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Correspondence of Archibald Constable, with some related material, ca. 1788-1827

Title: Correspondence of Archibald Constable, with some related material ca. 1788-1827

ArchivalResource: 450 items, chiefly letters, held in 6 boxes and 1 folder; principally manuscript, but with a little printed material.

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Letter : to Dr. William Withering MS 0014., 14 May 1775

Title: Letter : to Dr. William Withering 14 May 1775

Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802; physician and philosopher. Letter dated May 1775 to physician/botanist William Withering discussing a purchase of new books, an experiment by Dr. William Small, and a Parliamentary bill concerning James Watt's steam engine patent.

ArchivalResource: 1 folded leaf ; 21 cm.

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Hortus Siccus, 18th century

Title: Hortus Siccus 18th century

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

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Edward Dorn Papers

Title: Edward Dorn Papers

Correspondence to Edward Dorn from 1956-1993 comprises over half of the collection. Occasional letters are sent to either Peter Michelson or Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, but they are related either to the Rolling Stock or to the Dorn family in general. Significant correspondents include Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Lucia Berlin, Robert Bertholf, Stan and Jane Brakhage, Gordon Brotherston, Herb Butterfield, Tom Clark, Robert Creeley, John Daley, Donald Davie, Fielding Dawson, Clayton Eshleman, Willard Fox, Allen Ginsberg, Woody Haut, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Anselm Hollo Harry Hoogstraten, J. H. Innskeep, Ken Irby, Terry Jacobus, Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac, William Levy, Ellen Mann Michael McClure, Jim McCrary, Duncan McNaughton, Peter Michelson, Ken Mikolowski, Jeffrey Miller, John Moritz, Raymond Obermayr, Simone Okamura, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Charles Potts, Jeremy Prynne, Tom Raworth, Joe Safdie, Ed Sanders, Nicholas Sedgwick, Al Simmons, Preman Sotomayor, David Southern, Anne Waldeman, Donald Wesling, John Wieners, John Wolff, Doug Woolf, and David Young. Extensive notes, drafts, and rewrites of Edward Dorn's poetry include Abhorrences, Book of Poems, Captain Jack's Chaps, Collected Gran Apacheria, Cosmology of Finding Your Spot, The Cycle, Geography, Gran Apacheria, Gunslinger, Hands Up!, North Atlantic Turbine, Recollections of Gran Apacheria, Songs Set Two: A Short Count, 24 Love Songs, and Yellow Lola. Similar materials exist for Edward Dorn's works of prose, including Abilene, Abilene, The Book of Daniel, Shoshoneans, Some Business Recently Transacted in the White World, Views, and What I See in the Maximus Poems. However, various published works by Edward Dorn appear to have left no drafts or revisions to examine. Personal information about Edward Dorn is found only in the correspondence or interviews—most of the published work on Edward Dorn concerns his work, not his personal life. Edward Dorn's publications Bean News and Rolling Stock include submissions by various authors and editorial notes. Broadsides include art and published poetry, as well as announcements of book signings or poetry readings. Taped interviews and recorded poetry readings comprise the majority of the AV materials. Photographs range from family snapshots to photos for illustrations or articles. Numerous books and periodicals have been removed from the collection and can be found in Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Check the library catalogue for call numbers.

ArchivalResource: 28 Linear Feet

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Duke, Edith Slaughter, 1863-1921. Papers of the Duke family of Charlottesville, Va., and the related Slaughter family of Lynchburg, Va. 1764-1983, bulk 1845-1983.

