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Sarah Brown Capron letter, 1865 December 26, December 28.

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Sarah Brown Capron was born in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, in 1828, the daughter of Henry Brown Hooker and Martha (Chickering) Hooker. The family subsequently moved to Falmouth, Massachusetts. Sarah graduated from Wheaton Seminary, and married William Capron on October 1, 1856. Over the course of their marriage, the Caprons had 3 children. On November 24, 1856, the Caprons sailed to Ceylon, India, as missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission. Arriving in Madras in March of 1857, they labored in Tirupuvanum and Mana Madura for the next sixteen years. Collection comprises a copy of a letter (10 pages) written by Sarah B. Capron in Mana Madura, India, to unidentified recipients on 1865 December 26 and 28.
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Sarah Brown Capron letter, 1865 December 26, December 28. 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

Lewis F. Henderson Letters, 1862-1865

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Corporal in the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 32nd Regiment (3rd reserve), Company D. Letters from Corporal Lewis F. Henderson to an unidentified friend in Philadelphia contain accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg; the Battle of Cedar Creek; and the Battle of Lynchburg. Other topics include Union hospitals; the burning of Virginia Military Institute and Governor John Letcher's home; Union and Confederate desertions; and "copperheads" in Philadelphia. Letters provide description of Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 and the last days of the Civil War.
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Letter, 1863 Dec. 15, Alexandria, Va.

Letter, 1863 Mar. 6, Upton's Hill, Va.

L.T. Wallace letter to W.W. Heitler, 1934 June 11

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Advertising executive with Aubrey, Moore & Wallace agency in Chicago, Ill. Letter to W.W. (William Wolff?) Heitler solicits and discusses plays for Campana Company's "First Nighter" radio broadcast series. Radio play criteria (length, structure, content and appropriate social values presented) are discussed. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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L.T. Wallace letter to W.W. Heitler, 1934 June 11 1 items

Theodore MacManus letter to W.H. Solle, 1935 May 2

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Advertising executive, author and philanthropist in Detroit, Michigan; principal in the D'Arcy MacManus Masius agency. Letter to William H. Solle, a bookshop owner in Omena, Mich. answers an inquiry regarding forthcoming poetry. MacManus reminisces on the ironies of his life, reflections, his legacy as author of the Cadillac "Penalty of Leadership" advertisement of 1915. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Theodore MacManus letter to W.H. Solle, 1935 May 2 1 items

Margaret Hockaday letter to J'Anne, 1940 January 21

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Copywriter and advertising executive who began one of the first woman-run advertising agencies in the United States, Hockaday Associates, in New York, N.Y. in 1949. Letter appears on Harper's Bazaar stationery and concerns locating photographers for magazine illustration, editorial and publishing concerns, and a research project to survey ideas of beauty among college-age women. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Margaret Hockaday letter to J'Anne, 1940 January 21 1 items

Maggie Newton Van Cott letter and clipping, 1884

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Collection comprises a four-page letter Van Cott wrote (19 May 1884) to an unidentified close friend regarding her preaching in Dover, Maine, and its impact. She confesses "...I find the people spiritually dead" and tells the story of a father who dragged his son away from her and the altar. The letter is signed, "Peggie." She inserted into the letter a newspaper clipping reporting the revival she led in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Maggie Newton Van Cott letter and clipping, 1884 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Rose Pastor Stokes letter to Benjamin Butler Davenport, 1914 August 6

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Collection comprises a letter Stokes wrote to dramatist Benjamin Butler Davenport regarding her plan to attend his play "The Silent Assertion" with her husband. Includes enclosure.
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Letter and memorial items for Emily Wilding Davison, 1913

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Collection comprises a letter written by "Nonia" on June 16, 1913, regarding how she managed to obtain the Emily Wilding Davison memorial items, including a bulletin for the memorial service, an official program for the funeral procession, and a memorial card. Nonia was likely an upper class woman, for Princess Alice of Teck assisted her in collecting the items; the princess was afraid they would be considered suffragettes. The collection also holds a transcription for the letter.
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Letter and memorial items for Emily Wilding Davison, 1913 0.1 Linear Feet (5 items)

Lydia Becker letter and obituary, 1890 and undated

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Collection comprises an undated letter Becker wrote to Lady [Downing?] regarding the fate of an unnamed bill before the House of Lords. She mentions that "... we have done what we could to bring a strong body of earnest, intelligent, feminine opinion to bear on the Peers." She then requests help finding accommodations for upcoming meetings in Exeter. Pasted to the letter, probably dated 1890, is a copy of Becker's obituary.
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Lydia Becker letter and obituary, 1890 and undated 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

