Leaf O2 is a cancel., Port. signed: Geo. Vertue sculpsit., Signatures: pi⁴ a-c⁴ B-N⁴ O⁴(±O2) P-3I⁴ 3K²(3K2 blank)., Thick paper copy. Imperfect: half-title wanting. Printed receipt for first payment on subscription for Pope's Iliad, filled in to Richard Caryll and signed by Pope, mounted on front paste-down. Bookseller's label: Brick Row Book Shop., Vol. 1 only., and With half title.
Publisher:
Printed by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot between the Temple-Gates,
Subject (Name):
Caryll, Richard--Ms. notes and Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744--Autograph
Brasel, Jennie Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (Muskogee, Indian Territory)
Published / Created:
1883-1898
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1904
Container / Volume:
Folder 4
Image Count:
16
Abstract:
Two volumes containing holograph manuscript minutes and lists of members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1889-1903; and one volume containing holograph manuscript minutes of the second through sixth annual conventions of the Second District, Indian Territory, 1904-1908. Minutes were written and signed by recording secretaries; most minutes recorded in Muskogee were written by Jennie Brasel. Laid in the first volume are reports, clippings, receipts, and notes pertaining to the Muskogee auxiliary, dated 1883, 1892, 1898, and undated. Convention minutes are preceded by a page inscribed, "1903 Record of 2nd District Convention." Laid in this volume are notes and correspondence of officers of the Second District pertaining to conventions, 1906-1908 and undated.
Alternative Title:
Items removed from front of volume of minutes, 1889-1898 / 1883, 1892, 1898, n.d.
Description:
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Muskogee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, was organized in 1883. This auxiliary was part of the Second District of Indian Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Indian Territory, Muskogee (Okla.), and Oklahoma
Subject (Name):
Brasel, Jennie, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (Muskogee, Indian Territory), and Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Second District of Indian Territory
Subject (Topic):
Temperance --Indian Territory and Women --Oklahoma --Muskogee --Societies and clubs
Brasel, Jennie Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (Muskogee, Indian Territory)
Published / Created:
1906-1908
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1904
Container / Volume:
Folder 5
Image Count:
11
Abstract:
Two volumes containing holograph manuscript minutes and lists of members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1889-1903; and one volume containing holograph manuscript minutes of the second through sixth annual conventions of the Second District, Indian Territory, 1904-1908. Minutes were written and signed by recording secretaries; most minutes recorded in Muskogee were written by Jennie Brasel. Laid in the first volume are reports, clippings, receipts, and notes pertaining to the Muskogee auxiliary, dated 1883, 1892, 1898, and undated. Convention minutes are preceded by a page inscribed, "1903 Record of 2nd District Convention." Laid in this volume are notes and correspondence of officers of the Second District pertaining to conventions, 1906-1908 and undated.
Alternative Title:
Items removed from front of volume of Convention minutes / 1906, 1908, n.d.
Description:
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Muskogee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, was organized in 1883. This auxiliary was part of the Second District of Indian Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Indian Territory, Muskogee (Okla.), and Oklahoma
Subject (Name):
Brasel, Jennie, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (Muskogee, Indian Territory), and Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Second District of Indian Territory
Subject (Topic):
Temperance --Indian Territory and Women --Oklahoma --Muskogee --Societies and clubs
The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
Alternative Title:
Receipts domestic and useful and Receipts medical
Description:
In two sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately by the cataloger. and Volume contains blank pages (not digitized) as well as text written in both directions.
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminster and Surrey, as well as income from an interest in a brewhouse and insurance records for warehoused goods such as wine. The record of Chitty’s personal expenses is particularly complete and includes 6s. "for Pamila. 2 Vollums;" "about L1.4s.6d to see The Conscious Lovers" at Covent Garden Playhouse in 1739; and 14s. for "Chockolate, Mackoroons, carraways and oysters." Also included are regular payments for housekeeping expenses "For Mrs. Chitty;" purchases at auctions and sales, such as "a barometer;" and frequent carriage repairs.
Description:
Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members., Related material: Abraham Chitty, Letters (Osborn c608)., and Volume contains unnumbered pages, blank pages (not digitized), and text written in both directions; both sections of text paginated separately.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Chitty, Thomas
Subject (Topic):
Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
Manuscript retained copy of a bill of sale containing a household inventory of the contents of Seaton Delaval Hall, sold by Sir Francis Blake Delaval to his younger brother in return for an annuity. The household inventory is particularly complete and includes listings of furniture, decorative items, household equipment, and plate for approximately forty rooms of the hall. "Pictures" are counted but not described.
Description:
Accompanied by: "Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland," magazine clipping from Country Life, November 6, 2003., Binding: modern case., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Northumberland (England)--Historic buildings and Seaton Delaval (England)