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Letters, Documents, & Other Manuscripts, Duane Norman Diedrich collection, 1595-2007 (majority within 1719-1945)

3.5 linear feet

The Letters, Documents, and Other Manuscripts of the Duane Norman Diedrich Collection is a selection of individual items compiled by manuscript collector Duane Norman Diedrich (1935-2018) and the William L. Clements Library. The content of these materials reflect the life and interests of D. N. Diedrich, most prominently subjects pertinent to intellectual, artistic, and social history, education, speech and elocution, the securing of speakers for events, advice from elders to younger persons, and many others.

The Letters, Documents, and Other Manuscripts of the Duane Norman Diedrich Collection is a selection of individual items compiled by manuscript collector Duane Norman Diedrich (1935-2018) and the William L. Clements Library. The content of these materials reflect the life and interests of D. N. Diedrich, most prominently subjects pertinent to intellectual, artistic, and social history, education, speech and elocution, the securing of speakers for events, advice from elders to younger persons, and many others.

For an item-level description of the collection, with information about each manuscript, please see the box and folder listing below.

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. 3 Partially printed DsS to Samuel Tribou; , 1842-1852

3 pages [total]

Box 5
Receipts for magazine subscriptions purchased by Samuel Tribou: Youth's Companion, Boston Recorder, Illustrated Family Magazine. The receipt for the Boston Recorder has the printed date 1842 changed to 1852.
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. 4 printed fliers; Brooklyn, New York, [1898-1899]

8 pages (total)

Box 9
Four flyers for Dramatic Readings, put on by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philology. Henry Lawrence Southwick: "I, Hamlet, the Man of Will." Leland Powers: "Borrowed Spectacles." Garrett P. Serviss: "Spain and Her Hundred Years of Glory." F. Hopkinson Smith: "The Story of Colonel Carter of Cartersville." Garrett P. Serviss: "Old Holland and the Romance of the French Republic." George Riddle: "King Henry V." Burton Holmes (lectures): "Grecian Journeys" and "Grand Cañon of Arizona."