Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Connecticut. and The records contain approximately 300 manuscript papers including, in Box 1, correspondence, contracts and agreements, financial statements, toll both records, lists of stockholders, records for 12 scheduled dividends paid out between 1805 and 1826, dividend orders and receipts, and in Box 2, vouchers (invoices and receipts) for building, maintaining, and repairing the road. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Simeon Baldwin, but letters were also sent to James Hillhouse and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
Alternative Title:
[Receipt for Henry Hartley's work on Sugarloaf Hill &c.] and James Hillhouse pd to Joel Cole for work at the well
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in such places as will best promote the public travel." The treasurer of the company was New Haven lawyer Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851).
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
David Garrick papers from the Thomas Rackett collection, 1741-1776.
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 41
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Letters, manuscript poems, financial papers, and other documents relating to David Garrick and his tenure as manager of the Drury Lane Theatre. Letters include a lengthy 1751 letter from Richard Berenger describing theaters and operas in Paris; transcripts of two letters from Garrick to Francis Hayman about plans for a series of prints from Shakespeare; and a 1767 letter from the actor Patrick O'Brien discussing his "exiled" life in New York. Manuscript verse consists of drafts of several prologues and epilogues, and copies of comic epigrams and songs. Other papers include a record of receipts for the first season of Drury Lane; "A Scheme for a Theatrical Society;" a list of characters performed by Garrick in 1741-42; and a copy of "Mr. Taylor's address to young students and lovers of landscape painting."
Alternative Title:
Other papers
Description:
David Garrick (1717-1779) was the most celebrated Shakespearean actor of his time and the successful manager of the Drury Lane Theatre for almost three decades. and Thomas Rackett (1755-1840) received his MA from University College, Oxford in 1780 and named rector of Spetisbury in Dorset shortly after; he held the living until his death in 1840. Rackett devoted much time to his antiquarian interests; he was a member of the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, and the Society of Antiquaries, and contributed several drawings to John Hutchins's History of Dorset. He died at Spetisbury in November of 1840.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Griffin, William, fl. 1758-1776, and Rackett, Thomas,--1757-1841--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Actors--England, Theater--England--18th century, and Theater--Great Britain--18th century
A journal kept by Horace Walpole that documents the business of running Strawberry Hill Press, his private printing press at his home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England. Starting on 25 June 1757 with the erection of the press by William Robinson, the first of several printers hired by Horace Walpole to operate his press, the journal contains a list of the titles published, receipts for payment to the printers and their assistants, the indenture of Joseph Forrester, correspondence between Walpole and his printers about operations and the choice of engravers, receipts for supplies, newspaper clippings announcing the publications from the press, and two vignettes used in the Press's publications. With a medley print by Jacobus Houbraken on front paste-down with portraits of early printers: Joannes Gutenburg, Joannes Faustus, Laurentius Costerus, Aldus Manucius, and Joannes Frobenius which was also the frontispiece to volume 1 of Michael Maittaire's work Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum MD (Hagae-Comitum: Apud Idssvu, Valillant, MDCCXIX. Also with two prints by Edward Edwards: tFarm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill; and, a portrait of Thomas Kirgate
Description:
Title from text at head of page 1, in Walpole's hand. and In English with some French.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Notes made during a journey thro' part of France, Switzerland, &c, 1822 Jul-Sep
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
11
Abstract:
Holograph diary of Vincent's travels in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium with "Mr. Payne and his son William." Apparently from Leeds, Vincent records his impressions of scenery, the countryside and "romantic views;" roads and bridges; the conditions of towns and cities; and tourist attractions. These included major cathedrals, museums, monuments such as the tribute to the Swiss Guards who died at the Tuilleries in 1792; the battlefield at Marengo, and sites dedicated to Voltaire, Erasmus, and Gibbon., The party returned to England via Strasbourg and Belgium, where Vincent admired Brussels and toured the battlefield of Waterloo. After a rough Channel crossing, Vincent concluded his diary with "Thank God, we once more set foot on British ground.", Vincent paid particular attention to Lyons, where he remarks on the city's bloody Revolutionary history and saw "Madame Sarqui the famous rope dancer." In the Swiss Alps, he viewed "Mont Blanc by moonlight," described the progress of the constructions of the new Simplon road, and stayed at the Hospice of St. Bernard, noting an evening of musical entertainment by English ladies and admiring the "good-tempered and tractable dogs." Vincent,however, preferred "Protestant" Zurich, where "the people are cleaner and looked more happy and comfortable." Perhaps due to his lack of German, he makes no note of conversations during three days of sharing a diligence with "a Prussian gentleman, Dr. Schoppenhauer" between Domodossola and Locarno., and With: manuscript and printed ephemera including Vincent's French passport; notes on sights to see in Paris and Germany; hotel bills; cards; printed advertisement of books for "Travellers on the Continent" printed by S. Leigh; and two white metal souvenir medals of Strasbourg.
Description:
Blanks not digitized., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Some items numbered in pencil. Folders contain items in irregular order.
