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Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Papers, 1753-1791.

Title: Papers, 1753-1791.

Collection contains microfilm and some paper copies of letters addressed primarily to Price. Three of the paper copies are from Benjamin Franklin (1780 and 1789), and another is from Samuel Vaughan. The microfilm has many more items on it than the number of items on paper, especially correspondence. Correspondents include Joseph Priestley, William Petty (the first Marquis of Lansdowne), John Adams, George Washington, Noah Webster, Hester Chapone, and others. Miscellaneous items include an abstract of Swinderly Register, articles selected from the list of mathematical and philosophical instruments sent him by a Dr. Styles, and an invoice of a philosophical apparatus for Yale College, 1789.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36115923 View

Chermont, Dominique-Prosper de, 1741-1798. Memoires sur l'amerique; Recueilly et écrit de Chermont du Poncet, capitaine au corps royal du génie. A Valenciennes 1779.

Title: Memoires sur l'amerique; Recueilly et écrit de Chermont du Poncet, capitaine au corps royal du génie. A Valenciennes 1779.

Manuscript collection of French translations of texts relating to the American Revolution. The first section, headed "Memoire interessant sur l'Amerique", consists of a general narrative of the events that led up to the declaration of independence and may be partly by Chermont himself. This is followed by French translations of documents relating to the Revolution, including portions of Paine's Common Sense; Richard Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty; the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation; the consititutions of five American colonies; a transcript of Franklin's 1766 testimony before the House of Commons; a circular letter by Washington; and a "Discours des chefs ou sachems Onaides...du 4 juin 1778."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 400 p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702162565 View

Franklin-Bache Papers, 1707-1799

Title: Franklin-Bache Papers 1707-1799

Containing over 4 linear feet of letters and documents, the Franklin-Bache Papers comprises the second largest collection of letters and documents relating to Benjamin Franklin in the APS Library. Although the scope of the collection is broad, including materials from the time of Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia to his death, the heart of the collection documents the period of Franklin's ministry in France (1776-1785) and his diplomatic efforts to win financial and military support for the revolutionary cause, as well as less intensive coverage of his ministry in England before the Revolution. Franklin's correspondence with American and French officials, financiers (personal and otherwise), and savants provides tantalizing details on the social context of Franklin's ministry in France, his intellectual life, and his growing celebrity. Much of the correspondence documents the efforts to convince French officials early in the war to support the American cause, but there is valuable material relating to the peace negotiations as well. The collection is equally rich in personal correspondence, including a rich set of letters from Mary Stevenson Hewson, Georgiana Shipley, Catherine Ray Greene, Jane Mecom, Deborah Franklin, and a number of Franklin's other relatives. The collection is arranged chronologically.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 Linear feet

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Morse Family Papers, 1779-1868

Title: Morse Family Papers 1779-1868

The principal figures in this collection are Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) and his sons Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) and Richard Cary Morse (1795-1868). More than half of the collection is made up of correspondence (1779-1868) among members of the family. Also included are legal and financial papers, sermons by Jedidiah and Richard Cary Morse, travel journals, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet (21 boxes, 1 folio)

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MS 294: Letters & Notes Relating to Josiah Tucker, 1776-1791

Title: MS 294: Letters & Notes Relating to Josiah Tucker 1776-1791

ArchivalResource: 6 letters, 3 leaves of other material

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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 1 -- Letters to Franklin, 1730-1776

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 1 -- Letters to Franklin 1730-1776

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Papers, 1767-1790.

Title: Papers, 1767-1790.

These letters are from and to Price on British politics, the American Revolution, the peace of 1783, the future of the United States, prisons, slavery, etc.

ArchivalResource: 90 items.

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Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Letter, 1772 September 3, Newington Green to Alexander Chisholm, [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1772 September 3, Newington Green to Alexander Chisholm, [n.p.].

Thanks Price for sending him Priestley's letter, encloses another letter. Priestley has decided to accept Shelburne's proposal.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3886288 View

American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

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Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

Title: Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01439/catalog View

Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 3 -- Letters to Franklin, 1778 April-December

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 3 -- Letters to Franklin 1778 April-December

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Papers, 1775-1935.

