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Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824,. James Madison, Dolley Madison, and James Monroe letters, 1804-1840.

Title: James Madison, Dolley Madison, and James Monroe letters, 1804-1840.

Dolley writes chiefly to her sister Anna Payne Cutts and her cousins Mrs. Van Zandt and Mrs. L. Henry Cutts, as well as Mrs. Richard Smith and Mrs. Thornton. Dolley writes primarily concerning family matters. Topics include wigs; bad roads and swollen rivers; a letter from Thomas Jefferson about the death of Maria Jefferson Eppes; James Madison's poor health; her problems with her knee, rheumatism and her eyes; and her "ancient terror" of the Society of Friends. Also Thomas Jefferson's migraines; Aaron Burr on his way to Richmond for trial; the marriage of Lucy Payne Washington and Thomas Todd; Fedralists refusal to enter the Madisons' doors; her sister's childbirth; "curls and silk"; and her son Payne and his financial troubles. James Madison writes to Richard Cutts regarding plans to leave for Rockfish Gap and a package of Talavera wheat. He asks Joseph Delaplaine to send him some manuscripts to review for inaccuracies and two pamphlets, and thanks him for a volume of poetry. As rector of the the University of Virginia he thanks C.D. Cleveland for a copy of "Epitome of Grecian Antiquities" for the University library. James Monroe cannot meet withTench Coxe but informs him that changes considered for the Treasury Department have been stricken out. Monroe writes to General John Mason that it was impossible to make any other financial arrangements to pay him other than to authorize his agent, Major James Lewis, to sell some property above Charlottesville and a large tract in Kentucky. In a letter to an unidentified recipient he refuses to sanction the dedication of a book to him by Sir John Sinclair. In a letter to Sir John Borlase Warren Monroe discusses the exchange of prisoners of war between Great Britain and the United States and complaints regarding the conduct of the British government towards American seamen. In a letter to Mr. Agg, Monroe informs him that he has made some changes in a document before publishing in the "Whig."

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

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Sinclair, John, Sir, 1st Baronet, 1754-1835. Autograph letter signed : Eastbourne, to William Pulteney, 1782 Aug. 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Eastbourne, to William Pulteney, 1782 Aug. 29.

Concerning parliamentary reform, the agricultural and general political situation and the war in America.

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

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Autographed correspondence collection of British-Canadian writers, 1804-1954.

Title: Autographed correspondence collection of British-Canadian writers, 1804-1954.

Correspondence written by both major and minor British and Canadian writers about a range of subject matter from social engagements to discussions concerning their work. The correspondents include; John Douglas Argyll, Reginald Arkell, Archibald Alison, Joseph Beard, Arthur John Brice, Frank Roe Batchelder, Herbert Bartteel, Frank Thomas Bullen, Alan England Brooke, Rhoda Broughton, William Canton, Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Jack R. Clemo, Winston Churchill, John Payne Collier, Maud Diver, Lady BeatriceDunsany, Archibald Forbes, Marius Goring, George F. Hanmer-Moore, Warren Hastings, Alan P. Herbert, Robert F. Horton, James Hogg, William Henry Hudson, William Blanchford Jerrold, Reginald Wright Kauffman, Thomas B. Macaulay, William Melmoth, Lewis Morris, Amelia Opie, Barry Eric Pain, John Hopkinson, Julia S. Pardoe, Horatio Gilbert Parker, Edward Harry Myerstein, Gordon McNeil Rushforth, Frank T. Sabin, Sir Walter Scott, William Bell Scott, John Sinclair, Bram Stoker, Charles Waterton, Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, Robert Allen Williams, William Jerdan, and Capel Lofft, Mark Lemon, Henry Melville, John Ruskin, John Godfrey Saxe, and Ernest Thompson Seton. The collection includes both 19th and 20th century correspondence, but the bulk is 19th century. Additional correspondents include John Britton, Lucas Cleeve, Alec Craig, Sir James Frazer, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, Belloc Lowndes, George Macaulay Trevelyan, and Lucy Bethia Walford.

