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Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

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

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

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United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

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Thomas J. Dodd Papers, undated, 1919-1971.

Title: Thomas J. Dodd Papers undated, 1919-1971.

The Thomas J. Dodd Papers illuminate the diverse public life of a self-styled crusader. The collection consists primarily of material from Dodd's Senate years (1959-1971) and the Nuremberg war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal from 1945-1946.

ArchivalResource: 220.0 Linear feet

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Maria Edgeworth manuscript material : 14 items, 1814-1844

Title: Maria Edgeworth manuscript material : 14 items 1814-1844

Holograph story, "Garry Owen, or, The snow woman" : (MISC 3389) : stitched. The story was first published in : The Christmas box. London: William Harrison Ainsworth, 1828.

ArchivalResource: 14 items

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Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809. Joseph Johnson manuscript material : 1 item, 1807

Title: Joseph Johnson manuscript material : 1 item, 1807

· To Jane Porter, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jul 1807 : (MISC 2807) : from London; begins, "I have been watching Sir Sidney the whole day ..."

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647906295 View

Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Kalispell, Montana, Records, 1895-2012

Title: Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Kalispell,Montana, Records 1895-2012

Collection contains the records ofBethlehem Lutheran Church in Kalispell, Montana.

ArchivalResource: 1 file

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv91622 View

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

William Cowper manuscript material : 32 items, ca. 1784-1799

Title: William Cowper manuscript material : 32 items ca. 1784-1799

Holograph commonplace book : 1790-1799 : (MISC 0660) : includes part of Cowper's translation of the Aeneid, Book VIII, beginning at line 18 ; also a 65-line translation from Ovid, beginning: "You bid me write t'amuse the tedious hours, / And save from with'ring my poetic powers ..." Both pieces were first published in 1815 at the arrangement of John Johnson. A pencil drawing of trees and soldiers is on p. 2 (at front). Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 32 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/19564 View

Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825,. Autograph letter signed from Anna Letitia Barbauld, Palgrave, Suffolk, to Joseph Johnson [manuscript], [ca. 1780] April 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Anna Letitia Barbauld, Palgrave, Suffolk, to Joseph Johnson [manuscript], [ca. 1780] April 29.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281643673 View

Donald Hyde and Mary Hyde Eccles Autograph Collection, 1505-1957 (inclusive), 1702-1854 (bulk).

Title: Donald Hyde and Mary Hyde Eccles Autograph Collection, 1505-1957 (inclusive), 1702-1854 (bulk).

A collection of single letters, documents, and manuscripts, primarily dating to the 18th century, from the collection of Donald Hyde and Mary Hyde Eccles.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes and 1 vol. (9.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01762/catalog View

Letter from William Cowper to [Joseph Johnson?] concerning the placing of an advertisement for Cowper's translation of Homer in the 1787 (3rd) edition of his Poems; 9 Jan. 1787. Also included are a postcard from Arundel Esdaile (ff. 120, 120b) and a ...

Title: Letter from William Cowper to [Joseph Johnson?] concerning the placing of an advertisement for Cowper's translation of Homer in the 1787 (3rd) edition of his Poems; 9 Jan. 1787. Also included are a postcard from Arundel Esdaile (ff. 120, 120b) and a ... 9 Jan 1787

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Mary Wollstonecraft manuscript material : 49 items, 1773-1797

Title: Mary Wollstonecraft manuscript material : 49 items 1773-1797

The Mary Wollstonecraft manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a holograph fragment of her essay, “On Poetry,” and a holograph review of Karl Gottlieb Cramer’s gothic novel, Albert de Nordenshild. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1787 and 1797 and discusses her personal life and her published works. Correspondents include: William Godwin, philosopher and novelist (her husband); Mary Hays, novelist; Joseph Johnson, her publisher; and over a half dozen others.

ArchivalResource: 49 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/21894 View

(VIII. ff. 196). 12 Mar. 1742-29 Jan. 1743.includes:f. 2 Fellow: Suit v. Jermyn: 1742. f. 5 Barnard Wilson, DD, Vicar of Newark: Suit v. Lord Middleton: 1742. f. 5 Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton: Lawsuits: 1742-1746. f. 8 Isabella Le Neve...

Title: (VIII. ff. 196). 12 Mar. 1742-29 Jan. 1743.includes:f. 2 Fellow: Suit v. Jermyn: 1742. f. 5 Barnard Wilson, DD, Vicar of Newark: Suit v. Lord Middleton: 1742. f. 5 Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton: Lawsuits: 1742-1746. f. 8 Isabella Le Neve... 12 Mar 1742-29 Jan 1743

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Wingrave, F. (Francis). Dr. Goldsmith's Animated nature : manuscript, 1804-1805.

Title: Dr. Goldsmith's Animated nature : manuscript, 1804-1805.

