Thompson's diary describes his 1850 journey from St. Joseph to Sacramento and a trip home in 1851 from Nevada City by the Isthmus. Notes on the westward trip include distances and camps. He went overland to South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Fort Hall, the California Trail, the Humboldt and Truckee, and Nevada City. Returning, Thompson sailed from San Francisco on the Olive Branch for Panama, and from Chagres on the North America for New Orleans, reaching Lagrange, [Missouri ?].
Description:
Diary and transcript are stored in one case., Gift of William Robertson Coe., and Original binding.
Subject (Geographic):
California National Historic Trail. and West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
Subject (Name):
North America (Ship), Olive Branch (Ship), and Thompson, William P.,--fl. 1850-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Ocean travel., Overland journeys to the Pacific., and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1850.
Autobiographies (documents)--Mexico--19th century, Autobiographies (documents)--United States--19th century, Baptists--United States, Frontier and pioneer life--United States, and Physicians--19th century
33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
Collection of twelve manuscripts: 1. Short prayer for the new Islamic year by an anonymous author (folios 1a-2a). 2. Mukhtaṣar Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah (folios 6b-178a), by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd ibn Maḥmūd, a treatise on Islamic law according to the Ḥanafī School, being an abridgment of Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-Maḥbūbīʼs "Wiqāyat al-riwāyah", itself an abridgment of Burhān al-Dīn al-Marghīnānīʼs "Hidāyāh". Copied in 1292 Hijrī (1875/1876). 3. Farāʼid al-fawāʼid li-taḥqīq maʻānī al-istiʻārah wa-aqsāmihā (folios190b-193a), a treatise on metaphor, also called "al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah", by Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr al-Samarqandī, active 15th century. 4. Gloss on a commentary on al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyh (folios 194b-209b) of Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr al-Samarqandī, active 15th century by ʻIṣām al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm (could not be identified, probably a scion of the Isfarāyīnī family which some of its members have commented on this epistle). 5. Tarikat al-mayyit (Estate of the deceased) by an anonymous author (folios 210b-231b), on inheritance and succession according to Islamic law. 6. al-Masāʼil allatī tukassaru ʻalá ṭāʼifah wāḥidah (folios 232a-233b) by an anonymous author (in Arabic and Persian), a short treatise on dividing the inheritance according to Islamic law. 7. Treatise on the burden of proof for a claimant (folio 234a) by an anonymous author. 8. Treatise on the structure of the Arabic language (folios 234b-236b) by an anonymous author. 9. Treatise on the case endings in the Arabic language (folios 236b-263a) by an anonymous author. 10. al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah (folios 263b-265b), a treatise on logic, by ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Qazwīnī (1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277), a logician, physician and philosopher. 11. Anonymous commentary on an anonymous treatise on Arabic grammar (folios 267b-305b). 12. al-Risālah al-jāmiʻah li-khamsat ashyāʼ (folios 306b-333b) by an anonymous author, an alphabetical list of Islamic law Ḥanafī scholars mentioned in Jāmiʻ al-rumūz "Compendium of symbols", a work on traditionalists mentioned by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Quhustānī (died approximately 1546), itself a commentary on al-Wiqāyah, by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd (Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, died 1346 or 1347). The fifth part of the treatise deals with "al-muʻarrab", a list of arabized Persian words.
Alternative Title:
Farāʼid al-fawāʼid li-taḥqīq maʻānī al-istiʻārah wa-aqsāmihā., Risālah al-jāmiʻah li-khamsat ashyāʼ., Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah., Tarikat al-mayyit., تركة الميت., رسالة الجامعة لخمسة أشياء., رسالة الشمسية في القواعد المنطقية., and فرائد الفوائد لتحقيق معاني الاستعارة وأقسامها.
