An Early Red-Printed Correction Sheet in the Huntington Library

2016 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-236
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Dane
Keyword(s):  
Huntington Library

The Huntington Library as a Research Center, 1925-1927

1948 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-306
Author(s):  
Godfrey Davies ◽  
H. E. Huntington ◽  
Max Farrand
Keyword(s):  
Research Center ◽  
Huntington Library

The Confessions of a Wayward Professor

1950 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-362
Author(s):  
Herbert Eugene Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Great Honor ◽  
The World ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Wild West ◽  
Huntington Library

It is a Great Honor for one who lives in the Wild West to be asked to speak in the cultured capital of our country, for California is remote. In fact, it came into history as “the most outlandish place in the World,” and in some quarters so it is still regarded. A wealthy Italian Duchess, in the seventeenth century, told her Father Confessor that she wished to endow a mission for the heathen. Being asked where she wished it established, she replied, “In the most outlandish place in all the world.” The Jesuits consulted their geography and concluded that the most outlandish place in all the world was California, and there the mission was founded. Father Kino had a long correspondence with the same Duchess, and for their letters the Huntington Library, a few years ago, paid $18,000. Bigger sums have been paid for letters written to a lady, but seldom for letters written to a lady by a Jesuit priest.

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