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Joseph Priestley was an English clergyman, political theorist, and physical scientist whose work contributed to advances in liberal political and religious thought and in experimental chemistry. He is best remembered for his contribution to the chemistry of gases. He relocated to Northumberland, Pa.
Priestley and Vaughan, amongst others, founded the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia (see Ms. Coll. 167).
Joseph Priestley was a scientist, chemist and Unitarian theologian. He is best known as the discoverer of oxygen.
English theologian and man of science.
Croation by birth, mathematian and natural philosopher, Rudjer Josip Boskovic spent most of his life in Rome and Milan, but also lived briefly in Paris and London.
Joseph Priestley was an English theologian and scientist. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1784.
Epithet: theologian and scientist
Joseph Priestley was an educator, scientist, and theologian.
Physician Joseph Carson taught medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The College of Philadelphia's Medical School, founded in 1765, became known as the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Medicine In 1779.
Clergyman, educator, and chemist.
Joseph Priestley was a dissenting clergyman, theologian and scientist known for his work in chemistry, electricity, natural philosophy, and on the phlogiston (oxygen) question. After his home near Birmingham, England, was destroyed by rioters in 1791, he published a broadside addressed to the inhabitants of Birmingham and an "Appeal" on the riots. In 1792 Priestley and his son Joseph were awarded French citizenship, which Priestley accepted. However, he declined an offer to become a member of the French National Assembly. After living in London for a time, the Priestleys emigrated to the United States in 1794 and settled in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. With his friend John Vaughan and a few other noted Pennsylvnians, Priestley founded the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.
John Wilkinson was Dr. Priestley's brother-in-law and a merchant in England. He writes about business matters and finding positions for Priestley's sons, Joseph and William.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), scientist and philosopher, left England in 1794 and moved to Northcumberland, Pa.
Credited with the discovery of oxygen, he is also the founder of the Unitarian Church in Pennsylvania.
As scientist, Unitarian controversialist, and proponent of republican values, Joseph Priestley exerted enormous influence in English and American intellectual circles, though his life ended in decline and isolation. Born into middling circumstances in Yorkshire, Priestley was raised by well to do relatives who had fallen under the sway of dissenting doctrine. A promising student, he prepared for the ministry, but as a result of ill health and his unpalatable religious affiliations he was prevented from entering either Oxford or Cambridge, choosing instead to attend the dissenting academy at Daventry.
Receiving his degree in 1755, Priestley discovered that his road into the ministry was hampered by his unorthodox views and unfortunate voice, and while filling a minor pulpit, he found that his first real taste of success came instead in teaching. By 1761, his reputation as an educator had grown to such an extent that he was offered the position of Professor of Languages at the prestigious Warrington Academy, and the next year his life improved further when he was ordained and married Mary Wilkinson, daughter of a Welsh ironmaster. In education as in religion, Priestley's approach was insistently unorthodox. He introduced the study of modern history, law, economics, and social sciences into the standard curriculum, and although he left Warrington in 1767 to return to the more stable income of the ministry, accepting an appointment in Leeds, his reputation as a scholar and scientist had grown enormously. At Leeds, he became acquainted with Benjamin Franklin who encouraged his electrical experimentation, and Priestley's work on light and vision found a wide readership.
By 1773, Priestley had attracted the attention of William Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne (1737-1805), and was offered a position in the Earl's household as tutor, librarian, and companion. The grandson of the great scientist of the same name, Shelburne was a prominent politician, a future Prime Minister, and a magnanimous patron. Through him, Priestley not only achieved financial security, but gained entrée into the highest of Britain's intellectual, social, and scientific circles. At Bowood, Shelburne's estate, Priestley pursued the implications of a paper he had presented to the Royal Society in 1772, "On Different Kinds of Air," and thus laid the foundation of his international reputation as a chemist. In his book, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air (1774), he built upon the work of Joseph Black and James Cavendish to identify nine distinct gases, three of which were previously unknown. Most famously, on August 1, 1774, he produced "dephlogisticated air" - oxygen -- by heating red mercuric oxide, demonstrating beyond cavil that air was not an element. In isolating oxygen, Priestley noted its importance in combustion, but clung to a belief in phlogistic theory until the end of his life, becoming, at the end, the last important chemist of that stripe. Ironically, it was his isolation of oxygen, particularly as pursued by Antoine Lavoisier, that became the nail in the phlogistic coffin. His scientific work earned Priestley admission into the French Academy of Sciences in 1772, the St. Petersburg Academy in 1780, and through Franklin, to the American Philosophical Society in 1784.
During the later 1770s, divisions between Priestley and Shelburne deteriorated over Priestley's support for the American cause during the Revolution and over his unorthodox religious views. While the two remained cordial, Priestley left the Shelburne home in 1780 and settled at Birmingham, near his brother-in-law, John Wilkinson. Whereas his scientific work had flourished at Bowood, his religious writings flourished in Birmingham, and he became a leading dissenting voice, assailing the corruptions of the Anglican hierarchy and Trinitarianism, and beginning the enduring association with Unitarianism that he considered his true life's work. At Birmingham he was also drawn into the Lunar Society, an engaging, salon-like group of enlightened minds that included Erasmus Darwin, James Watt, and Matthew Boulton.
The halcyon days in Birmingham, however, were not to last. Priestley's religious and political views conspired to ensure his supreme unpopularity during the shifting political tides of the French Revolutionary era, and he became a lightning rod for the government-inspired backlash against republicanism and "radicalism" of all sorts. The wrath of the mob was turned against him directly during the Birmingham riots of July, 1791, when his house, library, and laboratory were set aflame. Taking refuge with William Vaughan, brother of John and Benjamin, Priestley whisked his children out of the country and in April, 1794, finally abandoned England himself for the United States.
Priestley and his wife, Mary, settled in the relatively remote town of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, 150 miles west of Philadelphia, initially imaging that he could enjoy the country life and yet travel into the metropolis for intellectual stimulation. Little, however, went as Priestley had planned. His plans of establishing a community at Northumberland devoted to religious and political freedom were unavailing, travel into Philadelphia proved far too difficult, and in his rural remove he was only barely able to continue his scientific research. If it cannot be traced to Birmingham, Priestley's protracted decline began in 1795 and 1796 when he lost his son and wife successively, and thereafter he was never in complete health himself. Furthermore, Priestley was no more immune in the United States than he had been in England to ill political winds. When his friend, Thomas Cooper, was arrested for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts, Priestley was suspected of aiding and abetting, and although his deportation was prevented by the intervention of his friend John Adams, he became a preferred target for the literary quills of Peter Porcupine, William Cobbett. Although Priestley continued to serve in the Unitarian pulpit and wrote on religious matters for several years more, his last scientific work (on the long-abandonded phlogiston) was published in 1796. He died after a brief illness on February 6, 1804, and is buried in the Quaker cemetery in Northumberland.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804, APS 1785) was a British radical theologian, scientist and political philosopher, who exerted enormous influence in English and American intellectual circles. Priestley is of often credited with the discovery of oxygen. His defense of phlogiston theory and rejection of what came to be known as the Chemical Revolution contributed to his isolation from the scientific community in his later life. His heterodox religious views subjected him to persecutions that eventually compelled him to emigrate to the United States, where he spent the last decade of his life.
Priestley was born in Birstall, Yorkshire, in 1733. His parents were Jonas Priestley, a finisher of cloth, and his wife Mary Swift. He was raised by prosperous relatives who had fallen under the sway of dissenting doctrine. A promising student, he attended local schools where he studied the ancient languages. His guardians intended to prepare the precocious boy for the ministry. As a result of ill health and his unpalatable religious affiliations he was prevented from entering either Oxford or Cambridge, choosing instead to attend the dissenting academy at Daventry.
After receiving his degree in 1755, Priestley discovered that his road into the ministry was hampered by a stutter and, more importantly, his unorthodox views. His call to the Dissenting parish of Needham Market, Suffolk, turned out to be disappointing for both him and his parishioners, many of who were critical of his heterodoxy and therefore refused to attend his services and send their children to be educated by him. In 1758 he moved to another parish, Nantwich, Cheshire, where the congregation proved more accepting of his views as well as his talents as a teacher. Priestley opened a school in which he taught natural philosophy, and he also wrote The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761). By 1761, his reputation as an educator had grown to such an extent that he was offered the position of Professor of Languages at the prestigious Warrington Academy. The next year he was ordained and married Mary Wilkinson, daughter of a Welsh ironmaster. In education as in religion, Priestley's approach was insistently unorthodox. He introduced the study of modern history, law, economics, and social sciences into the standard curriculum, and he published several works on these topics, including Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life (1765), in which he challenged the benefits of traditional classical education by arguing that education should anticipate the practical needs of students. In his Lectures on History and General Policy (1788), Priestley presented a millennial conception of history which, he argued, furthered an understanding of God’s natural laws. A number of colleges incorporated the Lectures, including Cambridge, Brown, Princeton, and Yale. In 1764 the University of Edinburgh granted him an honorary Doctor of Law in recognition of his contributions to the teaching of history. Priestley also became interested in the study of electricity, and, encouraged by his friend Benjamin Franklin, conducted a number of experiments and drafted a history of electricity which was published in 1767. In 1766 he was elected for a fellowship in the Royal Society (Benjamin Franklin was one of his recommenders).
Priestley left Warrington in 1767 to accept an appointment as a minister in Leeds, perhaps because of his wife’s ill health or because he sought a more stable income. During his time at Leeds, he published several major theological works, including the Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772-4), in which he laid out some of the doctrines that subsequently became the standards of Unitarianism. Priestley also published several controversial pamphlets on religious topics that found a wide readership.
