Commonplace book : manuscript [stats], 1737-1776.

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Commonplace book : manuscript [stats], 1737-1776.

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Contains transcriptions of essays and charters, and Quincy's essays concerning early Christian history, New England history, early American politics and government, and other topics; with notes in the hand of Mary Quincy concerning the provenance of the original manuscript and a genealogy of Edmund Quincy. The letter from Mary Quincy concerns permissions to publish the contents of the commonplace book.

1 v. (182 leaves) ; 29 cm.

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Quincy, Edmund, 1703-1788

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Quincy, Mary Perkins

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Mary Perkins Quincy dedicated her life to preserving handcrafted textiles and other colonial artifacts and strove to revitalize the cottage lace industry in America in the early twentieth century. Although her dream of establishing a museum in her Litchfield, Connecticut, home was never realized, much of her collection is preserved at the Litchfield Historical Society. Quincy traveled to Egypt in 1896, Cf. Kalfatovic, Martin R. "Nile Notes of a Howadji" (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1992). ...

Quincy family.

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