Draft advertisement in an unknown hand for a six-volume edition of Goldsmith's History of the earth and animated nature (published in 1805), with records of costs and payments.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet (4 p.) : in case, 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612734910 View

Cowper, William, 1731-1800. Autograph letter signed : to Joseph Johnson, 1786 [May 2?].

Title: Autograph letter signed : to Joseph Johnson, 1786 [May 2?].

Concerning the Rev. Walter Bagot's subscription.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.1 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270955737 View

Thomas Percival manuscript material : 1 item, 1787

Title: Thomas Percival manuscript material : 1 item 1787

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/22399 View

Thompson, Thomas, 1776-1861. Cowperiana scrapbooks, 1731-1853.

Title: Cowperiana scrapbooks, 1731-1853.

The collection contains a broad-spectrum of printed and ms. material about people and places related (sometimes tangentially in the extreme) to the life and works of Cowper. Many images accompanied by biographical and explanatory text in both letter press and in ms. hand. Much of the letter press has been clipped from Robert Southey's edition of The works of William Cowper. In addition to numerous engraving and etchings, the collection also contains a number of original drawings and watercolors (some by James H. Hurdis?), many depicting the town of Olney and environs in Buckinghamshire. The ms. material includes, geneal. tables, accounting ledgers of Ashley Cowper, an index to Southey's edition of Cowper's works, various signatures (including George IV's), military orders signed by Louis XVI, and several letters, some random, many concerning the obtainment of items to form the collection.

ArchivalResource: 5 v. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, plans, ports. ; 43 cm.

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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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49632137 View

Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809. Autograph letter signed : London, to William Cowper, 1782 Feb. 18.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to William Cowper, 1782 Feb. 18.

Advising him against publishing John Newton's introduction to Cowper's Poems, and discussing proof corrections to the volume. " ... it appears to me wrong to insert a preface which has a direct tendency to prevent readers of very different sentiments from the writer of it from turning over a single page, and which infalibly [sic] prejudice the critics against the work before they have read a line, and their judgment has no small influence on the success of poetical composition. Those who are acquainted with Mr. N's genius and worth and are of his sentiments [will] indeed be disposed to read and be benefited, but I do not think this a sufficient motive for giving up the public at large... "

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 33.3 cm.

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Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957,. Carl H. Pforzheimer collection of Shelley and his circle : manuscripts, 1772-1925 (bulk 1780-1850).

Title: Carl H. Pforzheimer collection of Shelley and his circle : manuscripts, 1772-1925 (bulk 1780-1850).

Letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, proofs, and other items to, from, and concerning the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his family, associates, and contemporaries, including more than 300 items by Shelley; ca. 350 letters and manuscripts of William Godwin; about 50 items of Mary Wollstonecraft; ca. 400 items by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; over 150 letters and manuscripts by Lord Byron; roughly 150 items of Thomas Love Peacock; 300 letters and other items by Leigh Hunt; and ca. 130 letters of Edward John Trelawny. The Collection also includes: diaries of Shelley's cousin and first love, Harriet Grove; the suicide letter of Harriet Westbrooke Shelley, the poet's first wife; ca. 100 letters and other items of Shelley's Oxford friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg; diaries and ca. 35 letters of Mary Shelley's step-sister Claire Clairmont; ca. 100 items relating to Horace and James Smith; 40 letters and manuscripts of Thomas Medwin; over 130 items of Margaret King Moore (Lady Mount Cashell); 25 letters of Jane Williams; and 2 letters, a fair copy manuscript, and other items by Edward Williams, all friends of Shelley. Among materials pertaining to relatives and associates of Byron are: papers of his mother, Catherine Gordon Byron; his wife, Anne Isabella; his daughter, Ada Augusta; his half-sister, Augusta Leigh; more than 200 letters and other documents of Teresa Guiccioli, Byron's mistress; Caroline Lamb; Mary Chaworth; and about 50 letters to Byron from various Italian women, requesting money and other favors. Other items in the Collection include: a letterbook of the publisher Joseph Johnson; 75 letters and 3 bound manuscript volumes of John Clare; 2 letters of John Keats; 20 letters and 2 manuscript poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; more than 150 letters and manuscripts of Robert Browning; 6 letters and 1 manuscript by Charlotte Brontë; 5 holograph notebooks and 1 letter by George Eliot; and correspondence and other materials of Marguerite, Countess of Blessington; Robert Burns, Thomas Campbell, Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cowper, John Wilson Croker, Mary Hays, Felicia Hemans, Washington Irving, Charles and Mary Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Moore, Caroline Norton, Amelia Alderson Opie, Jane Porter, Mary Robinson, Samuel Rogers, Sydney Smith, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth. The Collection also holds papers of British Romantic scholars, among them Harry Buxton Forman, Roger Ingpen, Walter Peck, William Michael Rossetti, and Thomas J. Wise, and an unpublished memoir by Leslie A. Marchand.

