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Paget, Sir James (1814-1899)
Surgeon. APS 1854.
Letters, 1784-1932. 192 items.

Mostly addressed to Paget, these letters were assembled by Lady Paget as a collection of autographs; the subjects are medicine, science and family.

Correspondents include:

• Sir Frederick August Abel
• John Couch Adams
• Sir George B. Airy
• Louis Agassiz
• Charles Babbage
• John Shaw Billings
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Andrew Clark
• Georges L. C. F. D. Cuvier
• Charles R. Darwin
• Sir Humphry Davy
• James Dewar
• Thomas A. Edison
• John L. Ellerton
• John Ericsson
• Michael Faraday
• Sir William Henry Flower
• Edward Forbes
• Sir Douglas Strutt Galton
• Sir Francis Galton
• Sir Archibald Geikie
• Asa Gray
• Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
• Sir William Jackson Hooker
• Alexander von Humboldt
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Joseph Lister
• Sir John William Lubbock
• Sir Charles Lyell
• Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
• Sir William Osler
• Sir Joseph Prestwick
• George Rolleston
• Sir William Siemens
• Sir James Young Simpson
• Herbert Spencer
• Robert Stephenson
• John Tyndall
• Rudolf Virchow
• Albert Russel Wallace
• Sir Thomas Watson
• Sir Charles Wheatstone

Table of contents (5 pp.).

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Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Pamphleteer. APS 1785.
Richard Gimbel Collection of Thomas Paine Papers. 1692-ca.1921. ca. 176 items.

This collection was assembled by Richard Gimbel, whose extensive printed collection on Paine is also at the APS (see Hildegard Stephans, compiler, The Thomas Paine Collection of Richard Gimbel. Scholarly Resources, 1976. Included is a brief introduction by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., on Gimbel's Paine collection). This collection includes letters and documents of Paine, written to him, or related to him. They center on his life in America after 1774 and his years in England and France after 1787. There is much discussion of political matters (American, English, and French), references to his interest in iron bridges, and comments on his writings as well as personal life (see his letter to Kitty Few). In addition to the significant correspondents listed below, there are some accounts, receipts, and verses by Paine (one poem on General Wolfe ), and other writings, such as fragments of his outline [1796] for Common Sense.

There are contemporary documents relating to Paine and many miscellaneous items assembled by Gimbel. These include: an interesting series of letters of William Cobbett concerning politics and personal matters (ca. 1798-1834), with a manuscript of his address before 30,000 Irish concerning British-Irish relations, 18 September 1834; a James Monroe letter of 1 November 1794 written to the French Committee of Public Safety on behalf of the imprisoned Paine; an anonymous manuscript (ca. 1796) replying to Paine's Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance. Manuscript items pulled from Colonel Gimbel's book collection include: a series of letters to Archibald McIntire, et al. concerning New York State lotteries (ca. 1806-1821); numerous writings of one Grant Thornburn, including his, "Reminiscences of New York in 1794," and a historical account of the first use of slate roofs and slate nails in America (New York City, 1794); there is also a small group of documents (ca. 1779-1806) relating to the Bridge Company of Philadelphia, which was set up to erect a permanent bridge over the Schuylkill River (the officers of the company were: Thomas P. Cope, Henry Drinker, and Thomas Parke).

Table of contents (4 pp.).

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Painter Family
Papers, 1687-1947. Film. 6 reels.

Papers of Pennsylvania botanists whose gardens became the John J. Tyler Arboretum.

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Palay, Sanford Louis (1918-2002)
Neuroscientist
Papers, 1938-2002. 77 lin. feet.

A pioneering neuroscientist, Sanford L. Palay began research into the structure and function of the brain as a student at Western Reserve Medical School (MD, 1943). His research on the fine structure of synaptic vesicles at the Rockefeller Institute in 1953, resulted in a series of electron micrographs that are often cited as the first images of the synapse and of the structures that release messenger chemicals in the brain. His later work at the National Institutes of Health and at Harvard Medical School (1961-1989) helped provide a well rounded picture of the structure of neuroglia (cells that support and protect neurons) and of the cerebellum. Palay was the long-time editor of the Journal of Comparative Neurology.

The Palay collection contains the bulk of Palay's professional correspondence from his days as a medical student until after his retirement. The collection includes class notes, research notes on brain anatomy and physiology and on the golgi apparatus, a large number of electron micrographs of brain structures, and editorial files from the Journal of Comparative Neurology (1980-1997).

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Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph (1752-1820)
Botanist, explorer
Letters to Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, 1786-1808. Film. 1 reel.

From originals in the Académie des Sciences, Paris.

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Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph (1752-1820)
Botanist, explorer
Manuscripts. Film. 1 reel.

From originals in the Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, Brussels.

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Panella, Silvia
Benjamin Franklin: writer and humanist. 211 pp. Typed, carbon.

Submitted for a degree at Universit... Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy, 1962.

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Parke, Thomas (1749-1835)
Philadelphia Quaker physician. APS 1774
Journal, 1771-1773. Film. 1 reel

From Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Kept while a medical student in London and Edinburgh.

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Parker, Daniel (1782-1846)
Lawyer, Adjutant Inspector-General, U.S. Army.
U. S. Army Registers, ca. 1801-1816. 3 vols.

There are a compilation of manuscript and printed items, with some extensive annotations by Parker on the published items. There are various editions of the Army Register, or Register of the Army of the U.S., from 1813-1816, published both in Washington and Philadelphia, with Parker's corrections, additions, and manuscript versions appended. Some of the volumes contain printed regulations, orders, laws, etc., with his annotations, such as: An Act for Establishing Rules & Articles . . . of the Armies of the U.S. (Washington, 1808).

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Parker, Ely Samuel (1828-1895)
Seneca sachem, engineer, soldier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Papers, 1794-1946. ca. 600 items.

A Sachem and Civil War adjutant to Ulysses Grant, Ely Samuel Parker was an important figure in the Seneca Indian nation during the first half of the nineteenth century. Trained as an engineer, Parker was deeply involved in the Senecas' land disputes with the Ogden Land Company and he played an important role in interpreting Seneca culture for a white audience, msot notably as a consultant for Lewis Henry Morgan.

The Parker Papers include correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials relating primarily to Seneca affairs, history, language, and culture, as well as politics, education, engineering, and the Civil War. Among Parker's correspondents were Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, Henry M. Flagler, Lewis Henry Morgan, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Daniel Webster, and Asher Wright. Several letters relate to Parker's service as engineer of public buildings in Galena, Ill., and to his Masonic activities. Among the noteworthy items in the collection are several essays on Seneca history and culture, a fragment of Parker's diary, 1847, and a significant quantity of material on the Seneca language assembled by Asher Wright.

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Parkinson, George H.
Charles Darwin's influence on religion and politics of the present day. Film. 1 reel.

Doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, 1942.

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Parks, Douglas
Collector
Pawnee texts, n.d. Recording. 1 reel.

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Parnell, Richard, 1810-1882
British physician, ichthyologist
Notebook, 1839-1840. 1 vol. (261p.).

In 1839-1840, the ichthyologist Richard Parnell left London for a collecting expedition to Jamaica and a tour of museum collections in the United States. An authority on both fishes and grasses, Parnell published two noted works as a young man, his Prize Essay on the Natural and Economical History of the Fishes Marine, Fluviatile, and Lacustrine, of the River District of the Firth of Forth (Edinburgh: Neill and Co., 1838) and The Grasses of Britain, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1842-1845). He appears, however, to have abandoned publication in 1845, although he continued collecting for many years.

The notebook kept by Richard Parnell during his voyage to the West Indies and United States in 1839-1840 contains little narrative, but dozens of pencil and watercolor sketches of the marine life that absorbed his interest, primarily fishes. Most sketches are accompanied by brief notes on the anatomy of the fish, sometimes with close-ups of fin structures, air bladders, or the digestive tract and stomach. Although collecting localities are seldom recorded, the majority of specimens seem to have been collected in Jamaica, with at least a few observed in vitro at the New York Museum.

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Parras, Pedro Joseph de
Spanish priest
Diario y derrotero de los viages que ha hecho desde que salió de la Ciudad de Zaragosa en Aragón para la América, 1748-1759. 1 vol. (450 pp.).

Includes a narrative of a trip through the Paraguay missions, with descriptions of the life of the Indians there; also descriptions of Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

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Parrish, Jasper (1767-1836)
Indian interpreter and agent
Letters and documents relating to his government service among the Indians of New York state, 1790-1831. Film. 1 reel.

Edited by Mrs. Dorothy May Fairbanks Newton. Thesis, Vassar College, 1940.

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Parsons, Elsie Clews (1875-1941)
Anthropologist, folklorist.
Papers, 1835-1944. (38.25 lin. ft.).