Title: Papers of the Duke family of Charlottesville, Va., and the related Slaughter family of Lynchburg, Va. 1764-1983, bulk 1845-1983.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, business, and legal papers of the families particularly R.T.W. Duke, Jr., his wife Edith Slaughter Duke, their children Mary W. Duke, R.T.W. Duke III, John F.S. Duke, William E. Duke, and Helen R. Duke. Family news is the primary subject. Other topics of interest include the Civil War and Reconstruction; World War I; 1882 and 1899 European tours; Montana between 1908 and 1911; work in the Judge Advocate General Department; nursing in Southwest Virginia, 1918-1926; Episcopal medical missionary life in Wisuh, China, 1908-1947; and the American Legion. Of interest are single letters describing trips to Mexico, 1928, the Middle East, 1935, and Boston and Montreal, 1851; the 1855 Know-Nothing Party convention in Philadelphia; General Hull in Canada in 1812; the theories of Erasmus Darwin; John S. Mosby's defense of the motives of Southern soldiers; a battle between the Bolsheviks and the 8th Czecho-Slovak Regiment; Henry Clay's discussion of a letter from Willam Henry Harrison re the election of 1840, and a lengthy letter of sympathy on the death of a child. The papers also contain forty-seven diaries of R.T.W. Duke, Jr., 1879- 1892, 1894-1926; five volumes of his "Recollections," 1899-1926 describing the Civil War and Reconstruction, the University of Virginia and Zeta Psi fraternity, his law career, membership in the Masons and the Cold Spring Barbecue Club, William Mahone, and events in Charlottesville, Virginia, including the failure of the Charlottesville National Bank; and manuscripts of his poetry and prose. In addition there are legal papers, including indentures, deeds and land surveys; genealogical material; photographs; postcards; diaries and notebooks of family members; and a few files from the Duke and Duke law firm including an opinion on Snyder v. University of Virginia and insurance and business papers handled for Jefferson M. Levy.

ArchivalResource: 10400 items.

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Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808. Letters : 1802.

Title: Letters : 1802.

Letters of Thomas Beddoes to an unnamed physician, n.d., and to Dr. Currie, Liverpool, 21 Oct. 1802, discussing medical cases and praising Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia.

ArchivalResource: 2 letters.

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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. [Letter], [17]82 Mar. 17, Radburn [to] Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square, London / E. Darwin.

Title: [Letter], [17]82 Mar. 17, Radburn [to] Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square, London / E. Darwin.

Holograph signed.

ArchivalResource: [3] p. on 1 leaf ; 24 x 37 cm.

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Vol. DVII (ff. 239). 1705-May 1708.includes:f. i John Gellibrand, Clerk of the Cheque to Messengers of the Chamber: Letter to: 1705.f. 1 Sir Charles Cox, MP: Letter to J. Gellibrand: 1705.ff. 1-3, 167, 171 John Lade, MP: Depositions, etc., rel...

Title: Vol. DVII (ff. 239). 1705- May 1708.includes:f. i John Gellibrand, Clerk of the Cheque to Messengers of the Chamber: Letter to: 1705.f. 1 Sir Charles Cox, MP: Letter to J. Gellibrand: 1705.ff. 1-3, 167, 171 John Lade, MP: Depositions, etc., rel... 1705-May 1708

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845-1912. Letters, 1834-1881.

Title: Letters, 1834-1881.

This is a small, miscellaneous collection of letters written to Alexander Brownlee, C. Scott, F. W. Surman, and Otto Zacharias. There are references to lunar tidal waves and mentions of Charles and Erasmus Darwin.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. Letter : to Dr. William Withering, 14 May 1775.

Title: Letter : to Dr. William Withering, 14 May 1775.

A short letter regarding his recent purchase of a large number of German books. He refers to some books of alchemy he hopes to acquire, to an experiment by Dr. William Small and to the passage through Parliament of a bill granting James Watt an extension on his steam engine patent.

ArchivalResource: 1 folded leaf ; 21 cm.

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Brief literary manuscripts collection, 1783-1949.

Title: Brief literary manuscripts collection, 1783-1949.

