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Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849. Papers, 1258-1947 (bulk 1780-1849).

Title: Papers, 1258-1947 (bulk 1780-1849).

Personal and official correspondence, wills, deeds, pamphlets, notes, speeches, drafts, land papers, commissions, marriage certificates, wax bas-relief portraits, historical snuff boxes, medals, watercolor portraits, engravings, and other papers of Gallatin and his family (1258-1947). Reflected in the collection are his early years as a Swiss immigrant, his life on the Pennsylvania frontier, his service as a Senator and Congressman from that state from 1784 to 1801, his work as Secretary of the Treasury during 1801-1814, and his later career as a diplomat. There is also genealogical material on the Gallatin family, including source documents.

ArchivalResource: 44.3 linear ft.

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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux manuscript material : 15 items, 1802-1859

Title: Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux manuscript material : 15 items 1802-1859

To John Allen, political and historical writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 14 Jul 1816 (B'ANA 0319), on Paris, Switzerland, Lord Byron and Madame de Stael : "Lord Byron lives on the other side of the lake, shunned by all - both English and Genevese except Mad. Stael - who can't resist a little celebrity.".

ArchivalResource: 15 items

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Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Fragmens inédits ... [etc.], after 1810.

Title: Fragmens inédits ... [etc.], after 1810.

ArchivalResource: 248 leaves : paper ; 191 x 112 (152 x 81) mm. bound to 198 x 126.

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Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louis-Germaine), 1766-1817. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, [no year] May 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, [no year] May 28.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

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Anthony, Louisa. [Commonplace book], [1835 or later].

Title: [Commonplace book], [1835 or later].

Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred prose extracts and verses on such primarily sentimental or lighthearted subjects as love, flowers, friendship, and nature. In addition to several poems about albums, the volume includes several poems addressed to Louisa, the owner of the album, including one in French to "Louise Anthony." Other poems include those by George Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Robert Pollok, and Charles Swain. The collection also contains numerous aphorisms by Scott, Samuel Coleridge, Madame de Stael, William Cowper, and Maria Edgeworth, on topics such as society, simplicity, censure, truth, genius, and good breeding, as well as a prose piece titled Church Bells by Douglas Jerrold. Also included in the volume are a humorous dictionary; a page of Hebrew writing; epigrams; a chart titled Key to the Egyptian Hieroglyphicks; a list of botanical emblems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; a Recipe for making poetry; and a poem signed Louisa titled One o'clock, a Manchester poem. Interspersed throughout the manuscript are numerous drawings, watercolor sketches, and engravings. These include a watercolor of two open pages of a book which describe the task of an author; a colored pencil drawing of a chart illustrating Dante's Inferno; colored ink drawings of fruits, butterflies and birds; and an ink drawing of a pastoral scene. Many of the drawings are annotated with the names of their creators.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (174 p.) : ill. ; 28 x 21 cm.

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter, 1818 December 21, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia] to [William] Short, n.p.

Title: Letter, 1818 December 21, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia] to [William] Short, n.p.

Received a copy of Madame de Staël's Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution franc̦aise, which he considers "superlative"; the proposal for the University of Virginia is under review by the legislature, and Jefferson hopes the state's endowment will be sufficient to pay for the library and other buildings.

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

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Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Gerando, a French philosopher and statesman, [n.d.] "Thursday morning".

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Gerando, a French philosopher and statesman, [n.d.] "Thursday morning".

