Manuscript on paper, in various hands, of a collection of over 200 recipes in various hands. About half the recipes are for perfumes, including jasmine water; powders for scenting clothes and wigs; "acqua d'angeli"; and various balsam recipes. The vo...
Description:
In Italian, French, Spanish and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe
Subject (Name):
Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, Pen drawing, Perfumes, Recipes, and Social life and customs
The collection consists of 45 letters to Dudley Ward and 33 to Frances (Darwin) Cornford, who was also a poet. The letters discuss in detail Brooke's complicated romantic relationships with "Ka" Cox, Noel Olivier, Cathleen Nesbitt, and the Tahitian wo...
Description:
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge, was a member of the Georgian Poets. His most famous work, the sonnet sequence 1914 and Other Poems, appeared in 1915. Brooke joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915., Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915, Cornford, Frances Darwin, 1886-1960., Cox, Katherine Laird., Nesbitt, Cathleen, 1888-1982., Olivier, Noel, 1892-, Taata-Mata., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Subject (Topic):
Friends and associates, Relations with women, Poets, English, Poets, Georgian, World War, 1914-1918, History, and Social life and customs
Collection of correspondence, financial records, and documents relating to members of the Saunders and Sebright family. Material relating to Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) includes correspondence discussing personal debts, agriculture, and ...
Description:
Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) studied law in London and served as agent for the Committee for Sequestration in the 1640s. He inherited Beechwood Park, near Markyate, Hertfordshire, England, in 1628. His son was Thomas Saunders (1631-1698) ...
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, Great Britain., Herefordshire., Beechwood Park (England), and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Lyttelton, Charles Lyttelton, Baron, 1628-1716., Saunders family., Saunders, Thomas, 1631-1698., Saunders, Thomas, approximately 1600-1667., Sebright family., Sebright, Thomas Saunders, Baron, 1692-1736., England and Wales. Parliament. Committee for Compounding with Delinquents., and Great Britain. Privy Council.
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Families, Domestic relations, Formulas, recipes, etc, Household supplies, Law, Study and teaching, Manors, Medicine, Wine and wine making, History, and Social life and customs
Letters documenting Thomas Nelson's voyage to, and life in, Oregon City, Oregon, where he served as an Oregon Territory Supreme Court judge, written to his wife Cornelia and their children in Peekskill, New York, from 1851 Mar 20 to 1853 Jul 16. Nels...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., California, Northwest Coast of North America, Oregon, Oregon Territory, Peekskill (N.Y.), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
André, John, 1751-1780., Chenoweth, Francis A., 1819-1899., Currey, John E. B., Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Gaines, John Pollard, 1795-1857., Nelson, Cornelia., Nelson, Thomas., Pratt, Orville C., 1819-1891., Seymour, Allen., Seymour, David Lowrey, 1803-1867., California (steamer), Columbia (Steamer), and Oregon. Supreme Court.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Indians of North America, Legal status, laws, etc, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Description and travel, Capital and capitol, Gold discoveries, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Collection of correspondence, writings, and other papers growing out of Shawn's collaboration with Brooks on a collection of essays, Lulu in Hollywood (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), about her life as a film actress. Correspondence features a large...
Description:
Louise Brooks (1906-1985), American dancer, actress, and author.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Los Angeles., and Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985., Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-2023., Lantz, Robert., Shawn, William., and Sicre, J. P. (Jean-Pierre)
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, Motion picture industry, Motion picture actors and actresses, and Social life and customs
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Shoshone Agency
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2205
Container / Volume:
Volume 10
Image Count:
5
Abstract:
Seven volumes of letterpress copies of ALS and TLS concerning business of the Shoshone Agency at the Wind River Indian Reservation, 1903-1907; two volumes of letterpress copies of manuscript and typescript letters and receipts relating to financial bu...
Description:
The Wind River Indian Reservation, located in Fremont County, Wyoming, was created for the Eastern Shoshoni Indians under provisions of the Treaty of Fort Bridger in 1868. Part of the Reservation was occupied by Northern Arapaho Indians in 1878. Har...
Subject (Geographic):
Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming., Northern Arapaho Tribe., Wyoming., Fort Washakie (Wyo.), and Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Burnett, Fincelius G., 1844-1933., Nickerson, H. G., Ryder, James P., Wadsworth, Harry E., and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Shoshone Agency.
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Government relations, Land tenure, Missions, Arapaho reservations, Social life and customs, Indian reservations, Shoshoni Indians, and Shoshoni reservations
Manuscripts, in different hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily satirical and anonymous poems, many scatological. The majority of the poems are political satires, especially concerning the abdication of King James II and the accession of ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cleveland, Barbara Palmer, Duchess of, 1640-1709., Etherege, George, Sir, 1635?-1691., Hall, Jacob., James II, King of England, 1633-1701., Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683., and William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, Political poetry, English, Verse satire, English, Ballads, English, Songs, English, Women, Conduct of life, Court and courtiers, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of about 73 entries, including prayers, poems on primarily romantic subjects, and culinary and medicinal recipes for such items as "orange water the Countess of Desmonds way"; black pudding; "to m...
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Feilding (Fielding) family.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, Embroidery, English poetry, Elegiac poetry, English, Medicine, Popular, Medicine, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Women authors, Religious life and customs, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, in a single hand, consisting primarily of scientific and travel notes. The manuscript begins with Blagden's notes during his service as a surgeon in the army during the American Revolutionary War between 1776 and 1780. Stationed in the C...
Description:
Sir Charles Blagden (1748-1820), was a physician and secretary of the Royal Society. In 1772, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1776 he became a surgeon in the army and served on a hospital ship during the American Revolutionary War....
Subject (Geographic):
United States., France, Great Britain, England, and United States
Subject (Name):
Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Science, History, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Intellectual life, Social life and customs, and Personal narratives, British
