AD addressed to an unidentified court, written in manuscript and signed by Sanders and by Richard [Reese?], apparently apprentices or indentured servants, confessing to running away from their master.
Printed deed of sale completed in manuscript and signed by John Burr, Jr. of Stratford, Connecticut, for the sale of "one Negro boy named Robin about ten years old," to Thaddeus Gregory for one hundred pounds.
Printed form completed in autograph manuscript transferring ownership of a "negro girl named Minta" from Watson, of Newport, to Abraham Pease, of Nantucket, signed by Watson.
Six pen and ink drawings, five signed, with manuscript annotations in French. With envelope, addressed to Suzanne Guille, signed and inscribed: "Douze vices sans allusion, série complète, composée de six cartes dont une avec allusion. En souvenir de l'Ineffable, ces quelques représentations picturales et dévouées."
Typescript copy of an original manuscript journal kept by Elijah Backus while at Yale College in 1777.
Much of the diary was published in the Connecticut Quarterly for October, 1895.
In English and Latin.
Affixed to leaf are: "Resolutions formed to promote Regalanty at Thames Castle during the Meeting for Acting Cymbeline," Thames Castle, 1785 Nov 20, autograph manuscript, written in an unidentified hand, 3 p., listing humorous regulations; and, affixed to verso, clippings from English newspapers relating to Gustavus Katterfelto (d. 1799).
Clippings are announcements and reports of his exhibitions and lectures in London, some mentioning his association with the Comte de Grasse, who intended to draw Katterfelto to the attention of Benjamin Franklin in Paris.