ArchivalResource: 57 items.

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Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826. John Pinkerton letters, 1775 Dec 14-1815 Jan 31.

Title: John Pinkerton letters, 1775 Dec 14-1815 Jan 31.

Manuscript, in multiple hands, of several hundred letters written mostly to, by, and about John Pinkerton, primarily related to his professional life as a historian and poet. Many of the letters concern his or his correspondent's research in Scottish history and their reactions to recently published works on antiquarian topics in the history of the British Isles as well as publications about Scottish literature, especially poetry and ballads, or requests to borrow or obtain copies of books or requests for copies of manuscripts in libraries. Many concern Pinkerton's efforts to publish his own works as well as works of others, including letters from Dodsley and John Nichols responding both positively and negatively to his requests to publish his Scottish ballads and other works, and provide insight into the world of publishing as well as literary societies and libraries in the 18th century. The correspondence contains references to the long relationship between France and Scotland and France as a continued resource for important manuscripts in resolving questions of early Scottish history. In a 23 July 1786 letter to Pinkerton, Samuel Knight discusses his reaction upon reading Horace Walpole's play Mysterious Mother; other letters discussing morality plays refer to a Walpole letter of October 18, 1786; a letter dated 25 August 1792 from Mary Berry expressing a desire that Pinkerton visit Lord Orford at Strawberry Hill. Other letters of note: an inventory of portrait paintings at Taymouth Castle (Scotland); a letter from Charles Vallancy which endeavors to interpret the names of ancient Pictish kings; another which narrates Vallancy's fruitless search for the Psalter of Cashell in the Trinity College library and Gailic duain. Many letters address Pinkerton's interest in geology and geography, including one about "Scots fossils" and others about mountains in South America. Numerous other letters acknowledge Pinkerton's gifts of his own works to them, including one from the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth upon receiving a donation of his own History of Scotland. The four volumes are accompanied by two indexes, originally from vol. 4, one alphabetical and one chronological, though some of the letters indexed here have since been removed.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. ; 27 cm.

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Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835. ALS : London, to James Monroe, Washington, D.C., 1817 May 27.

Title: ALS : London, to James Monroe, Washington, D.C., 1817 May 27.

Sinclair congratulates Monroe on his election to the presidency and proposes to send copies of his book The code of agriculture, which he hopes to have reprinted in America. He believes that he and Monroe are distantly related (refers to a document not present) and offers to propose Monroe for honorary membership in the Highland Societies of Edinburgh and London.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 22 cm.

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HAMILTON AND GREVILLE PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 109). Correspondence and papers of the Hon. Robert Fulke Greville (1751-1824), brother of C. F. Greville, relating mainly to agricultural matters; 6 Apr. 1785-10 Feb. 1808. The correspondents include Sir Jos...

Title: HAMILTON AND GREVILLE PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 109). Correspondence and papers of the Hon. Robert Fulke Greville (1751-1824), brother of C. F. Greville, relating mainly to agricultural matters; 6 Apr. 1785- 10 Feb. 1808. The correspondents include Sir Jos... 6 Apr 1785-10 Feb 1808

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

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

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

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Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835. Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, 1791 Jun. 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, 1791 Jun. 24.

About an importation of Spanish sheep.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Washington, George, 1732-1799. Letter : Philadelphia, to John Sinclair, London, 1792 Oct. 20.

Title: Letter : Philadelphia, to John Sinclair, London, 1792 Oct. 20.

Autograph letter signed. Folded letter sheet with address. Washington thanks Sinclair for a pamphlet and other papers about [agriculture], but regrets that the duties of his "public station" prevent him from participating in activities relating to agriculture.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835. Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to an unidentified recipient, 1821 Nov. 1.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to an unidentified recipient, 1821 Nov. 1.

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

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Washington, George, 1732-1799. Letter : Philadelphia, to John Sinclair, London, 1792 Oct. 20.

Title: Letter : Philadelphia, to John Sinclair, London, 1792 Oct. 20.

