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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
August 30 - December 12, 1803; 1810
Abstract:  

This item is Lewis' narrative journal of the river trip from Pittsburgh to the winter camp of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, together with meteorological observations. There are also entries by William Clark. Of the 126 leaves in this journal, 31 contain questions by Nicholas Biddle, with William Clark's replies, dated 1810. Includes parts II and III of Nicholas Biddle, "Notes on Indians...", and list of measurements of bones and other natural history specimens, in Lewis' hand. Also contains some sketches and two small maps.
Call #:  
Mss.917.3.L58p
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1850
Abstract:  

Two sketchbooks by artist Rembrandt Peale. The first volume contains pencil sketches made on a trip on the Hudson River, October 1850, including views of the Palisades, Castle Garden, and the Catskill Mountains.
Call #:  
Mss.B.P313
Extent:
2 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1885-1931
Abstract:  

This correspondence is with Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Edgar Fahs Smith, and Thomas Sovereign Gates, about undergraduate days at Harvard College, his interest in Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute. The papers include a list of publications, biographical data, papers on Robert G. LeConte and Daniel Moreau Barringer, a certificate of membership in the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, and 25 drawings of crystals and 35 original sketches made to accompany his Harvard thesis, "The Nature and Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime."
Call #:  
Mss.B.P384
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
n.d.
Abstract:  

These papers include two pages by Rubens Peale concerning landscapes, a notebook by Rembrandt Peale relating to the portrait of Washington, and a commonplace and recipe book, with sketches of gas lights.
Call #:  
Mss.Film.1081.1
Extent:
1 microfilm_reel(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1903-1905
Abstract:  

The collection includes material relating to government, history, festivals, customs, games, etc. of the Ojibwe people. Also includes comments on the language; vocabulary, some items with English glosses; lists of bands and locations; and photographs of people, activities, dwellings, canoes, etc.
Call #:  
Mss.497.3.J71
Extent:
1 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1955
Abstract:  

The draft of an unpublished book, lacking chapter VI, Ottawa feasts. Attempts, by detailed analysis and description of present-day customs in historical perspective, to evaluate powwows, feasts, and camp meetings in Ottawa culture. 12 chapters give brief history, biographies, and locations; describe festivals and dances in detail; analyze native songs (scores); describe a Chippewa Methodist camp meeting and hymns, with analysis of hymn texts and tunes. Presents Ottawa "superstitions" (bear walking, medicines, herbs), 42 Ottawa stories (see Jane Willets, Ottawa material, Mss.Rec.1), material on natural-history usage. Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references. Later published as The art of tradition: Sacred music, dance, and myth of Michigan's Anishinaabe (Michigan State University Press, 2009).
Call #:  
Mss.497.3.K965a
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
ca. 1819
Abstract:  

Notebook of Henry Dilworth Gilpin for a course on natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, ca.1819, with additional notes on mathematics. The professor for both courses was probably Robert Maskell Patterson.
Call #:  
Mss.500.G42
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1377-1935
Abstract:  

This collection was assembled by Court and was partly used in the book, "The History of the Microscope" (with Reginald S. Clay, London, 1932). There is historical correspondence (including some by Court), documents, broadsides, and photographs, concerning microscopes and instruments. This includes material on Joseph Bonomi, James Epps, John Lee, Edward Nairne, and others. There is significant material on Cornelius Varley: account book, autobiographical sketch, watercolors and sketches, etc. This collection also contains a large number of deeds pertaining to the property of John Lee (1783-1866), Fellow of the Royal Society and an amateur astronomer. In addition, there are about 300 pamphlets, including early trade and auction catalogs, used by Court for his research.
Call #:  
Mss.509.078.M582
Extent:
4 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1805-1807
Abstract:  

Born in Austro-Hungary in either 1748 or 1750, Guillermo Dupaix became one of the first Europeans to observe and describe the archaeological riches of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Yucatan. Between 1805 and 1807, he lead three Royal expeditions to survey major Mexican archaeological sites, working in close concert with Jose Luciano Castañeda, an artist with the National Museum. Among the sites they visited were the Mayan ruins at Palenque, the Zapotec/Mixtec site at Mitla, and several Aztec sites. The APS version of Viages Sobre las Antiquedades Mejicanas is one of several contemporary manuscript copies of Dupaix's seminal work on Mexican archaeology. The work consists of two volumes, the first containing the text, the second, copies of Castañeda's illustrations, which here lack the distortions introduced in King's edition.
Call #:  
Mss.913.72.D92v
Extent:
2 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
Circa 1837
Abstract:  