Elsie Clews Parsons (1875-1941) was trained as a sociologist at Columbia University, but made her greatest achievements in the fields of anthropology and folklore. Parsons' early works in the field of sociology dealt primarily with gender roles, conventions of society, and the effect of society's pressures on the individual. After a trip to the American Southwest with her husband in 1910, Parsons' interests turned to anthropology. She began making field trips to Arizona and New Mexico and, under the influence of her friend Franz Boas, Parsons recorded in meticulous detail data on social organization, religious practices, and folklore of the Southwest Indians. Concurrently, Parsons conducted research in folklore, concentrating on folk tales of Afro-Americans and Caribbean peoples. She was active in a number of professional associations and was the associate editor of the Journal of American Folklore from 1918 until her death.

The Parsons Papers were acquired in two separate groupings and remains organized in two distinct parts. The first part (572 P35), acquired in 1949, contains approximately 12 linear feet of materials focused on Parsons' career in anthropology. The second part (Ms. Coll. 29), acquired in 1985, consists of 26.25 linear feet of materials divided into ten series, covering a larger scope of Parsons' life, including family and personal correspondence.

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Parsons, Elsie Clews (1875-1941)
Anthropologist, folklorist.
Isleta sketches, n.d. 189 items.

These watercolor and ink drawings were made by Joe Lente, a native Tewa Indian from the Isleta pueblo in New Mexico. They were published in part by Esther S. Goldfrank, as Isleta Paintings (Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology 181 [1962]) with an introduction by Mrs. Parsons.

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Pasley, Madalene (1848-1937)
A Selection of British Butterflies and Moths, 1862. 1 vol., 42p. 17 watercolor sketches.

The youngest of the eleven children of Admiral Thomas Sabine, Baronet Pasley (1804-1884) and his wife Jane Matilda Lily Wynyard, Madalene Pasley was born in 1848, about the time that her father left the Brazilian station to take up duties as superintendent of the Pembroke Dockyard. Madalene married Sir Henry Jenkyns in 1877.

Produced when she was 14 years old, Madelene Pasley's "A Selection of British Butterflies and Moths" is a thin duodecimo volume containing observations on British lepidoptera, illustrated with seventeen watercolor sketches. While it was expected that a genteel young woman would acquire basic artistic skills and might be exposed to at least some facets of the study of the natural sciences, Pasley's book was accomplished with unusual skill. Her comments on the phenology, ethology, ecology, and appearance of butterflies are concise and knowledgeable and suggest that Pasley was a true enthusiast.

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Pasti, George (1923- )
Consul Sherard: amateur botanist and patron of learning, 1659-1728. Film. 1 reel.

Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois, 1950.

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Patterson, Robert (1743-1824)
Mathematician. APS 1785.
Letters and papers, 1791-1821. ca. 50 items.

Principally letters from Thomas Freeman and John Garnett; with some miscellaneous writings, such as "Hints towards a primer for my little boy," and a commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania, 1813. These are interfiled with Robert M. Patterson material.

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Patterson, Robert Maskell (1787-1854)
Professor of natural philosophy; director of the United States Mint. APS 1809
Papers, 1775-1853. ca. 400 items.

There are letters to and from Alexander D. Bache, John Gummere, Ferdinand R. Hassler, Samuel M. Leiper, Robert C. Reid, John Sergeant, John Vaughan, and others; 15 letters to President Franklin Pierce from various persons recommending Patterson's son for the directorship of the Mint, 1853; a large number of miscellaneous notes and papers on a great variety of topics, including astronomy, algebra, annuities, coals, canals, electricity, magnetism, optics, sound, the deaths of Adams and Jefferson, music, and natural philosophy. There are a number of lectures, a set of accounts at the University of Virginia, and letters to the trustees of the University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, and Girard College; examination questions in natural philosophy at the University of Pa., 1829-1832. There are also five separate volumes (B P274.1) that concern mathematics, problems in astronomical navigation, and clocks and timekeeping. Among unrelated items in the collection are Phineas Pemberton's meteorological observations, 1775-1777; Ferdinand R. Hassler's list of books and instruments for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1817; and papers on Thomas Leiper's stone quarry and canal.

Table of contents (9 pp.).

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Patterson, Robert Maskell (1787-1854)
Professor of natural philosophy; director of the United States Mint. APS 1809
Notebooks, 1810-1811. 4 vols.

These are notes of lectures and experiments made at Paris as a student at the Jardin des Plantes. The volumes are entitled: Botany & Agriculture (with a large portion actually on electrical machinery); Trees and Shrubs; Chemistry, Physics, Mineralogy; and Zoology.

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Patterson, Thomas Leiper (1816-1905)
Lawyer, engineer
Papers, 1834-1905. Film. 1 reel.

From manuscripts in possession of Mr. and Mrs. Leiper Patterson Read, Pottsville, Pa., 1965. Chiefly personal and family letters, with a few of earlier and later date. There is also a film of a transcript of the letters, made by Mrs. Eliza Leiper Woolford Jones, Vinings, Ga.

Table of contents (7 pp.).

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Patterson Family
Papers, ca. 1809-1876. ca. 600 items.

This collection of Robert Patterson family papers is composed primarily of the letters of Robert Maskell Patterson, but includes some of the business and personal papers of his father, Robert, and a series of letters written from Europe in 1855 by Helen Patterson.

The major portion of the Robert M. material concerns his trip to, and study in Europe during the year 1809-1812. This includes a long series of letters written to his family. In addition, his European period correspondence with Francis E. Berger, M. Haley, Learned Jarvis, and Edward Learned is the most voluminous. Other Robert M. material centers on his post as the Director of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.

Correspondents of note include:

• Benjamin S. Barton
• James Buchanan
• Nathaniel Chapman
• Thomas Ewing
• Millard Fillmore
• Ferdinand R. Hassler
• Samuel Hazard
• Andrew Jackson
• Samuel Moore
• Ambroise M. F. J. Palisot de Beauvois
• Franklin Peale
• Rembrandt Peale
• Rubens Peale
• Jonathan Russell
• William Strickland
• Richard Albert Tilghman
• John Vaughan
• Robert Walsh
• Caspar Wistar
• Levi Woodbury

Table of contents (5 pp.).

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Pattinson, Dorothea Hazel
The reception of the American constitution in Britain, 1787-1848. Microfiche. 4 cards.

MA thesis, University of Birmingham, 1941.

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Peale, Mrs. Burd
Notes on the paintings of Charles Willson Peale. 1 vol. (196p.).

Compiled in the latter part of the nineteenth century, this volume contains extracts from Charles Willson Peale's writing about his paintings and the subjects. Part of the volume is a list, with description, of Peale's portraits with the (then) location of each.

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Peale, Charles (1709-1750)
Schoolmaster, painter, father of Charles Willson Peale
Letterbook, 1745-1747. 1 vol. (40 pp.).

Letters written from Maryland, principally on family affairs, financial conditions, health, and life in Maryland; with some references to Maryland politics. With typed copies.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Diaries, 1765-1826. 26 vols.

Daily entries relating to family and business, travels, sittings, museum work, etc. Three of the diaries are duplicated from originals elsewhere: No. 3 in the Henry E. Huntington Library, and Nos. 7 and 9 in Fordham University Library. The diary of June 9-July 4, 1824 covers the period of Peale's last courtship.

Note: The papers of C. W. Peale and his family, herein described in some detail, have been reproduced almost in their entirety in microfiche form (Lillian B. Miller, ed. Collected papers of Charles Willson Peale and his family. Kraus Microfilm, 1980). The main body of the collection, which was presented by Charles Coleman Sellers, was described in brief in the APS Year Book 1945:74.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Letter books, 1767-1827. 18 vols.

Business and personal correspondence on a wide variety of topics with a great many persons. Subjects include events in Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum, its exhibits, and Peale's hopes for its acquisition by the city or state; the exhumation and exhibition of the mastodon; construction and promotion of the polygraph; agricultural concerns, including the operation of his farm Belfield; natural history; false teeth, etc. Correspondents include, among many others:

• Sir Joseph Banks
• Joel Barlow
• John Beale Bordley
• John Dickinson
• James De Peyster
• William Duane
• Peter S. Du Ponceau
• Andrew Ellicott
• Benjamin Franklin
• Robert Fulton
• Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
• John Hawkins
• Michael Hillegas
• Joseph Hopkinson
• David Hosack
• Thomas Jefferson
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe
• Henry Laurens
• Thomas McKean
• Rembrandt Peale
• Titian R. Peale
• Franklin Peale
• Mrs. Angelica Robinson
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
• David Ramsay
• Thomas Jefferson Randolph
• William Smith
• Thomas Sully
• John Vaughan
• George Washington

Volume 19 (1825) of the letterbooks is missing. There is a 3-vol. calendar and an index, as well as the extensive index with the microfiche.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Account book, 1785-1795. 1 vol. (41 pp.).