Margaret Sanger letter to Vachel Lindsay, 1925 February 13

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The Margaret Sanger letter to Vachel Linsday regards a request from the contraception activist to the poet asking him to write a statement of support to be read at an upcoming birth control conference. Linsday responds by writing a note at the bottom of Sanger's letter replying that he wishes to father "twelve sons seven feet high" with the famously long-haired Seven Sutherland Sisters. The accompanying pamphlet contains the program for the upcoming conference.
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Margaret Sanger letter to Vachel Lindsay, 1925 February 13 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Virginia Woolf letter and photograph, around 1930

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Virginia Woolf was an English writer and publisher, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Collection contains a letter from Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell. Topics include her cook's operation; distractions during the letter writing process, "How any woman with a family ever put pen to paper I cannot fathom;" how Vanessa Bell produced an old French lady to replace the cook; and relates the incident of lost keys to the [Gordon Square] flat. She informs Quentin that "We are now at Rodmell for Whitsun, and the Austrians are gliding over our heads like gulls. Yes, this is a fact. They have tents on the downs and prove that one can fly up and down Asheham Hill without an engine. As I never doubted it myself, I take little stock of it." This is in reference to very enthusiastic and popular Sussex gliding, or sail plane, club. After a bit of village business, she adds that the family cocker spaniel has had five pups and that "Julian [Bell, Quentin’s older brother] is coming to Charleston with a troupe next week." She also reports that the senior tutor of Kings College has been shot by one of his students. Woolf fills Quentin in on the further doings of the Keyneses, Roger Fry and his Aunt Vanessa with regard to a troublesome art show, from which Fry has resigned, and looks forward to each friend bringing her up to speed on the outcome. She tells Quentin that Vita Sackville-West's book is selling so well "that Leonard and I are hauling in money like pilchards from a net. We sell about 800 every day. The Edwardians it is called." Woolf asks her nephew if he is at his family's French retreat in Cassis, and asks for a letter from him describing his "life from the inside." In closing, she laments she hasn't actually said what she wanted to say, and that the "snap-snap of the typewriter frightens me as the snap of a turtle frightens fish. So good bye." Also contains a black-and-white photograph of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell, undated, but probably around 1930.
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Virginia Woolf letter and photograph, around 1930 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Thomas Prince letters, 1721-1738

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Thomas Prince (1687-1758) was a graduate of Harvard College, a clergyman, scholar, historian, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, Mass. from 1718 to 1758, and author of A Chronological History of New England, in the Form of Annals (1736). Collection includes three letters, dated 1721, 1726, and 1738, to Thomas Prince, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston. There are two letters from Prince's sister Abigail in Middleborough, Mass., dated January 4, 1721 and February 25, 1726, both discussing family matters such as health, various leases and deeds, and other subjects. In another letter, dated 1738, Prince's mother-in-law Grace Denny, of Old Newton, England, discusses her anxiety about not hearing from Prince, her declining health, and politics and the royal family in England. In a postscript, Denny notes that she has "heard of a printed account about Great Conversions in Hampshire...by the the Rev'd Doctor Watts and Doctor Guyse."

Letter, Macon to M. Gilledey, Autun, 1856, July 1

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ALS. Announces that a medical jury composed of M. Lacroix, M. Valleday and himself will be visiting Gilledey's area.
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Letter, Paris, 1859, Sept. 7

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ALS. Informs addressee that his apartment is ready and warns him that recently there have been several cases of cholera in Paris.
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Letter, Paris, 1859, Sept. 7 1 items

Sarah Orne Jewett letters, 1877 June 15-circa 1890s

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The Sarah Orne Jewett letters consist of two pieces of correspondence written by the author to an editor, Mr. Sawyer, and to Lucy Coffin. Sarah Orne Jewett was a well-known 19th century author whose fiction is set in her native rural Maine. In the first letter, Jewett declines to send Mr. Sawyer anything to print in the first issue of his magazine, as she has been ill and busy, and doesn't want to write something in a hurry, although she wishes him well with his new publication. The second is a condolence letter to Lucy Coffin of Newbury, Massachusetts on the loss of her father. The Coffins were a prominent Massachusetts family.
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Sarah Orne Jewett letters, 1877 June 15-circa 1890s 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Vita Sackville-West papers, 1953-1961 and undated

