Drowne family papers, 1646-1929.

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Drowne family papers, 1646-1929.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122384033

Correspondence (1735-1920) of Solomon Drowne and his family. Includes that of the Arnold, Bowen, Brown, DeWolf, Greene, Rhodes, Russell, Stafford, and Tillinghast families of RhodeIsland; and the Foster, Hall, and Ward families of Connecticut. Also includes Brown University correspondence (1770-1820) with letters signed by James Manning, Jonathan Maxcy, Asa Messer, and Asher Robbins. Correspondents include Henry Bowen Anthony, John James and Lucy Audubon, Barnabas Binney, William Cullen Bryant, Lydia M. Child, Henry Clay, Schuyler Colfax, George William Curtis, Theodore Dwight, Manton Eastburn, Edward Everett, Millard Fillmore, Hamilton Fish, Theodore Foster , Albert Gallatin, Ulysses S. Grant, John Hancock, Julia Ward Howe, Robert Livingston, James Monroe, Robert Morris, Rembrandt Peale, Earl Sproat, Thomas Ustick, George Washington, Daniel Webster, and Benjamin West. Manuscripts include accounts, invoices, receipts; originals and copies of prose and poetry; notes, sketches, and valentines of Dr. Solomon Drowne; political, legal, and military documents; and ships' papers. Broadsides in the collection (1809-1829) include some annotated by Dr. Solomon Drowne or with extensive notes in his hand. Among these: Exercises of Commencement, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1809 September 6; with notes on botany (recto and verso), dated 1812 April 23.

Approximately 2800 items.

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Drowne family.

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Solomon Drowne (Brown University Class of 1773) was a physician and Professor of Botany at Brown University. From the description of Drowne family papers, 1646-1929. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122384033 ...

Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...

Drowne, Solomon, 1753-1834

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Solomon Drowne (1753-1834) was a surgeon from Providence, R.I. He was born in 1753, graduated from Rhode Island College (Brown University) in 1773, and received medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College. During the American Revolution, Drowne was a surgeon and following the war, 1784 to 1785, toured European hospitals and medical schools. After returning to Providence, he went to Ohio and then to western Virginia, only to settle finally in Foster, R.I., where he d...