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Post, Wright, 1766-1828. Papers, 1791 and undated.

Title: Papers, 1791 and undated.

In his letter to Mason Fitch Cogswell, Post writes of the controversy among New York medical professionals over the establishment of a dispensary and a college of surgeons; refers to an attack upon William Dunlap; and comments upon Cogswell's ambitions to write an anatomy. A portrait of Post is attached.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35360188 View

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839. Diaries, 1797-1798, 1819-1820, 1833-1834.

Title: Diaries, 1797-1798, 1819-1820, 1833-1834.

Diaries kept by Dunlap for the periods May 20-July 26, 1797; July 27-Dec. 13, 1797; Dec. 14, 1797-June 1, 1798; Oct. 15, 1819-April 27, 1820; and June 26, 1833-Dec. 26, 1834. Dunlap's interests and activities touched almost every phase of the intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic life of the United States during that time. He notes daily activities, copies letters and legal agreements, enters accounts, drafts works of literature, and makes notes on theater history and design history for two books which were eventually published. Some volumes include pencil or ink sketches; there is also one watercolor.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58663747 View

Dunlap, William. [William Dunlap] : artist file

Title: [William Dunlap] : artist file 1900-

Assembled file includes clippings, photographs, reproductions from books and auction catalogs, postcards, press releases, slides, resumes, reviews, exhibition ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/728013372 View

New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated. Records, 1785-1849.

Title: Records, 1785-1849.

Meeting minutes, commission reports, financial records, indentures, registers, and miscellaneous records of the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New York Manumission Society, dating from the year of the Society's organization in 1785 to that of its dissolution in 1849.

ArchivalResource: 11 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58670381 View

Carr, Benjamin, 1768-1831. Why, huntress, why? : from the opera The archers / Benjamin Carr ; edited and arranged by Philip Weston.

Title: Why, huntress, why? : from the opera The archers / Benjamin Carr ; edited and arranged by Philip Weston. [19--]

ArchivalResource: ms. score (7 p.) + parts.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45205717 View

Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

Title: Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

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: 9.5 boxes (4.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01427/catalog View

Verplanck, Gulian C. (Gulian Crommelin), 1786-1870. Letters of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck [manuscript], 1825-1831.

Title: Letters of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck [manuscript], 1825-1831.

Collection includes letter of introduction for Mr. Dunlap, who is en route to Washington where his paintings are being exhibited, dated January 16, 1825; letter to Silas Wright, dated November 26, 1831, which accompanied a tax payment for lands owned by D.C. Verplanck, heir of Samuel Verplanck; and an undated letter requesting the correspondent to meet an unidentified individual.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647880211 View

American Academy of the Fine Arts. Records, 1802-1840.

Title: Records, 1802-1840.

The collection consists of 1 box (approx. 400 items) and 12 volumes from the organization's inception in 1802 to its dissolution in 1840. The records include correspondence, minutes covering the entire period, accounts, subscriber lists, rules and regulations, election reports, lists of paintings, exhibition records, building plans and specifications, constitution, by-laws, act of incorporation, etc. Some of its active members were: Robert R. Livingston, De Witt Clinton, John Vanderlyn, John Trumbull, Rufus King, John Wakefield Francis, David Hosack, Alexander Robertson, William Dunlap, John R. Murray, Cadwallader D. Colden, and William Cutting.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58658695 View

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839. Papers of William Dunlap, 1765-1839.

Title: Papers of William Dunlap, 1765-1839.

The collection contains an invoice from Dunlap's father, Samuel, to [Lewes?] Johnston. Correspondence concerns the collection of subscriptions for his books including A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States., portrait illustrations for A History of the New Netherlands; Province of New York and the profit from an exhibit at the Stuyvesant Institute which will enable him to publish this work. With one of the letters is a pen and ink illustration of the seal of New Netherland.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32135371 View

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839. Yankee chronology; or, Huzza for the Constitution! : A musical interlude, in one act. To which are added, the patriotic songs of The freedom of the seas, and Yankee tars / By W. Dunlap, Esq.