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The collection consists of five typescript letters, one photocopied Encyclopedia Britannica article regarding Sackville-West's book "Aphara Behn" in the "Representative Women" series, along with a poem. The first letter, one page addressed to Sackville-West, dated 1953 May 22, signed "A. Purvis," discusses the birthplace and date of Aphra Behn. A photocopy of the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Behn is included. A typescript note dated 18 July, 1961, signed V. Sackville-West on Sissinghurst letterhead, was written in response to a letter from Sylvia Haymon about Aphra Behn, and Sackville-West's article on Behn in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Included are copies of three letters, all dated 1961, sent to Sylvia Haymon, two to Sackville-West, and one to Miss J. Parfitt, Acting Editor of the Women's Page of The Times in London. The topics of the undated, one-page "Diary-Poem" have to do with Sackville-West's loss of her given name upon her marriage to Harold Nicolson in 1913, and the loss of Knole, her family's estate in Kent, in 1928 because of patriarchal inheritance laws.
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Letters 0.1 Linear Feet (6 items) Folder 1

Vita Sackville-West papers, 1953-1961 and undated 0.1 Linear Feet (7 items)

William MacGregor letters, 1899-1918

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Sir William MacGregor (1846-1919) was governor of Lagos Colony, Nigeria, between 1899-1904. Correspondence sent to Sir William MacGregor primarily during his tenure as governor of Lagos Colony, Nigeria. One letter was written from Lagos in 1918. Topics include the new government when Northern Nigeria became a British protectorate, the West African Frontier Force, water sourcing, the rubber trade, and liquor traffic. All letters are signed and the majority are manuscript, except for two that are typed. Includes one black-and-white 6x10 cm photograph of an Nigerian family outside their hut.
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William MacGregor letters, 1899-1918 0.1 Linear Feet (8 items)

Maria Mitchell letters, circa 1846-1868

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Maria Mitchell was a pioneering United States astronomer. This collection comprises three social correspondence notes written by Mitchell between approximately 1846-1868.
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Maria Mitchell letters, circa 1846-1868 0.1 Linear Feet (3 items)

Susan B. Anthony letters to Minnie C. Rodey, 1905

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Collection contains two letters Susan B. Anthony wrote on National American Woman Suffrage Association letterhead in February 1905 to Minnie C. Rodey, who was chair of the "Women's Club" in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the letters, Anthony described informational material she will be sending Rodey, including a history of woman suffrage. In addition, she recommended a process by which the territory would vote on the issue of woman's suffrage before it acquiring statehood, since she considered the legislature and governor more likely to pass it than the general male voters in the state. She added, "... I read yesterday of the number of Indians and Mexicans and negroes that were in the territories. It is amazing that people want to make a state out of a territory composed of a majority of what we should term 'incompetents' Voting should be confined to intelligent beings." She also inquired of mutual friends and recommends her relatives who are visiting Albuquerque.
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Susan B. Anthony letters to Minnie C. Rodey, 1905 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Lionel Cust letters to Reginald John Smith, 1906

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Sir Lionel Henry Cust was a British art historian, courtier, and museum director. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1895 to 1909 and co-edited The Burlington Magazine from 1909 to 1919. Collection comprises two autograph letters signed by Cust, dated 1906 November 22 and 1906 November 26, to "Jack," regarding a portrait said to be that of Charlotte Brontë. The November 26 letter also mentions Constantine Gilles Romain Heger. On letterhead of the National Portrait Gallery.
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Lionel Cust letters to Reginald John Smith, 1906 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

L. L. Brennan letters to Holter Hardware Co., 1896

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Lydia L. Brennan ran a photographic business, the Elite Studio in Butte, Montana, until December 1896, when she sold the business to J. W. Nelson. Brennan married John N. Kirk, a Butte lawyer. Collection comprises two autograph, signed letters Lydia L. Brennan wrote to the Holter Hardware Company in Helena, Montana, on July 1 and October 3, 1896, to place orders for photographic supplies, particularly American Aristo Platino papers.
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L. L. Brennan letters to Holter Hardware Co., 1896 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

William Henry Burr letters, 1883, 1897

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Collection comprises two letters by William Henry Burr. Topics in the 1883 letter include a scam involving "that fellow 'Kellogg'" and rumored presidential scandals involving Chester Arthur and James Garfield. The 1897 letter involves Burr's making a copy of a letter by Thomas Paine regarding Paine's service as an editor for the Pennsylvania Magazine.
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William Henry Burr letters, 1883, 1897 0.1 Linear Feet

