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Box 1

 Container

Contains 22 Results:

John Leeds manuscript

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0506
Abstract

This collection consists of a single bound volume, which may be an original manuscript compiled by a working measurer. The approximate date is 1730. The manuscript consists of 155 leaves (310 pages). The text is occasionally illustrated with diagrams.

Dates: 1730

James Morrison Arnell journal

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0507
Abstract

This collection consists of a Journal of a tour through the middle and southern United States from December 7, 1822 to June 25, 1823. The journal is an account of the first large-scale missionary effort to convert American Jews to Christianity.

Dates: 1822 December 7 - 1823 June 25

Johann Schlatter manuscript

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0508
Abstract

This collection consists of a sketchbook of Johann Schlatter, a Munich architect, dating from 1832-1833. The manuscript charts Schlatter's travels in Munich and Athens.

Dates: 1832 - 1833

Louisa Hoffman diary

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0509
Abstract

Louisa Hoffman, daughter of Amuel Owings Hoffman and Louisa A. Gilmore, was born in Baltimore about 1831 and died on 4 January 1884. The collection consists of a Civil War diary of Louisa Hoffman, of Baltimore, Maryland, dated 1860-1862.

Dates: 1860 - 1862

African-American Emigration circular

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0510
Abstract

Collection consists of a printed circular from 1854 regarding American, particularly African-American, emigration to Australia. A manuscript letter written by Sir Roderick William Cameron is on the back page of the circular.

Dates: 1854

Slave Registration certificate

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0511
Abstract

This collection consists of a slave registration certificate issued on 24 March 1871 to Jacinto Texidor for his slave, Valentin, 51 years of age, born in Africa.

Dates: 1871 March 24

Guinilda Ethelia Mummey commonplace books

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0512
Abstract

The collection consists of two handwritten journals spanning the years 1825 to 1828. The journals belonged to Guinilda Ethelia Mummey, mother of author and editor Edward Spencer.

Dates: 1825-1828

German passport

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0516
Abstract

Collection consists of a German passport from 1840. Printed fields completed in longhand.

Dates: 1840

Assyrische Grammatik course notes

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0517
Abstract

Hermann Hugo Paul Haupt, a Semitic scholar and one of the pioneers of Assyriology in the United States, was born in 1858, in Gorlitz, Germany. This collection consists of one volume of handwritten course notes made during Haupt's summer studies in 1877.

Dates: 1877

Mary C. Calwell papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0518
Abstract

The collection consists of a folder of ephemera and a small commonplace book, which appears to have been a gift to Mary C. Calwell from Annie Wetherall dating from 1833-1850. It contains various poems and notes written by friends and family. The ephemera are primarily religious in nature.

Dates: 1833-1850