ANS. "Admit Sir R. Steel (a Member) to view the College Museum."

1 items1 p.

Letter: London, to "M."

ALS. Proposes an exchange for a cloak which recipient has found unsatisfactory in color.

1 items1 p.20 x 20 cm

Affidavit: Washington, D.C.

DS. Adams, Secretary of State in 1820, certifies "that the annexed is a true copy of a patent granted to Oliver Evans for his improvement in Steam Engines . . . dated the fourteenth day of February 1804."

1 items1 p.24 x 20 cm

Letter: Baltimore, Md., to Robert P. Allison, Indiana County, Pa.

ALS. Letter to "Dear brother Robert."
Discusses plans for an upcoming sea voyage and urges recipient not to worry on writer's behalf. Second half of letter is dated July 30th and is written while on board ship.

1 items1 p.

2 Account balances: to Wm. H. Ellis, New Haven, Conn.

2 ADsS. Form letters informing Ellis, "as agent for the Marine Hospital," of his quarterly balances for the first three quarters of 1830.

2 items2 p.

Letters: Kensington, to unknown correspondents

ALS. In the first letter, Ansdell informs his correspondent that he will send him a proof of "Death of the Stag." In the second, discusses in detail a mix-up concerning the delivery, to a Mr. Naylor, of a picture Ansdell had recently exhibited.

2 items5 p. on 3 leaves19 x 12 cm

Letter: Pittsburgh, Pa., to James S. Mason & Co.

ALS. Places an order: "Please ship at once and at very lowest price."

1 items1 p.

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Thomas P. Cope, Philadelphia, Pa.

TL. Requests aid in an undertaking to outline a genealogy of prominent families "who may have established themselves in the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, prior to the year 1800."

1 items3 p. on double sheet

Letter: London, to William Henry Davenport Adams, 1828-

ALS. "You are quite welcome to print the two pieces you want, and I have to thank you for the kindness with which you speak of my writings; for my own part, instead of thinking them too few, I am beginning to be uneasy at their number."

1 items2 p.18 x 12 cm

Letter: Harrow, to Henry Allon, 1818-1892

ALS. Writes he cannot accept Allon's invitation because of the death of his son: "owing to his delicate health and the constant care he required . . . the separation from him seems to change our lives more than I can well say . . . I mean to make it a rule not to leave [my wife] alone at present more than I can possibly help."

1 items3 p. on double sheet14 x 18 cm folded to 14 x 9 cm

Letter: London, to Richard Belt; [18--]-05-11

ALS. "Many thanks for your kind present which I shall take down with me into the country today to show to my wife and girls."

1 items1 p.18 x 12 cm

Letter: London, to the Rev. Moncure Daniel Conway, 1832-1907

ALS. Sends his correspondent information on how to obtain Lord Redesdale's (Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron, 1837-1916) papers. Suggests his friend write the Redesdale himself, stating that he is enquiring on behalf of an American gentleman translating Theocritus.

1 items2 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: Cobham, Surrey, to A.H. Dooley, d. 1903, Terre Haute, Ind.

ALS. Tells Dooley where to find a list of his published works. "There are a few sentences about Shelley and Wordsworth" in one of his Essays in Criticism, but he has not made either one of them the subject of an article. "The best edition of Wordsworth is, I suppose, the Centenary Edition."

1 items1 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: London, to the editor of the Dublin University magazine; [18--]-11-15

ALS. Writes that he is enclosing a photographic portrait of himself requested by the editors: "It is the best that has been taken . . . for I take very badly." Another copy from Elliott & Fry will be sent "if it suits you." [Letter only, no photograph.]

1 items2 p.18 x 12 cm

Letter: London, to "My dear Hodgson"; [18--]-06-26

ALS. Lists dates when he will be able to come down to Gavel.

1 items1 p.18 x 12 cm

Letter: London, to "My dear Mr. Jordan" [?]

ALS. Sends "a report on the examination passed by the Choir boys of the Chapel Royal this year." Written on Education Dept. stationery.

1 items1 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: Mudie's Lending Library; [18--]-08-14

AL. Written in the third person. Apparently to a lending library, asks that several books be delivered to him "next Saturday," as he is "going into the country for some weeks."

1 items1 p.18 x 12 cm

Letter: London, to Sir William Pole, 1814-1900

ALS. States that he was a supporter of Pole's nephew who has been elected, and goes on to write of his pleasure in seeing Pole's handwriting once again. Writes that he is now living in Cobham, Surrey.

1 items2 p.17 x 11 cm

Letter: London, to "Dear Sir"

ALS. Requests that a line in his article be changed from "the glowing countenance of Sir Wm. Harcourt" to "the genial countenance of Sir Wm. Harcourt."

1 items1 p.14 x 12 cm

Letter: London, to William Spottiswoode, 1825-1883; [18--]-02-06

ALS. "Forster and Grant Duff would like to hear me - I have given away my tickets, and besides don't you think that both of them are cases for the reserved seats." Asks for more tickets and writes that "I am rather relieved that you and your wife will not be there to enjoy my confusion."

1 items2 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: Cobham, to Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1815-1881

ALS. Writes to the Dean of Westminster Abbey an account of his meeting with Cardinal Newman. "Newman stood in costume . . . supported by a chaplain and by the Duke of Norfolk. Devotees, chiefly women, kept pressing up to him." He was introduced by Lady Portsmouth: "I made the most deferential of bows, he took my hand in both of his and held it . . . nothing of any interest passed, but I was glad to have spoken to him . . . The sentiment of him, of his sermons . . . filled Oxford . . . it suited the place, and I . . . shall always be glad, to have been there at that moment and grateful to Newman for the atmosphere of feeling he then created for me."

1 items3 p. on double sheet19 x 24 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm

Letter: Cobham, to Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1815-1881

ALS. Encloses "the lines which I think will suit the monument over divinum illum senem." Says the lines to be inscribed on the Wordsworth Memorial in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey are from a fragment of the Recluse, printed in the preface to the Excursion. Nine-line enclosure, in Arnold's hand, begins: "Paradise, and groves" and ends "A simple produce of the common day."

1 items1 p. on double sheet19 x 23 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm

Letter: Cobham, Surrey, to Francis Gledstanes Waugh, London

ALS. "Many thanks for the promised book . . . from your description, it seems to me that your book will be a useful one."

1 items1 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: London, to John H. Whitaker, Manchester

AL. Written in the third person: "Mr. Arnold . . . regrets that he cannot send . . . an autograph of [his father] Dr. Arnold, as all of Dr. Arnold's handwriting in the possession of his family which it was possible to part with has already been given away."

1 items1 p.18 x 12 cm

Letter: Stockbridge, to Mr. Whittemore [?]

ALS. "I am not sure whether the poem you mean is that 'To a Gipsy Child by the Seashore, Douglas, Isle of Man,' or 'The Scholar-Gipsy.'"

1 items1 p. on double sheet17 x 23 cm folded to 17 x 12 cm

Poem

AMsS. Fair copy of a four-line poem: "The world's great order dawns in sheen [/] After long darkness rude, [/] Divinelier imaged, clearer seen, [/] With happier zeal pursued." Unpublished poem [?]

1 items1 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Notice of exhibition: Philadelphia, Pa., to Russell Smith, 1812-1896, Philadelphia, Pa.

Printed document. Notice of upcoming exhibition, includes information on the purpose of the society and rules for submission of art works. Signed by Thomas B. Ashton, secretary.

1 items1 p. on double sheet25 x 40 cm folded to 25 x 20 cm

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Russell Smith, 1812-1896, Milestown, Philadelphia Co.

ALS. Informs Smith that he is being sent a notice and ticket for a private view the following day. Also invites Smith to join him for tea at 6:30 p.m.

1 items1 p. on double sheet26 x 40 cm folded to 26 x 20 cm

Letter: London, to Henry Crowdy, Highworth, Wilts

TLS. Form letter giving instruction in the proper method of soliciting life insurance purchases, and on proper commissions for each transaction. Signed by Charles Ansell, Actuary.

1 items4 p. on double sheet

Letters: Neff House, Sunbury, Pa., to Bloomsburg Carpet Mills

3 ALS. Each letter places an order for services and sundry items.

3 items3 p.

Letter: Essex, to Seymour Adelman, 1906-1985, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Thanks Adelman for his letter, and discusses his series of paintings of Keats and Keats's works.

1 items2 p. on single leaf

Letter: Boston, Mass., to Israel Pemberton, 1715-1779, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Bagnall sends his friend a pamphlet, "An Address to the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston," protesting the pressing of men into naval service. He describes the resulting rebellion in which several British officers were held until those pressed were freed. Bagnall remarks "it is uncertain to say How this affair Will end."

1 items2 p. on double sheet20 x 32 cm folded to 20 x 16 cm

Receipt: Paris, to Albert Eugene Gallatin, 1881-1952

ADS. "Reçu de Monsieur Albert Gallatin la somme de trois mille francs pour le tableau à la gouache 'Decor pour le ballet Carnaval de Schoumann.'"

