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Renwick, Jean Jeffrey. To Henry Brevoort


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    Burns, Gilbert. Letter to Dobie

    Manuscripts

    Pasted on sheet in bound volume with HM 13036-13039.

    HM 13038.

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    [Burns, Robert]. To [Margaret (Chalmers) Hay?]

    Manuscripts

    Pasted on sheet in bound volume with HM 13036-13039. Addressed to "My Dr. Countrywoman."

    HM 13037.

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    [Burns, Robert]. "No Churchman am I for to rail and to write …" A Song

    Manuscripts

    Pasted on sheet in bound volume with HM 13037-13039. Titled "Tune--Prepare, my dear brethren, to the tavern let's fly." With annotations of explanation in author's hand. Author's signature pasted on verso by James Portes; also history of manuscript given on verso by Portes.

    HM 13036.

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    Frank Henry hunting diaries

    Manuscripts

    This collection contains 18 Seasonal Diaries, bound into two volumes: 1877, October-1887, April (HM 82610(1)), and 1887, November-1898, October (HM 82610(2)). The diaries are made up of Spiers and Son's printed Hunting Registers and record Hunt meets with the Beaufort Hunt and others; dated manuscript entries in ink include: date, pack, fixture, hack ridden to meet, hunter ridden, coverts drawn, foxes found, weather and usually a few lines of narrative summary of the day's events. HM 82610(1) also has one page of autograph notes laid in and various newspaper clippings pasted onto pages; HM 82610(2) contains an autograph letter by the 9th Duke of Beaufort (Mar. 31, 1890) pasted in, as well as various newspaper clippings.

    mssHM 82610 (1-3)

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    Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C, letter to Mary Todd Lincoln, Boston

    Manuscripts

    Autograph note signed. With signature of John G. Nicolay pasted on second sheet. (1 page)

    HM 23934

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    Papers relating to the first settlement and capture of Fort Oswego, 1727-1756

    Manuscripts

    Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1849. Bound volume with Mercer escutcheon pasted on the front inner cover.

    mssMercer