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Francis Campbell Macauley autograph collection and vocabulary notebooks

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Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 957
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extent:
0.6 linear feet (2 boxes)
Language Note:
Material is in English, French, German, Italian, and Latin.
Preferred Citation:
Francis Campbell Macauley autograph collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1479-1896 (inclusive)
Creator:
Macauley, Francis Campbell
Form:
Autographs (manuscripts) and Etymological dictionaries
Abstract:
This is an autograph collection compiled by Francis Campbell Macaulay. The collection is composed of letters by scientists, politicians, and men of letters, and fragments with signatures. The collection reflects Macaulay's interest in Italian literature, and includes letters from Ludovico Ariosto, Fortunato Cavazzeni Pederzini, and Alessandro Torri. Other notable autographs in the collection are those of Alexandre Dumas, Robert Morris, and Millard Fillmore. The collection also includes several letters to Macaulay regarding the Dante Society, and five volumes of Macaulay's notes for a vocabulary of the dialect of Nice.

Francis Campbell Macauley (sometimes spelled "Macaulay") was an American lawyer, literary aficionado, and archaeological advocate of the 19th century. Macaulay came to reside in Philadelphia in 1888. The following year he proposed to Dr. William Pepper and other leaders of the University of Pennsylvania the creation of an archaeological museum associated with the university. His efforts led to the foundation of the Museum of American Archaeology, which is now the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Macaulay's great interest in Italian literature resulted in an extraordinary collection of early editions of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Torquato Tasso, as well as assorted autographs and vocabulary notebooks, which he bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania in 1896.

The collection comprises the autographed manuscripts of various literary, political, and intellectual figures from the 15th to 19th centuries collected by Francis Campbell Macaulay, as well as five vocabulary notebooks on the dialect of Nice compiled by him. The collection is accordingly divided into two series. The first consists of sundry manuscripts, mostly letters, but also a few clippings, poems, and other documents, featuring individual autographs. The autographs are arranged alphabetically. The second series comprises the vocabulary notebooks, which were completed before Macaulay's donation of the complete collection to the University of Pennsylvania in 1896.

Highlights of the collection include autographs of U.S. presidents James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Van Buren; founding father and financier Robert Morris; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney; Italian Renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto; and French author Alexandre Dumas. Also present are several documents pertaining to events in the career of Charles Stewart McCauley, an American naval officer of the War of 1812 and the Civil War, and several letters of American naval hero Charles Stewart; both ancestors of Francis Campbell Macaulay. This collection includes items that may be of incidental interest to a variety of researchers, in particular those interested in Italian literary and intellectual figures from the 15th through 19th centuries and French dialects.

Gift of Stuart Culin, 1916.

In the Rare Book Collection of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania: Dante Scrapbook

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Finding Aid Author
Kevin Stuart Lee
Finding Aid Date
2014 March 24
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Acciajoli, Jacopo, manuscript document, undated.
Box 1 Folder 1
Acciajuoli, Archelao, fragmentary page of manuscript on vellum, 1550.
Box 1 Folder 2
Albani, Giovanni Girolamo, letter signed to the Prior of Montenovo (1 p.), 1570 March 2.
Box 1 Folder 3
Alfonso II d'Este, Duca di Ferrara, autographed note signed (1 p.), 1575.
Box 1 Folder 4
Allegri, Antonio, autographed note signed (1 p.), 1479.
Box 1 Folder 5
Ariosto, Lodovico, letter signed to Giudice dei Savii (1 p.), 1614 July 5.
Box 1 Folder 6
Ariosto, Lodovico, Jr., letter signed (1 p.), [1598].
Box 1 Folder 7
Bache, A[lexander] D[allas], signature on note of admittance to lecture (1 p.), 1841 January.
Box 1 Folder 8
Badger, George E[dmund], letter signed to Mrs. Mary Culison (1 p.), 1841 August 31.
Box 1 Folder 9
Balestrieri, Domenico, printed form signed (1 p.), 1769 October 20.
