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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1825-1826
Abstract:  

Correspondence and petitions to Henry Seymour regarding canal routes in northern New York, personnel, etc. Mentions David Thomas, Wells Hatch.
Call #:  
Mss.629.9.N47d
Extent:
7 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
Circa 1760s-1850s
Abstract:  

This rich collection of letters and documents, which was assembled by Sol Feinstone (1888-1980) over a period of fifty years, includes material on almost all notable Americans from before the Revolution to the 1850's, as well as prominent Europeans, and there are documents relating to military affairs. There are substantial groups of letters from: John Adams, Henry Dearborn, Alexander Hamilton, Jedediah Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, George Washington, and a long run of letters from a Massachusetts military surgeon named Samuel Adams. Many letters, though written by Revolutionary figures, relate to events that occurred before or after the War.
Call #:  
Mss.B.F327
Extent:
27 Linear feet
Subjects:  

1775-1783 | 1783-1850 | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | Adams, Samuel | Agriculture | Agusta, GA | Albany (N.Y.) | Albany, N.Y. | Albany, NY | Albemarle Barracks, VA | Alexandria, VA | Algiers (Algeria) | Ambassadors | American Revolution | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Annapolis (Md.) | Annapolis, MD | Antigua, WI | Au Cap, France | Augusta County (Va.) | Bagshot, England | Baltimore (Md.) | Bank of Albany (Albany, N.Y.) | Belmont, VA | Bennington, VT | Bonston, MA | Books | Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France) | Boston (Mass.) | Boston Massacre, 1770 | Boston, MA | Botta, Carlo, 1766-1837. Storia della guerra dell'independenza degli Stati Uniti d'America. English | Bound Brook (N.J.) | Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777 | Bristol County (Mass.) | Brown, Elias, 1793-1857 | Buckingham, PA | Bucks County (Pa.) | Bucks County (Pa.) | Business and Skilled Trades | Cabanis, P. J. G. (Pierre Jean Georges), 1757-1808 | Cadwalader, Lambert, 1742-1823 | Cambridge, MA | Cambridge, Mass | Camden (N.J.) | Camp Tappan, NY | Cape Henry (Virginia Beach, Va.) | Carlisle, PA | Catskill Landing, NY | Champlain, Lake | Charleston (S.C.) | Charleston Harbor, SC | Charleston, SC | Charlestown (Boston, Mass.) | Charlotte County, VA | Charlottesville (Va.) | Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) | Chester County (Pa.) | Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Clothing | Colonial Politics | Colony and State Specific History | Conde, France | Connecticut | Conneticut | Constitution | Court at St. James, London | Crown Point, NY | Cádiz (Spain) | Danbury (Conn.) | Dartmouth College | Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829 | Delaware | Detroit, MI | Diplomacy | Diplomacy--History | Diplomatic History | Dobbs Ferry, NY | Dublin (Ireland) | Dueling | Early National Politics | Eastham, MA | Easton, Massachusetts | Education | Edwardsville (Ill.) | Egg Harbor City (N.J.) | Elizabethtown, NJ | England | Englishtown, NJ | Essex, England | Family Correspondence | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Fenner, NY | Fishkill (N.Y.) | Fort Mifflin (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Fort Ticonderoga | France | France. Marine | France. Navy | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Frederick County (Va.) | Fredericksburg (Va.) | Fredericksburg, NY | Fredericksburg, VA | Freight and freightage | French Revolution | Gazette de Leyde (Netherlands, Leiden) | General Correspondence | Georgia | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Goshen, NC | Great Britain. Parliament | Great Britain. Royal Navy | Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765) | Great Cumberland Place, London | Greenwich, CT | Haiti | Halifax, NS | Hamburg (Germany) | Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 | Hamoze, England | Hanover, NJ | Havana (Cuba) | Haverhill, MA | Hessian mercenaries | Hessian soldiers in the American Revolution | Hillsboro (N.C.) | Hingham, MA | Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) | Huntington, Andrew, 1745-1824 | Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818 | Inoculation | Ireland | Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Kentucky | Kingston, NC | L'Orient, France | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 | Lamb, John, 1735-1800 | Lancaster (Pa.) | Land titles | Langdon, John, 1741-1819 | Law | Law of the Sea | Legal correspondence | Legal documents | Levy, Levy Andrew, 1746-1829 | Liberty Pole, NJ | Lisbon (Portugal) | Litchfield, CT | Livorno (Italy) | Logistics | London | London, England | Long Island City (New York, N.Y.) | Luzerne County (Pa.) | Madeira wine | Manheim, PA | Marshfield, MA | Maryland | Maryland. Council of Safety | Massachusettes | Massachusetts | Medfield, MA | Middlebrook, NJ | Middleton, MA | Middletown, CT | Military History | Military Records | Miscellaneous | Missouri | Missouri compromise | Monmouth County (N.J.) | Monticello, VA | Montreal, Canada | Montréal (Québec) | Morristown (N.J.) | Morristown, NJ | Mount Independence, NY | Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) | Mount Vernon (Va.) | Mount Vernon, VA | Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750-1801 | Naples (Italy : Province) | Naples, Italy | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 | Negotiation | Netherlands | Netherlands | New Brunswick (N.J.) | New Hampshire | New Haven, Connecticut | New Jersey | New Jersey -- History -- 1775-1865. | New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | New London (Conn.) | New Orleans, LA | New Port, RI | New Windsor, NY | New York | New York | New York (N.Y.) | New York (State) | New York (State). Committee of Safety | New York, N.Y. | Newburgh (N.Y.) | Newburgh, NY | Newport (R.I.) | Newtown, PA | North Carolina | Northampton County (Pa.) | Norwich, CT | Nova Scotia | Official Government Documents and Records | Ohio | Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) | Orland, ME | Paramus, NJ | Paris, France | Parish, Louisa County, VA | Passy, France\ | Pawtuxet, RI | Peekskill, NY | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania State Lottery | Pennsylvania--Politics and government | Pennsylvania. Committee of Safety | Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council | Pennsylvania. War-Office | Penobscot Expedition, 1779 | Pensions | Perth Amboy (N.J.) | Perth Amboy, NJ | Petitions | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Philadelphia, PA | Philadelphia, PA | Philipsborough, NY | Philipsburg, NY | Pittsfield (Mass.) | Plymouth Ropeyard, England | Plymouth Yard, England | Political Correspondence | Pompton (N.J.) | Poplar Forest, VA | Portsmouth (Va.) | Portsmouth, NH | Preakness, NJ | Presidents. | Prince William County (Va.) | Princeton (N.J.) | Princeton, Battle of, Princeton, N.J., 1777 | Princeton, NJ | Printed Material | Prizes (Property captured at sea) | Proclamations | Promissory notes | Providence (R.I.) | Providence, R.I. | Providence, RI | Quartermasters | Quebec, Canada | Quincy, MA | Receipts | Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785 | Rhinebeck, NY | Rhode Island | Rhode Island | Richmond (Va.) | Richmond, VA | Roxborough, PA | Rutland, MA | Saint Petersburg (Russia) | Salem County (N.J.) | Saratoga (N.Y.) | Saratoga, NY | Sartine, Antoine de, Comte d'Alby, 1729-1801 | Savannah (Ga.) | Savannah, GA | Schuylkill River (Pa.) | Scotch Plains, NJ | Seminary, Quebec | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Shay's rebellion | Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787 | Shrewsbury, MA | Slavery | Smallpox | Society of Friends | Society of the Cincinnati | Sons of Liberty | South Carolina | Spain | Springfield (Mass.) | Springfield (Union County, N.J.) | Springhill, VA | St. John's Church (Portsmouth, N.H.) | Stamford, CT | Stamp Act Congress (1765 : New York, N.Y.) | Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) | Statesmen. | Steuben County (N.Y.) | Stony Point (N.Y.) | Taxation | The Culper spy ring | The Hague, Netherlands | The will of General George Washington | Throgs Neck (New York, N.Y.) | Tobacco | Totowa, NJ | Treaties | Trenton (N.J.) | Trenton, Battle of, Trenton, N.J., 1776 | Trenton, NJ | Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.) | Tuckerton, NJ | United States -- Armed Forces -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | United States -- History -- 1775-1865. | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | United States -- History, Military. | United States Lottery | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, German | United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department | United States. Articles of Confederation | United States. Congress | United States. Constitution | United States. Continental Army | United States. Continental Army. Massachusetts Regiment, Fourth | United States. Continental Congress | United States. Declaration of Independence | United States. Department of the Treasury | United States. Supreme Court | United States. War Department | Vaccination | Vaccines | Valley Forge, PA | Vaughan, John, Sir, 1756-1841 | Vermont | Virginia | Washington (D.C.) | Washington, DC | Washington, George (1732-1799) | Watertown (Mass.) | Watertown, MA | West Indies | West Point (N.Y.) | West Point, NY | Westminster (Vt.) | Westminster, England | Westmoreland County (Pa.) | Wethersfield (Conn.) | White Plains, New York | Williamsburg, VA | Wills | Wilmington (Del.) | Wilmington, DE | Winchester, England | Winchester, VA | Worcester, MA | Wyoming County (Pa.) | Yellow fever | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | York County (Pa.) | York, PA | Yorktown (Va.)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1783-1817
Abstract:  

