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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VI, miscellany, 1774-1807

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VI, miscellany, 1774-1807

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume VI of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72++ 1898). Portraits of: Washington Irving, Benjamin Franklin (2), Israel Putnam, Robert Rogers (2), Benjamin Lincoln, Govenor Morris, John Glover, Thomas Paine, Hugh Percy (Duke of Northumberland), William Alexander (Lord Sterling), Henry Lee (2), Lord Howe, Hugh Mercer, [Thomas Paine], Lambert Cadwalader, King George III, Marquis Cornwallis, Edmund Burke, Tench Tilghman, Henry Knox, Philemon Dickinson, Lord George Germaine, Robert Morris, Anthony Wayne, John Hancock, Horatio Gates, Tadeusz Ko sciuszko, Josiah Meigs. Prints of: East View of Hell Gate, in the Province of New York; Der Einzug der Königlichen Völker in Neu Yorck/L'Entré triumphale de Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck (colored); The Bevrley [sic] Robinson House Garrisons, Hudson River; Incendie de New-York; View from Fort Putnam; Lake George; [Capture of Gen. Lee]; The American General Lee taken Prisoner by Lieutenant Colonel Harcourt of the English Army, in Morris Country, New Jersey, 1776; The Battle Ground at Trenton; Washington Crossing the Delaware; Battle of Assunpink; [Battle of Trenton]; Surrender of Col. Rall [sic] at the Battle of Trenton; [five engravings depicting various scenes from the struggle for independence, with captions in German]; Battle of Princeton--Death of Mercer; A View of Pendennis Castle in Cornwall; View of the Old City Hall, Wall St. in the year 1789; The Jersey Prison Shop; Characteristic Scenery of the Hudson River. Letters of: ALS, Benjamin Lincoln to Gen. Thomas, June 16, 1775; ALS, Nathaniel Greene to William Gibbons, [n.d.]; A[aman.]LS, Col. William Grayson to [?], December 16, 1782; ALS, Joseph Reed to Ralph Izard, December 3, 1782; ALS, Gen. William Heath to Maj. Gen. Phillips, April 16, 1778; Joseph Reed to Gen. Ward, August 24, 1775; Joseph Reed to Council Chambers, September 7, 1781; ALS, Williams Heath to Maj. Gen. Phillips, April 21, 1778; AL, [James Monroe] to [?], [n.d.]; ALS, George Weedon to Maj. Gen. Baron von Steuben, March 4, 1787; ALS, Joseph Reed to Archibald McClean, April 8, 1781; ALS, Robert Morris to Robert Gilmor & Co., December 10, 1789; ALS, John Fitzgerald to [?], October 10, 1781; John Armstrong to [Col. Richard Butter], November 1, 1782; ALS, Benjamin Rush to Orchard Cook, November 11, 1807; ALS, Benjamin Rush to Dr. Peabody, [n.d.]; AL[frag. return address only], Gen. William Heath to [?], February 17, 1781; ALS, Tench Tilghman to [?], December 10, 1781; ALS, Robert Morris to John Nicholson, June 13, 1798; A[aman.]LS John Hancock to Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, June 14, 1791 (also signed by Samuel Phillips and David Cobb). Documents: ADS, [Receipt for sum of six pounds received by Roger Morris from Jacob Knofper], December 8, 1774; ADS, [Petition on behalf of James Reed--John Sprague, agent], [n.d.]; ADS,, [Statements (3) concerning payment of monies due, signed by Benjamin Lincoln], June 16, 1775 and March 25, 1779;D[form]S, [Blank license for a public house, Supreme Executive Council, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, signed by Thomas Mifflin and Charles Biddle], [n.d.]; ADS, [Receipt for payment received by James Chalmers from Charles Cone, signed by James Chanlmer, John Cadwalader, and William Caxton], [n.d.]; A[aman.]DS, [Appointment by King George II of Richard Waldron to office in New Hampshire, signed by William Burnet], May 14, [1728]; AD, [Accounts rendered], Feb. 23, 1777. Map of: Part of New Jersey &c.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (77 items).

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Cutts, Richard, 1771-1845. Papers of Richard Cutts, 1753-1886 (bulk 1802-1830).

Title: Papers of Richard Cutts, 1753-1886 (bulk 1802-1830).

The collection consists chiefly of letters to Richard Cutts from noted individuals in the first quarter of the 19th century. Major topics include political apppointments and patronage; Republican Party politics; the Embargo; the War of 1812; foreign affairs in Europe; and family news and finances. People mentioned include John Q. Adams, John Armstrong, Aaron Burr, DeWitt Clinton, Benjamin W. Crowninshield, William H. Crawford, Henry Dearborn, Albert Gallatin, Elbridge Gerry, Nicholas Gilman, Andrew Jackson, James Monroe, Harrison Gray Otis, and Timothy Pickering. Specific topics include the Battle of Chrysler's Farm, the British attack on and burning of Washington, Battle of New Orleans, the U.S.S. Chesapeake, the U.S.S. Hornet's victory over the Peacock, Winchester's defeat in the River Raisin campaign, and the victory at Ft. Meigs. Also the Monroe-Pinckney treaty, right of deposit at New Orleans, Boston Harbor expenses, the Federalist Party, the Bank of the United States, the whaling industry, the salt business, smuggling, death of James Madison, travel in England and Scotland and the young Queen Victoria, typhoid fever among slaves, medical care in the U.S. army, and the tarring and feathering of an informer. The collection also contains invitations from Dolley Madison and envelopes franked by her; an invitation from Lydia Howard Sigourney; promissary notes signed by James Madison; a poem to John Quincy Adams and a commission signed by him; and a commission signed by Caleb Strong. Also brief genealogical materials on the Cutts family; two letters to Lucia Beverley Cutts (1886); newsclippings; Richard Cutts's Superintendant General of Military Supplies oath; obituaries; receipts for pew rent and a minister's salary (1752-1753); a printed appeal for biographical information on Harvard graduates from John Landgon Sibley; and a silhouette of Martha Jefferson Hackley Cutts.

ArchivalResource: 185 items.

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Cook, Orchard. Letter, 1807.

Title: Letter, 1807.

Collection consists of a letter written while Cook was a U.S. Congressman, discussing the Mass. judiciary, Congress, foreign relations, and Dr. Charles Jarvis.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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