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16 x 26.7 cm; written surface: varies; lines per page vary., al-Masāʼil allatī tukassaru ʻalá ṭāʼifah wāḥidah ends with: "... va khārij rā z̤arb kan dar sihām-i īshān az aṣl-i masʼalah ānjah-i ḥāṣil-i āyid-i naṣīb-i har fard bāshad.", al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah ends abruptly with: "... ysammá lafẓan manqūlan ʻurfīyan in kāna al-nāqil huwa al-ʻurf al-ʻāmm ka-al-dābbah wa-sharʻīyan in kāna al-nāqil huwa al-sharʻ ka-al-ṣalāh wa-al-ṣawm wa-iṣṭilāḥiyan in kāna al-nāqil huwa al-ʻurf al-khāṣṣ ka-iṣṭilāḥāt al-nuḥāt [al-nuḥāh] wa-al-nuẓẓār wa-in lam yatruk mawḍūʻahu al-awwal yusammá bi-al-nisbah ilá al-manqūl ʻanhu ḥaqīqah wa ...", Anonymous commentary on an anonymous treatise on Arabic grammar ends with: "... li-ithbāt istiḥālat iktisāb al-taṣawwur min al-taṣdīq wa-bi-al-ʻaks wa-laysa dafʻan li-iʻtirāḍ al-Muḥaqqiq al-Dawwānī ʻan kalām al-Shaykh.", Binding: In yellowish leather binding with red leather spine; both covers are tooled and embossed with red central medallions., Colophon of al-Risālah al-jāmiʻah li-khamsat ashyāʼ: "Tammat Risālat kull al-lughāt. Tamm. Tamm. Tamm.", Colophon of Mukhtaṣar Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah: "Tammat al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb. Sanat 1292.", Colophon of Tarikat al-mayyit: "Yawm al-Khāmis waqaʻa al-farāgh ʻan kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah.", Farāʼid al-fawāʼid li-taḥqīq maʻānī al-istiʻārah wa-aqsāmihā ends with: "... wa-bayna mā yujʻalu zāʼidan ʻalayhā wa-tarashshuḥan la-hā qūwat al-ikhtiṣāṣ bi-al-mushabbah bi-hi, fa-ayyuhā aqwá ikhtiṣāṣan wa-taʻalluqan bi-hi fa-huwa al-qarīnah wa-mā siwāhu tarashshuḥ bayān al-farq bayna al-qarīnah wa-al-tarashshuḥ wa-fī al-maʻrifah. Tammat hādhihi al-risālah.", Folios 2b-6a; 178b-190a; 193b-194a; 266b-267a; 306a are blank., Gloss on a commentary on al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyh ends with: "... fa-ayyuhumā ashadd ikhtiṣāṣan bi-al-mushabbah kāna qarīnah, wa-ammā siwāhu tajrīdan, wa-illā ẓahara anna mā yuḥṣaru bi-al-sāmiʻ awwalan fa-huwa al-qarīnah wa-mā siwāhu tarshīḥ, dhālika annahu yajʻalu jamīʻ qarīnatihi fī maqām shiddat al-ihtimām bi-al-īḍāḥ. al-Ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá tamām al-iḥtiyāj baʻda al-ẓalām bi-maḥwaj ilá al-miṣbāḥ. Tammat. Tammat. Tammat.", In fair naskhtaʻlīq or naskh scripts, in different hands, in black ink, on glossy beige paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; many notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords., Incipit of al-Masāʼil allatī tukassaru ʻalá ṭāʼifah wāḥidah: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Masāʼil allatī tukassaru ʻalá ṭāʼifah wāḥidah. Thalāth zawjāt wa-arbaʻ banāt wa-jaddatān wa-sittat aʻmām. 144. Imaraʼah wa-thamānī banāt wa-arbaʻ jaddāt wa-sittat akhawāt li-ab. 144 ...", Incipit of al-Risālah al-jāmiʻah li-khamsat ashyāʼ: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá mā anʻamahu bi-jamīʻ maḥāmidihi wa-uthnī ʻlayhi bi-ālāʼihi ... Ammā baʻd, fa-hādhihi Risālah jāmiʻah li-khamast ashyāʼ. al-Awwal asmāʼ al-ʻulamāʼ al-madhkūrīn fī Jāmiʻ al-rumūz fa-kānat sabʻ wa-sabʻīn isman baʻda al-miʼatayn, wa-al-thānī al-kutub allatī naqala ʻanhā al-shāriḥ, aʻnī Mawlānā Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, fa-kāna khamsah wa-tisʻīn kitāban baʻda al-miʼatayn, wa-al-thālith mawāḍiʻ ṭaʻana fīhā al-shāriḥ ʻibārat al-matn, aʻnī mukhtaṣar al-Wiqāyah fa-kānat thalāthmiʼah wa-ithnay ʻashar mawḍiʻan ...", Incipit of al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Wa-lammā ashāra ilayya man suʻida bi-luṭf al-ḥaqq wa-al-dīn bi-taḥrīr kitāb kadhā wa-kadhā fa-bādartu bi-muqtaḍá ishāratihi wa-sharaʻtu fī taḥrīrihi wa-taṣnīfih wa-sammaytuhu bi-Risālat [al-Risālah] al-Shamsīyah fī qawāʻid [al-qawāʻid] al-manṭiqīyah, wa-rattabtuhu ʻalá muqaddimah wa-thalāth maqālāt wa-khātimah muʻtaṣiman bi-ḥabl al-tawfīq min wāhib al-ʻaql wa-mutawakkilan ʻalá jūdihi al-mufīḍ lil-khayr wa-al-ʻadl ...", Incipit of Anonymous commentary on an anonymous treatise on Arabic grammar: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Qawluhu al-murād bi-al-ḥamd al-maʻná al-maṣdarī. Āh. Iʻlam anna al-fāʻil idhā aḥdatha amran fī maḥall munfaʻil yaḥṣalu