1 items1 p.17 x 25 cm folded to17 x 13 cm

Advertisement

Printed Document. Describes the curriculum of the school, adding, "Earnest efforts are made thoroughly to ground the pupils in all they study; constant reference being had to first principles."

1 items1 p.

Letter: Geneva, to Mr. W. C. Little, Albany, N.Y.

ALS. Requests acknowledgement of recent payment.

1 items1 p.

Documents: Checks

Printed Document. Two cut, blank checks.

2 items2 p.

Letter: to "Dear General" , after 1946

ALS. Informs his correspondent of his impending return to the United States: "You may tell the public I am coming," and adds: "I herewith send you a sketch of my ship wreck [sic] on the Nile . . . perhaps it may be interesting to the readers of [your] Journal." (Sketch not included.)

1 items1 p.16 x 14 cm

Letter: Liverpool, to W. F. Read, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa., via Europa

2 ALS. Requests payment for recent delivery.

2 items2 p.

Letter: Woodbridge, to Robert Baldwin, London

ALS. To the publishers Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, Barton sends letters to be forwarded to the editors of the British Review and the London Magazine, as well as two copies of his book of poems. He praises the London's anonymous literary critic and comments on a recent article on Keats's Endymion. "There was a genuine feeling of poetical beauty, and accurate perception of what Poetry itself is."

1 items3 p. on double sheet23 x 37 cm folded to 23 x 19 cm

Letter: Chicago, Ill., to J. T. Ryerson, Esq.; J. T. Ryerson to William Barry, Chicago, Ill.

2 ALS. Written on Historical Society of Chicago stationery, thanks Ryerson for his donation of books. Also enclosed is Ryerson's brief reply to Barry.

2 items2 p. on double sheet

Letter: London, to Jordan Harrison, Mount Pleasant, Ohio

ALS. Writing to his uncle, describes a trip to the Lake Country where he visited William Wordsworth. "He asked many questions about America--and spoke in highest terms of the country, her citizens and institutions . . . He converses very agreeably and has a very fine flow of language." Goes on to describe visits to London monuments.

1 items8 p. on 2 integral leaves27 x 44 cm folded to 27 x 42 cm

Letter: Menton, [France], to Leonard Charles Smithers, 1861-1907

Document. Letter copied by Haldane Macfall in his own hand. Letter concerns Smithers's new magazine, the Peacock, in which Beardsley was keenly interested. Contains Beardsley's many detailed suggestions for the publication.

1 items3 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: Rapallo, Italy, to John Lane, 1854-1925, London; n.d.

ALS. Writing to the publisher John Lane, Beerbohm narrates his trouble with J.M. Dent and Sons over royalties. He insists on a fee for reprinting two of his essays. He also reveals the financial straits of Aubrey Beardsley's mother and his own efforts to help her.

1 items3 p. on 2 leaves25 x 21 cm

Letter: London, to Laurence Housman, 1865-1959; n.d.

ALS. Sends his drawing of Housman stating: "I hope you will agree with me that it is grotesque enough to be innocuous?" Asks that it be returned quickly in order to be sent to the printer "unless you shy at it."

1 items2 p. on 2 integral leaves15 x 20 cm folded to 15 x 10 cm

Document draft; n.d.

AD. Draft of a document giving details of a loan of $200,000 to the Union Club.

1 items1 p.21 x 13 cm

Letter: New York, N.Y., to Mr. Colvin, Albany, N.Y.

ALS. To a counsellor at law, Bernhard writes, at the bottom of a printed notice of his store's move to a new location: "I am willing to take 40% as you stated from Shuster, and am ready to accept Clockman's note . . . without any endorsement."

1 items1 p. on double sheet26 x 20 cm

Letter: Richmond Hill, to "My dear Kate," N.Y.; n.y.-07-28

ALS. Reports on her own health, on who came to dinner, on the impending marriage of Blanche Stanley, together with critical comment, on who is wintering where, and assorted bits of gossip.

1 items4 p.18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11 cm

Letter: Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., to Mary Ann Bettle

ALS. Writes to his mother while he is a student at Haverford College. Thanks her for "thy very acceptable present of gingerbread" and suggests that she visit him. He also remarks that the graveyard is much improved, particularly the grave of Joseph Harlan.

1 items3 p. on double sheet21 x 27 cm folded to 21 x 14 cm

Letter: Mount Pleasant, Ohio., to Samuel Bettle, 1774-1861, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Describes her journey with Elizabeth Robson to several Quaker meetings in Ohio and the people they have met throughout their travels. "E.R., being highly favored in Testimony and Supplication . . . continued evidence of her right qualification as a sound & faithful Gospel Minister." Jane Bettle also writes of Elisha Bates (1781-1861) and Benjamin Hoyle (1798-1875?). This collection contains many other letters addressed to Jane Bettle. Correspondents include: H. Elliott, Elizabeth Robson, and John Thomas.

1 items2 p. on double sheet25 x 40 cm folded to 25 x 20 cm

Letter: London, to "My dear sisters"

ALS. Bettle writes to her sisters while traveling in England for the sake of her husband's health. She describes London, and the towns, castles, and people they have seen. She frets over their absence from the United States during the Civil War: "If I had the direction of things I would return in the next steamer, but then I remember that dear S[amuel Bettle, Jr.] came for his health." Also discussed are Edward Bettle and Mary Ann's negative reaction to his planning a pleasure trip to England while his country is in turmoil.

1 items4 p. on double sheet21 x 27 cm folded to 21 x 14 cm

Letter: to Jane Bettle, 1773-1840

ALS. Brief note to his mother requesting that she accept "a box of nice prunes." This collection contains many other letters addressed to Samuel Bettle, Jr. Correspondents include: Charles Coffin, Benjamin Hoyle, Hanna Neall, and John Pease

1 items1 p.

Copy of letter to "I.M.W."

ALS. Bettle's handwritten copy of a letter to I.M.W., in which Bettle passionately extolls the virtues of forgiveness and loving your enemy. Bettle encloses a pamphlet on "Charity and Forgiveness", which he asks the recipient to ponder.

2 items1 letter (2 p.), 1 publication (4 p.)

Poem: "Sirmione"

AMsS. Nine-line poem, written out on a page with printed heading: "The autograph collection of Howes Norris, Jr."

1 items1 p.18 x 11 cm

Letter: Princeton, Ind., to William Rotch, Jr., 1759-1850

ALS. To a fellow Quaker, Birkbeck explains his views of an apparent misunderstanding: "I did not, I think feel the least disposition to impute neglect to the family on this side of the Atlantic . . . My intention was to state what I conceived would be the result of a certain line of proceeding . . . I am quite convinced by your letter that your views are correct." Goes on to discuss settlement in "this Western Region. A cultivated farm might probably be secured in . . . Ohio, but hardly in this more remote country. I am about to settle with my family in the Illinois Territory." Birkbeck, a Quaker, founded an English Quaker settlement in Illinois in 1817-1818.

1 items1 p.25 x 20 cm

Letter

ALS. "Donnez votre nom au concierge, ce n'est pas plus matière pour ça."

1 items1 p. on double sheet21 x 13 cm

Letter: Edinburgh, to George Soane, 1790-1860

ALS. Returns Soane's manuscript to him with great reluctance, giving reasons for its rejection: "it would make too long a series in the Magazine, and by the separation the effect of your tale would be injured."

1 items2 p. 25 x 30 cm

Letter: to Mrs. Hale; n.d.

1 item (3 p. on double sheet) ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm.

ALS. Jests with his correspondent about politics. Also thanks her for "the part about the Comic, but . . . my hands are quite full." This collection contains many other letters addressed to Blanchard. Correspondents include: Louisa Barwell, H. Burlowe, Thomas Hood, William Jerdan, Louisa Sheridan, Frank Stone, T. Perronett Thompson, and Cornelius Webbe

1 items3 p. on double sheet 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: Salem, N.C., to Benjamin Coates, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Discusses a recent order.

1 items1 p. on double leaf

Letter: Hawstead near Bury St. Edmunds, to Mr. Walker

ALS. Discusses books on Keats by John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) and by Charles Armitage Brown (1786-1842). "I wonder if anyone has obtained permission to use Brown's memoir, & I should also like to feel that Crewe [Lord Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945)] isn't sick & tired of applications for admission to his Library. To bring out Brown's memoir of Keats with a memoir of himself too would delight me."

1 items2 p.18 x 12 cm

Letters: Southwater, Sussex, to Wilfrid Meynell, 1852-1948, London

2 ALsS. First letter was written in response to Meynell's announcement of Francis Thompson's death. He will send flowers but will not attend funeral. "Besides I can hardly claim to have been his friend. You and your family were all the friends he had." Blunt is sending his "little notice of him" (Thompson) to Meynell for corrections. Second letter refers to Meynell's article on Thompson and its excellence.

