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John Armstrong papers, to Mrs. Coutts, 1775, [1779], and undated

4 items
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3 letters (ALS) and an engraved portrait of Armstrong. One letter details dinner at the Shakespeare Inn.
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Latouche letter, Paris, 1774, June 28

1 items
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ALS. Describes an operation successfully performed on the Archbishop of Paris in 1774.
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Latouche letter, Paris, 1774, June 28 1 items

Daniel Augustus Tompkins papers, 1774-1976

11 Linear Feet 6432 Items
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Engineer, author, and entrepreneur, of Charlotte (Mecklenburg Co.), N.C. Collection contains letters and papers relating to Tompkins' work in the Pennsylvania steel industry, specifically with the Bethlehem Iron Works, his career as an industrial engineer in North Carolina with the Westinghouse Machine Company, his personal life, his activities as co-owner of the Charlotte Observer and his disputes with the editor, J. C. Hemphill, his patents and inventions, his business activities and involvement with the textile, brick, and other industries, and the settlement of his estate. Includes ledgers and a stockholders' minute book of the D. A. Tompkins Company.
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Daniel Augustus Tompkins papers, 1774-1976 11 Linear Feet 6432 Items

Eugene Clyde Brooks papers, 1774-1971 and undated

4.1 Linear Feet 3,105 Items
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Professor of Education at Trinity College, Durham NC. Collection chiefly is composed of letters, educational reports, numerous writings and addresses, and various professional papers, all relating to tobacco relief, education, and agriculture in North Carolina. Specific topics cover the Department of Education of what was then known as Trinity College in Durham, N.C.; the history of North Carolina, from an unpublished draft; and the matter of education for rural populations in N.C. and elsewhere. Materials include a microfilm of Brooks' papers held by the Department of Archives and History in Raleigh, N.C.; telegrams; extensive manuscripts for unpublished works, lecture notes, an address by Supt. Benjamin Lee Smith of Greensboro Public Schools. Other items in the collection include a scrapbook; cards from Brooks to his wife from abroad; original poems written by Brooks; photographs; memorabilia; an itinerary of his trip with other agricultural experts to Europe; a contract in manuscript drawn up in 1774 between citizens of Mecklenburg Co. and John Patterson, a school teacher, who was engaged to teach there; a printed document concerning Judge Walter Clark; and other miscellaneous items. There is also a printed copy of the diary of Dr. J. F. Shaffner, Sr. and blueprints of the N.C. State Fairgrounds.
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Eugene Clyde Brooks papers, 1774-1971 and undated 4.1 Linear Feet 3,105 Items

McCoy-Love Family papers, 1774-1970 and undated

12.3 Linear Feet circa 9,210 Items
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Asheville, N.C. residents. Two prominent members of the families were George William McCoy, Sr. (b. 1901), editor of the Asheville-Citizen Times, and his father-in-law, Harry Weaver Love (b. 1883), YMCA executive. The collection contains personal and business correspondence, genealogical material, financial and legal records, printed material, clippings, addresses and writings, scrapbooks, miscellaneous items, photographs, and a number of volumes. Topics include the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Assoc. Harry Love's business papers include a large number of correspondence, reports, pictures and volumes relating to his work with the YMCA, in the U.S. and abroad; there are a great many items relating to the Philippine Islands. There are a sizable number of papers from Wythe Munford Peyton, a civil and highway engineer, who worked for several N.C. railroads; the papers of William C. Coleman, a businessman who sold and serviced Harley-Davidson motorcycles (1914-1915); and papers of the Frelinghuysen-Southwick family of N.J. and N.Y., one relative being a Senator and another, Emeline Sherman Smith, a poet. There are a few items concerning Thomas Dixon who founded the Mt. Mitchell Assoc. of Arts and Sciences.
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McCoy-Love Family papers, 1774-1970 and undated 12.3 Linear Feet circa 9,210 Items

Philip Syng Physick papers, 1774-1959, [bulk 1798-1835].

8 items
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Papers include a receipt for the sale of land signed by Physick's father, Edmund Physick, and receipts signed by Physick himself. Physick writes a letter of recommendation for William Milnor; responds to West Point cadet Ellis' inquiries regarding a thigh injury; and writes to Jaspar Yeates about the unsatisfactory progress of Physick's student and Yeates' relative, J. Hand. Yeates' biography is detailed in a letter from Whitfield J. Bell to Henry Schuman.
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Philip Syng Physick papers, 1774-1959, [bulk 1798-1835]. 8 items

Bradley Family papers, 1774-1882

1 Linear Feet 792 Items
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Stephen Row Bradley and his son William Czar Bradley were lawyers who, as residents of Westminster, Vermont, served in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives respectively. Later Stephen moved to Walpole, New Hampshire. Many prominent New Englanders corresponded with them about Federalist, Republican, and Democratic politics, patronage, and legal and personal matters. Stephen's son-in-law, Samuel Griswold Goodrich ("Peter Parley") was his most frequent correspondent. Other subjects of the correspondence include the Vermont militia, relations between the U.S. and Tripoli, attitudes toward the War of 1812, surveying of the northeastern boundary between the U.S. and Canada, General Lafayette's visit to Thomas Jefferson in 1824, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson.

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Bradley Family papers, 1774-1882 1 Linear Feet 792 Items

Nathaniel Coffin letter, Boston, to Mr. Sam White, 1773, Oct. 6

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ALS relating to various personal and business matters.
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Thomas Bond letter, [Philadelphia], to Phineas Pemberton, 1773, Aug. 28

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Letter (ALS) prescribing a course of treatment for Pemberton's daily attacks of fever.
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Hugh Downman papers, 1773 and undated.

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In an ALS dated 1773 Downman settles his account and requests that the remaining copies of his poem, "The land of the muses", be sent to him. A holograph note in an unknown hand gives biographical information.
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Hugh Downman papers, 1773 and undated. 2 items