ArchivalResource: 9000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652039 View

Cowper, William, 1731-1800. William Cowper manuscript material : 32 items,

Title: William Cowper manuscript material : 32 items,

· Holograph commonplace book : 1790-1799 : (MISC 0660) : includes part of Cowper's translation of the Aeneid, Book VIII, beginning at line 18 ; also a 65-line translation from Ovid, beginning: "You bid me write t'amuse the tedious hours, / And save from with'ring my poetic powers ..." Both pieces were first published in 1815 at the arrangement of John Johnson. A pencil drawing of trees and soldiers is on p. 2 (at front). Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. · Holograph preface to Cowper's translation of Homer : 2 draft fragments : ca. 1790 : (MISC 3564) (MISC 3607). · Holograph translations of The Iliad : 2 bound volumes and 1 loose leaf : ca. 1784-1786 : -- (MISC 0662) : bound volume : 32 p. ; including book 11, and parts of books 10 and 12, with many corrections. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes. -- (MISC 0729) : bound volume : ca. 850 p. ; includes 15 complete books and 4 incomplete books (with 5 books missing). More than half of the volume, and the corrections to the remaining half, are in Cowper's hand. Tipped in at the front is a copy of the 1786 Proposals for Printing by Subscription a New Translation of the Iliad and Odyssey, with Cowper's manuscript annotations (MISC 0728). Shelved with bound manuscript volumes. -- (MISC 0850) : 1 p. ; in envelope : "Argument of Book 15" : with a note from Cowper's friend and publisher John Johnson, dated 10 Mar 1824, attesting that the leaf was presented to Mrs. F. C. Pratt of Peterborough. · Holograph corrections to the first edition of The Iliad : 2 bound volumes and 1 sheaf of unbound pages : -- (MISC 0726) : bound volume : 51 leaves. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes. -- (MISC 0727) : 19 p. ; in envelope. -- (MISC 0731) : bound volume : ca. 150 p. ; nearly all in Cowper's hand. Cowper's book-plate is mounted on the front paste-down. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes. · Holograph translation of The Odyssey : 24 Sep 1788 - 26 Aug 1789 : (MISC 0730) : bound volume : ca. 800 p. ; complete manuscript draft. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes. · Holograph corrections and variations of The Odyssey : 24 Jul [1798?] - 8 Mar 1799 : (MISC 0732) : 109 p. loose ; laid in a half-calf box. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes. · Holograph lines from The Odyssey, Book XIII : ca. 1790 : (MISC 3608) : with a note from John Johnson, dated 9 Jan 1828, attesting that the slip was presented to writer Hannah More. · Holograph chapter (fragment), Observations on St. John's Gospel : [no date] : (MISC 0851) : 3 p. folio. · Manuscript biography, "A Narrative of Cowper's Experience, Written by Himself" : 1821 : (MISC 4029) : 44 p., in an unknown hand. Includes a frontispiece pencil drawing of Cowper, signed "A. A. March 10th 1821." A pencil note on the first leaf states: "This ms. originally belonged to a vicar of Selby & [Orielton?] to whom it was given by a member of the Unwin family with whom Cowper was connected." Despite the title's claim, it is uncertain if Cowper was responsible for the content of this work. · To William Hayley, poet and biographer : 7 autograph letters signed : 1792-1793 : (MISC 0095-0101). · To Lady Hesketh (his cousin) : 5 autograph letters signed : (MISC 0091-0094) (MISC 3606) : 1788-1790 : on various subject including his translations of Homer, personal mattrers, the poetry of Burns, and Pitt's new plan regarding slave trade. (MISC 3606) incorporates two eight-line verses written for Mrs. Throckmorton. · To Joseph Johnson, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Sep 1788 : (MISC 0090) : on James Hurdis's Adriano, which Johnson had sent Cowper for his perusal. Includes 10 p. of holograph notes, entitled, "Remarks on Adriano" (MISC 0090a) and 4 p. of holograph corrections (MISC 0090b). · To Samuel Rose, lawyer : 2 autograph letters signed : 1791-1793 : (MISC 0656-0657).

ArchivalResource: 32 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/132680520 View

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

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/19353 View

Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774. [Letters and papers concerning the publication of the first four London editions of Goldsmith's animated nature], 1769-1816.

Title: [Letters and papers concerning the publication of the first four London editions of Goldsmith's animated nature], 1769-1816.

Manuscripts, in multiple hands, of bills, receipts, and notes concerning the plans for editions, number of volumes, type of paper, and engraving plates for Goldsmith's "Animated Nature" and "Natural History." The collection includes letters from Archibald Hamilton (1736-1793) to John Nourse (d.1780), Craven William Richards (fl. 1805) to Francis Wingrave, Joseph Johnson to Francis Wingrave, and John Aikin to Joseph Johnson, as well as a note from Charles Rivington and Francis Rivington (1745-1822). On the reverse side of a list of printing expenses is the printed title page of Vol. 4.

ArchivalResource: ca. 35 items (in 1 v.) ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702175506 View