Lydia Maria Child letters, 1863-1873

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Lydia Maria Child was a prominent American abolitionist. The Lydia Maria Child letters consist of two letters written by Child, the first to artist William Tolman Carlton, and the second to a Miss. Howland. The first letter concerns Carlton's well-known painting "Waiting for the Hour," and references the writer and fellow abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. The second letter replies to a query about the German writer Bettina Von Arnim.
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Lydia Maria Child letters, 1863-1873 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Mary R. Beard letters to Margaret Zogbaum, 1947-1950

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Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian and archivist. Collection comprises 8 letters Mary R. Beard wrote to Margaret Zogbaum, a resident of Mizzen Top in Tryon, North Carolina, between 1947 and 1950.
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Mary R. Beard letters to Margaret Zogbaum, 1947-1950 0.1 Linear Feet (8 items)

Scovill-Beecher Letters, 1816-1864 bulk 1817-1820, bulk bulk

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William H. Scovill (1796-1854) of Waterbury, Connecticut, businessman and founder of the Scovill Manufacturing Company; and Rebecca Beecher (1800-1876), of Kent, Connecticut. The collection includes twenty-nine letters, chiefly the courting letters of William H. Scovill and Rebecca Beecher during a long period of geographic separation and secret engagement from 1817 to 1820. Materials in the collection range in date from 1816 to 1864.
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William Styron letters, 1948-1960 bulk 1948-1953, bulk bulk

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Dorothy Parker Maloff was an editor at McGraw-Hill, Whittlesey House, and Atheneum, as well as other publishing houses in New York City. Known to Styron as "Didi" Parker. Collection comprises letters William Styron sent to Parker while he was serving in the Marine Corps and stationed at Camp Lejune in North Carolina. Also includes letters he wrote to her in 1952 from London, Paris, and Rome after he won the Prix de Rome. In addition, there are postcards Styron wrote to her under an assumed name. Styron mainly writes about his love for Parker; other topics include his military activities and training, as well as his novels, other writing, and publications.
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William Styron letters, 1948-1960 bulk 1948-1953, bulk bulk 0.1 Linear Feet

Thomas Campbell papers, 1825-1998, bulk 1825-1838

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Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) was an Scottish poet. Collection comprises four letters written by Campbell, and a published article on Campbell and Italian General Guglielmo Pepe.
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Thomas Campbell papers, 1825-1998, bulk 1825-1838 0.1 Linear Feet (5 items)

Moncure Daniel Conway letters and clipping, 1856-1907

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Collection comprises letters, all but one of which was written by Moncure Daniel Conway, and an undated newspaper clipping outlining his work as an abolitionist. Topics of the letters include: conflict within his congregation, genealogy research, his relocation to England in 1893, arrangements for meetings and his lecture schedule and topics, his request for confirmation regarding the provenance for a manuscript, his writing plans and publications, and payment for his work. In one letter he mentions that he will be passing time with Samuel Clemens.
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Moncure Daniel Conway letters and clipping, 1856-1907 0.1 Linear Feet (16 items)

Photius Fisk letters and obituary, 1886-1890

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Collection comprises 5 letters (three originals and two copies) Photius Fisk wrote to "Friend Hacker," probably Maine reformer, abolitionist, and journalist Jeremy Hacker, between 1886 and 1889. Topics include health matters, money enclosed, and end-of-life planning. Also includes a copy of Fisk's obituary.
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Photius Fisk letters and obituary, 1886-1890 0.1 Linear Feet (6 items)

Mary Peblow letters to Lillian Aubery, 1978-1994

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Mary Peblow was a white woman who lived in Brooklyn, New York, during the late twentieth century and appears to have spent the majority of her later years in temporary public housing or welfare assistance hotels. This collection consists of Peblow's early 1990s correspondence to her cousin, Lillian Aubery, who also resided in Brooklyn. Peblow's letters document some characteristics of an ongoing mental illness; her distrust and dislike of healthcare systems and nursing homes, different charity organizations, and New York's government assistance programs; and her beliefs that she and her family were victims of Democratic or global conspiracies. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture and the History of Medicine Collection.
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Mary Peblow letters to Lillian Aubery, 1978-1994 0.5 Linear Feet