2 items3 p. on double sheets21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

Letters: Washington, D.C., to A.M. Lee, Baltimore, Md.; to N. Biddle, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.; to Frederick Schley, Esq., Frederickstown, Md.; to Henry E. Leman, Esq., Lancaster, Pa.

ALsS. Letter to Lee instructs him that all officers in charge of ordnance and ordnance stores must take inventory in December so the inventory can be compared with the 4th Quarter returns. Letter to Biddle requests that he reconsider Bomford's application for an extension of credit. In letter to Schley, Bomford conveys Secretary General of War's message: "He has recommended, in his report to Congress, the sale of all ore banks . . . owned by the U. States, and that, in the event of Congress not passing an act for that purpose, then the ore bed in question . . . will be leased to the highest bidder." In reply to a letter from Leman, Bomford states: "there are no means at the disposal of this Department for extending the manufacture of rifles beyond the engagements already existing."

4 items5 p.26 x 21 cm

Petition [Philadelphia, Pa.]: to his excellency the president, and the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania

DS. Petition to Benjamin Franklin, president of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, for the return of Phineas Bond, a Tory who left Philadelphia to settle in England. Signers of the petition include Benjamin Rush, Robert Morris, John Nixon, and William White.

1 items1 p. 34 x 21 cm

Letter: Liverpool, to Thomas Westfall

ALS. Booth asks Westfall what the rental terms are on the space being rented to Mr. Grundy. On the reverse is Westfall's Oct 31 letter to Grundy detailing his discussion with Booth of the terms of the rental agreement.

1 items1 p. on double sheet21 x 25 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

Letter: to S. Wilkin, 1790-1862

ALS. Asks that Wilkin not send copies of his book, Romantic Ballads, to London, as he is still bargaining with a publisher. "Miss Anne Gurney's copy is to be sent to Hudson Gurney along with his."

1 items1 p. on double sheet20 x 23 cm folded to 20 x 17 cm

Letter: Silverdale, Carnforth, to Isaac Rosenberg, 1890-1918

TL. Bottomley praises Rosenberg's poetry.

1 items1 p.27 x 21 cm

Letter: London, to Mr. E. D. Ponchee, Brighton

1 ALS. "I enclose a post office order, (payable to you) for Fifteen shillings & 6d., being the amt of my Account due to the Exs. of the late Mr. Rigge and request an acknowledgment--It had quite escaped my memory."

1 items1 p.

Letters, notes, and cards: Philadelphia, Pa., to Seymour Adelman, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS, ANS, 4 APcS, and 4 TLsS. Brief, congratulatory items sent mostly after dinner meetings and speeches given by Adelman.

10 items5 p.varying sizes

Letters: Bournemouth, Cheltenham, London, to H. Mogford, London

7 ALsS. Three letters to H. Mogford detail his penurious existence and want of work. Other letters to "Dear Sir" concern unnamed exhibitions and tickets to them.

7 items11 p.

Letter: Westminster, Vt., to Samuel Elliot

ALS. Discusses points in a law case involving a dispute between two families.

1 items1 p.25 x 20 cm

Letter: Washington, D.C., to publishing firm Covici, Friede, Inc.

ALS. "My thanks for your courtesy."

1 items1 p.20 x 24 cm folded to 20 x 12 cm

Poems; 1829

AMS. Two pages of poetry written in the hand of Fanny Brawne. Accompanied by an introductory letter from Francis L. Randolph, Radnor, Pa., to Seymour Adelman: "It was most interesting to have met you yesterday. Find enclosed a few leaves in the hand of Fanny Brawne - I am most happy to see them in such a distinguished collection."; 1968-03-21

3 items3 p.

Letter: to Mr. Rev. Allen W. McCurely; n.d.

ALS. "Can you make it convenient to make me a call some afternoon of this week between the hours of two and five oclock?"

1 items2 p. on double leaf

Marriage Certificate: Mr. Edmund M. Brown and Miss Ann Brokaw

ADS. Signed by William B. Barton, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge, New Jersey: "This may certify that, on Tuesday evening, Nov. 23, 1830, I solemnized the marriage relation between Mr. Edmund M. Brown & Miss Ann Brokaw, daughter of Mr. Cornelius Brokaw, all of Rahway, New Jersey."

1 items1 p.

Request for Payment: "To Mr. Baneker, Barrack Master."

ADS. "Wanted for the use of the Royal Artillary private. Candles from the 26th Nov. to 31st Dec."

1 items1 p.

Letter: Clifton, to Professor Campbell

ALS. Encourages Campbell to write original verse: "Come! out with the stuff! it is in you, or I am mistaken." Mentions that lately he has been reading Ben Jonson and Forbes's Life of Beattie, and also that his Fo'c'sle Yarns are going into a second edition.

1 items4 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letters: New York, to Mr. [J.M.] Stoddart

3 ALsS. Browne writes of several stories he has submitted to Stoddart's Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for publication. In the last letter, Browne congratulates Stoddart "and myself as well--on the publication, after eight years, of the second part" of his story Heroines of the Human Comedy. "Unflinching perseverance will, it appears, finally get an article . . . into Lippincott's Magazine, even though written by J.H.B."

3 items5 p.22 x 28 cm folded to 22 x 14 cm

Minutes: of meetings

AD. Minutes of meetings held at Samuel Austin's house. Present were Anthony Morris, Charles Batho, John Coates, Henry Drinker, Thomas Say, Samuel Morris, Isaac Levy, Daniel Benezet, Joseph Morris, Benjamin Koster, and Isaac Coates.

1 items2 p.31 x 20 cm

Indenture: Labeled indenture. Real estate/rental contract. ADS.

1 items1 p.

Letter: Milton, to Nancy Burgess

ALS. Letter discusses health of family and friends as well as other town matters.

1 items2 p. on double sheet

Letter: Cambridge, to Mr. Levinson; [19--]-06-26

ALS. Probably to the anti-war activist Salmon Levinson, Bury agrees to give his name to an unspecified cause. He is sorry to hear that "Hardy did not sign the Memorial. I was talking to him about it ten days ago, & I think he would have signed if he had had more time to consider it."

1 items1 p. on double sheet 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: Santa Fe, N.Mex., to Houston Martin

TLS. Explains why he has failed to write and tells Martin when he will be able to do so.

1 items1 p.17 x 15 cm

Letter: Carthage, to an unknown correspondent

ALS. Writing to a friend from Haverford, the writer muses on the possibility of civil war: "To philosophise . . . would lead us to assert directly, it is the threatening of God's visitation for the unparalleled crime of slavery . . . What the end will be I have no idea."

1 items4 p. on double sheet21 x 27 cm folded to 21 x 14 cm

Autograph; n.d.

1 items1 p.

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Samuel Bettle, 1809-1880

ALS. Writes to Bettle requesting "several hundred copies of the Testament for distribution among the colored soldiers now at Camp William Penn."

1 items2 p. on double sheet

Bill of Sale: Boston, Mass., to Mr. Abit

Document. Bill for spices purchased at Callender's "Cheap Grocery-Store, South-side the Market; - Where West-India Goods, Fruits and Groceries, Of every kind, may be had, WHOLESALE and RETAIL - Fresh and Good."

1 items1 p.23 x 18 cm

Poem: "Adelgitha"; n.d.

AMsS. Fair copy of his 16-line poem beginning "The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded." With an unidentified 16 lines of verse beginning "There was a touching paleness on her face."

1 items2 p. on double sheet20 x 25 cm folded to 20 x 13 cm

Document: "Admit to the Lectures on Poetry at the Royal Institution, 1820"

ADS. Signed by Campbell. Also included is a page of a manuscript concerning the erudition of colonies in ancient Greece.

1 items

Letters: to William Crowdy, Esq., Highworth, Wilts

ALS. Two letters to Crowdy concerning the execution of the will of William Edwards, urging him to fulfill his role as executor of the will.

2 items6 p. on 2 double sheets

Letter: New York, N.Y., to Thomas C. Reynolds, Richmond, Va.

ALS. Can describes working in Washington for five hectic weeks "before and during the attempted organization of the House . . . From the moment that the line between the South and the North was drawn, until the fight was over . . . I did not know what it was to take a regular meal."

1 items3 p. on double sheet25 x 40 cm folded to 25 x 20 cm

Book review: Etain the Beloved by James H. Cousins [and] Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan AMsS.

1 items4 p. on 4 leaves21 x 13 cm

Letters: London, Herts., to Harold Monro, 1879-1932

6 ALsS. Letters concern stories and poems he is sending to Monro, asking for comments, and discussing payments.

6 itemstogether 6 p.varying sizes

Letters: Washington, D.C., and Winchester, Va., to family and friends

3 ALsS. As a new enlistee in the Union army, Capeling describes his experiences travelling to Washington, D.C., time spent in an army encampment ("There is a rumor afloat that we are to receive marching orders very soon"), and the movement of his regiment to Harper's Ferry. He describes in vivid detail an encounter with the rebel forces near Harper's Ferry. Also included in this folder are two letters written by S. Adelman to the War Department in 1934, division of Civil War Military Resources, asking for additional information on George Capeling, and the responses to his inquiries.