Brief literary manuscripts written by British, French, and American writers, including poems, sonnets, and fragments of essays, some of which are autographed. The collection includes the work of Patrick Chalmers, Erasmus Darwin, MaryQuincy Allen Dixon, Mary S. Dickinson, Elbert Hubbard, Emil Alexander Keppler, Jenny Marsh, William McFee, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walter Mitchell, Louise Chandler Moulton, Meredith Nicholson, Richard Ryan, Victoria Sackville-West, William Bell Scott, Marion Couthony Smith, Henry David Thoreau, and Paul Verlaine. The collection also includes a theater program from the Plays and Players Association in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

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Seward, Anna, 1742-1809,. Autograph letter signed from Anna Seward, Lichfield, to Adam Walker, London [manuscript], 1784 January 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Anna Seward, Lichfield, to Adam Walker, London [manuscript], 1784 January 21.

Seward writes on a variety of matters including Walker's accident, his philosophy, a recent election and her poetry, as well as Dr. Darwin's poetry. Seward also quotes several lines from Portia's speech on mercy from The merchant of Venice, beginning "It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heav'n ... "

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 40 x 27 cm.

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French, Robert Nicholas. Verses, 1803.

Title: Verses, 1803.

Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 29 original verses, primarily sentimental or lighthearted, by French. Many of the poems are annotated with the circumstances of their composition, and many are occasional poems addressed to friends. The volume includes several elegies, including an elegy occasioned by the author's seeing a stone seat in Cumberland and another to Sir Francis Burdett with a drawing bequeathed as a memorial by the author's father. Other poems include Lines addressed to the Duchess of Devonshire on her losing an eye, and an inscription for Erasmus Darwin, "author of the Botanic Garden"; as well as poems on spring and love. Several verses are addressed to female friends on their birthdays or as accompaniments to gifts sent to them, while more lighthearted poems include a sonnet written to an old coat and a sonnet written to a toadstool. Also written on numerous pages are provisional poem titles in pencil.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (94 p.) ; 26 x 21 cm.

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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. Letter, 1795, Nov. 8 : Kent, to Mr. Heath, Nottingham.

Title: Letter, 1795, Nov. 8 : Kent, to Mr. Heath, Nottingham.

ALS. Expression of friendship.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. Commonplace book, ca. 1777-1929.

Title: Commonplace book, ca. 1777-1929.

This commonplace book was filmed exactly as bound and contains notes on medicine, diseases, and weather; poems by Erasmus Darwin and others; family genealogy; letters; and sketches. There are notes by other family members, including his wife, his daughter, and his brother. There is a letter to "Major Darwin" dated 1929 taped inside the front cover, recounting the provenance of the book.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (on 1 microfilm reel).

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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. [List of plant names] : autograph manuscript : [n.p., n.d.].

Title: [List of plant names] : autograph manuscript : [n.p., n.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (oblong 16mo)

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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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Alison, Archibald, 1757-1839,. Papers pertaining to Charles Darwin and evolution, 1771-1821.

Title: Papers pertaining to Charles Darwin and evolution, 1771-1821.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence by or about men who contributed to the development of the theory of evolution. Correspondents include Erasmus Darwin regarding the "Botanic Garden" and treating a patient with foxglove tea; James Hall to Alexander Marcet regarding introductions and recommendations, several societies, political ambitions and family news particularly the illness (delirium) of his son; and Wilhelm von Humboldt on Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy and the H.M.S. Beagle. Also Herbert Spencer on his work and publications incuding "Principles of psychology," Darwin, Thomas Huxley and a bust of himself; J.F.W. Herschel on meteorology, geology and volcanic action; Charles Darwin on his health, work, father, human expression, the theory of language and Weale and Lyell. Also Francis Galton on Darwin, differences with William Flower, and anthropomorphic experiments; and Samuel Butler on his theory of unconscious memory. There are also water-colors of the H.M.S. Beagle by Conrad Martens; engravings of fossils; notes on the effect of alcohol and a prescription by Erasmus Darwin; and a ticket and a program for Charles Darwin's funeral, and a copy of his queries on human expression. In addition there are pertinent newsclippings and cartoons; and portraits of Darwin, his family, Robert Chambers, Hooker, James Hutton, Huxley, Lyell Spencer and John Tyndall. Additional correspondents and recipients include Archibald Alison, Joseph Edgar Boehm, John Chapman, Emma Wedgwood Darwin, Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, William Henry Flower, James Hall, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, Joseph Johnson, Charles Lyell, Richard Owen, Thomas Percival, John Playfair, Anna Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, James Philip Mansal Weale and William Whewell.

