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American Philosophical Society Archives, 1743-1984

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives 1743-1984

Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history. The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology.

ArchivalResource: 192.25 Linear feet

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Blount, William, 1749-1800. William Blount papers, 1783-1823.

Title: William Blount papers, 1783-1823.

Correspondence and documents relating to Blount's activities as a speculator in the Old Southwest from the 1780s to the period following the Blount conspiracy of 1797 and to his career as governor of the Tennessee territory and superintendent of the U.S. Southern Indian Dept. (1790-1796) and as U.S. senator from Tennessee (1796-1797). Includes papers (1803-1823) of Thomas and Willie Blount and Pleasant Moorman Miller. Correspondents include David Allison, Thomas Hart, Benjamin Hawkins, Robert Hays, John Haywood, James S. Holland, Andrew Jackson, Wyly Martin, Andrew Pickens, James Robertson, John Sevier, John Steele, and Hugh Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 80 items.1 container.1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70979840 View

Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819. ALS, 1800 November 29 : New York, to James McHenry, Baltimore.

Title: ALS, 1800 November 29 : New York, to James McHenry, Baltimore.

Concerns his attempts to find a quantity of hemp for a business in North Carolina. Concludes with rumors "that both you and Mr. Pickering propose a Publication versus the President as soon as the Election is over." Docketed by McHenry.

ArchivalResource: 1 1/2 p. ; 24 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14198321 View

Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers, 1941-1946

Title: Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers 1941-1946

The collection represents the working papers of the sub-committee: correspondence from members to, among others, Aaron Copland, Leonard Feist, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Erich Leinsdorf, Alan Lomax, and Walter Toscanini; song book pamphlets ("Army Hit Kits"), sheet music; non-music publications; and administrative papers.

ArchivalResource: circa 10,000 items; 45 boxes; 18 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu005002 View

Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819. Hugh Williamson papers, 1789.

Title: Hugh Williamson papers, 1789.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981383 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

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North Carolina. Constitutional Convention. Records of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention, 1788.

Title: Records of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention, 1788.

Collection of letters, petitions and resolutions relating to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Includes letters from Samuel Johnston, John Swann, and Hugh Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (7 items).1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71070629 View

Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822. Pierce Butler papers, 1779-1787.

Title: Pierce Butler papers, 1779-1787.

Notes of proceedings of the Constitutional Convention containing notes of remarks by Oliver Ellsworth, Benjamin Franklin, Elbridge Gerry, Alexander Hamilton, John Lansing, James Madison, William Paterson, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Edmund Randolph, John Rutledge, Roger Sherman, Hugh Williamson, and James Wilson; with printed drafts of the Constitution, notes, resolutions, and other material. Also, letter (1779 May) from Butler to Benjamin Lincoln.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79455344 View

Jones, Jo. Seawell (Joseph Seawell), 1811?-1855. Jo. Seawell Jones papers, 1832-1836 [manuscript].

Title: Jo. Seawell Jones papers, 1832-1836 [manuscript].

Letter to Jones from an executor of Hugh Williamson (1735-1819), member of Congress and of the Constitutional Convention and historian of North Carolina, describing the disposition of Williamson's papers; and five letters from William A. Graham (1804-1875) to Jones concerning political issues, social events, and Jones's work on a history of North Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24040686 View

James McHenry Papers, 1775-1862, (bulk 1775-1816)

Title: James McHenry Papers 1775-1862 (bulk 1775-1816)

United States secretary of war, member of the Continental Congress from Maryland, Continental Army officer, and physician. Correspondence, financial records, diary, and other papers relating to McHenry's service as United States secretary of war in the administrations of George Washington and John Adams; and as a Continental Army officer, particularly as secretary to George Washington and on the staff of the Marquis de Lafayette.

ArchivalResource: 3,600 items; 15 containers plus 1 oversize; 4.6 linear feet; 6 microfilm reels

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Royal Society (Great Britain). Miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818].

Title: Miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818].

This collection pertains to American Philosophical Society members and associations. Some of the subjects discussed are astronomy, botany, electricity, and natural history. Also included is Roger Curtis' "Journal of the Moravian Mission to Labrador."

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122464795 View

McHenry, James, 1753-1816. Papers, 1780-1814 and undated.

Title: Papers, 1780-1814 and undated.

