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A Short Introduction to Natural Philosophy, 1718-1720

Title: A Short Introduction to Natural Philosophy 1718-1720

A compendium of natural philosophical knowledge, written in 1718-1720 by John Questebrune, chaplain to the 6th Earl of Galway. The chapters treat the various parts of the physical world (earth, water, air, and fire), plants (including a great deal on medicinal plants), animals, and the human body and soul. The volume is embellished with decorative chapter headings and pen and ink and watercolor sketches depicting the terrestrial globe, the Ptolemaic and Copernican solar systems, the phases of the moon, and the human body in dissection.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 122 p.

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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

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Coxe, Brinton, 1833-1892. Papers, 1787-1917.

Title: Papers, 1787-1917.

Papers, 1787-1917: Coxe section (1839-1895) contains Brintox Coxe business and personal correspondence, memoranda, bills, receipts, speeches, notebooks, clippings and essays; Maria Middleton (neeʹ Fisher) Coxe correspondence and papers, 1864-1907; Eckley B. Coxe correspondence and papers (largely political). Fisher section (1819-1860) contains J. Francis Fisher correspondence, accounts, historical papers and miscellaneous; Oliver Hering letters to Mary Middleton, notable for their commentary on literature, religion, society and politics in both England and the United States; and Elizabeth Powel Fisher correspondence and bills. George Harrison section (1795-1855) contains correspondence and business papers concerning service as naval agent, financial affairs as trustee for Rebecca McMurtrie, and business, social and political matters. Miscellaneous section contains genealogical material, historical memoranda and notes and miscellaneous family papers and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear ft.

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Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893. Fanny Kemble papers, 1829-1874.

Title: Fanny Kemble papers, 1829-1874.

Correspondence, chiefly with Joshua Francis Fisher, relating to Kemble's divorce in 1849 from Pierce Butler; legal and financial papers relating to the divorce settlement; two volumes of a journal consisting of material used in Kemble's Journal of a Residence in America (1835) which was critical of American social life and customs; and a manuscript copy of the play "An English Tragedy." Correspondents include Pierce Butler, C.H. Fisher, Theodore Sedgwick, and Samuel Gray Ward.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.1 container.

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Fisher, Joshua Francis, 1807-1873. Papers, 1681-1865 bulk1760-1830.

Title: Papers, 1681-1865 bulk1760-1830.

Miscellaneous papers of a Philadelphia family contain: Tench Francis to his wife, 1767-1768, reporting on business activities in England; Fisher family letters, 1775-1777, concerning revolutionary activities in America; George Harrison papers, 1792-1842, including some business papers and accounts, correspondence with William Tilghman concerning the Tench and Ann Francis estate and with Horace Binney relating to William Waln property; and Joshua Francis Fisher papers, 1819-1865, concerning family matters and a dispute with William Logan Fisher over the estate.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

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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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Miscellaneous Manuscript Maps, 1747-1948

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscript Maps 1747-1948

A listing of miscellaneous manuscript maps that are not associated with any particular collections.

ArchivalResource: 100.0 Item(s)

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Parkman family, Edward Twisleton, and Sarah Wyman Whitman additional papers, 1763-1917 (inclusive) 1850-1907 (bulk).

Title: Parkman family, Edward Twisleton, and Sarah Wyman Whitman additionalpapers, 1763-1917 (inclusive) 1850-1907 (bulk).

Correspondence of the Parkman family of Boston, Mass. along with papers ofEdward Twiselton, who was a distant Parkman family relation and letters to SarahWyman Whitman, a close friend of Frances Parkman.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00413/catalog View

Kane, Robert Patterson, 1827-1906. Papers, [ca. 1830]-1900.

Title: Papers, [ca. 1830]-1900.

This collection includes letters, letterbooks (1853-1860, legal matters), notebooks on legal cases, etc. Much of this relates to Kane's legal practice in Philadelphia with his father, J. K. Kane, but there is also family correspondence, and much that relates to the Philadelphia Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor (1850-1851). One miscellaneous item is the "Recollections" of Joshua Francis Fisher (his life and family).

ArchivalResource: ca. 2000 items (2.5 linear ft.).