Accounts of Peale's museum, which was housed in Philosophical Hall. Only a few accounts are itemized, as "for Musick," "for Hand bills," etc. A few receipts for payment of taxes are included, with some sketches of animals and scenes.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Autobiography. 3 vols.

Autograph copy, manuscript copy, and typed copy by Horace W. Sellers, with notes and an index.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Belfield farm accounts, 1816-1820. 1 vol. (7 pp.).

For an account of Peale's country place, see Jessie J. Poesch, "Mr. Peale's Farm 'Persevere,'" APS Proc. 100 (1956):545-556.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Day books, 1805-1823, 1810 24. 2 vols. (152 pp.).

The day book of 1805 23 contains, among other things, an account with Robert Fulton for painting supplies; account with Thomas Jefferson Randolph for admission to lectures on chemistry, purchase of instruments, etc., with notes of payment by Thomas Jefferson; accounts with his children, etc. The day book of 1810-1824 consists chiefly of farm accounts for Belfield, with notes on the construction of a mill, out-buildings, and farm work and purchases; and some notes of daily activities and a description of a plough made by Peale patterned after Jefferson's.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Lectures, Nos. 1-39. 42 vols. Film. 1 reel.

Lectures on natural history, describing the elements, physical phenomena, quadrupeds, fishes, and birds, systems of identification; delivered at the Philadelphia Museum and illustrated by specimens in that establishment.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Lectures. 1 vol. (146 pp.).

Lectures on natural history, the Philadelphia Museum, health, domestic happiness; one is entitled "a voice in behalf of the oppressed."

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Memorandum book, 1794. 1 vol. (40 pp.).

Entries for recipes for curing food, mixing oil paints, making black ink, cleaning teeth, making cements; also prescriptions for illness; notes on grafting, etc.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Notes about his paintings. 8 notebooks.

Notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, etc., about the paintings of Peale and Rembrandt Peale, compiled by Charles Coleman Sellers for his biography of Charles Willson Peale.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Portrait list, ca. 1772. Fragment. (2 pp.).

Names of 55 persons whom Peale painted, with notes on the sizes of paintings, and prices charged. This information appears in another form in Charles Coleman Sellers, "Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale," APS Trans. 42 (1952).

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Sketch book, 1801. 1 vol. (36 pp.).

During his 1801 journey to John Masten's farm to purchase the skeleton of a mastodon, Charles Willson Peale made seventeen finished and three unfinished sketches of the scenery along the Hudson River in the vicinity of West Point, Fort Clinton, and Fort Putnam. Most of the sketches were completed in watercolor during or shortly after the voyage, and include views of Slaughter Landing, Verplank's Point, Stony Point, Dunderberg or Thunder Hill, Haverstraw Bay, Anthony's Nose, and several of West Point.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Collected papers of Charles Willson Peale and his family. Edited by Lillian B. Miller. Microfiche. 454 cards & guide.

This contains reproductions of almost all the original C. W. Peale and Peale family documents at the APS. The printed guide contains an excellent name index, which includes mentions of individuals in letters and documents. It was published by Kraus Microfilms, 1980.

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Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827)
Artist, naturalist, soldier. APS 1786.
Notes on lectures delivered by C. W. Peale, 1801-1802. Film. 1 reel.

These 94 pages of notes, by an unknown author, pertain to the first and second classes of zoology.

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Peale, Franklin (1795-1870)
Naturalist, paleontologist, traveler. APS 1833.
Songs for guitar and piano, 1822-1823. 2 vols. (111 pp.).

One volume contains songs for guitar and piano, the other compositions and arrangements for guitar. Peale copied some, if not all, from the works of various composers; a few were copied by his wife. See APS Proc. 11 (1870) for biographical sketch.

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Peale, James (1749-1831)
Artist.
Sketch book. 1 vol. (60 pp.).

Sketches of scenes, animals, mills, machinery, persons, ships, furniture, etc.; also brief notes.

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Peale, Mary Jane Patterson (1827-1902)
Journal, 1844. 1 vol. (35 pp.).

Commenced at Deer Park, 26 April 1844, and continuing to 8 October 1844, this is the record of a young lady's uneventful round of rising, dressing, sewing, making and serving meals, walking out, visits, outings, etc.

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Peale, Rembrandt (1778-1860)
Portrait and historical painter.
Sketch books. 2 vols. (ca. 34 pp.).

One book contains sketches of the Delaware Water Gap, Mount Vernon, and Washington's tomb; the other contains pencil sketches made on a trip on the Hudson River, October 1850, including views of the Palisades, Castle Garden, the Catskill Mountains, etc.

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Peale, Rembrandt (1778-1860)
Portrait and historical painter.
Palettes. 8 sheets.

The palettes show 153 colors, with notes by the author explaining the reasons for locating the colors. One note refers to Peale's painting of Washington, 1853.

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Peale, Rembrandt (1778-1860)
Portrait and historical painter.
Miscellaneous manuscripts. Film.

From manuscripts in possession of Edward L. Davis, Philadelphia, 1962. Contains seven letters to his wife, 1808-1833; a fragment of autobiography on his painting and studies; a notebook containing copies of correspondence about his portrait of Washington; John Godman's Ode suggested by Rembrandt Peale's National Portrait of Washington (1824); a commonplace book containing kitchen and medicinal recipes.

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Peale, Rubens (1784-1865)
Artist
Letter books, 1802-1814, 1824. 2 vols. (ca. 77 pp.).

Chiefly letters to members of his family on the business of the museums in Philadelphia, New York, and London. The letters of 1824 are press copies, chiefly to Charles Willson Peale and Franklin Peale about the Baltimore museum.

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Peale, Rubens (1784-1865)
Artist
Correspondence, 1822-1849. 1 vol. (75 pp.) and 23 items.

One volume of correspondence and miscellany relating to the New York museum, 1826-1849, including the exchange of specimens; with some family correspondence. Also 23 letters to Franklin Peale about the Baltimore museum and its relations to the Philadelphia and New York museums. These letters mention Thomas Sully, Thomas Birch, Charles Willson Peale, and other Philadelphia artists; also the physiognotrace, galvanic experiments, gasometers, balloons, Indians, natural history, etc.

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Peale, Rubens (1784-1865)
Artist
List of pictures, 1855-1865. 1 vol. (24 pp.).

Subjects of 131 paintings, with dates and the names of the purchasers or those to whom the completed work was presented.

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Peale, Rubens (1784-1865)
Artist
Memorandum and events of his life. 1 vol. (130 pp.).

An autobiographical work.

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Peale, Rubens (1784-1865)
Artist
Sketch book, 1864. 1 vol. (13 pp.).

Pencil sketches of landscapes, designs for cards and figures, etc.

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Peale, St. George (1745-1778)
Clerk of the Maryland Assembly, commissary of military stores
Accounts with the Board of War, 1777-1778. 1 vol. (20 pp.).

Entries for labor, barrels, wagon hire, freight, powder, muskets, bayonets, balls, cartridges and cartridge paper, powder horns, and other supplies; with some entries of the character of a commonplace book. On the back cover is a poem written to David Rittenhouse, from Charles W. Peale.

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Peale, Titian Ramsay (1780-1798)
Student, painter
Miniature painting with the necessary instructions, ca. 1798. 1 vol. (75 pp.).

Identifies miniatures as distinct from other paintings; instructions on fixing canvas, mixing paints, arranging subject, painting draperies, flowers, etc. Probably copied from a printed volume.

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Peale, Titian Ramsay (1799-1885)
Naturalist, explorer, artist. APS 1833.
Correspondence, 1820-1868. 56 items.

Letters from Franklin Peale, chiefly on family affairs; but also on the United States Mint, agriculture, Civil War, photograph, current events, and Franklin Peale's collection of artifacts of the Stone Age; with some letters from Titian Peale and his wife.

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Peale, Titian Ramsay (1799-1885)
Naturalist, explorer, artist. APS 1833.
Sketches, 1817-1875, n.d. ca. 480 items.

The youngest son of Charles Willson Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale was an accomplished artist, naturalist, and explorer. This collection of ink, pencil, and watercolor sketches, with some engravings and lithographs, forms the bulk of Peale's artistic output. The drawings can be grouped into several periods of artistic output: pre-1818 (primarily watercolors of butterflies); from the Stephen Harriman Long Expedition to the American west in 1819-1820, on which Peale traveled as zoologist (there are views of animals, Indians, landscapes, etc.); for his 1821-1838 interlude period, spent primarily on the east coast (insects, animals, moose hunting in Marine, his trip to South America in 1830-1831, coin and medal designs); his period as a naturalist on the worldwide U.S. Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes, 1838-1842; from the 1849-1873 period when he sketched around Washington, D. C. and in New Jersey; and there are more than 160 undated sketches of: animal skulls and bones, birds, plants, fish, insects, landscapes, and zoology.