Complaining about an unpleasant conversation she had with Gerando's friend and the fever which ensued, feeling lonely, and asking him to visit her that morning.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868. Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux manuscript material : 10 items

Title: Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux manuscript material : 10 items

· To John Allen, political and historical writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 14 Jul 1816 (B'ANA 0319), on Paris, Switzerland, Lord Byron and Madame de Stael : "Lord Byron lives on the other side of the lake, shunned by all - both English and Genevese except Mad. Stael - who can't resist a little celebrity." · To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Sep 1837 (MISC 3507), begins, "I have at last heard from Norway ..." · To an S. C. Kenning : 1 autograph note : 12 Jun 1851 (MISC 0428), third person, in reply to an application for a government post. · To Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician : 1 autograph letter signed : [watermark = 1842] (MISC 0432), in French, on political subjects. · To Henry John Temple [?], third Viscount Palmerston, prime minister : 1 autograph letter signed : 21 May 1859 9MISC 0429), regarding revision of the Versailles Treaty of 1815. The letter is addressed to "My dear Mr. P." -- the identity of the recipient is not certain. · To a Jean Richardson in Paris : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Jan 1802 (MISC 0435), eight pages in French. The letter is addressed to Richardson at the home of Mons. Perregaux. · To unknown recipients : 4 autograph letters signed : ca. 1830-1849 (MISC 0430)-(MISC 0431), (MISC 0433)-(MISC 0434), mostly regarding appointments.

ArchivalResource: 10 items

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Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Letter : [Geneva], to Amélie Fabri, [Geneva], [ca. 1808-1809].

Title: Letter : [Geneva], to Amélie Fabri, [Geneva], [ca. 1808-1809].

Autograph letter signed. Madame de Staël writes that she hopes to visit Amélie Fabri who is not well.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 20 cm.

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Viotti, Giovanni Battista, 1755-1824. Viotti correspondence, ca. 1793-ca. 1822.

Title: Viotti correspondence, ca. 1793-ca. 1822.

The collection consists of 3 undated letters and 12 dated letters from Viotti (1801-1821), all in French ; 20 undated and 34 dated letters (1793-1822) to Viotti and several others from various correspondents, chiefly in French with several letters in English or Italian. The earliest dated letter (1793) is from Pugnani. Muzio Clementi, Johann Dussek, and Ferdinando Pae̋r are represented by one letter each. Two unsigned notes are attributed to Mme. de Staël, and 2 unsigned letters, to Stéphanie Félicité Genlis, the author of La duchesse de La Vallière. One letter is signed "Albertine de Staël" (duchesse de Broglie). Several items in 1821 relate to Viotti's having been named Chevalier de l'Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur. Many letters are from and to the Chinnery family with little musical content. Viotti often signed letters "Amico" or "L'amico."

ArchivalResource: Originals: .16 cu. ft.Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830).

Title: George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830).

The George Gordon Byron papers consist of manuscripts, letters, an account book, engravings, handwritten musical scores, wills and other documents, and clippings, all ranging in date from 1642 to 1968, with the majority dating from 1798-1830. While most of the manuscripts in the Works series are in Byron's hand, some are copies in the hand of his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, and other persons. Typescript copies are also present. Among Byron's manuscripts are Cain, A Mystery; Canto VIII and Canto IX of Don Juan; The Island: Or, Christian and His Comrades; Ode to Napoléon Buonaparte; Sardanapolus; and The Siege of Corinth. English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers is represented by a handwritten fragment by Byron, as well as a bound copy in an unidentified hand; an 1817 bound copy in an unidentified hand of the fourth edition; and a printed book interleaved with pasted-in autographs, manuscript notes, portraits of well-known authors, and copies of poems about Byron dating from 1812-1819. Many of Byron's short poems are present, including "Childish Recollections," "I Saw Thee Weep," "To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics," and "To E.N. Long." Also included are an account book dating from 1819 to 1820, with additional entries by Teresa Guiccioli, and a draft and final copy of Byron's 1811 will. The Correspondence series is divided into two subseries: A. Letters, 1806-1831, undated; and B. Bound Letters, 1798-1832, 1859, undated. Most of the correspondence consists of outgoing letters from Byron. Series III., Third Party Correspondence and Manuscripts, includes letters and manuscript poems by Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron; correspondence by Catherine Gordon Byron; musical manuscripts by Thomas Hastings, including the opera he composed based on Byron's Manfred; and a manuscript by Elizabeth Bridget Pigot of "The Wonderful History of Lord Byron & His Dog," as well as correspondence by other individuals. Within numbered miscellaneous groups, there are letters from Augusta Leigh to Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Francis Hodgson, and other persons; letters regarding Byron's birth; letters from Teresa Guiccioli regarding Byron; a bound collection of poems, articles, and other materials relating to Byron;, and letters from Anne Isabella Milbanke Bryon, primarily to her friend Harriet Siddons. A complete Index of Correspondents in the Byron archive is located at the end of the finding aid. All works by Byron and others are listed in an Index of Works.