3 itemstogether 16 p.21 x 13 cm

Letter: Princeton, N.J., to B.F. Carter, Chester, Pa.

ALS. Signed "Little," this letter recounts a recent graduate's return to Princeton University for a social event. He also muses on "the Chester lassies" and asks to be remembered to several young ladies. Remarking on his visit to Aaron Burr's grave, Little writes: "I plucked a rose-bud from his side--I shall preserve it with greatest care--that so beautiful a rose should grow beside so vile a man."

1 items1 p. 23 x 18 cm

Letter: Chiswick, to James Gillman, 1782-1839, Highgate

ALS. Cary writes that Taylor and Hessey wish him to ask Coleridge to write "a character of Bonaparte" for their London Magazine. Cary asks Gillman to convey this to Coleridge.

1 items1 p.23 x 18 cm

Poem: "Keats at Teignmouth: Spring 1818"

AMsS. A powerful tribute to Keats, in which Causley imagines seeing the poet in his native land: "Then I saw the crystal poet / Leaning on the old sea-rail; / In his breast lay death, the lover, / In his head, the nightingale." Also included are newspaper clippings about Causley's writing.

1 items1 p.

Letter: to Nehemiah Hubbard, Middletown

ALS. Brief note asks the recipient if he would like some vinegar, as the writer has extra on hand.

1 items1 p.

Autograph ANS. "Very truly yours--Edward Channing."

1 items1 p.

Letter: to John C. Jay, Rye, N.Y.

ALS, occasionally illegible:
"My dear Dr.
I have great pleasure in sending you a Journal of the last Convention[?]. In my official report I could not deny myself the melancholy pleasure of recording my sense[?] of your Father's life[?] - and I beg to assure you, that, independently of your personal claims upon my regard, your relationship to him would always secure for you a place in the heart of your unworthy but very[?] sincere friend
W[?] Chauncey
Dec. 5th/43"

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to William A. Seavers

ALS. "If you should conclude to make any mention of our Saturday Club Party I would like 300 weeklys to send to our friends abroad." Goes on to list a number of illustrious personages who have attended his parties.

1 items1 p.20 x 12.5 cm

Autograph: Philadelphia, Pa., to Mary R. H. Carpenter

ALS. "Mary R. H. Carpenter, With the kind regards and appreciation of her friend, Geo. W. Childs."

1 items1 p.

Letter: to Messrs Hilliard, Gray, and Co., Boston, Mass.

ALS. In a letter to the publishing company, Chipman orders four books, including a copy of Webster's Dictionary, and renews his supscription to The North American Review.

1 items1 p. on double leaf

Letters: Washington, D.C., C. Courade, Secretary of War, to Captain Roberts, Fort Mifflin, Pa.; Baltimore, Md., Robert J. Brent, to unknown correspondent

ALS. Written only days after the Christiana Riot in Lancaster County, Pa., letters describe the events and legal ramifications.

2 items2 p.

Letter: Clifton Springs, N.Y., to Oscar Fay Adams, 1855-1919, Boston, Mass.

ALS. Writing to the author of A Dictionary of American Authors: "My full name is Winston Churchill, I was born in St. Louis, Mo. November 10th 1871 . . . My profession is literature . . . The Celebrity is the only [book] finished or published up to the present. Thanking you for the honor you wish to confer upon me." Also includes newspaper clippings of Churchill's obituary.

1 items2 p. on double sheet21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

Letter: London, to Lionel R. Holland, b. 1865

ALS. Declines to take part in platform exercises preceding the general election, explaining that from "1880-1886 I advocated on my own account a generally liberal & progressive policy with the result that . . . I found that none of my colleagues was prepared to give this policy the smallest genuine support, & that office having been reached, promises to the people were to be forgotten or evaded."

1 items3 p. on double sheet21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

Letter: Natal, South Africa, to "Dear Sir"

ALS. "Captain Greville is quite well and in good spirits. I do not think there is any reason for anxiety concerning the treatment of the prisoners of war. Thanking you for your congratulations on my escape."

1 items1 p. on double sheet21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

Letter: New York, N.Y., to Mrs. Mott
1 item (1 p. on double sheet) ; 21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

ALS. Apologizes for being unable to attend a dinner: "I have to speak after the Lecture at the dinner of the Pennsylvania Society." With envelope addressed in Churchill's own hand

1 items1 p. on double sheet21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

Letter: at sea, to Margot Asquith, 1864-1945

ALS. "It has been splendid having you on this cruise, & everybody has enjoyed your brilliancy & dash - no one more than I. You have in Clemmie and me good friends and unaffected admirers." Includes three cartoons of Churchill and Lord Oxford.

1 items1 p. on double sheet21 x 13 cm

Letter: London, to Mr. Butterworth

ALS. Discusses timetable for working on a book for publication, (probably My Early Life: A Roving Commission, published in 1930 by T. Butterworth): "We must just see how I get on from the time the Budget is out of the way in the middle of July onwards. Naturally I am as keen as you on the earliest possible delivery. I cannot however give any binding guarantee, other than a provision for the return of the advances if publication has to stand over till 1929. But this is a fairly good spur, & you will have to be content with it. Now let me have the contract."

1 items3 p. on 2 integral leaves21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

Letter: La Pausa, Roquebrune-Cap Martin, to Seymour Adelman, 1906-1985, Philadelphia, Pa.

TLS. Thanks Adelman for sending a 1757 map of Dunkirk. "I am very glad to have this interesting reminder of the Port of Dunkirk in my possession." With carbon typescript of Adelman's letter to Churchill which was sent along with map of Dunkirk.

1 items1 p.25 x 20 cm

Letters: Helpstone, to Francis Freeling, 1764-1836; Helpstone, to James Hessey, 1785-1870, London; to John Taylor, 1781-1864, London

6 ALsS. Freeling letters: The first letter notes that "by Lord Radslock's desire I put this under cover to you." The second is a rambling note to Freeling, a postal reformer, complaining of charges he is made to pay on his mail. Hessey letters: In the first letter, Clare writes that he is anxious to know whether his request for a pension has been granted: "I hate the sneaking shackles of this curs'd pensioning and subscriptional bother." Also, he notes that Keats's latest work is "in the Mercury this week I see, and if it does any good to the book I am glad of it," and mentions the work of poet Nathaniel Bloomfield. In the second, he thanks Hessey for a copy of Flora Domestica and comments: "how pretty is the allusion to poor Keats's grave." His musings cover a variety of flowers as well as a number of English authors. Taylor letters: In the first letter, he discusses corrections in proofs that he has just returned to Taylor and Hessey. Also mentions Keats: "I am heartily sorry for poor Keats but hope you may turn out a false prophet." In the second, Clare has just been informed of the death of Keats: "Your bad news has shocked me uncommonly--I felt naturally fond of poor Keats tho I did not know him . . . There is no doubt that Keats has left a friend behind him to do him justice."

6 items24 x 38 cm folded to 24 x 19 cm

Letter: London, to "My dear Sir"

ALS. Letter recommending a colleague for the position of examiner in medicine. Second letter, dated 21 Jan (n.y.) describes condition of patient.

2 items4 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Alaric A. Watts, 1797-1864, London

ALS. Clark writes with a submission to the Literary Souvenir, of which Watts is editor: "I . . . 'cast my rhymes upon the waters' - perchance they may reach you, and be acceptable." Goes on, at length, to praise Watts's Poetical Album, Watts himself, and "England and her sons of genius." He summarizes American appreciation of British poets: "Bishop Heber is worshipped, almost . . . and the names of Byron, Moore, Shelley, Coleridge, Procter, Keats, Knowles, Watts and many others are familiar to all."

1 items4 p. on double sheet28 x 43 cm folded to 28 x 22 cm

Letters: to Samuel Cartwright, Thomas Clark, Joseph Plowman, Rev. Rylands, W. Strudwicke, Daily News editor

6 ALS. Discusses lecture/speaking arrangements, literary contemporaries, and other daily events.

6 items6 p. in two folders

Letter: to William Hayley, Chichester

ALS. Discusses a recent play put on by Clarke and other day-to-day matters.

1 items3 p. on double leaf

Letter: Villa Novello, Genoa, to F. Holland Day, 1864-1933, London

ALS. Answers his specific queries relating to a portrait of Edward Holmes drawn by Joseph Severn and to the house in London where she was born. Thanks him for his prints "relative to George Keats in America."

1 items3 p.21 x 27 cm folded to 21 x 14 cm

Letters: Nice Maritime, Genoa, Stuttgart, to various correspondents

10 ALsS. Correspondents include Mrs. Edward Tagart, Roberts Bros., Miss Lizzie Dickinson, Francis James Child, and G. W. J. Rolfe. 4 letters to Mrs. Tagart are written as to an intimate and concern mutual friends, lectures, and petitions. Letters to Child have much on Shakespeare and the trials of an author as well as much detail on Clark's life in Genoa.