Box 1 Folder 10
Bancroft, George, letter signed to Captain Charles Stewart McCauley, clipped autographs (2), 1846 July 27.
Box 1 Folder 11
Bartenstein, Johann Christoph, freiherr von, letter signed (1 p.), 1755 March 24.
Box 1 Folder 12
Beni, Paolo, autographed letter signed to Count Ranuccio Santinelli (1 p.), [1611 July 2].
Box 1 Folder 13
Benjamin, Park, autographed letter signed asking that advertisement be placed in the next issue of a paper (1 p.), 1855 October 1.
Box 1 Folder 14
[Karl XIV Johan, king of Sweden and Norway], letter signed, Bernadotte to the Minister of War (1 p.), [1800].
Box 1 Folder 15
Betti, Salvatore, autographed letter signed (3 p.), 1852.
Box 1 Folder 16
Bettinelli, Saverio, autographed letter signed to [Teresa Berrettoni] (2 p.), 1781 July 3.
Box 1 Folder 17
Bevilacqua, Gherardo, autographed note signed to Vincenzo Rugieri (1/2 p.), 1584 [January 10].
Box 1 Folder 18
Boiarda, Silvia Savitale, note signed to Vincenzo Ruggiero (1/2 p.), 1570 July 7.
Box 1 Folder 19
Bonaparte, Joseph, autographed letter signed to [Count Jurvilliers] (1 p.), 1823 April 30.
Box 1 Folder 20
Bowman, S., clipped autograph (1) , undated.
Box 1 Folder 21
Boyle, John, autographed letter signed to Charles Stewart McCauley giving him permission to be absent from the rendezvous at Boston until the 1st of October (1 p.), 1831 August 26.
Box 1 Folder 22
Branch, John, dispatch signed order to Lieutenant Charles Stewart McCauley (1 p.), 1830 May 28.
Box 1 Folder 23
Brunel, [Sir Marc Isambard], autographed acceptance of invitation signed to Mr. Martin (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 24
Buchanan, James, U.S. president, clipped autographs (2), undated.
Box 1 Folder 25
Bulgarini, Belisario, autographed letter signed to Cardinal Paleotto (1 p.) and manuscript transcript letter to Cardinal Paleotto (1 p.), circa 1600.
Box 1 Folder 26
Burr, Aaron, clipped autograph (1), undated.
Box 1 Folder 27
Bury, Lady Charlotte [(Campbell)], autographed note (1 p.), 1833 December 29.
Box 1 Folder 28
Campagna, Giuseppe, autographed letter signed (2 p.) and autographed letter signed to Michele Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (1 p.), 1856.
Box 1 Folder 29
Cantu, C[esare], autographed letter signed to Felice DeMonnier (1 p.), 1851 February 20.
Box 1 Folder 30
Capponi, G[ino Alessandro Giuseppe Gaspero], marchese, letter signed [concerning the centenary of Dante] (2 p.), 1864 [January] 2.
Box 1 Folder 31
Cass, Lewis, autographed note signed (1 p.), 1858 December 27.
Box 1 Folder 32
Cesari, Antonio, autographed letter signed to Luigi Salina (1 p.), 1815.
Box 1 Folder 33
Chateaubriand, [Francois Auguste Rene], vicomte de, letter signed (2 p.), 1823 May 2.
Box 1 Folder 34
Clark, Thomas M[arch], clipped autograph (1), undated.
Box 1 Folder 35
Colombo, Michele, manuscript poem signed (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 36
[Craik, Dinah Maria] (Mulock), autographed acceptance of invitation to Mrs. Mackenzie (1 p.), before 1864.
Box 1 Folder 37
Crowninshield, B[enjamin] W[illiams], letter signed to Lieutenant Charles Stewart McCauley accompanying his commission as Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy (1 p.), 1815 April 21 .
Box 1 Folder 38
Dante Society, by-laws, printed form (1), undated.
Box 1 Folder 39
Dibdin, [Thomas Fragnall], autographed letter to Mr. Rich (3 p.), 1828 February 8 .