ArchivalResource: 8 document boxes, 1 bound v., 7 oversize boxes, 3 oversize folders (6.3 linear feet)

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834. Papers, 1457-1990 (bulk: 1736-1880)

Title: Marquis de Lafayette Papers 1457-1990 (bulk 1736-1880)

Soldier and statesman. Correspondence, letterbooks, writings, speeches, reports, minutes, notes, military records, financial and legal documents, family papers, broadsides, and other papers relating chiefly to the Marquis de Lafayette's military, political, and private life, as well as to French and American history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Subjects include Lafayette's involvement in the American Revolution and in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830, his imprisonment in Prussian and Austrian jails (1792-1797), and his dealings with French and American political figures and with leaders of revolutionary movements in other countries.

ArchivalResource: 64 microfilm reels (34.5 linear feet, 25,000 items)

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Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01442/catalog View

Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856. Lutezia : no. 10 : manuscript, 1840 May 30.

Title: Lutezia : no. 10 : manuscript, 1840 May 30.

Concerns Napoleons' critics, chiefly Chateaubriand, Madame de Staël and Lamartine.

ArchivalResource: 8 p. ; 26 cm.

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Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louis-Germaine), 1766-1817. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, [no year] June 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, [no year] June 28.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (12mo)

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Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Letter, [1815? April 19, Paris?], to Baron de Bonstetten, [n.p.].

Title: Letter, [1815? April 19, Paris?], to Baron de Bonstetten, [n.p.].

Thanks for his book; comments on it. Ticknor's note of the provenance of the letter included.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 20 cm.

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Voght, C. (Caspar), Freiherr von, 1752-1839. Autograph letters signed (5) autograph letters signed with initial or not signed (9) : Sécherons, etc., to Mme. de Pastoret, [1808?] July 13-1812 Nov. 1-2.

Title: Autograph letters signed (5) autograph letters signed with initial or not signed (9) : Sécherons, etc., to Mme. de Pastoret, [1808?] July 13-1812 Nov. 1-2.

Concerning Switzerland, travels, his personal affairs and charitable work, and mentioning Mme. de Staël and Pestalozzi.

ArchivalResource: 14 items (84 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270585744 View

Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Letter, 1813.

Title: Letter, 1813.

Item clarifies several business transactions carried out with the New York shipping and banking firm LeRoy, Bayard and McEvers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213470912 View

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834. Papers, 1457-1990 (bulk: 1736-1880)

Title: Marquis de Lafayette Papers 1457-1990 (bulk 1736-1880)

Soldier and statesman. Correspondence, letterbooks, writings, speeches, reports, minutes, notes, military records, financial and legal documents, family papers, broadsides, and other papers relating chiefly to the Marquis de Lafayette's military, political, and private life, as well as to French and American history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Subjects include Lafayette's involvement in the American Revolution and in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830, his imprisonment in Prussian and Austrian jails (1792-1797), and his dealings with French and American political figures and with leaders of revolutionary movements in other countries.

ArchivalResource: 64 microfilm reels (34.5 linear feet, 25,000 items)

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Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817. Papers, 1757-1836.

Title: Papers, 1757-1836.

