Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1725">1725</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1729">1729</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Neilson Campbell Hannay Collection of William Cowper, 1711-1965 (inclusive) 1750s-1799 (bulk)

Extent:: 10 boxes, 6 items, 10 volumes, and 5 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of poetry manuscripts, documents, pictorial works, correspondence, and miscellanea relating to the English poet William Cowper (1731-1800), and to his circle of family, friends, and editors, collected by Neilson Campbell Hannay.

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Andre De Coppet Collection Concerning United States History, 1566-1942 (inclusive) 1770-1865 (bulk)

Extent:: 48 boxes and 27 items
Abstract:: The Andre De Coppet Collection represents the American history-related collecting activities of American broker and collector Andre De Coppet (Princeton Class of 1915). There are numerous manuscripts, personal letters, documents, and printed material from three main periods: the Revolutionary War, the Federal Period, and the Civil War.

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Rush Family Papers, 1675-1885 (inclusive) 1817-1849 (bulk)

Extent:: 61 boxes, 55 items, 11 volumes, and 26.55 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection documents the career of Richard Rush (Princeton Class of 1797) as lawyer, statesman, and diplomat, emphasizing diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Great Britain while he was minister to Great Britain (1817-1825) and between the United States and France when he was minister to France (1847-1849), as well as his successful efforts (1836-1838) in securing the Smithsonian bequest, which was used to establish the Smithsonian Institution. The papers of Richard Rush constitute the larger part of the collection; letters of his father, Benjamin Rush, M.D. (Princeton Class of 1760), and papers of his son, Benjamin Rush (Princeton Class of 1829, constitute the other major groups of papers in this family archive.

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John Hinsdale Scheide Collection, 1007-1873 (inclusive) 1200-1650 (bulk)

Extent:: 253 boxes and 229 items
Abstract:: Consists of 7,935 Western European documents and other manuscript materials collected by William T. Scheide (1847-1907) and his son, American businessman John Hinsdale Scheide (Princeton Class of 1896).

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Gulick Family Papers, 1710-1875 (inclusive) 1809-1842 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: The Gulick Family Papers consists of family bills, receipts, wills, letters, contracts, stock certificates, warrants, deeds, a genealogy, and an autograph book.

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Howell Family of New Jersey Papers, 1703-1919 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 boxes and 1.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers of various members of the Howell family of Morris County, New Jersey.

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Horace Walpole Family Collection, 1724-1786 (bulk) 1724-1857 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: A collection of letters and documents of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, the English historian, Member of Parliament, connoisseur, playwright, and novelist, and of his father Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, who was to become England's longest running Prime Minister.

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Junius Spencer Morgan Collection of Seals, circa 1294-1824 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Contains seven Royal and Papal seals spanning the 13th to the 19th century and including Louis XVIII of France, Pope Leo X, and Pope Boniface VIII.

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Thomas Shields Clarke Collection of German Legal Documents, 1572-1802 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.5 linear feet
Abstract:: The Thomas Shields Clarke Collection of German Legal Documents consists of eight German and Italian legal documents, in German and Latin, collected by American sculptor and painter Thomas Shields Clarke (Princeton Class of 1882). The documents range in date from 1572 to 1802.

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Lampersdorf Lutheran Congregation Registers, 1677-1822 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of six bound volumes kept by the Lutheran Congregation in Lampersdorf, Silesia (now Zaborow, Poland).

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