MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1862
Abstract:
This volume contains short sketches of prominent American and European scholars, diplomats, and statesmen. "These short memoirs were composed in the heat of the summer of 1862; and the concluding page written on the 15th of August of that year, when I was about one month advanced in my ninety second year; my birthday being July 17th, 1771." Signed Saml. Breck. Persons discussed include Talleyrand Perigord; M. Volney; Rochefoucauld Liancourt; Louis Philippe, King of the French; Joel Barlow; William Bingham; Robert Morris; Alexander Hamilton; General Henry Knox; Doctor Benjamin Rush; Doctor Rush and William Cobbett.
Call #:
Mss.920.B74
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 | American Philosophical Society | American Revolution | Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812 | Bingham, William, 1752-1804 | Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862 | Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chastellux, François Jean, Marquis de, 1734-1788 | Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 | Diplomats. | Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 | Holyoke, Edward Augustus, 1728 | Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 | La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, Duc de, 1747-1827 | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 | Letombe, Philippe Joseph | Louis Philippe, King of the Fr | Manuscript Essays | Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Philadelphia History | Physicians. | Presidents. | Raguet, Condy, 1784-1842 | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Scholars. | St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 | Statesmen. | Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Mauric | United States -- Biography. | Washington, George (1732-1799)