By the early 1770s, Priestley had attracted the attention of William Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne (1737-1805). The grandson of the great scientist of the same name, Shelburne was a prominent politician, a future Prime Minister, and a magnanimous patron. Through him, Priestley not only achieved financial security, but gained entrée into the highest of Britain's intellectual, social, and scientific circles, including the Bowood Group, which included Isaac Barré (1726-1802), the jurist John Dunning (1731-1783), the bishop Jonathan Shipley (1714-1788), and Richard Price (1723-1791, APS 1785). At Shelburne's estate, Priestley pursued the implications of a paper he had presented to the Royal Society in 1772, "On Different Kinds of Air," and thus laid the foundation of his international reputation as a chemist. That year he also published a pamphlet Directions for Impregnating Water with Fixed Air, which explained the method for making soda water. In 1773 the Royal Society awarded him the Copley Medal for his accomplishments. The same year Priestley accepted the position in the Earl's household as tutor, librarian, and companion, tasks that left him plenty of time to pursue his intellectual interests and that took him on a tour of Europe as the Earl’s companion.
In 1774 Priestley published Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air , in which he built upon the work of Joseph Black and James Cavendish to identify nine distinct gases, three of which were previously unknown. Most famously, on August 1, 1774, he produced "dephlogisticated air" – oxygen – by heating red mercuric oxide, demonstrating beyond cavil that air was not an element. In isolating oxygen, Priestley noted its importance in combustion, but clung to a belief in phlogistic theory for the remainder of his life, becoming, at the end, the last important chemist of that stripe. His scientific work earned Priestley admission into the French Academy of Sciences in 1772, the St. Petersburg Academy in 1780, and through Franklin, to the American Philosophical Society in 1784.
During the later 1770s, divisions between Priestley and Shelburne deteriorated over Priestley's support for the American Revolution and over his unorthodox religious views. While the two remained cordial, Priestley left the Shelburne home in 1780 and settled at Birmingham, near his brother-in-law, John Wilkinson. Whereas his scientific work had flourished at Bowood, his religious writings flourished in Birmingham, and he became a leading dissenting voice, assailing the corruptions of the Anglican hierarchy and Trinitarianism, and beginning the enduring association with Unitarianism that he considered his true life's work. At Birmingham he was also drawn into the Lunar Society, an engaging, salon-like group of enlightened minds that included Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802, APS 1792), James Watt (1736-1819), Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), and Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).
The halcyon days in Birmingham, however, were not to last. Priestley's religious and political views conspired to ensure his supreme unpopularity during the shifting political tides of the French Revolutionary era, and he became a lightning rod for the government-inspired backlash against republicanism and "radicalism" of all sorts. The wrath of the mob was turned against him directly during the Birmingham riots of July, 1791, when his house, library, and laboratory were set aflame. Priestley took refuge with William Vaughan, brother of John (1756-1841, APS 1784) and Benjamin (1751-1835, APS 1786), all of whom Priestley had taught at Warrington Academy, and with whom he had remained on friendly terms. The Vaughn brothers would repeatedly offer their assistance over the next few years. When it became clear that the British government would not protect him from further attacks, Priestley whisked his children out of the country and in April, 1794, finally abandoned England for the United States.
After a brief visit to New York, where his arrival was widely celebrated, Priestley went to Philadelphia. Here, too, he wrote in a letter to John Wilkinson, he was welcomed “with the most flattering attention by all persons of note.” The “persons of note” included several members of the American Philosophical Society, such as his old friend John Vaughan as well as Benjamin Rush (1745-1813, APS 1768) and David Rittenhouse (1732-1796, APS 1768), with whom he became particularly well acquainted. He turned down an invitation to teach chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and instead settled with his family in the relatively remote town of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, 150 miles west of Philadelphia, initially imaging that he could enjoy the country life and yet travel into the metropolis for intellectual stimulation. Little, however, went as Priestley had intended. His plans of establishing a community at Northumberland devoted to religious and political freedom were unavailing, travel into Philadelphia proved far too difficult, and in his rural remove he was only barely able to continue his scientific research. In his letters to acquaintances he complained repeatedly that his endeavors were greatly hampered for lack of adequate communications with the outside world due to limited postal delivery and lack of access to the latest news from Europe. He devoted considerable energy to the establishment of the Northumberland Academy, but by the fall of 1795 it was clear that he had failed to attract Englishmen of substance to settle in Northumberland. Moreover, in 1795 and 1796, he lost his son and wife to disease, and thereafter he was never in complete health himself.
In 1796 Priestley temporarily returned to Philadelphia. There he delivered sermons at the Universalist Church and he attended the meetings of the American Philosophical Society. His last scientific work (on the long-abandonded phlogiston) was published in 1796. Priestley also spent much time with old and new friends, including Rittenhouse, John Adams, and, after 1796, Thomas Jefferson. His increasingly apparent sympathies for the Anti-Federalists made Priestley a favorite target for the literary quills of William Cobbett, also known as Peter Porcupine, especially after the capture of some letters addressed to Priestley revealed that he may be planning to settle in France. Cobbett’s venomous attacks and damaging political allegations provoked Priestley to defend himself in print, after years of trying to remain aloof of the increasingly divisive “party spirit.” Against the advice of his friends, including John and Benjamin Vaughan, he published his Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland, which provoked only more criticism from the friends of the Adams administration. When his friend Thomas Cooper (1759-1839) was arrested for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts, Priestley was suspected of aiding and abetting. His deportation was only prevented by President Adams, an old admirer who used to be quite friendly with Priestley until the mid-1790s. It was not until after the election of Jefferson that much of the abuse of Priestley was replaced by an increasingly favorable view of his political views. The “vast exertions of his genius,” Jefferson remarked later, had fnally been recognized in his chosen home. John Adams wrote to John Vaughan in 1813 that Priestley was “Certainly one of the greatest Men in the World, and certainly one of the weakest.” Even though the last decade of his life was marked to some extent by decline and disappointment, the significance of his contributions to eighteenth century religious, scientific, pedagogical and political thought was uncontested. He published over 150 works on topics ranging from education to theology, to natural and political philosophy. By the time of his death in Northumberland in 1804, Priestley had been elected to every major scientific society in Europe and North America. As one biographer noted, he aimed to “put the most ‘advanced’ Enlightenment ideas into the service of a rationalized though heterodox Christianity, under the guidance of the basic principles of scientific method.”
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804, APS 1785) was a British radical theologian, scientist and political philosopher, who exerted enormous influence in English and American intellectual circles. Priestley is of often credited with the discovery of oxygen. His defense of phlogiston theory and rejection of what came to be known as the Chemical Revolution contributed to his isolation from the scientific community in his later life. His heterodox religious views subjected him to persecutions that eventually compelled him to emigrate to the United States, where he spent the last decade of his life.
Priestley was born in Birstall, Yorkshire, in 1733. His parents were Jonas Priestley, a finisher of cloth, and his wife Mary Swift. He was raised by prosperous relatives who had fallen under the sway of dissenting doctrine. A promising student, he attended local schools where he studied the ancient languages. His guardians intended to prepare the precocious boy for the ministry. As a result of ill health and his unpalatable religious affiliations he was prevented from entering either Oxford or Cambridge, choosing instead to attend the dissenting academy at Daventry.
After receiving his degree in 1755, Priestley discovered that his road into the ministry was hampered by a stutter and, more importantly, his unorthodox views. His call to the Dissenting parish of Needham Market, Suffolk, turned out to be disappointing for both him and his parishioners, many of who were critical of his heterodoxy and therefore refused to attend his services and send their children to be educated by him. In 1758 he moved to another parish, Nantwich, Cheshire, where the congregation proved more accepting of his views as well as his talents as a teacher. Priestley opened a school in which he taught natural philosophy, and he also wrote The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761). By 1761, his reputation as an educator had grown to such an extent that he was offered the position of Professor of Languages at the prestigious Warrington Academy. The next year he was ordained and married Mary Wilkinson, daughter of a Welsh ironmaster. In education as in religion, Priestley's approach was insistently unorthodox. He introduced the study of modern history, law, economics, and social sciences into the standard curriculum, and he published several works on these topics, including Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life (1765), in which he challenged the benefits of traditional classical education by arguing that education should anticipate the practical needs of students. In his Lectures on History and General Policy (1788), Priestley presented a millennial conception of history which, he argued, furthered an understanding of God’s natural laws. A number of colleges incorporated the Lectures, including Cambridge, Brown, Princeton, and Yale. In 1764 the University of Edinburgh granted him an honorary Doctor of Law in recognition of his contributions to the teaching of history. Priestley also became interested in the study of electricity, and, encouraged by his friend Benjamin Franklin, conducted a number of experiments and drafted a history of electricity which was published in 1767. In 1766 he was elected for a fellowship in the Royal Society (Benjamin Franklin was one of his recommenders).
Priestley left Warrington in 1767 to accept an appointment as a minister in Leeds, perhaps because of his wife’s ill health or because he sought a more stable income. During his time at Leeds, he published several major theological works, including the Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772-4), in which he laid out some of the doctrines that subsequently became the standards of Unitarianism. Priestley also published several controversial pamphlets on religious topics that found a wide readership.
By the early 1770s, Priestley had attracted the attention of William Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne (1737-1805). The grandson of the great scientist of the same name, Shelburne was a prominent politician, a future Prime Minister, and a magnanimous patron. Through him, Priestley not only achieved financial security, but gained entrée into the highest of Britain's intellectual, social, and scientific circles, including the Bowood Group, which included Isaac Barré (1726-1802), the jurist John Dunning (1731-1783), the bishop Jonathan Shipley (1714-1788), and Richard Price (1723-1791, APS 1785). At Shelburne's estate, Priestley pursued the implications of a paper he had presented to the Royal Society in 1772, "On Different Kinds of Air," and thus laid the foundation of his international reputation as a chemist. That year he also published a pamphlet Directions for Impregnating Water with Fixed Air, which explained the method for making soda water. In 1773 the Royal Society awarded him the Copley Medal for his accomplishments. The same year Priestley accepted the position in the Earl's household as tutor, librarian, and companion, tasks that left him plenty of time to pursue his intellectual interests and that took him on a tour of Europe as the Earl’s companion.
