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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Account book, 1772.

Title: Account book, 1772.

Records of donations by prominent Philadelphians to the College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia, with names, amounts of donations, and some autograph signatures of donors. A label on the first leaf somewhat more recent than the booklet itself reads "Original subscription list to the College, Academy &c., 1772."

ArchivalResource: 1 booklet (11 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431663 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Commonplace book, n.d.

Title: Commonplace book, n.d.

Excerpts of English poetry, including an extended excerpt from Paradise lost, and a French sonnet by Jacques Vallée des Barreaux with an English translation.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431660 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Charter, laws, & regulations for the College, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, 1771-1789.

Title: Charter, laws, & regulations for the College, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, 1771-1789.

Copies by Smith of the 1753 charter and the 1755 additional charter; Rules and statutes of the College, Academy and Charity School of Philadelphia; Rules and ordinances for the discipline and good government of the students & scholars belonging to the College, Academy and Charity Schools of Philadelphia; Laws respecting religion and good behavior; Minute of the Trustees relative to the French School, 1772; Holidays, 1772; and information on the medical schools, 1789, signed by Benjamin Franklin as president of the Trustees. Date in Smith's hand inside front cover, December 26th, 1771.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (48 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431677 View

Brinton, Jasper Yeates, 1878-1973. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1936.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1936.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173640637 View

Pennsylvania Child Labor Association (Philadelphia, Pa.). Records, 1905-1915.

Title: Records, 1905-1915.

Administrative records include the constitution and bylaws, minutes of the executive committee (1905-1912) and board of directors (1912-1915), reports of the chairman (1911) and secretary (1911-1914); financial records consist exclusively of the treasurer's reports (1909-1914); committee reports include the Committee on Labor and Industry (1912); the Special Committee on Organization (1912), the Subcommittee on the State Industrial Commission (1914), and investigations regarding Chief Labor Inspector Delaney (1907-1908); bills and ordinances in this collection include the "Age and Issuance Bill; Factories, Etc. and Anthracite and Bituminous Mines" (1908), the Child Labor Campaign (1906), and "an Ordinance relating to Minors Working the Streets and Public Places in Philadelphia" (1912), investigations conducted by the Association include "Newspaper Selling in Philadelphia" (1910) and "The Night Messenger Service in Pennsylvania" (1912).

ArchivalResource: .5 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122525933 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. An act for the continuance & encouragement of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, between 1778 and 1789.

Title: An act for the continuance & encouragement of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, between 1778 and 1789.

Draft of a bill in Smith's hand by which the General Assembly would restore the College and Academy of Philadelphia, whose charter was voided in 1779.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431684 View

Philip C. Jessup Papers, 1574-1983, (bulk 1925-1983)

Title: Philip C. Jessup Papers

Jurist, diplomat, and educator. Family and general correspondence, reports and memoranda, speeches and writings, subject files, legal papers, newspaper clippings and other papers pertaining chiefly to Jessup's work with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Institute of Pacific Relations, United States Department of State, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and International Court of Justice. Includes material relating to his World War I service in Spartanburg, S.C., and in France; and to charges made against him by Senator Joseph McCarthy and postwar loyalty and security investigations. Also includes papers of his wife, Lois Walcott Kellogg Jessup, relating to her work for the American Friends Service Committee, United States Children's Bureau, and United Nations, her travels to Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and to her writings.

ArchivalResource: 120,000 items; 394 containers plus 2 oversize and 1 classified; 157.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004004 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Lecture notes on natural philosophy, 1768-ca. 1778.

Title: Lecture notes on natural philosophy, 1768-ca. 1778.

Three partial sets of notes in Smith's hand for lectures on physics. Topics include motion, fluids, hydraulics, optics, and electricity.

ArchivalResource: 3 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431656 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Account book, 1762-1763.

Title: Account book, 1762-1763.

Records of donations solicited by Smith on a fundraising trip to England and Scotland in 1762 and 1763. Small volume's binding was removed by an earlier owner, leaving two groups of gatherings and a few detached leaves. Caption heading reads, "Account of cash collected by Revd. Dr. Smith for the use of the College of Philadelphia."

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (38 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431667 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Clipping of protest to Pennsylvania's Assembly, 1788.

Title: Clipping of protest to Pennsylvania's Assembly, 1788.

Protest to the Assembly over the voiding of the charter of the College of Philadelphia in 1779 at the time of the establishment of the University of the State of Pennsylvania. Clipped from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 19 March 1788, and pasted to pages of a small notebook, now disbound. A note in a contemporary hand pasted to the front cover reads, "Part of Wm. Smith's last memorial or pamphlet to Assembly."

ArchivalResource: 1 booklet (9 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431670 View

Pennsylvania. General Assembly. An act to confirm the estates and interests of the College, Academy and Charitable School of the city of Philadelphia, and to amend and alter the charters thereof, conformably to the Revolution and to the Constitution and Government of this Commonwealth and to erect the same into an University, 1779.

Title: An act to confirm the estates and interests of the College, Academy and Charitable School of the city of Philadelphia, and to amend and alter the charters thereof, conformably to the Revolution and to the Constitution and Government of this Commonwealth and to erect the same into an University, 1779.