The correspondence of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours covers his entire public career - particularly his involvement with the Physiocratic movement in pre-revolutionary France. The letters from Anne-Robert Turgot represent one of the most significant parts of the collection as they relate to Du Pont de Nemours' career as a governmental official prior to the French Revolution. The collection also describes his settlement in the United States and his later diplomatic career after the fall of Napoleon. Included in the letters is the earliest known one sent by Benjamin Franklin, the first American with whom Du Pont de Nemours had any associations. There is also correspondence with Mirabeau, Napoleon, Talleyrand, Vergennes, Voltaire, and Jacques Necker. The letters from Jacques Necker describe economic conditions during the last years of the ancien régime and the process by which Louis XVI formulated the royal budget. There is also an exchange of letters between Thomas Jefferson and Du Pont de Nemours.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370804 View

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834. Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, 1520-1849.

Title: Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, 1520-1849.

Manuscripts, correspondence, documents, broadsides, microfilms, objects, and graphics by, to or about Lafayette and his family, with family documents extending back to 1520 and through the death of Georges Washington Lafayette in 1849. Includes texts of Lafayette's speeches, his commentary on public events, material compiled for inclusion in his memoirs, financial statements, letters he wrote to his wife from America during the Revolution, letters he wrote while imprisoned in Austria (1792-1797); many letters from foreign correspondents on the progress of liberal causes in their countries, including letters from leaders of the Italian revolutionary movement; notes concerning the Belgian revolution, letters and documents on his involvement in the Italian and Polish revolutions, and documents concerning the management of family business affairs, including the management of the family estates. Also included are objects from the Lafayette estate, including two clocks and a life mask of the Marquis de Lafayette by Pierre Houdon (on loan from the Johnson Art Museum). Correspondents include: Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles Lafayette (Lafayette's wife), Georges Washington Lafayette (Lafayette's son), Philippe Beauchet, the Princesse d'Hénin, Thomas Pinckney, Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, Madame de Staël, Mary Shelley, Jeremy Bentham, Robert Owen, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, John Adams, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Jared Sparks, Emma Willard, and Frances Wright. Also, videotapes and DVDs of films in which Lafayette appears as a character: "Lafayette," "Reign of Terror," "America," "Jefferson in Paris," "The Black Book," "Marie Antoinette," and "The Howards of Virginia." These are cataloged individually.

ArchivalResource: 49.3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63936469 View

Commencement addresses, [ca. 1857-1879].

Title: Commencement addresses, [ca. 1857-1879].

The collection contains two commencement addresses delivered at southern women's colleges on two different dates. Based on references made in the texts, the first (27-page) address was probably written between 1856 and 1860, the second (15 pages) between 1865 and 1879. It is possible that the works were composed by the same author and delivered at the same institution. Both speeches point out that the graduates' formal education was intended to train their minds to be more "masculine." However, the writer notes that as women, especially as Southern women, the graduates must assert their future mental endeavors in support of their work within the private sphere of the home (as caregivers and as the guardians of moral order), rather than use their accomplishments as the basis for public work--since the public sphere is rightfully dominated by men. The writer affirms these sex-roles differences as natural, divinely inspired, and culturally supported, although he outlines the work that nineteenth-century feminists are doing to challenge this acceptance. The writer discusses the following topics in support of his argument: Madame de Stael̈; Florence Nightengale; Joan of Arc; Lady Jane Grey; the 1855 epidemic of yellow fever in Norfolk, Virginia; and scientific advances in astronomy and geology.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46888503 View

Renfrew, Esther A., 1897-1985. Madame de Staël : a collection of miscellaneous materials relating to her life, work, and contemporaries, and to the Société des Etudes Staëliennes / collected mostly by Esther A. Renfrew [Paddock].

Title: Madame de Staël : a collection of miscellaneous materials relating to her life, work, and contemporaries, and to the Société des Etudes Staëliennes / collected mostly by Esther A. Renfrew [Paddock]. 1900-

Magazine articles, essays, pamphlets, programs, photographs, and notices, some signed by the Comtesse de Pange. Mostly French; some English materials.