Table of contents (20 pp.).

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Peale, Titian Ramsay (1799-1885)
Naturalist, explorer, artist. APS 1833.
Charles Willson Peale, a biography. 1,039 pp.

Unpublished, and superseded by Charles Coleman Sellers's biography of the artist.

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Peale, Titian Ramsay (1799-1885)
Naturalist, explorer, artist. APS 1833.
Journal kept as assistant naturalist of Long's expedition west of the Rocky Mountains, 1819. Film. 1 reel.

From the original in the Library of Congress.

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Peale Family
Papers, 1705-1898. ca. 400 pieces.

Principally correspondence among members of the family on family matters and genealogy. Most of the material is dated in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Principal correspondents include Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, George Washington Parke Custis, Mrs. Eliza Burd Patterson Peale, Mrs. Harriet Peale, Rubens Peale, Mrs. Angelica Peale Robinson, Titian Ramsay Peale, Franklin Peale, and Albert Charles Peale, who appears to have assembled the collection. There is some material on the Philadelphia Museum, natural history, and Charles Willson Peale's portraits.

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Peale Family
Genealogies. 3 vols.

One volume contains the line of descent from William Peale (fl. 1630) of Rutlandshire, through Charles Peale of Maryland, to 1950; a second volume is a photocopy of a family genealogy prepared by Joseph M. Peale, 1931, with emphasis on the line of James Peale (1749-1831), brother of Charles Willson Peale; the third volume, compiled by Horace Wells Sellers, contains notes, letters, and photostats of documents relating to the family genealogy in England and the United States.

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Peale Family
Miscellany. Film. 1 reel.

This includes two pages by Rubens Peale concerning landscapes, a notebook by Rembrandt relating to the portrait of Washington, and a commonplace and recipe book, with sketches of gas lights.

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Peale Family
Papers, 1803-1854. Film. 1 reel.

These related to C. W. P., Rembrandt, Titian, and Peale's museum.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Peale Family Papers
Papers, ca. 1750-1940. ca. 2,000 items (2 lin. ft.).

This collection of letters, diaries, and other types of documents (both original and copies) was assembled primarily by Mary Jane Peale, who copied, or had copied, many family documents. The bulk of the collection centers on Charles Willson Peale, James Burd Peale, and Mary Jane Peale.

The C. W. Peale material consists primarily of notes extracted from letters, diaries and documents, most of which are probably in the APS Peale collection. The documents on James B. Peale are numerous, including a diary of 1848-1849, letters, miscellaneous items such as his phrenological analysis (an interesting chart), and a "Record Book" he kept as brigade surgeon of the First Brigade, Fifth Division, during the period 1861-1863. Another interesting Civil War document is a bound typescript volume of letters written by Theodore F. Patterson during the years 1861-1864, while serving in the First Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Mary Jane Peale material includes diaries (10 vols., 1847-1897) and letters (1842-1895), all of which concern domestic and social news, as well as her paintings. There is an interesting manuscript by her on "Oil Painting," which is a notebook on techniques and paintings, her own and others, and there is additional, miscellaneous material relating to her.

There are copies of documents in the collection relating to Rubens and Rembrandt Peale, letters of Mrs. Rubens Peale (1815-1831), and various other Peale family documents. There are also a few items concerning the Peale Museum.

In addition there is a variety of material relating to the Burd family, Shippen family, Rebecca Wilmer, Simon Wilmer, and the Wilmer family.
Table of contents (7 pp.).

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Peale-Sellers Family
Correspondence, 1686-1963. 12 boxes.

Wide-ranging, miscellaneous correspondence, with some other manuscripts, of members of the Peale and Sellers families, on natural history, the Philadelphia Museum, engineering, current events, and family matters. There is a group of letters and papers of Titian Ramsay Peale, including a sketch book and a large number of loose sketches; also a group of letters of Rubens Peale and one of letters of Raphaelle Peale; also photostats of letters of Rembrandt Peale concerning his portrait of George Washington, from the original manuscripts in Morristown, N.J., National Historical Park. Other correspondents include:

• Park Benjamin
• Alexander J. Cassatt
• Paul Philippe Cret
• Jacques Boucher de Crévecoeur de Perthes
• John Philip de Peyster
• Thomas A. Edison
• Frederick Fraley
• Benjamin Franklin
• Robert Fulton
• Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
• Mrs. E. D. Gillespie
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Thomas Jefferson
• Lord Kelvin
• Samuel P. Langley
• Benjamin H. Latrobe
• J. Peter Lesley
• James Madison
• S. Weir Mitchell
• Henry Morton
• George Ord
• Robert M. Patterson
• William Pepper
• Charles Augustus Stetson
• Elihu Thomson
• William Thornton
• John Vaughan
• Benjamin West
• George Westinghouse

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Pearl, Raymond (1879-1940)
Biologist, statistician. APS 1915.
Papers, ca. 1895-1940. (15 lin. ft.).

This collection includes correspondence as well as notebooks, scrapbooks, diplomas, photographs, and 33 volumes of diaries. Pearl spent most of his academic career (1918-1940) at Johns Hopkins University, where he was Prof. of Biometry and Vital Statistics and Director of the Institute of Biological Research. Founder of the Quarterly Review of Biology and Human Biology, he made significant contributions in the areas of biology, genetics, eugenics, and statistics. There is significant correspondence with his wife (ca. 500 letters) and mother (ca. 300 letters), particularly for the years 1895-1934. Of special note is the correspondence with his friend, colleague, and fellow Baltimoreian, H. L. Mencken (ca. 500 letters). The papers contain interesting information on: American Assoc. of Physical Anthropologists, The Baltimore Sun, Birth Control Federation of America, Dartmouth College, International Institute of Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, National Academy of Sciences. There is a biographical memoir in APS Year Book 1940.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

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Pemberton, Israel (1715-1779)
Philadelphia Quaker merchant and philanthropist. APS 1768.
Letter book D, 1744-1747. 1 vol. (558 pp.).

Mercantile letters relating to the purchase and shipment of goods in America, Europe, and the West Indies. Some are signed by Matthias Aspden, John Reynell, and John Smith.

There is an index of addresses (3 pp.).

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Penn, Thomas (1702-1775), and Richard Penn (1706-1771)
Proprietors of Pennsylvania
Correspondence with James Hamilton, 1747-1771. 1 vol.

About 175 letters on public business. A few are copies of letters by Hamilton and by or to Abraham Taylor, member of the Provincial Council.

Index (8 pp.).

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Penn, William (1644-1718)
Religious and political thinker, statesman.
Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1665-1801. 4 vols. (125 items).

Three vols. contain letters, laws, charters, reports, proclamations, petitions, and other official and semi-official documents relating principally to early Pennsylvania and New Jersey, signed by, or addressed to, Penn and, among others:

• James Claypoole
• John Eckley
• Benjamin Fletcher
• Andrew Hamilton
• Thomas Lloyd
• James Logan
• William Markham
• Isaac Norris
• Hugh Roberts
• John Simcock
• Robert Turner

Also included is Jonathan Williams's patent for molds for whitening refined sugar, 1793. Some documents are manuscripts, other copies. A fourth volume is Penn's cash book, 1699-1703, which records expenditures, payments of quit rents, etc.; tipped in is "Catalogue of Goods left at Pensbury," and of goods left at Philadelphia, 1701, of which the first was printed, with omissions and changes, in Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan 4: 62 (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Memoirs 9).

Table of contents, vols. 1-3 (7 pp.).

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Penn Family
Estates
Quit rent rolls, 1688/9, 1788-1793. 2 vols. (60 pp.).

List of quit rents due in Philadelphia County, 1 March 1688/9, and in Philadelphia and Lancaster Counties, 1788-1793.

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Pennock, Caspar Wistar (1801-1867)
Philadelphia physician.
Papers, 1829-1891. 56 items.

These are primarily letters, with some medical receipts included. They relate to the general social and intellectual life of Philadelphia and to publications on medical topics. Many of the letters are introductions to Europeans when Pennock first visited there. Among correspondents are:

• John J. Audubon
• Franklin Bache
• Andrew Comstock
• John Griscom
• Richard Harlan
• Isaac Hays
• François André Michaux
• Samuel G. Morton
• Benjamin Travers
• Roberts Vaux

Table of contents (2 pp.).

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Pennsylvania
Miscellaneous records. 5 vols.

