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Mather family collection
Manuscripts
Collection of letters and manuscripts of Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather. The collection incorporates various items acquired between 1905 and 1927 and has been assembled at the Library. The collection includes two manuscripts of Richard Mather: "An exhortation to our Countrymen of Lancashire, by Richard Mather and William Thompson," and 64th and 65th lectures. Increase Mather's manuscripts include a notebook containing observations on the matter of Henry Palmer and the church in Haverhill, Massachusetts, "An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences," a fragment of a sermon, and an address "To the Inhabitants of Boston at their Publick Meeting," signed by Cotton Mather and Benjamin Colman. Cotton Mather's manuscripts include his sermon and notes for a sermon, a list of marriages performed, and a presentation inscription to Ebenezer Bradshaw and George Hughes, apparently cut out from the flyleaf of a volume. There are Increase and Cotton Mather's letters to Sir William Ashurst, treasurer and governor of the New England Company, the chartered company that established the Massachusetts Bay colony. There are also five letters by Increase Mather, 1712 to 1718 and 14 letters by Cotton Mather, 1712 to 1718.
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Sermons and notes
Manuscripts
Collection of letters and manuscripts of Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather. The collection incorporates various items acquired between 1905 and 1927 and has been assembled at the Library. The collection includes two manuscripts of Richard Mather: "An exhortation to our Countrymen of Lancashire, by Richard Mather and William Thompson," and 64th and 65th lectures. Increase Mather's manuscripts include a notebook containing observations on the matter of Henry Palmer and the church in Haverhill, Massachusetts, "An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences,” a fragment of a sermon, and an address "To the Inhabitants of Boston at their Publick Meeting," signed by Cotton Mather and Benjamin Colman. Cotton Mather's manuscripts include his sermon and notes for a sermon, a list of marriages performed, and a presentation inscription to Ebenezer Bradshaw and George Hughes, apparently cut out from the flyleaf of a volume. There are Increase and Cotton Mather's letters to Sir William Ashurst, treasurer and governor of the New England Company, the chartered company that established the Massachusetts Bay colony. There are also five letters by Increase Mather, 1712 to 1718 and 14 letters by Cotton Mather, 1712 to 1718.
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Thomas Nowell sermon, correspondence, and related material, (bulk 1768-1772)
Manuscripts
Correspondence and manuscripts regarding the controversy over Thomas Nowell's 1772 Charles I remembrance sermon before the House of Commons, bound together with the printed sermon. Letters to Nowell are from W. (presumably Walter) King and Dr. (presumably James) King, the sermon's printer Henry Hughs, Lord Lichfield, Thomas Fitzmaurice, the Rev. Richard Scrope, and others; letters are both in support of and in opposition to Nowell's sermon. In addition, there are two copies of Thomas Nowell letters to unidentified recipients. Also present in the volume are a manuscript vote of thanks for Nowell's sermon from the House of Commons with an order to print, January 31, 1772; and manuscript extracts from a letter of Edward Gibbon and from the Annual Register regarding the sermon. The front of the volume contains a manuscript table of contents and provenance note, the bulk of which was most likely written in the late 19th century with a note added after 1916 at the end.
mssHM 84141
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Correspondence and documents
Manuscripts
A collection of the personal and professional papers of Edward Davis Townsend. Included in the collection are official and private correspondence, chiefly letters addressed to him, military records, journals, memoirs, and a few photographs. Two journals cover the 2nd Seminole War from 1837 to 1838, and his service in California from 1851 to 1856. The latter was incorporated into a memoir entitled "A Trip to California;" both accounts are accompanied by pencil sketches. An unfinished memoir covers Townsend's life and career until the beginning of the Mexican War. The collection also contains a group of personal and political correspondence of Elbridge Gerry, including pieces related to his diplomatic and political career from 1772 to 1814, and the correspondence of Ann Thompson Gerry and Eliza Gerry Townsend. Also included are a copy of Samuel Auchmuty's 1761 sermon on 1 John 5:7, and contemporary copies of Jefferson Davis's letters to his wife Varina Howell Davis from 1861 to 1865. The collection also includes a spool of thread with a hidden note in it, 1861 February 10, and a cotton ball from the steamer Emma, which was loaded with cotton when its crew burned it at Fort Pulaski on August 31, 1862, to prevent its capture by the Union forces under the command of William B. Barton.
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William Lodge Kidd Records of Sunday sermons heard: manuscript
Manuscripts
The manuscript is a record of some sermons William Kidd heard from 1805 to 1814. Each entry includes: date, location, name of the person giving the sermon, and topic. Some of the entries include notes from the sermon.
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Manuscript Volume; Correspondence; Ephemera
Manuscripts
The collection of correspondence, documents, engravings, and ephemera of the Westall brothers assembled at the Huntington Library. Included are the correspondence of William and Richard Westall, a bound volume of Richard Westall's illustrations, and printed pieces and photograph reproductions of various and paintings and illustrations.
mssHM 54281-54318, HM 63286