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Thomas Bewick's ABC

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Description: Presents an animal illustration for each letter of the alphabet, from ape and bear to yellow hammer and zebra.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1926.
Call number: 646145
Creator: Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Martha J. Griffin, November 1960.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Fragile. Cannot be paged, imaged or reproduced without curatorial and conservator review. Use of original may require special handling instructions and extended retrieval and delivery time.

Thomas Bewick letter to "Dear Sir"

Manuscripts

This folder also contains a letter from Henry A. Sherman to J. S. Wood in 1906, enclosing Bewick letter.

mssHM 27524

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Thomas Bewick letter to Tipper and Fry

Manuscripts

This letter refers to Imperial copies of Bewick's supplement to British Birds.

mssHM 51277

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Thomas Bewick letters

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the correspondence of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) and his daughter, Jane Bewick (1787-1881). There are also a few other letters to and from other members of Bewick's family

mssHM 17300-17354

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Billy Blew-Away's alphabetical, orthographical & philological picture book for learners

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Child's humorous alphabet book by G.F. Godfrey. Each page is devoted to one letter of the alphabet, with W,X, and Y sharing a page. Each letter is accompanied by words, phrases, and illustrations. An Oct. 7, 1882 review in The Critic (v. 2, no. 46, p. 270) notes that although readers of all ages will be "vastly amused," the book is "unfortunately...marred by a touch of vulgarity."

610394

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Thomas R. Lounsbury letters to Christine Doig

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The letters were written by Thomas R. Lounsbury to his friend Christine Doig (1827-1911), a native of Ovid, Seneca County, New York. Lounsbury wrote the letters in his leisure hours, so there is not much by way of battlefield content. The letters, however, are full of curious and insightful observations on the nature of the military service, the war, etc. The collection also includes a long letter by a Virginia woman named Virginia Soutter Knox to her brothers who were in the Confederate service; the letter probably fell in Lounsbury's hands and was sent to Christine Doig as a souvenir. The last letter is signed "C" (possibly, Doig's brother-in-law Curtis T. Benedict), dated 1887, August 5, and was written from "on the Rhine, Mainz to Cologne." Each letter has an annotated transcript, prepared by the donor.

mssHM 81280-81286

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Northwest Territory celebration letters

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These 57 printed letters chronicle the daily experiences of the group of 36 reenactors who traveled from Ipswich, Massachusetts, to Marietta, Ohio, by ox-driven Conestoga wagons and a self-made flatboat in 1937 to 1938 to mark the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Northwest Territory. They are addressed to Mrs. L. H. Kremer of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was a subscriber. The letters contain an illustration ink stamp and an illustration by party member Milo Scott; the illustrations depict scenes of the journey and pioneer life. Each letter was folded, addressed, and sealed with wax in the style of 18th century post.

mssHM 82521

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