In 1774 Priestley published Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air , in which he built upon the work of Joseph Black and James Cavendish to identify nine distinct gases, three of which were previously unknown. Most famously, on August 1, 1774, he produced "dephlogisticated air" – oxygen – by heating red mercuric oxide, demonstrating beyond cavil that air was not an element. In isolating oxygen, Priestley noted its importance in combustion, but clung to a belief in phlogistic theory for the remainder of his life, becoming, at the end, the last important chemist of that stripe. His scientific work earned Priestley admission into the French Academy of Sciences in 1772, the St. Petersburg Academy in 1780, and through Franklin, to the American Philosophical Society in 1784.
During the later 1770s, divisions between Priestley and Shelburne deteriorated over Priestley's support for the American Revolution and over his unorthodox religious views. While the two remained cordial, Priestley left the Shelburne home in 1780 and settled at Birmingham, near his brother-in-law, John Wilkinson. Whereas his scientific work had flourished at Bowood, his religious writings flourished in Birmingham, and he became a leading dissenting voice, assailing the corruptions of the Anglican hierarchy and Trinitarianism, and beginning the enduring association with Unitarianism that he considered his true life's work. At Birmingham he was also drawn into the Lunar Society, an engaging, salon-like group of enlightened minds that included Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802, APS 1792), James Watt (1736-1819), Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), and Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).
The halcyon days in Birmingham, however, were not to last. Priestley's religious and political views conspired to ensure his supreme unpopularity during the shifting political tides of the French Revolutionary era, and he became a lightning rod for the government-inspired backlash against republicanism and "radicalism" of all sorts. The wrath of the mob was turned against him directly during the Birmingham riots of July, 1791, when his house, library, and laboratory were set aflame. Priestley took refuge with William Vaughan, brother of John (1756-1841, APS 1784) and Benjamin (1751-1835, APS 1786), all of whom Priestley had taught at Warrington Academy, and with whom he had remained on friendly terms. The Vaughn brothers would repeatedly offer their assistance over the next few years. When it became clear that the British government would not protect him from further attacks, Priestley whisked his children out of the country and in April, 1794, finally abandoned England for the United States.
After a brief visit to New York, where his arrival was widely celebrated, Priestley went to Philadelphia. Here, too, he wrote in a letter to John Wilkinson, he was welcomed “with the most flattering attention by all persons of note.” The “persons of note” included several members of the American Philosophical Society, such as his old friend John Vaughan as well as Benjamin Rush (1745-1813, APS 1768) and David Rittenhouse (1732-1796, APS 1768), with whom he became particularly well acquainted. He turned down an invitation to teach chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and instead settled with his family in the relatively remote town of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, 150 miles west of Philadelphia, initially imaging that he could enjoy the country life and yet travel into the metropolis for intellectual stimulation. Little, however, went as Priestley had intended. His plans of establishing a community at Northumberland devoted to religious and political freedom were unavailing, travel into Philadelphia proved far too difficult, and in his rural remove he was only barely able to continue his scientific research. In his letters to acquaintances he complained repeatedly that his endeavors were greatly hampered for lack of adequate communications with the outside world due to limited postal delivery and lack of access to the latest news from Europe. He devoted considerable energy to the establishment of the Northumberland Academy, but by the fall of 1795 it was clear that he had failed to attract Englishmen of substance to settle in Northumberland. Moreover, in 1795 and 1796, he lost his son and wife to disease, and thereafter he was never in complete health himself.
In 1796 Priestley temporarily returned to Philadelphia. There he delivered sermons at the Universalist Church and he attended the meetings of the American Philosophical Society. His last scientific work (on the long-abandonded phlogiston) was published in 1796. Priestley also spent much time with old and new friends, including Rittenhouse, John Adams, and, after 1796, Thomas Jefferson. His increasingly apparent sympathies for the Anti-Federalists made Priestley a favorite target for the literary quills of William Cobbett, also known as Peter Porcupine, especially after the capture of some letters addressed to Priestley revealed that he may be planning to settle in France. Cobbett’s venomous attacks and damaging political allegations provoked Priestley to defend himself in print, after years of trying to remain aloof of the increasingly divisive “party spirit.” Against the advice of his friends, including John and Benjamin Vaughan, he published his Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland, which provoked only more criticism from the friends of the Adams administration. When his friend Thomas Cooper (1759-1839) was arrested for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts, Priestley was suspected of aiding and abetting. His deportation was only prevented by President Adams, an old admirer who used to be quite friendly with Priestley until the mid-1790s. It was not until after the election of Jefferson that much of the abuse of Priestley was replaced by an increasingly favorable view of his political views. The “vast exertions of his genius,” Jefferson remarked later, had fnally been recognized in his chosen home. John Adams wrote to John Vaughan in 1813 that Priestley was “Certainly one of the greatest Men in the World, and certainly one of the weakest.” Even though the last decade of his life was marked to some extent by decline and disappointment, the significance of his contributions to eighteenth century religious, scientific, pedagogical and political thought was uncontested. He published over 150 works on topics ranging from education to theology, to natural and political philosophy. By the time of his death in Northumberland in 1804, Priestley had been elected to every major scientific society in Europe and North America. As one biographer noted, he aimed to “put the most ‘advanced’ Enlightenment ideas into the service of a rationalized though heterodox Christianity, under the guidance of the basic principles of scientific method.”
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Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820. [Letterbook], 1783 Aug 12 - 1787 May 16.
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[Letterbook], 1783 Aug 12 - 1787 May 16.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of an unbound collection of over a hundred drafts and copies of letters, primarily concerning the affairs of the Royal Society of London, of which Blagden was Secretary. Topics of the letters include publications of scientific papers; experiments; and scientific phenomena. He praises Claude Louis Berthollet for his stance against animal magnetism; informs Joseph Priestly that Priestly's paper is currently being printed and asks if Priestly has any specific directions or wishes to have separate copies for his private use; and writes to Sir William Herschel about the recent appearance of a meteor, a subject about which he also writes to Jonathan Osborn. With a Mr. Wotton, he makes plans to conduct an experiment in private, in case it fails, to avoid being laughed at. Other correspondents include Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Erasmus Darwin, and his brother, to whom he writes about the ascension of Blanchard's hot air balloon.
ArchivalResource: 1 box. (172 p.) ; 27 x 21 cm.
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- Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820. [Letterbook], 1783 Aug 12 - 1787 May 16.
Barnard, John James, b. 1789. Barnard-Talcott-Hollerith family papers, 1790-1858.
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Barnard-Talcott-Hollerith family papers, 1790-1858.
Account books (11), 1790-1794, 1810-1853, of members of the Barnard family in England and the U.S. Includes an account book and diary, 1821-1832, by a Norwich (England) resident. Account book, 1857-1858, of Thomas Mann Randolph Talcott. Notebooks (2) of John James Barnard on Joseph Priestly's Lectures on history, and general policy, and on Adam Smith's Wealth of nations, made while at school, 1805-1806, in England. Sheets of calculations found in a book owned by R. Barnard.
ArchivalResource: 4 boxes ; 32 cm. or smaller.
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- Barnard, John James, b. 1789. Barnard-Talcott-Hollerith family papers, 1790-1858.
Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815. Papers, 1778-1813.
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Papers, 1778-1813.
The Barton papers contain the correspondence of Benjamin Smith Barton, professor of medicine at the College of Philadelphia, with scholars and scientists, among them: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Joseph Priestley, John Drayton, L. Valentine, Frederick Rush, and others; notes and observations on natural phenomena. Also there are 15 vols. of journals, 1789-1803. The journal for 1789 contains an interesting description of Barton's voyage on the Apollo from Gravesend, England, to Philadelphia; he notes talks with John Pemberton, a fellow passenger and Quaker preacher, about the early settlements in Pennsylvania; he reviews the biographies of William Penn and of Benjamin West, the painter. The later journals, 1794-1803, describe his travels through the states; his research in the fields of botany, mineralogy, anthropology, and zoology; his observations on frontier settlements, Indian tribes, and the physician condition of the land. Ten diplomas, 1790-1812 , from the College of Philadelphia and various European universities are included.
ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items.
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- Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815. Papers, 1778-1813.
Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784. Papers of Torbern Bergman, 1779-1806.
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Papers of Torbern Bergman, 1779-1806.
The collection is comprised of Bergman's translated autobiography, thirteen letters and two notes. All of the correspondence is addressed to Louis Bernard, baron Guyton de Morveau (1737-1816), and the majority were penned by Bergman. Other authors in the collection include Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), Johan Georg Ludvig Manthey (1769-1842), and Guyton de Morveau, who authored both notes in the collection and added comments within the body of several letters. Issues discussed within the correspondence include metallurgy, the phlogistic theory of combustion and the field of scientific nomenclature. Scientists discussed within the correspondence include Lorenz Florenz Friedrich Von Crell; Cit. (Barthelemy) Faujas-De-St.-Fond; Pierre Clement Grignon; Richard Kirwan; Antoine Laurent Lavoisier; Joseph Priestly; Sven Rinman; Jean Baptiste Louis de Rome de L'Isle; Francois Rozier; Carl Wilhelm Scheele; and Christian Ehrenfried Von Weigel.
ArchivalResource: 16 pieces.1 box.
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- Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784. Papers of Torbern Bergman, 1779-1806.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter, 1803 February 18, n.p., to [Benjamin Hawkins], n.p.
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Letter, 1803 February 18, n.p., to [Benjamin Hawkins], n.p.
End of a letter to Benj. Hawkins - Mentions the health and locations of Mr. Madison, Mr. Giles, Browse Trist, and Mrs. Trist; learned Hawins has gout; surprised he got gout from Indians, but is "a security for good health otherwise"; [For full letter, see Ford, "The Works of Thomas Jefferson," IX, pp. 445-449]. Also bears five letters, 1803 February 25, 1803 February 27, 1803 February 27, 1803 April 9, 1803 April 19, of [Thomas Jefferson], to [Governors of States], [Benjamin Smith] Barton, Governor [William H.] Harrison, Dr. [Joseph] Priestly, [Ed]ward Dowse, concerning state militias, the expedition of Meriwether Lewis to the Missouri Territory, the future of the Native American tribes, his views on Socrates and the Christian system, and commentary on a sermon which he believes is not as good as Dr. Priestly's.
ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 25 cm. x 20 cm.
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- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter, 1803 February 18, n.p., to [Benjamin Hawkins], n.p.
DeNormandie, James, 1838-1924. Papers, ca. 1864-1915.
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Papers, ca. 1864-1915.
The papers of this Unitarian minister consist principally of manuscript sermons (topics: Unitarianism, the life of Jesus, Christian education for the young, etc.) and researches into historical subjects: ancient Greece and the Greek philosophers, John Eliot and Christian sects (Mormons, Quakers, et al.). Biographical sketches (some in the form of eulogies) include those for Anne Hutchinson, James Freeman Clarke, Andrew Preston Peabody, Horace Mann, Joseph Priestly and Thomas Jefferson. Some items of a personal nature are to be found, especially a group of curiously passionate letters from his niece, Mary. The collection is only partially organized.
ArchivalResource: 13 boxes.
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- DeNormandie, James, 1838-1924. Papers, ca. 1864-1915.
Gilman family. Papers of the Gilman and Bowen families, 1791-1920 (inclusive)
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Papers of the Gilman and Bowen families, 1791-1920 (inclusive)
ArchivalResource: 0.35 cubic feet (1 document box)
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- Gilman family. Papers of the Gilman and Bowen families, 1791-1920 (inclusive)
Joseph Priestley collection, 1874-1996.
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Joseph Priestley collection, 1874-1996.
In 1918 George Gilbert Pond, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the School of Natural Science at the then Pennsylvania State College, began soliciting funds for the purchase of the home of Joseph Priestley in Northumberland. The original plan was to move the building to the campus as a permanent shrine, but when it was finally purchased and turned over to the College, it was left at Northumberland. A memorial museum was built on the grounds to house the Priestley relics. The collection contains correspondence and documentation on the house and museum. The Priestley memorial scrapbook, compiled by Henry Carrington Bolton, New York, 1875, contains mounted photographs and clippings. The original gold-toned albumen photographs by Louis H. Landy show posed groups of the scientists in attendance, Priestley's house, his gravestone, and original scientific apparatus prepared for exhibition. The celebration was known as the Centennial of Chemistry and was the first important gathering of chemists held in the United States. (The group later became known as the American Chemical Society.). The collection includes notes by Sister Mary Grace Waring and biographical references on all scientists who attended the Centennial of Chemistry 1874 celebration. This series includes reprints, photos, negatives, photostats of the accounts of the meeting in the New York newspapers. Other correspondence relates to the condition and disposition of Priestley's house at Northumberland. Also, memorabilia from the second centennial of chemistry, 1974 at Penn State University and the Priestley house.
ArchivalResource: 2 cubic feet.
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- Joseph Priestley collection, 1874-1996.
Notes from Lectures on Chemistry delivered by Doctor John McClean, Princeton College, January 1797 - June 1797
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Notes from Lectures on Chemistry delivered by Doctor John McClean, Princeton College January 1797 - June 1797
Louis Hasbrouck was in his last year at Princeton in 1796-1797 when he attended the course of chemistry lectures given by John Maclean. In only his second year at Princeton, Maclean was rapidly becoming known for introducing the latest currents in chemical theory, including the system of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, and he was one of the first Americans to insist that students take part in active experimentation. Louis Hasbrouck was in his final year at Princeton in 1796-1797 when he attended John Maclean's lectures on chemistry. His notebook from the second half of that course includes a detailed record of the lectures from January 24-March 14 and June 22-24, 1797, covering Maclean's discussion of the chemistry of metals, "chemical combination," combustion, and botanical chemistry. Although his notes are not complete, Hasbrouck was enrolled at a singularly interesting period in the history of American chemistry. This was only the second time that Maclean had offered his course, in which he introduced the new chemical system of Lavoisier, and it includes a relatively complete version of Maclean's most important lecture, "Of combustion." This devastating attack on Joseph Priestley and phlogistic theory appeared in print in 1797 as . Two Lectures on Combustion: Supplementary to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry
ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s)
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- Notes from Lectures on Chemistry delivered by Doctor John McClean, Princeton College, January 1797 - June 1797
Letters from others sent to Thomas Cadell, 1766-1825.
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Letters from others sent to Thomas Cadell, 1766-1825.
Letters received by bookseller Thomas Cadell and the successor firm of Cadell & Davies.
ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)
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- Letters from others sent to Thomas Cadell, 1766-1825.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Papers, 1753-1791.
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Papers, 1753-1791.
Collection contains microfilm and some paper copies of letters addressed primarily to Price. Three of the paper copies are from Benjamin Franklin (1780 and 1789), and another is from Samuel Vaughan. The microfilm has many more items on it than the number of items on paper, especially correspondence. Correspondents include Joseph Priestley, William Petty (the first Marquis of Lansdowne), John Adams, George Washington, Noah Webster, Hester Chapone, and others. Miscellaneous items include an abstract of Swinderly Register, articles selected from the list of mathematical and philosophical instruments sent him by a Dr. Styles, and an invoice of a philosophical apparatus for Yale College, 1789.
ArchivalResource: 16 items.
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- Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Papers, 1753-1791.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Dr. Joseph Priestley: a collection of autograph letters, portraits, etc.
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Dr. Joseph Priestley: a collection of autograph letters, portraits, etc. 1775-1878.
Eleven A.L.S. (1775-1796) (3 to Banks), 3 fragments of holograph S. (1795) of autobiography, 9 A.L.S. (1844-1878) mostly to Davis, all concerning Priestley from various correspondants including Peale, several engraved and photograph portraits, and material pertaining to the 1874 Priestley Centennary ; collected in bound scrapbook.
ArchivalResource: 76 leaves : ill., port. ; 34 cm.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Dr. Joseph Priestley: a collection of autograph letters, portraits, etc.
Vaughan, John, 1755-1841. Papers, 1768 - ca. 1936
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John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936
The collection of about 850 items covers the period from 1782 to c. 1936, with the bulk dating to the 1780s to 1840s. The collection is divided into four series. Series I contains correspondence relating to a wide variety of topics, including French and English politics, business, trade, religious matters, and personal affairs. Many of the items are letters of introduction. There is also information on John Vaughan’s immigration to America, Joseph Priestley, vaccines and inoculation (with Jefferson's comments on the same), Vaughan's business in Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. Also included in this series are 2 boxes with copies of Vaughan correspondence as well as miscellaneous notes by E. W. Madeira, gathered in the course of his research on Vaughan in the 1930s. Series II consists of three volumes. Included are two of Vaughan's commonplace books. One, entitled, "J. Vaughan's book," May 17, 1779 (47 pp., in Latin; 870/L34), includes mostly Latin notations. The other commonplace book, dated 1783 (ca. 66 pp.; B V 462.c), includes comments on several prominent Americans, such as Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse, as well as American society generally. The third volume is a copybook with thirty letters spanning the period 1784 to 1801 (B V462.1). Series III includes material relating to Vaughan's administration of the estate of the Philadelphia merchant Samuel Merrick, 1796-1822 (Vaughan-Merrick Papers, B V462.m; 2 boxes). Series IV consists of correspondence between Vaughan and the DuPont Co. for which he served as agent (B V462.4; photocopies of 73 letters).
ArchivalResource: 5.0 Linear feet, Ca. 850 items
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- John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936, 1768 - Circa 1936
Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822. Correspondence, 1775-1863.
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Correspondence, 1775-1863.
Correspondence of Fabroni and son with Fillippo Mazzel and other scientists, containing material on botany, America, Thomas Jefferson and other science in general. Correspondents include Giovanni Aldini, Sir Joseph Banks, Baron Georges Cuvier, Sir Humphry Davy, Joseph Phillippe François Deleuze, Felix Fontana, Charles Reinold Forster, Johann Reinhold Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Angeica Kauffman, Comte Bernard de Lacépède, Pierre Simon LaPlace, Leopoldo Nobili, Joseph Priestley, Giuseppe Raddi, Luigi Sacco, Antonio Scarpa, Ottaviano Targiaoni.
ArchivalResource: 472 items.
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- Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822. Correspondence, 1775-1863.
Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822,. Autograph letter signed from Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni, Paris, to unidentified recipient, 1778 June 2.
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Autograph letter signed from Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni, Paris, to unidentified recipient, 1778 June 2.
Mentions recent death of Voltaire and a letter received from Joseph Priestley.
ArchivalResource: 1 item.
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- Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822,. Autograph letter signed from Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni, Paris, to unidentified recipient, 1778 June 2.
Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858, 1789-1858
Title:
Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858 1789-1858
These letters of American Philosophical Society members and prominent early American scientists were selected from Carson's extra-illustrated draft of "A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia, 1869).
ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)
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- Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858, 1789-1858
Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. Papers, 1746-1900.
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Papers, 1746-1900.
This collection includes letters, with some transcripts and photostats, between Vaughan and American and British correspondents. There are also lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 v.); notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; and genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families.
ArchivalResource: ca. 5000 items.
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- Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. Papers, 1746-1900.
[Joseph Priestley, biographical materials]
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[Joseph Priestley, biographical materials] 1874-
ArchivalResource: 1 folder.
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- [Joseph Priestley, biographical materials]
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, [ca. 1730-1786], Circa 1730-1786
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Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, [ca. 1730-1786] Circa 1730-1786
This collection includes correspondence to and from Boskovic; a travel journal in Europe; and a large number of manuscripts on astronomy, hydrography, hydro-mechanics, mathematics, geometry, mechanics, and optics; and a volume of poetry.
ArchivalResource: 14.0 Microfilm reel(s)
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- Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, [ca. 1730-1786], Circa 1730-1786
Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of historical manuscripts, 1736-1908 (inclusive), 1810-1870 (bulk).
Title:
Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of historical manuscripts, 1736-1908 (inclusive), 1810-1870 (bulk).
Collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, and notes of eminent American, British and European biologists, naturalists and zoologists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Contains extensive holdings of the entomologist, Thomas Say.
ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft.