11 itemstogether 20 p.27 x 22 cm & infra

Letter: to John Enery, Esq., Dublin

ALS. Discusses legal and business matters.

1 items2 p. on double leaf

Letter: Washington, D.C., to Mahlon Dickerson, 1770-1853

ALS. Asks that Dickerson, Secretary of the U.S. Navy, check to see whether "Georgia has her quota of midshipmen now in the service of the country" as he has recently received an application from a Georgia constituent.

1 items1 P.26 X 20 cm

Promissory note: Philadelphia, Pa.

DS. Promissory note for the sum of 300 pounds owed to Nicholas Waln by Josiah and Samuel Coates. Schedule of payments is noted on back of document; final payment was made May 16, 1800.

1 items2 p. on double sheet34 x 42 cm folded to 34 x 21 cm

Financial papers: London and Philadelphia, Pa.

ADsS. Collection consists mostly of bills sent by Bagshaw & Sons, publishers of Cobbett's Political Register, to Cobbett himself together with Cobbett's own promissory notes to the firm dated London 1807 and 1811. Includes a receipt in Cobbett's hand dated 19 July 1798, Philadelphia, to Mr. Foster "for the sum of five dollars and a half for papers sent him during the late session of Congress."

7 itemstogether 7 p.varying sizes

Letters: Brunswick, Me., to Artemis Coburn, Bath, Me.; North Bridgewater, Mass., to Artemis Coburn, Brunswick, Me.; East Livermore, Me., C. Wellington, to Clarissa Coburn, Brunswick, Me.

3 ALsS. In 1846 letter from Clarissa to Artemis she urges him not to work too hard and endanger his health and describes various social events. In 1850 letter Clarissa writes to Artemis from Massachusetts, describing her plans to return home to Maine. In C. Wellington's letter to his sister Clarissa, he informs her of the death of their brother Nathan.

3 itemstogether 6 p.25 x 40 cm folded to 25 x 20 cm

Invoices: London to Lyon J. Levy, Philadelphia, Pa.

3 ADsS. Invoices for goods shipped from London to Levy's dry goods store in Philadelphia.

3 itemstogether 8 p.25 x 20 cm

Letter: Richmond, Ind., to Samuel Bettle Jr., 1809-1880

ALS. Coffin inquires about admitting Benjamin Justice to Friends Asylum. Prior attempts to admit Justice have failed due to his parents "violent prejudices against our Society," but the parents are now deceased and Coffin hopes to convince Justice's sister and brother-in-law, and his caretaker, Seth Wilson, to permit him to be admitted to the Asylum.

1 items4 p.

Certificate: Albany, N.Y., to Gideon Reynolds, Sheriff, Troy, N.Y.

DS. Official confirmation that a notice of the execution of William Miller, attached, was published in the Albany Argus, "the paper published by the Printer to the State." Signed by Philo K. Cole and Frederick W. Cole.

1 items1 p.17 x 21 cm

Letter: to [J.A. Hessey], 1785-1870

ALS. Discusses the progress of his "Six Disquisitions": "I shall . . . immediately set to work with the one yet to be written Disquisition. I quite agree with you as to the Untakingness of the Title - & will think of some other, and am inclined to think, that I shall add a 7th." Also refers to his controversial comments on Hurwitz's Hebrew Tales: "I must take the consequence of my own zeal for a most worthy friend - not that I have said a syllable more than I really think - not that I could not, "on my bible oath," as the folks say, repeat every word respecting the Hebrew Tales - but because I now see that it would have [been] more expedient . . . to have reserved my critique for a more appropriate time & place."

1 items4 p. on double sheet19 x 23 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm

Letter: to Basil Montague, Esq., Lincoln

Addressed envelope only.

1 items1 p.

Letter: Washington, D.C., to Henry G. Hill, New York, N.Y.

ALS. Brief message, written on House of Representatives stationery: "Complying with your request, I am, yours truly, Schuyler Colfax." Also included in this folder is an autograph from Colfax dated May 28, 1877.

1 items1 p.19 x 13 cm

Letter: Liverpool, to E. Landseer Grundy

ALS. Acknowledges receipt of Grundy's letter of June 11 and offers his "personal thanks for the kind and favourable notice of my works for which I was indebted to you"

1 items1 p. on double sheet19 x 23 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm

Letters: London, to Samuel Loveman, Esq., 1887-1976, Cleveland, Ohio

ALS and 2 TLsS. Letters continue a discussion on Keats, John Taylor, and John Clare. "It is puzzling to find a detached couplet from the end of Lamia thus written in Keats's own hand . . . There seems to be no possible doubt about the genuineness of the Keats autograph." Gives details of the publication of his book on Keats and discourses on the books authored by John Flaxman.

3 itemstogether 7 p.varying sizes

Letter: London, to Charles Scribner, Esq., New York, N.Y.

ALS. Writes about his book on John Keats and its upcoming release in America: "I hope for your sake that critics and public may be as kind to the work in America as they have been here. So far - that is in the first month - it has done very well . . ."

1 items4 p. on double sheet

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Messrs. C. Comegys, Baltimore, Md.

ALS. From "C.C." concerning drafts and financial matters, with a gloomy ending, "I am sick of such a trade but must grin and bare [sic] it as the saying is."

1 items3 p. on double sheet

Document: to M. W. Prescott

ADS. "This is to certify that M. W. Prescott attended my Surgical Lecture, in year 1823."

1 items1 p.

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Samuel Bettle, 1809-1880

ALS. Writes that the Philadelphia Bible Society has approved Bettle's application for "1000 copies of the Testament & Testament with Psalms for the use of the Freedmen in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina."

1 items1 p. on double sheet21 x 25 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

Resolution protesting the Boston Massacre: Boston, Mass.

AMsS. "At a Meeting of the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly quallified [sic] & legally warned in public Town Meeting assembled at Faneuil Hall on Thursday the 22d: day of March AD 1770. Voted that the Honble: James Bowdoin Esq. Dr: Joseph Warren & Samuel Pemberton Esqr: a Committee appointed on the 18th: Instant to make representation of the late horrid Massacre in Boston by the Soldiery, be desired to transmit by the Packet to the Rt: Hon: the Earl of Rochford a printed Copy of such Representation."

1 items1 p.22 x 36 cm folded to 22 x 18 cm

Letter: to "My dear Mrs. Blanchard" ; n.d.

ALS. Encloses tickets for an art exhibit to be used by her children. Also sends birthday wishes to Mr. Blanchard.

1 items4 p. on double sheet12 x 19 cm folded to 12 x 10 cm

Letter: London, to Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859

ALS. Makes plans to visit Hunt at Woodland Farm. States that his wife was "quite delighted" with Hunt's letter. Goes on to state that "poor little Pringle was as single hearted a man as I ever met. He was a writer of verse (rather than of poetry) but he was of a generous & kind temperament, & I have a sincere respect for him."

1 items3 p. on double sheet11 x 19 cm folded to 11 x 10 cm

Letters: Brighton, to Thomas Spring-Rice, 1790-1866; London, to William Mudford, Esq., 1782-1848; London, to Allan Cunningham, 1784-1842

3 ALS. Spring-Rice letter discusses the weather and amenities of Brighton, as well as various friends and acquaintances. Mudford letter sends a books of his poems to Mudford. "Pray look on the first poem . . . & like it as well as you can. It is my best poem, I think, by a good deal." Cunningham letter discusses price he expects for the publication of a dramatic scene.

3 items4 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: Office of the Insurance Co. of the State of Pennsylvania, to "Sir"

ALS. "I have the pleasure to inform you that you have been this day unanimously appointed a Director of the Insurance Company of the State of Penns. The Stated meetings of the Board are on Wednesdays & Saturdays at 12 O Clock--Your attendance at the office at any other time when convenient will be extemely acceptable to your ob. humb Sert, James S. Cox, Prest."

1 items

Letter: Galena, Ill., to M.G. Johnson, Esq., Springfield, Ill.

ALS. Discusses news of family and friends. "Almost every person here is in a fever about California; which if not prevented by the cholera, will carry off many from this section of the country." Also discusses his quest for a consulship: "I wrote a few days since to the President Elect, asking for a consolship [sic] at either Liverpool or at Havana. Cannot you help me . . . can you not get up a recommendation [?]"

1 items3 p. on double sheet25 x 40 cm folded to 25 x 20 cm

Letter: London, to Grant Richards, 1872-1948

ALS. Sends designs for Belfort Bax's Essays in Socialism, in which he "has adopted his suggestion as to colours."

1 items1 p.18 x 12 cm

Certificate: Philadelphia, Pa.

ADS. Certificate states that Cresson has been elected a member of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.

