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Administrative information Catalogued from microfilm inApril 2003 by Victoria Burke and Kathryn Prince. The physical characteristics of this manuscript are described in detail in Aldrich-Watson, pp.lvii-lxii. Where characteristics not visible on the microfilm are noted in this catalogue entry, these are derived from Aldrich-Watson's book and have not yet been checked against the actual manuscript by a Perdita researcher. Available to card holders at the Huntington Library Address: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, USA Telephone: (626) 405-2100 Fax: (626) 449-5720 email: shodson@huntington.org (Sara S. (Sue) Hodson, Curator, Literary Manuscripts Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 8:30am - 5pm. Closed Sundays and the following holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, and Christmas Day. Admission: Application for reading privileges should be made to the Reader Services Department. Full-time college and university faculty who hold the degree of Ph.D. in the field of their proposed research are registered upon presentation of their faculty identification card (or letter from the chairman of their academic department if their institution does not issue faculty identification cards) and verification of their signature such as a driver's license or passport. Doctoral candidates from American or Canadian colleges or universities who have passed their Ph.D. qualifying examinations and have been advanced to candidacy are registered upon presentation of a letter of reference from their dissertation advisor which stipulates the nature of their research and their ability to perform independent scholarly research, their student identification card, and a driver's license or passport. Holders of Huntington fellowships may register without formalities upon arrival. All other individuals who have a project which advances scholarly research must apply for reading privileges before coming to the Library. Applicants should contact the Reader Services Department to request an application form. The application, which includes the names and addresses of two scholars in good standing who will act as references, should be filed with the Reader Services Department. The Reader Services Department will contact all references. Applicants are requested to allow three weeks for the completion of the approval process. Web http://www.huntington.org/ Availability of surrogates Aldrich-Watson, Deborah, The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, Tempe,AZ, Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Renaissance English Text Society, 2000 Related manuscripts are Yale University, Beinecke Library, Osborn MS b.4 (Herbert Aston's miscellany, dated 1634 but primarily compiled in the 1650s to 1680s; Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5 (the hand is identical to the Hand C in Huntington MS HM 904; Roman Catholic poetry compiled c. 1651 to 1657; British Library Add. MS 36452 (personal correspondence of the Aston family; collected by Arthur Clifford in Tixall Letters, see bibliography below); Trinity College Cambridge MS R.5.5 (contains correspondence of Lady Anne Sadleir and the Astons) |