Letter : Fort Louis de la Louisiane [i.e. Fort Charlotte, Mobile, Ala.], [to the king, Louis XV?, Paris?], 1718 Oct. 20.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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The Charles Henri, comte d’Estaing Journal Militaire traces the efforts of France to engage the British military in Europe during the American Revolutionary War. After d’Estaing unsuccessfully attempted to defeat the British navy in North America between 1777 and 1780, he turned his attention to allying with Spain for the siege on Gibraltar. The Franco-Spanish forces blockaded Gibraltar from to December 1779 to February 1783, and though they succeeded in taking Minorca on February 5...

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Prominent friend of the governor of Mobile, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Bienville (1680-1767), and one of the military officers and early colonists at Fort Louis sent by the directors of the colony of Louisiana to Mobile in August of 1718, having been named by that time a Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis. Cf. History of Alabama ... / by Albert James Pickett. 3rd. ed. Charleston : Walker and James, 1851, v. I, p. 224, 237, 246. From the description of Letter : Fort Louis de la Louisiane...

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A lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) married and had at least one daughter. A bibliophile, he briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. An avid researcher and amateur historian, Parsons publis...

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