Title: Papers, 1775-1935.

Correspondence, diaries, and literary manuscripts of American poet and statesman Joel Barlow.

ArchivalResource: 7 v. and 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01285/catalog View

Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. Papers, 1746-1900

Title: Benjamin Vaughan Papers 1746-1900

Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents, including: Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk-manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Maine; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS 95 (1951): 246-249. Proceedings

ArchivalResource: 13.25 Linear feet

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Morse family. Morse family papers, 1779-1868 (inclusive).

Title: Morse family papers, 1779-1868 (inclusive).

The principal figures in this collection are Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) and his sons Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) and Richard Cary Morse (1795-1868). More than half of the collection is made up of correspondence (1779-1868) among members of the family. Also included are legal and financial papers, sermons by Jedidiah and Richard Cary Morse, travel journals, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and photographs. Jedidiah Morse's missionary work among the Indians and his concern for their condition is reflected in a number of letters on the subject. Samuel F. B. Morse, who had a double career as a painter and as the inventor of the telegraph, is represented by correspondence, depositions on his invention, and three drawings by a student (dated 1862). Richard Cary Morse's papers contain a biography of Jedidiah Morse and extensive journals on travels to the Bay of Fundy in 1822; to Europe in 1837-1838 in search of a cure for his depression; and again to Europe in 1855. One of the entries in his journal of 1837-1838 is his account of the coronation procession of Queen Victoria. Correspondence with his wife, Sarah Louise, between 1838 and 1850 conveys a vivid picture of family life and many details on the sickness of children.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (21 boxes, 1 folio)

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Ford, Alice, 1906-. Research notes for the biography of Edward Hicks, c. 1952.

Title: Research notes for the biography of Edward Hicks, c. 1952.

This collection contains the research notes made by Alice Ford for her book, Edward Hicks Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom. These notes include genealogical information on the Hicks family and on several of his correspondents. Also included are typescripts of letters of Edward Hicks and his family. Among the correspondents are Emmor Kimber, John Comly, Elias Hicks, Benjamin and Richard Price, Elias Hicks, and Thomas McClintock. Topics include family news, issues of Quaker Spirituality, and the 1827 Hicksite separation in the Society of Friends.

ArchivalResource: 11 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31403477 View

Miscellaneous Benjamin Franklin Collections, 1710-1822

Title: Miscellaneous Benjamin Franklin Collections 1710-1822

Since publication of I. Minis Hays's Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin in 1908, the APS Library has acquired a large number of miscellaneous letters and other documents relating to the life, mind, and work of Franklin and his immediate family. The collections listed in this finding aid consist of letters and documents to and from Franklin organized into groupings based upon provenance or focal point. The largest grouping consists of miscellaneous materials acquired individually or in small groups over the years, including a number of important individual items. The other collections consist largely of correspondence between Franklin and individual friends and colleagues, including his friends Mme Brillon, Mary "Polly" Stevenson Hewson, and Catherine Ray Greene, the Whig agriculturist Richard Jackson, and the printer Francis Childs. The collections include photostats of selected materials held by other institutions or that were in private hands. These are available for reference only.

ArchivalResource: 5.0 Linear feet

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Richard Price Papers, 1767-1790

Title: Richard Price Papers 1767-1790

The Welsh non-conformist minister Richard Price (1723-1791) was a moral philosopher and political and economic theorist whose ideas leant support to the American cause during the Revolution. Of broad and liberal mind, he was an integral member of the intellectual coterie surrounding William Petty, the Earl of Shelburne, and was a founding member of the Unitarian Church. Befitting a latitudinarian thinker, the range of Richard Price's correspondence is extremely broad, touching upon his rationalistic philosophy and dissenting theology, his political views on British politics, America and the American Revolution, the Constitutional settlement, the future of the United States, social reform, demography, prisons, and slavery. The ninety letters in the collection are arranged chronologically, with correspondents including Charles Chauncy (8 letters, 1772-1779), Benjamin Franklin (7 letters, 1775-1789), John Howard (11 letters and a biographical manuscript, 1770-1789), Thomas Jefferson (3 letters, 1785-1789), Benjamin Rush (8 letters, 1786-1790), and Edward Wigglesworth (3 letters, 1775-1786), as well as lesser known figures such as the reformer John Howard.