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Cox family. Weld Coxe collection, 1669-1982.

Title: Weld Coxe collection, 1669-1982.

The Weld Coxe Collection, comprised of correspondence, photographs, bound volumes, maps and published pamphlets, documents the history of the Coxe family in America. Members of the Coxe family have played a major role in the political, legal, economic, and industrial development of America from its colonial beginnings to present day. Of particular importance is the unpublished manuscript copy of Brinton Coxe's, An Essay on Judicial Power and Unconstitutional Legislation, Being A Commentary on Parts of the United States Constitution. The first volume of this work was published after Brinton's death in 1892, but the second volume was never published and remains in manuscript form as part of this collection. Also worth mentioning is the material pertaining to the 17th century land speculation of Dr. Daniel Coxe of London, the political correspondence of Tench Coxe, the social memorabilia collected by Mrs. Brinton Coxe and the large amount of Coxe genealogical material. The Weld Coxe Collection documents over three hundred years of the Coxe family in America and provide valuable insight into the lives various family members. Beginning with Dr. Daniel Coxe of London, the proprietary governor of West Jersey and continuing through Daniel Michaux Coxe, who in 1968 oversaw the liquidation of the Coxe properties in Pennsylvania, this collection spans eight generations of Coxes who had the drive and determination to make their ancestor's dreams a reality.

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes, 33 flat files, 20 vols., 7 images, ( 7.5 linear feet)

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Logan, James, 1674-1751. Papers, 1670-1749 (inclusive), 1734-1749 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1670-1749 (inclusive), 1734-1749 (bulk).

These papers reflect James Logan's activities as agent for the Penn family, land speculator, and scholar. Letterbooks, 1734-1748 (8 v.), several of which are marked "friendship" or "business," include correspondence to Letitia Penn Aubrey, Samuel Blunston, Peter Collinson, John Fothergill, Josiah Martin, Thomas Penn, William Penn III, Richard Peters, John Reading, and Ralph Smith; also additional letterbook of single letters, on scientific subjects addressed to Johann Albrect Fabricus, Abraham Gronovius, Hugh Hones, Carl Linnaeus, Richard Mead, and Hans Sloane. Logan's scholarship is further represented by drafts of "The Duties of Man as they may be deduced from Nature," [1736], and excerpts from Pietro Giannone, Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples, as reported in Archibald Bower, Historia Litteraria. There are also [Joshua Francis Fisher's] abstracts from Logan's "Notes for and answer to George Keith," 1699; "Of the Eseans," n.d.; "Literary, philosophical and religious fragments," n.d.; William Logan poem for Philadelphia, 1685.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

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Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Selected papers relating to Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1819-1863

Title: Selected papers, [ca. 1819-1863], relating to Benjamin Franklin

These selected papers include correspondence concerning Franklin, Franklin's descendants, and Franklin's papers, extracts from Philadelphia newspapers on Franklin, papers used in Sparks' biography, miscellaneous entries in his diary (1830-1854) relating to his search for Franklin manuscripts, and his preparation of an edition of Franklin's writings. Correspondents include Henry Stevens, Jr.; Henry Stevens, Sr.; Benjamin Vaughan; Petty Vaughan; James Mease; H. D. Gilpin; J. Francis Fisher; Franklin Bache; and others.

ArchivalResource: 9 volumes, photostats.

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Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750, 1699-1750

Title: Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 1699-1750

Copied by Mrs. Deborah Norris Logan from original letters and papers in her family, with additions by J. Francis Fisher and Redmond Conyngham. Includes Logan's correspondence with William Penn, Hannah Callowhill Penn, Isaac Norris, Governor George Clarke of New York, Governor William Gooch of Virginia, and Governor George Thomas of Pennsylvania. Contains materials regarding early Philadelphia and Indian and colonial affairs.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 Volume(s), 4 volumes, copies

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Fisher, Joshua Francis, 1807-1873. Letter, 1836 March 24, Philadelphia, Penn., to James Wadsworth, Geneseo, New York.

Title: Letter, 1836 March 24, Philadelphia, Penn., to James Wadsworth, Geneseo, New York.

