Manuscript, in a single hand, providing charts, summaries, and personal observations on French finances during the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War. The volume includes a list of the ordinary revenues and expenses of the king; ordinary military expenses; and an extensive section addressing war finance, including yearly summaries of money raised in France between 1756 and 1762, with notes of royal edicts, such as a lottery in 1756, and other edicts levying extraordinary taxes to pay for the war. The volume also contains sections on the finances of the clergy and the court of Rome; and occasional references to the American colonies and the Compagnie des Indes
Description:
In French., Table of contents at beginning of manuscript., On title page: Etat actuel des affaires Generalles Concernant les finances du Royaume de france. Qui constate Les Revenues et Deperses ordinaires du Roy avec Les affaires extraodinaires faittes en france depuis et comprisant 1756 jusqu'a la fin de 1762 au sujet de la guerre..., Binding: full calf. In gilt on spine: Mss. Finances de France., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
France and United States
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774. and France. Sovereign (1715-1774 : Louis XV)
Subject (Topic):
Appropriations and expenditures, Finance, History, Royal households, Economic aspects, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, and Politics and government
Vue d'optique depicting the burning English frigate Quebec and its opponent the French frigate Surveillante, during the battle of October 6, 1779 near the island of Ushant. The print is dedicated to the memory of the Quebec's captain, George Farmer, who died in the battle
Alternative Title:
Etat malheureux du Quebeck et Surveillante vais. de guer. franʻ
Description:
Headline title printed in reverse mirror image. and Collection des prospects.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Farmer, George, 1732-1779., Surveillante (Frigate), and Québec (Frigate)
Collection consists of correspondence (boxes 1-3), photographs, and printed and other materials relating to Irene and William ("Billy") R. Rose. Correspondents include African-American artists and cultural figures such as Beauford Delaney, Elton C. Fax, Charles Holland, Frederick O'Neal, and Vereda Pearson, among others. Other noteworthy correspondents include Brooks Atkinson and Eleanor Olson. There are photographs (box 4) of Irene and Billy Rose, family, and friends, including Delaney and Holland. Printed materials (box 4) relate to correspondents in the collection and, more generally, to the experience of African-Americans in the middle decades of the twentieth century. For example, there is ephemera relating to events, including performances and exhibitions, to organizations such as the N.A.A.C.P., and to social justice issues, including the Civil Rights movement. In addition, there is one autograph poem to Delaney, signed, by Alfred Stieglitz
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French.
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and United States
Subject (Name):
Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984., Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979., Fax, Elton C., Olson, Eleanor., O'Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992., Pearson, Vereda., Irene Rose., Rose, W. R., Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946., and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Civil rights, Social conditions, and Civil rights movements
Collection consists of correspondence (boxes 1-3), photographs, and printed and other materials relating to Irene and William ("Billy") R. Rose. Correspondents include African-American artists and cultural figures such as Beauford Delaney, Elton C. Fax, Charles Holland, Frederick O'Neal, and Vereda Pearson, among others. Other noteworthy correspondents include Brooks Atkinson and Eleanor Olson. There are photographs (box 4) of Irene and Billy Rose, family, and friends, including Delaney and Holland. Printed materials (box 4) relate to correspondents in the collection and, more generally, to the experience of African-Americans in the middle decades of the twentieth century. For example, there is ephemera relating to events, including performances and exhibitions, to organizations such as the N.A.A.C.P., and to social justice issues, including the Civil Rights movement. In addition, there is one autograph poem to Delaney, signed, by Alfred Stieglitz
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French.
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and United States
Subject (Name):
Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984., Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979., Fax, Elton C., Olson, Eleanor., O'Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992., Pearson, Vereda., Irene Rose., Rose, W. R., Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946., and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Civil rights, Social conditions, and Civil rights movements
Collection consists of correspondence (boxes 1-3), photographs, and printed and other materials relating to Irene and William ("Billy") R. Rose. Correspondents include African-American artists and cultural figures such as Beauford Delaney, Elton C. Fax, Charles Holland, Frederick O'Neal, and Vereda Pearson, among others. Other noteworthy correspondents include Brooks Atkinson and Eleanor Olson. There are photographs (box 4) of Irene and Billy Rose, family, and friends, including Delaney and Holland. Printed materials (box 4) relate to correspondents in the collection and, more generally, to the experience of African-Americans in the middle decades of the twentieth century. For example, there is ephemera relating to events, including performances and exhibitions, to organizations such as the N.A.A.C.P., and to social justice issues, including the Civil Rights movement. In addition, there is one autograph poem to Delaney, signed, by Alfred Stieglitz
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French.
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and United States
Subject (Name):
Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984., Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979., Fax, Elton C., Olson, Eleanor., O'Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992., Pearson, Vereda., Irene Rose., Rose, W. R., Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946., and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Civil rights, Social conditions, and Civil rights movements
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 friends, current reading, and routine expressions of friendship. In one letter, she tells Horace Walpole she is reading de Boutigny's Tarsis et Zelie; in another, she mentions that Sedaine read to her his Paris Inedite. She also discusses the American Revolution in a letter dated October 24, 1777, which reports that some say General Burgoyne has been taken, while others say that Philadelphia has fallen
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 her such friends as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Fontenelle and Madame de Staal-Delaunay, the president Henault, and D'Alembert. The principal friendships of her later years were with the duchesse de Choiseul and with Horace Walpole. She died on September 23, 1780, leaving her papers to Walpole., In English., Formerly classed as: 49 2545 VI., Laid in: several pages of handwritten notes by Ste.-Aulaire., and For further information, consult library staff.
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, M. 1627-1685. (Roland),, Sainte-Aulaire, Joseph Louis Camille de Beaupoil, Marquis, 1798-1819., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