ArchivalResource: 153 items.

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Alison, Archibald, 1757-1839. Papers pertaining to Charles Darwin and evolution [manuscript], 1771-1921.

Title: Papers pertaining to Charles Darwin and evolution [manuscript], 1771-1921.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence by or about men who contributed to the development of the theory of evolution. Correspondents include Erasmus Darwin regarding the "Botanic Garden" and treating a patient with foxglove tea; James Hall to Alexander Marcet regarding introductions and recommendations, several societies, political ambitions and family news particularly the illness (delirium) of his son; and Wilhelm von Humboldt on Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy and the H.M.S. Beagle. Also Herbert Spencer on his work and publications incuding "Principles of psychology," Darwin, Thomas Huxley and a bust of himself; J. F. W. Herschel on meteorology, geology and volcanic action; Charles Darwin on his health, work, father, human expression, the theory of language and Weale and Lyell. Also Francis Galton on Darwin, differences with William Flower, and anthropomorphic experiments; and Samuel Butler on his theory of unconscious memory. There are also water-colors of the H.M.S. Beagle by Conrad Martens; engravings of fossils; notes on the effect of alcohol and a prescription by Erasmus Darwin; and a ticket and a program for Charles Darwin's funeral, and a copy of his queries on human expression. In addition there are pertinent newsclippings and cartoons; and portraits of Darwin, his family, Robert Chambers, Hooker, James Hutton, Huxley, Lyell Spencer and John Tyndall. Additional correspondents and recipients include Archibald Alison, Joseph Edgar Boehm, John Chapman, Emma Wedgwood Darwin, Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, William Henry Flower, James Hall, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, Joseph Johnson, Charles Lyell, Richard Owen, Thomas Percival, John Playfair, Anna Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, James Philip Mansal Weale and William Whewell.

ArchivalResource: 153 items.

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Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Title: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

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

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. [Letter] 1777, Apr. 20 [to] Thos. Astle, Esq., Treasury / E. Darwin.

Title: [Letter] 1777, Apr. 20 [to] Thos. Astle, Esq., Treasury / E. Darwin.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 20 x 21 cm.

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Erasmus Darwin commonplace book, ca. 1777-1929, Circa 1777-1929

Title: Erasmus Darwin commonplace book, ca. 1777-1929 Circa 1777-1929

This commonplace book was filmed exactly as bound and contains notes on medicine, diseases, and weather; poems by Erasmus Darwin and others; family genealogy; letters; and sketches. There are notes by other family members, including his wife, his daughter, and his brother. There is a letter to "Major Darwin" dated 1929 taped inside the front cover, recounting the provenance of the book.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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Scientists Collection, 1563-1973

Title: Scientists Collection 1563-1973

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.

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An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, 1799-1882

Title: An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society 1799-1882

One of the most important natural historians in nineteenth century Britain, Charles Darwin provided the first compelling mechanism to account for organismal evolutionary change. Although lacking a coherent model of heredity, Darwin's natural selection has exerted an enormous influence over the biological sciences and since the introduction of Mendelian genetics, had remained the key unifying principle in the discipline. The APS Darwin Papers are a large a valuable assemblage of Darwin's correspondence with scientific colleagues, including Charles Lyell and George J. Romanes. They are included in the print version of the (Cambridge Univ. Press). Correspondence of Charles Darwin

ArchivalResource: 2.5 Linear feet

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Miscellaneous manuscripts, vol. 4 [Commonplace book]; Liverpool, 1799.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, vol. 4 [Commonplace book]; Liverpool, 1799.

Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 100 primarily elegiac or sentimental poems. Such poems include On the premature death of a child; The remembrance; and Elegy on a grandmother; poets represented in the collection include William Cowper, Erasmus Darwin, William Roscoe, Thomas Warton, Thomas Gray, Mary Knowles, and especially Robert Burns. The volume also contains some non-poetical material, such as tables of census figures in England and Wales; a chart listing the distances between American post towns from Wiscasset to Sunbury; tables of distances on the American post roads; and a prose riddle by Charles James Fox.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (584 p.) ; 20 x 17 cm.

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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. Autograph letter signed : Derby, to an unnamed correspondent [probably Andrew Knight], 1800 Sept. 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Derby, to an unnamed correspondent [probably Andrew Knight], 1800 Sept. 25.

About various experiments that his correspondent has begun, including ones with a walnut tree and farina, the latter of which "will overturn the system of Lewenhook."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 232 x 188 mm.

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Jack Johns Darwin Collection, 1768-1997

Title: Jack Johns Darwin Collection 1768-1997

ArchivalResource: 604 bound volumes and press cuttings.

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Birch, Robert Fairfax. Repose : op. 23, no. 5 / [words by] Erasmus Darwin ; [music by] Robert Fairfax Birch.

Title: Repose : op. 23, no. 5 / [words by] Erasmus Darwin ; [music by] Robert Fairfax Birch. [19--].

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([2] p.) ; 36 cm.

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Robert Owen Collection, 1805-1858

Title: Robert Owen Collection 1805-1858

ArchivalResource: 2991 items

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Sir George Howard Darwin, letters, 1834-1881, 1834-1881

Title: Sir George Howard Darwin, letters, 1834-1881 1834-1881

This is a small, miscellaneous collection of letters written to Alexander Brownlee, C. Scott, F. W. Surman, and Otto Zacharias. There are references to lunar tidal waves and mentions of Charles and Erasmus Darwin.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, 5 items

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Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820. [Letterbook], 1783 Aug 12 - 1787 May 16.

Title: [Letterbook], 1783 Aug 12 - 1787 May 16.

Manuscript, in a single hand, of an unbound collection of over a hundred drafts and copies of letters, primarily concerning the affairs of the Royal Society of London, of which Blagden was Secretary. Topics of the letters include publications of scientific papers; experiments; and scientific phenomena. He praises Claude Louis Berthollet for his stance against animal magnetism; informs Joseph Priestly that Priestly's paper is currently being printed and asks if Priestly has any specific directions or wishes to have separate copies for his private use; and writes to Sir William Herschel about the recent appearance of a meteor, a subject about which he also writes to Jonathan Osborn. With a Mr. Wotton, he makes plans to conduct an experiment in private, in case it fails, to avoid being laughed at. Other correspondents include Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Erasmus Darwin, and his brother, to whom he writes about the ascension of Blanchard's hot air balloon.

ArchivalResource: 1 box. (172 p.) ; 27 x 21 cm.

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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. Prescription for Mr. Bage, senior : manuscript, [1766] Mar. 19.

Title: Prescription for Mr. Bage, senior : manuscript, [1766] Mar. 19.

Autograph document signed.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. Prescription for Mr. Bage, senior : manuscript, [1766] Mar. 19.

Title: Prescription for Mr. Bage, senior : manuscript, [1766] Mar. 19.

Autograph document signed.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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An essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., extra-illustrated, 1788-1844.

Title: An essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., extra-illustrated, 1788-1844.

Manuscripts and prints inserted by W. Dorset Fellowes into Arthur Murphy's (London: T. Longmanet al, 1793), mostly comments on the text by Fellowes, and also letters and notes by Hester LynchPiozzi. An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

ArchivalResource: 60 items insertedinto 1 v.

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Joseph Johnson Letterbook, 1795-1810

Title: Joseph Johnson Letterbook 1795-1810

Copies of about 240 outgoing letters from the bookseller and publisher Joseph Johnson (in his own hand, and by copyists) to various individuals, including many of the writers he published.

ArchivalResource: ca. 240 items

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Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

Title: Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

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: 9.5 boxes (4.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01427/catalog View

Ganter, Herbert Lawrence, 1904-1980. Research materials, ca. 1680-1948, concerning William Small (1734-1775).