A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book The Elements of Botany (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1798) were widely read, and his Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research. The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B284d
Extent:
10 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Art | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 | Botanists | Botany -- Study and teaching -- 19th century | Botany -- Virginia | Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Description and travel | Business and Skilled Trades | Chemistry -- 18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Diaries. | Drawings. | Dysentery. | Education | Electricity -- 18th century | Engravings. | Ethnobotany | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Geology -- 18th century | Gout | Harden, Jane LeConte | Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868 -- pictorial works | Hudson River (N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Agriculture | Indians of North America -- Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mammals -- Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine | Medicine -- Practice -- 18th century | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century | Meteorology -- United States -- 18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Native America | Natural history | Natural history -- 18th century | Natural history -- 19th century | New Jersey -- Description and travel -- 18th century | New York (State) -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel | Notebooks | Osage language | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Physics | Political Correspondence | Printing and Publishing | Printing plates | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Science and technology | Seminole Indians | Seneca | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Tlaxcala (Mexico) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Turpin, P. J. F. (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840 | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty | Venereal disease | Virginia -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Watercolors | Yellow fever | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1793 | Zoology -- 18th century



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1718-1912
Abstract:  

In addition to family and business correspondence, the Charles Nicoll Bancker Family Papers contains various documents, such as a furniture inventory volume (30pp.); a Daybook, 1795-1800 (120pp.); and a very interesting journal (unidentified, but by one of the Banckers, and filed under "Description of a trip..."), from New York to Albany and back, between July 20-Aug. 15, 1793 (1 vol., 31 pp.). It contains detailed observations of the Hudson River and the towns along the way. Bancker was involved in business and trade prior to 1826, and in insurance after that date, so there is material relating to those topics in this collection. He owned a substantial library of the period, which was used by Charles Wilkes's Expedition after 1837 (see Reynell Coates to Bancker). This library, along with Bancker's notable scientific instrument collection, was sold after his death and there are published auction catalogues in the collection. There is much family correspondence from: Anne E. Bancker, Charles Gerard Bancker, Evert Bancker, Sarah U. Bancker, Violetta Bancker Talbot, Elizabeth Bancker Teackle, and John Teackle.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B22.c
Extent:
3.25 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Adams, John, 1735-1826 | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Bancker, Charles Gerard, 1809-1861 | Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 | Bancker, Evert, 1734-1815 | Bancker, Sarah Upshur Teackle, circa 1780-1843 | Beasley, Frederick, 1777-1845 | Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Catalogs. | Colonial Politics | Colony and State Specific History | Daybooks. | Early National Politics | Education | Family Correspondence | Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | General Correspondence | Girard, Stephen--Estate, 1750-1831 | Hazard, Samuel, 1784-1870 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Insurance agents -- United States. | Inventories. | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Journals (notebooks). | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 | Land and Speculation | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | Marshall, John G. (John George), 1789-1880 | McIlvaine, H. M. | Merchants - United States | Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850 | Montgomery, James, 1787-1834 | Montgomery, John T. (John Teackle), 1817-1895 | Muhlenberg, William Augustus, 1796-1877 | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Political Correspondence | Politicians -- United States. | Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 | Sketchbooks | Smith, Christopher | Social Life and Custom | Stevens, John, 1749-1838 | Talbot, Violetta Taylor Bancker, 1788-1865 | Teackle, Elizabeth Bancker | Teackle, John, 1753-1817 | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States - Commerce - To 1865 | United States - Social conditions - To 1865 | Upshur, Abel Percy | Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829 | Women's History



