Found 1417 collections.

The collection consists of personal papers, In English and French, belonging to members of the Rolette, Hooe, Gaulthier, and other allied families and their estates. The papers predominantly relate to real property, but also include correspondence, marriage licenses, and a baptismal record. Land papers include deeds, correspondence, and other documents relating to property on or near Mackinac and Bois Blank Islands, Michigan; Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; and Quebec, Canada, owned by Mackinac Company fur trader [Jean] Joseph Rolette (1781-1842) or members of allied families or their estates, including Laurent Rolette, Joseph Rolette, Jr., Charles and Magdeleine Gaulthier, Emilie Rolette Hooe, and others. Correspondence consists predominantly of incoming letters to Joseph Rolette regarding legal matters and real estate, and of letters to Emilie Rolette Hooe, daughter of Joseph Rolette, regarding his estate, the estate of her husband, Major Alexander S. Hooe, and her own real property. A few personal letters to Hooe are also present less

Several letters written by Swiss-born American statesman and educator Albert Gallatin. Letters are both professional and social in nature, and include an 1808 letter to President Thomas Jefferson relating to the Embargo Act of 1807; a biographical sketch written at the request of autograph collector Lewis Cist, and two letters to Joseph Gales and William Winston Seaton, editors of the National Intelligencer relating to the publication of his essays on "the Oregon Question." less

Memorandum of interviews held during the Staten Island Peace Conference between Lord Howe and delgates from Congress Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge dated September 11, 1776. In the handwriting of Henry Strachey. Also includes a note dated August 21, by Strachey, relating to the preliminaries of the Battle of Long Island, and one letter from Howe to an unidentified correspondent dated November 2, 1775 less

William Henry Harrison was a general in the War of 1812 and the ninth president of the United States. The collection contains letters from William Henry Harrison, mainly to Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby, concerning Harrison's military activities during the War of 1812 less

Will of Philip Minthorne, 1756 (typed transcript), and papers, 1778-1896, relating to the estates of Stephen Richards, Thomas Randall, Robert R. Randall, and others, as well as other documents relating to the background and proceedings of the case of Stephen R. Brown vs. William Ricketts and George R. A. Ricketts involving New York City lands, including lands used to create and support Sailors' Snug Harbor less

A commonplace book kept around 1780 containing notes on a colony between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River during the French and Indian War. Also includes notes and excerpts from books by ancient and contemporary writers on matters of history, geography, political economy, colonies, agriculture, equestrianism, giants, science, religion, fetishism, heraldry, and French poetry. Entries are in French, English, Latin, and Italian less

Thomas Percy, Church of England clergyman. · To William Bennet, Bishop of Cork and Ross, later Bishop of Cloyne : 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Dec 1792 : (MISC 0473) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from London (no. 27 Lower Grosvenor Street) : begins, "I should have troubles your Lordship with more than one letter before this time, had I not expected long since to have been in Ireland ...". less

Seven letters of Major-General Jacob Morton written between 1790 and 1835 to various parties regarding legal, civic, and military matters. Several letters pertain to his duties as New York City Comptroller, and as clerk for the New York City Common Council less

Samuel Rogers, English poet. The Samuel Rogers manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: holograph fair copy poetical extracts (from "Jacqueline," "Human Life" and "The Voyage of Columbus"); a holograph testimonial, "Sacred to the Memory of xxxxxx"; and a holograph fair copy of his poem on Earl Grey, "Written in July, 1834." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1820 and 1850. Correspondents include: Lord Byron, poet; Mary Shelley, novelist; Robert Southey, poet; William Wordsworth, poet; and over seventy others. less

