Miscellaneous manuscripts, after 1770.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts, after 1770.

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Consists of one letter and a set of two photographs. The letter is undated and is in the third person to Dr. J.G. Nancrede of Philadelphia, in which Du Ponceau declines an invitation to visit Dr. Nancrede. The photographs, each measuring 3.5 x 2.25 in., are undated and were produced by the studios of J.W. Hurn in Philadelphia. One is a tinted, sepia-toned photograph of a portrait of Du Ponceau, painted when the subject was young. The second is a sepia-toned photograph of Fiorelli's portrait bust of Du Ponceau, made when the subject was older. They were mailed by F.R. Shaeffer of Philadelphia to A.D. Dickinson of the University Library in 1925.

2 items (5 leaves)

University of Pennsylvania Library

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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Dickinson, Asa Don, 1876-1960

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Asa Don Dickinson, (1876-1960), Brooklyn College's first Chief Librarian, was born in Detroit, Michigan, and educated at the Brooklyn Latin School. In 1894, he became a student at Columbia Law School, but left after two years due to poor health. Thereafter he had thoughts of becoming a librarian, particularly after he heard that Andrew Carnegie, the philanthropist who established over 2,500 public libraries, was about to fund some additional ones in New York City. He enrolled at the New York Sta...

Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844

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Du Ponceau was a Philadelphia lawyer who arrived in Portsmouth, N.H., from France in 1777, achieved early prominence as an aide to von Steuben, and as secretary to Robert Livingston, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Congress in 1781. Du Ponceau was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1785 where his familiarity with both American and European law brought him an important practice. His intellectual interests included both history and linguistics and he published extensively in both fields. He ...

Nancrede, Joseph G. (Joseph Guerard), 1793-1857

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Shaeffer, F. R.

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