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of historical manuscripts, 1736-1908 (inclusive), 1810-1870 (bulk).
Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Portrait collection, ca. 1600-1850
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Jared Sparks portrait collection, [ca. 1600-1850]
About 575 portraits of eminent men and women of the 15th-19th centuries in Europe and America, especially figures of the American Revolution, mounted on paper in alphabetical order. Most are engravings. Those depicted include John Adams, Samuel Adams, Benedict Arnold, Beaumarchais, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mohawk chief Joseph Brant Thayendenegea ("commonly called Brant"), General John Burgoyne, Edmund Burke, Aaron Burr, Catherine the Great, King Charles I, King Charles II, King Charles X of France, Christopher Columbus, Charles Cornwallis, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Francis Drake, Frederick the Great, King George III, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Henry III, Henry VIII, Patrick Henry, King James I, King James II, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Also depicted are the Kings Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Louis XVIII of France, James Madison, Martin Luther; Mary, Queen of Scots; Maurepas, Gouverneur Morris, Lord North, Thomas Paine, and William Penn. Also included are portraits of William Pitt, Joseph Priestley, Walter Raleigh, Paul Revere, Benjamin Rush; Deborah Sampson, "who served for three years during the Revolution as a common soldier"; Philip Schuyler, Robert Walpole, George Washington, Martha Washington, Daniel Webster, Eli Whitney, William and Mary, and General James Wolfe.
ArchivalResource: 5 v. ; 25 cm.
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- Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866,. Jared Sparks portrait collection, [ca. 1600-1850].
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter, 1801 April 21, Washington, [D.C.] to [William Short], n.p.
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Letter, 1801 April 21, Washington, [D.C.] to [William Short], n.p.
Elaborates on his religious views, saying they are "very different from that Anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions"; disdains corruptions of Christianity but embraces the "genuine precepts of Jesus himself"; the more he reflects on it, the more he realizes "it expanded beyond the measure of either my time or information"; recommends reading Joseph Priestley's Socrates and Jesus Compared; it caused him to outline a "syllabus" for points to investigate; sends both to Short, asking him not to make the latter public; states he is "averse to the communication of my religious tenets to the public"; adds that it behooves other leaders to follow the same policy and not to inquire as to others' religious beliefs.
ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 leaf ; 24 cm. x 21 cm.
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- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter, 1801 April 21, Washington, [D.C.] to [William Short], n.p.
Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822. Papers, ca. 1770s-1875.
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Papers, ca. 1770s-1875.
This collection includes letters from, and drafts of letters to, scientists, artists, musicians, soldiers, political figures, and court personages throughout Europe, especially Italy and France. Topics covered range from personal and social affairs to agriculture, botany, geology, natural history, coinage, museum management, politics, weights and measures, current affairs.
ArchivalResource: ca. 8500 items.
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- Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822. Papers, ca. 1770s-1875.
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1943, (bulk 1775-1826)
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Thomas Jefferson Papers 1606-1943 (bulk 1775-1826)
United States president, vice president, and secretary of state; diplomat, architect, inventor, planter, and philosopher. Correspondence, official statements and addresses, including a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, plantation and personal accounts, notebook, fee book, case book, garden book, farm book, calculations of interest, records of early Virginia laws and history and other writings on political, legal, educational, and scientific matters, newspaper clippings, and other papers.
ArchivalResource: 25,000 items; 225 containers plus 9 oversize; 90 linear feet; 65 microfilm reels
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- Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1943, (bulk 1775-1826)
Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876,. Letters, 1789-1858.
Title:
Letters, 1789-1858.
These letters of American Philosophical Society members and prominent early American scientists were selected from Carson's extra-illustrated draft of "A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia, 1869).
ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.
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- Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876,. Letters, 1789-1858.
Joseph Johnson Letterbook, 1795-1810
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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
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- Joseph Johnson Letterbook, 1795-1810
Wellcome Historical Medical Society. Selected letters, 1731-1871, relating to American medicine.
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Selected letters, 1731-1871, relating to American medicine.
These letters, from the Wellcome Historical Medical Society's collections, are on a variety of topics, primarily natural history and medicine.
ArchivalResource: 71 items : photocopies.
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- Wellcome Historical Medical Society. Selected letters, 1731-1871, relating to American medicine.
Houghton Library. Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q. 1942.
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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q.
Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.
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- Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q.
Pond, George Gilbert, 1861-1920. Joseph Priestley house, Northumberland County, Pa., deeds and correspondence, 1882-1955.
Title:
Joseph Priestley house, Northumberland County, Pa., deeds and correspondence, 1882-1955.
The collection contains copies of letters from George Gilbert Pond to Penn State chemistry alumni soliciting money in his fund-raising campaign to buy the Joseph Priestley house at auction, 16 October 1919-14 January 1920. When Pond died in May 1920, the alumni formed the General Committee for the George Gilbert Pond Memorial and continued the fund-raising efforts to maintain the Priestley house, reflected in copies of letters sent to alumni, 31 July 1920-28 June 1922. Also includes a savings passbook for the Pond Memorial Fund, 1920. Includes five deeds to the Dr. Joseph Priestley house in Northumberland County, Pa.: 17 October 1882, Florance M. Bingham heirs to T. Hugh Johnson, 6 lots (#27-32) for $2,000; 11 April 1888, Thomas H. Johnson and Ann R. Johnson to Kate Scott, 6 lots for $3,000; 24 November 1919, Kate Scott heirs to George Gilbert Pond, 4 lots (#29-32) for $6,000 at public sale; 14 April 1932, Helen Palmer Pond to Pennsylvania State College, 4 lots for $1; and 2 December 1955, Pennsylvania State University to Borough of Northumberland, terms and agreements.
ArchivalResource: 84 items.
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- Pond, George Gilbert, 1861-1920. Joseph Priestley house, Northumberland County, Pa., deeds and correspondence, 1882-1955.
Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. Papers, 1746-1900
Title:
Benjamin Vaughan Papers 1746-1900
Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents, including: Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk-manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Maine; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS 95 (1951): 246-249. Proceedings
ArchivalResource: 13.25 Linear feet
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Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, 1711-1787
Title:
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers 1711-1787
The Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich Papers, 1711-1787, consist of correspondence and scientific papers relating to astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, philosophy, theology, hydropgraphy, and optics. Also included are biographical materials, notes on the work of other scientists and diary fragments.
ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 5 cartons, 2 volumes; Linear feet: 6.45
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- Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, 1711-1787
Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813. Commonplace book, 1792-1813.
Title:
Commonplace book, 1792-1813.
This item contains entries about prominent people (primarily accounts of their deaths); Philadelphia events and gossip; the Pennsylvania Hospital; questions for Meriwether Lewis on Indian physical history, medicine, morals, and religion; and his views on marriage, religion, physicians, etc.
ArchivalResource: 1 v. (373 p.).
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- Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813. Commonplace book, 1792-1813.
Leycester, Robert. Electricity [and] magnetism.
Title:
Electricity [and] magnetism. [19th century]
Holograph, signed on p. [1]. The article on electricity includes accounts of several experiments, including those of Franklin, Banks, Priestley, Volta, and Galvani. Article on Magnetism notes variations reported in London in 1576, 1657, and 1776. Ten pen and wash drawings. 190 blank pages follow text.
ArchivalResource: 124 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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- Leycester, Robert. Electricity [and] magnetism.
Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932, 1784-1932
Title:
Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932 1784-1932
These letters were assembled by Lady Paget as a collection of autographs. Most are addressed to Paget, and their subjects include medicine, science, and family.
ArchivalResource: 0.75 Linear feet, 196 items
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- Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932, 1784-1932
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. A chart of biography : [Warrington?], to the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willoughby of Parham, [1764?].
Title:
A chart of biography : [Warrington?], to the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willoughby of Parham, [1764?].
ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 24 x 40 1/2 in.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. A chart of biography : [Warrington?], to the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willoughby of Parham, [1764?].
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Correspondence and memoirs, 1696-1803.
Title:
Correspondence and memoirs, 1696-1803.
Folders 1-6 contain original Priestley letters and documents, arranged chronologically, beginning with Priestley's July 19 1791 broadside "To the Inhabitants of the Town of Birmingham," written after his house and laboratory were destroyed by rioters. Folder 2 contains an A.L.S. to an unidentified correspondent dated March 14, 1792 and an engraving of Fair-hill, Dr. Priestley's house, by William Ellis, n.d. (2 items, 2 leaves). Folder 3 contains a document giving power of attorney to John Vaughan of Philadelphia, August 27, 1792 (1 item, 2 leaves). Folders 4-6 contain letters from Joseph Priestley to National Assembly of France, September 13, 1792, in response to a letter from M. François, September 10, 1792, inviting Priestley to become a French citizen and to join the Convention Nationale (2 items, 2 leaves); and two letters to Samuel L. Mitchill, dated June 14, 1798 (1 item, 2 leaves), and to George Thacher, dated March 13, 1803 (1 item, 1 leaf). Folders 7-11 contain Priestley family memoirs and documents, including a diary of Joseph Priestley, merchant, cousin of Joseph Priestley, chemist, dated January 7, 1759-November 1, 1759, with additions by his daughter Phebe, August 24, 1772-December 12, 1772; "Memoirs of the Priestley family by Jonathan Priestley and his grandson Nathaniel Priestley 1696 to 1791," a copy made by Joseph Hunter of York, June 22, 1808; and an "Extract from Watson's History of Halifax" regarding White Windows (Priestley homestead) with bookplates of a George Priestley and a drawing of the Priestley arms. Folder 12 contains 2 items signed by Dr. Priestley's son, Joseph Priestley, Jr., a deed pole to lot 56, Northumberland, Pa., January 5, 1803, and a legal agreement with Robert Lambert, December 23, 1808 (2 items, 2 leaves). Folders 14-15 contain photostats of Joseph Priestley letters to Benjamin Franklin, dated December 24, 1780, December 10, 1781, and June 24, 1782 (3 items, 5 leaves) and to Thomas Jefferson dated from January 30, 1800 to December 12, 1803 (7 items, 19 leaves). These discuss Jefferson's proposed college in Virginia, Priestley's defense of his pamphlet on Socrates, and the dedication of his Church History to Jefferson. Folders 15-27 contain photostats of Joseph Priestley letters to John Wilkinson, his brother-in-law, and others (1789-1802). There is an index to this correspondence (Folder 15). Items 1 through 64 are photostats of Priestley correspondence including 51 letters (185 leaves) from Priestley to J. Wilkinson, with 3 letters (items 52-54, 9 leaves) to Wilkinson's secretary, Watson, with a reply from Wilkinson (item 55, 4 leaves), and 2 documents (items 56-57, 6 leaves) concerning a land purchase scheme in America. These letters discuss the riots in Birmingham, Priestley's emigration to American, relations between France and England, Priestley's publications and preaching, his observations on America, the land scheme, Priestley's children and other family matters. Items 58 through 62 include letters from Mrs. Mary Priestley to William Vaughan, W. Vaughan to J. Wilkinson, Galton to Priestley, and Priestley to Benjamin Vaughan, dated 1794, the year the Priestleys moved to Pennsylvania.
