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Articles of Copartnership for carrying on a Joint Trade

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    Letter and manuscript of Carl Friedrich Gauss

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    The letter, dated 1839, Dec. 31 from Göttingen, relates to items, some of which are worth hundreds of gold pieces, that Gauss is either selling, buying, or shipping to his son Charles William Gauss who lived in St. Louis and owned a retail dry goods store. The letter is incomplete and the addressee is unknown. In German. HM 77960.

    mssHM 77960-77961

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    Maxwell's Demon: article

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    This manuscript is a copy of Daub's article entitled "Maxwell's Demon" (he sent the copy to Bern Dibner). The manuscript deals with Maxwell's demon, thermodynamics, and J.Loschmidt's non-demon. With the manuscript are two letters: one by Daub to Dibner and Dibner's reply (1970, January-February).

    mssHM 80283

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    Julia Moore indictment

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    This indictment is a charge of murder against Julia Moore, of Nevada County, California, who caused the death of a pregnant woman named Lucy E. Nuttall. The accusation is as follows: "[Moore] did feloniously, unlawfully and of her malice aforethought make a violent assault...and there did violently, wound, bruise and ill treat, and a certain instrument made of silver or other metal, and in the shape and form of a hook, the said Julia Moore, the said instrument up and into the womb and body of the said Lucy E. Nuttall...to cause and procure the said Lucy E. Nuttall to miscarry, abort and bring forth the said child." Both the baby and Lucy E. Nuttall died.

    mssHM 68279

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    Stoddard, Charles Warren. Introduction to an unidentified article or book

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    Manuscript, 5 pages. Begins "a dear friend once said to me, 'You have no imagination!'"and ends "It was after that I waded through "The Vale of Tears" and having returned alone, at the age of sixteen years, by the Isthmus of Panama, I arrived in San Francisco and began the next phase of my development in my somewhat varied career and the true story of it now follows."

    HM 38489

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    Representation from the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations

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    To the Right Honorable Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: A Representation of the State of the Trade of this Kingdom.

    mssHM 821

  • Carte particuliere du Port de St. Thomas [cartographic material] : Copied from the Report of of M. le Colonel De Puydt, Bruxelles, 1842

    Carte particuliere du Port de St. Thomas [cartographic material] : Copied from the Report of of M. le Colonel De Puydt, Bruxelles, 1842

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    Manuscript map showing the Port of Santo Tomás in Guatemala. The territory was authorized in 1843 to be administered by the private Belgian company, Compagnie belge de colonisation. Several "projected" features are shown: Forts, the settlement of St. Thomas. A plantation is shown to the south, along the Rio Montagua. Colored. On back of map are listed the Correspondents and Bankers of the Compagnie belge de colonisation. The information is said to be "copied from the envelope of the report". The company withdrew in 1854 due to financial losses.

    mssHM 15469