Autograph letter signed. Folded letter sheet with address. Washington thanks Sinclair for a pamphlet and other papers about [agriculture], but regrets that the duties of his "public station" prevent him from participating in activities relating to agriculture.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Michel, Francisque, 1809-1887. Letter: 1864 July 9, rue de la Tresorerie 122, Bordeaux, to David Laing / Francisque Michel.

Title: Letter: 1864 July 9, rue de la Tresorerie 122, Bordeaux, to David Laing / Francisque Michel. 1864.

Comments on finding Sinclair's own copy of his Statistical Account in Paris. Comments on visit to Chêllerault and items relating to Blackwood seen there. An original will of Queen Mary in possession of an old friend .

ArchivalResource: [3]p .

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Michel, Francisque, 1809-1887. Letter: 1864 Apr. 10, rue de la Trésorerie 122, Bordeaux, to David Laing / Francisque Michel.

Title: Letter: 1864 Apr. 10, rue de la Trésorerie 122, Bordeaux, to David Laing / Francisque Michel. 1864.

Comments on finding Sinclair's Statistical Account in Paris. Comments on visit to Châtellerault and items relating to Blackwood seen there.

ArchivalResource: [4]p .

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Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835. Letter: 1820 May 24, 133 George St., Edinburgh, to David Laing / [Sir John Sinclair].

Title: Letter: 1820 May 24, 133 George St., Edinburgh, to David Laing / [Sir John Sinclair]. 1820.

Query regarding David Macpherson.

ArchivalResource: [1]p.

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Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833. Autograph letter signed : London, to Sir John Sinclair, [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Sir John Sinclair, [n.d.].

Concerning an appointment for his son.

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

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Sinclair, John, Sir, 1st Baronet, 1754-1835. Autograph letter signed : Whitehall, to [Thomas Jefferson], 1789 Mar. 27.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Whitehall, to [Thomas Jefferson], 1789 Mar. 27.

Introducing a Mr. Hamilton, who will bring him a copy of the appendix to Sinclair's History of the Britism Revenue.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

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Sinclair, John, Sir, 1st Baronet, 1754-1835. Autograph letter in the third person : to Sir Peter Burrell, 1788 Feb. 27.

Title: Autograph letter in the third person : to Sir Peter Burrell, 1788 Feb. 27.

Requesting tickets for the trial of Warren Hastings.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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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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The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. : including a journal of a tour to the Hebrides, extra-illustrated, 1711-1834 (inclusive).

Title: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. : including a journal of a tour to theHebrides, extra-illustrated, 1711-1834 (inclusive).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to thetext, compiled by collector William Upcott.

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (1.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01790/catalog View

Papers of John Baker Holroyd, Baron Sheffield, 1554-1830

Title: Papers of John Baker Holroyd, Baron Sheffield 1554-1830

ArchivalResource: 8 volumes, 2 bundles, 8 double sheets, 3 single sheets

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Collins, Frances Cornelia Barbour, 1812-1893. Scrapbook, 1827-1833.

Title: Scrapbook, 1827-1833.

Scrapbook kept, primarily, in London, England, including lines of verse, engravings, autographs, and mounted letters and signatures on envelopes of notable British and French writers, military figures, architects, judges, and scientists, including Sir Edward Codrington, Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans, the Marquis de Lafayette, Charles Robert Maturin, Hannah More, Sir John Nicholl, Amelia (Alderson) Opie, Anna Maria Porter, Sir John Sinclair, Sir John Soane, Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, Marianne (Caton) Patterson Wellesley, and William Hyde Wollaston.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (256 p.)

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Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

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

ArchivalResource: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

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

Sinclaire, John, Sir, 1754-1835. Letters : Coles [Park] to Thomas Gibbs & Co., 1817 Dec. 1, 1817 Dec. 13.

Title: Letters : Coles [Park] to Thomas Gibbs & Co., 1817 Dec. 1, 1817 Dec. 13.

Discusses matters concerning gardens near London and other agricultural matters.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (in folder) ; 26 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37585579 View