Mary Hyde Eccles autograph collection, 1514-1697.

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Mary Hyde Eccles autograph collection, 1514-1697.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79918147

Includes letters from René Descartes, Desiderius Erasmus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Martin Luther, and Niccolò Machiavelli. Also includes an autograph manuscript of Abraham Cowley's poem The garden, and a manuscript document on vellum by Sir Francis Drake, among other items.

1 v. (.1 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Adam, Robert B. (Robert Borthwick), 1833-1904

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Robert Borthwick Adam (February 4, 1833 – June 30, 1904) was a retailer and book collector from Buffalo, New York. In 1867, Adam co-founded the department store Adam, Meldrum & Whiting. Adam's home at 448 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, built in 1876, still stands. Adam was born in Peebles, Scotland, on February 4, 1833, to Rev. Thomas Adam and Isabella Borthwick. He left school at the age of 10 and went to work in Edinburgh, where he lived until 1857. In 1855, he married Grace Harriet Michie. I...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....

Machiavelli, Niccoló, 1469-1527

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Rodulpho was capitain at Livorno, which the Republic of Florence had purchased in 1421. From the description of Letter : to Francesco Rodulpho : 1500 Apr. 1. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612797384 ...

Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596

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Epithet: Surgeon, of York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x000135 Epithet: of Stowe MS 159 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x00017b Epithet: Admiral British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x000173 Epithet: of Add MS 36811 ...

Eccles, Mary Hyde

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Mary Hyde Eccles was one of the world's leading collectors of books and manuscripts from the 1940s until her death in 2003. She was also a distinguished literary scholar, and an important benefactor to numerous libraries and cultural institutions. This collection relates to her essay "Not in Chapman," a catalog of unpublished Samuel Johnson letters. As this project neared completion in 1964, a new cache of letters from Samuel Johnson to Charlotte Lennox was discovered in the vault of the British...

Cowley, Abraham, 1474-1539.

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Descartes, René, 1596-1650

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Epithet: philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x0003dc ...

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536

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Luther, Martin, 1483-1546

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German religious reformer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wittenberg, to Wolfgang Fabricius, 1524 [May 25]. (Morgan Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 81019871 Ottensassen, Burgermeister of Hersfeld, was held in bonds along with Heinrich Reiz in Spangenberg after the capture of Hersfeld. They were released but not allowed to return to Hersfeld. From the description of Letter : to Hans von Ottensassen, 1527 [Feb 5]. (Harvard University)....