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1686-1963
Abstract:  

The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale's sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale's daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.
Call #:  
Mss.B.P31
Extent:
19 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1813-1817
Abstract:  

This notebook contains accounts with Farmers and Mechanics Bank, names of debtors and creditors, and "Feed Book," naming owners of animals and the amount of oats consumed by their beasts. Contains reference to R. Bache.
Call #:  
Mss.B.St66
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1842-1849
Abstract:  

Written from China to his family, the letters of James Bancker contain descriptions of the social life of the Americans and English in China, of Hong Kong after the British acquisition of that place, and of anti-British riots in Canton. A long letter describes the outward voyage from New York to Canton; several letters given an account of a visit to the Philippines; and there is a partial journal of Bancker's return home through the Red Sea.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B22
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1724-1965
Abstract:  

This is a collection of letters, letterbooks, account books, scrapbooks, etc., concerning the families of Robert Hare and Thomas Willing. The letters and other documents include early family material, as well as documents written by numerous family relations, and some obviously only collected by them. The Willing family letters (1744-1901) are diverse, concerning family matters, business, society, comments on the Civil War, etc. There are numerous letters from Thomas Willing, many concerning his banking career, as President of the Bank of North America and later at the first Bank of the U.S. The Hare family letters (1724-1965) are more extensive and diverse, including much on travel in the U.S. and elsewhere. There is a letter from Robert Hare Jr. concerning steam engines, and letters from Horace Binney Hare concerning his education at Harvard, 1860, his trip to San Francisco and the west, 1862, and numerous letters written while a soldier in the Civil War. There are many letters from Horace Binney (1780-1875, DAB) to his daughter Esther, who was married to John Innes Clark Hare (1816-1905, DAB), concerning family travel and court cases. There are also letters from outside the family, such as those from Dorothea L. Dix. The bound volumes include, among others: Robert Hare letterbooks (1824-1825, 1841-1857), estate records, and laboratory expense accounts (1818-1860); G. H. Hare's journal or log of cruises aboard the U.S. United States (1841) and U.S. Flint (1845); Horace Binney Hare's 1862 journal of his trip to San Francisco. There are account books and accounts (1754-1795) kept by Thomas Willing; accounts of the controversy over the estate of John Innes Clark; and records of the First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia (receipt book, 1820-1848; minute book, 1827-1844). There are also Philadelphia court records, and minutes of the Common Council of the city, 1832.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.104
Extent:
52 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Account books. | African American | African American churches -- United States | Americans Abroad | Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | Beale, Catherine C. | Beale, Charles Willing, 1845-1932 | Beale, Constance R., 1850-1937 | Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 1822-1893 | Binney, Horace, 1780-1875 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 | Clark, John Innes | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Family Correspondence | First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia. | Flint (Ship) | General Correspondence | Hare, Charles Willing, 1871-1942 | Hare, Ellen Mary Cassatt | Hare, Emily P. Beale, 1848-1935 | Hare, Esther Binney, 1873-1967 | Hare, Esther Coxe Binney | Hare, George Harrison | Hare, Horace Binney | Hare, Horace Binney, 1843-1879 | Hare, Horace Binney, 1876-1956 | Hare, John Innes Clark, 1816-1905 | Hare, Margaret Willing, 1753-1816 | Hare, Robert, 1752-1811 | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Hare, Robert, 1869-1875 | Hare, Thomas Truxtun, 1878-1956 | Hare-Willing family. | Harvard University | Institutional Records | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Law | Legal Records | Letterbooks. | Mac Veagh, Margaret | Meigs, Ellen Mary Cassatt Hare | Minutes. | Miscellaneous | Natural history | Notebooks | Perry-Smith, Oliver, 1884-1969 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia (Pa.). -- Councils. -- Common Council. | Philadelphia History | Receipt books. | Religion | Religion, religious organizations | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel. | Science -- United States -- 19th century. | Science and technology | Scrapbooks. | Smith, Stuart Farrar, 1874-1951 | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Steam-engines. | Titantic (Steamship) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States (Ship) | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | Willing, Thomas, 1731-1821 | Women's History | World War I | World War II