Turner Family Letters, 1943-1945 and undated

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Letters from three Turner relatives or friends in the U.S. Army during World War II: Johnnie Rice, Arthur Johnson, and Edward G. Walker ["Garl"?]. The letters were addressed primarily to Mrs. "Mom" Turner, and were sent from Fort Bragg, N.C.; England; and France. There are also a few other letters from relatives and friends, a sympathy card on a family death, and one undated letter from a woman to "Nellie" (probably a letter from Mrs. Turner to her sister). It is not clear if the "sons" are Mrs. Turner's sons-in-law or her close friends. The letter writers request news from home, describe life in camp and on the battlefield, and occasionally refer to conditions in French towns and rural areas.

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Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner autograph book and papers, 1879-1885, 1910-1933 and undated

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Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (1871-1935) was a German bacteriologist and one of the first women to reach the rank of Professor in Germany. The Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner Autograph Book and Papers date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century, and contain letters written to Rabinowitsch-Kempner from leading German scientists, as well as a reprint and three photographs. Correspondents include Robert and Hedwig Koch, Paul Ehrlich, Emil Behring, Richard Pfeiffer, and Alexandre Besredka, as well as calling cards with notations from Lord Joseph Lister, Elie (Ilija) Metchnikoff, and Albert Calmette. Many of the letters and calling cards are arranged in a bound scrapbook, and relate to personal as well as professional matters. The collection also contains a series of six letters from Max von Pettenkofer to Paul Lindau, editor of Nord und Süd,. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.
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Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner autograph book and papers, 1879-1885, 1910-1933 and undated 1 Linear Feet 15 Items

Michael Faraday letters, 1863 January 30, 1865 April 1

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The collection consists of two letters written by Michael Faraday, English physicist and resident of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, toward the end of his life. One is addressed to the Duchess of Northumberland thanking her for her generosity, and asking if she might send Faraday something in return, apparently a photograph of herself. The other letter is written to F. Gye, also thanking him for a gift, most likely tickets to a Covent Garden show: Frederick Gye was the prominent manager for the Royal Italian Opera productions. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.
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Michael Faraday letters, 1863 January 30, 1865 April 1 0.1 Linear Feet

Thomas Robert Malthus letter, undated

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Author of the "Essay on the principle of population" (1798). Collection comprises an undated letter from Malthus to his publisher, William Clowes, regarding a proof correction for an advertisement in one of his publications. In it he also asks if he has misdirected the mailing of his previous corrections, and wonders if they were received in time.
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Thomas Robert Malthus letter, undated 0.1 Linear Feet

Letter, Vienna, anonymous writer to Alexander Marcet, 1804, Jan. 17

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Holograph, with signature page missing. Writer's references to Waterhouse and Jenner signal his involvement in the promotion of vaccination. Writer also communicates his surprise at Frank's decision to take up a post at the University of Vilna.
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Letter, Vienna, anonymous writer to Alexander Marcet, 1804, Jan. 17 1 items

Levi Bartlett letters, 1786-1802

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7 letters (ALS). Letter from Bartlett to the engraver Joseph Callender. Letters to Bartlett from his brother, Dr. Josiah Bartlett, and from Drs. Thomas Kittridge and Amos Gale. Letters from J. Bartlett and Gale relate to the cowpox virus and Benjamin Waterhouse's efforts to regulate its use.
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Levi Bartlett letters, 1786-1802 7 items

Levi Wheaton papers, 1819-1851

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A statement of charges accrued during the last illness of Col. Smith and clippings of obituary notices.
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Levi Wheaton papers, 1819-1851 3 items

Lewis A. Sayre note, undated [between 1850 and 1900].

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ANS. Introduces Dr. Grant, a Canadian surgeon.
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Lewis Caleb Beck letter, Rensselaer School, Troy, New York, [between 1824 and 1826], Jun. 20

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Letter (ALS) explaining that he is unable to remain in Troy until July 2nd due to other engagements.
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Lewis Condict letter, Baltimore, to Tristam Buyes, Washington, 1829, Mar. 6

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ALS. On his way home from the presidential inauguration, Condict remarks critically upon President Andrew Jackson's address and his cabinet.
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Liberia to America poem, 1849

