Manuscripts

Letters and printed items of Joseph Louis Vincens Causans

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Description: The eight items include three handwritten letters and five printed items. Two of the letters are by Causans (letters are addressed to Marquise de Pompadour and an unknown woman); the third is addressed to him. The printed items are about geometry and Causans' publication Quadrature du cercle. All of the items are in French.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1753-1770.
Call number: mssHM 75080-75087
Creator: Causans, Joseph Louis Vincens du Mauléon de(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

Manuscript and letters of Louis-Adolphe Bertillon

Manuscripts

The manuscript, entitled "Questions de démographie et correspondence avec Bertillon père," appears to contain problems related to demographic statistics by mathematician E. Bernes. It appears that Bertillon was seeking the assistance of a mathematician to review and possibly correct the articles he was writing for Le dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences medicales. Some of the problems discussed include formula of survival such as calculation of the population after births and deaths and the probability of death of an individual for a given age at a determined time. He also writes of the statistical significance of marriage and response to criticism by fellow French statistician Irénée-Jules Bienaymé. There are five loose items in the manuscript, including one graph. There are also four letters: three by Louis-Adolphe and one by his son Jacques, all addressed to E. Bernes. The items are all in French.

mssHM 78315-78319

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La trigonometrica geometrica - logarithmica del triangulo rectilineo

Manuscripts

The manuscript, undated but probably written in the late 17th century, is in Latin and contains charts, some foldouts, as well as text and drawings all related to geometry, trigonometry and triangles. The author is unknown.

mssHM 72085

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J. C. L. Sismondi letter

Manuscripts

This letter was written by J.-C.-L. Sismondi in French from Geneva. It was written to his friend the Marquise de Bossi.

mssHM 81231

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Joseph Whitaker letter

Manuscripts

In this letter, written from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, to an unknown addressee, Joseph Whitaker describes the Native Americans in the area: "...not many deer now the Indians kill about all there is a few Indians about all the time they speak muskrats and fish on the ice in the winter the muskrats build a kind of house of pieces of old bog one of them is worth a shilling to them. The skins they sell for six pence and eat the rest they don't wash themselves once a month and when they have good luck they paint themselves with all kinds of paint...." Whitaker also talks briefly about his farming and hunting.

mssHM 82459

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Joseph Bradford Hardon letterpress copybook

Manuscripts

This volume contains correspondence (357 letters) documenting Hardon's efforts to gather investors who would buy into the development of La Plata Mining District near Durango Colorado from October 20, 1894 to October 16, 1900. The majority of the letters were written from Boston and are addressed to business partners Finney Jones, Adolph Montandon, and Hugh Owens (there are 81 different recipients to Hardon's letters in total).

mssHM 81274

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Documents and correspondence

Manuscripts

A collection of 78 items from 1779 to 1835; it contains miscellaneous correspondence and papers, in French and English, dealing with Lafayette's family, property, military and political career, particularly his imprisonment by the Austrians and his visit to the United States in 1824 to 1825. Included are individual letters dealing with his command in the American Revolution and his role in the French Revolution. The collection holds 37 letters written by Lafayette; other correspondents include, among others, Erick Bollman; Adrienne de Noailles, Marquise de Lafayette; Georges Washington Lafayette; and Auguste Adolphe Frederick de Hennings.

mssLafayette

Letters and printed items of Joseph Louis Vincens Causans

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