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Papers, 1773-1795.

Title: Papers, 1773-1795.

Correspondence, minutes, permits, invitations, and other items primarily relating to the American Revolution. Correspondence subjects include treatment of American officers by the British, cooperation from Bermuda, military orders and maneuvers, possible abduction and assassination plots, and funding the army. Also, muster roll of the Commander-in-Chief's Life Guard for March 1782 and an orderly book of the 5th New York Regiment kept by John West, 1780.

ArchivalResource: 61 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155524965 View

Idaho. Legislature. Records, 1902-1919 (bulk 1903)

Title: Records, 1902-1919 (bulk 1903)

Correspondence and miscellaneous records

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42926435 View

Papers pertaining to Jefferson High School [manuscript], 1911-1928.

Title: Papers pertaining to Jefferson High School [manuscript], 1911-1928.

The papers consist of a petition to the Superintendent and Members of the Charlottesville School Board requesting the establishement of a "High School for Colored Youth." With the petition are three pages of signatures including John West and the members of the Home Beautiful Club. The collection also contains a preliminary report to the Charlottesville City School on salaries and expenses from July 1 to December 31, 1928; and a clipping, ca. 1911, on the School Board's election of principals and teachers for the 1911-1912 year.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64433091 View

Hench, Atcheson Laughlin, 1891-1974. Correspondence of Atcheson Laughlin Hench [manuscript] 1927-70.

Title: Correspondence of Atcheson Laughlin Hench [manuscript] 1927-70.

A miscellaneous collection of correspondence & clippings regarding Richard Doddridge Blackmore, the Hench-Blackmore papers, Royal Brown Hardy, John Singleton Mosby, & John West. Among the correspondents are Robert Blackmore, John Cook Wyllie, Eugene Bradbury, Francis Lewis Berkeley & James Southall Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938948 View

Philadelphia Orchestra. Transcription of WFLN radio broadcast [sound recording], 1961 November 27.

Title: Transcription of WFLN radio broadcast [sound recording], 1961 November 27.

ArchivalResource: 2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155864241 View

West, Francis. Letterbook, 1788-1798.

Title: Letterbook, 1788-1798.

Letterbook, 13 May 1788-7 November 1798, of copies of business letters concerning shipments, receipts of goods, remittances, the rates of insurance on American vessels and other business concerns.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; [xxiv], 398 p. 43 x 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122585154 View

West, John. Deed of land in Barrington, 1736/37, March 16, Bristol, R.I., to Benjamin May.

Title: Deed of land in Barrington, 1736/37, March 16, Bristol, R.I., to Benjamin May.

Terms of sale of land in Barrington to Benjamin May.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122492686 View

West family. Business records, 1769-1804.

Title: Business records, 1769-1804.

These records of the West family business interests include: journals, 1769-1796; ledger, 1770-1777; letterbooks, 1783-1788; William West estate journal, 1783-1790; James Fuller, Philadelphia merchant, volume of letter drafts, accounts, and other memoranda, relating in part to the West estate; and James West daybook, 1799-1804.

ArchivalResource: 10 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489631 View

Stiles, Robert Augustus, 1836-1905. Papers of Robert Augustus Stiles [manuscript], 1869-1903.

Title: Papers of Robert Augustus Stiles [manuscript], 1869-1903.

The collection contains chiefly personal correspondence and papers of this former Major of Robert E. Lee's Civil War staff. Some papers relate to his book "Four Years with Marse Robert" and other writings; other papers relate to a speech given at the dedication of a Confederate monument at the University of Virginia cemetery. Correspondents include: Robert Alonzo Brook, Churchill Jones Gibson, John James Lafferty, Philip Watkins McKinney, Stiles's father Joseph Clay Stiles, and John West. Also included is a letter, 1890 April 26, Charlottesville, Va., from John Barbee Minor to Stiles, Richmond, Va., commenting on the book "Why the Solid South?", on Abraham Lincoln's perceptive plans for the post-Civil War South, and on national politics.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647844135 View

Fridenberg, Robert, d. 1946,. Collection of letters and documents relating to American and English booksellers and printers, 1732-1884 (bulk 1732-1814).

Title: Collection of letters and documents relating to American and English booksellers and printers, 1732-1884 (bulk 1732-1814).

Miscellaneous letters, invoices and related documents from 18th and 19th century American and English booksellers. Among the American documents are a substantial number addressed to the Boston bookseller John West and his firm. Other American booksellers and printers represented, based in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, include: Henry Bult, Samuel Campbell, Conrad & Co., Joseph Crukshank, Alexander Denham, Hugh Gaine, William Gowans, David Hall, David Hogan, John Scott Hylton, Jacob Johnson, T.S. Manning, James Rivington, Moses Thomas, and C.P. Wayne. Included with the American collection is a tribute addressed to British novelist Jane Porter from the "booksellers and publishers of New York City" (1844). American correspondents include but are not limited to: Major Jellas Fonda, John Moore, H.E. Robinson, E.B. O'Callaghan, and the firm of Toule & Bugbee. The English (London) material is limited to the 18th century, and the booksellers and printers represented are: Charles Arbuthnot, Thomas Becket, James Bettenham, Cadell & Davies (Andrew Becket), Charles Corbett, R. Dalton, Robert Dodsley, Archibald Hamilton, John Hughes, William Jackson, and Andrew Millar. Also: Samuel Paterson, Craven W. Richards, William Strahan, Paul Vaillant, and Wingrave and Collingwood. English correspondents include but are not limited to: John Nourse, George Selwyn, and the firms of Cadell & Davies and Wingrave and Collingwood (F. Wingrave).

ArchivalResource: 78 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122530280 View

Horstmann family. Horstmann-Lippincott family papers, 1724-1963, bulk 1845-1963.

Title: Horstmann-Lippincott family papers, 1724-1963, bulk 1845-1963.

Materials in this collection document the business endeavors, family relations, and philanthropic activities of the Horstmann and Lippincott families. Included are the records of Sigmund Horstmann, Elizabeth West Horstmann, Elizabeth Horstmann Lippincott, Walter Lippincott, and Bertha Horstmann Lippincott Coles. The bulk of these materials, consisting of correspondence, business records, financial materials and other miscellanea, represent Bertha's contributions to the United Service Club and other soldier and veteran aid societies. Also included are papers for the Horstmann textile businesses, materials pertaining to the Lippincotts' several properties, and household accounts for both Elizabeth West Horstmann and Elizabeth Horstmann Lippincott. Correspondence, journals, newspaper clippings, and financial papers provide further insight into their personal lives. Also included are papers of the West, Shaw, Craige, Sturgeon, Bird, and Baker families, and a number of photographs including daguerreotypes.

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes, 79 v., (18.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83940650 View

New England (Colony). Governor, 1686-1689. Proclamation appointing a time of publique Thanksgiving and prayers throughout this dominion, 1688, April 18, Boston.

Title: Proclamation appointing a time of publique Thanksgiving and prayers throughout this dominion, 1688, April 18, Boston.

Contemporary copy in unknown hand appointing April 29 as a day of thanksgiving and prayer on the occasion of learning that the Queen "was with child."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122586013 View