| 3 | Creator: | Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellaneous works, [n.d.]
| | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Abstract: | This is a collection of Francis Hopkinson's prose writings, prepared by him for publication. These volumes are numbered 1-4 and 6. Volume 5, missing here, contains his verse. | | | | Call #: | Mss.817.H77 | | | | Extent: | 6.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791 | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Philadelphia History | |
| 5 | Creator: | Peale, Franklin,1795-1870. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Songs, 1822-1823, for guitar and piano
| | | | Dates: | 1822-1823 | | | | Abstract: | One volume contains songs for guitar and piano, the other compositions and arrangements for guitar. Peale and his wife copied some, if not all, from the works of various composers. | | | | Call #: | Mss.787.61.P312a | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Miscellaneous | Music. | Musical scores. | Peale, Franklin,1795-1870. | Songs. | |
| 6 | Creator: | Rush, Samuel,1795-1859. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel Rush notebook, 1859
| | | | Dates: | 1859 | | | | Abstract: | This notebook contains short essays on various topics, such as public singers ("the Mountebanks of the Voice"), the embarrassments of public men (Daniel E. Sickles and Philip Barton Key), songs, wit, wealth, suicide, Benjamin Rush, "that little sneak Kossuth," and modern authors ("the present wretches of the pen"). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R895 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Essays. | Key, Philip Barton | Kossuth, Lajos, 1802-1894 | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Notebooks. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Rush, Samuel,1795-1859. | Sickles, Daniel E. | |
| 8 | Creator: | Brillon, Mme | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Plays, late 18th century
| | | | Dates: | Circa late 18th century | | | | Abstract: | Comedies and tragedies, possibly not all by Mme. Brillon, entitled :La mort de Sénèque," "Charles le Mauvais, roi de Navarre; ou, La clémence du roi Jean," "Charles premier, roi d'Angleterre," "Marguerite d'Anjou, reine d'Angleterre," "Molière aux enfers," "Le songe, opéra comique," and "Le bienfaisant maladroit; ou, plus de bruit que de besogne." | | | | Call #: | Mss.842.5.B76 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Brillon, Mme | Foreign Language | French drama -- 18th century. | French literature -- 18th century. | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Miscellaneous | Scripts. | Women's History | |
| 10 | Creator: | Philological Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Philological Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) papers, 1809-1811
| | | | Dates: | 1809-1811 | | | | Abstract: | These papers consist chiefly of essays presented by the members, with such titles as "Ambition," "On Avarice," "State of Literature in the United States," and "Consequences of the French Revolution." Also included are several letters, including one from Benjamin Say, Jr. | | | | Call #: | Mss.405.P5o | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Essays. | Institutional Records | Learned institutions and societies -- Pennsylvania. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Miscellaneous | Philadelphia History | Philology. | Say, Benjamin, 1755-1813 | Social Life and Custom | |
| 11 | Creator: | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau commonplace book, 1820
| | | | Dates: | 1820 | | | | Abstract: | There are notes on the colonial history of Pennsylvania, with emphasis on William Penn and his family, the Society of Friends, James Logan, and the charters granted by Penn, with some notes on the study of languages and definition of words. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D92c | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Commonplace Book | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Language and languages | Linguistics. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Manuscript Essays | Penn, William,1644-1718. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Quakers -- Pennsylvania. | |
| 12 | Creator: | Evans, Harriet Verena, 1782- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Harriet Verena Evans Diary
| | | | Dates: | 1827-1844 | | | | Abstract: | Harriet Verena Evans was born in Lancaster, Pa., on April 28, 1782, the daughter of John and Sarah Musser. On May 21, 1807, Harriet married Cadwalader Evans (1762-1841), a former surveyor who went on to a distinguished career in politics, as one of the directors of the Bank of the United States, a promoter of the Schuylkill Canal, and president of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. The couple had nine children, including a set of twins.
The diary of Harriet Verena Evans is an unusual example of a woman's spiritual diary from early national Philadelphia. Beginning on her 46th birthday in 1827, the same day her seventeen year-old son John died, Evans made sporadic entries in her diary for seventeen years, marking birthdays, holidays, special events, and anniversaries of various kinds. Fixated upon praying (or fretting) over her spiritual state and future, Evans continued to mourn over John's loss for many years, remembering him regularly on the date of his birth, death, and burial. She was also particularly prone to composing (or copying) religious poetry, and in sections, the diary verges on a poetical commonplace book. Other entries reveal Evans' concern for her other children, three of whom were students at the University of Pennsylvania, and on July 25, 1832, she made a particularly long entry discussing the arrival of the cholera in Philadelphia. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ev5 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cholera--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Commonplace Book | Death | Diaries | Diaries. | Evans family | Evans, Harriet Verena, 1782- | Evans, John Glendour, 1810-1827 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mourning customs | Poetry | Religion | Social Life and Custom | Spiritual life | Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | |
| 13 | Creator: | Leacock, John,1729-1802. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Leacock commonplace book
| | | | Dates: | 1768-1781 | | | | Abstract: | Having made his fortune as a goldsmith and silversmith, John Leacock (1729-1802) became one of Philadelphia's most energetic entrepreneurs in viticulture and a playwright and parodist in the cause of American Independence.
