UNlVERSllY U BRARIJES w UNIVERSITY of WASHI NGTON Spe ial Colle tions 155 Walter B. Beals papers Inventory Accession No: 0126-008 Special Collections Division University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, Washington, 98195-2900 USA (206) 543-1929 This document forms part of the Preliminary Guide to the Walter B. Beals Papers. To find out more about the history, context, arrangement, availability and restrictions on this collection, click on the following link: http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/permalink/BealsWalterB0126/ Special Collections home page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/ Search Collection Guides: http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/search WALTER BURGES BEALS SIGNATURE COLLECTION Accession No. 126-8 GUIDE In his time, Judge Beals was the greatest private collector of manuscripts and books in the Pacific Northwest. His collection included several manuscript Bibles and numerous fragments of liturgical and religious manuscripts of the 11th through the 17th centuries, some of which are listed in S. DeRicci's Census, pp. 2188-2192, and others not. He also owned 18 items of Biblical incunabula, many English, French, Dutch and Latin and Greek / language Bibles of later periods, and numerous early printed works of legal and historical interest. He collected British and European printed and engraved portraits of noted persons and scenes of historical and topographical significance; he owned 85 superb original hand-colored printed political cartoons and personal satires of Napoleon and his times by Cruishank, Woodward, Gillray and continental artists. Judge Beals was an avid collector of royal autographs and of letters and printed documents signed by historical personages. His collection included documents signed by the Kings of France (Louis XI to Napoleon III), by the crowned heads of many other countries of Europe. Henri IV of France was the particular focus of his collecting interest, with Napoleon and Queen Victoria enjoying almost equal attention. His American collection of the Civil War period and later was rich in content with many whole letters as well as clipped signatures. The autograph collections included documents written or signed by persons the Judge had known when a colonel in France in World War I, in U.S. judicial circles, and as a jurist at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg. The Beals collections are no longer fully intact. Some, including an antique coin collection, were sold, given away, or lost. Some of the manuscript and autograph materials is now in various catholic institutions in the Northwest and in private hands. This accession contains the bulk of Beal's autograph collection. The inventory lists all of the loose manuscripts and autographs in the accession. The accession also includes one bound volume of autographs of U.S. presidents, vice presidents and cabinet members from ca. 1800 to 1920, and 9 volumes of illustrations and autographs of Union and Confederate army officers. The Libraries' Special Collections Division has additional material from Judge Beals' collections, including bound volumes with manuscripts and illustrations, medieval manuscripts, and rare books, including early printed bibles and French and English history books. BEALS, WALTER BURGES Acc. No. 126-8 SIGNATURE COLLECTION 1400-1950 BOX NO. NAME NO. ITEMS DATES 1 Abert, John James (1788-1863) 1 11/18/1830 Adam, Juliette 1 1/19/1888 Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886) 2 7/9/1878 nd Adams, James H. (1811-1861) 1 6/20/1840 Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) 2 10/10/1818 2/1/1828 (oversize) Adams, James Truslow (1878-1949) 1 1/31/1933 Addington, Henry, (1st Viscount 1 10/14/1812 Sidmouth) (1757-1844) Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe 1 nd (1807-1873) Albert, Casmir (1738-1822) 1 7/17/1787 Albrecht, Theodor Emil 3 8/31/1872 4/12/1876 2/23/1879 Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) 1 nd Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth (1841-1915) 1 12/17/1885 Ale~ander, Edward Porter (1835-1910) 1 6/9/1905 Alexander, Robert (1863-) 2 6/28/1931 Ali Pacha (1741-1822) 1 /21/1813 Alma-Tadema, Lady Laura Theresa 2 4/5/1877 (1852-1909) nd Alvord, Benjamin (1860-1927) 1 12/22/1925 Aines> Adelbert (1835-1933) 3 2/4/1901 6/1903 7/1/1905 Aines, Oakes (1804-1873) 2 2/19/1871 nd