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
Circa 1650-1900
Abstract:  

These papers include correspondence, marriage settlements, legal papers, genealogical tables, and memoranda of William Montgomerie of Brigend, Scotland, who emigrated to East Jersey, ca. 1701. Also includes the pedigree of Alexander Forbes of Balogie; correspondence (to 1755) of John Burnet, who was a merchant of Edinburgh, London, and New York, and of John Burnet, Jr., of Perth Amboy, N.J., with Elizabeth Forbes; genealogy of the Montgomery family in the United States, prepared by Thomas H. Montgomery (1853); and a seventeenth-century copy of documents, accounts, and patents of East Jersey.
Call #:  
Mss.B.M763
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1764-1858
Abstract:  

Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term "Yankee annexations." The collection originally contained over 300 scrolls, since disbound, which contained drafts of letters, essays, and lectures, composed by Hare on ordinary sheets of paper, then pasted end to end, and rolled up. The essay and lecture topics include: chemistry, storms, slavery, currency, fire-fighting, capital punishment, railroads, the Smithsonian Institution, Michael Faraday, religion and Spiritualism, riots in Philadelphia, epidemics, underwater blasting, and Ralph W. Emerson; there is some verse. The collection also contains an account book of Hare and his wife, 1806-1829 (180 pp.; B/H22#3); a volume by Hare on Cyclones (tornadoes), n.d. (ca. 60 pp.; B/H22#4); and Samuel Powel, Jr.'s "Short notes on a course of antiquities at Rome... under M. Byre Antiquarian," 1764. (60 pp.).
Call #:  
Mss.B.H22
Extent:
3 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Philosophical Society | Antebellum Politics | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Banks and banking -- United States. | Blasting, Submarine | Blowpipe. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Capital punishment. | Chemical apparatus | Chemistry | Chemists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Cyclones. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity -- 19th century | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Epidemics -- United States | Essays. | Federalist Party -- Pennsylvania | Fire extinction | Fisher, John, 1806-1882 | Fisher, Richard | General Correspondence | Guano | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lectures | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Money | Paper money -- United States -- 19th century | Partridge, Charles | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Poems | Powel, Samuel, Jr. | Race, race relations, racism | Railroads | Religion | Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities | Science and technology | Scientific Data | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Sketchbooks | Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- United States -- 19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Smithsonian Institution | Spiritualism -- Pennsylvania | Storms | Tornadoes | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1745-1848
Abstract:  

George Clymer was a successful merchant, well-known politician, and a generous philanthropist, but is today most famous for being a signer of the Declaration of Independence. As a proponent of independence, he joined various local political committees including six of the seven Philadelphia resistance committees. From there, he entered the national political arena and in 1776 was elected to the Second Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence. The George Clymer Collection is a small one and not reflective of his varied pursuits. There are twenty-seven documents, most of which are not signed by Clymer; those that are signed by Clymer are dated between May 3, 1800 and January 22, 1813. The items represent not Clymer's political activities but his ordinary legal and real estate transactions.
Call #:  
Mss.B.C625
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1775-1819
Abstract:  

