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[Letterbook], 1722-1770

Title: [Letterbook] 1722-1770

Anonymous MS. Collection of copies of 210 letters to and from Baker dating from 1722 to 1770; letters discuss scientific subjects, especially microscopy, electricity, and the education of deaf children; also discuss contemporary affairs, most notably the Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746) and the London earthquake (1750).

ArchivalResource: Total Volumes: 1

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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Daniel Defoe letters, 1702-1730.

Title: Daniel Defoe letters, 1702-1730.

Consists mainly of letters by Defoe concerning his political activities, including his imprisonment in early 1703, his secret government mission to Scotland in 1705 and subsequent trips there on government business, and English domestic and foreign affairs he was involved in after returning to England. Other correspondents include the Earl of Nottingham, who ordered Defoe's arrest and questioning in 1703; the Earl of Godolphin; Robert Harley, Defoe's patron while he was in Scotland; and Henry Baker, who married Defoe's daughter Sophia. Also included is a manuscript of Defoe's essay "The Shortest Way With Dissenters," for which he was imprisoned.

ArchivalResource: 0.7 linear ft.

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Mortimer, Cromwell, d. 1752. Natural history manuscripts collected by Cromwell Mortimer, 1746-1749.

Title: Natural history manuscripts collected by Cromwell Mortimer, 1746-1749.

The collection consists of manuscripts and letters on scientific subjects collected for publication in the transactions of the Royal Society and annotated by Mortimer as follows. The collection contains "An account of the remarkable case and cure of a woman, from whom a foetus was extracted, that had been lodged thirteen years in one of the Fallopian Tubes" by James Mounsey, M.D., a physician to the Russian Army. With these is an abstract of Mounsey's account by Henry Baker to accompany his presentation of the bones to the Royal Society. In a letter to Martin Folkes, Baker discusses Mounsey's observations on the concretions called "Crabs' Eyes" in the stomachs of crayfish and his conclusion that the Quab fish is not the third stage in the development of the frog. A letter from John Ellicott to Martin Folkes, with an annotation by Folkes, concerns a memoire by Abbé Nollet on the effects of "electrical effluvia" on plants and animals. A partial letter by Abbé Nollet to Martin Folkes, discusses electrical phenomena. A partial manuscript (lacks first four pages) by Sir William Watson discusses electrical experiments including those conducted by Benjamin Franklin "an ingenious gentleman ... in Pennsylvania." A letter from Maurice Johnson to James Jurin, concerns a metallic thermometer in the Museum of the Spalding Gentleman's Society, and is accompanied by a sketch, and a note by Mortimer in which he claims to have constructed a thermometer in 1735 and reported it to Buffon. A copy of a letter to the President of the Royal Society from the Rev. Richard Pococke, describes the Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Ireland. An abstract of a letter from Father Buonaventura Suares to Dr. Jacob de Castro Sarmento, discusses moons of Jupiter and lunar eclipses. With it are a printed page on lunar eclipses in Paraguay in 1708 and a manuscripts on solar eclipses, 1706-1730. A manuscript by Thomas Simpson describes "the motion of projectiles near the Earth's surface considered independent of the properties of the conic sections" with accompanying diagrams designed for "gentlemen employed in the practice of gunnery." An abstract of a letter from William Anderson to [Henry?] Baker, concerns the hearing of fish. The Revd. Mr. [Thomas?] Birch copies and transcribes an inscription from a Roman altar found upon the moor at Stanhope in the Bishopric of Durham.

ArchivalResource: 16 (ca.) items.

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Baker, Henry, 1698-1774. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, 1758 June 10.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, 1758 June 10.

About sending a box to his correspondent and telling him it is prepaid and that he should not be tricked into paying for it again.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

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Baker, Henry, 1698-1774. An attempt toward a Natural History of the Polype [manuscript], 1743.

Title: An attempt toward a Natural History of the Polype [manuscript], 1743.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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