Subject (Geographic):
Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)--Description and travel, Alps--Description and travel, Belgium--Description and travel, France--Description and travel, St. Bernard, Great, Alps, Switzerland--description and travel, and Waterloo (Belgium)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Schopenhauer, Arthur,--1788-1860 and Vincent, George
Subject (Topic):
Tourism--France, Tourism--Switzerland, and Travelers' writings, English
Notes made during a journey thro' part of France, Switzerland, &c, 1822 Jul-Sep
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 3
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Holograph diary of Vincent's travels in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium with "Mr. Payne and his son William." Apparently from Leeds, Vincent records his impressions of scenery, the countryside and "romantic views;" roads and bridges; the conditions of towns and cities; and tourist attractions. These included major cathedrals, museums, monuments such as the tribute to the Swiss Guards who died at the Tuilleries in 1792; the battlefield at Marengo, and sites dedicated to Voltaire, Erasmus, and Gibbon., The party returned to England via Strasbourg and Belgium, where Vincent admired Brussels and toured the battlefield of Waterloo. After a rough Channel crossing, Vincent concluded his diary with "Thank God, we once more set foot on British ground.", Vincent paid particular attention to Lyons, where he remarks on the city's bloody Revolutionary history and saw "Madame Sarqui the famous rope dancer." In the Swiss Alps, he viewed "Mont Blanc by moonlight," described the progress of the constructions of the new Simplon road, and stayed at the Hospice of St. Bernard, noting an evening of musical entertainment by English ladies and admiring the "good-tempered and tractable dogs." Vincent,however, preferred "Protestant" Zurich, where "the people are cleaner and looked more happy and comfortable." Perhaps due to his lack of German, he makes no note of conversations during three days of sharing a diligence with "a Prussian gentleman, Dr. Schoppenhauer" between Domodossola and Locarno., and With: manuscript and printed ephemera including Vincent's French passport; notes on sights to see in Paris and Germany; hotel bills; cards; printed advertisement of books for "Travellers on the Continent" printed by S. Leigh; and two white metal souvenir medals of Strasbourg.
Description:
Blanks not digitized., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Some items numbered in pencil. Folders contain items in irregular order.
Subject (Geographic):
Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)--Description and travel, Alps--Description and travel, Belgium--Description and travel, France--Description and travel, St. Bernard, Great, Alps, Switzerland--description and travel, and Waterloo (Belgium)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Schopenhauer, Arthur,--1788-1860 and Vincent, George
Subject (Topic):
Tourism--France, Tourism--Switzerland, and Travelers' writings, English
Notes made during a journey thro' part of France, Switzerland, &c, 1822 Jul-Sep
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 4
Image Count:
7
Abstract:
Holograph diary of Vincent's travels in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium with "Mr. Payne and his son William." Apparently from Leeds, Vincent records his impressions of scenery, the countryside and "romantic views;" roads and bridges; the conditions of towns and cities; and tourist attractions. These included major cathedrals, museums, monuments such as the tribute to the Swiss Guards who died at the Tuilleries in 1792; the battlefield at Marengo, and sites dedicated to Voltaire, Erasmus, and Gibbon., The party returned to England via Strasbourg and Belgium, where Vincent admired Brussels and toured the battlefield of Waterloo. After a rough Channel crossing, Vincent concluded his diary with "Thank God, we once more set foot on British ground.", Vincent paid particular attention to Lyons, where he remarks on the city's bloody Revolutionary history and saw "Madame Sarqui the famous rope dancer." In the Swiss Alps, he viewed "Mont Blanc by moonlight," described the progress of the constructions of the new Simplon road, and stayed at the Hospice of St. Bernard, noting an evening of musical entertainment by English ladies and admiring the "good-tempered and tractable dogs." Vincent,however, preferred "Protestant" Zurich, where "the people are cleaner and looked more happy and comfortable." Perhaps due to his lack of German, he makes no note of conversations during three days of sharing a diligence with "a Prussian gentleman, Dr. Schoppenhauer" between Domodossola and Locarno., and With: manuscript and printed ephemera including Vincent's French passport; notes on sights to see in Paris and Germany; hotel bills; cards; printed advertisement of books for "Travellers on the Continent" printed by S. Leigh; and two white metal souvenir medals of Strasbourg.
Description:
Blanks not digitized., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Some items numbered in pencil. Folders contain items in irregular order.
Subject (Geographic):
Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)--Description and travel, Alps--Description and travel, Belgium--Description and travel, France--Description and travel, St. Bernard, Great, Alps, Switzerland--description and travel, and Waterloo (Belgium)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Schopenhauer, Arthur,--1788-1860 and Vincent, George
Subject (Topic):
Tourism--France, Tourism--Switzerland, and Travelers' writings, English
South Carolina Infantry, United States. Continental Army. Southern Department, United States. Continental Army--Finance, United States. Continental Army--History--Sources, and United States. Continental Army--Pay, allowances, etc