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Noua terrae - Mariae tabula
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No old shelf mark. A later reproduction of this 1635 map bearing coats of arms of Great Britain and Maryland. "This northerne part of Virginia (the limitts wherof extend many degrees farther southwards) is heere inserted for the better description of the entrance into the Bay of Chesapeack." This map was originially published in A relation of Maryland; together, vvith a map of the countrey..., 1635 (see RB 18730). The only published mention of the Litho-Photographic Institute in London is in The journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, volume 38, May 11, 1868, page 190. The publication date is based on this. Attached notes: Original 1635, Phillips 390. Marulans 1635: repr. 1872? Prime meridian: Ferro? Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Manuscript newsletters from London
Manuscripts
A series of 126 manuscript newsletters from London, January 23, 1689/90 to June 22, 1710 (with gaps), written by a number of professional scribes, mostly with the name of the addressee on the last page and many with franks and postmarks. Unbound and unnumbered.
mssHM 30659
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John Pattison legal notebooks
Manuscripts
The legal notebooks of London-based lawyer John Pattison; the notebooks include records of fees and actions in various courts. Volume I : 1632-1635, has a few pages removed and two pages used as a copybook (19th c.) ; Volume II : 1636-1638, some pages stained and some pages cut with portions removed, also with autograph notes (19th c.).
mssHM 52689 (Volumes 1-2)
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Alexander Spotswood letter to the Council of Trade
Manuscripts
Report to the Council of Trade contains accounts of a massacre committed by a troup of Tuscarora Indians upon Enlgish, Swiss, and Palatine settlers of North Carolina and complaints about pacifist Quakers refusing to work on fortifications.
mssHM 59962
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William Power sermons
Manuscripts
A collection of autograph sermons preached by William Power ca. 1635-1638, closely written with additions and corrections in his same hand, occasionally with notes on the date or place of praching. All apparently npublished.
mssHM 70161
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Robert Valentine papers
Manuscripts
A collection of 305 items from 1712 to 1927, which contains the correspondence and papers of Robert Valentine; the material chiefly covers his voyage to Great Britain and its aftermath. Included are his letters to his daughters, often both retained and sent copies, and letters from Friends in England, Ireland, and Pennsylvania. A significant number of the letters were written by women Quakers. The collection also includes an account of Robert Valentine's journey to New Jersey in 1775 and other Quaker travel accounts. Also included are minutes and correspondence of various meetings in Pennsylvania, England, and Ireland, including a London Yearly Meeting of Women Friends; other material includes personal testimonies of individual Quakers recounting their visions and prophesies, devotional treatises and poems. There are also a few items relating to the relations between Quaker communities and Native Americans, including the minutes of a meeting between a group of Philadelphia Quakers, headed by Israel Pemberton, and representatives of the Six Nations (1756); also, a few pieces of correspondence between women Friends of Philadelphia and Oneida Native American women (from 1796 to 1797). There is a copy of the congratulatory address from the London Yearly Meeting to George III on the occasion of the end of the Seven Years War (1763). The collection also includes a smaller group of correspondence of Robert Valentine's daughter Rachel Valentine Malin and his granddaughter Rachel Valentine Sharpless Ashbridge. The latter group consists chiefly of the letters to her from her father, a Pennsylvania ironmaster Abraham Sharpless written between 1824 and 1834; also included are a few pieces of later family correspondence.
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