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Michael Faraday letters
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Michael Faraday letter to Charles Thornton Coathupe
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In this letter, Faraday is talking about some of the glass manufactured by Coathupe and some experiments. The letter was written from the Royal Institution in London.
mssHM 72758
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Michael Davitt letters to an unknown woman
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These ten candid letters were written to a female correspondent whose name was systematically erased or obliterated from each, at her request. Written during the 1880s from Ireland, England (including Richmond Prison), and abroad, they concern Irish politics, journalism, his opinion of various public figures, his involvement with the Commission on Technical Education, and Richard Pigott's forged Parnell letters.
mssHM 60668-60677
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Jack London letters to Charles Warren Stoddard
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Jack London wrote these 14 letters to his good friend and fellow writer Charles Warren Stoddard from 1900 to 1906 (six are typed and eight are handwritten). London talks a lot about his writing projects and sends copies of his books to Stoddard (specifically The call of the wild, Sea wolf, and White fang) and often asks for his opinion. London also discusses the birth of his daughter Joan, his failing marriage, religion, traveling, and his ill health. The photograph of London is hand inscribed "To C. W. S. Affectionately yours, Jack London." There is also a copy of signed photograph of Jack London.
mssHM 80735-80748
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Leonard Woolf letters to Clive and Julian Bell
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Eighteen letters by Woolf to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell and nephew Julian Bell discuss British politics prior to WWII and give details of Woolf's involvement in the League of Nations and the Labor Party. There are references to Virginia Woolf throughout the letters, as he discusses family, travel plans, and other personal matters
mssHM 57680-57697
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André Michaux letters to André Thouin
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In these letters, which are written to André Thouin, Michaux's friend and chief gardener of the King's Garden (King Louis XV), both Michauxs discuss their trip to America to study its botany. They talk about the trees and plants they see, grow and collect. More specifically, André talks about some local gardens he grew to produce seeds and specimens. Several of the letters include lists of American trees, plants and seeds, some of which were shipped to France (André worries about the shipments getting to France amongst the chaos of the political upheaval). In one letter, André talks about hoping to correct some of Linnaeus' errors and beat any English publication of his findings. In the letter by Thouin, he talks about the political environment in France (at the beginning of the French Revolution). Eight of the letters are written by André Michaux; two by his son François André; one by André Thouin; and one by Andre Claude Limozin. The letters by the Michauxs are written from New York, NY, Charleston, SC and Philadelphia, PA. All of the letters are in French.
mssHM 71883-71894