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Alexandre Dumas handwritten note to François Buloz

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-0733

Abstract Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895) was a French writer and dramatist, best known for Camille (a.k.a. The Lady of the...

Dates: undated, 1894

Found in: Special Collections

American and European women performers carte de visite album

Collection — Container: 1

Identifier: MS-0969

Content Description An album of 50 carte de visite photographs of women actresses, opera singers, and performers, many in costume, photographed by New York and Parisian photographers. Some photographs have been hand-colored. The album was gifted to Henry Rutgers Prime by M. and F. Love. Identified performers include: Adah Isaacs Menken, Clara Louise Kellogg, Emilie Melville, Henrietta Baker Chanfrau, Maude Granger, Nathalie Dumas, Betty Regal, Fannie Partridge, Addie Harland, Rose Massey, Lydia Thompson, Maria...

Dates: circa 1865

Found in: Special Collections

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-0005

Abstract Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (October 23, 1831 – January 9, 1924), was a "classicist and Confederate apologist" (David Lupher and Elizabeth Vandiver, "Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition," 320), and one of the first faculty members hired at the founding of Johns Hopkins University in 1876. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, biographic data, diaries, notes, notebooks, drafts, published and unpublished...

Dates: 1820-1953; Majority of material found in 1847-1924

Found in: Special Collections

Chez Marcilly Napoleonic era metal-bound appointment book

Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Identifier: MS-0861

Abstract

This collection consists of one Napoleonic era mother-of-pearl and gilded metal bound monthly appointment book, published in approximately 1810 by Chez Marcilly in Paris. It includes one metal writing instrument, and is ornately decorated. No biographical data is available on the creator.

Dates: approximately 1810

Found in: Special Collections

Clermont-Tonnerre letters

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-0362

Abstract

The collection is formed by 13 letters written in French, 1832-1836, as well as their analysis by Dr. François Velde, who discovered the letters in 1993. The letters are part of the correspondence of the Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, a minister in the French government of Charles X, and Marie-Caroline, duchesse de Berry, daughter-in-law of King Charles X.

Dates: 1832-1836

Found in: Special Collections

Copies of letters and papers concerning the "Affaire Carrouges," a Surrealist controversy also called the "Affaire Pastoureau"

Collection

Identifier: MS-0808

Abstract

This collection contains copies of seven documents created in the 1950s concerning the Surrealist turmoil originating from the ‘Affaire Carrouges’. In 1951, a conflict between Surrealists Henri Pastoureau and Michel Carrouges due to a disagreement about religion resulted in the fracturing of the French Surrealist movement for three months. There is representation from both sides of the conflict in this collection.

Dates: 1950s

Found in: Special Collections

Correspondance adressee a Berthe Schuster, marraine de guerre [Correspondence addressed to Berthe Schuster, war godmother]

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-0736

Abstract Starting in the spring of 1915, during World War I, some women in unoccupied France volunteered for the role of "war godmothers," marraines de guerre. To provide the moral support these men, so-called "war orphans," could not receive from their families, women in unoccupied areas became their pen pals. Berthe Schuster was one of these war godmothers and lived during the war on 51 Malakoff Avenue in Paris. This collection includes 124 pieces of correspondence, including illustrated letters,...

Dates: 1912 - 1919

Found in: Special Collections

"Cryptographe ou cachet-scellé de Victor Chevalier" cryptography kit

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-0952

Content Description A portable cryptography kit for writing private letters titled "Cryptographe ou cachet-scellé de Victor Chevalier" or "Cryptograph or seal-stamp of Victor Chevalier," manufactured in Paris in 1844. The set consists of a wooden lacquered box with tools, four decorated cardboard boxes lined with embossed gold and silver paper with numerous metal pieces and a mechanical device to apply these pieces to envelopes. Also inclucded are a piece of sealing wax and a seal, a vial with blue powdery...

Dates: 1844

Found in: Special Collections

David Simon Blondheim essay

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-0352

Abstract

This collection onsists of a 1922 essay by Johns Hopkins University philologist David S. Blondheim, titled "Eassai d'un Vocabulaire Comparatif des Parlers Romans des Juifs au Moyen Age."

Dates: 1922

Found in: Special Collections

Dreyfus Affair photograph album

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-0870

Abstract

This collection consists of an album of photographs relating to the Dreyfus Affair. The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal that divided France at the turn of the twentieth century, wherein Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish descent, was convicted for treason on uncertain grounds.

Dates: approximately 1899

Found in: Special Collections

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Alexandre Dumas handwritten note to François Buloz

American and European women performers carte de visite album

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers

Chez Marcilly Napoleonic era metal-bound appointment book

Clermont-Tonnerre letters

Copies of letters and papers concerning the "Affaire Carrouges," a Surrealist controversy also called the "Affaire Pastoureau"

Correspondance adressee a Berthe Schuster, marraine de guerre [Correspondence addressed to Berthe Schuster, war godmother]

"Cryptographe ou cachet-scellé de Victor Chevalier" cryptography kit

David Simon Blondheim essay

Dreyfus Affair photograph album

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