| 2 | Creator: | Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Dawson Turner Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1820-1848 | | | | Abstract: | Dawson Turner, banker, botanist, and antiquary, was an avid collector of literary and scientific books and manuscripts as well as an author of many works on antiquities and botany more specifically cryptogamic plants.
This small collection of only 12 items contains letters written primarily to Jacob Henry Burn and relates to the purchase of items for Turner's vast personal library. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.T854 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acquisitions (Libraries) | Beyond Early America | Book collecting | Burn, Jacob Henry, ca.1793-1869 | General Correspondence | Poetry | Private libraries | Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George William Featherstonhaugh papers, 1809-1840
| | | | Dates: | 1809-1840 | | | | Abstract: | These are copies of letters, chiefly relating to the American Philosophical Society, from Peter S. Du Ponceau, John Vaughan, and James Mease. There are a few original letters, one to Benjamin Franklin Peale. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F31 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | General Correspondence | Peale, Franklin,1795-1870. | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | |
| 7 | Creator: | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Fothergill letters, 1737-1778
| | | | Dates: | 1737-1750 | | | | Abstract: | All but one of these letters are to Charles Alston, the professor of botany at Edinburgh University, and concern medicine, botany, and science in general. They are dated between 1737 and 1750. One letter is to George Whately, dated 1778. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F82 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 | Botany. | Education | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | General Correspondence | Medicine | Medicine. | Science. | Scientific Correspondence | University of Edinburgh. | |
| 8 | Creator: | Jones, Robert Strettel,1745-1792. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Robert Strettel Jones papers, 1761-1779
| | | | Dates: | 1761-1779 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include a catalog of his library (1 v., 67 p.); Narative of the difference between Dr. Alison, vice provost of the college of Philadelphia & Robert Strettell Jones late student in the senior class of the said College; Hugh Williamson to Isaac Jones, dated May 7, 1763; An abridgement of metaphysicks, written March 20,1761 & A system of rhetoric wrote Nov. & Dec. 1762, by Robert Strettell Jones; Depositions in re indictment for high treason against Robert Strettell Jones, Sept. 28, 1779; Certificate naming R.S. Jones as one of the Corporation of Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital, dated Dec. 3, 1773; and a copy of the will of his aunt Ann Strettell, Aug. 6, 1767. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.J732 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Education | Educational Material | General Correspondence | Jones, Robert Strettel,1745-1792. | Legal Records | Metaphysics. | Philadelphia History | Rhetoric. | Strettell, Ann | Treason -- United States. | |
| 10 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Zebulon Montgomery Pike biographical materials, 1780-1956
| | | | Dates: | 1780-1956 | | | | Abstract: | Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) was an explorer and soldier, most often remembered two exploratory trips to the newly acquired Louisiana territory. The first of these trips was to the source of the Mississippi River in 1805; the second was to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers in 1806. Because General James Wilkinson was responsible for organizing Pike’s two expeditions, when the conspiracy charges again Aaron Burr implicated Wilkinson, suspicion was, for a short time, also focused on Pike. Pike worked his way up the ranks of the United States Army, becoming a brigadier-general during the War of 1812. He was killed in the Battle of York in Upper Canada (now Toronto) in 1813. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P63 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Calhoun, John C., (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 | Exploration. | Explorers. | General Correspondence | Hollon, W. Eugene, (William Eugene), 1913- | Maps. | Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 | Research Records and Reports | Rush, Richard | Travel | Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825 | |
| 11 | Creator: | Bohlen, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bohlen Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1889-1912 | | | | Abstract: | Born in Schiffdorf (near Bremerhafen), John Bohlen became one of Philadelphia's most prominent merchants at the turn of the nineteenth century. Running a profitable concern in partnership with his brother Bohl (1754-1836), John Bohlen imported commodities from their native Holland. Thanks to an insatiable American thirst for gin, Bohlen amassed an immense fortune that enabled him to travel in the same social circles as Stephen Girard and others among the mercantile elite and to win a spot in 1816 as one of the Directors of the Bank of the United States. By the time of his death, he was one of only eleven Philadelphians whose personal estates exceeded one million dollars in value.
The Bohlen Collection contains a scant ten letters that appear to have been retained, as much as anything, for their autograph interest. Although they shed relatively little light on the life of John Bohlen, they do offer interesting glimpses into the personalities of Bohlen's famous correspondents, including Stephen Girard, Francis Scott Key, Meriwether Lewis, Virgil Maxcy, Oliver Hazard Perry, and Timothy Pickering. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B63 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bank of the United States | Bohlen, John | Business and Skilled Trades | Dorsey, Elizabeth | General Correspondence | International Trade. | Murray, Daniel | Philadelphia History | Religion | Trade | |
| 12 | Creator: | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Peter Collinson letters, [ca. 1740]-1770
| | | | Dates: | 1740-1770 | | | | Abstract: | This is a small group of letters written to Johann Ambrosius Beurer, J. von Sprehelson, and Christoph Jacob Trew. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C692 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Berkeley, Edmund, 1937- | Beurer, Johann Ambrosius | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | General Correspondence | Natural History | Natural history. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sprehelson, J. von | Trew, Christoph Jacob, 1695-1769 | |
| 13 | Creator: | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Chronological series of facts relating to Louisiana; its limits and bounds, 1804
| | | | Dates: | 1804 | | | | Abstract: | Two bound documents, "A chronological series of facts relative to Louisiana" and "An examination into the boundaries of Louisiana." Prepared by Jefferson for U.S. ministers at Paris and Madrid, as a means of determining the extent of the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson sent these to the APS with a cover letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau, dated December 30, 1817; read in the Historical and Literary Committee, 1818. Printed in Thomas Jefferson,
Documents Relating to the Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana (New York, 1904). | | | | Call #: | Mss.973.4.J35c | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Colony and State Specific History | Diplomatic History | Exploration. | General Correspondence | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Language and Linguistics | Louisiana Purchase -- Discovery and exploration. | Manuscript Essays | Military History | |
| 14 | Creator: | New Sweden Company. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | New Sweden Records
| | | | Dates: | 1650-1655 (1820) | | | | Abstract: | The New Sweden Company was founded as a joint stock enterprise in 1637 including Swedish, Dutch, and German investors seeking to trade in American furs and tobacco. Centered at Fort Christina, near present day Wilmington, Delaware, the colony expanded up both sides of Delaware Bay and the Delaware Reiver to present day Philadelphia, but capitulated to the Dutch in 1655.
