Manuscripts

Ernest Shackleton correspondence

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Description: Two four-page letters, one from and one to Ernest Shackleton. One letter, dated 1907, November 6, is from Walter Rothschild to Shackleton, and requests that Shackleton take photographs of sea elephants and collect fleas from birds. The letter dated 1912, January 21, is from Shackleton to Dr. Lowenfeld, and concerns letters to be forwarded, including to Rothschild.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1907-1912.
Call number: mssHM 82733-82734
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Associated people: Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, (1868-1937,); Shackleton, Ernest Henry, (1874-1922,)

Richard Shackleton correspondence

Manuscripts

A collection of 401 items from 1658 to 1808, it consists of the correspondence of Richard Shackleton and his wife Elizabeth (Carleton) Shackleton. Many of the letters addressed to Richard Shackleton are from parents whose children attended the Ballitore Quaker school and former students commenting on university life. The remaining portion of the collection consists of letters written from the Shackletons to their friend Elizabeth (Pim) Pike of Dublin. Although most of the letters concern the Society of Friends in Ireland, there are some items relating to activities of Friends in England and America. There are a few items from the latter seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, including individual letters by George Whitehead and William Penn.

mssSHA

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William Rathbone correspondence

Manuscripts

A collection of 33 items from 1760 to 1809, it consists largely of a series of letters written from 1800 to 1807 by William Rathbone to Abraham Shackleton. The letters concern items of general Quaker interest, including Quaker principles and doctrine, and particularly the controversial publication of Rathbone's "A Narrative of Events...in Ireland..." The collection also includes a small number of manuscripts, notes, and one volume.

mssHM 80363-80395

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Ann Renaudet Chevalier letter to Charles Willson Peale

Manuscripts

This autograph letter signed is addressed to Mr. Peale at the Museum (Peale retired from the museum in 1810, this letter may be for him or one of his sons who replaced him). Chevalier writes, "Sir, Please to receive in your Museum a little pensionnary that came last night to take refuge in the house where I live: It is a screetch-owl of the smallest and beautiful kind, I had always been told that such birds were ominous creatures; but the contrary I now find in the opportunity this offers me, by presenting you with it, to do something with that perhaps may prove agreeable to you. I am with respect, Anne Renaudet Chevalier."

mssHM 83617

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Ulysses S. Grant, before Vicksburg, letter to Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, Port Hudson, Louisiana :

Manuscripts

Regarding the desire to take possession of Port Hudson, Louisiana, the canal being constructed at Vicksburg, efforts to take possession of the Yazoo River, and possible attack on Hain's Bluff. Letter dated March 23, probably misdated (see Papers of Ulysses S. Grant). Has docket, not in Grant's hand.

mssHM 23554

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William Rathbone correspondence

Manuscripts

A collection of 33 items from 1760 to 1821, it consists largely of a series of letters written from 1800 to 1807 by William Rathbone to Abraham Shackleton. The letters concern items of general Quaker interest, including Quaker principles and doctrine, and particularly the controversial publication of Rathbone's "A Narrative of Events...in Ireland..." The collection also includes a small number of manuscripts, notes, and one volume.

HM 80363-80394

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Pierson family correspondence

Manuscripts

This collection contains twenty-three letters written primarily from Schuyler, Buffalo County, Nebraska, but include also three letters from Morrison, Colorado, one from Deadwood, South Dakota, and one from Pendleton, Oregon. Most of the correspondence was written by newlyweds Elmer or Lou (short for Louisa?) Pierson to their relatives in Illinois. The letters are filled with numerous details reflecting daily lives and struggles while making ends meet on the western plains. In January 1894 Lou writes, "...well it seems to me I never can get Elmer's debts paid I come out here & he owes [Geo] Little $150.00 and Mr. VanHoosen over $200.00 and I have got my 2 hands to pay..." Elmer appears to be a very colorful character, who, as he mentions in one letter, "I served ten years in the penitentiary in Nebraska for stealing horses..." (April 4, 1882). His writing reflects at times humor, a quick wit, and a restless ambition to take full advantages of the opportunities promised by the open west.

mssHM 81100-81122

Ernest Shackleton correspondence

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