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2 letters (ANS) and 2 holograph notes, unsigned, relating to various social engagements.

ALS. Responds to Green's request for the autograph of J.C. Breckinridge. Page served on Breckinridge's staff during the Civil War.

Autograph document, signed. Reports lab test results.

Document, signed. Authorizes the sale of his stock in the Company of Merchants of Great Britain Trading in the South Seas and other Parts of America.

Mead writes to Anthony Askew, during period of Askew's medical studies in Leyden and his tour of the Continent, on classical studies. Papers also include a document of a legal transaction between Mead and a Mr. Gore.

ALS. Owen sends a report on a lecture on New Zealand birds to a Miss Bailey and wishes a Mr. Pearson professional success in Lancaster. The electrician Andrew Crosse writes to Owen of the discovery of insects in metallic solutions supposed to be destructive to organic life.

ALS. Request for student tickets to the college lectures.

ALS relating to financial matters, in particular the sale of a house in order to pay off a number of debts.

ALS. Writes of the publication of the Dictionary of Medicine, of which Quain was the editor.

TLS. Writes regarding the acquisition of the Harriet Lane Johnston Collection for the National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution.