The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
Autograph MS travel diary, covering three extended tours on the Continent. Colebrande's first tour (p. 1-41) was in France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Orleans, Brittany, etc.); his second (p. 45-74) was also entirely in France; and on his third (p. 77-215) he travelled through France and into Italy (Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Padua, Venice, Milan) and back again across the Alps via Savoy, Geneva, etc., to Paris and Calais. At the end, various miscellaneous entries contain several receipts for varnishes and gildings and for making "stones of a paste;" several pages of advice for English travellers from France to Italy; and an account of the great Council of the Jews in Hungary, 12 Oct 1650, "by Samu. Brett who was there present."
Description:
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., With 18th century bookplate of Lord Walpole of Wolterton., and Written from from and back. Paginated [i-x], 1-[59] from back.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Italy--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., and Switzerland--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Brett, Samuel,--fl. 1655.
Subject (Topic):
Gilding., Jews--History., Jews--Hungary., Precious stones, Artificial., and Varnish and varnishing.
Recueil des histoires de Troie. English and Recueil des histoires de Troye
Description:
[A]3r text begins: and zeland and thus whan alle thyse thynges cam .., A translation of: Recueil des histoires de Troye., Approx. [350] leaves missing., Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford., Bookplates: Charles J. Rosenbloom; A. Edward Newton; John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn. Tipped in is an A.L.S. from Seymour de Ricci to A.E. Newton concerning this work., Imprint from STC and Needham; see also Lotte Hellinga, "Caxton in focus", p. 38-9, 48., In three books., Signatures: [A-O¹⁰ P⁸; A-I¹⁰ K-L⁶; A-K¹⁰]., The first book printed in English and the first book printed by Caxton on his own account., The first leaf is blank., The last leaf contains 14 lines of Latin verse beginning: Pergama flere volo. fata danais data solo ..., and Title from ¹[A]2r, which is printed in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Troy (Extinct city)--Romances--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Bedford, Francis,--1799-1883--Binding., Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, printer, Mansion, Colard, active 15th century, printer, Newton, A. Edward--(Alfred Edward),--1864-1940--Bookplate., Pruyn, John VanSchaick Lansing,--1811-1877--Bookplate., Ricci, Seymour de,--1881-1942--Autograph., and Rosenbloom, Charles J.--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library and Incunabula in Yale Library--Single leaves