Box 1 Folder 40
Dickerson, M[ahlon], printed leave form signed to Master Commandant Charles Stewart McCauley (1), 1835 August 4 .
Box 1 Folder 41
Dionisi, Gian Giacomo, autographed letter signed to Gi[uolamo] Tartarotti (1 p.), 1756 February 15 .
Box 1 Folder 42
Dobbin, J[ames] C[ochrane], clipped autograph, and letter signed to Commandant Charles Stewart McCauley from the Secretary of the Navy relating to Lieutenant Guest's patent sounding rod (2 p.), 1856 August 15 .
Box 1 Folder 43
Dumas, Alexandre, autographed letter signed to Monsieur Rochefort (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 44
Edgeworth, Maria, autographed letter signed (letter fragment), and petition to the Marchioness of Wellesley (3 p.), 1826 April 30 .
Box 1 Folder 45
Etty, William, autographed letter signed (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 46
Ferrante, II Gonzaga, letter signed (1 p.), 1616 September 20 .
Box 1 Folder 47
Ferrucci, Luigi, autograph letter signed to Matteo Leonardo Matteu (?) (1 p.), 1855 January 1.
Box 1 Folder 48
Fillmore, Millard, U.S. president, autographed letter signed to Charles C. Stratton (1 p.) and autographed letter of recommendation to Stratton signed (1 p.), 1857 April 8.
Box 1 Folder 49
Fraser, John F[ries], autographed note signed to Franklin Institute asking that bearer be admitted to lectures on geology (1 p.), 1840 January 2.
Box 1 Folder 50
Furness, Horace Howard, autographed letter signed to Francis Campbell Macauley relating to the Dante Society (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 51
Galanti, Carimne, autographed letter signed to David Nutt (1 p.), 1882 January 10.
Box 1 Folder 52
Galvani, Giovanni, autographed letter signed to Enola Raggianini (1 p.), 1829.
Box 1 Folder 53
[Genlis, Stephanie Felicitie Ducrest de St. Aubin], comtesse de, afterwards marquise de Sillery, autographed note to Monseiur Maradan Libraire, with portrait on obverse (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 54
Giannini, Crescentino, autographed letter signed to Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (3 p.), [18]56 July 27.
Box 1 Folder 55
Giuliani, Giambattista, autographed letter signed (3 p.) and autographed letter signed (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 56
Gladstone, W[illiam] E[wart], autographed invitation to Mr. Stratton (1 p.), [18]57 May 25.
Box 1 Folder 57
Graham, William A[lexander], letter signed to Charles S. McCauley concerning Mr. Follansbee (1 p.), 1851 December 8.
Box 1 Folder 58
Guizot, [Francois Pierre Guillaume], autographed note signed (1 p.), 1849 February 27.
Box 1 Folder 59
Henshaw, David, printed form signed to Captain Charles Stewart McCauley (1 p.), 1843 October 25.
Box 1 Folder 60
Humboldt, Alexander, freiherr von, transcript of Humboldt's travels (2 p.), autographed note signed (1 p.), and autographed notes (2), [1802?].
Box 1 Folder 61
Jefferson, Thomas, U.S. president, clipped autograph (1), envelope addressed to Mr. F. McCauley (1), circa 1801-1809.
Box 1 Folder 62
John, Bishop of New York, autographed letter signed to Quackenbos (1 p.), 1850 September 2 .
Box 1 Folder 63
Kennedy, John P[endleton], clipped autograph (1), and printed leave of absence form signed to Charles Stewart McCauley (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 64
Kotzebue, [August Friedrich Ferdinand von], autographed note signed (1 p.), 1802 February 26.
Box 1 Folder 65
Lafayette, [Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de], letter signed, copy of letter sent to M. Bailly (2 p.), 1789 July 23.
Box 1 Folder 66
[LaMotte]-Fouque, [Friedrich Heinrich Karl], freiherr de, manuscript signed (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 67
Lavater, Johann Caspar, manuscript poem signed (4 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 68
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, autographed note (1 p.), [after 1810].
