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An eye witness account of the invasion of Ohio Moravian towns of Salem, Gnadenhutten, and New Shonbrunn by a troop of Wyandotes, Delawares, and Shawnee under the command of the British Agent of Indian Affairs McKee in the summer of 1781. The anonymous author, apparently a Moravian missionary, described the events in Apr. - Sept. 1781, including the capture of missionaries David Zeisberger, Johann George Jungman, Gottlieb Senseman, William Edwards, Johann Heckelwelder, and Michael Jung with their families as well as the Christianized Indians. The captives were carried off to Upper Sandusky
mssHM 59431
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In this handwritten, signed manuscript, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is discussing evolutionary theory from a philosophical and historical standpoint. He cites a number of important scientists and philosophers such as Georges-Louis Lecler, Comte de Buffon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Johann Wolfgang von Geothe, Johannes Müller, Lorenz Oken, Georges Cuvier, Jan van der Hoeven, Henri Dutrochet, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and devotes several pages of the manuscript to a discussion of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It is likely that this manuscript was intended for publication and as a follow-up to another unpublished memoir titled "Mémoire pour établier que le principe de l'unité typéale de l'organisation contient des élémens revelatoires..." The manuscript is in French.
mssHM 74831
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Letters from Eliza Fall to William Henry Harrison, the editor, concerning the publication of her volume, Poems, under the pseudonym Mary Maynard. John Ruskin is a frequent subject of discussion in the letters along with several other leading literary figures of their day. The collection includes several manuscript versions of her poems and a translation of a poem by Johann Ludwig Uhland.
mssHM 42764-42816
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Autograph essay by Jan Parandowski about Leonardo da Vinci. The manuscript contains extensive marginalia as well as inline annotations. Text is in Polish, with a brief note in English on enclosure page describing the manuscript and signed by Parandowski.
mssHM 83088
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Manuscript draft of Roosevelt's article with autograph edits, signed by Roosevelt with "Sagamore Hill, June 1889" added. Item has been bound in leather and includes a handwritten title page. Published in Century Magazine, June 1, 1891.
mssHM 6013
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Joseph Booth writes of his experiences traveling through California during 1869. He became determined to ride his mare, named "Pet," from San Francisco to Los Angeles, in an attempt to ease his mind of an unidentified physical ailment that cause him to lose weight "to scant 120." His diary describes the weather, his accomodations at the various towns and public houses, and people he met along the way. He is automatically suspicious and afraid when meeting Indians, or, as he writes, "or what they call by that name here (a native)." There is a partial list of his expenses on the final page. The last two pages are damaged and incomplete. Original pages rebound and repaired with backing sheets. With two typewritten letters, dated 1946, July 31 and August 12, from George E. Beers to Josephine W. Beers explaining some details of the Booth family history, and an undated fragment of a third letter with similar geneaological information.
mssHM 26657