Titian Ramsay Peale correspondence

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  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

  Rare Books

  315665

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  Charles Willson Peale diary

  Manuscripts

  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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  Ann Renaudet Chevalier letter to Charles Willson Peale

  Manuscripts

  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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  Edward Bannerman Ramsey letter to John Stevens Henslow

  Manuscripts

  In this four-page letter, written by Edward Bannerman Ramsay in Edinburgh to John Stevens Henslow, Ramsay talks about his collection of plant specimens and requests that Henslow send him some that he does not already have. Ramsay also talks about other scientists including Charles Lyell, William Jackson Hooker, John Lindley, Robert Graham and George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie (Ramsay had just spent a week at Dalhousie Castle). The letter is in fragile condition.

  mssHM 70387

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  Frank Weinberg correspondence

  Manuscripts

  The collection consists of letters discussing mainly botanical information, especially on cacti, orchids, and rare plants. There are numerous letters from Joseph Nelson Rose, associate curator of the U.S. National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution.

  mssHM 36820-36826