Collection contains letters from Christopher Isherwood to his brother, Richard Isherwood, and his mother, Kathleen Machell Smith Isherwood. The letters describe his life in America, his efforts to become a United States citizen, and his involvement wi...
Subject (Name):
Isherwood, Richard.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and English literature--20th century
Collection contains letters from Christopher Isherwood to his brother, Richard Isherwood, and his mother, Kathleen Machell Smith Isherwood. The letters describe his life in America, his efforts to become a United States citizen, and his involvement wi...
Subject (Name):
Isherwood, Richard.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and English literature--20th century
Kingerly's letters to his parents and friends describe the 1852 journey from Illinois to California by way of Iowa, Kanesville, the Platte and Sweetwater, Kinney's and Hudspeth's Cut-offs, the Shasta and Nobles Pass route, Sierra Nevadas, and Shasta ...
Subject (Geographic):
Shasta (Calif.) and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Overland journeys to the Pacific and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1852
Recueil des histoires de Troie. English and Recueil des histoires de Troye
Description:
[A]3r text begins: and zeland and thus whan alle thyse thynges cam ..
Subject (Geographic):
Troy (Extinct city)--Romances--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Bedford, Francis,--1799-1883--Binding., Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, printer, Mansion, Colard, active 15th century, printer, Newton, A. Edward--(Alfred Edward),--1864-1940--Bookplate., Pruyn, John VanSchaick Lansing,--1811-1877--Bookplate., Ricci, Seymour de,--1881-1942--Autograph., and Rosenbloom, Charles J.--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library and Incunabula in Yale Library--Single leaves
Fred Benjamin Millett Correspondence is comprised of incoming letters from American and British authors dating from 1933 to 1950. The authors write in response to Millet's request for information while preparing his books: Contemporary British Literat...
Description:
Fred Benjamin Millett (1890-1976), professor of English and Head of the Honors College at Wesleyan University.
Subject (Name):
Millett, Fred B. (Fred Benjamin), 1890-1976
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, English--20th century, Bio-bibliography, and English literature--20th century
Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs correspondence
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder 4
Image Count:
147
Abstract:
After March 13, 1872, many of the letters are addressed to his successor, T. D. Odeneal
Description:
5 volumes and typed transcript stored in 5 boxes.
Subject (Geographic):
Siletz Indian Reservation (Or.) and Warm Springs Indian Reservation (Or.)
Subject (Name):
Applegate, Ivan D., 1840-1918, Boyle, William Henry, Clum, Henry R, Cornoyer, Narcisse A., 1820-1909, Dyar, Leory S, Knapp, Orson Claudius, 1887, Lafollett, Charles, Meacham, A. B. (Alfred Benjamin), 1826-1882, Odeneal, T. B, Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881, Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895, Smith, John R., active 1870-1872, United States. Office of Indian Affairs, and Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897
Subject (Topic):
Indian agents--Oregon, Indian reservations--Oregon, Indians of North America--Oregon--Government relations, Klamath Indians--Reservations, Modoc Indians--Wars, 1873, Siletz Indians, and Umatilla Indians--Reservations
Mary Elizabeth Phillips papers relating to James Fenimore Cooper
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
27
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Papers consist of a draft, typescript, corrected, and other materials relating to Phillips's work on James Fenimore Cooper. Other materials include a bibliography of works relating to Cooper held by Rudolf Drescher, a memorandum of agreement between P...
Description:
Gift of Mary M. Bean, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 and John Lane Company
Subject (Topic):
American literature--19th century, Authors and publishers--United States, Authors, American--19th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Publishers and publishing--United States
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville letters and report on the French and Indian War
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The report, entitled "Precis de ce qui s’est passe de plus considerable dans l’Amerique Septentrionale pendant l’hyver de 1756 a 1757," is a holograph draft describing the French dealings with the Five Nations: the reception of their embassy in Montre...
Subject (Geographic):
Canada --History --1755-1763, Five Nations, and United States --History --French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Subject (Name):
Bougainville, Jean-Pierre de, 1722-1763 and Montcalm de Saint-Veran, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759
A.B. S.Q. Savage, Richard Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 T.R.