Box 1 Folder 69
Leslie, C[harles] R[obert], autographed letter signed to T. Hayward (1 p.), 1825 April 29.
Box 1 Folder 70
Masii, Francesco, autographed letter signed to Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (2 p.), 1852 November 7.
Box 1 Folder 71
Mason, J[ohn] Y[oung], autographed letter signed to Captain Charles Stewart McCauley appointing him member of a Naval Court (1 p.), 1846 November 27.
Box 1 Folder 72
Meade, W[illiam], autographed letter signed to Mrs. Rosalie Lisle asking her to send a daguerreotype of Old Christ Church, Lancaster City, VA to J.B. Lippincott & Co. (1 p.), [18]57 January 14.
Box 1 Folder 73
Medici, Guido, autographed letter signed to Roberto del Beccuto (1 p.), 1522 June 16.
Box 1 Folder 74
Mordani, F[ilippo], autographed letter signed to Luca Vivarelli (1 p.), 1857 October 27.
Box 1 Folder 75
Morris, Robert, autographed letter signed to J. Nicholson (1 p.), 1797 November 13.
Box 1 Folder 76
Onslow, Arthur, autographed receipt, 1721 November 7.
Box 1 Folder 77
Patterson, R[obert] M[askell], autographed letter signed to Mr. Franklin Peale asking his aid in preparing a lecture (1 p.), 1826 February 13 .
Box 1 Folder 78
Paulding, J.K., letter signed to Captain Charles Stewart McCauley ordering him to proceed to Norfolk and report to William B. Shutrick for command of U.S. Ship of the Line Delaware (1 p.), 1841 February 19.
Box 1 Folder 79
Pederzini, Fortunato Cavazzeni, autographed letter signed to Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (1 p.), autographed letter signed to Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (2 p.), autographed letter signed to Michelangelo Caetani (1 p. folder), autographed letter signed to Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (1 p.), autographed letter signed to [Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta] (1 p.), 1853-1857.
Box 1 Folder 80
Perry, M[atthew] C[albraith], clipped autograph (1), undated.
Box 1 Folder 81
Potter, A[lonso], autographed letter signed to [Harrison Hall] (1 p.) and autographed letter signed to Reverend A.S. Clark (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 82
Potter, H., clipped autograph (1), undated.
Box 1 Folder 83
Preston, W[illiam] Ballard, clipped autograph (1), and printed form signed to Captain Charles Stewart McCauley (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 84
[Rangoni, Fulvio], manuscript poem to Claudio Rangoni (1 p.), [15]89 April 4.
Box 1 Folder 85
Read, T[homas] Buchanan, clipped autograph (1) and autographed letter signed to Mr. Lee (?) (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 86
Roscoe, W[illiam], autographed note signed to Mr. Monro (1 p.), 1827 September 25.
Box 1 Folder 87
Rosini, Gio[vanni], manuscript signed (1 p.), [17]99.
Box 1 Folder 88
Rossi, Gio. Galeazzo, autographed letter signed to Cornelio Volta (3 p.), 1578[?] February 2.
Box 1 Folder 89
Sacrata, Elenora Trotta, receipt signed for services of Antonio Ferrallo (1/2 p.), 1595 January 30.
Box 1 Folder 90
Schelling, [Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von], document signed (1 p.), 1835 May 27.
Box 1 Folder 91
Scott, Thomas F[ielding], clipped autograph (1), undated.
Box 1 Folder 92
[Shee, Sir Martin Archer], clipped note (1), undated.
Box 1 Folder 93
S[igourney], L[ydia] H[oward (Huntley)], manuscript of "The Muse" for the "Gift" (4 p.), [after 1830].
Box 1 Folder 94
[Simonde] de Sismondi, J[ean] C[harles] L[eonard], autographed letter signed to M.F. Longhena (3 p.), 1825 February 6.
Box 1 Folder 95
Smith, R[obert], printed form signed to Charles Stewart McCauley appointing him midshipman (1 p.), 1809 February 13.
