Bound with Quiney, E. A treatise of hemp husbandry. 1765; London Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce. Premiums offered. 1761; Fitch, T. Reasons why the British colonies in America should not be charged with internal taxes ...
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
Letters by Newman to various recipients and a manuscript transcription of 8 lines of Horace, signed by F. W. Newman. There are 40 ALS to John Chapman, dated 1847-1868; 9 ALS to Moncure Daniel Conway; and one ALS each to William Lloyd Garrison; W. H. Burrow; Frank Harrison Hill as editor of the Daily News; Houghton, Osgood & Co.; Alexander Ireland; Henry Malthus; David Nutt; and R. D. Webb.
Alternative Title:
[Letter : F. W. Newman, 1860 October 17 to Dr. John Chapman]
Description:
Francis William Newman, scholar and man of letters, brother of Cardinal Newman.
Subject (Name):
Burrow, W. H, Garrison, William Lloyd,--1805-1879, Ireland, Alexander,--1810-1894, Malthus, Henry, Newman, Francis William,--1805-1897, Nutt, David,--fl. 1844, and Webb, R. D
Carl Van Vechten papers relating to African American arts and letters
Container / Volume:
Box 14 | 338-345
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Includes typescript draft verses for God's Trombones with autograph note from Johnson to CVV (1926); color brochure of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, with autograph note from Johnson to CVV (1929)
Alternative Title:
[Autograph letter signed 1926] October 18, Paris [to] Carl Van Vechten, New York, N.Y
Description:
See also: Photoduplicated letters from Johnson to CVV in Box 50
Two autograph letters signed (ALS) written from London to Dr. Edmond Malone, discussing Malone's edition of Shakespeare, the political situation, William Jephson, and James Boswell. The first, dated Feb 22 is signed J.C.; the second, dated 15 Dec 1790 has the signature J. Courtenay clipped and pasted at the end. Accompanied by 1 undated ALS written from Powderham Castle to a Mr. Lucas; endorsed Lord Courtenay Novb. 3/98 in an unidentified hand.