Call Number:
2004 +114
Collection Title:
The serio-jocular medley in verse and prose : some very good, some pretty tolerable, and other
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Faults on both sides of happiness, On hearing a very ugly lady sing with a very fine voice, The parsons's case : in imitation of Martial, To sextus, of St. F. Coll. Camb., and Verses [said to be] spoken spoken extempore by Dean Swift on his Curate's complaint of hard duty
Subject (Name):
Joliffe, John, 1804-1868
Collection Created:
Exon : Printed by Andrew Brice, in the years 1734 and 1735
The serio-jocular medley in verse and prose : some very good, some pretty tolerable, and other
Image Count:
8
Alternative Title:
A discourse against purgatory, A French gentleman, dining with some company on a fast day ..., An appendix to the Discourse on purgatory, Hom. Il. I, It having been asserted by Misokuon in this our Medley..., Mr. Brice, Your allowing vacancy ..., The lover's auction, and Verses wrote extempore in a lady's prayer-book
Collection Created:
Exon : Printed by Andrew Brice, in the years 1734 and 1735
The serio-jocular medley in verse and prose : some very good, some pretty tolerable, and other
Image Count:
7
Alternative Title:
A quiet life and a good name, Advice to the ladies, Art improves nature : or, the force of education, Content alone is true happiness : or, the country lass, Epilogue spoken by Mr. Kennedy, Friday April 18 at the company of comedians taking leave of the town, Eusodia : or, the accomplish'd virgin, Of the worship of angels, The XXIII ode of Anacreon, and To Mr. Fondlewhite, on the value of cuckoldom
Collection Created:
Exon : Printed by Andrew Brice, in the years 1734 and 1735
United States. Army. Dept. of the Pacific (1853-1858)
Call Number:
Zc74 856un
Collection Title:
Indian war reports, 1853-1856. Martial law, 1857
Image Count:
9
Subject (Name):
Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883, Rains, Gabriel James, 1803-1881, United States. War Dept. Report of the Secretary of War, and Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869
Subject (Topic):
Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865 and Pacific railroads --Explorations and surveys
Letter by Nakahara no Kiyonari, the deputy of Harima's provincial governor, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated [Kenkyū sannen] hachigatsu nijūsannichi [Aug. 23, 1192]. Fourth manuscript on right-hand screen of original "Komonjo ...
Description:
Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ac3.
anno Domini Mcccclxxxxvi die xii Iulii [12 July 1496]
Call Number:
2017 +317
Image Count:
808
Alternative Title:
Correspondence
Description:
BEIN 2017 +317: Capital spaces, some with printed or manuscript guide-letters. Capitals supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red, blue, green or yellow. Rubricated throughout in red or blue. Contemporary manuscript notes.
A collection of 65 letters written on paper during the last two of Sidney's three years on the Continent and the first year after his return to England (June 1573-June 1576), plus another dated 10 October 1581. Authors include Johannes Lobbetius (19 l...
Description:
In Latin, French, and Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Poland, France, and Italy
Subject (Name):
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586., Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581., Lobbetius, Johannes., Zündelin, Wolfgang., Paullus, Andreas., Vulcob, Jean de, -1607., Wacker, Matthew, active 16th century., Perrot, Francis., Banosius, Theophilus., Ursinus, Zacharias, 1534-1583., Solms, Otto, Graf zu., Dohna, Fabian, Burggraf und Graf zu, 1550-1621., Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461., Slavata, Vilém, hrabě, 1572-1652., and Bizzarri, Pietro, 1525?-1586?
Subject (Topic):
Monarchy, Protestantism, History, Protestants, Catholics, Kings and rulers, Church history, and Foreign relations
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696
Call Number:
49 2576
Image Count:
29
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
ALS from Madame de Sévigné to her daughter soon after she married and moved to Provence. The letter begins by assuring her daughter of a preference for her company over that of Mme. de Brissac and continues with a report on the weaknesses of her broth...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696., Sévigné, Charles, marquis de, 1648-1713., and Grignan, Françoise Marguerite de Sévigné, comtesse de, 1646-1705.