Title: Research materials, ca. 1680-1948, concerning William Small (1734-1775).

Contains research for a planned biography of Scottish educator and physician William Small (1734-1775). Included is a rough outline for the biography and a working bibliography (folder 1); notes from various sources concerning Small (folders 2-3); copies of correspondence between William Small and Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt, 1768-1774, with additional research on Watt (folders 4-13); English manufacturer Matthew Boulton, 1772-1773, with additional notes on Boulton (folders 14-15); Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1771, with notes (folders 16-17); and Thomas Jefferson, 1775, with notes on Jefferson (folders 18-21) and on Isaac Jefferson, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves (folder 22). Also included is research on implied or unlocated Small correspondence (folder 23) and research on the College of William and Mary, where Small taught natural philosophy and mathematics, 1758-1764 (folders 24-34). Also included are biographical notes on Small's contemporaries and others, including English physician and natural philisopher Erasmus Darwin; British author and abolitionist Thomas Day; Anglican priest Gabriel d'Emiliane; Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor Richard Lovell Edgeworth; tobacco merchant Joseph Farrell; Governor of Virginia Francis Fauquier; College of William and Mary faculty member Hugh Jones and family; Scottish chemist and inventor James Keir; Pennsylvania physician, author and educator Benjamin Rush; physician and tenth president of the College of William and Mary John Augustine Smith; Scottish Presbyterian ministers William, Robert (1687-1762), Robert (1719-1798), David (d. 1850?), and William (b. 1712) Trail; Virginia planter, judge, and governor, William and Mary alumnus, and tenth President of the United States John Tyler; Welsh explorer and privateer Lionel Wafer; and English scientist and physician William Withering (folders 35-50). Also included are materials related to general subjects including education, England (also Birmingham), inventions, the Lunar Society, philosophy, pirates, the first partition of Poland, porcelain, steam engines, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (folders 51-68); and general research notes, including lists of unanswered questions and miscellaneous transcriptions (folders 69-73). Also included are personal papers, 1933-1948, relating to Herbert Ganter's education, employment history, scattered accounts, and correspondence. Correspondents include, in part, William H. Gravely, Jr., concerning the academic world and research on Thomas Dunn English; John Melville Jennings of the William and Mary Library concerning Dean of Women Grace Warren Landrum and her research on Hugh Jones; and Earl Gregg Swem concerning the death of Jackson Davis (1947), the index to the Virginia Gazette, and books he wanted Ganter to review for the William and Mary Quarterly. One other interesting component of Swem's correspondence was World War II: draft classifications; Ganter's and E. G. Swem's son Earl's drafts and service in the U. S. Army; gas rationing; and John Jennings' choice of employment at the U.S. Navy Mine Depot (Yorktown, Va.) in lieu of active service in the U.S. Army. The correspondence ends with Ganter's acceptance of a position as college archivist at William and Mary, a position he held until retirement in 1974 (folders 74-77).

ArchivalResource: 77 folders.

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Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809. Joseph Johnson Letterbook, 1795-1810.

Title: Joseph Johnson Letterbook, 1795-1810.

Copies of roughly 240 outgoing letters from Johnson (in his own hand, and by copyists) to various individuals, including many of the writers he published.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 20.2 x 16.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122313806 View

Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808. Letters : 1802.

Title: Letters : 1802.

Letters of Thomas Beddoes to an unnamed physician, n.d., and to Dr. Currie, Liverpool, 21 Oct. 1802, discussing medical cases and praising Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia.

ArchivalResource: 2 letters.

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Constable, Archibald, 1774-1827. Correspondence of Archibald Constable, with some related material.

Title: Correspondence of Archibald Constable, with some related material. ca. 1788-1827.