Title: Yankee chronology; or, Huzza for the Constitution! : A musical interlude, in one act. To which are added, the patriotic songs of The freedom of the seas, and Yankee tars / By W. Dunlap, Esq. 1938, 1812.

ArchivalResource: 16 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768119628 View

Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888. Printed menu card complimentary to Lester Wallack, for dinner at the Lotos club [manuscript], 1887 December 17.

Title: Printed menu card complimentary to Lester Wallack, for dinner at the Lotos club [manuscript], 1887 December 17.

The menu has dishes named after plays of Shakespeare and others. Signed "Lester Wallack to his dear friend "Willie." Endorsed by William Winter. The verso has notes relating to events that took place at the dinner, including anecdotes Wallack gave on his family and his father having been the first to wear a grey wig as Shylock, Byron's comment on Dunlap's Life of Cooke, "the parts [Cooke] played and the pints he swallowed," and Wallack liking to play the part of Harry Denton in The road to ruin. Signed "J.W." Likely William Jefferson Winter.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 19 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428977312 View

William Dunlap collection, 1786-1835

Title: William Dunlap collection 1786-1835

The collection consists chiefly of bound manuscript diaries and corresponding typescript transcriptions. Also included in the collection is a bound manuscript recipe book, two letters, and a theater script translated into English from French by Dunlap entitled Thirty Years or The Life of a Gamester or The Gambler's Fate.

ArchivalResource: 0.63 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.dunlap View

Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810. Papers of Charles Brockden Brown, 1783-1848, and n.d.

Title: Papers of Charles Brockden Brown, 1783-1848, and n.d.

The collection consists chiefly of research material assembled by Daniel E. Kennedy for his projected biography of Brown. These include his commentary on William Dunlap's "Life of Charles Brockden Brown" and miscellaneous notes and annotations on Brown; manuscript copies of other material related to Brown particularly a copy of an article from "Littell's Living Age," 1844, and a copy of Brown's death notice; and a resolution by the Friends of Philadelphia concerning Brown's expulsion for marriage to a non-member by a "hireling minister." The collection also contains three letters from Brown to William Wood Wilkins and one letter from Wilkins about their friendship, 1790-1793, and a letter to his brother James Brown about Wilkins's death, 1795; a postscript on a 1798 letter from Maria Templeton to Maria NIcholson mentioning yellow fever in Philadelphia; letters to lawyers William P. Beers and John Elihu Hall on literary matters, 1800, 1806; a letter to Mary Linn urging her to cultivate her mind, 1802; and a letter to John B. Romeyn on family matters after the death of his father-in-law, 1808. In addition there are four letters to his widow Elizabeth, 1812 and n.d. from her brother-in-law William Keese on a financial matter, her son William Linn Brown on a trip to England and a friend Eliza Kane on social matters. Miscellaneous papers include diplomas of John Blair Linn, 1795-1897 and William Linn Brown, 1821; a bond signed by Elizabeth Linn Brown, 1810; inventories and appraisals of the estates of Charles Brockden Brown, 1810, and Elihu Hubbard Smith, 1799; three receipts to Charles Brockden Brown and Charles Brockden Brown, Jr., 1806, 1821, 1830; the will of Elizabeth Armitt, 1798; a passport of William Linn Brown signed by James Buchanan, 1846; a newsclipping regarding William Linn Brown, 1846; and photographs of the [tombstone?] of Charles Brockden Brown.

ArchivalResource: 37 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62523795 View

Kent State University. Institute for Bibliography and Editing. Charles Brockden Brown Bicentennial Edition records, 1689-1995 (bulk 1917-1995).

Title: Charles Brockden Brown Bicentennial Edition records, 1689-1995 (bulk 1917-1995).

Source material, bibliographic research, manuscript drafts, and documentary evidence related to the six-volume critical edition The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown: Bicentennial Edition which was produced by the Kent State University Bibliographical and Textual Center under the editorial supervision of Professors Sydney J. Karuse and S.W. Reid and was published from 1977-1987 by the Kent State University Press. The collection also includes the unpublished manuscript of "Charles Brockden Brown: His Life and Works," by Daniel Edwards Kennedy.

