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 Author:  Brillon de Jouy, Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt, 1744-1824Requires cookie*
 Title:  Musical compositions, late 18th century     
 Dates:  Circa 1775-1800 
 Abstract:  This collection contains a number of musical compositions by Madame Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Juoy, a prominent Parisian salon hostess and musician. Her most famous composition, Le Marche des Insurgents, which was inspired by the American victory at Saratoga, is included in this collection. Many of these compositions are handwritten and appear to be from the eighteenth century, although it is unclear when they were written and who wrote them.

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 Call #:  Mss.781.508.B762 
 Extent:  26 item(s) 
 Topics:  Beyond Early America | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Women's History 
 Genre:  Foreign Language | Literature | Miscellaneous 
 Subjects:  Marches. | Music - France - 18th century | Sonatas. | Songs, French. 
 Author:  Brillon de Jouy, Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt, 1744-1824Requires cookie*
 Title:  Plays, late 18th century     
 Dates:  Circa late 18th century 
 Abstract:  This collection includes a number of plays apparently written by Madame Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Juoy, a prominent Parisian salon hostess and musician. The authorship of some of the plays is not entirely clear.

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 Call #:  Mss.842.5.B76 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
 Topics:  Beyond Early America | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Women's History 
 Genre:  Foreign Language | Literature | Miscellaneous 
 Subjects:  French drama -- 18th century. | French literature -- 18th century. 
 Author:  Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865Requires cookie*
 Title:  William Parker Foulke Papers, 1840-1865     
 Dates:  1840-1865 
 Abstract:  The William Parker Foulke Collection is one of the largest and richest collections at the APS. The collection, described and inventories in depth in MOLE, reflects the wide and varied interests of one of Philadelphia's most prominent 19th century citizens.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.F826 
 Extent:  3.75 Linear Feet 
 Topics:  Law | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Science and technology 
 Genre:  General Correspondence | Legal Records | Literature | Manuscript Essays | Miscellaneous | Political Correspondence 
 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Advance (Brig) | Africa, West -- Description and travel | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) | American Colonization Society | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Archaeology -- Pennsylvania | Arctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration | Colonization, repatriation | Dinosaurs -- New Jersey | Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Haviland, John, 1792-1852 | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Lancaster (Penn.) County Prison | Lyceums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Mesmerism | New York Prison Association | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 19th century | Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons | Prison reformers -- Pennsylvania | Prisons -- Design and construction | Prisons -- New York (State) | Prisons -- Pennsylvania | Reformers -- Pennsylvania | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | Wilson, John Wall 
 Author:  Sparks, Jared (1789-1866)Requires cookie*
 Title:  Selected papers, [ca. 1819-1863], relating to Benjamin Franklin     
 Dates:  Circa 1819-1963 
 Abstract:  The Jared Sparks Collection contains duplicates of Sparks' notes on his biography of Benjamin Franklin. The seven volumes contain passages from Franklin's writings, Sparks' outlines for the biography, and various letters written about Sparks' work.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.Sp25 
 Extent:  9 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Literature, Arts, and Culture | Printing and Publishing 
 Genre:  Literature | Miscellaneous