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Browning, Irving, 1895-1961. Autograph Collection, 1678-1966.

Title: Autograph Collection, 1678-1966.

This is a collection of approximately 215 original manuscript documents, including 125 letters of New York City mayors and 28 signature cards of same and 51 letters and 13 signature cards of New York State governors. The outside dates of the collection are the late 18th century to the mid-20th century. Every important mayor and governor is represented in the collection. he major portion of the collection includes official documents such as bail bonds, deeds, sermons, testimony, bonds and correspondence. Some interesting individual items are a letter from James Duane to Philip Livingston in 1782 regarding appointments, Richard Varick's order to French sailors in 1793 to turn in their arms, and letters of Philip Hone, Fernando Wood, Robert Troup, William Gaynor, Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Wagner, and John V. Lindsay among others. The governor's portion includes both official documents and correspondence. They include such items as ship oaths, Council of Revision orders by George Clinton, appointments, letters by Hamilton Fish, Horatio Seymour, Lord Cornbury, Morgan Lewis, Horatio Seymour, Edwin Morgan, Reuben Fenton, Alfred E. Smith, Averell Harriman, Nelson Rockefeller among others. Interesting is a letter of Pierre Van Cortlandt to the Assembly in 1780 concerning the provision of ammunition.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.25 cubic ft.)

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Vivarès, François, 1709-1780. Kenilworth Castle, from the South; Situate between Warwick and Coventry; / belongs to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Clarendon & Rochester. To whom this Plate is inscribed by his Lordships most hum Serv.t T. Smith. [graphic] T. Smith Pinx ; F. Vivares Sculp.

Title: Kenilworth Castle, from the South; Situate between Warwick and Coventry; / belongs to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Clarendon & Rochester. To whom this Plate is inscribed by his Lordships most hum Serv.t T. Smith. [graphic] T. Smith Pinx ; F. Vivares Sculp. [between 1740 and 1753].

View of castle ruins with cattle grazing in field, two men discussing the scene from a path behind a fence in the foreground, upon which a couple walk in the direction of entrance at right, a single man and a man with a woman with child carrying a basket beyond. Undated, but dedicated to the Earl of Clarendon and Rochester - Henry Hyde succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Rochester on 2 May 1711 and his cousin as 4th Earl of Clarendon on 31 March 1723. His death in 1753 came six months after that of his only surviving son, resulting in the extinction of both earldoms. The British Museum hold a later edition of this print republished by John Boydell in 1769, at 1877,0619.1940.

ArchivalResource: 1 print: etching and engraving; 392 x 544 mm.

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Hyde, Henry Hyde, Baron, 1710-1753. On ye Essay on man : manuscript in Alexander Pope's hand : [Twickenham], ca. 1735 Oct. 8.

Title: On ye Essay on man : manuscript in Alexander Pope's hand : [Twickenham], ca. 1735 Oct. 8.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.), bound ; 22.8 cm.

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Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Title: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

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

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

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