Encloses drawings of Connecticut coins requesting information about them.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. : ill. ; 26 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21400742 View

Barksdale, Narcissa L. Smith, d. 1875. Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Title: Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Papers of the Janney and allied families of Gilmour and Pollock consisting of personal and political correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical material and photographs, particularly of John Janney of Loudoun County, Va. The papers cover Janney's legal practice, his career as a Whig politician, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and president of Virginia's secession convention. His correspondents include Arthur Ingram Borreman; John Minor Botts; Henry Clay; J.J. Crittenden; Charles J. Faulkner; Philip R. Fendall; Joshua F. Fisher; Willis Green; John W. Mallet; R.C.L. Moncure; Jeremiah Morton; Richard William Noland; Francis H. Pierpoint; William Cabell Rives; Wyndham Robertson; Valentine Wood Southall; James F. Strother; Alexander H.H. Stuart; and George Summers. Major topics include the Whig Party and the elections of 1840, 1844, 1848 and 1860; the tariff; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company; the Loco-Focos; slavery and the new territories; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; the University of Virginia; the Constitutional Union Party; the Virginia Convention of 1861; a re-union of Virginia and West Virginia and debt readjustment. Of interest is an 1861 electoral ticket for Jefferson Davis. People discussed in the correspondence include J.S. Barbour, John C. Calhoun, Joseph Johnson; Robert E. Lee; "Extra Billy" Smith; Alexander H. Stephens; Zachary Taylor; and Daniel Webster. Of interest in Janney's financial and legal papers are a letter from Abbott Lawrence to John S. Pendleton on the machine shop at Lowell, Mass.; correspondence regarding the building of the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad; papers conderning the Mutual Assurance Society; and a slave bill of sale for one Harriet Jackson. Papers of Solomon Parsons, 1810-1830, concern business in Alexandria, Gloucester and Occoquan, and include letters on the War of 1812 and British Admiral J.B. Warren; and an 1829 letter from a slave to "Dear Master." Civil War and Reconstruction papers include passes; a letter to J.E. Johnston regarding Janney's slave "George"; a list of sick soldiers nursed by Mrs. Janney; letters, 1862, 1866, from Narcissa L. Smith Barksdale regarding the Civil War in Louisiana and the death of her husband at Gettysburg; letters from Joseph E. Segar regarding reconstruction; and two memoranda by Alcinda S. Marmaduke Janney, 1862 and 1863, relating details of the war in Leesburg and Loudoun County, including the arrest of John Janney, Federal occupation and outrages, Confederate procurement, and second hand news about personalities and battles. The collection also contains letters and a portrait of World War II American pilot, Robert Stevenson Janney. Topics include student life at Princeton, travel in Europe and Japan in the 1930s including a 1937 Nazi festival, and World War II experiences in training, in North Africa and in Italy. Topics of interest in the miscellaneous Gilmour, Janney and Pollock family papers include the early ministry of W.H. Milton; slavery; St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1830s and 40s; foreign travel; Pantops Academy of Charlottesville; V.M.I. in the 1890s; U. Va. in the 1850s and 1890s; medical missionary work in China and Japan in the 1930s; social life in Virginia in the 1930s; the great depression; the Leesburg, Va., Presbyterian church; Virginia governor Almond and Massive Resistance; and life in Pioche, Nevada and Pasadena, Calif. Correspondents include W. Sinclair Bowen, Lily H.D. Dabney, William E. Dodd; Edward Griffith Dodson;and the Rev. James Shannon Montgomery. In addition there are photographs, scrapbooks and travel journals.

ArchivalResource: 2750 (c.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57123190 View

Jared Sparks selected papers, 1819-1863

Title: Jared Sparks selected papers, 1819-1863

Letters and papers relating to Sparks's research on Benjamin Franklin and the publication of an edition of the latter's writings. There are also extracts from Sparks's journal, 1831-1841, relating to his Franklin researches.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Microfilm reels

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId, 1837-1844

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId 1837-1844

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Elisha Kent Kane Papers, Bulk, 1843-1857, 1810-1953