Amherst, William Pitt, (1773-1857) 2 7/28/1801 5/9/1805 BEALS (126-8) p. 2 BOX NO. NAME NO. ITEMS DATES 1 Anderson, Mary 1 12/31/1877 (cont'd) Anderson, Robert (1805-1871) 1 nd Anderson, Sherwood 1 7/2/1903 Andrllossy 2 Andrew, John A. 2 8/29/1833 5/9/1861 Ansell, Samuel Tilden (1875- ) 1 3/20/1930 Ansell, Richard (1815-1885) 1 5/19/ Anson, George (1697-1762) 1 12/4/1751 Anthon, John 1 9/24/1827 Arb lay, Frances, (Burney, Madame,.: d') 1 nd (1752-1840) Armaignac 1 /6/1628 Arrnentieres, Louis de Brienne de 1 3/5/1768 Conflans, (Marquis d') Arthur, Sir G.A. 1 nd Ashmore, J.D. see Bonham, U.S. Ashrnun, George (1804-1870) 1 10/24/1656 Augell, James Lowland (1869-1949) 1 11/23/1936 August 1 /24/1817 Austin, Alfred 1 nd Austin, Warren Robinson (1877- ) 1 5/27/1936 , Auzere, Adrien 1 Babcock, Joshua 1 6/17/1774 Babcock, Orville E. 1 1/21/1870 Bagley, Clarence Booth (1843-1932) 1 9/1890 Bailey, Josiah William (1873-1946) 1 9/27/1937 Bailey, Charles Justin (1859- ) 7 1925-1935 BEALS (126-8) p. 3 BOX NO. NAME NO. ITEMS DATES 1 Baker, Newton Diehl (1873-1937) 1 6/19/1931 (cont'd) see W.B. Beals Baker, Ray Standard 1 6/22/1651 Baldwin, Simeon (1761-1851) 1 3/25/1804 Baldwin, Stanley, Earl of Bewdley 1 2/10/1938 Balincourt, Claude Guillaume Testu, 1 12/30/1750 (Marquis de) Balfe, Michael William 1 12/26/1869 Bancroft, George 2 2/28/1868 9/10/1880 Bankes 1 nd Banks, Nathaniel Prentice 6 11/22/ (1816-1894) 3/5/ 3/10/1870 9/1/1878 10/9/1879 nd Barbour, Phillip Pendleton 3 2/1/1822 (1783-1841) 2/26/1825 2/25/1830 Barclay, Jean de 1 7/9/1618 Barksdale, William (1821-1863) 1 nd Barlow, Francis Channing (1834-1896) 1 10/19/1866 Barnard, John Gross (1815-1882) 1 7/26/1865 Barr, James 1 12/31/1937 Barrosse, B.A. 1 9/10/1909 Barry, Edward M. 1 6/15/1868 Barry, William Taylor (1784-1854) 1 3/17/1834 Barth, Charles H. (1858- ) 1 5/1/1918 Bartolozzi, Francesco (1727-1813) 2 8/25/1802 8/23/1806 Barton, William 1 12/21/1804 BEALS (126-8) p. 4 BOX NO. NAME NO. ITEMS DATES 1 Bates, John Coalter (1842-1919) 1 5/3/1905 (cont'd) Baudry des Loziers, Louis 1 7/13/1799 Baulny, Cesar Louis 2 ca. 1/1781 ca. 6/1781 Beals, Walter Burges 1 6/24/1897 Bearn 1 1/17/1514 Beauchamps 2 ca. 1/1591 ca. 2/14/1591 Beaumont (1760-1830) 1 ca. 1807 Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant 3 ca .. 1862 (1818-1893) 9/15/1891 nd Beauvau, Charles Juste 1 10/23/1777 Bechaud, Jean-Pierre 1 1668 Beck, James Montgomery (1861-1936) 1 4/7/1930 Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887) 2 6/3/1867 1/5/1875 Beechey, Sir William (1753-1837) 1 nd Beker, Nicolais-Leonard 1 ca. 1830 Belaire 1 Belasyse 1 1/20/1686 Belknap, William Worth (1829-1890) 2 3/9/1874 7/10/1895 Bell, John (1797-1869) 1 5/12/1834 Bellay see St. Domingue Bellefontane Parish, Subjects of 1 1395 Due D'Orleans Belleisle, Charles Fonquet de 1 1/2/1761 BEALS (126-8) p. 5 BOX NO. NAME NO.ITEMS DATES 1 Belliard, Aug. - Daniel 1 nd (cont'd) Belloc, H. 3 8/3/1918 2/2/1933 2/2/1933 Bellon, Charles 1 2/15/1895 Belzunce, Armand, (Vicomte de) 1 3/18/1763 2 Benet, Stephen Vincent 2 6/26/1631 nd Benet, William Rose (1886-1950) 2 4/21/1930 ca. 6/10/1930 Benhan, Henry (1813-1884) 1 10/20/1873 Benhamin, Park (1849-1922) 1 nd Benson, Edward White (1829-1896) 1 1/21/1888 Bentinck, William Cavendish 2 8/14/1834 (1774-1839) nd Benton, Thomas Hart (1782-1858) 1 nd Bernano 1 2/26/1873 Bernard, Sir Frances (1712-1779) 1 11/19/1761 Bernhardt, Sarah 1 3/24/1870 Berthier 3 3/17/1792 4/6/1800 nd Besant, Annie (1847- ) 2 12/3/1875 7/30/1897 Bethel, Walter A. (1866- ) 1 4/25/1933 Betty, Henry W. 1956 Bevis, Leura Dorothy 1 1/1934 Bibb, William Wyatt (1781-1820) 1812 Bidal, Claude 2 3/1/1732 3/1/1732 Bigelow, John (1854-1936) 1 11/7/ Bill, 1 12/11/1925 BEALS (126-8) p. 6 BOX NO. NAMES NO. ITEMS DATES 2 Bingham, John Armour (1815-1900) 1 nd (cont'd) Binney, Horace (1870- ) 1 4/16/1828 Birket-Foster, R.W.S. 2 7/12/1878 12/12/1878 Biron, Charles-Armand de Gontaut, 3 12/22/1707 (Due de) 4/15/1720 7/21/1735 Birrell, Augustine 1 nd Bisbee, William Henry (1840- ) 1 nd Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley (1786-1955) 2 3/2/1828 5/11/ Bismark, Qt.to Von 1 5/4/1869 Bjornson, Bjornstjerne (1832-1910) 1 10/29/1906 Black, Jeremiah S. 2 11/10/1858 nd Blaine, James Gillespie (1830-1920) 2 7/18/1879 6/6/1889 Blinn, Marshall 1 7/17/1872 Bliss, W.S. 1 2/28/1848 Bllicher 1 5/21/1809 Blumenthal 1 2/21/ Blunden, Edmund 1 9/10/1479 Blunt, Charles E.