The son of William Franklin, Royal Governor of New Jersey, William Temple Franklin worked as aide to his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, when the latter served as minister to France during the American Revolution. A bonvivant, Temple received his highest public appointment as Secretary to the American delegation at the Treaty of Versailles in 1782-1783, largely through the influence of his famous grandfather, but never again attained a significant post. As Franklin's literary heir, he edited and published a three volume set of his grandfather's writings in 1817. He married his long time mistress a few months before his death in Paris in 1823. The William Temple Franklin Papers provides a richly detailed portrait of the life of the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, and consists largely of letters received during the years that Temple served as his grandfather's aide in France, 1776-1785. Although much of the correspondence is routine, during this period, Temple received regular reports from friends and diplomatic colleagues relaying information on the American Revolution, the course of diplomatic and peace negotiations, and French public opinion on Benjamin Franklin and the new United States. The collection is also a rich resource for information on the personal lives of the Franklins, including interesting correspondence from Temple's relatives William Franklin, Elizabeth Franklin, Sarah Franklin Bache, and Jonathan Williams, and his mistress Blanchette Caillot.
Call #:  
Mss.B.F86
Extent:
4.75 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1745-1822
Abstract:  

This collection includes four letter books (1750-1767), containing principally business correspondence with Benjamin Franklin (42 letters), William Strahan (193 letters), and the stationers Bloss & Johnson, London, Johnson & Unwin, London, and Hamilton & Balfour, Edinburgh. There are also accounts current, 1748-1768 (2 vols.), of which one contains Edinburgh. There are also accounts current, 1748-1768 (2 vols.), of which one contains Franklin and Hall's account for printing done for the province of Pennsylvania, 1756-1767, with an index volume to these accounts; records of bills of exchange remitted to London, 1745-1752 (1 vol.); there are about 90 loose letters (some are photocopies) mainly from William Strahan to Hall, 1745-1775, concerning business matters, as well as English and American politics. Included in this group is correspondence relating to Hall and his publishing partnership, and his son William's partnership with Sellers. One additional volume is a photocopy of Franklin and Hall's "Work Book No. 2," 1759-1766, 1782-1789, from the original at the New York Public Library (B H142.lf).
Call #:  
Mss.B.H142.1-3
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1663-1972
Abstract:  

One of the oldest houses in Philadelphia, Wyck is now a non-profit museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nine generations of the Jansen-Wistar-Haines family owned the Wyck property from 1690 until 1973. The last family owner deeded 2.5 acres of land, the house and its contents, several outbuildings, a landscaped garden, and a small endowment to the Wyck Charitable Trust. The Wyck Charitable Trust and the Wyck Association now administer the preservation of the property and its educational services to the public. This collection contains diaries, letters, accounts, bills and receipts, deeds, and photographs. The collection as a whole is deepest for the period 1770-1970. Items of particular note include accounts of household expenses at Wyck from ca. 1790-1970; papers pertaining to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Quaker schools, and social reform groups; agricultural and horticultural practices; and correspondence to and from cultural leaders of 18th and 19th century Philadelphia. The papers of the John S. Haines family (Ms. Coll. 52A) form part of the Wyck Papers. The papers cover the years 1845 to 1949 and are arranged into eight series.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.52
Extent:
168.0 Linear feet



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Dates:
1659-1985
Abstract:  

The Smith-Houston-Morris-Ogden Family Papers document the history of the Houston, Smith, Ogden, Morris and allied families, beginning in the late 17th century, and continuing through to near the end of the 20th. Among the many treasures in this vast collection are the papers of Pennsylvania Railroad executive Henry Howard Houston (1820-1895), his son, Samuel Frederick Houston (1866-1952), and of Pennsylvania attorney and treasury official, William Meredith (1752-1816). Although the collection contains a great deal of interest with respect to land speculation, commerce, and trade emanating from Philadelphia, the bulk of the Smith Family Papers consists of personal and family correspondence and other papers. Among the largest and most interesting bodies of papers are those of L.M.C. Smith and Eleanor Houston Smith, daughter of Samuel F. Smith. These document the family's progressive attitudes regarding and resource conservation, historic preservation, and their social activism. This very large collection includes much material that is not itemized below.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.76
Extent:
350 Linear feet



