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ALS. Informs addressee that she is obliged to decline both the topics and manner of correspondence suggested.

Mary Rudge was a peace activist and poet. Collection comprises an unpublished typescript Share the Seed: A Farmworkers Anthology, containing a compilation of voices of the Farmworkers Movement, edited by Mary Rudge, dated 1979. There are at least one hundred items, including narratives and interviews, poems, songs, documents, sketches, and photocopied photographs, focusing on farmworkers in California, as well as elsewhere in the United States. The text features corrections and emendations. Signed by Rudge at the end of her foreword to the volume. Velobound in brown vinyl covers. Several pages missed the binding and are thus laid in. Also laid in are several ephemeral pieces from the farmworkers movement.

ALS. Informs Miss Butler of a slight change in travel plans due to a headache suffered by Mrs. Cogswell and relays Mrs. Cogswell's instruction to write and let them know how "Catherine and the rest are."

Circular letter, signed, soliciting contributions for the proposed institution from all towns within the Commonwealth. This examplar is addressed to the town of Leicester and signed by Thomas H. Perkins, Daniel Sargent, Joseph May, Josiah Quincy, Tristram Barnard and Richard Sullivan.

2 letters (ALS), 1 holograph note, and 2 clippings. Includes a prescription "for Dewar Esqr." and a note to "Richard Reeves Esq."

Mathew Thompson, a farmer in Fleming County, Kentucky with relatives in Greenville, Virginia. Letter from Matthew Thomson in Fleming County, Kentucky, dated August 24, 1835, to a relative John S. Thomson in Greenville, Virginia. Thomson relays news of his Aunt Rebecca's death and the health of other family members, comments on his crops and prices, and advises young men to marry at age 21 and have male children immediately to assist with farm work.

ALS. Letters of recommendation for a M. Tinville and a M. Gatteaux. The second letter is addressed to the Comte de Rambuteau and is co-signed by M. Cordier and M. Lavoint.

Maude Brown attended Trinity College in Durham, NC from 1924-1926, before transferring to UNC-Chapel Hill. She remained active in Duke's campus life through 1928. The scrapbook includes clippings, photos and memorabilia related to social and academic life at Duke, the Y.W.C.A., May Day celebrations, and occasional trips. The scrapbook ranges in date from 1924-1937.

Calling card (ANS), inscribed to Dr. Robert H. Wilkins.

Typed document. Physician's record of Lambert's stay at the Centre Neurologique, Place de Rouen, for observation and treatment of nervous disorders.

2 ANS from Einhorn to Goldstein, 2 ALS from Anne Koerber to Goldstein. Letters relate to Goldstein's efforts to obtain biographical information regarding Einhorn, as well as copies of his written work.

Cosmetics company, founded in 1909 by Max Factor (1872?-1938), a Polish cosmetician. Collection contains materials that comprised the Max Factor Make-up Studio's campaign for "The New Art of Society Make-up." Includes two booklets with courtesy cards that enabled the holder to order free make-up samples appropriate for their complextion and features. A "Miss Thennis" likely used the courtesy cards, for there is a letter addressed to her regarding the products and their application, a completed make-up color harmony chart that may have accompanied the letter, as well as sample envelopes for rouge (unopened, containing a powder puff) and face powder. Also contains a product order form.

The creator of this album was a person of color identified only as "Maxiña" or in one instance, "Maxine," living in Cleveland, Ohio. The album contains 102 black-and-white gelatin silver and Polaroid photographs dating from the 1940s-1950s, documenting the social life of Maxiña, who appears to be African American and Hispanic or Latino, assigned a male gender at birth and presenting as female. There are over 50 images of gender non-conforming individuals, identified by first names only. There are also some photographs of her family members. Most images are captioned; some names and captions are in Spanish. Locations include unidentified LGBTQ bars and possibly Maxiña's apartment. Seven larger photographs of Maxiña dressed in fashionable female clothing, one with a man identified only as "Homer," were taken at the studio of William H. Jordan, an African American photographer in Cleveland. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University.

ALS. Sends copies of a lecture to a colleague in Baltimore.

ALS. Writes of his publications on public health and on cholera.

The Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann lithography company was active in New York under that name from 1874-1885. Pond's Extract was a homeopathic remedy first produced in 1846 by Theron T. Pond. The poster is a color lithograph, approximately 30x59 cm. Text reads: Pond's Extract sold only in bottles with buff wrappers--vegetable pain destroyer. Images show cherubs with laboratory equipment making the extract above an outdoor scene: a bridge over water, garden statue, frogs and an owl. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Mary "May" Morris was an English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor. Collection comprises letters, an article, a few photographs, and several drawings. There are 16 letters and notes, dated 1909-1931, addressed to "Ada," who was Ada Culmer, the companion/caregiver for May Morris' sister, Jenny. Fifteen of these items were written by May, with one by Jenny. Subjects range from personal matters to Kelmscott business, including May's editing of her father's collected works. Much of the content centers on mutual friends and relatives (with a focus on Jenny's ill health); several letters also mention foreign travel. The article, "Mrs. William Morris," The Athenaeum, 1914 Feb. 7, contains the author's memories of Jane Morris, following her death. There is an albumen photograph (4.25 x 5.75-inches) by Ernest Hall of Oxford, showing May Morris at work on one of her tapestries at Kelmscott, as well as a developing out paper copy by Haines of London of a 1905 Carter and Co. photograph (6 x 4.25-inches) of Jane, May, and Jenny Morris, with Ada Culmer. In addition, there is a reproduction of a photograph of Kelmscott manor. Includes three undated reproductions of portraits of female figures.

Maynard Miller was an African American Staff Sergeant with the 3540th and 3524th Quartermaster Truck Company, an African American company stationed in occupied Japan in 1946. Collection consists of a large photograph album, marked "property of Staff Sergeant Maynard Miller," containing approximately 200 photographs of African American soldiers in Tokyo and other locales in occupied Japan during 1946. Most of the photographs include captions with identification, nicknames, and commentary, including G.I. humor. Several photographs depict African American soldiers with Japanese girlfriends. Other images depict Army living quarters and equipment, clubs, Hirohito's palace, zoo animals, crowds on Japanese election day, and tourist destinations in and around Tokyo. Also included in the back of the album are carbon copies of two vividly eloquent typewritten letters complaining of discrimination -- one about Senator Bilbo and "the Negro problem" in Mississippi (1 p.) and another addressed to the Commanding General, Eighth Army, complaining of discriminatory practices barring African American soldiers from using the swimming pool (3 pp.). Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.

This collection includes a number of periodicals produced by different organizations interested in enabling and protecting a women's right to reproductive healthcare. The organizations are: the Mayo Clinic, the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and HealthyWomen. Accession (2009-0236) (300 items; 0.6 lin. ft.; dated 1989-2009) includes the following publications: Mayo Clinic Women's Health Resource (Mayo Clinic); Reproductive Freedom News (Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, now known as the Center for Reproductive Rights); Reproductive Rights Update (Reproductive Freedom Project); and the National Women's Health Report (National Women's Health Resource Center). Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Dr. Marmaduke M. Haworth was born 20 January 1823 in Guilford County, N.C., and died 23 March 1894 in Franklinville, Randolph County, N.C. He served the Franklinville area as a physician. He married Mary McMasters in 1852 and the couple had three children, Pandora, Viola, and Elizabeth. Collection comprises Haworth's medical diary and journal (approximately 156 pages), including his notes on treatment of physical ailments and on childbirth in the rural south before and after the Civil War. Haworth studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia; he recorded the purchase of this notebook at Auner's bookstore to be used for his medical notes during 1846-1847. At the beginning he listed the titles and prices for the medical reference books he purchased. He then recorded 30 pages of remedies and cures, and provided a 4-page manuscript index to this material bound in at the back of the volume. He also included notes on course instruction (at one point mentioning the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman). The balance of the volume is, however, a record of over 750 obstetric deliveries that Haworth accomplished during his career, some with full case histories. The organization of the notebook is somewhat confused because Haworth stitched in pages with notes written longitudinally among the original medical course lecture notes he retained. The obstetric entries date from 1846-1894; there are two clippings inserted, one dated 1908.

The University Program in Genetics and Genomics was founded in 1967 and serves as a primary training environment for students at Duke University interested in graduate Genetics and Genomics. This collection includes memoranda, correspondence, publicity material, printed matter and other records.

ALS. Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.

Includes Clippings, typescripts, newsletters, and flyers relating to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and to a presentation by Bob Moses in Long Beach, California on January 23, 1965. The papers were collected by Michael Miran, who was involved with SNCC in Long Beach. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.

ANS. Requests that addressee communicate information regarding veterinary schools directly to Lieut. Cabanis.

Milo A. Jewett was a physician, amateur photographer, and American consul in Turkey (Sivas, 1892-1905 and Trebizond, 1905-1911). Collection comprises 19 images of various locations in the northern provinces, including 18 mounted albumen photographs probably taken by Jewett, along with one published view of Sivas attributed to Franklin Eng Co, Boston. All but one of the images is captioned, and several photographs an additional information written on the back of the mount.