• These include a volume of records of early settlements on the Delaware in English and Dutch archives, copied from records in the office of the Secretary of State, Harrisburg

  (974.8 P37)

 


• A volume of original manuscripts relating to Pennsylvania and the American Revolution (including message and proclamations of governors of the province, petition to the King from the province of Georgia, draft of an address of the University of the State of Pennsylvania to George Washington, 1781, letter of Arthur Lee to Alexander Wedderburn, 1774, letters of Timothy Matlack to Abiel Holmes, 1819, George Wythe's draft resolutions, 1775, etc.)

  (974.8 D65)

 


• A volume of extracts from provincial records, 1748-1758, printed in part in Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania 4 (1829): 205 and subsequent pages through 6 (1830): 369

  (974.8 Sq 7)

 


• A volume of documents on the Wyoming Controversy, 1751-1814 (many of which are printed in Pennsylvania Archives), including correspondence of Lord Amherst, John Armstrong, Jr., Charles Biddle, John Boyd, Zebulon Butler, Thomas Cooper, Thomas Fitch, John Franklin, James Hamilton, Joseph Hamilton, William Montgomery, John Penn, Richard Rush, Jonathan Trumbull, and Roger Wolcott

  (974.83 D65)

 


• An additional volume, Catalogue and Tracts relating to Pennsylvania, 1681-1770, collected by Joshua Francis Fisher (presented to APS in 1839), contains: 1. "Catalogue of Printed Tracts relating to the Political History of . . . Pennsylvania, 1681-1770," with an introduction by Fisher (20 pp.); 2. (Sir William Keith), "The Life and character of a strange `He Monster' lately arrived in London from an English Colony in America, . . .," n.d. The "Monster" is identified as Andrew Hamilton by Walker Lewis, William and Mary Quarterly 38 (1981): 269-294; 3. A modest apology for the eight members. (3 pp.); 4. Petitions of merchants and others to the King for the safety of the Province and against the Quakers, n.d. (4 pp.).

  Presented by Redmond Conyngham, 1819, 1823 (part), Joseph Parker Norris, and John Bannister Gibson
  (016.9748 C28)

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Pennsylvania (Province)
Deeds, 1703-1798. 29 items.

This is a miscellaneous collection of deeds, indentures, and land surveys. Many names are represented, including: James Claypole, Joseph Harrison, John Penn, Richard Penn, Thomas Penn, Zachariah Poulson, and William Shippen, Jr. Table of contents (1 p.).

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Pennsylvania (Province)
Minutes of Indian treaties and conferences, 1721-1760. 7 vols.

The following treaties and conferences are included:

1. Particulars of an Indian treaty at Conestogoe, July 5-8, 1721. Manuscript copy of a printed work, with a preface dated July 26. See Colonial Records, 3: 121.
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2. Treaty of peace and friendship, made . . . at Albany, in . . . 1722. Nineteenth-century copy. Printed in part in Colonial Records, 3: 196.
   (970.5 T692)
3. Treaty held with the Ohio Indians at Carlisle in October, 1753. Manuscript copy. Printed in facsimile in Carl Van Doren, ed., Indian Treaties Printed by Benjamin Franklin (Philadelphia, 1938), 123.
   (970.5 T716)
4. Minutes of conferences held with the Indians at Easton, July and November, 1756. 2 vols. Copies. Printed in facsimile in Van Doren, Indian Treaties, cited above, p. 135 and p. 150 respectively.
   (970.5 M659)
5. Minutes of the Indian treaty council held at Easton, 21 July 7 August 1757. With a letter from Charles Thomson to Isaac Norris, August 1757, enclosing this copy which may have been prepared from Thomson's notes; also copies of five treaties with the Indians, 1686-1749, and three maps. Printed in facsimile in Van Doren, Indian Treaties, cited above, p. 189.
   (970.5 M659.1)
6. Minutes of conferences with Indians in the Council chamber, 1758-1760. The records appear in Colonial Records 8:passim.

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Pennsylvania (Province)
Miscellaneous manuscripts on Indian affairs, 1737-1775. 5 vols. Copies.

Reports on conferences and treaties with the Indians; extracts from the journals of Conrad Weiser and Christian Frederick Post; Charles Thomson's "An Enquiry into the causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British interest," 1759; selected letters and documents in the Pennsylvania state records on Indian relations, French and Indian War, Braddock's campaign. Correspondents include:

• John Armstrong
• Thomas Barton
• Edward Braddock
• Daniel Claus
• George Croghan
• James Hamilton
• James Logan
• Hugh Mercer
• Andrew Montour
• Robert Hunter Morris
• Robert Orme
• Ferdinand J. Paris
• Thomas Penn
• Horatio Sharpe
• Joseph Shippen
• William Shirley
• John Stanwix
• Robert Stobo
• William Trent
• Conrad Weiser

Some manuscripts are written by Deborah Norris Logan and Charles Thomson.

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Pennsylvania (Province). Assembly
Laws, 1682-1719. 2 vols. (ca. 71 items & 82 pp.).

One volume, prepared possibly for James Logan, contains copies of Charles II's grant to William Penn of the Lower Counties, 1683, an act of the Privy Council, 1705, the charter of Pennsylvania of 1701, acts of the Assembly, 1682-1719. The other volume contains the texts of laws enacted in the administrations of Governors Benjamin Fletcher and William Markham, 1693-1700. Much of the material in both volumes is printed in Charter to William Penn, and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania . . . (Harrisburg, 1879).

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Pennsylvania (Province). Assembly
Laws enacted 1700. Film. 1 reel.

From Public Record Office, London. Manuscript copy of the laws, submitted to the King, 1702; also a copy of the laws enacted by the Duke of York, 1667; and other documents relating to early Pennsylvania history.

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Pennsylvania (Province). Commissioners for Determining the Pennsylvania-Maryland Boundary
Minutes, 1760-1768. 2 vols. and 1 reel of film. (ca. 170 pp.).

One volume was copied from the original minutes in possession of Ferdinand R. Hassler; the other is composed of original vouchers signed by Richard Peters and Joseph Shippen, Jr. The Film is of the Minutes of the Commissioners, which are at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania (Province). Council
Rough minutes, 1693-1717. 3 vols. (518 items).

From this manuscript the minutes for 1700-1712 were printed in Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania 6 (1830): p. 9 and following.

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Pennsylvania (Province). French and Indian War
Military records and accounts, 1753-1763. 8 vols.

1. Major James Burd. Account Book, Ft. Augusta, 1753-1763. 1 vol. (59 pp.).
   (973.2 B89)
2. Account book, Fort Granville, 1756, 1 vol. (32 pp.). Record of purchases of stockings, shoes, hats, knives, shirts, and sundries by soldiers, 19 February 21 May 1756.
   (973.2 B89rs)
3. Receipt book, Camp at Shamokin, 1756. 1 vol. (8 pp.). Soldiers' receipts for pay, 21 July 22 October 1756.
   (973.2 B89rs)
4. Orderly book, Fort Augusta, 1757. 1 vol. (60 pp.).
   (973.2 B89o)
5. Receipt book, Fort Augusta and Carlisle, 1757. 1 vol. (20 pp.). Officers' and men's receipts for pay, 4 April 1757-4 June 1758.
   (973.2 B89r)
6. Muster roll, 1757-1758. 1 vol (11 pp.). Muster roll of the Augusta regiment, 10 May 1757-23 November 1758, with receipts of men for pay made at Carlisle, Rays Town, and Loyalhanna.
   (973.2 B89m)
7. Diaries, Fort Augusta, 1760, 1763. 2 vols. (ca. 100 pp.). Kept by James Burd, Samuel Hunter, and others. Printed in Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 2,7: p. 415.

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Pennsylvania Stamp Act and Non-Importation Resolutions
Collection, 1765-1775. 2 vols. (34 items).

From the Sugar Act of 1764 through the Tea Act of 1773, the British Parliament imposed a variety of taxes upon their American colonies in an effort to raise revenue to offset the enormous debts incurred during the Seven Years' (French and Indian) War. Far more efficiently than raising revenue, these duties raised the indignation of the colonits, contributing more than their share to the alienation that fueled the independence movement

The two volumes that comprise the Pennsylvania Stamp Act and Non-Importation Resolutions Collection contain 34 manuscript and printed items relating to the political crisis over taxation on goods imported into the American colonies between 1765 and 1773, with a focus on Philadelphia. The first volume is concerned exclusively with agitation over the Stamp Act of 1765 and its repeal, while the second volume relates more specifically to the Non-Importation agreements of the 1760s, the Townshend Duties, and the Tea Act of 1773. Among these are letters of Governor John Penn, correspondence between the Sons of Liberty at Philadelphia and those of New York, 1766, an address of the committee of Boston merchants to a committee of Philadelphia merchants, 11 August 1768. Among the more dramatic letters are those from John Hughes, the would-be Stamp Officer for Pennsylvania who resigned bis commission in the face of public protest, and a seies of threatening letters addressed to James and Drinker, consignees for the sale of tea in Pennsylvania in 1773.

