Box 39

Found in Painter library adjacent to handmade (empty) volume entitled "M. Painter's Portfolio." Ms account of the fence dispute that began in 1839 and eventually went to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. See Series 4, Legal papers and Financial Papers, for documentation.

Probably the Painters' schema for organizing knowledge, with some miscellaneous notes,

Packaged with Jacob's opus on Grammar and Language in the Tyler's library, these extensive notes concern organizing a wide sphere of interests

Writings on a variety of topics including language, photography, and a diagram of his "Cycle of Thought," an attempt to organize knowledge scientifically. The Cycle of Thought, by Rustic, was privately published in 1866. In an essay he describes his reflections on organizing areas of knowledge into a unity.

Ms. on an organization of spheres of knowledge

Two small notebooks with a variety of notes, genealogical, etc. Drafts for a constitution for the Delaware County Rural Institute and other topics

Miscellaneous subjects, scraps, including his thoughts on women.

Fragments of essays, etc., including one on topic of Society of Friends

A political lampoon on William Cobbett, published in Philadelphia