Subject (Topic):
Women, Conduct of life, Authors, French, Mothers and daughters, and Social life and customs
Vol. 2 of 2 letterbooks containing copies of correspondence between the English delegation to the negotiations of the Treaty of Nymegen and Sir Joseph Williamson, secretary of state, and other members of the Cabinet, giving detailed accounts of events...
Description:
Blank pages i-xx at front and back not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1660-1714
Subject (Name):
Jenkins, Leoline,--Sir,--1623-1685, Temple, William,--Sir,--1628-1699, and Williamson, Joseph,--1633-1701
MS copy in an unidentified hand. Accompanied by an ALS from Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) to Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), discussing this work and Southwells work of the same title. The letter refers also to Grews own observations on the subject and ...
Letter book containing Kirke's dispatches from Tangier while in command of command of Lord Plymouth's regiment and later as governor of Tangier (1681-1683) to Secretary Jenkins and to the Lords of the Treasury
Description:
Percy Kirke (1646?-1691), British army officer and governor of Tangier from 1681-1683.
Subject (Geographic):
Tangier (Morocco) and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Kirke, Percy, 1646?-1691., Jenkins, Leoline, Sir, 1623-1685., and Great Britain. Treasury.
Bookplate: Ex libris Michael Gillingham; Arthur F. Hill, FSA.
Description:
Blanks not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Gillingham, Michael--Bookplate, Harris, Renatus, 1640?-1715?, Hill, Arthur F.--(Arthur Frederick),--1860-1939--Bookplate, Jeffreys, George Jeffreys,--Baron,--1644 or 5-1689, and Temple Church (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Organ (Musical instrument)--England and Organ builders--England
[Autograph letter signed] to William Walsh (1663-1708), [early 1691] digitized at high resolution. Accompanying material digitized at medium resolution.
Alternative Title:
[Autograph letter signed] to William Walsh (1663-1708), [early 1691].
Reviews the conditions in the missions, the work and number of Indians whom Father Kino had converted, his disappointment in the laxness of the priests who followed him, and the events leading to the uprising of the Pima Indians. He describes in detai...
Subject (Name):
Campos, Agusti´n de, 1669-1737,
Gonzalez, Manuel, 1645-1702,
Kappus, Marcus Antonio, 1657-1717,
Kino, Eusebio Francisco, 1644-1711,
Mange, Juan Mateo, 1670-1727?
Saeta, Francisco Javier de, 1664-1695,
Theran, Domingo, Almonazir, Diego de, Jesuits --Pimeria Alta (Mexico and Ariz.), Pima Indians--Missions, and Pima Indians--Wars
Subject (Topic):
Apache Indians and Missions --Pimeri´a Alta (Mexico and Ariz.)
Copy, possibly in Father Xavier de Mora's own hand, of an exchange of letters between himself and Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. In the first, dated October 3, 1696, Father Xavier de Mora criticizes Father Kino's failure to obey orders and his handlin...
Description:
Purchased from Dawson's Los Angeles on the Henry Raup Wagner Fund, 1965.
Subject (Name):
Jesuits, Kino, Eusebio Francisco,--1644-1711, San Francisco de Xavier Mission (Sonora, Mexico), and Xavier de Mora, Francisco
Because of conflicting reports on the conditions of the missions in Sonora, Father Polici examines the situation himself. He recommends sending skilled priests and more soldiers into the area, building of churches and houses, a greater development of ...
Subject (Geographic):
Pimería Alta (Mexico and Ariz.)--History
Subject (Name):
Diáz de Theran, Juan, Kino, Eusebio Francisco,--1644-1711, Manga, Juan Mateo,--1670-1726?, Nicolaza, Domingo, Oddon, Ambrosio, Pacheco, Francisco, Polici, Oracio,--1654-1713, Saeta, Francisco Javier,--1664-1695, and Salvatierra, Juan María de,--1648-1717
Subject (Topic):
Apache Indians, Missions--Pimería Alta (Mexico and Ariz.), and Pima Indians
Documents relating to the estate of John Hallett, a landowner in Barbados, written in manuscript in unidentified hands, most dated at Barbados: copy of an agreement, dated 1700, relating to Hallett's marriage to Sarah Andrews; copy of Hallett's will, ...