ArchivalResource: 11.75 cubic feet (11 record storage boxes, 3 small media boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367673231 View

Royall, Anne Newport, 1769-1854. Letters of Anne Newport Royall [manuscript] 1824-34.

Title: Letters of Anne Newport Royall [manuscript] 1824-34.

Mrs. Royall discusses the selling of her books, including The black book, and of her newspaper, Paul Pry; her desire for a government pension; needed repairs on her house; her broken leg; and her animosity toward William Leete Stone. Newspaper clipping, 1931 May 10, from the Washington post, Anne Royall, pioneer woman publicist by Vylla Poe Wilson [1 item. printed] -- Correspondents include: John Bayle, Tristam Burges, Henry Cary & Co., Philadelphia, William Dunlap, Durry & Peck, New Haven, Conn., Peter Force, Captain Hall, the Marquis de Lafayette and Stephen Van Rennselaer.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647936933 View

Charles Brockden Brown Bicentennial Edition records, 1689-1995, 1917-1995

Title: Charles Brockden Brown Bicentennial Edition records 1689-1995 1917-1995

This collection contains source material, bibliographic research, manuscript drafts, and documentary evidence for the six volume critical edition published by the Kent State University Press under the Modern Language Association Center for Editions of American Authors / Committee on Scholarly Editions. It includes the unpublished manuscript of by Daniel Edwards Kennedy. The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown: Bicentennial Edition Charles Brockden Brown: His Life and Works

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhKeUSC0071 View

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122399775 View

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839. Portrait of Edmund Pendleton, Jr. [manuscript] / by William Dunlap.

Title: Portrait of Edmund Pendleton, Jr. [manuscript] / by William Dunlap.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647957718 View

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839. A fatal deception, or, Progress of guilt : a tragedy in five acts : manuscript, [181-?].

Title: A fatal deception, or, Progress of guilt : a tragedy in five acts : manuscript, [181-?].

Fair copy, in unknown hand.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (46 leaves) ; 32 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49373561 View

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839. Correspondence to Richard Penn Smith, 1833.

Title: Correspondence to Richard Penn Smith, 1833.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232577861 View

Thomas Cole papers

Title: Thomas Cole papers

Notebooks; sketchbooks; drawings; letters; manuscript poems; catalogs; paintbrushes. Ca. 575 drawings. Letters, manuscript poems, catalogs and a sketchbook dated March 10, 1832. 2 v. of notebooks; 1825, and 18 v. of sketchbooks, 1827-1847. Cole sketches mainly in New York State, The White Mountains, England, Italy, and Catskill, N.Y. Correspondence with Cole, including letters from friends, family, artists, and others; journals; notes; essays; lectures; poetry; clippings; and financial records. Correspondents include: William Althorpe Adams, Samuel James Ainsley, Francis Alexander, Theodore Allen, Washington Allston, Thomas B. Ashton, Edwin T. Bennet, Simeon D. Bloodgood, William C. Bryant, Edward L. Carey, Cephas G. Childs, Lewis G. Clark, Thomas S. Cummings, Franklin Dexter, William Dunlap, Asher B. Durand, Robert Gilmor, George W. Greene, Charles C. Ingham, Charles R. Leslie, Jonathan Mason, Samuel F.B. Morse, John L. Morton, Henry C. Pratt, Luman Reed, John P. Ridner, Jonathan Sturges, Ithiel Town, Isaiah Townsend, Charles B. Trego, William P. Van Rensselaer, Cornelius Ver Bryck, Daniel Wadsworth, Samuel Ward, Robert W. Weir, Ambrose Wright, and others.

ArchivalResource: 7 microfilm reels

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw98017b23d-c268-4b6d-ad9f-38dcf04a1d6b View

Charles Henry Elam papers relating to William Dunlap

Title: Charles Henry Elam papers relating to William Dunlap

Illustrated thesis by Elam (175 p.), "The Portraits of William Dunlap and a Catalogue of His Works"; 61 photographic negatives of Dunlap's paintings; and printed material, including two pamphlets.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c8011c5e-ff74-4aa7-861a-98de6996baf4 View

Oscar Wegelin papers, Wegelin (Oscar) papers, 1899-1966

Title: Oscar Wegelin papers Wegelin (Oscar) papers 1899-1966

Oscar Wegelin, bookseller and author, was one of the leading bibliographers in the field of early American writings. The Oscar Wegelin papers (1899-1966) contain correspondence with important scholars, litterateurs, and bibliographers. In addition, the papers contain poems, plays, and prose written by Wegelin.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 linear feet (3 oversize boxes)

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms78.13&view=title View

Early American playbills, 1750-1812.

