Manuscripts
Gaspard Monge letter
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Antoine-François de Fourcroy and Gaspard Monge letter to the Minister of the Marine
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The letter from Antoine-François de Foureroy and Gaspard Monge to the Minister of the Marine regards Citoyen [Jean-François?] Clouet. The letter is dated 1 Ventôse, l'an 9 de la République française [1801 June 1], and is written in French from Paris. One page is torn.
mssHM 83080
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Martinus van Marum letter to Gaspard Monge
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In this letter, van Marum is thanking Monge for a conversation they had in Paris in 1785. After this exchange, van Marum became all the more determined to study the new Chemistry and is now sending a volume he has just published, much of which is the product of what he has learned from Monge. He then asks Monge to send feedback of the book after he reads it. With the letter is a transcription that was done by Barbara Dibner. The letter is in French and was written from Haarlem.
mssHM 81087
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Apollinaire Lebas letter
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Lebas wrote this letter from Paris to the Egyptian minister of foreign relations (perhaps Baghous Bey Youssefian), regarding a young physician named Lafere. In French.
mssHM 81242
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John Quincy Adams, St. Petersburg, Russia, letter to John Armstrong :
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Letter from Adams as the newly appointed U.S. minister to Russia to the current U.S. minister to France. Adams discusses the need for a cipher for secure correspondence, his journey to Russia and his reception there, intelligence received regarding France and Napoleon since arriving, and the desire to communicate with the secretary of state and others in the United States.
mssHM 22922
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American French Relations
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Copies of the original correspondence relative to the French captures and the spoliations of American seamen, the Genet Affair, and the treaty with Great Britain, including copies of letters by Edmond Randolph, Timothy Pickering, George Washington, Joseph Fauchet and P.A. Adet.
mssHM 709
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Mary Cadwalader Jones travel documents and letters
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This small group of items include several travel documents belonging to Mary Cadwalader Jones, including passports, visas, etc., for travels to France in 1914 and 1915. One of the documents is a permit to "travel by motor vehicle," in France, for Edith Wharton, critic Percy Lubbock (whose signatures are on the document), Mary Cadwalader Jones, and their chauffeur Charles Cook (1915, September 13). There are also two letters by Walter H. Page, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom: one letter to Jones and a letter of introduction for Jones to present to people she meets on her trip to France. There is also a "Four-leaved clover from Verdun" in an envelope. There are items in English and French.
mssHM 81398 (a-k)