Pages removed from an unidentified publication of the proceedings of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania containing the text of the bill voiding the charter of the College of Philadelphia and establishing the University of the State of Pennsylvania, entered into law 29 November 1779 (Chapter CXXXVI, pp. 271-274).

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431680 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Lecture notes on theology, 1767-1769.

Title: Lecture notes on theology, 1767-1769.

Notes in Smith's hand for "Theological Exercises," lectures reviewing theological concepts.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (2 booklets, 2 volumes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431658 View

Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Alpha Chapter. Alumni Chapter. Records, 1902-1955.

Title: Records, 1902-1955.

This small collection documents the proceedings of annual meetings, many of which were held at the Philadelphia Gun Club, fundraising efforts, and subjects of interest to the Alumni Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma including the renovations to the fraternity house and the fraternity's involvement in World War I and World War II. Correspondence, meeting minutes, and other membership information highlight the activities of the alumni membership. Among those active in the Alumni Chapter include Francis Gurney Du Pont, E.P. Du Pont, Samuel T. Bodine, Hasletine Smith, Robeson L. Perot, George L. Justice, Charles S. Wood, W.F. Norris, Charles Wharton, Francis W. Sinkler, Thomas Reath, Jasper Yeates Brinton, James B. Wharton, Cornelius N. Weygandt, Craig Sweeten, and T. Morris Perot.

ArchivalResource: 1 Cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448772 View

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers, 1897-1930

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1897-1930

Papers of the African-American poet, literary critic, and editor William Stanley Braithwaite.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes (10.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01469/catalog View

Brinton, Jasper Yeates, b. 1878. Jasper Yeates Brinton collection, 1696-1916, bulk 1765-1820.

Title: Jasper Yeates Brinton collection, 1696-1916, bulk 1765-1820.

The Jasper Yeates Brinton collection consists of personal and business correspondence, shipping invoices, receipts, account books, and land records pertaining to Brinton's forebears John Steinmetz, William Smith, and Charles Smith, as well as his father John Hill Brinton, his mother Sarah Ward Brinton and his older brother Ward Brinton. John Steinmetz's papers offer insight into general trade and shipping in Philadelphia immediately before and after the Revolutionary war, and also include a small amount of correspondence regarding the divorce of his son John Henry Steinmetz (b. 1766). The papers of William Smith address the management of land holdings in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Nova Scotia, and also include some records of the family's financial transactions. Charles Smith's papers consist of documentation on the settlement of William Smith's estate, and legal documents pertaining both to cases Charles Smith handled as an attorney and cases the family was involved in. Also included in the collection are land and legal papers of Jasper Yeates Brinton's father John Hill Brinton (1832-1907), correspondence between his mother Sarah Ward Brinton and her mother, and numerous letters sent by his brother Lt. Ward Brinton while he served with the Reserve Medical Corps in Texas in 1916.

ArchivalResource: 39 boxes, 10 vols., (17 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62156241 View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. A sermon on diligence in our temporal and spiritual callings : manuscript, 1766.

Title: A sermon on diligence in our temporal and spiritual callings : manuscript, 1766.

Sermon on 1 Corinthians 7.24 in Smith's hand. His notes on the verso of the first leaf indicate that he preached this sermon in Philadelphia in 1766, New York in 1773, and Bristol in 1774.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (17 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431648 View

Philip C. Jessup Papers, 1574-1983, (bulk 1925-1983)

Title: Philip C. Jessup Papers

Jurist, diplomat, and educator. Family and general correspondence, reports and memoranda, speeches and writings, subject files, legal papers, newspaper clippings and other papers pertaining chiefly to Jessup's work with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Institute of Pacific Relations, United States Department of State, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and International Court of Justice. Includes material relating to his World War I service in Spartanburg, S.C., and in France; and to charges made against him by Senator Joseph McCarthy and postwar loyalty and security investigations. Also includes papers of his wife, Lois Walcott Kellogg Jessup, relating to her work for the American Friends Service Committee, United States Children's Bureau, and United Nations, her travels to Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and to her writings.

ArchivalResource: 120,000 items; 394 containers plus 2 oversize and 1 classified; 157.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004004 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. First drafts of minutes of the Trustees, 1789-1790.

Title: First drafts of minutes of the Trustees, 1789-1790.

Drafts of minutes taken by Smith as secretary at meetings of the Trustees between 9 March 1789 and 20 July 1790, following the restoration of the charter of the College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. A variety of leaves of paper have been added to notebook containing the bulk of the minutes and bearing the title "Rough Minutes."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (38 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431683 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Sermon addressed to students, n.d.

Title: Sermon addressed to students, n.d.

Sermon on the study of scripture.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431650 View

College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia. Correspondence with William Smith, 1761, 1792.

Title: Correspondence with William Smith, 1761, 1792.

Letter to Smith signed by Richard Peters, president of the Trustees of the College, authorizing Smith to solicit funds in England and Scotland for the College and urging him to contact Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Penn, dated 1761; negative photostat of a letter from Smith to William White, Trustee of the College, about the consequences of the new charter for the University of Pennsylvania, dated 1792.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431630 View