1 vol., 1 folder
Gift of Mrs. Linnea Layton of Acton, Mass., April 2000 (accn. no. 2000-330ms).
Cite as: John Thomas Carré Diary, American Philosophical Society.
Catalogued by rsc, 2004.
Carré's superb letter to Charles Willson Peale describing his escape from the slave uprising in Saint Domingue is located in the Peale-Sellers Papers, (B P31.50). His essay on the natural history of Saint Domingue of September 1795 has apparently not survived in the Society's archives, however the library has copies of two books he donated:
Gesner, Johann Matthias, Scriptores rei Rusticae Veteres Latini, 2nd ed. 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1773-1774). Donated May 1820. Call no.: 630 G33. Varro, Marcus Terentius, Opera Omnia Quae Extant (Durderchti, 1619). Call no.: 6878.9 V43.See also:
Palisot de Beauvois, Ambrose Marie François Joseph, A Scientific and Descriptive Catalogue of Peale's Museum, trans. by John Thomas Carré (Philadelphia, 1796). Call no.: PMP v.6, no.3. Sanderson, John, Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (Philadelphia, 1849). Call no.: 920.3 Sa5.a. Sanderson, John, Remarks on the Plan of a College: (About to be Established in This City,) in Which English Literature, the Sciences, and Liberal Arts are Proposed to be Taught, in Exclusion of the Latin and Greek Languages (Philadelphia, 1826). Call no.: Pam. v.970, no.8.
The Clermont Seminary was depicted in the November 1810 issue of the Port Folio.
This recently acquired diary contains information on the founding and operation of Clermont Seminary, a private school Carre founded in Philadelphia after being exiled from Haiti.