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Papers 1600-1896 1855-1896. 1855-1896.

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Books, including The Syrian Antilegomena Epistles, edited by Isaac H. Hall, 1886; Digest of Studies and Lectures in Theology, by Edwin Hall, 1866, & translation into Chinese; 1853 Plays of Shakspere; Salaminia, by Alexander Palma Di Cesnola; Cyprus, by Louis Palma Di Cesnola; Ilios, by Henry Schliemann; Catalogues of various colleges; genealogical works on the Halls and Hollisters; Webster's Elementary Spelling Book; 1876 map of Beyrouth; 17th-century Bible in French; Polymicrian New Testament; Ropp's 200 Year Calendar; 1894 Hamilton Review, with letter, poems enclosed; 1864 New-York Daily Tribune; loose pages from Hall's Syriac manuscript & other mss.; booklets; annual reports; journals with interviews; obituary. Scrapbooks with clippings of research on Cypriote, Biblical-related, Hamilton-related matters by Hall and others; manuscript English translation of books about the Syriac Language; ms. coverless book in Hebrew; 3 ms. notebooks by Hall: Lectures upon Municipal Law; notebook with Hamilton College essays by Hall; misc. other ms. notebooks and pages. Correspondence to Hall from Louis Palma di Cesnola, first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I. Rendel Harris, W.D. Whitney, J. Henry Thayer, C.V.A Von Dyck, C.H.F. Peters, Frances H. Pierce, and others. Envelopes containing mummy cloth and Babylonian gold dust; pencil sketches; 7 silk tasselled shawls and other cloth items; photographs of Hall, others, landscapes (Niagara Falls), snow scenes, rolled (albumen?) prints; photographs of Syriac ms. page; ms. pages with Syriac and Cypriote writing.

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Hamilton College, Daniel Burke Library

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Pierce, Frances H.

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Peters, C. H. F. (Christian Heinrich Friedrich), 1813-1890

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Hamilton college Clinton, N.Y.

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Small college in Clinton, N.Y., originally called the Hamilton Oneida Academy. Organized on Jan. 29, 1793. From the description of Order Suspending Edward Thompson, 1816 April 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122629330 ...

Von Dyck, C.V.A.

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Thayer, J. Henry.

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Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894

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Josiah Dwight Whitney was born on November 23, 1819 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1839 (B.A.) and studied geology in Europe. He participated in the Lake Superior region survey (1847-1849) and several other expeditions through the 1860s. Whitney taught at Harvrd University and published several works on geology. He died in Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire on August 19, 1896. From the guide to the William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951, 1814-1912,...

Hall, Edwin, 1802-1877

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Hall, Isaac H. (Isaac Hollister), 1837-1896

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Isaac Hollister Hall (December 12, 1837 - July 2, 1896), American Orientalist, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. He graduated at Hamilton College in 1859, was a tutor there in 1859-1863, graduated at the Columbia Law School in 1865, practised law in New York City until 1875, and in 1875-1877 taught in the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, where he discovered a valuable Syriac manuscript of the Philoxenian version of a large part of the New Testament, which he published in part in facsimile in...

Cesnola, Luigi Palma ˜diœ 1832-1904

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Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the description of Autograph note signed with initials : to Harper & Brothers, 1891 Nov. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611628 Union Army officer; United States consul in Cyprus; director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the description of Papers, 1863-1885. (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 122525185 Epithet: Conte; archaeologist British Library Archives and Manusc...