Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred poems on primarily moral or spiritual subjects, many taken from printed works by such poets as John Dryden, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Isaac...
Description:
Autograph on flyleaf: S. S. Toms.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Manuscript of a satirical novella concerning an imaginary voyage by the narrator to a distant planet inhabited by giants, during which he encounters the "Royal Academy" of the planet and the "Chief Minister" (modelled on Pitt the Younger).
Description:
First leaf inscribed: "Manuscript, 1784. By Walker. Bolton Street Piccadilly."
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William,--1759-1806 and Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745--Influence
Subject (Topic):
English fiction--18th century, Fantasy fiction, English--Women authors, First person narrative, Satire, English--18th century, and Women authors--Great Britain
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations o...
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
Bound autograph manuscript in an unidentified hand on the art of painting. Includes bibliographies of works on painting and on practical perspective. Excerpts published by Crillo Volkmar Machado in his Collecçao de memorias (Lisbon, 1823).
Description:
Bound in red full levant morocco, gold tooled, possibly for Manuel II, King of Portugal.
Subject (Name):
Manuel--II,--King of Portugal,--1889-1932--Ownership
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 8 primarily melancholy poems copied from various authors, on such subjects as love, solitude, and loneliness. The collection contains Alexander Pope's Eloise to Abelard; Mrs. Madan's Abelard to Eloisa; ...
Description:
Binding: full parchment.
Subject (Name):
Héloïse,--1101-1164--Poetry, Hill, Aaron,--1685-1750, Madan, Judith,--1702-1781, and Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Solitude--Poetry, and Women authors
Notes recorded between April 2nd and April 24th, 1822 on the Lancasterian plan of education (the 'Bell-Lancaster method' or 'Monitorial system'). Includes description of class levels, lesson plans, teacher duties, classroom organization and school adm...
Description:
Binding: paper wrappers with "Notes" in ink capitals on front cover.
Subject (Topic):
Education--North Carolina, Monitorial system of education--North Carolina, Schools--North Carolina, and Teaching--North Carolina
Holograph manuscript journal of a seven-week tour through France, Germany and Switzerland taken by Stocker, Apothecary to Guys Hospital, in the company of the Tupper family, including the 19 year old Martin Farquhar Tupper. He gives detailed descripti...
Subject (Geographic):
Alps --Description and travel, Durlach (Germany), France --Description and travel, Germany., and Karlsruhe (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 --Influence, Stocker, Richard, and Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 1810-1889
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Tourism --Europe, and Travelers’ writings, English
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, Conn...
Alternative Title:
List of money paid on a/c of Turnpike
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934.
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
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, Conn...
Alternative Title:
Hartford & New Haven Turnpike Company: list of shareholders and Rec'd June 1806 of Simeon Baldwin Treasurer of the Hartford and New Haven Turnpike Company the sums annexed to our names respectively, being for the second dividend on the stock in our names and
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934.
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
