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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1785
Abstract:  

1785 diary containing notes written by William Temple Franklin. Written in the 1785 edition of Almanach des Rendez-Vous, printed in Paris.
Call #:  
Mss.B.F86d
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1955
Abstract:  

Field diary kept by Suzanne Miles in the Cuchmatanes mountains of Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala.
Call #:  
Mss.572.9728.M59
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1807-1809
Abstract:  

Twice a refugee from the revolutionary violence in the French colony of Saint Domingue, John Thomas Carré became head of the Clermont Seminary in Philadelphia from 1804-1825, a select boarding school for boys. Carré's diary from 1807-1809 provides a basic chronology of his life at the Clermont Seminary, with a few comments on his students and their families. The entries are typically very brief and are confined to a relatively limited range of topics, including the weather, Carré's poor health, his visitors, and correspondents. There is also a biographical memoir by his granddaughter, Ann Virginia Sanderson Farquhar.
Call #:  
Mss.B.C232
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
February 26-March 16
Abstract:  

This incomplete, partially mutilated item forms the conclusion of James Hutchinson's diary, recording a mid-winter Atlantic crossing from Europe to America.
Call #:  
Mss.B.H97d.1
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1773-1786
Abstract:  

This is a volume of "Aitken's General American Register" for 1773, with entries dated 1774, and 1782-1786. The notes are in two different hands, and record receipts, expenses, and activities, the last probably not Wilson's.
Call #:  
Mss.B.W6915
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1880-1948
Abstract:  

From the 1920s through the 1940s, the University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Frank Gouldsmith Speck worked on Cherokee language and culture with his primary consultant, Will West Long. Raised in Big Cove, North Carolina, Long was a respected elder and spent much of his adult life attempting to record and preserve traditional Cherokee culture. The Speck Cherokee Collection consists of diaries, accounts, and medicinal texts in Cherokee collected by Will West Long and Morgan Calhoun, accompanied by notes by Speck and John Witthoft. Among these are several diaries kept by Long (mostly 1904-1917), records of the Gadugi (a Cherokee mutual aid group), accounts, records of births and deaths at Big Cove, Cherokee-English vocabularies, and material collected on Cherokee botany collected by James Mooney in 1887. Several of the items contain information on Cherokee medicine, including formulae and curing charms.
Call #:  
Mss.572.97.Sp3L
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1859-1908
Abstract:  

These diaries comprise volumes I and II, and record Sorby's daily activities and his interest in the use of the microscope in geology and mineralogy.
Call #:  
Mss.Film.1147
Extent:
2 microfilm_reel(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1802-1822
Abstract:  

This diary records the weather and appearances of birds, flowers, and insects.
Call #:  
Mss.Film.409
Extent:
1 microfilm_reel(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1827-1844
Abstract:  

Harriet Verena Evans was born in Lancaster, Pa., on April 28, 1782, the daughter of John and Sarah Musser. On May 21, 1807, Harriet married Cadwalader Evans (1762-1841), a former surveyor who went on to a distinguished career in politics, as one of the directors of the Bank of the United States, a promoter of the Schuylkill Canal, and president of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. The couple had nine children, including a set of twins. The diary of Harriet Verena Evans is an unusual example of a woman's spiritual diary from early national Philadelphia. Beginning on her 46th birthday in 1827, the same day her seventeen year-old son John died, Evans made sporadic entries in her diary for seventeen years, marking birthdays, holidays, special events, and anniversaries of various kinds. Fixated upon praying (or fretting) over her spiritual state and future, Evans continued to mourn over John's loss for many years, remembering him regularly on the date of his birth, death, and burial. She was also particularly prone to composing (or copying) religious poetry, and in sections, the diary verges on a poetical commonplace book. Other entries reveal Evans' concern for her other children, three of whom were students at the University of Pennsylvania, and on July 25, 1832, she made a particularly long entry discussing the arrival of the cholera in Philadelphia.
Call #:  
Mss.B.Ev5
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1765-1798
Abstract:  

Jacob Hiltzheimer, farmer and assemblyman, emigrated from Germany to Philadelphia in 1748 and lead a moderately active political and social life. He was a successful farmer and raised select livestock in the city of Philadelphia. He also boarded horses including those of John Penn and George Washington. He served in the Pennsylvania Assembly for 11 consecutive years beginning in 1786. He was an active contributor in civil affairs and took a remarkable enthusiastic interest in events, in persons, and in every day life all of which he wrote down in his diary. As a result of his Revolutionary War and political acquaintances his contacts were numerous. Hiltzheimer's record of social affairs are for the most part routine daily events such as buying and trading horses, attending barbecues and funerals, and drinking punch. However it is his every day accounts that also records significant events such as the Revolutionary War, transactions of the Pennsylvania Assembly, and Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemics, as well as the dealings of significant people including George Washington, Thomas Mifflin, and John Hancock.
Call #:  
Mss.B.H56d
Extent:
28 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1887-1959
Abstract:  

These papers include diaries (1887-1959), lists of books read (1887-1904), scrapbooks relating to Haney, his family, friends, and Central High School, and original and revised drafts of Haney's autobiography entitled "Days of My Years" (1954).
Call #:  
Mss.B.H196
Extent:
36 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1794-1803
Abstract:  

This collection consists of two manuscript diaries of engineer James Brindley (1745-1820). Brindley, nephew of the celebrated English canal engineer of the same name, worked on a number of canal projects in the United States, including the Potomac Canal in Maryland and the James River Canal in Virginia. The two diaries cover part of the time Brindley worked on the Susquehanna and Conewago Canal in 1794-1795 and the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in 1803.
Call #:  
Mss.SMs.Coll.18
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1912
Abstract:  

This collection includes letters, a diary, photographs, printed matter, souvenirs, etc. of the international geographical trip of the American Geographical Society of New York to the west coast. Included are circulars and bulletins printed and issued along the way.
Call #:  
Mss.B.C48
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1789-1796
Abstract:  

This volume contains letters (a few in shorthand) relating to his pursuit of the position as principal recorder, and then, upon accomplishing this, his problems in publishing. There are sales accounts and a diary (April, 1793 to June, 1794), written while he was imprisoned in Newgate Prison, London (1793 to Jan., 1796). Included for this period is an interesting description, brought to him at Newgate by an Englishman, John Ford, who was seeking support and American contacts for his plan to take an English textile process to America: "A Manufacture of Wollen & Cotton Cloth & Without spinning or weaving," August, 1794.
Call #:  
Mss.B.L774
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
August 25, 1808 - September 22, 1808
Abstract:  

William Clark kept this diary on an expedition to make a treaty with the Osage Indians in the Missouri Territory. A sketch drawn under the September 16 entry is apparently a draft of Clark's Fort Osage map, while the first page of notes presents color scheme used on another draft. See Kate L. Gregg, Westward with Dragoons (1937: 48) for the map in printed version.
Call #:  
Mss.917.3.L58c
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1790-1791
Abstract:  

These are daily observations of temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation kept by Bartram in Philadelphia. He also notes such occurrences as "River [Schuylkill] froze over" (February 7, 1790).
Call #:  
Mss.B.B284.d.vol.15
Extent:
1 volume(s)



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