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Pennsylvania. Provincial Council
Records, 1682-1776. Film & guide. 26 reels.

Published by the Historical and Museum Commission of Pennsylvania. For the guide to the collection, see Guide to the Microfilm of the Records of the Provincial Council 1682-1776 (Pennsylvania, 1966).

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Pennsylvania (Commonwealth). Constitutional Convention of 1837-1838
Autographs of the delegates. 1 vol. (46 pp.).

Contains signatures only.

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Pennsylvania (Commonwealth). Taxation
Forms for the return of slaves for tax purposes, 1798. 2 vols. (18 pp.).

The forms apply to York and Franklin Counties; they are printed, the blanks filled in by hand.

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Pennsylvania (Commonwealth). Taxation
Materials on revenue from the distilling and retailing of liquors, 1794-1803. 35 items.

Applications to possess and operate stills and to retail spirits and liquors; receipts for distilled liquors; accounts of monies collected by Lawrence Erb and James Brice, collectors. Counties covered are Berks, Fayette, Franklin, Philadelphia, and York.

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Pennsylvania Hospital
Archives, 1751-1861. Film. 42 reels.

From the Pennsylvania Hospital. Minutes and rough minutes of the Managers; Attending Managers' accounts; treasurer's and other financial records; cash books, ledgers, monthly accounts, and receipt books of the steward and matron; materials relating to the medical staff and instruction; patients' records and accounts; materials on buildings and grounds and on the library, museum, and painting of "Christ healing the Sick" by Benjamin West; records of the Philadelphia Dispensary, Preston Retreat, Philadelphia Lying-In Charity, Humane Society, and other small hospitals absorbed by the Pennsylvania.

Table of contents (14 pp.).

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Penrose, Richard Alexander Fullerton, Jr. (1863-1931)
Geologist. APS 1905.
Letters and papers, 1885-1931. ca. 100 items.

Correspondence with Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Edgar Fahs Smith, Thomas Sovereign Gates, and others, about undergraduate days at Harvard College, his interest in Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute; list of publications; biographical data; papers on Robert G. Le Conte and Daniel Moreau Barringer; certificate of membership in the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association; 25 drawings of crystals and 35 original colored sketches made to accompany his Harvard thesis, The Nature and Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime. For a biographical sketch see APS Proc. 72 (1933)

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Perez, Antonio (1539-1611)
Spanish statesman, secretary of state under Philip II.
El conocimiento de las naciones, 1599. 1 vol. (ca. 700 pp.).

In a letter to the Librarian of APS, 1901, Henry Charles Lea noted that a manuscript of this work was known to the compiler of Biblioteca nova scriptorium Hispaniae, but no printed edition.

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Pershouse, John (1769-1841)
Philadelphia merchant
Papers, 1749-1899. 62 items. 5 vols.

Principally business correspondence between Pershouse and his brother James in England, with comments on conditions and events in the United States: anti-British feeling, Thomas Paine's return to America, Jefferson's administration, immigration, etc. Also Pershouse's journal, 1800-1838 (69 pp.), which includes accounts of travels in England and the United States; letter books, 1836-1862 (ca. 380 pp.), of Henry Pershouse, nephew of John, chiefly on business matters; and 2 vols. of Pershouse genealogical data, compiled by B. M. Pershouse Bayley, 1899. Table of contents (2 pp.).

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Perkins, John (1698-1781)
Boston physician. APS 1774
Papers, ca. 1768-1779. Film. 13 frames.

These include letterbook copies of letters to Benjamin Franklin and a paper on colds that Perkins inscribed for Franklin in 1768, A few thoughts on epidemic colds or catarrhal fevers. This was published in Histoire de la Société Royale de Médecine (1779): 206-212.

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Philadelphia
190 High Street, 1937-1938. 1 vol. (300 pp.).

This is research data compiled by the Work Projects Administration and used in constructing a model of 190 High Street for the Atwater Kent Museum in Philadelphia. This house served as the Executive Mansion for Presidents Washington and Adams.

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Philadelphia City Planning Commission
Preliminary report on historical sites in the Independence Mall. Typed. (98 pp.).

Prepared by Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson, architects, from research by Mrs. Hannah Benner Roach. The reports are on the Jones-Kinsey-Pennsylvania Hospital site; the Madison site; the site of the Presidential Mansion; the Galloway- Morris mansion site; the site of the office of the Department of Foreign Affairs; the Ridgway-Meredith site; and the site of the State House Inn.

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Philadelphia. Dr. Franklin's Legacy
Ledgers and accounts, 1791-1870. 4 vols.

Account ledger, 1791-1870; bond account ledger, 1791-1861; bond books, 1791-1826, 2 vols., relating to the administration of Franklin's bequest to the city of Philadelphia of a fund to provide financial aid to young married artificers.

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Philadelphia. Mayor's Office
Record of indentures, 1771-1773. 1 vol.

List of apprentices and servants, and of German and other redemptioners, bound in the mayor's office. Indexed. printed in Pennsylvania-German Society, Proceedings 16 (1907):4.

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Philadelphia. Northern Liberties. Commissioners
Plat book of Northern Liberties, 1825-1828. Film. 1 reel.

Includes notes up to 1855.

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Philadelphia. Overseers of the Poor
Tax book for Chestnut and Walnut wards, April 1767. 1 vol.

Tax book of William Savery, one of the overseers of the poor, for collecting the poor tax in Philadelphia. Edited with an introduction by Mrs. Hannah B. Roach in Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 22 (1962): 159-185.

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Philadelphia Assembly
Book of expenses, 1748-1749. 1 vol. (25 pp.).

Kept by John Swift, treasurer of this dancing association; with a record of Swift's personal expenses, 1747-1749. Described by Thomas W. Balch in APS Proc. 41 (1902): 260, and in his The Philadelphia Assemblies (Philadelphia, 1916).

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Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire
Surveys of buildings at Girard College, 1924-1936. 73 pp., 32 photos. & 1 reel of film.

From originals in the possession of the Contributionship.

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Philadelphia County. Register of Wills
Wills of Signers of the Declaration of Independence and others. 11 items.

Testators are:

• Benjamin Franklin Bache
• Richard Bache
• George Clymer
• Benjamin Franklin
• Francis Hopkinson
• Jared Ingersoll
• Thomas McKean
• Thomas Mifflin
• Robert Morris
• George Ross
• Benjamin Rush

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Philadelphia Museum Company
Minutes and accounts, 1820-1836, 1841. 5 vols.

Minutes, 1821-1836 (2 vols.), recording actions of the trustees of Peale's Museum (John Bacon, Pierce Butler, Reuben Haines, Joseph Parker Norris, Robert Patterson, Robert M. Patterson, Coleman Sellers, George Escol Sellers, and others), including exhibits, purchases of specimens, appointment of personnel, financial statements, etc.; an account book, 1820-1824 (1 vol.), being a record of daily income of the museum; and stock books, 1827-1836, 1841 (2 vols.), consisting of stubs of certificates of stock sold to subscribers to the museum, with a quantity of unused certificates.

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Philadelphia Museum Company
Minutes, 1821-1845. 295 pp. Typed, photocopy.

These minutes are transcribed from originals at the APS (1821-1827), Smithsonian Institution (1827-1840), and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1841-1845). There is a 12-page index.

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Philadelphia Museum Company
Minutes, 1827-1840. Film. 1 reel.

From originals in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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Philological Society of Philadelphia
Archives, 1809-1811. 32 items.

This literary/philosophical association of young men regularly met to present papers, several of which are preserved here: "Ambition," "On avarice," ". . . State of Literature in the United States," "Consequences of the French Revolution," etc. There are also several letters, for example one from Benjamin Say, Jr.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Physics
Trait, de la Physique, ca. eighteenth century. 1 vol. (155 pp.). In French.

This manuscript, by an unknown author, describes general principles of physics, with numerous sketches illustrating the text. There are a few notations in Spanish by a Juan Bastolleros.

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Physics Club of Philadelphia
Archives, 1909-1971. ca. 2000 items. (2.5 lin. ft.).

This collection includes correspondence of the Club (1909-1915; 1945-1971); financial records; records on meetings, etc. There are also bound volumes of minutes (1910-1918), treasurer's accounts, and a membership book. In addition there are folders concerning the American Association of Physics Teachers, Engineering and Technological Society of Delaware County (1961-1965), and the Philadelphia Science Council. Table of contents (1 p.).