Subject (Geographic):
Barbados--Politics and government--18th century and Barbados--Social conditions--18th century
Subject (Name):
Alleyne, John Gay, 1724-1801, Andrews, William, plantation owner, Cogen, William, Crichlow, Henry, Elder, James, Hales, Sarah, Hallett, John, Lamb, Matthew, Sir, 1705-1768, Patient Mary (Ship), Raymond, Robert Raymond, Baron, 1673-1733, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, and Sutton, Edmund
Montfaucon writes to Baluze (in exile) about the state of printing business in Paris and with general news of "la republique des lettres". He notes volumes recently published or in press, including: Lodovico Antonio Muratori’s Anecdota Graeca, Origen’...
Manuscript, in a single hand, of twelve letters written during a tour of London and addressed to "dear Elvira." In the letters, the author (Mrs. Percivall or Percival?) describes the social sights of London, including parties and dinners she attends,...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., England., Great Britain., Great Britain, and London
Subject (Name):
Percivall, Mrs.
Subject (Topic):
Amusements, Country homes, Courts and courtiers, Nobility, Social life and customs, and Description and travel
ALS illustrated with a small diagram concerning Faccio's work on the problem of determining longitude, and "on the theory of the Moon," which he had previously discussed with Isaac Newton.
Description:
Purchased from Emily Driscoll on the Library Associates Fund, 1968.
Subject (Geographic):
Moon--Orbit
Subject (Name):
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 and Whiston, William, 1667-1752
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of copies of 20 letters from Alured Clarke to Charlotte, Lady Sundon, followed by copies of 4 letters to her from Lord John Hervey and one letter from an unsigned hand. Many of the letters from Clarke concern hi...
Description:
Charlotte Clayton, Lady Sundon (c.1679-1742), courtier, married William Clayton (baptised. 1671, died 1752) of Sundon Hall in Bedfordshire before 1714. With the help of the Duchess of Marlborough, Charlotte Clayton was appointed a woman of the bedcha...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742., Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756., Bristol, John Hervey, Earl of, 1665-1751., Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743., Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761., Rundle, Thomas, 1688?-1743., Stanisław I Leszczyński, King of Poland, 1677-1766., Sundon, Charlotte Clayton, Baroness, d. 1742, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., and Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Clergy, Appointment, call, and election, Authors and patrons, Nobility, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Call Number:
LWL MSS 11
Image Count:
164
Abstract:
Manuscript copies in multiple hands, of 62 letters to or by Madame du Deffand, primarily letters from du Deffand to the duchesse du Choiseul; also two letters to Horace Walpole. The letters primarily concern social subject such as dinners, news of fr...
Description:
Marie Anne de Vichy Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697-1780), was married at 21 to her kinsman, Jean Baptiste de la Lande, marquis du Deffand. The marriage resulted in a separation as early as 1722. However, her intelligence, cynicism, and wit gained...
Subject (Geographic):
France and United States
Subject (Name):
Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792., Choiseul Stainville, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801., Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780., Le Vayer de Boutigny, Roland, 1627-1685, Sainte-Aulaire, Joseph Louis Camille de Beaupoil, Marquis, 1798-1819., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
The Publick register: or, The weekly magazine, &c.
Container / Volume:
Copy 2
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
A letter from a wife, who was sick at Bath, to her husband, A riddle, A song, Epigramma, Records of literature, To Chloe, To the author of Leonidas, and Upon seeing some verses wrote in circles, by Doctor Sheridan
Collection Created:
London, Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully’s Head in Pall-Mall: and sold by T. Cooper [etc., 1741]
Collection, in a single hand, of 61 letters from Henry Seymour-Conway to his brother, Lord Francis Seymour-Conway, in which he discusses military, political, and social news between 1744 and 1784. The collection contains discussion of his military se...
