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Creator:: Boutell, Charles, b. 1772
Call Number:: Osborn c592
Image Count:: 20
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript of a brief introduction to the Linnean system of botanical classification. Opening with a defense of botany against those who think it "a trifling insipid amusement and almost childish," Boutell argues that botanists seek to understand "the...
Description:: Possibly by the Rev. Charles Boutell (b. 1772), later rector of Litcham in Norfolk and father of the author of Boutell's Heraldry.
Subject (Name):: Boutell, Charles, b. 1772., Hayward, Matilda., and Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
Subject (Topic):: Influence, Botany, Study and teaching, Education, Women, and Intellectual life
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An explanation of the linnean system for the use of a young lady, 1796

Creator:: Pike, Sarah North, 1666-1716
Call Number:: OSB MSS 227
Container / Volume:: Box
Image Count:: 306
Abstract:: Autograph manuscript arithmetic notebook by Sarah North Pike, 1686, annotated with Pike family records, 1695-1771; and 18 birth certificates for members of the Pike family, printed forms completed in manuscript, dated at Cork, 1724-1776. Arithmetic no...
Description:: Sarah North Pike (1666-1716) was a daughter of Mary North and Thomas North, of Lewin’s Mead, in Bristol, England. Sarah North married Thomas Pope in 1687; in 1693 she married Ebenezer Pike (1662-1724), of Cork, Ireland, a son of Elizabeth Jackson Pike...
Subject (Geographic):: Ireland, Cork, and Cork (Ireland)
Subject (Name):: Beane, Elizabeth., Pike, Agnes Riggs, approximately 1690-1723., Pike, Anne Clibbon, 1730-1801., Pike, Ebenezer, 1662-1724., Pike, Ebenezer, 1724-1785., Pike, Katherine Hutchinson, 1744-1813., Pike, Mary Randall, 1699-1775., Pike, Richard, 1696-1763., Pike, Samuel, 1726-1796., Pike, Sarah North, 1666-1716., and Pike family.
Subject (Topic):: Arithmetic, Study and teaching, Calligraphy, Midwifery, Midwives, Penmanship, English, Quakers, Women, Education, Women midwives, Weights and measures, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sarah North Pike arithmetic notebook and Pike family records, 1686-1776

Creator:: Saunders (Family)
Call Number:: OSB MSS 340
Container / Volume:: Box 2
Image Count:: 7
Abstract:: Collection of correspondence, financial records, and documents relating to members of the Saunders and Sebright family. Material relating to Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) includes correspondence discussing personal debts, agriculture, and ...
Description:: Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) studied law in London and served as agent for the Committee for Sequestration in the 1640s. He inherited Beechwood Park, near Markyate, Hertfordshire, England, in 1628. His son was Thomas Saunders (1631-1698) ...
Subject (Geographic):: England., England, Great Britain., Herefordshire., Beechwood Park (England), and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Lyttelton, Charles Lyttelton, Baron, 1628-1716., Saunders family., Saunders, Thomas, 1631-1698., Saunders, Thomas, approximately 1600-1667., Sebright family., Sebright, Thomas Saunders, Baron, 1692-1736., England and Wales. Parliament. Committee for Compounding with Delinquents., and Great Britain. Privy Council.
Subject (Topic):: Administration of estates, Families, Domestic relations, Formulas, recipes, etc, Household supplies, Law, Study and teaching, Manors, Medicine, Wine and wine making, History, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Saunders and Sebright family papers, 1628-1852

Creator:: Merino, Clarise, 1905-
Published / Created:: 1926 January 26.
Call Number:: WA MSS S-3823 M5451
Container / Volume:: (File)
Image Count:: 18
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Autograph manuscript, signed by Clarise Merino, in which Merino defines the goals of Americanization and cultural assimilation of immigrants in the United States. Merino proposes several methods for American women to befriend and mentor immigrant wom...
Description:: Clarise Merino (1905- ) was a teacher born in Arizona.
Subject (Geographic):: United States, United States., and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):: Merino, Clarise, 1905-
Subject (Topic):: English language, Study and teaching, Foreign speakers, Immigrants, Cultural assimilation, Education, Teachers, Women, and Women immigrants
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Woman's duty in Americanization of the foreign-born women : manuscript

Creator:: Kerr, Christian, 1679- .
Call Number:: Osborn c102
Image Count:: 242
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection primarily of arithmetic problems and conversion tables interspersed with a large number of verses, both satirical and sentimental, on such subjects as marriage, the sexes, love, and friendship. The collec...
Description:: Christian Kerr, Lady of Chatto and Sunlaws, was the daughter of William Kerr of Chatto and Sunlaws, and inherited her father's estates in preference to her brother. She married her cousin, Charles Kerr, but left no children. In 1759, she entailed th...
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Great Britain, and Kelso (Scotland)
Subject (Name):: Chatto and Sunlaws, Christian Kerr, Lady. and Kerr family.
Subject (Topic):: Accounts, Arithmetic, Study and teaching, English poetry, Households, Inventories, Occasional verse, English, Private libraries, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], 1716-1730