ArchivalResource: 1 upright file ; ca. 1 1/2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15650203 View

Portrait file: Guide.

Title: Portrait file: Guide.

The Portrait File is an alphabetically arranged collection of portait images of individuals, groups of individuals, and views and miscellany, received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01675/catalog View

Ingram, John Henry, 1842-1916. Letters to John H. Ingram on literary subjects, particularly on Edgar Allan Poe [manuscript] 1874-1902.

Title: Letters to John H. Ingram on literary subjects, particularly on Edgar Allan Poe [manuscript] 1874-1902.

In addition to Poe, literary subjects discussed included John Hamilton Reynolds, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mme. de Staël, Mirabeau, Mary Lamb and Madame Roland. Correspondents include Davenport Adams, Mrs. George L. Banks, Mathilde Blind, Oswald Crawfurd, T. F. Dillon Croker, Henry Curwen, Dame Millicent Fawcett, H. Buxton Forman, Anne Gilchrist, S.C. Hall, Joseph Hatton, Andrew Lang, Emile Lauvrière, Sir John Lubbock, Violet Paget (Lee Vernon), L. Quiller Couch, W.M. Rossetti, G. Barnett Smith, A.J. Symington, and Moy Thomas.

ArchivalResource: 44 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647966982 View

Stäel, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Autograph letters (5) signed : to Frances Burney, (Mme. D'Arblay), 1793-1802.

Title: Autograph letters (5) signed : to Frances Burney, (Mme. D'Arblay), 1793-1802.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270580231 View

Stäel, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Autograph letter signed : Cuppet, to the Countess d'Albany (wife of the Young Pretender) whom she addresses as "ma chere Souveraine", 1816 Aug. 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Cuppet, to the Countess d'Albany (wife of the Young Pretender) whom she addresses as "ma chere Souveraine", 1816 Aug. 14.

Giving news of various personages.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 3/4 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270574655 View

Amy Lowell autograph collection, 1523-1930. Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to [Mary] Berry; Bourges, 1843 September 1.

Title: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to [Mary] Berry; Bourges, 1843 September 1.

Autograph letters and manuscripts of authors, artists, and others collected by the American poet Amy Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01636/catalog View

Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822,. Miscellaneous portraits and caricatures collected by Eva Maria Garrick from the cabinet in the Chintz Room at Hampton [manuscript], 1822 November 6.

Title: Miscellaneous portraits and caricatures collected by Eva Maria Garrick from the cabinet in the Chintz Room at Hampton [manuscript], 1822 November 6.

Title and date (shortly after Mrs. Garrick's death) taken from paper wrapper. Includes 1) paper cutouts with hanging hearts; 2) poem, first line: This heart is chequered so is Life; 3) poem, first line: Accept this chequerd Heart; 5-7) sketches (7) has couplet, Go thou modest Picture done, claim a frame..., signed by Francis Fuquet 1754; 8) engraved packet containing sand from Loreto; 11) tickets for theater at Wynnstay; 15-25) silhouettes, identified as George III (2), the Queen, Madame Necker, Madame de Stael, Archdeacon Hull, Sir George Thomas Staunton, bart., Mr. Dutens, Mahomed-allly Khan Nabob of Arcot, Dr. James Lind, Mr. Paine.

ArchivalResource: 25 items : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281632126 View

Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Corinne, or Italy : manuscript / translated from the French of Mad[ame] de Staël-Holstein by H[enry] H[oughton] Young, 1829.

Title: Corinne, or Italy : manuscript / translated from the French of Mad[ame] de Staël-Holstein by H[enry] H[oughton] Young, 1829.

Unpublished English translation in 3 volumes of Madame de Staël's novel on the travels in Italy of the half-English, half-Italian protagonist Corinne. Copied at Ann's Terrace (London) over several months in 1829 (dates at end of each volume and on title page). Includes a signed dedication to Elizabeth Cundall at the beginning of the first volume. Engraved frontispieces and illustrations bound in, including Italian scenes and antiquities, a portrait of Madame de Staël, and an illustration of Corinne.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778556986 View

Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Madame de Staël letters, ca. 1813.