Description:
Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major ge...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, United States., Ireland, and United States
Subject (Name):
Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., Grenville, George, 1712-1770., Hertford, Francis Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1718-1794., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797., Great Britain. Parliament., and Ireland. Parliament.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Stamp act, 1765, Court and courtiers, Foreign relations, Militia, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
An autographed letter signed (partially rubbed off) discussing family matters and financial concerns to his relative the Hon. Thomas Symonds at his seat at Pengethly in Herefordshire. Written on the verso of Vertue's engraving of "The west prospect o...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Vertue, George, 1684-1756. and Symonds, Thomas, Dr.
Autographed letter signed by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, and addressed to the booksellers Messrs. Dodsley on the subject of Horace Walpole. He commences the letter by asking to see any work by "Mr Walpole": "I am told of one that it is very difficul...
Description:
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork (1707-1762), writer, friend of Swift, Pope and Johnson.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and R. and J. Dodsley.
A report to Viceroy Conde de Revilla Gigedo regarding the situation in Pimeri´a Alta after the recent Pima Indian rebellion. Balthasar questions a report by Governor Diego Ortiz Parrilla and describes his fear for the safety of the missionaries.
Thirty-seven letters addressed to Charles Tudway Esqr. from the managers and attorneys, mostly concerning the management of his sugar plantations in Antigua. Topics discussed include sugar production and planting, estate management, Caribbean weather ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Antigua and Parham Hill (Antigua : Plantation)
Subject (Name):
Tudway, Charles, 1713-1770.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, History, Sugar trade, and Economic conditions
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville letters and report on the French and Indian War, 1756-1757
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Describes Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's voyage to Canada, the situation at Montreal, plans for an expedition southward, his relationship to Montcalm, and news of the war.
Description:
In colored pencil on [p. 1]: 9.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada --History --1755-1763, Five Nations, and United States --History --French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Subject (Name):
Bougainville, Jean-Pierre de, 1722-1763 and Montcalm de Saint-Veran, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville letters and report on the French and Indian War, 1756-1757
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Describes Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's voyage to Canada, the situation at Montreal, plans for an expedition southward, his relationship to Montcalm, and news of the war.
Description:
In pencil on [p. 1]: [erased notations].
Subject (Geographic):
Canada --History --1755-1763, Five Nations, and United States --History --French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Subject (Name):
Bougainville, Jean-Pierre de, 1722-1763 and Montcalm de Saint-Veran, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of copies of several hundred letters from Conway to other military officials, including Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and John Manners, Marquis of Granby, during his service as deputy to Granby, Commander of the British ...
Description:
Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Frederick, Lord, 1729-1803., Cockburn, James, Sir, 1723-1801., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., De Cosne, Ruvigny., Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792., Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770., and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, Military camps, Military discipline, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Militia, and Politics and government
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of copies of several hundred letters from Conway to other military officials, including Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and John Manners, Marquis of Granby, during his service as deputy to Granby, Commander of the British ...
Description:
Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Frederick, Lord, 1729-1803., Cockburn, James, Sir, 1723-1801., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., De Cosne, Ruvigny., Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792., Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770., and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, Military camps, Military discipline, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Militia, and Politics and government
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of copies of several hundred letters from Conway to other military officials, including Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and John Manners, Marquis of Granby, during his service as deputy to Granby, Commander of the British ...
Description:
Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Frederick, Lord, 1729-1803., Cockburn, James, Sir, 1723-1801., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., De Cosne, Ruvigny., Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792., Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770., and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, Military camps, Military discipline, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Militia, and Politics and government
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of copies of several hundred letters from Conway to other military officials, including Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and John Manners, Marquis of Granby, during his service as deputy to Granby, Commander of the British ...
Description:
Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Frederick, Lord, 1729-1803., Cockburn, James, Sir, 1723-1801., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., De Cosne, Ruvigny., Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792., Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770., and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, Military camps, Military discipline, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Militia, and Politics and government
Manuscript, in several hands, containing two letters written by Elizabeth Montagu. The first letter, signed by Montagu and addressed "To Doctor Monsey," admonishes the recipient's attachment to "Miss B," warning him, "Do not sadden your retirement & ...
Description:
Binding: cloth covered boards; blue morocco spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
Subject (Name):
Montagu,--Mrs.--(Elizabeth),--1720-1800. and Percy, Thomas,--1729-1811.