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Dates:
1792-1813
Abstract:  

This item contains entries about prominent people (primarily accounts of their deaths); Philadelphia events and gossip; the Pennsylvania Hospital; questions for Meriwether Lewis on Indian physical history, medicine, morals, and religion; and his views on marriage, religion, physicians, etc. Also includes meeting with Captain Wells and Little Turtle; speculations on Indian skin color at the equator.
Call #:  
Mss.B.R89c
Extent:
1 volume(s)



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Dates:
1764-1933
Abstract:  

A leading national opinion maker and influential regional politician, tied by marriage to the families of Benjamin Franklin and cognate families, William Duane (1760-1835) played key roles in the field of political journalism, as well as national, Pennsylvania and local Philadelphia politics. Editor of the Aurora, William Duane (1760-1835) assured himself gratitude from Jefferson and the Republicans and enmity from President Adams and the Federalists for his open and effective attacks on Federalist policies. His son William John Duane (1780-1865), was a prominent member of the Pennsylvania legislature, a legal advisor to Stephen Girard, Solicitor for many of Philadelphia's premier institutions, and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (June-September 1833). The Duane Family Collection contains a diverse assemblage of personal and professional correspondence relating to family members, with interesting material relating to William Duane (1760-1835), his son, William John Duane (1780-1865), grandson William Duane (1808-1882), great-grandson Charles Williams Duane (1837-1915), and other relations. The collection includes unique correspondence from and relating to Benjamin Franklin's family, as well as correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and other leading figures from the early nineteenth century. The collection also includes prints, photographs of family members, as well as some maps.
Call #:  
Mss.SMs.Coll.2
Extent:
2.5 Linear feet



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Dates:
1781-1844
Abstract:  

A pioneer in ethnographic and linguistic studies of the American Indian and one of the most active members of the American Philosophical Society, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau helped to establish the American Philosophical Society's reputation as one of the world's foremost centers for the study of American Indians and their languages. The Peter Stephen Du Ponceau collection consists of correspondence on legal matters, Indian linguistics, silk culture, maritime law, the American Philosophical Society, and various publications of the early nineteenth century. The collection also includes several essays by Du Ponceau, most of which deal with maritime law.
Call #:  
Mss.B.D92p
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



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Dates:
1746-1929
Abstract:  

This collection includes letters, diaries, notebooks, and early photographs, relating primarily to the Wister family of Germantown and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence concerns domestic news and consists of letters from or to Sarah Wister. These include interesting observations on Germantown and Philadelphia society from other families as well, such as the Bayntons and Bullocks. There are numerous letters from various Wisters, including Casper, Charles Jones, Elizabeth (including a journal of a trip to Bristol, 1783), Hannah, John, Owen Jones, and others. There is also poetry by Sarah.
Call #:  
Mss.974.811.Ea7
Extent:
3.5 Linear feet



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Dates:
1821-1845
Abstract:  

John James Audubon (1785-1851), the American Woodsman, is a legendary naturalist and bird artist. His technique of painting North American birds dramatically as they appeared in their natural habitat was a major contribution to the emerging discipline of ornithology in the nineteenth century. His masterpiece, The Birds of America (1827-1838), elephant folio, was followed by a companion text edition, Ornithological Biography (1831-1849), a smaller octavo edition of Birds (1840-1844) and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, published posthumously. This collection of original letters of publication information, ornithology, and some personal notes was sent primarily to Lucy Bakewell Audubon, his wife, from 1826-1834, and to Victor Gifford Audubon, his son, from 1833-1834, 1840-1844, with some sporadic contact with both between 1836-1839. Items in the collection relate to Audubon's Florida, Great Egg Harbor, and Great Pine Forest expeditions but not to his final expedition up the Missouri River. Of particular note, letters of 1833 and 1834 contain references to his response to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia president George Ord's attacks on his credibility. A partial journal entry from New Orleans in 1821 and a few letters to other correspondents, including John Bachman, round out the material.
Call #:  
Mss.B.Au25
Extent:
0.75 Linear feet



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