Title: Early American playbills, 1750-1812.

Eighteenth and nineteenth-century printed playbills from American theaters.

ArchivalResource: 5 drawers (1.25 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01711/catalog View

Cole's notes in Dunlap's History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States

Title: Cole's notes in Dunlap's History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States

William Dunlap's History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States (George P. Scott and Co., N.Y., 1834). Volume II contains Cole's signature inside the front cover and his handwritten reaction to Dunlap's biography of him (p. 350-367), written in light pencil. Accompanying the texts is a photocopy of transcriptions of Cole's notes, compiled by Bard McNulty(?).

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw98aab2202-29ab-4797-9ce3-ac92f5206589 View

Albert Duveen collection of artists' letters and ephemera

Title: Albert Duveen collection of artists' letters and ephemera

The Albert Duveen collection of artists' letters and ephemera measures 1.1 linear feet and dates from 1807 to 1946. Unrelated letters written by over 170 mostly 19th and early 20th century American artists are found in this compiled collection of art critic, dealer, and collector Albert Duveen. Additional ephemera includes printed material and photographs of artwork.

ArchivalResource: 1.1 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw910bd3b56-f88b-45d7-af2e-a9c465bbe2d8 View

Asher Brown Durand papers

Title: Asher Brown Durand papers

Letters to Durand from artists regarding art work, requests for engraving, exhibition of paintings, the National Academy of Design, and requests for loans of paintings. Correspondents include: John B. Bristol, Thomas Cole, Jasper F. Cropsey, Moseley I. Danforth, Anson Dickinson, Thomas Doughty, William Dunlap, Francis W. Edmonds (regarding Samuel F.B. Morse's painting of the House of Representatives), George W. Flagg, Samuel L. Gerry, Chester Harding, Charles C. Ingham, John F. Kensett, Thomas Le Clear, Joshua Shaw (advising Durand against the use of varnish, "the greatest curse which the arts have ever had to complain of"), John R. Smith, Thomas Sully, and John Trumbull.

ArchivalResource: 18 items (on 1 microfilm reel)

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b9351d23-503c-4985-b38e-3d940b967d93 View

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839. Autograph letter signed : New York, to John Trumbull, 1817 Jan. 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to John Trumbull, 1817 Jan. 14.

Notifying him that he has been elected President of the American Academy of the Arts.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270744071 View

Pelissier, Victor. [Voice of nature; incidental music to William Dunlap's play.

Title: [Voice of nature; incidental music to William Dunlap's play. 1803]

ArchivalResource: Ms. score ([1 v.]) and 9 ms. parts.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38119352 View

Verplanck, Gulian C. (Gulian Crommelin), 1786-1870. Letters of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, 1825-1831.

Title: Letters of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, 1825-1831.

Collection includes letter of introduction for Mr. Dunlap, who is en route to Washington where his paintings are being exhibited, dated January 16, 1825; letter to Silas Wright, dated November 26, 1831, which accompanied a tax payment for lands owned by D.C. Verplanck, heir of Samuel Verplanck; and an undated letter requesting the correspondent to meet an unidentified individual.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34931289 View

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Dunlap, William, 1766-1839 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/199320079 View

Parker family. Papers, 1680-1936.

Title: Papers, 1680-1936.