Despite bearing the title, "Observations, Experiments etc. extracted from the
Philosophical Transactions respecting farming, gardening, etc.," the notebook kept by the silversmith, viticulturist, and writer, John Leacock, is actually a combination of commonplace book, notebook, and receipt book. Consisting of 58 folio pages, the book contains a hodgepodge of entries reflecting Leacock's varied interests from 1768 through at least 1781, including not only material copied from other sources on viticulture, agriculture, engraving and etching, but medicinal and culinary receipts and two original poems, a "Song [of] the Stamp Act" and "A parody on the Tempest, by R. H. Esq." It also mentions diet drinks made by James Logan and Cadwallader Evans. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L463 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture--Pennsylvania | Commonplace Book | Commonplace books. | Evans, Cadwalader, 1716-1773 | Grapes | Leacock, John,1729-1802. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Miscellaneous | Poetry | Receipt books | Silversmiths--Pennsylvania | Stamp Act, 1765 | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Viticulture--Pennsylvania | Yellow fever | |
| 14 | Creator: | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Rembrandt Peale sketchbooks,1850, [n.d.]
| | | | Dates: | 1850 | | | | Abstract: | Two sketchbooks by artist Rembrandt Peale. The first volume contains pencil sketches made on a trip on the Hudson River, October 1850, including views of the Palisades, Castle Garden, and the Catskill Mountains. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P313 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Castle Garden (New York, N.Y.) | Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) | Delaware Water Gap (N.J. and Pa.) | Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) | Palisades (N.Y.) | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Sketches. | Washington's tomb (Mount Vernon, Va.) | |
| 15 | Creator: | Roux de Rochelle, 1762-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Etats-Unis d'amerique
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1837 | | | | Abstract: | A published first edition, 1837, of Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux de Rochelle’s History of the United States of America, in French, with a companion volume of original sketches used for the 96 engraved plates. Sketches are of American scenes and history, some apparently original, others after de Bry and other artists, all used in Roux de rochelle's book. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.R76 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Delaware Indians | Engravings. | Foreign Language | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Florida | Indians of North America--North Carolina | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lumbee Indians | Mohawk Indians | Oneida Indians | Printed Material | Roux de Rochelle, 1762-1849 | Seminole Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Southeast Indians | |
| 16 | Creator: | Seybert, Adam,1773-1825. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Adam Seybert commonplace book, 1810
| | | | Dates: | 1810 | | | | Abstract: | This commonplace book consists of brief writings and observations on agriculture, arts and manufactures, commerce, the army and navy, canals and roads, weights and measures, general politics, finance, and population. It includes a sketch of the Battle of Quebec groundworks and layout. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Se95 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | American Revolution | Commerce. | Commonplace Book | Commonplace books. | Engineering | Europe -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815. | Finance. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Military History | Science and Technology | Seybert, Adam,1773-1825. | Sketchbooks | Transportation. | Weights and measures. | |
| 17 | Creator: | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Alexander Wilson papers, 1806-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1806-1813 | | | | Abstract: | This material relates to Alexander B. Grosart's biography of Wilson. There are notes and copies of letters and documents, including a copy of Wilson's will. There is one poem by Wilson, "The Last Wish," and an 1806 letter to William Bartram. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W692 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Birds. | General Correspondence | Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899 | Legal Records | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Natural History | Ornithologists. | Ornithology. | Poems. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Travel | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 | |
| 18 | Creator: | Brillon, Mme | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Musical compositions, late 18th century
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1775-1800 | | | | Abstract: | Principally by Mme. Brillon, these compositions include marches, sonatas, and songs. Included is "La Marche des Insurgents" which Mme. Brillon composed after receiving news from Benjamin Franklin of General Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777. | | | | Call #: | Mss.781.508.B762 | | | | Extent: | 26.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Brillon, Mme | Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792 | Foreign Language | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Marches. | Miscellaneous | Music - France - 18th century | Musical scores. | Sonatas. | Songs, French. | Songs. | Women's History | |
| 19 | Creator: | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte letters, 1825-1857
| | | | Dates: | 1825-1857 | | | | Abstract: | The primary correspondence (ca. 65 letters) is with William Cooper (1798-1864) on Bonaparte's publications, especially "American Ornithology" and "Observations on the Nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology," but also included are many references to American and European men of science and learned societies. There are also letters to Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, George Robert Gray, Titian Ramsay Peale, and Wilhelm P. S. Rüppell. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B642.1.7 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 | General Correspondence | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 | Gray, George Robert, 1808-1872 | Learned institutions and societies. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Natural History | Ornithology. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Rüppell, Wilhelm Peter Eduard, 1794-1884 | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientists. | Temminck, C. J., (Coenraad Jacob), 1778-1858 | |
| 20 | Creator: | Neagle, John, 1796-1865 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Neagle Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1817-1865 | | | | Abstract: | John Neagle was among the better known portrait painters in Philadelphia during the first half of the nineteenth century and was the husband of Thomas Sully's niece, Mary C. Sully.
The Neagle Papers is a small assemblage of personal correspondence, documents, and notes assembled by Neagle during his career. The letters are primarily of a personal nature, but along with the five bound volumes, offer insight into Neagle's study of painting and the techniques he employed. Included among the bound volumes are recipes for varnish, megellup, and drying oils and notes on watercolor painting. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.N125.p | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Artists' materials | Artists--Pennsylvania | Autobiographies. | Autobiography | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Landscape painting | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Neagle family | Neagle, John, 1796-1865 | Neagle, Mary Chester Sully | Notebooks | Painting--Study and teaching | Recipes | Sketchbooks | Sully family | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | Valentines | Varley, John, 1778-1842 | Watercolor paintings | Whist | |
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