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Muhlenberg family papers, 1769-1866, 1769-1866

Title: Muhlenberg family papers, 1769-1866 1769-1866

The papers include miscellaneous letters, letterbooks, books, certificates, and diplomas of various members of the Muhlenberg family. Among them are photostats of letters and papers of General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and officers of the Continental Army on military affairs in the Southern Department during the American Revolution (1772-1804); photostats of letters to Albert Gallatin, Nathanael Greene, Edward Hand, Winthrop Sargent, Baron von Steuben, William Alexander, and George Washington; photostat of General Muhlenberg's journal of trips to the Ohio (1784, 1797); photostats of letters and notes of Gotthilf H. E. Muhlenberg, including a diary kept at Halle (1771) and extracts of thirty letters to Stephen Elliott of Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina (1808-1815); photostats of letters of Henry A. Muhlenberg about his biography of General Muhlenberg (1848-1849); and photostats of letters of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787). Also included is an original letterbook of Peter Muhlenberg, paymaster of the United States Army, kept at Augusta and Savannah, Georgia (1836-1842). Henry Muhlenberg's notebooks (1784-1813), written in Latin or German script, in a small hand, includes a wealth of botanical observations, with a focus on Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Henry Muhlenberg journals are a record of daily occurrences, with many features of a commonplace book, containing prescriptions, notes of questions asked candidates for the Lutheran ministry, and the plan of a barn. There is also a biographical account of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787).

ArchivalResource: 4.25 Linear feet, 2 boxes, 10 oversize items, 25 volumes

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Morris, Samuel Wells, 1786-1847. Correspondence, 1799-1852.

Title: Correspondence, 1799-1852.

Incoming correspondence of Samuel Wells Morris and his wife Anna Ellis Morris of Wellsboro, Pa. The early letters to 1839 are mostly from family members to Anna Morris concerning domestic matters and include 50 letters from Samuel concerning family business and reporting on his political activities while serving as a State legislator, 1832-1836, and as a Democratic Congressman, 1837-1841. The correspondence from 1840 to 1847 is to Samuel reflecting his interests in politics, northern Pennsylvania coal lands, and the Tioga Navigation Company. Correspondents are John Laporte, Frederick A. Muhlenberg, A. G. Ralston, various politicians, and members of the Morris and Ellis family.

ArchivalResource: 400 items.

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIg, 1887-1891

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIg 1887-1891

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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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIh, 1892-1896

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIh 1892-1896

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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Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921. The German soldier in the wars of the United States, and related letters and clippings, 1885-1886.

Title: The German soldier in the wars of the United States, and related letters and clippings, 1885-1886.

Two different printed copies of J. G. Rosengarten's work The German soldier in the wars of the United States, bound together with the following related items (tipped in): 13 original letters addressed to Rosengarten, dated 16 January to 13 April 1886; and 47 clippings, dated May 1885 to September 1886. The 2 printed works comprise the first 2 published forms of the work: 1) in the United Service magazine, in the numbers for June, July, and August 1885; and 2) reprinted as a separate pamphlet of 49 pages, published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, in 1886, under the title: The German soldier in the wars of the United States: an address, read before the Pionier-Verein, at the hall of the German Society. The letters are all from individuals responding to Rosengarten's gift of a copy of the work. Of the 13 correspondents, 3 are writing from Germany (Maximilian Bille and W. Roth are physicians in Dresden; J. Scheibert is in Berlin), and the rest are writing from cities in the United States. Five of the correspondents served in the military in the Civil War (4 as officers and one as an army chaplain); and 4 others are authors of works on either the American Revolution or the Civil War. Three of the correspondents (F. A. Muhlenberg, Scheibert, and Daniel Coit Gilman) make comments in their letters that can be seen reflected in material added by Rosengarten to a new expanded 175-page version of the book that was published by Lippincott later in 1886 (with a foreword from Rosengarten dated 21 April 1886). Of the clippings, 12 are from the Nebraska Tribüne, a German-language newspaper based in Omaha, and comprise serial installments of a German translation of Rosengarten's essay (Der deutsche Soldat in den Kriegen der Vereinigten Staaten) that appeared between 20 June and 29 October 1885. The other clippings are all either notices or reviews of Rosengarten's work. Of these, 13 are from German-language newspapers, with 12 from German-American newspapers in 8 different states, and 1 from Berlin; and the remaining 22 clippings are from American English-language periodicals, including newspapers in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and Chicago; the Nation; the Army and Navy Journal; and the Journal of the Military Service Institution. Several of the reviews in 1886 refer not to the versions of the work included here but to the expanded version of 175 pages. A piece of one of the clippings is detached, and is stored in the same box with the volume. Tipped in on a front flyleaf of the volume is a small print depicting Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

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