Manuscripts
Jean-François Clouet letters
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Jean Frédéric Ostervald letters
Manuscripts
Five letters written by Jean Frédéric Ostervald and one manuscript by an unidentified writer. Two of the five letters are addressed to Monsieur [Jean] Clogenson (1785-1876), a librarian in Alençon, and one letter, dated 1825, is addressed to Professor [Marc-August] Pictet (1752-1825), an influential editor and researcher who was a professor of natural philosophy at the Academy of Geneva. The recipients of the other two letters are unidentified. The letters are in French; one was written from Paris, France, while the origin of the others is unspecified. The four-page manuscript, also written in French, possibly by Ostervald, describes routes and travel times between numerous destinations, mostly within Switzerland.
mssHM 82714-82719
Casa de Adobe, El Paseo de Los Angeles (Olvera St.) Los Angeles, Calif
Visual Materials
Image of a man and two women in Mexican costume in front of the Avila Adobe on El Paseo de Los Angeles, also known as Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California, as seen from an archway with a courtyard with wrought iron garden furniture in the foreground.
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Jean-André Deluc drafts of letters to Joseph L. LeFrançois de Lalande
Manuscripts
Seven autograph drafts of letters, in French, from Deluc to Joseph J. LeFrançois de Lalande, plus an undated autograph document containing instructions for changes and corrections to some engraved plates illustrating a work on the barometer, from Geneva. The drafts of letters are heavily revised. The first two letters concern the 1761 transit of Venus across the face of the sun.
mssHM 82905
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Louis François de Pourtalés letters to E. Meriam
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Two autographed letters signed, from Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 25 and August 27, 1857, from Louis François de Pourtalés to E. Meriam, of New York, requesting information about an earthquake off the California coast in August, 1856, and subsequently thanking Meriam for information received.
mssHM 70411-70412
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François Arago letter to James Silk Buckingham
Manuscripts
Letter written by François Arago to James Silk Buckingham. Arago wrote the letter from Paris in his capacity as secretary of the Académie Royale des Sciences, Institutes de France, addressing Buckingham as the Commandent de Buckingham, Paris. The letter regards Buckingham's published prospectus for a voyage around the world, Esquisse d'un Plan de Voyage autour du Monde par la Route des Indes, de la Chine, du Japon et des îles de l'Océan Pacifique: Ayant pour but les Intérêts Combinés des Découvertes, de la Civilisation et du Commerce. The letter is in French. A second page of writing consists of Buckingham's address.
mssHM 83058
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François-Marie La Bintinaye letters to Dr. Walker King, (bulk 1789-1803)
Manuscripts
Letters from l'abbé de la Bintinaye to Dr. Walker King, bishop of Rochester, including pieces intended to be forwarded to Dr. King's brother John King (1759-1830) , Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office. Included are letters discussing de La Bintanaye' work on French translation of Edmund Burke's writings and his translation of "plantations laws." Also included are petitions from Dom Augustine de Lestrange (1754-1827) and Trappist monks (1800), the clergy of the Protestant church in Voltaire-Ferney in the Pays de Gex (1824), and French proprietors of a plantation in Matrinique (between 1809 and 1814). Also included is a note to John King regarding a obtaining a passport to a Canadian priest traveling to France (1803, Feb. 10) and a French translation of God Save the King and a poem to "His Britannic Majesty" set to the music of the British anthem composed by French royalists who had settled in British Canada.
mssHM 9653-9663