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Apollinaire Lebas letter

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1835, March 12.
Call number: mssHM 81242
Creator: Lebas, Apollinaire (1797-1873)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 26 cm :
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Pierre André Latreille letter

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Latreille wrote this letter from Paris to someone named "Barbio," offering information about his work. In French.

mssHM 81243

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Gaspard Monge wrote this letter in Paris while he held the position of the Minister of the Marine. The letter is in French and deals with war against England. The letter may have been intended for Edmond Charles Genet, the French Ambassador to the United States who was sent to the US to promote American support for France's wars with Spain and Britain.

mssHM 81229

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Honorable John Jay Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America letters to the Court of Spain

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Official correspondence, chiefly dispatches to the Presidents of the Congress, and Robert Livingston and the Committee for Foreign Affairs, covering the negotiations with the Conde de Floridablanca and the French minister in Spain the Comte de Montmorin; Jay's negotiations with the Conde de Aranda in Paris, and the beginning of Anglo-American negotiations in Paris.

mssHM 231

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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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Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., appointment of James C. Kellogg as Consul of the United States at Barranquilla, Colombia :

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Signed by Roosevelt; also signed by Secretary of State John Hay. On reverse: official recognition of the appointment (in Spanish), signed by the Minister of Foreign Relations in Bogota, 1905 May 17.

mssHM 46672

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John Muir letter to [Clara] Barrus

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John Muir wrote this letter to Clara Barrus, a physician with the state psychiatric hospital in Middleton, New York, from Martinez, California on September 23, 1909. In this letter, Muir writes that he is "glad to hear my little books are considered worth reading and have helped to incite others to go forth and see God's handiwork for themselves." He also mentions a letter from John Burroughs, an American naturalist and nature essayist, in which Burroughs has finished at least one article about the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Muir also hopes that Burroughs will next write about Yosemite. He closes the letter about the health of a woman named Helen, who is doing well.

mssHM 80949

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