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Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829)
Soldier, Indian agent, Secretary of War. APS 1744.
Selected papers on Indian affairs, 1790-1793. Film. 4 reels.

From Massachusetts Historical Society (3 reels) and Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. (1 reel). Letters, reports, minutes, memoranda, and addresses to Indian chiefs, selected from the Pickering papers. Correspondents include:

• S. Bauman
• Israel Chapin
• Isaac Craig
• Henry Drinker
• Samuel Hodgdon
• William Hull
• Henry Knox
• Benjamin Lincoln
• George Morgan
• John Parrish
• Arthur St. Clair
• Philip Schuyler

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Pierce, Mrs. Catharine, J.
Collector
Collection of family letters, 1787-1869. 83 items. Film. 1 reel.

From manuscripts owned by Mrs. Pierce, Charlotte, N.C. (1965). Family letters of the Eccles, Jones and Lanneau families of North Carolina and Florida. Some letters are written from Philadelphia (and speak of the Peale family), New York, and New Haven. Table of contents (2 pp.).

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Pierce, Joe E
Collector
Recordings for study of the Shawnee, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, and Sauk and Fox, (1951-1953). Recording. 1 reel.

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Pierronet, Thomas
Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micman Languages, 1 June 1797. 1 vol. (41 pp.).

This is a comparative vocabulary of the Micmac, Montagnais, and Naskapi Indian languages, but also included are Micmac prayers and a dictionary of Micmac pictographs. The vocabulary was printed in Massachusetts Historical Society Collections 6 (1799):16-33.

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Piggott, Edward (fl. 1758-1807)
British amateur scientist, astronomer
Letterbook, 1802-1806. 1 vol. (16 pp.).

This was kept while Piggott was imprisoned by Napoleon at Fontainebleau. There are copies of letters to:

• Sir Joseph Banks
• Alphonse Claude C. Bernardin
• Georges L. C. F. D. Cuvier
• Jean Baptiste J. Delambre
• René Louiche Desfontaines
• Sir William Herschel
• Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
• Silvestre François La Croix
• Pierre François Mechain
• William Hyde Wollaston

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Pike, Frank Henry (1876-1953)
Physiologist.
Papers, ca. 1922-1952. 7 lin. ft.

This collection contains correspondence (ca. 150 letters), subject files, and notes on various research projects. The various subject areas include the central nervous systems, brains and physiologies of many animals, and included are some anatomical drawings. Among correspondents are: Charles C. Adams, Leonard Carmichael, Henry H. Donaldson, Ludvig Hektoen, Oscar Riddle, Harlow Shapley. Table of contents (5 pp.).

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Pike, Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813)
Soldier and explorer.
Journal of a voyage to the source of the Mississippi in the years 1805 and 1806. 1 vol. (149p.).

In his short life, Zebulon Montgomery Pike rose through the new American military to the rank of Brigadier General, led two expeditions into the heart of the western wilderness, was a prisoner of war, a spy, the center of an international incident, and a suspected traitor, all before dying a heroic death in battle at the age of 34.

The Pike journal documents the expedition to explore the geography of the Mississippi River led by Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike in 1805-1806, and his attempts to purchase sites from the Dakota Indians for future military posts, and to bring influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks. Less a literary masterpiece than a straightforward record in terse military prose, the journal provides a day by day account of the journey and the activities of Pike and his small contingent. It was printed with variations and omissions in An Account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi... (Philadelphia, 1810) and was edited in Donald Jackson, ed., The Journals of Zebulon Pike: with Letters and Related Documents (Norman, Okla., 1966).

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Pike, Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813)
Soldier and explorer.
Biographical materials. 51 items.

Transcripts, photostats, maps, and some original manuscripts collected by W. Eugene Hollon for his biography of Pike, The Lost Pathfinder (Norman, Okla., 1949). Correspondents include John C. Calhoun, William Clark, Richard Rush, John Sibley, and James Wilkinson. Table of contents (2 pp.).

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Piore, Emanuel Ruben (1908-2000)
Physicist
Papers, ca.1930s-1993. 23 linear feet

The physicist, Emanuel Ruben Piore, emigrated from Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1917 at the age of 9. "Mannie," as he was known, became a naturalized citizen in 1924, and obtained both his BA and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin. After gaining nearly ten years experience as a research physicist, first at the Radio Corporation of American then CBS laboratories, he went to work for the Navy, eventually becoming the first civilian to head the Office of Naval Research and playing a major role in the transition of American science from war to peace. Throughout his career, Piore strove to promote research through a close relationship between government, industry, and universities. IBM realized the importance of developing a strong research department and Piore's key role in this endeavor and offered him the position as their first Director of Research. At IBM he continued to encourage research by establishing the IBM Fellow program rewarded to top researchers. Piore held increasingly responsible positions at IBM becoming a vice president, group executive and finally Chief Scientist. He served as a member of IBM's advisory board well after he retired.

The Piore papers contain material relating to his latter years at IBM as Vice President and Chief Scientist, as well as some of his time spent on the Board of Directors. In addition, there are materials, though sparse, concerning his work with the Navy. An extensive series of speeches and lectures illustrates Piore's commitment to scientific research and national policy. In addition to his professional correspondence, the papers contain material pertaining to Piore's involvement in professional organizations such as the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Science, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the American Philosophical Society. A number of professional and personal photographs are also found within the papers.

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Pitkin, Harvey (1928- )
Linguist.
Papers, 1884-1968. 15.5 linear feet.

The linguist Harvey Pitkin has worked on several of the indigenous languages of Northern California, with a particular interest in Wintu, Patwin, and Yuki. A student of A. L. Kroeber, Pitkin was a member of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and later at Columbia University before his retirement in the late 1980s.

The Pitkin Papers contain materials recorded or accumuluted by Harvey Pitkin during the course of his study of American Indian languages, including not only his own fieldnotes and research on Wintu and Yuki, but originals and copies of notes, notebooks, and slipfiles by A. L. Kroeber, A. M. Halpern, John P. Harrington, John Alden Mason, Paul Radin, Hans Uldall, Donald Ultan, T. T. Waterman, and others. These include important information on Atsugewi, Kwakiutl, Luiseno, Pomo, Wappo, Yahi, and Yana, and include some data on the consultants Ralph Moore (Yuki) and Ishi (Yahi).

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Planck, Max (1858-1947)
Physicist, author of the quantum theory
Letters, 1919-1948. 18 items.

Letters from and concerning Planck.

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Pleé, Auguste (1787-1825)
French botanist and traveler
Sketches, notes, and catalogs, ca. 1820-1824. Film. 2 reels.

From Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Sketches made on a trip to the United States, Canada, and the West Indies; catalogs of objects of natural history (fish, animals, insects, fossils, etc.) sent by him to the Museum; also notes, etc.

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Poinsett, Joel Roberts (1779-1851)
Diplomat, statesman. Collector. APS 1827.
Collection of Peruvian manuscripts. 1 vol. Copies. In Spanish.

Some 20 pieces relating principally to the revolt of Tupac Amaru II, last claimant to the throne of the Incas, 1780-1783; also to medicine, manners, learned societies, and law of Spanish America, and the history of the Spanish conquest of Oran, 1505-1509.

Table of contents (5 pp.).

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Post, Christian Frederick (ca. 1710-1785)
Missionary, traveler. APS 1768.
Journal to the great Council of the different Indian nations, 1760. Film. 1 reel.

From manuscript in possession of Mrs. Henry P. Gummere, Upper Darby, Pa., 1942.

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Post, Emil Leon (1897-1954)
Mathematical logician.
Papers, 1888-1995. 4 linear feet.

A Polish-born mathematician who worked in symbolic logic, set theory and computation theory, Emil Leon Post received his doctorate from Columbia in 1920 for a dissertation proving the consistency of the propositional calculus described in Whitehead and Russell's Principia mathematica. He joined the faculty at City College of the City University of New York in 1932, where he remained until his death in 1954. Although illness continually interrupted Post's career, he made important contributions to the concepts of completeness and consistency and to recursive functions, foundational to modern computing theory. In 1936, he introduced the concept of a "Post machine," a sort of precursor to the von Neumann's notion of a program.

The Post Papers consist of 4 linear feet of professional correspondence, research notes, and papers, to which have been added a small number of items of biographical interest.

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Potier, Pierre (1708-1781)
Jesuit missionary
Miscellanea, 1743-1744. Photocopy. (38 pp.).

Huron vocabulary with French equivalents, names of Huron villagers, names of chiefs, etc., recorded by Father Potier, missionary at Sandwich on the Detroit River and written down at Lorette near Quebec. From the original manuscript in the archives of the CollSge Sainte-Marie, Montreal.

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Potocki, Count Jan (1761-1815)
Polish historian, archaeologist, and traveler.
Journal of travels in Russia, 1797-1798. 1 vol. (437 pp.). Copy. In French.

