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Manuscripts
Diaries, journals, account books and correspondence of Sir Francis Beaufort and members of the Beaufort family: his father Daniel Augustus Beaufort, first wife Alicia Magdalena Wilson Beaufort (d. 1834), and others.
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Manuscripts
Diaries, journals, account books and correspondence of Sir Francis Beaufort and members of the Beaufort family: his father Daniel Augustus Beaufort, first wife Alicia Magdalena Wilson Beaufort (d. 1834), and others.
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Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 6000 items from 1815 to 1936, the collection consists of Francis Lieber's correspondence, notes and other manuscripts and published materials accumulated in the preparation of his works during his political and academic career. The collection contains articles, essays, remarks, correspondence, volumes, commonplace books, research files, printed material, and ephemera. The manuscript material often contains various drafts, with supporting research and subject files; the correspondence contains personal and family letters and a large amount of professional correspondence. Correspondents include, among others, his wife Matilda (Mathilde) Lieber, other Lieber family members, Samuel Austin Allibone, Edward Bates, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Simon Greenleaf, Henry Wager Halleck, George Stillman Hillard, ⁹douard Laboulaye, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, Charles Sumner, Martin Russell Thayer, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Subjects in the collection include political science and theory; constitutional history; political economy; international law; philosophy and history of civilization; penology, including Lieber's association with the prison reform movement; education, particularly college and university administration; United States and European politics; antebellum debates and campaigns; slavery and abolitionism; politics of the Civil War, including problems of the citizenship of African-Americans, immigrants, and former Confederates; constitutional powers of the President and Congress; Republican Party, especially its radical wing; military aspects of the Civil War as reflected in Lieber's correspondence with Halleck; reconstruction, including plans for codification of international law; and Lieber's service with the United States-Mexican Claims Commission.
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Rare Books
This collection contains approximately 450 articles, offprints, pamphlets and other works, covering a span of 1812 to 1894, collected by the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and forming part of his library. The items are contained in 430 envelopes and cover 17 different categories of material: General; Periodicals, Congress Reports; Anthropology, Archaeology, Folklore; Biography; Geography, Travel; Linguistics; Literature; Medicine, Psychology; Religion, Philosophy; Science, Pure, Natural, Applied; Sword; Africa; Americas; Asia; Europe; Pacific, Australasia. Some of the works include manuscript annotations by Burton as well as correspondence sent to him and insertions of articles and clippings. This is a subsection of the Sir Richard Francis Burton Library Printed Material Collection in the Rare Books Department. Those items can be searched as a whole under the heading: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890, former owner or Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896, former owner.
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Rare Books
"Burton the sexual anthropologist is the chief concern of 'The Erotic Traveler,' though his adventurous life is also sketched in by Edward Leigh, who, in the form of a continuing narrative, presents Burton's writings on strange rites and sex customs around the world. The remarkable shape of women's breasts in Sind, the various methods of creating eunuchs, and the devices employed in the East to prolong the act of love were all of absorbing interest to Burton. He wrote with authority about the anatomical anomalies of Somali prostitutes in Aden or of pederasty in the male brothels of Karachi. This fascinating book, like its central figure, moves from India and Africa to North and South America, and reveals one of the more intriguing facets of a multifaceted yet singular man"--dust jacket.
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Manuscripts
Includes Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company pamphlet; New Guide and Key to Niagara Falls and Toronto; and Views of Peiping and Environs in China postcards.
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