ArchivalResource: 106 items (383 leaves).
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Correspondence and memoirs, 1696-1803.
Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.
Title:
Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.
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: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)
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- Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.
Scientists Collection, 1563-1973
Title:
Scientists Collection 1563-1973
The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.
ArchivalResource: 5.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.
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Electrologia, ca. 1785.
Title:
Electrologia, ca. 1785.
By an unknown author, this notebook is of experiments and the history of experiments with electricity, containing references to Franklin, Beccaria, and Priestley, etc.
ArchivalResource: 1 v. (184 p.).
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- Electrologia, ca. 1785.
Tour in North Wales Manuscript, 1798
Title:
Tour in North Wales Manuscript 1798
ArchivalResource: 1 item
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Sheldon, William, 1762-1822. Notebooks, 1789? ; 1795-1804.
Title:
Notebooks, 1789? ; 1795-1804.
The collection consists largely of Sheldon's religious opinions and disputations, remarks on biblical history, and philosophical writings. The collection contains items that pertain to the writings of Dr. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), and David Levi (1740-1799), Hebraist, author, and translator. Priestley immigrated to America in 1794 to seek religious freedom. He was a scientist, educator, and prolific writer on politics and Unitarian theology. Sheldon addressed himself to Priestley's Letters to the Jews: Inviting Them to an Amicable Discussion of the Evidences of Christianity (1794) in which is also published Levi's Letters to Dr. Priestley in Answer to Those He Addressed to the Jews. Sheldon opposed the views of both the liberal Priestley and Levi and he rebutted their interpretations of specific scriptural passages with extensive quotations throughout. He also attempted to prove that the biblical prophecies, both positive and negative, concerning the Jewish people had already been fulfilled and that Trinitarianism, not Unitarianism, was the proper doctrine. The bound manuscript was apparently written for publication in the period 1795 to 1798, while the octavo volume was probably written earlier, c. 1789. There are three volumes that discuss biblical perspectives of various kings and leaders, sometimes relating Sheldon's views to the principals of American independence. In another volume Sheldon wrote about natural phenomena (the orbits of the planets, the sun, tides, comets, etc.) and discussed natural philosophers, including Newton, Priestley, Bacon, and Boyle. The folio volume contains a lengthy disputation of the writings of Michaijah Towgood (1700-1792), an English dissenter from the Church of England. Sheldon favored the establishment of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. In addition, there are recipes for ham and a medical solution, accounts for sales of food and household items, two pages of receipts from North Providence residents for taxes, wages, and other purchases from 1800 to 1804, and a list of fowl shot by individuals from April 1799 to January 1800.
ArchivalResource: 5 v. ; octavo.1 v. ; folio.1 folder (1 item, 132 leaves)
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- Sheldon, William, 1762-1822. Notebooks, 1789? ; 1795-1804.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Letter, 1762 April 17, Warrington, to Rev. Seddon, London.
Title:
Letter, 1762 April 17, Warrington, to Rev. Seddon, London.
Writes of the controversy surrounding Mr. Palmer, of the efforts to remove him to Exeter; mentions also Aiken, Taylor, and Pope. Also mentions microscopes.
ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 34 cm.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Letter, 1762 April 17, Warrington, to Rev. Seddon, London.
Lowth, Robert, 1710-1787. Robert Lowth letter, 1781 Feb. 9.
Title:
Robert Lowth letter, 1781 Feb. 9.
The collection consists of a letter with a small engraving of Bishop Lowth. The letter, dated February 9, 1781, thanked the addressee for an essay written in response to the controversy created by Joseph Priestley's interpretation of the distinction between the soul and body of man. It is not known for whom the letter was intended.
ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folder)
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- Lowth, Robert, 1710-1787. Robert Lowth letter, 1781 Feb. 9.
Henry Adams autograph album, 1833-1939.
Title:
Henry Adams autograph album, 1833-1939.
Autograph album compiled by American historian and author Henry Adams.
ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.4 linear ft.)
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- Henry Adams autograph album, 1833-1939.
Say, Jean Baptiste, 1767-1832. Letter : to unknown person, [ca. 1794-1806] May.
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Letter : to unknown person, [ca. 1794-1806] May.
Autograph letter signed. Signed by Say. Refers to notes about Priestley.
ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 19 cm.
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- Say, Jean Baptiste, 1767-1832. Letter : to unknown person, [ca. 1794-1806] May.
Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.
Title:
Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.
Library of Amos Bronson Alcott, the American philosopher of the NewEngland Transcendentalist group.
ArchivalResource: 599 v.
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- Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.
Vaughan, Samuel, b. 1762. Samuel Vaughan student notebooks, circa 1775-1782.
Title:
Samuel Vaughan student notebooks, circa 1775-1782.
Collection of notebooks of various sizes belonging to Samuel Vaughan and perhaps other members of the Vaughan family, at least some dating from Samuel Vaughan's studies under Joseph Priestley at the Dissenters' Academy in Warrington. Pedagogical content of the notebooks, many of which are used from both ends and most of which are not filled, include notes from lectures on subjects such as historical chronology, grammar, and elocution; exercises in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; and excerpts from sermons and historical and literary works. The notebooks also include copies of one letter each to Joseph Priestley and Samuel's brother Benjamin Vaughan. One volume is a receipt book. Loose items laid in the notebooks include copies of poems and a list of books with initials representing members of the Vaughan family next to different titles.
ArchivalResource: 12 v. + 24 leaves.
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- Vaughan, Samuel, b. 1762. Samuel Vaughan student notebooks, circa 1775-1782.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1773, n.d.
Title:
Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1773, n.d.
Consists of two letters: one dated 15 December 1773 in London to a Rev. Mr. Turner in Wakefield, concerning American affairs, his conversation with Dr. Franklin and a Unitarian Appeal; and an undated note in third person to Benjamin Morgan in Philadelphia, accepting a dinner invitation. This letter probably dates after 1794, when Priestley came to America to escape religious persecution in England.
ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1773, n.d.
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.
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- Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809. Joseph Johnson Letterbook, 1795-1810.
Letters of scientists, 1655-1973.
Title:
Letters of scientists, 1655-1973.
ArchivalResource: ca. 1200 items.
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- Letters of scientists, 1655-1973.
Say, Jean Baptiste, 1767-1832. Letter : to unknown person, [ca. 1794-1806] May.
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Letter : to unknown person, [ca. 1794-1806] May.
Autograph letter signed. Signed by Say. Refers to notes about Priestley.
ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)
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- Say, Jean Baptiste, 1767-1832. Letter : to unknown person, [ca. 1794-1806] May.
Nitzsche, George Erazmus, 1874-1961. George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, 1778-2007; bulk: 1791-1956
Title:
George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, 1778-2007
This collection consists of autograph letters and other papers of eminent Unitarians and liberal religious thinkers from the United States and abroad, 1778-2007, collected by George E. Nitzsche of the Unitarian Society of Germantown. The collection contains the autographs of U.S. presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, James A. Garfield, Thomas Jefferson, and William H. Taft; politicians John A. Andrew, Edward Everett, George Frisbie Hoar, John Davis Long, and Daniel Webster; authors Louisa May Alcott, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Harriet Martineau; reformers Susan B. Anthony, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; scientists Nathaniel Bowditch and Charles Darwin; clergymen William Ellery Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Theodore Parker; judges Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), Lemuel Shaw, and Joseph Story; educator Horace Mann; editor Horace Greeley; and historians Francis Parkman and Jared Sparks. Included are original letters to George E. Nitzsche; correspondence and other papers related to the Unitarian Society of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.), of which Nitzsche was a member; printed matter about the individuals in the collection and Unitarianism; and books by Joseph Priestley and Charles William Wendte.
ArchivalResource: 6 narrow boxes of originals and 14 narrow boxes of photocopies.
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- Nitzsche, George Erazmus, 1874-1961. George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, 1778-2007.
Experiments relating to phlogiston and the conversion of water into air, 1783, 1783
Title:
Experiments relating to phlogiston and the conversion of water into air, 1783 1783
This essay discusses Priestley's experiments concerning phlogiston, also called "the principle of inflammability," which was once thought to be a volatile substance that was part of all combustible matter and was released as flame in combustion.
ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 32 p.
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- Experiments relating to phlogiston and the conversion of water into air, 1783, 1783
Joseph Priestley Papers, 1771-1803
Title:
Joseph Priestley Papers 1771-1803
Correspondence of Joseph Priestley, scientist, Unitarian minister, and republican theorist. The collection includes 41 letters written to John Vaughan, 1791-1800, 5 letters to other correspondents, and manuscripts and photostats of 68 items in the Municipal Library, Warrington, England, on theological issues, the internal development of the United States, the French Revolution and its aftermath, Unitarianism, science, his publications, and American Philosophical Society.
ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet
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- Joseph Priestley Papers, 1771-1803
Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806. Autograph notes on nitre, n.d.
Title:
Autograph notes on nitre, n.d.