la-hu ṣfah iʻtibārīyah hiya al-ījād wa-al-īqāʻ wa-anna la-hu al-maṣdar al-maʻlūm wa-lil-munfaʻil ṣifatān dhālika al-amr al-ḥāṣil bi-al-īqāʻ wa-huwa qad yakūnu wa-ḍʻan wa-qad yakūnu kayfan ...", Incipit of Farāʼid al-fawāʼid li-taḥqīq maʻānī al-istiʻārah wa-aqsāmihā: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu li-wāhib al-ʻaṭīyah, wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá khayr al-barīyah wa-ʻalá ālihi dhawī al-nufūs al-zakīyah. Ammā baʻd, fa-inna maʻānī al-istiʻārah wa-mā yataʻallaqu bi-hā qad dhikrat fī al-kutub mufaṣṣalah ḥasīrat al-ḍabṭ fa-aradtu dhikrahā mujmalatan maḍbūtatan ʻalá wajh naṭaqa bi-hi kutub al-mutaqaddimīn wa-dalla ʻlayhi zabr al-mutaʼkhkhirīn, fanaẓamtu Farāʼid al-fawāʼid li-taḥqīq maʻānī al-istiʻārah wa-aqsāmihā wa-qarāʼinihā fī thalāthat ʻuqūd ...", Incipit of Gloss on a commentary on al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyh: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Yaqūlu al-ʻabd al-muftaqir ilá alṭāf rabbihi khafīyah [al-khafīyah] ʻIṣām al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad [ibn] Ibrāhīm, ḥaffahumā [Allāh] bi-maghfirah [...]: Aḥsan mā yuzādu bi-hi niʻam [al-niʻam] al-wafīyah wa-tudfaʻu bi-hi al-balīyah fī al-bukrah wa-al-ʻashīyah, al-ḥamdu lillāh al-wāhib al-ʻaṭīyah ...", Incipit of Mukhtaṣar Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh rāfiʻ aʻlām al-sharīʻah al-gharrāʼ jāʻiluhā shajaratan aṣluhā thābit fī al-arḍ wa-farʻuhā fī al-samāʼ ...", Incipit of Short prayer for the new Islamic year: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh muqaddir al-shuhūr wa-al-aʻwām wa-mujaddid al-duhūr wa-al-ayyām alladhī iftataḥa al-ʻām bi-al-shahr al-ḥarām. Bi-hi khalaq al-samāwāt wa-al-arḍ wa-mā baynahumā fī sittat ayyām thumma istawá ʻalá al-ʻarash munfaridan bi-al-baqāʼ wa-al-dawām ...", Incipit of Tarikat al-mayyit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn ḥamda al-shākirīn wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá khayr al-barīyah Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭayyibīn. [Qāla] Rasūl Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam: Taʻallamū al-farāʼiḍ wa-ʻallimūhā al-nās, fa-innahā niṣf al-ʻilm. ʻIlman anna raḥmat Allāh tataʻallaqu bi-Tarikat al-mayyit, ḥuqūq arbaʻah murattabah, al-awwal yabdaʼu bi-takfīnih wa-tajhīzih min ghayr tabdhīr wa-lā taqtīr ...", Incipit of Treatise on the burden of proof for a claimant: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Laka al-ḥamdu wa-al-minnah, wa-ʻalá Nabīyika al-ṣalāh wa-al-taḥīyah. Idhā qulta bi-kalām, in kunta nāqilan fa-yuṭlabu minka al-ṣiḥḥah wa-muddaʻiyan fa-al-dalīl, wa-lā yumnaʻu al-naql wa-al-muddaʻá illā majāzan. Wa-al-manʻ ṭalab al-dalīl ʻalá muqaddimah ...", Incipit of Treatise on the case endings in the Arabic language: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Marfūʻāt huwa [hiya] mā ishtamala ʻalá ʻalam al-fāʻilīyah, fa-minhu al-fāʻil wa-huwa mā usnida ilayhi al-fiʻl aw shibhuhu wa-quddima ʻalayhi ʻalá jihat qiyāmihi mithl qāma Zayd wa-Zayd qāʼimun abūhu wa-al-aṣl an yaliya al-fiʻl, fa-lidhālika jāza ḍarab ghulāmahu Zaydun ...", Incipit of Treatise on the structure of the Arabic language: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Kalimah lafẓ wuḍiʻa li-maʻná mufrad, hiya ism wa-fiʻl wa-ḥarf, li-annahā immā an tadulla ʻalá maʻná fī nafsihā aw lā ...", On folio 210a verses of poetry in Persian., On folio 266a: Anecdotes in Persian and Arabic., On the upper left margin of folio 234a: "Hādhihi al-risālah mansūbah ilá al-Imām ʻAḍud al-millah wa-al-dīn fī ādāb al-munāẓarah, ʻIṣām al-Dīn." (Probably al-Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah on the art of debate and debating of ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī, died 1355?)., Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2006., and Romanization supplied by catalog
Subject (Name):
Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, -1274 or 1275. Wiqāyat al-riwāyah., Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, -1355? ʻAḍudīyah., Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad,---1355?, Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, -1346 or 1347. Mukhtaṣar Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah., Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd,---1346 or 1347., Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197. Hidāyah., Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar, 1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277. Shamsīyah., Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar,--1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277., Quhustānī, Muḥammad,---approximately 1546.--Jāmiʻ al-rumūz., Samarqandī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr, active 15th century. Farāʼid al-fawāʼid li-taḥqīq maʻānī al-istiʻārah wa-aqsāmihā., Samarqandī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr,--active 15th century., إيجي، عضد الدين عبد الرحمن بن أحمد، -1355 عضدية., إيجي، عضد الدين عبد الرحمن بن احمد،---1355؟, برهان الشريعة، محمود بن عبيد الله، -1274 أو 1275. وقاية الرواية., سمرقندي، أبو القاسم بن أبي بكر، ناشط قرن 15. فرائد الفوائد لتحقيق معاني الاستعارة وأقسامها., سمرقندي، أبو القاسم بن أبي بكر،--ناشط قرن 15., قزويني، علي بن عمر، 1203 أو 1204-1276 أو 1277. شمسية., قزويني، علي بن عمر،--1203 أو 1204-1276 أو 1277., قهستاني، محمد،---حوالي 1546.--جامع الرموز., محبوبي، عبيد الله بن مسعود، -1346 أو 1347. مختصر وقاية الرواية في مسائل الهداية., محبوبي، عبيد الله بن مسعود،---1346 أو 1347., and مرغيناني، علي بن ابي بكر، -1196 or 1197. هداية.
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Arab logic., Arabic language--Grammar., Arabic language--Inflection., Arabic language--Morphology., Arabic language--Rhetoric., Arabic manuscripts., Burden of proof., Debates and debating., Hanafites., Inheritance and succession (Islamic law), Islamic law., Islamic literature., Islamic New Year., Muslim scholars., Persian manuscripts., and Prayer--Islam.
Accompanied by: The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised ...London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1660. Ownership and presentation inscriptions include "Dorothy Harvey her book Giuen me by my uncell Nicholas Jun 15 1686. Pray for NH, he pray for thee;" "Given to Anne the Hon.ble Ly. Middeleton by Mrs. Caroline Acton, Decr. 1836;" and "Jane Anne Broke from her Godmother Anne Hon.ble Lady Middleton July 28 1860." Bound in black gilt-panelled morocco, with a six-compartment gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. and Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing several works in verse and prose apparently composed by Dorothy Calthorpe. The volume opens with three poems in couplets: "Philismena to Philander," "Philander to Philismena," and "In commendations of a country Life it being so innocent," and a short prose "Discription of the Garden of Edden." These are followed by a longer prose narrative: "A Short History of the Life and Death of Sir Ceasor Dappefer, or els a pleasent histtory of Jewlious and Dorinda the truth of it was so lately represented that some of those worthy persons are stil liueing and ownes what is here repated." The story, which Calthorpe claims is based on the lives of her father and grandfather, traces the business success and courtships of a father and son. "A Castell in the aire, or the pallace of the man in the moone" is a prose work containing both religious reflection and descriptions of "visiones" of Roman gods, eagles and celestial gardens.
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Binding: contemporary speckled calf., Dorothy Calthorpe was probably connected to the Calthorpe family of Ampton in Suffolk, but she has not been further identified., Inscription on first page: A red marble Chappel Erected by my hand. Dorothy Calthorpe Jun 20 1684. Accompanied by a drawing of a chapel. Both in red ink., Inscription on front pastedown: Dorothy Calthorpe., Inscription on last page: Dorothy Calthorpe. I begane this book Janewary the 20 in the yeare 1672., Inscription on recto of front flyleaf: Anne L'Estrange Sa Livre. Mars 27 1738., and Purchased from Sotheby's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006.
Subject (Name):
Cowlthorp family and Middleton family
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English--18th century, English fiction--17th century, English fiction--Women authors, English poetry--17th century, English prose literature--17th century, Pastoral poetry, English, Religious literature, English, and Women authors