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Martin Farquhar Tupper was an English writer and poet. Collection comprises Martin Farquhar Tupper's manuscript poem in four verses, "Liberia to America." Signed, with location Albury, England [crossed out], Surrey. Tupper was among the first to support the new country; he exhorts Americans to support their "sable" brothers and to recognize the state officially, "with gracious glance befriend Thine own sons, no longer slaves!" The poem is undated, but probably dates around 1849, with the United States' formal recognition of Liberia.
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Liberia to America poem, 1849 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

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Library Council records, 1923-1985

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The Library Council is a faculty advisory committee for the Library. Minutes, agendas, membership lists, and related records of the Duke University Library Council with a card index for records from 1940-1979.
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Lillian and Carl Forsgren contest scrapbooks, 1936-1969

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Lillian and Carl Forsgren were a couple who lived in the Spokane and Seattle, Washington areas during the 20th century. The Lillian and Carl Forsgren contest scrapbooks include letters, contest announcements, entries, award notifications and other printed materials that document the couple's hobby of participating in marketing promotions and contests during the mid-twentieth century. The types of contests range from passive (enter to win) to participatory (requiring submissions of content including slogans, jingles, testimonials and recipes). Contest sponsors include the American Plywood Association, Coca-Cola, Coty, Dr. Pepper, the Ed Sullivan Show, Folger's, Frito-Lay, General Electric, General Mills, Helene Curtis, Kellogg, Kraft, Lever Brothers, Mennen, Pepsi, Purina, Stouffer's, and Westinghouse. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Lillian and Carl Forsgren contest scrapbooks, 1936-1969 1.0 Linear Feet

Lillian Dimmick Scrapbook, 1942-1947

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Dimmick was a homemaker in Jefferson, Massachusetts. Scrapbook featuring clippings, recipes, check stubs, letters, telegrams, and other material documenting Dimmick's winnings in recipe and music trivia contests.
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Lillian Dimmick Scrapbook, 1942-1947 0.2 Linear Feet 1 Items

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Major General Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey photograph albums of service in South Korea, 1959 July-1960 May

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Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey was a U.S. Army three-star general who served in South Korea from 1959-1960 as Senior Military Advisor to the Korean National War College in Seoul, South Korea. The three spiral-bound albums house over 300 black-and-white mounted photographs, chiefly in 4x5 and 8x10 sizes, all with typed captions and commentary. The images document the War College campus, Ramsey's quarters, South Korean and American officers in group portraits and in military meetings, dinners, and parties, as well as official tours and visits, including to the DMZ and a U.S. guided missile base; and visits to Seoul streets and tourist sites, rice fields and markets, and to Tokyo, Japan. Ramsey often appears in event photographs. There are a few snapshots of Ramsey's family. Also includes about 20 close-range photographs documenting the violence and bloodshed at student and civilian street protests in Seoul against President Syngman Rhee, known as the April Revolution of 1960.
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Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey photograph album #1, 1959 July-October Box 1

Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey photograph album #2, 1959 October-1960 February Box 2

Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey photograph album #3, March-May 1960 Box 3

Virginia Passmore Beaujean Scrapbook, 1938-1942

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Virginia Passmore Beaujean, a native of Nottingham, Pennsylvania, was a 1942 graduate of the Woman's College at Duke University. She was a member of the Kappa Sigma sorority, the Freshman "Y" Council, the Sophomore "Y" Council, the Woman's Glee Club, and was named to the Dean's List her Freshman and Sophomore years. The scrapbook contains clippings, programs, catalogs, and other ephemera. Also present are artifacts and other assorted memorabilia. Due to its brittle condition the scrapbook has been disassembled with each page housed in a separate folder.
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Virginia Parrott collection, 1958-1962

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Virginia Parrot was a 1962 graduate of the Woman's College and a member of Debate Council and the PreMed Society. Collection contains a disassembled scrapbook and assorted loose memorabilia reflecting student life at the Woman's College in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Margaret Bennett Photograph Album, circa 1926-1930

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Margaret Bennett was a 1930 graduate of the Woman's College of Duke University and involved with numerous student groups and organizations including the Student Government Council. Album contains photographic prints of portraits and campus scenes of student life in the late 1920s.
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Margaret Bennett Photograph Album, circa 1926-1930 0.2 Linear Feet 1 box (containing 1 album and 1 folder)

Louis Agassiz letters, 1836-1861

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2 letters (ALS). The first, in German, to fellow zoologist Dr. Kaup of Darmstadt. The second, in French, to W. G. Abel, a musician who applied for a position at Agassiz's school for girls.
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Louis Agassiz letters, 1836-1861 2 items