The notes are classified under the headings "nitre des végetaux," "- Nitre," "Salpêtre." " - Sa formation," "- Ses mélanges," "- Nitre ammoniacal," etc. They fill from six lines to a full page for each sheet, except for the draft of one long article, apparently for the planned encyclopedia, with references to Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley. This article covers five and a half pages in Adanson's small hand and is illustrated with tiny pen-and-ink drawings of apparatus. There are also two clippings from newspapers (1777-1778) with underlinings and marginal notes.
ArchivalResource: 20 leaves.
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- Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806. Autograph notes on nitre, n.d.
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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- Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. [Pamphlets on religious subjects].
Title:
[Pamphlets on religious subjects].
ArchivalResource: v. 26 cm.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. [Pamphlets on religious subjects].
Du Tennetar, Michel, 1740-1801. Cours particulier de chimie : commencé le 10 février 1785, 1785.
Title:
Cours particulier de chimie : commencé le 10 février 1785, 1785.
Manuscript notes from a course taken by Du Tennetar and eleven artillery officers, who paid a fee of 600 livres to cover the cost of the experiments. The manuscript was not completed. Lavoisier is among those cited several times, along with Macquer, Priestley, Guyton de Morveau, and Baumé.
ArchivalResource: 1 volume ; 18 cm.
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- Du Tennetar, Michel, 1740-1801. Cours particulier de chimie : commencé le 10 février 1785, 1785.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Letter, 1772 September 3, Newington Green to Alexander Chisholm, [n.p.].
Title:
Letter, 1772 September 3, Newington Green to Alexander Chisholm, [n.p.].
Thanks Price for sending him Priestley's letter, encloses another letter. Priestley has decided to accept Shelburne's proposal.
ArchivalResource: 1 p. 23 cm.
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- Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Letter, 1772 September 3, Newington Green to Alexander Chisholm, [n.p.].
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Letters of Joseph Priestley, 1766-1803.
Title:
Letters of Joseph Priestley, 1766-1803.
ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Letters of Joseph Priestley, 1766-1803.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Joseph Priestley papers, 1777-1835.
Title:
Joseph Priestley papers, 1777-1835.
The collection contains Priestley's correspondence with Josiah Wedgwood, William Ashdowne, Rev. Thomas Belsham, Mr. Turner, Rev. Newcome Cappe, Sir George Leonard Staunton, George Thatcher, and John Vaughan; two drafts of his memoirs, review of his memoirs, a play ("Taking the Census"), sermon, his will, account book, and financial papers. Also, letters from his son, Joseph R. Priestley, and petition signed by his brother Timothy Priestley; letter from Sanuel S. Davids to Bishop Samuel Horsley about Priestley's writings.
ArchivalResource: 1.17 cubic feet.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Joseph Priestley papers, 1777-1835.
Franklin-Bache Papers, 1707-1799
Title:
Franklin-Bache Papers 1707-1799
Containing over 4 linear feet of letters and documents, the Franklin-Bache Papers comprises the second largest collection of letters and documents relating to Benjamin Franklin in the APS Library. Although the scope of the collection is broad, including materials from the time of Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia to his death, the heart of the collection documents the period of Franklin's ministry in France (1776-1785) and his diplomatic efforts to win financial and military support for the revolutionary cause, as well as less intensive coverage of his ministry in England before the Revolution. Franklin's correspondence with American and French officials, financiers (personal and otherwise), and savants provides tantalizing details on the social context of Franklin's ministry in France, his intellectual life, and his growing celebrity. Much of the correspondence documents the efforts to convince French officials early in the war to support the American cause, but there is valuable material relating to the peace negotiations as well. The collection is equally rich in personal correspondence, including a rich set of letters from Mary Stevenson Hewson, Georgiana Shipley, Catherine Ray Greene, Jane Mecom, Deborah Franklin, and a number of Franklin's other relatives. The collection is arranged chronologically.
ArchivalResource: 4.0 Linear feet
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- Franklin-Bache Papers, 1707-1799
Joseoph Priestly correspondence, 1766-1803, 1766-1803
Title:
Joseoph Priestly correspondence, 1766-1803 1766-1803
These letters are to Rev. Theophilus Lindsay and Rev. Thomas Belsham pertaining to natural history, science, and theology.
ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)
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- Joseoph Priestly correspondence, 1766-1803, 1766-1803
Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe, 1711-1787. Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, 1711-1787.
Title:
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, 1711-1787.
Consists of correspondence and scientific papers relating to astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, philosophy, theology, hydrography, and optics. Also included are biographical materials, notes on the work of other scientists, and diary fragmets.
ArchivalResource: 5 cartons, 2 volumes, 1 oversize folder (6.5 linear ft.)Originals: Selected portions: 20 microfilm reel: negative (Rich. 619:1-20) and positive.Part 2, Giuseppe Goretti Falmini correspondence, 1765-1786 : also available on microfilm.
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- Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe, 1711-1787. Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, 1711-1787.
Additional papers of Frank Beckwith, ca.1920-1977
Title:
Additional papers of Frank Beckwith ca.1920-1977
ArchivalResource: 11 boxes
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- Additional papers of Frank Beckwith, ca.1920-1977
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Correspondence with Henry Fry [manuscript], 1792, 1804.
Title:
Correspondence with Henry Fry [manuscript], 1792, 1804.
Jefferson writes re a loan of Joseph Priestley's An history of the corruptions of Christianity and he and Fry discuss their own religious views, with Jefferson mentioning the purity of early Christianity and its subsequent corruption. Fry's autobiography (23 p., 1792?) is also included and chiefly discusses his conversion to Methodism. [Fry's copy of Priestley's An history of the corruptions of Christianity cataloged as McGregor A 1797 .P75].
ArchivalResource: 3 items.
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- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Correspondence with Henry Fry [manuscript], 1792, 1804.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Autograph letter signed : Northumberland, to Thomas Jefferson, 1802 June 12.
Title:
Autograph letter signed : Northumberland, to Thomas Jefferson, 1802 June 12.
Asking permission to dedicate a work to him.
ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Autograph letter signed : Northumberland, to Thomas Jefferson, 1802 June 12.
Joseph Priestley: Sermon, c. 1771
Title:
Joseph Priestley: Sermon c. 1771
ArchivalResource: 1 envelope
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- Joseph Priestley: Sermon, c. 1771
Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.
Title:
Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.
Letters and a few manuscripts of prominent literary figures, statesmen, and politicians from the United States and Europe collected by American professor of English Albert Stephens Borgman.
ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.3 linear ft.)
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- Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.
Beckwith, Frank, 1904-1977. Additional papers of Frank Beckwith.
Title:
Additional papers of Frank Beckwith. 19--
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- Beckwith, Frank, 1904-1977. Additional papers of Frank Beckwith.
Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802,. T. (Thomas) Cadell letters from others, 1766-1825.
Title:
T. (Thomas) Cadell letters from others, 1766-1825.
The bulk of these letters are addressed to Thomas Cadell the Elder from 1766 to 1795. Fifteen letters are addressed to the successor firm of Cadell & Davies. Correspondents include James Burnett, Lord Monboddo; Charles Burney; Hannah More; Hester Lynch Piozzi; Joseph Priestley; and Adam Smith. Several of the letters discuss books by or about Samuel Johnson.
ArchivalResource: 1 box (.2 linear ft.)
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- Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802,. T. (Thomas) Cadell letters from others, 1766-1825.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Letters, 1795-1796.
Title:
Letters, 1795-1796.
The three items, all addressed to John Vaughan, relate to business.
ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves)
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Letters, 1795-1796.
Vaughan, John, 1755-1841. Papers, 1768-1922 (inclusive).
Title:
Papers, 1768-1922 (inclusive).
This collection contains correspondence relating to French and English politics, business, and trade (ca. 1778-1782). There is also information on his immigration to America, Joseph Priestley, vaccines and innoculation (with Jefferson's comments on the same), Vaughan's business in Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. There is correspondence with Pierre, Eleuthére Irénée, and Victor Marie du Pont, 1801-1816 (photostats from Eleutherian Mills Historical Library); and with George W. Featherstonhaugh (photostats from Mrs. Duane Featherstonhaugh).
ArchivalResource: ca. 450 items (8 boxes).
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- Vaughan, John, 1755-1841. Papers, 1768-1922 (inclusive).
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Correspondence, 1766-1803.
Title:
Correspondence, 1766-1803.
These letters are to Rev. Theophilus Lindsay and Rev. Thomas Belsham pertaining to natural history, science, and theology.
ArchivalResource: 1 ; microfilm reel.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Correspondence, 1766-1803.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Correspondence and printed works, 1765-1802.
Title:
Correspondence and printed works, 1765-1802.
The correspondence is written chiefly from Priestley in America (1790-1802). The printed works include Priestley's "Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Study of History" (1765), John Aikin's "Heads of Chemistry" (1781), and a catalog of books belonging to the Warrington Academy (1775).
ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Correspondence and printed works, 1765-1802.
Charles Albert Browne Papers, 1783-1947, (bulk 1909-1945)
Title:
Charles Albert Browne Papers 1783-1947 (bulk 1909-1945)
Chemist, food technologist, andhistorian of science. Correspondence, writings, accounts of foreign travel,autographs of past luminaries, and research material relating primarily Browne'swork in the history of chemistry and agriculture.
ArchivalResource: 20,000 items; 36 containers plus 2 oversize; 14.5 linear feet
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- Charles Albert Browne Papers, 1783-1947, (bulk 1909-1945)
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839. Letter, Northumberland, Pa., to Joseph Clay, Washington, D.C., 1803 December 10.
Title:
Letter, Northumberland, Pa., to Joseph Clay, Washington, D.C., 1803 December 10.
Cooper writes about his recent illness; Pennsylvania politics, particularly the state's U.S. senator Samuel Maclay and Governor Thomas McKean; European politics; Thomas Jefferson; Benjamin Franklin's "Imitation of Genesis," and the source of which Joseph Priestley claimed to have located (Cooper quotes the Latin version found in a 1680 book).
ArchivalResource: 3 p.