1 items1 p. 27 x 38 cm

Letter/business document: Philadelphia, Pa., to Henry C. Carey, London

ALS. Letter written over a four-day period discussing business accounts.

1 items2 p.

Letter: Gosport, to William Crowdy, Highworth, Wilts

This collection contains many letters addressed to Crowdy or his partners, James and Henry Crowdy. Correspondents include Atlas Assurance Office, Joseph Byers, William Campbell, R. Bransby Cooper, William Davies, William Edward, Foulkes, Longdill, and Beckitt, Chris Freath, B.W. Guise, Joseph Harris, Holmes and Spain, House of Commons Printing Office, Incorporated Law Society, Peterton, Esq., William Reeves, William Rickford, John Roberts, John Shaw, Messrs Thomsons, and Thomas White

1 items1 p. on double sheet

Manuscript: Preface, n.d.

AMsS. "Delineations, Or Origin, Education, Profession, Public Transactions, Literary Distinction, Pecuniary Circumstances, and in some instances, Personal Apearance of the Members of Congress; Heads of Departments; Associate and District Judges; and of Distinguished Characters in the United States, By a Gentleman of Massachusetts."

1 items4 p. on double leaf

Letter: Burlington, N.J., to Amzi Dodd, 1823-1913, Newark, N.J.

ALS. Cuyler writes to a college friend about friends and acquaintances, especially those who are pastors. "I heard a superb sermon from Addison lately at Green's installation in Philadelphia. The next day Dr. Cox let off his broadside at the opening of the New School Assembly . . . Cox must be a great man in order to live above his perpetual indiscretions and absurdities." Cuyler also mentions news he has heard from Princeton. "That Princeton faculty is not what it was when we were there . . . Yale is the college now."

1 items3 p. on double sheet23 x 36 cm

Letter: London, "to the Editor of the Examiner" [Leigh Hunt]

ALS. Sends an extract from Blackwood's Magazine regarding "your friend Shelley." D***n**n rails against the negative review of Prometheus Unbound: "Where was [Blackwood's] intelligence or common sense when he suffered a driveller such as this to come in contact with the mind of Percy Shelley? . . . It requires more than Blackwood's shallow reviewer will ever possess, to see the depth, the philosophy, the mightiness of the mind which gave birth to Prometheus Unbound."

1 items3 p. on double sheet27 x 42 cm folded to 27 x 21 cm

Letter: to "Sir"

ALS. Concerns his repeated efforts to obtain "a Statement of the kinds of debts that have been redeemed under the late Act." "There is no description of the different species of debts that have been subscribed to the United States and transferred to Pennsylvania." Unless he receives such a report he is prepared to "let the consequence fall where it ought."

1 items1 p.18 x 20 cm

Letter: to Mr. Henry Hall, n.d.

ALS. Letter starts out "Dear common room, by the great Jupiter Serapis, by all the Eagles, Vultures, Lions, Tygers, Alligators, Crocodiles, Rhinoceroses, Elephants and Hippopotami in our World, & by all the wild . . . beasts in every other Planet, by all the Hooded Snakes in all the caverns of all the worlds that belong to all the Suns, which form the Galaxy and by the great fin of the largest Shark, the left eye of the hugest Whale and the right gill of the immense Krakin, I swear! & I take them all to witness, that you directed my Letter to Mrs. Hall; for wch reason she naturally open'd it & read the contents, wch would also have been the case if it had been full of bawdy . . ." A section in the middle is written in a code based on Latin.

1 items3 p. on double leaf

Autograph: Boston, Mass.

1 items1 p.

Letter: Down, Beckenham, Kent, to "Dear Sir"

ALS. Thanks his correspondent for "the present of your work on the Religion of Evolution" and remarks that, although he has not been able to see Professor Morse's address on evolution, he hopes that it may appear in the American Naturalist "which I take in."

1 items2 p. on double sheet21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

Letter: New York, N.Y., to Mesrs. Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Writes on behalf of the Literary World, "With only some six exceptions we do not supply the paper gratis because of advertising--you are one of the exceptions."

1 items1 p. on double leaf

Letter: East Grinstead, to Martin Secker, 1882-1978

TLS. "I am wondering whether there is any more due to me from Squire's first Selections from Modern Poets. Some of the authors, I hear, have received a second installment."

1 items1 p.18 x 12 cm

Letter: Sevenoaks, to James Guthrie, b. 1874

ALS. Discusses poems he has sent to Guthrie. "I would like the book to be as fine as possible and, for that reason, don't be afraid to speak your mind on these poems."

1 items1 p. 21 x 13 cm

Letter: Abingdon, to Jas Crowdy, Esq., Highworth, Wilts

1 ALS. "I have duly considered your kind offer to me when you was at Abingdon, but I am sorry to inform you, it does not meet the Approbate of my Friends, that I should leave this place, having at this time under my Tuition 571 Boys. I cannot with that degree of Propriety forsake them, at the same same feel myself much indebted beyond expression to you for your past good kindness."

1 items1 p.

Letter: to W. M. Meredith

ALS. Offers suggestions and emendations for Meredith's papers.

1 items2 p. on double sheet

Rapport à sa majesté l'Empereur: to Napoleon I, 1769-1821

DS. Official request, written during the Hundred Days, asking that a soldier in service since 1807 be allowed to retire to his home country of Portugal. Contains Napoleon's signature of approval.

1 items1 p.32 x 20 cm

Letter: Baltimore, Md., to Mrs. von Moschzisker, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Expresses his regrets that he will not be able to lunch with her while in Philadelphia due to train schedules not permitting it.

1 items4 p.17 x 26 cm folded to 17 x 13 cm

Manuscript: Francis Thompson

TMs. Script of "A New Play based on three years in the life of the Poet."

1 items34 p.26 x 21 cm

Ticket: Philadelphia, Pa.

Printed Document. Allows entrance into the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, June 1936.

1 items1 p.

Letter: to [Taylor & Hessey]

ALS. De Quincey discusses in detail some editorial changes to a work in progress, probably his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, published by Hessey and Taylor in their London magazine in 1821.

1 items2 p. on 1 leaf23 x 19 cm

Note.

ANS. Sends his regrets for an appointment.

1 items

Cards and letters: London, to Haldane Macfall, 1860-1928

APcS and 19 ALsS. Derry, an authority on Aubrey Beardsley, discusses the details of Beardsley's life with Macfall, who is writing a preface for Derry's Aubrey Beardsley Scrap Book. Letters are signed "R.A. Walker."

21 itemstogether 52 p.26 x 20 cm and smaller

Letter: Kent, to George W. Childs, 1829-1894

AL. Writing to the owner of the Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Dickens spells out a business proposition regarding the publishing of his books in America: "I beg to say that I shall be happy to consider any proposal you may make me . . . for purchasing the exclusive right of having early proofsheets in America of the next story I may write . . ." He then requests Childs's offer should his next work be the length of Great Expectations or Our Mutual Friend. He ends, "You may rely on my carefully and justly giving my attention to our project . . ." With envelope addressed in his own hand .

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, b. 1821, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Mrs. Gillespie, great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin and admirer of Dickens's writings, had sent him flowers for his lapel. He assures her he will wear them that evening. With envelope addressed in his own hand.

1 items1 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: Gad's Hill Place, Kent, to "My dear Mrs. Cattermole"

AL. "The course to take in reference to seeking a pension is to memorialize Mr. D'Israeli the Prime Minister. It is the only course I know of. The memorial need set forth no more than is in the 'appeal'. It should be signed by the best-known Painters . . . Lytton is not on such terms with the Government that he will ask any favours of them."

Letter: Navy Department, [Washington, D.C.], to James Barron, 1769-1851, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. First letter discusses decorum of court martials to Barron, the commanding naval officer at Philadelphia; second letter requests that he distribute letters to those concerned, summoning them to "attend before a Court Martial in the City of Washington."

2 items1 p.25 x 20 cm

Letter: Washington, D. C., to Mr. Brown, "Ch. Com. on Revolutionary Claims"

ALS. "On motion by Mr. Preston, Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be instructed to inquire into the propriety of granting a pension or other compensation to the viscompte L'eaumont, a French officer, wounded at the siege of Savannah."

1 items1 p. on double leaf

Letters: London and St. John's Wood, to Miss Boughton; St. John's Wood, to Mrs. Robb; London, to Ellis Wells, Esq.; to "Dear Sir"

5ALS. In first Boughton letter, Dicksee regrets he must miss seeing her on the 6th as he is laid up after having stopped a run-away horse. In the second, he must decline another invitation due to influenza. In Robb letter, regrets that he has no more exhibition tickets to spare. Note to "Dear Sir" written to accompany payment of subscription to the Dialectical Society.

5 items5 p.25 x 20 cm

Letter: London, to E. Moran, Esq., London

ALS. Thanks Moran for his "kind information. We have however got so far ahead of our venerable friend that any mention of him in the Athenaeum is giving him a publicity he has no other chance for."