Title: Madame de Staël letters, ca. 1813.

Madame de Staël writes [to her editor?] about the changes she has made in the preface; she asks if he can wait for her to write a new apology for her novel Delphine [paper watermarked Ivy Mill, 1813]. She writes to Mr. [Douglas] Kinnaird, ca. 1813, that she would be pleased to go and look at some pictures with him [paper watermarked Umphelby & Olding].

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49014726 View

Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Letter, [1815?], to Count Rumfort [sic].

Title: Letter, [1815?], to Count Rumfort [sic].

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 19 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237320625 View

William Godwin manuscript material : 383 items, 1778-1836

Title: William Godwin manuscript material : 383 items 1778-1836

William Godwin, English philosopher and novelist. Godwin achieved celebrity at the end of the eighteenth century with the philosophical treatise Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and the novel Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams. His first wife was Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneer for women's rights, and their only child together grew up to become Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Godwin's philosophies greatly influenced the political mind of his son-in-law, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The William Godwin manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, promissory notes, and various other documents. The writings include: complete holograph manuscript drafts of his works Fleetwood, Coludesley, and Lives of the Necromancers; manuscript drafts of essays from his Enquirer; and proof revisions written in volumes of his Political Justice and St. Leon. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1795-1834 and mostly discusses Godwin's research, business matters and financial arrangements. Correspondents include: Mary Shelley, novelist (his daughter); Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (his son-in-law); Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet; and over one hundred others. The promissory notes date from between 1804-1818, and are mostly to neighborhood merchants. Other documents include library call slips, memos of agreement for business deals, and Godwin's last will and testament.

ArchivalResource: 383 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/21908 View

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, 1245-1931

Title: Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, 1245-1931

The Lafayette Collection contains materials by, to or about Lafayette and his family, with family documents extending back to 1245 and through the death of Georges Washington Lafayette in 1849. The series "Medals and Coins" covers a century and a half, up to 1931. The collection includes the oldest existing letter from Lafayette (1772), long missives he sent to his wife from America during the Revolution, other letters he wrote while imprisoned in Austria (1792-1797) and during his 1824-5 trip to the USA; texts of Lafayette's speeches, his commentary on public events, material compiled for inclusion in his memoirs, financial statements ; many letters from foreign correspondents on the progress of liberal causes in their countries, including letters from leaders of the Italian revolutionary movement; notes concerning the Belgian revolution, letters and documents on his involvement in the Italian and Polish revolutions, and documents concerning the management of family business affairs, including the management of the family estates. Some of the more remarkable documents were put on display for the exhibition "Lafayette, Citizen of Two Worlds" (October 2007-May 2008), whose electronic version is now accessible online http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/.

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Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817. ALS : Paris, France, to Pierre Fourcault de Pavant, 1805 Nov. 14.

Title: ALS : Paris, France, to Pierre Fourcault de Pavant, 1805 Nov. 14.

Concerns affairs of Du Pont de Nemours, Père et Fils & Cie. Du Pont de Nemours has given Fourcault power of attorney and wants to clear all company expenses without upsetting Madame de Staël. He wants to pay off Louis Necker de Germany and get him out of the company, but is ambivalent as to what he owes Necker.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81682908 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter, 1807 December 3, Washington [D.C.] to Le Ray de Chaumont, n.p.

Title: Letter, 1807 December 3, Washington [D.C.] to Le Ray de Chaumont, n.p.

Acknowledges the receipt of de Chaumont's letter of Nov. 26 along with Corinne of Madame de Stael; apologizes for not acknowledging the receipt of de Chaumont's letter of July 12; says that press of public business prevented him from doing so.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 25 cm. x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62285808 View