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- Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839. Letter, Northumberland, Pa., to Joseph Clay, Washington, D.C., 1803 December 10.
Savile, George, Sir, 1726-1784. Papers, 1761-1782.
Title:
Papers, 1761-1782.
These papers include letters and documents concerning the American Revolution, from British and American perspectives, as well as issues involving trade, fishing, and trapping in America.
ArchivalResource: 16 items : photocopies.
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- Savile, George, Sir, 1726-1784. Papers, 1761-1782.
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Second centennial of chemistry proclamations, 1974.
Title:
Second centennial of chemistry proclamations, 1974.
The collection includes a Senate proclamation (4 January 1974) plus a photocopy and photographic reproductions; a proclamation signed by Governor Milton J. Shapp proclaiming 1 August 1974 as the Second centennial of chemistry in Pennsylvania and urging all citizens to recognize Joseph Priestley; good wishes from the Royal Society of London to the American Chemical Society (July 1974); a letter from Roy A. Olofson enclosing the cancelled envelope (1 August 1974); and a newspaper clipping about the postage meter imprint commemorating the celebration.
ArchivalResource: 9 items.
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- Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Second centennial of chemistry proclamations, 1974.
Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964,. [Scientific articles collected by Ian Fleming].
Title:
[Scientific articles collected by Ian Fleming]. 1772-1919.
Consists of significant articles by Alexander Agassiz, Henry Bessemer, George Boole, James Cook, Charles Coulomb, Humphry Davy, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Joseph Gay-Lussac, Herman Helmholtz, John Herschel, Thomas Huxley, Edward Jenner, J. Clerk Maxwell, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Priestley, and Thomas Young.
ArchivalResource: 131 pieces
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- Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964,. [Scientific articles collected by Ian Fleming].
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Collection, 1761-1976.
Title:
Collection, 1761-1976.
Correspondence, photographs and printed material related to Joseph Priestley and his descendants. In addition to the materials in this collection, the library houses a large collection of books and pamphlets by or about Priestley and several pieces of his scientific apparatus.
ArchivalResource: 4 boxes, varying sizes + artifacts.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Collection, 1761-1976.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Autograph letter signed : Leiden, to the Rev. Thos. Percy, 1774 Dec. 21.
Title:
Autograph letter signed : Leiden, to the Rev. Thos. Percy, 1774 Dec. 21.
Thanking him for corrections of a volume, and lamenting the small number of subscribers.
ArchivalResource: 1 item.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Autograph letter signed : Leiden, to the Rev. Thos. Percy, 1774 Dec. 21.
American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.
Title:
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.
ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet
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- Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1668-1983, Bulk, 1750-1850, 1668-1983
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Letters, 1798-1800.
Title:
Letters, 1798-1800.
A small collection of letters from Joseph Priestley, scientist, theologian, and writer, to George Thacher, a member of Congress from Maine. Priestley's letters discuss his views on politics as different from Thacher's Federalism, his current writings and publishing on theology and history, his chemical experiments, in particular on phlogiston, and Unitarianism.
ArchivalResource: 1 folder.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Letters, 1798-1800.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Correspondence.
Title:
Correspondence. 1771-1801.
Five A.L.S. (1771-1801) to various correspondents including Carey, Lindsey, Turner, and Wedgwood, 1 A. Ms. (undated) in French, a draft of a complimentary letter from the students of chemistry, medicine, and pharmacy in Paris, beginning "Les chemistes de Paris au Docteur Priestley, Salut," perhaps with autograph revisions by Lavoisier ; in English.
ArchivalResource: 6 items.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Correspondence.
Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888. Additional correspondence, 1787-1886
Title:
James Freeman Clarke additional correspondence, 1787-1886
Letters written to the Unitarian clergyman and author James Freeman Clarke and his family.
ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
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- James Freeman Clarke additional correspondence, 1787-1886.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Papers, 1771-1803.
Title:
Papers, 1771-1803.
This collection contains manuscripts and photostats of manuscripts on theological questions, the internal development of the United States, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, Unitarianism, science, chemistry, Priestley's publications, and the American Philosophical Society. The correspondence includes 41 letters to John Vaughan, 1791-1800; 68 letters between Priestley, Joseph Priestley, Jr., and John Wilkinson, 1787-1802; and 11 letters to various persons, 1774-1803.
ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Papers, 1771-1803.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Experiments relating to phlogiston and the conversion of water into air, 1783.
Title:
Experiments relating to phlogiston and the conversion of water into air, 1783.
This essay discusses Priestley's experiments concerning phlogiston, also called "the principle of inflammability," which was once thought to be a volatile substance that was part of all combustible matter and was released as flame in combustion.
ArchivalResource: 1 v. (32 p.).
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- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Experiments relating to phlogiston and the conversion of water into air, 1783.
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794. Lavoisier manuscript collection, 1770-1794 (bulk).
Title:
Lavoisier manuscript collection, 1770-1794 (bulk).
Letters, notes, legal documents, maps, and plates dating mostly from 1770-1794, relating to Lavoisier's involvement in Old Regime taxation in France's Ferme Générale, his scientific work, the Académie des Sciences (of which he was a member), and the Régie des Poudres et Salpêtres (which he administered). Also included are notes and correspondence by Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier, his wife, who translated English scientific works into French and created the plates for his Traité Elémentaire de Chemie. Letters include correspondence with the Académie des Sciences, Jean Sylvain Bailly, François Baudon, Anne-Margueritte-Charlotte Baudon, Antoine Baumé, Claude-Louis Berthollet, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, Joseph Black, Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Benjamin Franklin (photocopy of one letter), Jean-Antoine Lavoisier, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier, Gaspard Monge, Jacques Paulze, and the Régie des Poudres et Salpêtres. Other documents relate to Benoist LaForte, the Ferme Générale, the Académie des Sciences, Mathurin-Jacques Brisson, Joseph Priestley, the Régie des Poudres et Salpêtres, and other aspects of Lavoisier's life and work. Also, a manuscript enumerating the charges against François Joseph Ghislain, with a refutation for each charge. One of the charges concerns a sum that Antoine Laurent Lavoisier drew from the treasury for the Academy of Sciences. Additional manuscripts include notes of meetings of the Académie des sciences (France) in 1786, taken by Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy; two letters by Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, including one of July 1793, urging that the Académie des sciences not be closed by the revolutionary government of France; and correspondence or notes by Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, Antoine Maugard, and Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau. Also included are portraits of Lavoisier, mainly engravings, with one watercolor portrait of him copied from an engraving originally done by Allix around 1820; a bound manuscript of maps of lands belonging to Mme. Lavoisier as of 1791; artifacts that formerly belonged to Antoine Lavoisier or Mme. Lavoisier; and ephemera such as Lavoisier postage stamps.
ArchivalResource: circa 34.5 linear ft.
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- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794. Lavoisier manuscript collection, 1770-1794 (bulk).
Beattie, James, 1735-1803. Diary : manuscript, May 6 - June 20, 1775.
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Diary : manuscript, May 6 - June 20, 1775.
Contains frequent mentions of author Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, scientist Joseph Priestly, and painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. Contains brief accounts of meetings with Samuel Johnson (May 18) and King George III (May 26).
ArchivalResource: 1 v. (21 leaves) ; 16 cm.
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- Beattie, James, 1735-1803. Diary : manuscript, May 6 - June 20, 1775.
Letters Addressed to Thomas Walker (1749-1817), 1775-1819
Title:
Letters Addressed to Thomas Walker (1749-1817) 1775-1819
ArchivalResource: 1 file
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- Letters Addressed to Thomas Walker (1749-1817), 1775-1819
Joseph Priestly correspondence and printed works, 1765-1802, 1765-1802
Title:
Joseph Priestly correspondence and printed works, 1765-1802 1765-1802
The correspondence is written chiefly from Priestley in America (1790-1802). The printed works include Priestley's "Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Study of History" (1765), John Aikin's "Heads of Chemistry" (1781), and a catalog of books belonging to the Warrington Academy (1775).
ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)
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- Joseph Priestly correspondence and printed works, 1765-1802, 1765-1802
Joseph Priestley letters, chiefly to Theophilus Lindsay, 1766-1803, 1766-1803
Title:
Joseph Priestley letters, chiefly to Theophilus Lindsay, 1766-1803 1766-1803
ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)
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- Joseph Priestley letters, chiefly to Theophilus Lindsay, 1766-1803, 1766-1803
Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe, 1711-1787. Papers, [ca. 1730-1786].
Title:
Papers, [ca. 1730-1786].
This collection includes correspondence to and from Boskovic; a travel journal in Europe; and a large number of manuscripts on astronomy, hydrography, hydro-mechanics, mathematics, geometry, mechanics, and optics; and a volume of poetry.
ArchivalResource: ca. 1920 (on 14 microfilm reels). items
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- Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe, 1711-1787. Papers, [ca. 1730-1786].
Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de, 1721-1794. Voyage en Angleterre, 1785 April 3-May 27.
Title:
Voyage en Angleterre, 1785 April 3-May 27.
This diary records the individuals and sights that he saw while in England. There are many observations of life in London, e.g. parks, buildings, paintings, food. Outside of London he visited many towns, including Manchester and its cotton mills as well as the steel mills of Birmingham. He relates his visit to Drury Lane and the dramatic performance of Sarah Siddons. Some of the people he met included Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Charles Blagden, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, William Pitt the Younger, and Benjamin Vaughan. He also visited and described the gardens at Kew. The diary includes several sketches, including the plan of Blenheim Palace, and also a table of distances traveled.
ArchivalResource: 1 v. (220 p.).
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- Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de, 1721-1794. Voyage en Angleterre, 1785 April 3-May 27.
Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875, Circa 1770-1875
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Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875 Circa 1770-1875
This collection includes letters from, and drafts of letters to, scientists, artists, musicians, soldiers, political figures, and court personages throughout Europe, especially Italy and France. Topics covered range from personal and social affairs to agriculture, botany, geology, natural history, coinage, museum management, politics, weights and measures, current affairs. The collection also includes four diaries, housed separately with manuscript volumes.
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Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822.
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