1 items1 p. on double sheet19 x 23 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm

Promissory note protest: Philadelphia, Pa. to James Latimer

DS. Promissory noted dated May 1, 1811, handwritten at top of document, states that James Latimer will repay a loan to Dilworth within six months. As he failed to do so, the protest was filed by the second endorser, John Byrnes, with Benjamin Nones, notary public of Philadelphia.

1 items1 p.40 x 25 cm

Letter: New York, N.Y., to Henry G. Hill ALS. "I take pleasure in complying with your request."

Letter: Rome, to "Gentlemen"

ALS. Concerns the publication of a recent work of his, Views in Greece. "I am concerned to find the coloured work . . . has failed; a German review which I have just read of it, abuses the engravings." Remainder concerns numbers of copies and reimbursements for costs.

1 items1 p.24 x 18 cm

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Henry W. Physick, Esq., Cecil County, Md.

ALS. Familiar letter, written at his mother's instigation, in which Dorsey tells his uncle of the death of their Aunt Hannah Syng and the details of her will. Dorsey is pleased to hear "that excepting on the Canal banks & the shore of the River your neighborhood is very healthy. A few cases of Malignant Bilious fever have occurred in October but now appear subsiding." Also includes a brief discussion of local elections. Postscript written by Dorsey's mother, Elizabeth.

1 items2 p. on double sheet24 x 39 cm folded to 24 x 20 cm

Letters: Hove, Sussex, to Covici, Friede Publishers, New York, N.Y.; London, to Wilfrid Meynell, 1852-1948

1 ALS and 1 TLS. Letter to publishers concerns his great displeasure at their publishing a private letter of his in Frank Harris' biography of Oscar Wilde. "The impudent lies of Harris about me . . . are all admitted by Harris himself to be false." Goes on to say that "Your safety lies in the fact that you live in a country where every kind of criminality is condoned and protected." Meynell letter: "I read the Shelley article by Francis Thompson with the greatest interest . . . I am glad you were interested in my article on Oscar Wilde. The writer of the admirable article on Coventry Patmore was Mr. John Freeman."

2 items4 p. on 2 leaves26 x 20 cm

Letter: Indiana, to Samuel Bettle, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Letter inquiries as to whether "an insane friend of whom our monthly meeting has the charge" could be transferred to Philadelphia.

1 items1 p. on double sheet

Musical notation; n.d.

AMs. At the bottom of the musical notation is a note written and signed by Vincent Novello: "This Manuscript is in the hand-writing of my beloved friend Signor Dragonetti, who died on the 16th of April 1846, in the presence of Count Pepoli, Mr. Appleby (his legal friend) and myself." See an image of this letter...

1 items1 p.23 x 22 cm

Deed

TDS, ADS. Application for a four hundred-acre tract of land, formerly Joseph Donaldson's. Signed by Henry Drinker and Tench Francis.

1 items1 p. on double leaf

Deed.

TDS, ADS. Application for a four hundred-acre tract of land, formerly Casper Singer, Jr's. Signed by Henry Drinker and Tench Francis.

1 items1 p. on double leaf

Letter: London, to H. Dymond Stuckey

TLS. "If anything is done about the Washington statue and I can be of any help I shall be glad to do what I can."

1 items1 p.13 x 20 cm

Letter: SingSing, N.Y., to Horatio Potter, Bishop of New York

ALS. "My dear Bishop, Having accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church Bridgeport I desire that you should, if you please, send me a letter dismissing[?] to Bp Williams. I wrote you last week, but knowing that you are very busy now, I thot it might have escaped your memory."

1 items1 p. on double leaf

Letter: London, to R. H. Grundy, Esq.

ALS. Announces that he has finished Grundy's drawing and has sent it by train.

1 items2 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Official notification: [Philadelphia, Pa.], to Samuel Coats, 1748-1830

ADS. Informs Coats that "at an election held this day at the house of John Mearns (in pursuance of a Proclamation of the Governor for that purpose) you were duly elected one of the Select Council of the City of Philadelphia." Other signers of the notice include John Fries, Abijah Dawes, and Richard Price.

1 items1 p.22 x 21 cm

Transfer of power of attorney: Philadelphia, Pa.

ADS. Legal document in which Etienne Dutilh & Co., empowered by Satire, Leris, & Lamarque of Bordeaux, France, to act as their agent, transfers their power of attorney to John Richards and Michael Verbecke so that they may collect money owed by LaCaze and Mallet of Philadelphia. Written on back of original French document in which Satire, Leris, & Lamarque assign power of attorney to Etienne Dutilh & Co.

1 items1 p. on double leaf33 x 21 cm

Letter: to Henry White, Esq.

ALS. Regarding legal matters.

1 items1 p.

Check: T. W. Dyott to Mr. Calder

DS. Drawn on the Manual Labor Bank of Philadelphia, states, "I promise to pay Mr. Calder or bearer TEN Dollars on demand at my MANUAL LABOR BANKING HOUSE."

1 items1 p.

Letter: to James Crowdy, Esq., Highworth, Wilts

ALS. "I find Dr. Trenchard of Hamden has a date for the [illeg.] & has promised Lord [illeg.] . . . and you would be doing him a favour if you could prevail upon Dr. T., if you know him, to stay at home."

1 items1 p. on double sheet

Deed poll: Washington County, Pa., to Isaac Franks, 1759-1822

DS. Deed poll of a three-hundred-acre land tract in Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Isaac Franks of Philadelphia, witnessed by Thomas Bradford and Peter Gillion.

1 items2 p. on double sheet33 x 42 cm folded to 33 x 21 cm

Letter: War Department, Washington, D.C., to Joshua Forman, Esq., Syracuse N.Y.

ALS. Letter discusses the status of several cases being considered by the War Department.

1 items1 p.

Travel Permit

DS. Travel permit for Girshev Efelman, including a description of his features. Written in Russian.

1 items1 p. on double sheet

Speech: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

AMsS. At dinner held in his honor were present some of the most outstanding scientists of the day: Albert A. Michelson, Robert A. Millikan, Robert C. Tolman, Edwin P. Hubble, Charles E. St. John, and others. Einstein reviews the intellectual debts he owed to other scientists, many of whom were present. Einstein's speech, together with remarks by other speakers, has been translated and published in Science, Vol. 73, April 10, 1931.

1 items2 p. on 2 leaves28 x 22 cm

Letter: Hill Hout, to unknown correspondent; n.y.-06-16

1 items1 p.

Letter: to Jane Bettle, 1773-1840, Philadelphia, Pa.; n.d.

ALS. Sends her friend a recipe for a cough remedy.

1 items1 p. on double sheet25 x 21 cm folded to 13 x 21 cm

Letter: Royal Surrey Theatre, to C. Pelham Thompson, Theatre Royal, Haymarket

ALS. Letter offers to buy Thompson's recent play, possibly Jack Robinson and His Monkey, a 2-act melodrama which debuted at the Royal Surrey Theatre on August 20, 1829.

1 items1 p.

Medical account book: Bridgeton, N.J.

AM. Elmer's first medical account book, containing a record of prescriptions for his patients.

1 items62 p. on 31 leaves23 x 17 cm

Letter: Concord, Mass.

ALS. "I give my consent to Mr. Isidor's publishing my poem 'Good bye proud world,' &c. with his music."

1 items1 p.18 x 12 cm

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Mrs. Epps, London

ALS. Writing to his mother, the author declines a request to visit her in London as he is taking care of a neighbor's property, writes about the progress of his studies, and discusses other matters.

1 items3 p. on double sheet

Letter: to Messrs Caddel & Davis; n.d.

ALS. Requests several books.

1 items1 p.

Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to Mrs. Ruben Etting, Baltimore, Md.

ALS. Answers an earlier letter from his wife and discusses various family matters.

1 items2 p. on double sheet

Letters: Philadelphia, Pa., to Jacob M. Haldeman, Cumberland Works near Carlisle, Pa.

2 ALsS. In these letters, written on the back of his printed instructions "for License to use his Improvements in the Art of Manufacturing Flour and Meal," Evans clarifies business arrangements with a new subscriber to his process. Also included in this folder are several newsclippings about the life and inventions of Oliver Evans.

2 items2 p. on 2 double sheet34 x 42 cm folded to 34 x 21 cm

Letter: Springfield [Pa.?], to Samuel Bettle, 1774-1861, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Discusses the prospect of impending war with England over the Oregon boundary and the course he thinks the Society of Friends should take in the matter: "It seems to me probable that if it should be right for friends to move at all in petitioning for peace, independent action might be more effective."

1 items3 p. on double sheet25 x 41 cm folded to 25 x 21 cm

Note: "To the Doorkeepers of the House of Lords."

ANS. "Admit the Bearer to the Gallery this day."

1 items1 p.

Letter: Edinburgh, to Mr. Grundy, Liverpool

ALS. Explains that, after some delay, he is now sending along the portrait of Evangeline that he has been engraving for Mr. Keith.

