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Jean-François Clouet letters

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Description: These letters were written from Daigny, France (they are in French; there are partial English transcripts for two of the items). Two of the letters are addressed to "Citizen Robinet" and "Citizen Fery." In the letters, Clouet is discussing foundries, working with metals, needing workmen, and wrought iron.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1793.
Call number: mssHM 79073-79077
Creator: Clouet, J.-F(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
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mssHM 82905

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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.

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François Arago letter to James Silk Buckingham

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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.

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François-Marie La Bintinaye letters to Dr. Walker King, (bulk 1789-1803)

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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.

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Jean-François Clouet letters

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