Part of Potocki's journey was made to search for the origins of the ancient Scythians. In 1828 the German Orientalist and traveler Heinrich Julius Klaproth asked the Society's permission to have a copy made of this manuscript. From this copy he prepared the work for publication, adding his own notes: Voyage dans les steps d'Astrakhan et du Caucase . . . Histoire primitive des peuples qui ont habité anciennement ces contr´es (2 vols., Paris, 1829).

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Potocki, Count Jan (1761-1815)
Polish historian, archaeologist, and traveler.
Material for his Voyages . . . d'Astrakhan . . . ca. 100 pp. Photocopy. In French.

These drafts of chapters from Potocki's Voyages comes from the Central Archives of Old Documents in Warsaw, and from the Archives of the Province of Krakow. They were collected by Maria Evelina Zoltowska.

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Potter, George Reuben
Idea of evolution in the English poets from 1744 to 1832. Film. 1 reel.

Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, 1922.

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Poulte, William
Collector
Oklahoma Cherokee paradigms and texts, n.d. Recording. 2 reels.

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Powell, John Harvey (1914-1971)
Historian
Papers. ca. 5,000 items (13 lin. ft.).

This collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and copies of documents pertains to Powell's unpublished biography of John Dickinson ("John Dickinson, penman of the American revolution," 1938). There are letters to numerous historians, as well as many articles and speeches that Powell gave. Table of contents (4 pp.).

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Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902)
Geologist, ethnologist; director, United States Geological Survey. APS 1889.
Material relating to Powell and the Colorado River. Typescripts, photostats. ca. 175 pp.

Papers collected by Wallace E. Stegner for Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, 1868-1899 (Boston, 1954). They relate to explorations and geological surveys, the Hayden-Powell controversy, the Cope- Marsh-Powell controversy, the Colorado expedition of 1868, including extracts from Powell's scrapbook about the reported loss of the party, 1869.

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Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902)
Geologist, ethnologist; director, United States Geological Survey. APS 1889.
Correspondence of the Powell Survey, 1869-1879. Film. 10 reels.

From National Archives, Washington. Letters received by the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region; also a selection of ca. 100 letters sent by the Survey, 1876-1878. Correspondents include:

• Alexander Agassiz
• E. W. Ayres
• Spencer F. Baird
• Elliot Coues
• James Dwight Dana
• Clarence Edward Dutton
• Henry Gannett
• James A. Garfield
• Albert S. Gatschet
• George Gibbs
• Arnold Guyot
• Joseph Henry
• Abram S. Hewitt
• Clarence King
• Joseph Leidy
• J. Peter Lesley
• Henry W. Longfellow
• Othniel C. Marsh
• Fielding B. Meek
• Thomas Morgan
• Thomas H. Morgan
• John S. Newberry
• James C. Pilling
• John J. Stevenson
• Almon H. Thompson
• G. W. Vasey
• Lester F. Ward
• A. G. Weatherby
• George M. Wheeler
• Olin D. Wheeler
• Josiah D. Whitney

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Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902)
Geologist, ethnologist; director, United States Geological Survey. APS 1889.
Diaries and letters, 1871-1907. Film. 1 reel.

From New York Public Library. Diary of Frederick S. Dellenbaugh of the Colorado River Expedition, 1871-1873; correspondence of Robert B. Stanton and Jack Sumner about Powell, 1907; and J. F. Steward's "Through the Canyons of the Colorado, 1871."

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Poyntell, William
Thermometrical journal, 1803. 1 vol. (40 pp.).

The journal was kept on a voyage from the Downs to the Capes of Delaware on board the ship Three Sisters, 26 June 20 August 1803. The volume includes "Observations on the storm glass," made on the same voyage. The storm glass, with an explanation of its use and the journal of observations, and also the thermometrical journal were laid before the Society, 4 November 1803.

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Price, Alan
Humanities versus science in mid-nineteenth-century educational thought in England. Film. 1 reel.

Doctoral dissertation, Queens University, Belfast, 1957.

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Price, Bronson (1905-1978)
Geneticist, psychologist, statistician.
Papers, 1934-1976. ca. 800 items. ca. 7000 cards.

The psychologist and behavioral geneticist Bronson Price made important contributions to the study of the genetics of mental traits in twins. Receiving his doctorate from Stanford in 1934, Price began down a research path that led him to study under Aleksandr R. Luria in Moscow from 1934-1935, and thereafter to the Department of Psychology at Ohio State. In 1941, Price changed course professionally, entering into war-time government service, never to return to academia, working first with the National Office of Vital Statistics and later as a statistician with the Children's Bureau and the Office of Education.

The Price Papers contains one linear foot of correspondence relating to Bronson Price's interests in genetics and eugenics, with an emphasis upon Price's post-doctoral experiences in the Soviet Union and his long-term interests in the genetic study of twins. In addition to fairly extensive correspondence with H. J. Muller and Lewis Terman, the collection includes interesting materials relating to the Foundation for Germinal Choice, eugenic sterilization, and an extensive bibliographic card file used by Price in his research on twins post-1940.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

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Price, Eli Kirk (1797-1884)
Philadelphia lawyer. APS 1854.
Papers, 1820-1853. 35 items.

On business and legal affairs, including his writings on the law of real and personal property, private wrongs, etc.; also a letter to Daniel Webster. There is a brief biographical sketch in APS Proc. 23 (1886).

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Price, Richard (1723-1791)
English Nonconformist minister and writer on politics and economics. APS, 1785.
Papers, 1767-1790. 90 items.

The Welsh non-conformist minister Richard Price (1723-1791) was a moral philosopher and political and economic theorist whose ideas leant support to the American cause during the Revolution. A broad and liberal mind, he was an integral member of the intellectual coterie surrounding William Petty, the Earl of Shelburne, and was a founding member of the Unitarian Church.

Befitting a latitudinarian thinker, the range of Richard Price's correspondence is extremely broad, touching upon his rationalistic philosophy and dissenting theology, his political views on British politics, America and the American Revolution, the Constitutional settlement, the future of the United States, social reform, demography, prisons, and slavery. The ninety letters in the collection are arranged chronologically, with correspondents including Charles Chauncy (8 letters, 1772-1779), Benjamin Franklin (7 letters, 1775-1789), John Howard (11 letters and a biographical manuscript, 1770-1789), Thomas Jefferson (3 letters, 1785-1789), Benjamin Rush (8 letters, 1786-1790), and Edward Wigglesworth (3 letters, 1775-1786), as well as lesser known figures like the reformer John Howard.

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Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Educator, scientist, theologian. APS 1784.
Experiments relating to phlogiston and the conversion of water into air, 1783. 1 vol. (32 pp.).

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Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Educator, scientist, theologian. APS 1784.
Letters and papers, 1771-1803. 2 boxes.

Manuscripts and photostats of manuscripts in the Municipal Library, Warrington, England, on theological questions, the internal development of the United States, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars, Unitarianism, science, chemistry, his publications, APS, and the like. The correspondence includes 41 letters to John Vaughan, 1791-1800; 68 letters between Priestley, Joseph Priestley, Jr., and John Wilkinson, 1787-1802; and 11 letters to various persons, 1774-1803. Table of contents (7 pp.).

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Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Educator, scientist, theologian. APS 1784.
Correspondence, 1766-1803. Film. 1 reel.

Letters with Rev. Theophilus Lindsay and Thomas Belsham. From originals in Dr. William's Library, London.

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Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Educator, scientist, theologian. APS 1784.
Manuscripts and printed works. Film. 1 reel.

This includes correspondence with John Wilkinson (1790-1802); a rare printed copy of Priestley's Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Study of History (1765); and a work by John Aikin.

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Prime, Mrs. Phoebe Phillips
Compiler
Alfred Coxe Prime directory of craftmen, 1785-1800. 3 vols. Copy.

Lists of Philadelphia craftsmen, compiled from the city directories, 1785-1800, and arranged alphabetically and by craft or trade. Included in the index are similar data gleaned from Philadelphia newspaper advertisements.

Photographed, by permission, from one of a limited number of copies issued by the compiler.

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Pursh, Frederick (1774-1820)
Botanist, horticulturist, explorer.
Journal of a botanical excursion in the Northeastern parts of Pennsylvania & in the state of New York, 1807. 1 vol. (186 pp.).

This manuscript was found among papers of Benjamin Smith Barton, who was Pursh's patron, 1817. It was published at Philadelphia, 1869, and for the Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, N.Y., with notes by William M. Beauchamp, 1923.

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Pyrlaeus, John Christopher (1713-1785)
Moravian missionary
Lexicon der Macquaischen [Mohawk] Sprachen. 1 vol. (554 pp.).

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