Correspondence, diaries, land surveys and transactions, wills, deeds, indentures, and other legal papers, poetry, and architectural drawings. Family members include James Parker (1725-1797), lawyer and agent for East Jersey Proprietors, and for Hunterdon and Sussex County, N.J., properties of Sir Robert Barker, absentee British landlord; James Parker (1776-1868), a director of Delaware and Raritan Canal Company; and Cortlandt Parker (1818-1907), Newark lawyer active in Whig and Republican politics. Persons represented include James Alexander, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), Robert Allen, John Barberie, Robert Barclay, Andrew Bell, Ryneir Blanchard, Elisha Boudinot, Gilbert Budd, John Cochran, James Duane, Azariah Dunham, William Dunlap, Hamilton Fish, Richard Howell, Robert Hunter, Andrew Johnston, Abraham Kitchel, Robert R. Livingston, Walter Livingston, William Livingston, Thomas Millidge, Samuel D. Morford, Lewis Morris, Richard R. Morris, Robert Hunter Morris, Elisha Parker, William Paterson, John Penn, Richard Penn, Thomas Penn, John Reade. John Rutherfurd, David A. Ryerson, John Stevens, Richard Stevens, Richard Stockton, Peter D. Vroom, and Peter Young.

ArchivalResource: 7 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71054545 View

Brooklyn Museum. Dept. of Photography. Records, Exhibition negatives: installations. Drawings of the Hudson River School. 1969-1970.

Title: Records, Exhibition negatives: installations. Drawings of the Hudson River School. 1969-1970.

Installation views of an exhibition held from 11/25/1969 to 02/22/1970 at the Brooklyn Museum.

ArchivalResource: 16 b&w photonegatives 7 x 5"

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122404394 View

Robertson, Alexander, 1768-1841. Letters : N.Y., to Andrew Robertson, London, 1835-1837.

Title: Letters : N.Y., to Andrew Robertson, London, 1835-1837.

Two letters addressed to Robertson's brother, Andrew, also a painter. In the letter dated 1835 Robertson discusses the publication of William Dunlap's History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States and the long-standing enmity between Dunlap and John Trumbull. Robertson notes some mistakes in the article about himself in Dunlap's study and also mentions contemporary theatrical events. The letter dated 1837 concerns the health of Trumbull.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77924765 View

Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810. Papers of Charles Brockden Brown [manuscript], 1769-1848, 1922, and n.d.

Title: Papers of Charles Brockden Brown [manuscript], 1769-1848, 1922, and n.d.

The collection consists chiefly of research material assembled by Daniel E. Kennedy for his projected biography of Brown. These include his commentary on William Dunlap's "Life of Charles Brockden Brown" and miscellaneous notes and annotations on Brown; manuscript copies of other material related to Brown particularly a copy of an article from "Littell's Living Age," 1844, and a copy of Brown's death notice; and a resolution by the Friends of Philadelphia concerning Brown's expulsion for marriage to a non-member by a "hireling minister." With these is his manuscript "The verses of Charles Brockden Brown studied in metre." The collection also contains a letter from John Ross to Charles Brown on business matters, 1769; three letters from Brown to William Wood Wilkins and one letter from Wilkins about their friendship, 1790-1793, and a letter to his brother James Brown about Wilkins's death, 1795; a postscript on a 1798 letter from Maria Templeton to Maria NIcholson mentioning yellow fever in Philadelphia; letters to lawyers William P. Beers and John Elihu Hall on literary matters, 1800, 1806; a letter to Mary Linn urging her to cultivate her mind, 1802; a letter to John B. Romeyn on family matters after the death of his father-in-law, 1808; and a letter from James Ogilvie to [Tart Esquires?] of Charleston, S.C., concerning a legal matter and the possibility of writing a biography of Brown for which he would like Charleston subscriptions. In addition there are four letters to his widow Elizabeth, 1812 and n.d. from her brother-in-law William Keese on a financial matter, her son William Linn Brown on a trip to England and a friend Eliza Kane on social matters. Miscellaneous papers include diplomas of John Blair Linn, 1795-1897 and William Linn Brown, 1821; a bond signed by Elizabeth Linn Brown, 1810; inventories and appraisals of the estates of Charles Brockden Brown, 1810, and Elihu Hubbard Smith, 1799; three receipts to Charles Brockden Brown and Charles Brockden Brown, Jr., 1806, 1821, 1830; the will of Elizabeth Armitt, 1798; a passport of William Linn Brown signed by James Buchanan, 1846; a newsclipping regarding William Linn Brown, 1846; and photographs of the [tombstone?] of Charles Brockden Brown.

