Manuscripts

Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière letter to Monsieur L'Héritier

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Description: Letter written by Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière to French botanist [Charles Louis] L'Héritier (1746-1800). The letter states that La Billardière sent specimens to L'Héritier for Baltic German botanist [Johann Gerhard] König (1728-1785) and British botanist [Sir James Edward] Smith (1759-1828). The letter, written from Paris in 1791, is in French; one page consists of the address.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1791, March 18.
Call number: mssHM 83086
Creator: La Billardière, Jacques-Julien Houtou de (1755-1834)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

François-Marie La Bintinaye letters to Dr. Walker King, (bulk 1789-1803)

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Letters from l'abbé de la Bintinaye to Dr. Walker King, bishop of Rochester, including pieces intended to be forwarded to Dr. King's brother John King (1759-1830) , Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office. Included are letters discussing de La Bintanaye' work on French translation of Edmund Burke's writings and his translation of "plantations laws." Also included are petitions from Dom Augustine de Lestrange (1754-1827) and Trappist monks (1800), the clergy of the Protestant church in Voltaire-Ferney in the Pays de Gex (1824), and French proprietors of a plantation in Matrinique (between 1809 and 1814). Also included is a note to John King regarding a obtaining a passport to a Canadian priest traveling to France (1803, Feb. 10) and a French translation of God Save the King and a poem to "His Britannic Majesty" set to the music of the British anthem composed by French royalists who had settled in British Canada.

mssHM 9653-9663

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Frédeŕic Dübuer letter to "Monsieur,"

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The recipient of this letter is unknown. The letter is in French and was written from Montreuil, France.

mssHM 72096

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M. le comte de La Cépède letter

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M. le comte de La Cépède wrote this letter as the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor to the minister of the interior.

mssHM 81245

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René Desgenettes letter to Monsieur le préfet

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Letter written by René Desgenettes to "Monsieur le préfet." The letter is in French and was written in Paris.

mssHM 83068

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Ernest Coquelin letter to "Monsieur,"

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This letter was written in Paris by Coquelin. In it, he announces his next performance. The letter is in French but has an English translation. The recipient is unknown.

mssHM 78373

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Walter De la Mare Papers

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The collection consists entirely of correspondence and five photographs, it does not contain any manuscript material. The strength of the collection is the correspondence, which spans decades, between De la Mare and other writers, including Morchard Bishop, H.C. Duffin and Fredoon Kabraji; the collection also includes a series of letters from the poet Richard Church to H.C. Duffin. Over the course of the correspondence it is possible to trace De la Mare's views of poetry and writing -- both the origin and expression of his own poetry and fiction, as well as the work of other writers. The letters also deal with personal matters: De la Mare's own health and the illness and death of his son-in-law, Rupert Thompson. One subject which is not discussed is World War II; though the letters span the war years and were written in England there is no mention of the war, bombing raids, rationing, or other any details of living in England during the war. The De la Mare Papers include two collections previously cataloged as the Morchard Bishop and H.C. Duffin collections.

mssHM 65249-65611

Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière letter to Monsieur L'Héritier

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