Comprises over 400 autograph letters written by or to Archibald Constable between 1788 and 1827, together with some related documents, historical, and literary pieces, including (in manuscript) a verse dedication by Bernard Barton to William Roscoe (item 4); a copy of a poem attributed to James Thomson (item 135); an address delivered by the Earl of Buchan in 1817 to 'the Gentlemen of the United States of America' at Edinburgh (item 139); copies of wills by William Brodie, 1788 and (in part) of Anna Seward, 1809 (items 143 and 297); and a copy of botanical and nature verses by Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward (item 309). Correspondents include: Bernard Barton, David Buchanan, James Ballantyne, Jeremy Bentham, William Blackwood, Jonathan Boucher, B.H. Bright, Richard Bright, Henry Brougham, James Brown, Robert Brown, the Earl of Buchan, David Erskine, William Brodie, J.S. Buckingham, O. Rees, John Rennie, T. Rennell, John Robison, Amelia Opie, John Park, James Park, Breadie Park, Charles Paton, Sir Richard Phillips, Robert Pitcairn, Henry Raeburn, Joseph Ritson, William Roscoe, the Duke of Roxburghe, Anna Seward, C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Madame de Stal︠, Sir John Sinclair, and Sydney Smith. The original three volumes included only correspondents with names beginning with the letters B, O-P-R, and S; they were clearly only part of a much larger collection of correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 450 items, chiefly letters, held in 6 boxes and 1 folder; principally manuscript, but with a little printed material.

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Clare, John, 1793-1864. Letters, 1820-1830, Helpstone, England.

Title: Letters, 1820-1830, Helpstone, England.

[1] 1820, February 24, to M[arkham] E. Sherwill, Mortlake, England [3 p.].--Discusses the quality of his own new poems and the unfortuante incidents connected with the Marquis of Exeter's presenting him with a yearly income. [2] 1822, August 23, to H[enry] F[rancis] Carey [i.e., Cary], Chiswick, England [3 p.].--He has "pleasant remembrances" of the days spent with Cary at Chiswick. Regrets the slow progress of Cary's Lives of the Poets. "I have written some things [?] for a new vol[ume] entitled Summer Walks." He sends "14 lines" of verse. [3] 1822, September 18, to H[enry] F[rancis] Carey [i.e., Cary], Chiswick [2 p.].--His illness is getting worse. He would like Cary to recommend some schoolbooks for his daughter. States that Cary's Life of Chatterton influenced him to read Chatterton's poems and suggests that Bloomfield should be included in Cary's Lives of the Poets. He is writing an autobiography and asks Cary to give his opinion of it. [4] 1824, December 30, to H[enry] F[rancis] Carey [i.e., Cary], Chiswick [3 p.].--Discusses the book he is writing and asks Cary to give his opinion of it. [The Shepherd's Calendar; with Village Stories, and other poems]. "I am anxious every month to see the continuation of your Lives of the Poets I always meet disappointment." Lists volumes of verses and individual poems and poets he has enjoyed. [5] 1827, November 4, to H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, London [3 p.].--He is sending Cary a copy of his new poems and asks Cary's opinion of them. [The Shepherd's Calendar; with Village Stories, and Other Poems]. "I am often very anxious to know how you proceed with your Lives of the Poets." Discusses forgotten poets and compares them to "Sleeping Beauty." He refers to Erasmus Darwin as one of these forgotten poets. [6] 1829, January 3, to H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, London [3 p.].--He sends his poem Death which is being published as one of Andrew Marvell's. Disucsses [William] Hayley's and [Erasmus] Darwin's poems. He is sorry that he did not see Cary in London. [7] 1830, January 25, to H[enry] F[rancis] Carey [i.e., Cary], London [3 p.].--He inquires of Cary if he knows the whereabouts of Charles Lamb and if he ever sees Wainewright. "I have had a settlement with Mr. Taylor & feel so far disappointed that if I had known I would never have had anything to do with 'Half profits'." He tells Cary that times are bad for all "classes and conditions of men" in the country.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

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Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Title: Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Letters and a few manuscripts of prominent literary figures, statesmen, and politicians from the United States and Europe collected by American professor of English Albert Stephens Borgman.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.3 linear ft.)

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