Woman's Journal was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870 to 1931. It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. Collection comprises a journal recording the meeting minutes of the stockholders and directors of the Woman's Journal in Boston, 21 February 1870 through 1897, with accounts in different hands. Also includes a volume of share certificates for the proprietors of the Woman's Journal, with stubs filled out, a few of the signed certificates still present, and blanks, dated 1911-1917.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of East Durham was a Quaker women's group based in Durham (Androscoggin Co.), Me. Collection comprises the East Durham unit's minute book that also features a membership list, along with four items sent as part of "circular letters" mailed from the national organization to each auxiliary.

Clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Rockingham, North Carolina. Sermons and other papers, relating to Biblical exegesis and theology, church missions, religious education, divorce, the Republican Party and the McKinley Tariff of 1890, and Theodore Parker.

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ALS. Report of a meeting of the College of Surgeons. English translation available.

2 ALS. Asks that recipient permit Lallemand, Olivier's former intern, to incorporate recipient's clinical notes and observations into his thesis for the Centre Neurologique at Montpellier.

Two letters and an autograph manuscript, signed, convey Roux's suspicions that the removal of Dr. Remlinger, the French head of the Constantinople branch of the Pasteur Institute, was due to German intrigue. There is also a note to M. Ernst Fritz Katz.

ALS. Sends Mr. Garcia a prescription; informs a prospective patient about consultation fees; writes of the release of his book, The fatal illness of Frederick the Noble; and declines an offer to contribute to the periodical, The ladies home journal.

Collection comprises a letter (1922 October 27) Morris Fishbein wrote to Dr. H. Sinclair Taite regarding the purchase and shipment of volumes of the Bulletin of the Society of Medical History of Chicago.

Scrapbook of Civil War-related clippings likely collected by a relative of Moses J. Solomons, a Jewish grocer and pharmacist from Savannah, Ga.

Methodist minister who preached in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Born in Salisbury, Mass., in 1830, to Jonathan Cilley and Abigail Fowler; married Sarah A. Eaton in 1849, and died after 1910. Collection comprises a volume, 250 pages, filled with handwritten religious essays (called themes or lectures, which are sometimes separated into chapters), on the topics of natural theology, theism, and creationism versus evolution. Whether the essays were written to support the author's theological studies, as material to be presented in convocations, or in response to the scientific revelations or debates of the time is unclear; however, a reader with initials "J.W.M" read, notated, and provided short comments on the contents. Cilley provided a few ink drawings, including a chart showing the geologic strata and time periods, as well as an image of the human heart. Many essays contain citations to theological writings of the period. Among the many philosophers and writers covered are Aristotle, Benedict Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, d'Alembart, Diderot, Voltaire, Alexander Pope, David Hume, Hugh Miller, and Enoch Pond.

Holograph document, signed. Receipt of payment by M. Panckoucke, probably Charles Joseph Panckoucke (1736-1798), for work on the Dictionnarie de chirurgie. ALS to Nicolas Dubois de Chemant, regarding personal financial and professional matters. Dubois de Chemant's wife adds a postscript.

ALS. A social letter.

A receipt written out by a Mr. Warner, recording the amount owed to a Dr. Thomas Miner for services rendered "to himself" during Oct. and Nov., 1861. Acquired by the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.

ALS. Claims that Townsend cannot have a grievance against him, since he has never met Townsend.

Collection comprises a single autograph manuscript note dated 1963 with a Paris return address from the conductor and composer Nadia Boulanger to her friend "R.I." Boulanger inquires after his recent illness and encourages him to carry on his work in the future. The note's recipient is likely the composer Robert Irving.

Nancy Lee Smith was an undergraduate student at Duke University from 1950-1954. The topics of her scrapbook include: social and academic life at Duke, women at Duke, dormitory housing, North Carolina Methodist Youth Fellowship, and Women's Student Government Association.

Nancy Watkins Sommers (1930-2018) attended Duke University's Woman's College and graduated with a Bachelor's in Music in 1952. Her scrapbook documents her first year at Duke University (1948-1949) and includes personal notes, invitations, newspaper clippings, and programs, particularly documenting her participation in the Duke Madrigals and her attendance and engagement with music, social gatherings, dances, and performance programs at Duke. Also includes materials from Goon Day, including her hairbow and sign, as well as some clippings from Oxford High School, her alma mater.

Holograph, signed. Deed of land purchase. Witnessed by Solomon Tracy and Benajah Bushnell. Acknowledged by Richard Bushnell, Justice of the Peace.

Letter (ALS) recommending Dr. Barrington for naval service, bearing a recommendation by William E. Horner; 2 letters (ALS) regarding a treatment for a stomach disorder; holograph notes, probably in Samuel Jackson's hand, regarding this treatment.

ALS relating to various personal and business matters.

ALS. Communicates Estwick Evans' request for blank writs and summons. A typed transcript is available.