Manuscripts

William B. Le Couteulx letter to "Mon Cher Monsieur et ami,"

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Description: This letter, written in French by Le Couteulx in Buffalo, New York, to a friend in France, describes in detail the Franklin shipwreck off New York and how the author and his family were saved. The letter also provides specific information about the Know Nothing Party, a political movement of the time characterized by anti-immigration, mostly anti-Catholic, sentiment. More specifically Le Couteulx talks about a Catholic church being burned to the ground and attempts to "burn other churches." He also talks about Catholic clergy being fined as a result of their actions.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1854, August 5.
Call number: mssHM 77963
Creator: Le Couteulx, William B(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from B & L Rootenberg Fine & Rare Books, August 29, 2012.

André-Marie Ampère letter to "Monsieur et cher ami"

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Letter from André-Marie Ampère to an unidentified recipient. The letter, which concerns a social engagement, is in French and was written from Paris. It was dated July 24, with no year given.

mssHM 83057

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René Desgenettes letter to Monsieur le préfet

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Letter written by René Desgenettes to "Monsieur le préfet." The letter is in French and was written in Paris.

mssHM 83068

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George B. Lingley letter to William Brown, James Whitcomb, and Jesse Bright

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This letter was written to Indiana Congressmen William Brown, James Whitcomb, and Jesse Bright (all Democrats). In the letter, Lingley talks about California statehood, the United States government, and land titles in California. John Sutter is mentioned in Lingley's postscript.

mssHM 78359

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Monsieur Le Breton letter to Monsieur Le Coq, de Chollet

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Description of a riot in Bordeaux, France occasioned by the failure of a balloon flight in strong winds, with extensive details about the attempted flight and the balloon itself (six months after the first manned balloon flight in history). In French.

mssHM 83999

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William Buckland letter to John Stevens Henslow

Manuscripts

In this four-page handwritten letter, Buckland talks about an excavation in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Henslow was working on it at the time but Buckland also knew the site. Buckland goes into detail about the strata of the "Great Gault Pit," and sketched the pit for Henslow (in pencil, with labels in ink). Buckland also talks about other geology issues as well as a skeleton of a megatherium (an ancient giant sloth) that Henslow found.

mssHM 70385

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De Candollez, Alpha. 1 letter (1876, July 31) to "Mon cher Monsieur."

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The collection is semi-catalogued in two upright boxes, with three oversize volumes. It contains two botanical essays by Hutchison on the species of cacti in which he specialized, as well as a few of his letters to and from other prominent botanists. The lion's share of the collection consists of Hutchison's personal collection of the journals and correspondence of English streetcar operator and amateur cactus botanist John Thomas Bates. There are several botanical notebooks and catalogues belonging to Hutchison and Bates. Two of Bates' notebooks contain extensive notes on English botanist Nicholas Edward Brown (1849-1934). There is also a 1952 bound report collected by Hutchison on the horticultural and agricultural conditions of the Caribbean island of St. Croix. There are also 24 items of ephemera including a botanical catalogue, miscellaneous ledgers, invoices, photographs, a scrapbook and taxonomic notes.

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William B. Le Couteulx letter to "Mon Cher Monsieur et ami,"

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