Manuscripts
Andrew J. Williams material
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Albert Gallatin Riddle material
Manuscripts
Letters addressed to Albert Gallatin Riddle; HM 25579-25609
mssHM 25466-25675
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Miscellaneous correspondence and manuscripts
Manuscripts
HM 25466-25578
mssHM 25466-25675
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Edwin B. Janes collection
Manuscripts
A collection of 238 items which consists of manuscripts and letters assembled by Edwin B. Janes. The first series of miscellaneous manuscripts contains individual letters by American political, military, and literary figures of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Included in this material is a leaf from the docket of the court in Painesville, Ohio, detailing the conviction of Joseph Smith, Jr., of assault and battery of his brother-in-law Calvin W. Stoddard (April 21, 1835), also documents relating to slavery and abolitionism, a small group of correspondence of John Stuart Skinner, and a group of letters and military records related to the Civil War in Ohio. The second series, arranged alphabetically by author, is the professional and political correspondence of Albert Gallatin Riddle, chiefly letters addressed to him from 1847 to 1870. The third series, arranged chronologically, contains personal, professional, and political correspondence of Andrew J. Williams (1852-1900).
mssHM 25466-25675
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Stowe papers addenda: John Land material
Manuscripts
Box 1: Correspondence, documents, gamekeeper's notebook, and ephemera; arranged chronologically (1871-1929), HM 82950-82968. Box 2: Photographs of John Land, various estates and workers; arranged by subject and then chronologically (1890-1928), HM 82969-82978. Box 3: Oversize photographs of the comte de Paris, various family members, and Stowe House; arranged chronologically (1890-1900), HM 82979-82986.
mssHM 82950-82986
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Collection of Jonathan Swift materials
Manuscripts
This collection contains 74 pieces related to Anglo-Irish writer and cleric Jonathan Swift, chiefly representing his later life in Ireland from the 1720s to the late 1730s. Documents include manuscripts in Swift's hand, or contemporary copies, as well as letters to and from Swift and his friends, and documents endorsed by Swift or once in his possession. Twenty-seven of the manuscripts are in Swift's hand, with additional pieces endorsed, annotated by, or addressed to him. The holographs include unique versions of four of Swift's poems composed by him in Ireland between 1719 and 1734 (HM 14336, HM 14335, HM 14339, and HM 14338, fol. 12b), as well as two copies in contemporary hands of Swift's poems (HM 14340 and HM 14345). The correspondence includes 11 letters from Swift to London Alderman John Barber, dated 1732-1733. Additional correspondents, chiefly represented by one to three letters, include Swift's cousin Martha Swift Harrison Whiteway and John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery & of Cork. Notably, the collection includes Swift's 1723 "A Letter to a Young Lady on Her Marriage" (HM 1559), containing 18-pages of advice and commentary by Swift about women and marriage. Among the manuscripts, there are poems shared between Swift and his friends, with verse penned by Moore Booker, Irish member of Parliament George Rochfort, Patrick Delany, classical scholar Thomas Sheridan, Reverend William Dunkin, and John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery. In addition, there are a few other manuscripts relating to Deane Swift and some 19th century letters related to use of the Theophilus Swift Papers.
mssHM 1599, etc.
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Rich family material: documents, transcripts and printed material
Manuscripts
A collection of documents, typewritten transcripts and printed material; it includes: a 1643 naval document signed by Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (HM 82943), a 1743 annuity receipt signed by Sir Robert Rich and Elizabeth, his wife (HM 82944), typewritten transcriptions of documents (1597/98-1642) relating to various Rich family members (HM 82945-82947) and printed material (1836-1933) that includes an engraving, and clippings relating to the Earls of Warwick and the Earl of Holland (HM 82948).
mssHM 82943-82948