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Manuscripts
The volume contains the text for a manuscript entitled "Physica generalis" which may be written by Carlo Barletti. The manuscript is annotated by Alessandro Volta. The text and annotations are in Italian.
mssHM 72870
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These five manuscripts deal largely with mining practices in California. HM 16583 is a letter to Fray Vicente de Mora, dated March 14, 1775, and is undersigned by several missionaries. HM 16584 (May 29, 1775) contains instructions regarding a decree regulating the prices of goods such as silver and gold. HM 16585-16587 (dated July 26 and November 17, 1780 and March 1, 1781) are letters to Joaquín Cañete that discuss details of mining.
mssHM 16583-16587
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Here are four receipts from the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco, California, recording quarterly dues paid by James Ludlow. The receipts are dated 1858, October 1; 1859, January 1; 1860, January 1; and 1860, April 1. Each is in the total of three dollars, and each is signed by H. H. Moore. Printed forms, filled in by hand.
mssHM 257
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This is a receipt for sale of a suite of 24 plates for Piranesi's drawings of the Pantheon. It is in French. It is dated "9 Ventose,l'an XII."
mssHM 81234
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The receipt to B. D. Wilson is for "Sixty two 30/100 Dollars" which was "interest for the month of September on a certain promise note of twenty five hundred dollars." It is signed "J. P. Newmark per Harris Newmark." It is dated 1855, October 1 and was written in Los Angeles.
mssHM 72179
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A manuscript diary kept by Carrie Belle Deal Ellis from December 5, 1892 to May 15, 1893. The diary, written in pencil, records her daily life along with occasional entries listing her expenditures. The entries detail her activities, including painting, and other experiences, and thoughts, as well as her travels, health, the lives of her children, and other domestic concerns. The diary is bound in contemporary sheep with some minor edge wear and soiling, the rear endpaper is loose and some pages at the front of the volume have been removed. The diary is accompanied by a receipt book dated from 1909 to 1912, from the area of Auburn, California. The first entry is 152 which would indicate this volume is part of a series of receipt books. This volume was found with the diary, though there are no details within the book that directly ties it to Carrie Ellis. But, as the Ellis family lived in Washington, California, very near Auburn, it is possible this receipt book belonged to her or a family member. The receipt book is contemporary quarter brown cloth and marbled paper boards, with some creasing on the back cover, and damage to the spine.
mssHM 84129