Document, on parchment, in a professional secretary script, signed by Queen Elizabeth I of England, ordering Sir Thomas Heneage to supply cash for distribution at the Maundy Thursday (Thursday in Holy Week) ceremony by her almoner, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of Worcester, or his subalmoner, John Dix.
Description:
Binding: modern brown straight-grained morocco, gilt., Bound with: two prints of Queen Elizabeth I, made by unidentified printers, window mounted., Dated from "our manor of St. James the seventh day of Aprill in the five and thirtith yeare of oure Reigne.", Docketed on verso by John Dix., Formerly owned by Vivien Leigh. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Sotheby's sale, London, 2018 July 9, lot 101) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2018., Papered seal affixed to recto., Signature in lower right corner of recto: "J. Wood.", Signed "Elizabeth R" at head of document., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Church of England--Charities--Early works to 1800., Fletcher, Richard, Bishop of London, 1545-1596, Heneage, Thomas, Sir, 1532-1595, and Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Holy Week--Great Britain., Maundy Thursday--Early works to 1800., and Maundy Thursday--Great Britain.
Autograph manuscript transcribed by William Partridge. Pages 67-137 contain "A compendium of logick, according to the modern philosophy, extracted from Le-grand & others their systems." This is followed by shorthand notes. Given by Partridge to Timothy Edwards, and later owned by Jonathan Edwards when a student at Yale in 1718. A note in F. B. Dexter’s hand says the book was also used by Warham Mather. On the verso of the first leaf: "Jonathan Edward’s Book 1751."
Subject (Name):
Harvard University --Students, Partridge, William, 1669-1693, Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572, and Yale University --Students
Subject (Topic):
Logic --Study and teaching --Early works to 1800 and Shorthand--Early works to 1800
Manuscript fair copy, corrected, in Rutherforth's hand, of four controversial letters. The third contains commentary on Blackburne's contribution to the "controversy regarding an intermediate state". The letters are preceded by a table of contents, and all are signed with the initials "T.R."
Alternative Title:
Observations on [Blackburne's] historical view of the controversy concerning an intermediate state
and Observations on Blackburns historical view of the controversy concerning an intermediate state
Description:
Binding: contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards. and Thomas Rutherforth was a Church of England clergyman and moral philosopher who taught at Cambridge and was appointed to the Regius Chair of Divinity there in 1756. His major publications were A System of Natural Philosophy (1748) and Institutes of Natural Law (1754, 1756).
Subject (Name):
Blackburne, Francis,--1705-1787, Church of England.--Thirty-nine Articles--Controversial literature, Rutherforth, T.--(Thomas),--1712-1771, and University of Cambridge--Administration
Subject (Topic):
Intermediate state and Learning and scholarship--Great Britain
Box 1 | Folder Moving to California in 1849 by E. L. Christman
Image Count:
15
Abstract:
Enos Christman's journals describe his 1849 sea voyage around the Horn from Philadelphia to San Francisco, his work in the gold fields and for the Sonora Herald. Pasted into the back of one journal are newspaper clippings of Christman's letters to Pennsylvania newspapers from his vacations in southern California, dated 1891-1896. There is correspondence between Christman and his fiancée Ellen A. Apple, his patron Henry S. Evans, his companion DeWitt Clinton Atkins, his friend Enos Prizer, and others.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Description and travel and California--Gold discoveries
Subject (Name):
Apple, Ellen A, Atkins, DeWitt Clinton, Evans, Henry S, and Prizer, Enos
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--California, Gold mines and mining--California, Journalism--California, Sonora Herald (1850), and Voyages to the Pacific coast
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of over 150 inscriptions and epitaphs transcribed from monuments sculpted by Joseph Nollekens. The epitaphs include those of notables such as William Hogarth; Oliver Goldsmith; Edward Hugh Boscawen, eldest son
Description:
Index at end of manuscript. and Parchment binding.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 --Death and burial, Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 --Death and burial, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 --Death and burial, Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823 --Death and burial, and Pitt, William,
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder P.B. I / 23 - 69.
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Autograph manuscript of the ballad Johnie Blunt by Robert Burns, undated, written on the verso of an address leaf that had been mailed to Burns at his office in Dumfries. It was bound with two autograph letters, signed, to Henry Sage from Bernard Quaritch regarding the ballad's authenticity and a typescript transcription of one letter with an invoice. The letters are dated 1900 August 3 and September 4 and the transcript and invoice are dated 1900 September 4.
Description:
Accompanying letters not digitized., Gift of Cornelia Cogswell Sage, 1955., In binding by Riviere and Son., and Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist. He was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland on January 25, 1759 and died in Dumfries, Scotland on July 21, 1796.
Subject (Name):
Burns, Robert,--1759-1796, Quaritch, Bernard,--1819-1899, Riviere & Son, and Sage, Henry M.--1868-1933
Subject (Topic):
Poets, Scottish--18th century and Scottish poetry--18th century