An autograph letter signed from an itinerant actress Eleonora Garrell in a travelling theatre troupe, dated 13 December 1764 from the White Lion Inn in Halifax. An affectionate, teasing letter in which the writer reports on her employment with the "Sc...
Description:
Surname may be Garrell?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Farrell, Eleonora. and Whitley, James Augustus, ca. 1724-1781.
Two AL, one signed, possibly by Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, comte d'Ennery, the governor general of Martinique from 1763 to 1771, to the Chevalier de Monteil, commander of French naval forces in the Caribbean. The letters concern personal and polit...
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1994.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort-de-France (Martinique) and Martinique--Politics and government--18th century.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter from Mason to Horace Walpole, in which Mason writes that he has read Walpole's tragedic play, The Mysterious Mother, several times and has provided a sketch of alterations he believes necessary to improve the ...
Description:
William Mason (1724-1797) was a poet, editor, and gardener. In 1747, his poem "Musaeus, a Monody on the Death of Mr. Pope" was published to acclaim and quickly went through several editions. In 1775, he published the Poems of Mr Gray, a friend who w...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mason, William, 1725-1797. and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
English drama (Tragedy), Family, Incest, Religion, and Theater
Viceroy Bucareli, having read Father Palóu's diary which suggested the possibilities of more missions in the San Francisco area, is inspired to establish six new missions. The letters inform Fray Junípero Serra, president of the California missions,...
Subject (Geographic):
California--History--To 1846
Subject (Name):
Anza, Juan Bautista de, 1735-1788, New Spain Viceroy (1771-1779 : Bucareli y Ursúa), Palóu, Francisco, 1723-1789, Rivera y Moncada, Fernando de, and Serra, Junípero, 1713-1784
Album containing the correspondence of Benjamin Strutt of Colchester and John Pattison Jr. of Witham. The letters are highly literary in nature, and contain many references to, playful imitations of, and comments on MacPherson's <title>Ossian</title>,...
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796, Pattison, John Jr., 1758-1782., Strutt, Benjamin, 1754-1827., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Classical studies, English literature, English poetry, Friendship, Sentimentalism in literature, Students, Books and reading, and Intellectual life
Letter from Viceroy Bucareli y Ursúa to Father Rafael Bergér naming Father Pablo Font, Father Juan Riobo, and Father Matias Noriega as chaplains for the impending voyage of exploration along the California coast, and discussing the finances availabl...
Description:
GIft of Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Discovery and exploration--Spanish, Pacific Coast--Discovery and exploration, and Spain--Exploring expeditions
Subject (Name):
Bergér, Rafael, Font, Pablo, New Spain. Viceroy (1771-1779 : Bucareli y Ursúa), Noriega, Mathias, and Riobo, Juan
Holograph manuscript containing copies of letters sent by Codrington to his agents in Antigua and Barbuda from 1779 to 1782 concerning the management of his estates and accounts, the employment of servants and slaves, the sugar trade, and the effects ...
Description:
Binding: original vellum inscribed "Letter Book 1779"; contemporary metal clasp, largely intact.
Subject (Geographic):
Antigua and Barbuda--History
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Plantation life--Caribbean Area, and Sugar trade--Antigua
ALS from W.J. Chute to his friend Grimston, relating the news he had heard about his friend's travels through Europe with their friend C. Collyer and expressing the hopes that they might meet up in the near future and his eagerness to leave Angers; he...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Angers (France)
Subject (Name):
Chute, William, 1757-1824., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., and Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796.
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of 51 letters from Delany to her friend, Mary (Hamilton) Dickenson; several of them have been annotated by Dickenson. Some of the letters are in Delany's hand; others are in the hand of her niece Georgina Mary Anne Port...
Description:
Mary Delany (1700-1788), courtier and artist, married Alexander Pendarves (1660-1725) in 1718. After his death in 1725, she lived in London, going to court functions, the opera, and the theater. She made many important friendships during this time,...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Delany, Mrs. 1700-1788. (Mary),, Delany, Mrs. 1700-1788 (Mary),, and Dickenson, Mary Hamilton, 1756-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Letters, Women authors, Court and courtiers, and Social life and customs