ArchivalResource: 90.0 items

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Chermont, Dominique-Prosper de, 1741-1798. Memoires sur l'amerique; Recueilly et écrit de Chermont du Poncet, capitaine au corps royal du génie. A Valenciennes 1779.

Title: Memoires sur l'amerique; Recueilly et écrit de Chermont du Poncet, capitaine au corps royal du génie. A Valenciennes 1779.

Manuscript collection of French translations of texts relating to the American Revolution. The first section, headed "Memoire interessant sur l'Amerique", consists of a general narrative of the events that led up to the declaration of independence and may be partly by Chermont himself. This is followed by French translations of documents relating to the Revolution, including portions of Paine's Common Sense; Richard Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty; the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation; the consititutions of five American colonies; a transcript of Franklin's 1766 testimony before the House of Commons; a circular letter by Washington; and a "Discours des chefs ou sachems Onaides...du 4 juin 1778."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 400 p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79699398 View

Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01782/catalog View

Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 4 -- Letters to Franklin, 1779 January-November

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 4 -- Letters to Franklin 1779 January-November

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Upcott, William, 1779-1845,. [Collection of letters on antiquarian subjects], 18th century.

Title: [Collection of letters on antiquarian subjects], 18th century.

Thirteen autograph letters, in various hands, which primarily discuss antiquarian matters. The collection includes a letter from John Sidney Hawkins to William Wilkins describing a volume, to be published, of a history of St. Stephen's Chapel. Another letter, from Philip Morant to Andrew Cortee Ducarel, gives advice about researching the Augmentation Office through old records in the Receipt of the Exchequer and the Cottonian Library; and two letters by Charles Vallancey discuss ancient Irish and Arab history. The volume also contains letters on other subjects: one letter from Henry Baker requests his correspondent to send him details of a recent earthquake in Northampton so that he can enter a record of it with the Royal Society; another letter discusses calculations of annuities; and one entry consists of biographical notes on John Nichols, accompanied by an engraved portrait of him.

ArchivalResource: 13 items ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702175353 View

Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Papers, 1767-1789.

Title: Papers, 1767-1789.

A small collection of typescript and manuscript copies of letters to Richard Price of London, a writer of works on behalf of civil and religious liberties and in opposition to the American Revolution. His correspondents who discuss Price's writings and views during and surrounding the Revolution, include Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee, and John Wheelock.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23676637 View

Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 9 -- Letters to Franklin, 1787-1790

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 9 -- Letters to Franklin 1787-1790

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Vaughan, John, 1755-1841. Papers, 1768 - ca. 1936

Title: John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936

The collection of about 850 items covers the period from 1782 to c. 1936, with the bulk dating to the 1780s to 1840s. The collection is divided into four series. Series I contains correspondence relating to a wide variety of topics, including French and English politics, business, trade, religious matters, and personal affairs. Many of the items are letters of introduction. There is also information on John Vaughan’s immigration to America, Joseph Priestley, vaccines and inoculation (with Jefferson's comments on the same), Vaughan's business in Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. Also included in this series are 2 boxes with copies of Vaughan correspondence as well as miscellaneous notes by E. W. Madeira, gathered in the course of his research on Vaughan in the 1930s. Series II consists of three volumes. Included are two of Vaughan's commonplace books. One, entitled, "J. Vaughan's book," May 17, 1779 (47 pp., in Latin; 870/L34), includes mostly Latin notations. The other commonplace book, dated 1783 (ca. 66 pp.; B V 462.c), includes comments on several prominent Americans, such as Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse, as well as American society generally. The third volume is a copybook with thirty letters spanning the period 1784 to 1801 (B V462.1). Series III includes material relating to Vaughan's administration of the estate of the Philadelphia merchant Samuel Merrick, 1796-1822 (Vaughan-Merrick Papers, B V462.m; 2 boxes). Series IV consists of correspondence between Vaughan and the DuPont Co. for which he served as agent (B V462.4; photocopies of 73 letters).

ArchivalResource: 5.0 Linear feet, Ca. 850 items

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