1 items2 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Letter: H.M.S. Carysfort, to Lucy Torriano, Wells, Somerset

ALS. Very brief note where the Fanshawe, commanding officer of Frederic Torriano [the recipient's son], "take[s] the opportunity of sending you a few lines to say that Frederic is quite well."

1 items1 p. on double sheet

Letter: to "My dear Miss Blanchard" ; [18--]-12-13

ALS. Expresses her "sincere thanks to your Papa for the compliment he has paid me."

1 items3 p. on double sheet19 x 22 cm folded to 19 x 11 cm

Autograph; n.d. ANS.

1 items1 p.

Letter: Burlington, N.J., to Samuel Coates, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Fielding asks for aid for a friend of the family, John Ought, who needs to be admitted to the local sanitarium.

1 items2 p. on double leaf

Letters: Boston, Mass., to Fred Holland Day, Esq., Boston, Mass.

4 ALsS. Short letters thank him for books sent (Wordsworth, Keats, Landor), for his "exquisite memorial sheets," and arrange for her portrait to be taken by Day.

4 itemstogether 4 p.mostly 18 x 11 cm

Letter: Tywyn near Conway, to "My Dear Grundy" ; n.d.

ALS. Mentions having read Grundy's "admirable article on the pictures, although I do not agree with you in your remarks on Holman Hunt." Also discusses the weather and the west coast of Anglesea.

1 items2 p. on double sheet18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm

Invoice: London, to Henry Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa.

ADS. Invoice for goods shipped to Cohen, a dry goods importer.

1 items3 p. on double sheet27 x 42 cm folded to 27 x 21 cm

Letter: to "Dear Milnes" [Richard Monckton Milnes, 1809-1885 ]

ALS. Because his old friend Bernard Barton has died and left a daughter "very slenderly provided for," he writes that her friends have "persuaded her to make a selection of his letters and poems - and to publish them by subscription . . . I beg of you to help us as well as you can" by sending his letter on to Lord Northampton, and by soliciting subscriptions among his acquaintances.

1 items4 p. on double sheet18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11 cm

Letter: Woodbridge, to "Dear Sir" [Bernard Quaritch, 1819-1899]

ALS. Comments on the interest the Rubaiyat has received: "a good deal of People's interest in this little Poem rises from its breathing, from so far back, a Voice which is in nearly every educated Man's heart now . . . People take a liking to it as an old Song." Goes on to reflect that "the World does not seem to have mended since Omar's Days - the same Game played - under the same Eye," and points to Germany and Russia.

1 items4 p. on double sheet18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11 cm

Letter: Wentworth Woodhouse, to J. W. Fletcher

ALS. Responds to an earlier letter of Fletcher's.

1 items3 p. on double sheet

Letter and cards: Beirut (Lebanon), Leysin, Locarno, and Montana-Sur-Sierre (Switzerland), to Harold Monro, London, 1879-1932

1 ALS and 6 APcS. Letter and cards contain his caustic comments on the state of poetry, and individual poets: "The state of poetry, poetic criticism & public taste is so depressing, not to say disgusting . . . I have such a savage hatred of all contemporary work except that of Yeats & Housman . . . I have a particular loathing for the works of William Watson." "Send me a copy of Chesterton's ballad please . . . I think he is the only man alive who can write a line of decent poetry now that Yeats, Kipling, & Housman are silent." "May I have Francis Thomsom [sic] - in 3 vols. - to review . . . as I want to damn his reputation forever."

7 itemstogether 9 p.20 x 25 cm and smaller

Letters: London and Bonn, to Elkin Mathews Publisher, London

2 ALsS. Two letters discussing publication of poems.

2 items2 p.

Commission: for Thomas S. Haymond

DS. Extends Haymond's term as sheriff of Monongaha County (Virginia) for another year.

1 items1 p.20 x 16 cm

Letter: London, to J. Nettleship, Esq.

ALS. Defends in detail his textual emendations in John Keats's Endymion.

1 items3 p.18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11 cm

Letter: London, to H.S. Sotheran & Co

ALS. Thanks the recipients for some "Keats notes" they have recently sent him. Also notes that he is thinking of writing a letter to the author about a "disputed reading in Sonnet XII."

1 items1 p.

Letter: Hong Kong, to "My dear Sir"

ALS. Detailed letter, perhaps written to Forth's superior during the Second Opium War, addresses the current state of affairs in Hong Kong. "Since I last wrote matters at Canton and Hong Kong have assumed so alarming an aspect that it is difficult to foresee the consequences that may follow unless Lord Elgin, brought to a sense of his duty and of the perilous position in which his shortcomings have thrown this Community will hasten here and retrieve the ground he has lost." In a postscript, Forth writes of learning of an impending raid on "the town who fired on the flag of truce . . . So much for the Treaty of Peace."

1 items7 p. on 2 double sheets21 x 27 cm folded to 21 x 14 cm

Notice: London, to Mr. Crowdy, Highworth, Wilts

TLS. Printed anouncement informing the reader that the firm of Foulkes and Longdill has taken on a new partner (Beckitt) and hopes to maintain the same high level of customer satisfaction.

1 items1 p.

Legal Document: "Bill on Equity"

ADS. Signed by Isaac Norris. Complains of Fox's debt.

1 items5 p.

Sheet of tickets: Second Academy lottery, [Philadelphia, Pa.]

Printed fragment. Sheet contains lottery tickets, printed by Benjamin Franklin, to be sold for the benefit of the present-day University of Pennsylvania.

1 items1 p.23 x 19 cm

Receipt: [Philadelphia, Pa.], to Nathaniel Moore, 1687-1759, Hopewell, N.J.

Printed fragment. Sheet contains lottery tickets, printed by Benjamin Franklin, to be sold for the benefit of the present-day University of Pennsylvania.

1 items1 p.23 x 19 cm

Letter: Chippm., to James Crowdy, Esq., Highworth, Wilts; Highworth, Wilts, James Crowdy to Chris Freath

2 ALS. "Sir, I was with Lord Folkestone at Lowington on Tuesday, who much wishes to have the dispute between The Duke of Marlborough, and Lord Radnor respecting the Trees immediately settled, & has desired me to propose leaving it to the Reference of two indifferent persons to be named by us. Should this proposal meet with your Approbation please to write to me by return of Post." Written below the letter is a brief reply by Crowdy.

1 items1 p. on double leaf

Letter: London, to "Dear Bobby" ; n.d.

ALS. "I do hope you will be able to make use of these--if so I shall be glad to let you have carefully drawn units, of any that you might want. These are only rough."

1 items1 p.19 x 14 cm

Letter: Bayswater, to Harry Graves, 1806-1892

ALS. Informs Graves of where he may be found "should your clients entertain an idea of [purchasing] either of my pictures."

1 items1 p. on 1 leaf16 x 11 cm

Letter: Cambridge, Mass., to Gorham Bert Munson, 1896-1969

ALS. "Of course dedicate your book to me, if you are sure I deserve it. Haven't you asked me before and haven't I answered you as became me? I think so. At any rate I shall be only too happy to have the honor."

1 items1 p.26 x 18 cm

Letter: Boston, Mass., to "My dear Martin" ALS. "I am very happy to write you a letter and hope you will make a large collection."

1 items1 p.

Letters: London, to various correspondents

7 ALsS. Letters to various correspondents regarding a number of illustration projects on which he is working. Several of the letters contain small caricatures. In the last letter, to Gerald Christy, Furniss discusses his upcoming lecture tour.

7 itemstogether 16 p.varying sizes

Letter: Lenox, Mass., to Mrs. John Gaul (Clarissa), Hudson, N.Y.

ALS. From "Your affectionate Lucy," the letter discusses a recent visit she has made to Mrs. Gaul's house.

1 items3 p. on double sheet

Letter: to the Nabob of Ascot

ALS. Draft of a letter to an Indian ruler. "If . . . I should be driven to the painful necessity of complying with the request of the Nation in taking upon me the Regency of these Realms it will make me happy to hear of the Prosperity of the Princes of India who are the friends of this country, and I hope and am persuaded that I shall always find the Court of Poona the foremost of that description."

1 items3 p. on double sheet33 x 41 cm folded to 33 x 21 cm

Letter: New York, N.Y., to Clarence Axman, New York, N.Y.

TLS. Responds to a request for pianists to play his Rhapsody in Blue at a dinner. Recommends several he knows. With 8" x 10" black & white glossy portrait photograph of Gershwin, by Vandamm Studio.

1 items1 p.25 x 20 cm

Letter: Reading, Pa., to Mssrs. Lindsay & Blackiston, Booksellers, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Places order for books.

1 items1 p. on double sheet

Letter: to "My dear Taylor"; n.d.

ALS. "Christmas is so near that I may . . . wish you 'a merry one,' as our Devonshire folks say."

1 items1 p.

Letters: To S. Cadell, Esq., London; to J. Campbell, London

2 ALS. Letters discuss publishing and other matters.

2 items2 p. each on double sheet