually and do not belong to larger collections. Therefore, these items have been grouped together to form a single, artificial (not sharing the same provenance or function)...
The Manuscript Department of the Huntington has over 5,000 items in its holdings related to the subject of Hawaii. This material spans 200 years of Hawaiian history (inclusive dates are 1766 to 1977) and ranges from individual letters and journals...
The collection includes manuscripts for essays, novels, and monographs of collected columns as well as screenplays and television scripts. In the correspondence there is a large series of letters written by Al MartÃnez to his wife, while serving...
The photographs arrived at the Huntington in 1924 when, after persistent negotiations, she sold some 1200 glass plate negatives and her "catalogue set of blue prints" to Henry E. Huntingotn and his library for several thousand dollars.* In her...
The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts and correspondence of Hilary Mantel (1952-). Manuscripts include short stories, lectures, radio plays, articles and reviews, as well as various drafts and notes for Mantel's novels. Personal...
The Albert R. Hibbs Papers, 1884-2009 (80 boxes) document the personal life and career of Hibbs as a manager and scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the relationships between JPL, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
The collection consists of H.H. Beauchamp's Journals with typewritten transcriptions for the years 1870-1907, in which he wrote extensively about family matters, as well as, his travels, often pasting in photos, newspaper clippings and other...
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, was appointed Constable of the Tower of London by George IV in 1827. A sinecure of high honor, the post of Constable was also very lucrative. The Constable was not required to reside in the Tower, and the...
This collection contains a small number of manuscripts, documents, photographs and ephemera; the majority of the collection consists of Pigott's personal and professional correspondence, both from his work as a journalist and as the Examiner of...
The collection consists of manuscripts by Partington, James Agate, Jessie Conrad, R. B. Cunninghame Grahame, John Kirkby, and H. D. C. Pepler; these manuscripts include articles, essays, personal narratives, poems, and short stories. The...
The collection consists mainly of letters from Isabel Burton and Richard Burton to Leonard Charles Smithers from 1885 to 1892, the collection also contains a printed prospectus for The Arabian Nights, a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, a...
This collection consists of one manuscript by Richard F. Burton, and letters and documents, by, among others, Isabel Burton, Richard Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron, William Marcus Coghlan, J. A. Froude, Charles George Gordon, J. A. Grant, Joseph...