A published first edition, 1837, of Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux de Rochelle's History of the United States of America, in French, with a companion volume of original sketches used for the 96 engraved plates. Sketches are of American scenes and history, some apparently original, others after de Bry and other artists, all used in Roux de rochelle's book.
Call #:  
Mss.917.3.R76
Extent:
2 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
Circa 1842
Abstract:  

These are the original sketches used for the engravings in Day's 1843 publication, "Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia). They are finely detailed renderings of public and private structures and landscape throughout Pennsylvania. Accompanying these sketches are 150 pages of photocopied letters of Day, from originals at Yale University. These were used by Smith in his book.
Call #:  
Mss.917.48.D33
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1769, 1772
Abstract:  

Between 1764 and 1781, the Scots surveyor George Gauld was assigned by the British Admirality to chart the waters of the Gulf Coast off British West Florida, an area that extended from New Orleans to the modern-day Florida. In 1773, Gauld submitted some of his findings to the APS, probably in hopes of having them published in the Transactions, and although these were not published, they became one of the first mansucripts entered into the Society's collections. Contains occasional brief references to Native peoples of the areas described. The Gauld manuscript also includes an extract of a letter from John Lorimer to Gauld, 1772, and a sketch of the Middle and Yellow Rivers of West Florida by Thomas Hutchins. When it was received at the APS, it was endorsed: "This long uninteresting Paper can hardly obtain a Place in the Transactions of a Philosophical Society. It should however be preserved in the Files for the Use of Historians or map makers."
Call #:  
Mss.917.59.G23
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1689-1735
Abstract:  

Included in this volume are short treatises on military topics, such as fortification and geometry, and military discipline; an account of campaigns (1689-1697) with the Royal Regiment of Foot in Ireland fighting the Williamite War between King James II and King William III, an account of campaigns under Prince Eugene of Savoy, with lists of troops; a section entitled "Un traittes touchant les conquètes quon pouroit faire en Amerique sur la maison de Bourbon au cas que la querre devienne generale et qui seules peuvent retablir lequilibre de l'Europe;" and lists of imperial regiments. Volume describes campaigns that took place during the successive reign of William of Orange, Queen Anne, George I and George II. British officers of note are John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford and John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough.
Call #:  
Mss.940.M68
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1869-1898
Abstract:  

Dalton Dorr (1846-1901) was the curator, secretary and director of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia, the forerunner of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, from 1880-1899. A journal, written in 1897, copied from his notes and from memory, of travels in Greenland (1869), the Indian Territory, Colorado and the Pacific coast (1872-73); Paris, England, Scotland, and Ireland (1882-85), with some sketches. He took the Greenland cruise with Isaac I. Hayes in 1869, which was described by Hayes in his "Land of Desolation" (New York: Harper, 1872). See also, a companion volume of albumen prints taken by William Bradford and other members of "Under the midnight sun: a pleasure cruise in Greenland" in the summer of 1869.
Call #:  
Mss.B.D735
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1785 April 3 - 1785 May 27
Abstract:  

This diary records the individuals and sights that he saw while in England. There are many observations of life in London, e.g. parks, buildings, paintings, food. Outside of London he visited many towns, including Manchester and its cotton mills as well as the steel mills of Birmingham. He relates his visit to Drury Lane and the dramatic performance of Sarah Siddons. Some of the people he met included Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Charles Blagden, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, William Pitt the Younger, and Benjamin Vaughan. He also visited and described the gardens at Kew. The diary includes several sketches, including the plan of Blenheim Palace, and also a table of distances traveled.
Call #:  
Mss.B.M291
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1905-1947
Abstract:  

Beginning with his college life as an undergraduate at Harvard (1905-1906), Morley's diaries continue through his earliest travels and explorations of Central America (1907-1944), with information on the study of Mayan hieroglyphs, publications, the study of Central American ruins, and the manners and customs of the jungle Indians. Five volumes are devoted to four separate archaeological expeditions: Copan expedition (1937), Uxmal expedition (1941-1942), Central American expedition (1944), and Guatemala and Honduras expedition (1947). Formal and detailed field notes form the bulk of Morley's archaeological work. There are no diaries for 1908-1911, 1913, 1926-1930, 1933-1936, 1938-1940, and 1943.
Call #:  
Mss.B.M828
Extent:
39 item(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1919-1963
Abstract:  

Includes correspondence, autobiographical notes, addresses, articles, and drawings. The collection reflects Riddle's interests in breeding, heredity, and evolution. He was interested in humanism and the presentation of biological and evolutionary theories. There is much information on Riddle's activities in favor of freedom of scientific teaching, especially in high schools.
Call #:  
Mss.B.R43
Extent:
3.5 Linear feet



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