Box 1 Folder 96
Smith, Sydney, autographed letter signed (1 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 97
Sorio, Bartolomeo, autographed letter signed to Il Duca Caetani (2 p.) and autographed letter signed to Il Duca Michelangelo Caetani (1 p.), 1863.
Box 1 Folder 98
Southard, Sam[uel] L[ewis], order signed to Lieutenant Charles Stewart McCauley (1 p.), 1825 August 5.
Box 1 Folder 99
Southey, Robert, autographed letter signed to the Reverend Leighton Wigton (1 p.), 1832 June 13.
Box 1 Folder 100
Stewart, Ch[arle]s, 4 envelopes addressed to Mrs. Maria McCauley, 1 envelope addressed to Francis McCauley, autographed letters signed to Nathan Baker (3 p. total), 2 letters signed to LeRoy, Bayard & Co. (2 p. total), 3 autographed letters signed to Mrs. Maria McCauley (9 p. total), autographed letter signed to Lossing (1 p.) and letter signed (4 p.), undated.
Box 1 Folder 101
Taney, R[oger] B[rooke], autographed note signed (1 p.), 1860 March 31.
Box 1 Folder 102
Tassoni, Estense Ferrante, receipt signed, 1595.
Box 1 Folder 103
Tassoni, Julio A., letter signed to Vicentio Rugieri (1 p.), 1575 January 5.
Box 1 Folder 104
Thompson, Smith, printed furlough form signed to Lieutenant Charles Stewart McCauley (1 p.), 1822 December 23.
Box 1 Folder 105
Tiraboschi, Gero[lamo], autographed note signed (1 p.), 1782 April 12.
Box 1 Folder 106
Tommaseo, [Niccolo], letter signed (1 p.), [18]48 August 12.
Box 1 Folder 107
Torri, Alessandro, letter signed (1 p.), autographed letter signed (2 p.), autographed letter signed (1 p.), autographed letter signed to Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (2 p.), autographed letter signed to Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (1 p.), autographed letter signed (2 p.), autographed letter signed to Prince Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (2 p.), 1857-1858.
Box 1 Folder 108
Toucey, Isaac, clipped autograph (1), after 1857.
Box 1 Folder 109
Troya, Carlo, 6 autographed letters signed to Michelangelo Caetani, Duca di Sermoneta (15 p. total), undated.
Box 1 Folder 110
Upsher, A[bel] P[arker], manuscript regulations signed (1 p.), 1842 August 3.
Box 1 Folder 111
Van Buren, Martin, U.S. president, autographed envelope addressed from him to Mr. William L. Dungleson (1), undated.
Box 1 Folder 112
Watson, John F[anning], autographed letter signed to Mrs. McCauley (1 p.), 1849 December 13.
Box 1 Folder 113
White, W[illia]m, autographed letter signed to Reverend Bird Wilson (1 p.), 1832 January 5.
Box 1 Folder 114
Wilkie, D., autographed note to Mr. Auguste (1 p.), 1890 July 1.
Box 1 Folder 115
Wiseman, [Nicholas Patrick Stephen] Cardinal, letter to Mr. Beard (2 p.), [18]49 August 5.
Box 1 Folder 116
Woodbury, John, receipt from the Dante Society sent to Francis C. Macaulay, autographed invitation signed (1 p.), printed form signed (1 p.), 1881.
Box 1 Folder 117
Woodbury, Levi, letter signed to Commander Charles Stewart McCauley (1 p.), 1831 September 27.
Box 1 Folder 118
Anonymous, annotations on the first canto and first two thirds of the second canto of the "Divine Comedy", circa 1600s.
Box 1 Folder 119
Miscellaneous 18th and 19th century letters written by various Italian authors whose signatures cannot be identified, and one letter in German written on January 30, [17]65, 1700-1899.
Box 1 Folder 120
Notes for a vocabulary of the dialect of Nice, before 1896.
Box 2 Folder 1-5

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