This working research collection of history scholar Dr. Henry Hart, includes a montage of personal letters written by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, H.L. Mencken, and A.E. Housman. Hart’s interests ranged widely and deep:subsets of his collection are the Marco Polo and Pacific Exploration components, including a hand-illustrated and autographed 1655 Atlas of China, compiled by Jesuit missionaries.

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Collection policy: By appointment

For more information:
the University Library maintains a Chinese Atlas website, focusing on the 1655 Atlas of China: http://www.library.csueastbay.edu/atlas/default.htm

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