Manuscripts

Titian Ramsay Peale correspondence

Description: Professional and personal correspondence of Titian Ramsay Peale, chiefly letters received by him during his tenure as the curator of the Peale's Museum in Philadelphia and assistant examiner in the U.S. Patent Office.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1821-1876
Call number: mssHM 44591-44667
Creator: Peale, Titian Ramsay (1799-1885)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Frank Barnard, July 1975.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Titian Ramsay Peale correspondence

Manuscripts

Professional and personal correspondence of Titian Ramsay Peale, chiefly letters received by him during his tenure as the curator of the Peale's Museum in Philadelphia and assistant examiner in the U.S. Patent Office.

mssHM 44591-44667

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Diary of Titian Ramsay Peale : Oregon to California overland journey, September and October 1841

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315665

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Charles Willson Peale diary

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Diary kept by artist Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) which documents his service in the Pennsylvania militia during George Washington's retreat through the Jerseys, December 4, 1776 to January 20, 1777; the diary includes the battles of Trenton on December. 25, 1776 and Princeton on January 3, 1777.

mssHM 974

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The cabinet of natural history and American rural sports

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The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports was published from 1830 to 1833 by Philadelphians John and Thomas Doughty. The short-lived magazine featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly described flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. Fellow artist and naturalist Titian Peale contributed an image of an Indian mounted on horseback taking aim at a charging buffalo. The drawing was based on Peale's sketches made as a member of the expedition led by Stephen H. Long to explore the Great Plains in 1819-1820.

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The cabinet of natural history and American rural sports

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610820

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Ann Renaudet Chevalier letter to Charles Willson Peale

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This autograph letter signed is addressed to Mr. Peale at the Museum (Peale retired from the museum in 1810, this letter may be for him or one of his sons who replaced him). Chevalier writes, "Sir, Please to receive in your Museum a little pensionnary that came last night to take refuge in the house where I live: It is a screetch-owl of the smallest and beautiful kind, I had always been told that such birds were ominous creatures; but the contrary I now find in the opportunity this offers me, by presenting you with it, to do something with that perhaps may prove agreeable to you. I am with respect, Anne Renaudet Chevalier."

mssHM 83617

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