| 1 | Creator: | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Account of the robbery of the papers of Arthur Lee, American agent at Berlin, June 26, 1777 - July 5, 1777
| | | | Dates: | June 26, 1777 - July 5, 1977 | | | | Abstract: | The proceedings before the criminal judge, of the Government of Prussia, in relation to the robbery of Lee's official papers, while Minister at that court in the time of Frederick the Great (as described in letter from Richard Henry Lee to Dr. Mease, 1826 May 31). | | | | Call #: | Mss.973.3.Ac2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Criminal law. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Proceedings. | Prussia (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1740-1786. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Lee family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Lee family papers, 1742-1795
| | | | Dates: | 1742-1795 | | | | Abstract: | Includes correspondence, reports, and papers of Richard Lee, Thomas Lee, Richard Henry Lee, William Lee, and Arthur Lee. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1240 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Lee family. | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794 | Lee, Richard, 1611-1684 | Lee, Thomas, 1690-1750 | Lee, William, 1739-1795 | Microfilm Collection | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | Virginia -- History. | |
| 3 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Documents, 1728-1816, relating to the province of Pennsylvania and to the American Revolution
| | | | Dates: | 1728-1816 | | | | Abstract: | This volume includes messages and proclamations of governors of the province, a petition to the King from the province of Georgia [n.d.], the draft of an address of the University of the State of Pennsylvania to George Washington (1781), a letter from Arthur Lee to Alexander Wedderburn (1774), letters of Timothy Matlack to Abiel Holmes (1819), and George Wythe's draft resolutions (1775). | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.D65 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 volume, 50 p. | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Colonial Politics | Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Government Affairs | Holmes, Abiel, 1763-1837 | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829 | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania History | Petitions. | Proclamations. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | Various authors | Wedderburn, Alexander | Wythe, George, 1726-1806 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellaneous Benjamin Franklin Collections
| | | | Dates: | 1710-1822 | | | | Abstract: | Since publication of I. Minis Hays's Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin in 1908, the APS Library has acquired a large number of miscellaneous letters and other documents relating to the life, mind, and work of Franklin and his immediate family. The collections listed in this finding aid consist of letters and documents to and from Franklin organized into groupings based upon provenance or focal point. The largest grouping consists of miscellaneous materials acquired individually or in small groups over the years, including a number of important individual items. The other collections consist largely of correspondence between Franklin and individual friends and colleagues, including his friends Mme Brillon, Mary "Polly" Stevenson Hewson, and Catherine Ray Greene, the Whig agriculturist Richard Jackson, and the printer Francis Childs.
The collections include photostats of selected materials held by other institutions or that were in private hands. These are available for reference only. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F85.misc | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | African Americans--Education | American Philosophical Society. | Bingham, William, 1752-1804 | Brillon, Mme | Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de, 1725-1803 | Childs, Francis, 1763-1830 | Cook, James, 1728-1779 | Electricity--Early works to 1800 | France--Foreign relations--United States | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 | Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803 | Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States | Greene, Catherine Ray, 1731-1794 | Greene, William, 1731-1809 | Hartley, David, ca.1730-1817 | Helvetius, Anne Catherine de Ligniville d'Autricourt, 1719-1800 | Hewson, Mary Stevenson, 1734-1795 | Ingersoll, Jared, 1722-1781 | Jackson, Richard, ca.1721-1787 | Junto | Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 | Le Roy, Jean Baptiste | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Pennsylvania--Politics and government--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | Postal service--United States | Price, Richard, 1723-1791 | Printers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Stamp Act, 1765 | Stevenson, Margaret, ca.1706-1763 | United States--Foreign relations--France | United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain | United States--History--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de, 1717-1787 | Waring, John, 1716-1794 | Williams, Jonathan. | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Royal Society (Great Britain). | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Royal Society (Great Britain) letters and communications from Americans, 1662-1900
| | | | Dates: | 1662-1900 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes letters to and from Americans (including South America and the West Indies) and letters about America selected from the Society's manuscripts (Classified Papers, Letter Books, Letters and Papers, Royal Society Letters, Miscellaneous Correspondence, and other official groups) and from collections of private papers (Sir Charles Blagden, William Buckland, John Canton, Sir John F. W. Herschel, Sir Edward Sabine, and others). The documents range in time and character from John Winthrop, Jr., "A Description of the Artifice & Making of Tarr & Pitch in New England" (1662), to letters from Sir Thomas Edward Thorne to his wife describing the American West, where he was on a surveying party in the 1880s. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.1 | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Banister, Thomas | Bingham, William, 1752-1804 | Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820 | Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865 | Brattle, Thomas, 1658-1713 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Burnet, William, 1688-1729 | Canton, John, 1718-1772 | Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 | Churchman, John , 1753-1805 | Clayton, John, 1686-1773 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Dudley, Paul, 1675-1751 | Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 | Geology. | Greenwood, Isaac, 1702-1745 | Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Herschel, John F. W., Sir, (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Indians of North America | Jones, Hugh, -- ca. 1670-1760. | King, Rufus, 1755-1827 | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Lewis, Richard | Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889 | Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 | Merry, Andrew | Meteorology. | Microfilm Collection | Middleton, Christopher, d. 1770 | Moray, Alexander | Nicholson, Francis, 1655-1728 | Paleontology. | Pepperrell, William, Sir, 1696-1759 | Potash. | Robie, Thomas, 1689-1729 | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Smallwood, Charles, 1812-1872 | Tar. | Thompson, Benjamin, -- Count Rumford, -- 1753-1814. | Thorne, Thomas Edward | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Walsh, Robert, 1784-1859 | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 | Winthrop, Wait | Witt, Christopher. | |
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