Robert Robinson, English Baptist minister. To Mary Hays, novelist : 9 letters : -- 1 autograph letter third person : 13 Nov 1782 : (MISC 2153) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Walworth : saying, "...if it be possible he will not fail to wait on Miss Hays (for whom he entertains the most profound esteem) some time to morrow afternoon ..." -- 1 letter signed : 11 Jan 1783 : (MISC 2154) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : in the hand of an amanuensis; begins, "I had certainly answered your complaisant favour of the 27th of last month had I not been ill ..." -- 1 letter signed : 26 Mar 1783 : (MISC 2155) : 2 ¹/₃ pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : in the hand of an amanuensis; begins, "Though I generally make use of an amanuensis, yet I seldom do so to your sex, but at present I am obliged to serve all alike ..." -- 1 letter signed : 22 Dec 1783 : (MISC 2156) : 2 ²/₃ pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : in the hand of an amanuensis; begins, "It does not signify, good Miss Hayes, for once, for this once, you must submit to an amanuensis ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Jun 1784 : (MISC 2157) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "I am extremely sorry to hear that you have been so ill ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Jul 1788 : (MISC 2158) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "Is there not a sort of fatality in our correspondence? Certainly without any design ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Nov 1788 : (MISC 2159) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "I have a singular pleasure in all the letters with which your friendship indulges me ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Mar 1789 : (MISC 2160) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "I owe you so many thanks, that I know not where to begin ..." -- 1 autograph letter [signature cut away] : 8 Dec 1789 : (MISC 2161) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "Pardon me, good Miss Hays, I just call in to ask, how do you do?" -- All letters published in full in Marilyn Brooks's edition of Mary Hays's letters, p. 250-263. less

Ann Robinson, daughter of the Rev. Robert Robinson (1735-1790); and sister of Mary I. Brown, who was also a friend and correspondent of Mary Hays. · To Mary Hays, novelist : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Oct 1791 : (MISC 2203) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Shipdham : begins, "Unequal as I ever have been to the beautiful and elegant accomplishment of letter-writing, I never found myself so much so as now, on the perusal of your epistles ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 May 1792 : (MISC 2204) : 3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Shipdham : begins, "When I look at the date of your last letter I have all the reason in the world to blush and be ashamed ..." -- Both letters published in full in Marilyn Brooks's edition of Mary Hays's letters, p. 266; 272-273. less

Henry Crabb Robinson, English diarist and journalist. · To Thomas Amyot, lawyer and antiquarian : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Nov 1795 : (G'ANA 0036) : 3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Bury : begins, "Your political Pop Gun did not miss fire, I assure you, It was easy for you to hit so fair a mark as I and my political opinions afford ..."; with remarks on William Godwin. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Mar 1796 : (MISC 1984) : 3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Bury : begins, "I think I may fairly retort the charge of dullness upon you -- You seem in your last letter to have strained hard to fill your paper and therefore you adopted a circumlocutory style ...". less

William Robertson, Scottish historian and minister in the Church of Scotland. · To Sir Robert Murray Keith, of Murrayshall, diplomat and army officer : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Oct 1778 : (MISC 0997) : 2 ¹/₃ pages (double sheet) : from College of Edinburgh : begins, "Mr. Grant, who will have the honour of presenting this letter to you, is warmly recommended to me by his relation and friend Sir James Grant of Grant ...". less

Record of a journey on horseback taken by Philadelphia merchant Benjamin Mifflin (1718-1787) from Philadelphia to Dover, Delaware, between 26 July and 14 August, 1762. Mifflin traveled through Chester, Wilmington, Ogletown, and Charlestown, Delaware; and through Bushtown, Baltimore, Annapolis, Kent Island, and Queenstown, Maryland to Dover, where he visited relatives and transacted private business, returning through Delaware to Philadelphia. Diary describes towns, shipping facilities and mills, persons met with, relatives of Shurmer and Loockerman families, travel conditions, etc. less

Several letters from Richard Montgomery or his wife, Janet Livingston Montgomery. Letters are dated September 24, 1775, from Richard Montgomery to Janet Montgomery; June 19, 1802 from Janet Montgomery to brother Robert R. Livingston in Paris; September 19th from Richard Montgomery to Lord Ranelegh at Matlock, England; and undated from Janet Montgomery to Horatio Gates. The letters concern personal matters, including Janet Montgomery's refusal of Gates' marriage proposal. Two letters are 19th century transcripts. less