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Manuscript collection, [ca. 1534]-1942.

Title: Manuscript collection, [ca. 1534]-1942.

Collection includes manuscript essay by Sir Thomas More, "A Treaties to Receyve ye blessed bodye of our Lord sacramentally and virtuallye bothe," 1534-1535; "The Penal Code for the City State of Sienna, Part III," 1548; minutes of war council of King Philip of Spain, 1560-1567; manuscript excerpts "Statutes of King Henry IV," 16th century; "Vita di Sisto Quinto" (life of Pope Sixtus V), 1643; miscellaneous legal documents, ca.1589-1695; letter by Alexander Pope, 1735; letter by Count Casimir Pulaski to Col. Hoppe, Quartermaster at Easton, during the American Revolution, 1778; "Decrees and Edicts of the Doges, Council of Ten, and the Senate of Venice from 1498-1656," ca.1770; manuscript of score by Ludwig van Beethoven, n.d.; manuscript of music for mass "Gloria in Excelsior" by Charles F. Gounod, n.d.; album, 1817-1852, of Elizabeth Watson, including manuscript poem by William Wordsworth, 1817; logbook of whaler MOZAMBIQUE out of New Brunswick, 1833-1835; documents concerning genealogy and nobility of Manuel Robredo de Rozas y Garcia, and his wife, Teresa Gonzales de Lobera y Sanz Calvo, 1818; deed for sale of slave Lucy by George Botts (?) to Samuel M. Dinwiddie, 1838, in New Orleans; letters by H.E. Cardinal Manning, at the time he was an Anglican, to unnamed bishop on religious issues, 1843; letter by Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 1847; album of poetry by residents of Pitcairn Island, 1892, with photograph of Daniel Christian, great-grandson of Fletcher Christian.

ArchivalResource: ca. 135 items.

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