ArchivalResource: 40 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647899138 View

Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819. False shame; or, The American orphan in Germany, as translated and altered from the German of August Von Kotzebue, by W. Dunlap, New York, 1799.

Title: False shame; or, The American orphan in Germany, as translated and altered from the German of August Von Kotzebue, by W. Dunlap, New York, 1799.

Contains numerous corrections by the translator.

ArchivalResource: 112 l.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122493055 View

Parker family (Perth Amboy, N.J.). Parker family papers, 1676-1946 1760-1820.

Title: Parker family papers, 1676-1946 1760-1820.

This collection documents the personal and business dealings of the Parker family of Perth Amboy and spans the years 1676-1946, with bulk dates of 1760-1820. Specific family members that are documented include James Parker (1725-1797), James Parker (1776-1868), and Cortlandt Parker (1818-1907).The collection consists of the family's correspondence, diaries, land surveys and transactions, legal papers, architectural drawings, wills, poetry, deeds, and indentures. Of special note are late eighteenth and early nineteenth century documents pertaining to trade with the West Indies, as well as petitions and counter-petitions concerning canal construction in Newark in 1837. Documents and correspondence of the following individuals are included in the papers: James Alexander, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), Robert Allen, John Barberie, Robert Barclay, Andrew Bell, Ryneir Blanchard, Elisha Boudinot, Gilbert Budd, John Cochran, John Cooley, James Duane, Azariah Dunham, William Dunlap, Hamilton Fish, Nathan Ford, P.W. Freame, William Churchill Houston, Richard Howell, Robert Hunter, Andrew Johnston, Abraham Kitchel, Robert R. Livingston, Walter Livingston, William Livingston, Thomas Millidge, Samuel D. Morford, Lewis Morris, Richard R. Morris, Robert Hunter Morris, Cortlandt Parker, Elisha Parker, James Parker, William Paterson, John Penn, Richard Penn, Thomas Penn, John Reade, John Rutherford, David A. Ryerson, James Silver, John Stevens, Richard Stevens, Richard Stockton, Peter D. Vroom, and Peter Young.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear ft. (13 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54032516 View

Selected art related letters from Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Society Collection

Title: Selected art related letters from Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Society Collection

Letters, mainly from artists, and documents selected from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's miscellaneous manuscript collection (Society Collection). Letters are to various people; 46 of them are to Townsend Ward and a few are to John A. McAllister, photographer. Many of the letters refer to paintings, portraits, commissions, and awards.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e77b943a-266e-4a06-a6b8-eaf8b5c4139d View

Jensen, Alfred C. The theatre in Los Angeles, 1936.

Title: The theatre in Los Angeles, 1936.

The manuscript, which Alfred Jensen wrote for the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project, covers the history of theater in the United States and more specifically in Los Angeles. The manuscript includes an appendix listing plays that were performed in Los Angeles, the theater in which they were performed, the opening dates, and duration of the plays. In his history of the theater Jensen specifically talks about the following early American playwrights: William Dunlap, John Howard Payne, John Augustus Stone, Mercy Otis Warren, Hugh H. Brackenridge, and Royall Tyler. Jensen also covers the early history of movies and some of its actors including John Barrymore as well as the development of the Federal Theatre Project.

ArchivalResource: 202 pages, typescript, 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228740660 View

Francis, John W. (John Wakefield), 1789-1861. John Wakefield Francis collection, 1816-1858.

Title: John Wakefield Francis collection, 1816-1858.

Letters, receipts, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to the life of Dr. John Wakefield Francis. Items of note include an undated petition from 89 medical students to the Governors of New York Hospital recommending that Francis be elected to the hospital's medical department; an 1827 receipt from Asher B. Durand for payment for altering a plate and printing 100 cards; certificates of membership in the American Antiquarian Society, the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York, and the Natural History and Science Society of New Orleans; letters to and from David Hosack, Robert Greenhow, Myron H. Clark, and the 11th Earl of Buchan. Also included is a copy of an article on the "anniversary Feast of Saint Nicholas," dated January 1847, from the Saint Nicholas Society.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders (44 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/709967046 View