Title: Elisha Kent Kane Papers Bulk, 1843-1857 1810-1953

The most stellar member of a stellar family, Elisha Kent Kane was among the most popular American explorers of the mid-nineteenth century, a hero in the tragic mode. Born in Philadelphia in 1820, the son of John Kintzing Kane and Jane Duval Leiper, Kane studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before earning a commission as a naval surgeon. While in the Navy, Kane embarked on the succession of voyages to exotic locales that became the basis for his extraordinary fame. In 1843, he attended Caleb Cushing's first diplomatic mission to China as ship's physician, and subsequently traveled to the Philippines and Western Africa. Distinguishing himself in the Mexican War, Kane's greatest fame came from two expeditions to the arctic, aiming to locate the lost explorer, Sir John Franklin and to explore for evidence of the open polar sea. Kane died in 1857 while attempting to organize a third arctic voyage. Part of the Kane Family Collection, the Papers of Elisha Kent Kane contain a mix of personal and family correspondence with correspondence relating to all of Kane's explorations. Intelligent, articulate and very much a romantic, Kane's letters are expressive and passionate. The collection provides fine documentation of youth, his relationship with the Spiritualist Margaret Fox, and of course his travels to China and off the coast of Africa in 1846. Kane's two expeditions to the arctic are particularly well documented, with correspondence, notes, logbooks, diaries, and sketches, as well as Kane's post-expedition notes, writings, and lectures recounting his experiences.

ArchivalResource: 6.75 Linear feet

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Kane Family Papers, 1745-1955

Title: Kane Family Papers 1745-1955

A collection of letters, legal papers and financial records of three generations of the prominent Philadelphia family. Spanning 1745-1955, detailed are the legal cases and political advocacy work of John Kintzing Kane (1795-1858), Robert Patterson Kane (1827-1906), and Francis Fisher Kane (1866-1955). Also includes correspondence, architectural drawings, and photograph albums of the Cope family. Robert Patterson Kane's daughter Eliza Middleton Kane (1863-1952) married the Philadelphia architect Walter Cope (1860-1902) in 1893. The APS papers of Elisha Kent Kane are in call no. B K132.

ArchivalResource: 56.0 lin. feet

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId, 1837-1844

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId 1837-1844

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Correspondence on Indian names, 1854-1860, 1854-1860

Title: Correspondence on Indian names, 1854-1860 1854-1860

This volume of letters Sebastian Ferris Streeter and John Henry Alexander, both of the Maryland Historical Society, relating to efforts of Henry to secure information on Indian names and to obtain travel grants from the Maryland Historical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Smithsonian Institution. There are letters from Edward Ballard of Maine Historical Society, and P. W. Leland and Usher Parsons of Rhode Island Historical Society, concerning New England Indian place names. There is also a letter (1854) to J. Francis Fisher and others of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in response to a circular appeal, on Indian names of Northampton County, Pennsylvania (929.4 H39).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 22 items

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Fisher, Joshua Francis, 1807-1873. Diary, 1848.

Title: Diary, 1848.

Diary with entries for daily events and family news.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.; 15 cm.

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Catalogue of political tracts relating to the history of the colony of Pennsylvania from 1681 to 1770, 1838, 1838

Title: Catalogue of political tracts relating to the history of the colony of Pennsylvania from 1681 to 1770, 1838 1838

Catalogue and Tracts relating to Pennsylvania, 1681-1770, collected by Joshua Francis Fisher (presented to APS in 1839), contains: 1. "Catalogue of Printed Tracts relating to the Political History of . . . Pennsylvania, 1681-1770," with an introduction by Fisher (20 pp.); 2. (Sir William Keith), "The Life and character of a strange `He Monster' lately arrived in London from an English Colony in America, . . .," n.d. The "Monster" is identified as Andrew Hamilton by Walker Lewis, William and Mary Quarterly 38 (1981): 269-294; 3. A modest apology for the eight members. (3 pp.); 4. Petitions of merchants and others to the King for the safety of the Province and against the Quakers, n.d. (4 pp.).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1volume, 57 p.

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc, 1826-1836

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc 1826-1836

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. Papers relating chiefly to Franklin and to the Washington family

Title: Benjamin Franklin papers relating chiefly to Franklin and to the Washington family

American documents collected by the historian and Harvard president Jared Sparks.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear feet (1 volume)

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