ALS from John Morgan, on the court-martial of William Shippen, and from Hugh Williamson, relating to family matters. Papers include a draft of a bill, An act to regulate the medical establishment, and a holograph copy of a poem sent to the editor of the Morning Chronicle, on the occasion of the death of John B. Caldwell, McHenry's brother-in-law.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35161494 View

Brown family. Brown family : papers, 1799-1846.

Title: Brown family : papers, 1799-1846.

Papers consist of letters written by members of the John Brown family, mostly by Margaretta Brown, wife of the senator. The heaviest concentration of the letters is for the periods 1799-1802, 1818-1819, and 1837-1838. The correspondence deals mainly with family matters. The health and education of their sons, Mason and Orlando Brown, are frequent topics, and there are scattered references to political and diplomatic affairs.

ArchivalResource: 56 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46737478 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa, 1743-1806

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa 1743-1806

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, 1743-1984

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives 1743-1984

Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history. The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology.

ArchivalResource: 192.25 Linear feet

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Jethro Sumner Papers, 1775-1791, (bulk 1781-1782)

Title: Jethro Sumner Papers, 1775-1791 (bulk 1781-1782)

Jethro Sumner (1733?-1785) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army. Sumner served in the Virginia militia,1755-1761; was justice of the peace, 1768, and sheriff, 1772-1777, of Bute (now Warren) County, N.C.; and was colonel of the 3rd Battalion, North Carolina Continentals, 1776-1778, and brigadier-general 1779-1780. The collection contains Revolutionary War military correspondence of Continental Brigadier General Jethro Sumner. The bulk of the collection relates to the period 1781-1782, when Sumner was raising troops for General Nathanael Greene, whom he reinforced at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, and while he was in charge of forces in North Carolina. Letters are chiefly concerned with strategic matters including reports on engagements and the movement of British forces, procurement of arms and supplies, and issues of manpower including drafting of men and desertion. A few items pertain to his earlier service in the North. Among the correspondents are Martin Armstrong, Reading Blount, Thomas Burke, John B. Ashe,Baron Steuben, Alexander Martin, Benjamin Lincoln, Nathanael Greene, John Alexander Lillington, William Christmas, William R. Davie, Thomas Eaton, Joseph Hewes, Willie Jones, Nicholas Long, James Cole Mountflorence, Benjamin Seawell, H. Tatum, and Hugh Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 390 items)

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Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819. [Letter] 1791 Jan. 5, Philda. [to] James McEvens / Hu. Williamson.

Title: [Letter] 1791 Jan. 5, Philda. [to] James McEvens / Hu. Williamson.

Williamson writes to McEvens after a visit by Charles McEvens in regards to North Carolina securities and the state's lottery tickets. McEvens either replies, or drafts a reply, on the folded-half sheet. This reply is dated 1791 Jan. 8, N. York.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/491419997 View

Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818], Circa 1642-1818

Title: Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818] Circa 1642-1818

Letters collected by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., including correspondence and papers submitted to the Society. Pertains to APS members and associations. Includes letters by Franklin, Winthrop, Endecott, Eliot, etc. Scientific and historical references, primarily. Some of the subjects discussed are astronomy, botany, electricity, natural history, and Indian missions. Also included is Roger Curtis' "Journal of the Moravian Mission to Labrador."

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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Woolmer, J. Howard. J. Howard Woolmer Poetry bookshop collection, 1961-1967.

Title: J. Howard Woolmer Poetry bookshop collection, 1961-1967.

The Poetry bookshop collection was assembled by bookseller J. Howard Woolmer in the course of compiling: The Poetry Bookshop, 1912-1935, A Bibliography. The collection consists largely of Woolmer's research material and pre-publication drafts of the bibliography. However, there is a group of nearly 100 letters from British authors and colleagues of Harold Monro addressed to Joy Grant during the course of her work on: Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. Correspondents, most of whom were published by Monro at the Poetry Bookshop, include J. R. Ackerley, Conrad Aiken, Edmund Blunden, T.S. Eliot, John Masefield, Herbert Read, Eleanor Farjeon, Alec Waugh, Leonard Woolf, Richard Aldington and others. The Conrad Aiken material consists of two typed, signed letters from Aiken to Joy Grant, dated 23 Aug 1961 and 31 Oct 1962.

ArchivalResource: 4 document boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313871216 View