Washington, George, 1732-1799
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1732 - 1799
biographical statement
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Francis Lieber papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0071
Abstract
Francis Lieber was a publicist, educator, and political philosopher born in Berlin on March 18, 1800. The Lieber Papers span the years from 1829 to 1873 and include correspondence; interleaved copies of Lieber's books; a small number of original manuscripts; printed speeches, lectures, articles and poems; administrative materials, printed briefs and manuscript decisions for the United States and Mexican Claims Commission (1868-1872).
Dates:
1829-1873
Found in:
Special Collections
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Francis Lieber papers
Miscellaneous manuscripts collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0034
Abstract
This is a collection of single item manuscripts or small groupings of materials, 1730s-1983 and undated. This collection includes signatures of Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson; letters from Jefferson Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gustave Flaubert, James Madison, James Monroe, George Moore, Edgar Allen Poe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Roger Brooke Taney, Queen Victoria, George Washington, and Woodrow Wilson. There are photostats...
Dates:
1730s-1983 and undated
Thirty Six Essays/Sermons by Robert Gray
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0708
Abstract
Copied from dealer description: The essays themselves are extremely well written displaying an impressive command of the English language; the idealistic nature of the essays strongly suggests the
supposition that Gray was a minister and used these essays as the basis for weekly
sermons. The range of subject matter is equally impressive; Gray moves effortlessly
from a celebration of the life of George Washington to an Emersonian-like appreciation
of Nature: "There is a visible consonance in...
Dates:
circa 1860
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- Constitutional law 1
- Copyright, International. 1
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- Educators 1
- History 1
- Intellectual life 1
- International relations 1
- Law 1
- Liberalism 1
- Logic 1
- Mexican War (1846-1848) 1
- Mexico 1
- Nature 1
- Penal colonies 1
- Political ethics 1
- Political science 1
- Political scientists 1
- Prison discipline 1
- Prisons 1
- Property 1
- Sermons 1
- United States 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
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