Box 3

Scope and Contents Letter: Providence, R.I., to an unidentified correspondentALS. Writes to his correspondent regarding an agreement to be signed by several parties. "If their centiments [sic] differ from mine please to desire them to write & forward, as there may not be time to send up to me . . . You can adopt such parts of both as you may think best, the matter of the books we agreed on." In closing, sends his regards to several prominent Quakers, including William Wilson, Robert Walker,...

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Letter: Clifton, to Professor Campbell

ALS. Encourages Campbell to write original verse: "Come! out with the stuff! it is in you, or I am mistaken." Mentions that lately he has been reading Ben Jonson and Forbes's Life of Beattie, and also that his Fo'c'sle Yarns are going into a second edition.

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Letter: Farewell County, Ill. to Jeremiah Brown, Jr., Lancaster County, Pa.
1 item (3 p. on double sheet) ; 32 x 41 cm folded to 32 x 21 cm

ALS. To his cousin back in Lancaster County, Brown describes his life as a new settler in Illinois, his fellow settlers, clearing his land, setting up a shop, as well as the weather and the natural surroundings.

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Letters: New York, to Mr. [J.M.] Stoddart

3 ALsS. Browne writes of several stories he has submitted to Stoddart's Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for publication. In the last letter, Browne congratulates Stoddart "and myself as well--on the publication, after eight years, of the second part" of his story Heroines of the Human Comedy. "Unflinching perseverance will, it appears, finally get an article . . . into Lippincott's Magazine, even though written by J.H.B."

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Letter: Calais, to unknown correspondent

ALS. Gossipy letter from the famous English dandy. "I believe . . . it is [Lord Harrowby's] intention to stand for the vacant pontifical chair, the Pope having just ascended to the bosom of St. Peter, provided Lady Harrowby will assist his installation by the loan of the faded purple pelisse in which she landed here."

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Minutes: of meetings

AD. Minutes of meetings held at Samuel Austin's house. Present were Anthony Morris, Charles Batho, John Coates, Henry Drinker, Thomas Say, Samuel Morris, Isaac Levy, Daniel Benezet, Joseph Morris, Benjamin Koster, and Isaac Coates.

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Letter: Norwich, to "Hon. Jus. A. Briggs."

ALS. "And now my dear friend as you wish me to give your respects to Mrs. Buckingham I am compelled to say that I must wait until God wills me to meet her in another life, whither He called her on the 19th of last month . . . the life and light of my dwelling was removed but blessed be God for the hope and confidence which He gives that she will continue in the light of His favor."

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Indenture: Labeled indenture. Real estate/rental contract. ADS.

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Poem

AMsS. Fair copy of four lines of Bunner's poem Off With Your Hat as the Flag Goes By beginning "The old tune thunders through all the air."

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Letter: Milton, to Nancy Burgess

ALS. Letter discusses health of family and friends as well as other town matters.