This volume contains selected transcripts in Swedish and German of documents in Swedish archives relating to the settling and governance of the colony of New Sweden in Delaware and Pennsylvania, made at the expense of Jonathan Russel, United States minister to Sweden, 1820. The documents have all been translated into French, and were printed in
Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, vol. 4 (1829), 177-8,200, 314-315, 373-374, 398-400; vol. 5, 14-15, 219-221. No. 27 was not printed. Bound in at the end of the volume is Ch. 5 of Per Lindeström, "Description de la nouvelle Suède et des Indes Occidentales, 1691." | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.Sw2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Colonial Politics | General Correspondence | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | New Sweden--History | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Printz, Johan, 1592-1663 | Russell, Jonathan, 1771-1832 | Sweden--Colonies | Swedes--United States | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | |
| 15 | Creator: | Hewson family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Hewson family papers, 1767-1836
| | | | Dates: | 1767-1836 | | | | Abstract: | These are letters of William Hewson, Mary Stevenson Hewson, and Thomas Tickell Hewson, chiefly to members of the family on personal affairs. There are also a transcript of a draft of William Hewson's account of his quarrel with Dr. William Hunter and a letter from Barbeu Du Bourg to Mary Stevenson Hewson. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H492.h, .br, .b1, .b | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Barbeu Du Bourg, -- M. -- (Jacques) | General Correspondence | Hewson, Mary Stevenson, 1739-1795 | Hewson, Thomas T. | Hunter, William, 1718-1783 | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Physicians. | Poems. | Social Life and Custom | Women's History | |
| 16 | Creator: | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas Jefferson, letters to and from various persons, 1791-1840
| | | | Dates: | 1791-1840 | | | | Abstract: | This collection consists almost entirely of letters, mostly written by Jefferson, to various people. The largest portion of the letters are from Jefferson to Louis Hue Girardin concerning the latter's work in completing
The history of Virginia: from its first settlement to the present day, Volume 4 . Of particular interest is Jefferson's notes on his colleges' role in that history, including the plot to establish a dictator of Virginia. The letters to Girardin also include discussions of plants, the building of the University of Virginia, and books. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.J35.Le | | | | Extent: | 63.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Colony and State Specific History | DuPonceau, Peter S. (Peter Stephen), 1760-1844 | Exploration. | General Correspondence | Girardin, Louis Hue, 1771-1825 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Native America | Political Correspondence | War of 1812 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
| 17 | Creator: | Moore, Ira. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ira Moore papers, 1848-1856
| | | | Dates: | 1848-1856 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include letters from relatives, friends, and former students, chiefly on family affairs, social events, and schools in Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Also included are receipts for personal expenditures, and letters of recommendation for teaching positions and from J. P. Lesley for admission to Yale College, where Moore received the Ph.B. degree in 1855. Moore was Lesley's assistant in preparing the Pennsylvania Railroad maps of western Pennsylvania. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M79 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business Records and Accounts | Education | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Moore, Ira. | Receipts. | Schools -- Connecticut. | Schools -- Maine. | Schools -- Massachusetts. | Social Life and Custom | Yale College (1718-1887) | |
| 18 | Creator: | Price, Eli K., (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eli K. (Eli Kirk) Price papers, 1820-1853
| | | | Dates: | 1820-1853 | | | | Abstract: | These papers concern business and legal affairs, and include Price's writings on the law of real and personal property, and private wrongs. Also includes a letter to Daniel Webster. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P926 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | African American | Business Records and Accounts | Commercial law -- United States. | Early National Politics | Education | Essays. | General Correspondence | International Trade. | Law | Legal Records | Manuscript Essays | Personal property. | Price, Eli K., (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 | Real property. | Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 | |
| 19 | Creator: | Spencer, William George,1790-1866. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William George Spencer letters, 1839-1849, to Caroline Watts
| | | | Dates: | 1839-1849 | | | | Abstract: | In these letters to Caroline Watts, a young friend and teacher in Durham, England, Spencer writes principally about the teaching of geometry and astronomy. He also comments on current political and literary events in England, including John Bright's defeat, the Corn Laws, and theories about health and religion. There is frequent mention of his brother Thomas Spencer, and his son Herbert Spencer. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sp32 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy -- Study and teaching. | Beyond Early America | Bright, John, 1811-1889 | Corn laws (Great Britain) | General Correspondence | Geometry -- Study and teaching. | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901. | Health. | Religion. | Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 | Spencer, Thomas, 1796-1853 | Spencer, William George,1790-1866. | Watts, Caroline | |
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