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Letter: Finchley Common, to Mr. Webster

ALS. Probably to a potential patron, Cruikshank writes, in the third person, that he would be "extremely happy to illustrate any little 'hobbies' Mr. Webster may have, but can give no correct idea about price . . . The 'Mornings at Bow St.' would be no criterion."

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Manuscript: Preface, n.d.

AMsS. "Delineations, Or Origin, Education, Profession, Public Transactions, Literary Distinction, Pecuniary Circumstances, and in some instances, Personal Apearance of the Members of Congress; Heads of Departments; Associate and District Judges; and of Distinguished Characters in the United States, By a Gentleman of Massachusetts."

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Letter: Washington, D.C., to McClintock Young, Treasury

ALS. "The Secretary gave me some encouragement to believe that . . . I might have a Treasury Note for the enclosed requisition. Having done all I could to give the department authority to issue Notes, I hope, now, that I may [be] gratified."

Scope and Contents Letter: Burlington, N.J., to Amzi Dodd, 1823-1913, Newark, N.J.ALS. Cuyler writes to a college friend about friends and acquaintances, especially those who are pastors. "I heard a superb sermon from Addison lately at Green's installation in Philadelphia. The next day Dr. Cox let off his broadside at the opening of the New School Assembly . . . Cox must be a great man in order to live above his perpetual indiscretions and absurdities." Cuyler also mentions news he has heard from...

Scope and Contents Letter: London, "to the Editor of the Examiner" [Leigh Hunt]ALS. Sends an extract from Blackwood's Magazine regarding "your friend Shelley." D***n**n rails against the negative review of Prometheus Unbound: "Where was [Blackwood's] intelligence or common sense when he suffered a driveller such as this to come in contact with the mind of Percy Shelley? . . . It requires more than Blackwood's shallow reviewer will ever possess, to see the depth, the philosophy, the mightiness of...

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Musical score: Fly not yet, ye jovial souls, to Edward Shippen, Philadelphia, Pa.; n.d.

AMs. 4-page musical score with lyrics and cover note stating: "Bacchanalian Song composed and Dedicated in token of high consideration and Esteem."

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Letter: to "Sir"

ALS. Concerns his repeated efforts to obtain "a Statement of the kinds of debts that have been redeemed under the late Act." "There is no description of the different species of debts that have been subscribed to the United States and transferred to Pennsylvania." Unless he receives such a report he is prepared to "let the consequence fall where it ought."

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Check

DS. Drawn on the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa. Pasted on stock paper.

Scope and Contents Letter: to Mr. Henry Hall, n.d.ALS. Letter starts out "Dear common room, by the great Jupiter Serapis, by all the Eagles, Vultures, Lions, Tygers, Alligators, Crocodiles, Rhinoceroses, Elephants and Hippopotami in our World, & by all the wild . . . beasts in every other Planet, by all the Hooded Snakes in all the caverns of all the worlds that belong to all the Suns, which form the Galaxy and by the great fin of the largest Shark, the left eye of the hugest Whale and the...

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Letter: Saint Albans, to Mssrs. Burgess, Milton

ALS. "Your favor is received,--I did not intend to reproach you for remissness--"