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Max F. Perutz notes
Manuscripts
This item consists of four pages of handwritten notes by Max Perutz. The notes deal with hemoglobin. The notes are undated and unsigned. They are also incomplete. The pages are numbered: 1a, 4, 5, and 6.
mssHM 80284
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Nonconformists' petition to Parliament regarding rights and privileges...: manuscript, contemporary copy
Manuscripts
In this document, nonconformists (Protestant dissenters) are petitioning Parliament for nine specific rights and privileges for all dissenters and dissenting ministers in England. It is undated and unsigned.
mssHM 79840
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Questions of measuring, calculation and a weather rope
Manuscripts
The volume is a compendium on measuring and calculation, with a final section on a "weather rope;" this is a type of hygrometer, whose use is apparently not described in Britain in other sources, which was first described by Santorio in 1612. The volume is bound with thread in paper covers; with some damage and staining to covers. Facing title page is written: "Thomas Turner / huius libri possesor / est : Anno Domini 1701."
mssHM 83315
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Stalin's American power
Manuscripts
Signed typescript of a 7-page essay by Max Eastman. The typescript is probably a fair copy. Stalin's American Power was published in the American Mercury in December, 1941.
mssHM 83071
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Paddy's Plot or the Old Fool Couzen'd at Last: in two acts
Manuscripts
At the end of the volume is a two page autograph letter by William Cobbett, unsigned and undated, which inspired the play (mssHM 34560).
mssHM 34559-34560
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Japanese ikebana manuscript
Manuscripts
The manuscript is a rice paper booklet consisting of 33 folded leaves and sewn together. It contains ink drawings of ikebana arrangement of plant material. There is text in Japanese. The item is undated and the name "Haruyoshi Kaneko" appears on the first page.
mssHM 72754