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Flower, George, 1780-1862. Letters, 1816-1817.

Title: Letters, 1816-1817.

Letters, original and photocopies, written to parents, brothers, sisters and friend, Morris Birkbeck, while traveling through the United States. He describes the cities he passes through, discussing their people, business, industries and surrounding land and agriculture. After discussing the influx of European goods to America he states that "agriculture is flourishing but commerce is in great confusion". He describes the differences in people from state to state. He relates what he has learned about the "wild animals", bears, panthers, deer and snakes. He tells them of the "ridiculous custom of indiscriminate introduction and handshaking". In a letter to his sisters he describes the differences in the role of the lady of the house in Viginia and Pennsylvania. He met Thomas Jefferson and his family and stayed at Monticello for some time. He describes Jefferson, his dress, his routine, his manner, his house and his slaves. Flower was anti-slavery, but he writes that the treatment of slaves had vastly improved and that Jefferson's slaves were quite happy. He is for emancipation but favors a plan to send all of the free slaves back to Africa to colonize and help civilize the Negroes there. He writes that of all of the country Kentucky and Virginia would be the best place to settle because the manner of the people is more English and they have a higher number of gentlemen than the other states. He does denounce the use of slaves in those states.

ArchivalResource: .21 linear feet (1/2 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51747510 View

Dunlop, James. James and John Dunlop Papers, 1818-1853.

Title: James and John Dunlop Papers, 1818-1853.

Correspondence and records concerning land investments in the United States, managed by Robert Leslie, of Petersburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence between Leslie and David Robson, Albion, Illinois, E. B. Webb, Carmi, Illinois, and John Hinton, Rockport, Missouri. Also includes land descriptions, accounts and Illinois map. Robson's letters mention Morris Birkbeck, George Flower and concern over slavery in Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29761078 View

Fordham, Elias Pym. Extracts from letters written, on a journey to the western parts of the United States : and during a residence in the Illinois Territory / by an English farmer, 1818.

Title: Extracts from letters written, on a journey to the western parts of the United States : and during a residence in the Illinois Territory / by an English farmer, 1818.

Volume containing extracts of seventeen letters, May 18, 1817-Oct. 30, 1818, and a journal, Dec. 7, 1817-Feb. 26, 1818, sent by Pym to unnamed English correspondents, regarding his journey from Richmond, Va., to southeastern Illinois, via Pittsburgh and Cincinnati; the settlement of the Birbeck colony at English Prairie; and travels in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([2], iii, [1], 127 p.), bound : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37869667 View

Vol. xiii. (IF. 498). 14 Aug. 1803-1826.includes:ff. 1, 54, 77, 92, 127, 158, 162, 168, 243-253 William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland: Letters to the 2nd Earl of Chichester: 1801 -1812. f. 3 Damian: Letter to the 2nd Earl of Chichester: 1803.: Fr. ff. ...

Title: Vol. xiii. (IF. 498). 14 Aug. 1803-1826.includes:ff. 1, 54, 77, 92, 127, 158, 162, 168, 243-253 William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland: Letters to the 2nd Earl of Chichester: 1801 - 1812. f. 3 Damian: Letter to the 2nd Earl of Chichester: 1803.: Fr. ff. ... 14 Aug 1803-1826

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Robert B. Haines III collection, 1793-1834.

Title: Robert B. Haines III collection, 1793-1834.

Correspondence, chiefly to Reuben Haines as corresponding secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences; also a few letters to Caspar Wistar Haines. Correspondents of Reuben Haines include John James Audubon, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Joseph Bonaparte, DeWitt Clinton, Thomas Forster, John Griscom, Robert Hare, Sir William Jackson Hooker, David Hosack, Thomas Jefferson, La Cepede, William Maclure, James Mease, George Ord, Rembrandt Peale, Richard Peters, C.S. Rafinesque, Thomas Say, Benjamin Silliman, Kaspar Sternberg, George Ticknor and others. Letters to Caspar Wistar Haines include those from Morris Birkbeck and Rebecca Jones (discussing yellow fever in Philadelphia).

ArchivalResource: ca. 359 items (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28717446 View

Indiana History mss., 1725-1973

Title: Indiana History mss., 1725-1973

Consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety of sources, relating to Indiana. Includes correspondence, diaries, minutes, financial records, memoirs, articles about specific areas of the state, and legal documents. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 594 items

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/findingaids/lilly/InU-Li-VAA1332 View

Thomas Dickason & Co. Letter : London, to William Rotch, Jr., New Bedford, Mass., 1818 June 12.

Title: Letter : London, to William Rotch, Jr., New Bedford, Mass., 1818 June 12.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 26 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28900938 View

Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825. Letter : Princeton, Ind., to William Rotch, Jr., 1817 Aug. 23.

Title: Letter : Princeton, Ind., to William Rotch, Jr., 1817 Aug. 23.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24832117 View

Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825. Morris Birkbeck treatise and scrapbook, 1619-1817.

Title: Morris Birkbeck treatise and scrapbook, 1619-1817.

Manuscript treatise on the human emotions and a scrapbook believed to have been owned by Birkbeck. Scrapbook contains 17th to 19th century British newspaper clippings. Includes human interest stories, poetry, and public notices.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.1 container.0.4 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123913404 View

U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Title: U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Consists of individual items acquiredseparately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety ofsources, relating to the United States. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 551 items

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Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Title: Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Collection of images concerning the life of the English poet, John Keats, as well as papers relating to the collection. Collection assembled by American Louis Arthur Holman. Holman was a Keats expert, an artist, writer on art, and a staff member at Goodspeed's Book Shop who established a print department, but later became the owner of Holman's Print Shop.

ArchivalResource: 39 boxes (18 linear ft.)

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Flower Family. Papers, 1787-1964.

Title: Papers, 1787-1964.

Correspondence, journal, essays, deeds, genealogical materials and clippings. Numerous letters from George and Richard to friend and associate, Robert Barnard, in Washington, D.C. Letters to Morris Birkbeck. Topics include life at Albion, the Mt. Carmel and New Albany Railroad Company land values, agricultural methods and markets, and activities at New Harmony, Indiana. Charter for the Mt. Carmel and New Albany Railroad signed by Asbury Dickins, Sec. of the U.S. Senate. Diary of Deborah Finch Prichard, 1787. Family tree, 1901, by Alfred and B.O. Flower and genealogies on the Flower, Fordham, Hall, Bunting and Pritchard families done by Janet Flower. Many newsclippings re: the Flower family and Albion. Publications regarding New Harmony, Albion and the Edwards County Centennial(1918)and Sesquicentennial(1968).

ArchivalResource: .84 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51747504 View

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848. Letter and typed copy: London, to Richard Rush, Washington City, 1817 Mar. 13.

Title: Letter and typed copy: London, to Richard Rush, Washington City, 1817 Mar. 13.

Letter of introduction for Morris Birkbeck.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.): 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26484844 View

Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825. Letter : English Prairie, Illinois, to Charles Butler, London, [England], 1819 Jan. 29.

Title: Letter : English Prairie, Illinois, to Charles Butler, London, [England], 1819 Jan. 29.

Advice on immigration to the United States and farming in Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27159125 View