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1772/03/20
Pittman, Philip
re: his book and asking recipient to forward books from Madras India
GLC04344.02
24 December 1782
Adams, John (1735-1826)
to Charles W. F. Dumas re: need to conclude a peace treaty (treaty of Paris)
Written as American Peace Commissioner in Paris. Dumas served as an American agent in the Hague. Requests a copy of G. Pownal's Pensees sur la Revolution &c. Adams writes "We cannot say whether we are to have Peace or not. I wish the definitive...
GLC03296
1776
Simes, Thomas
New military, historical & explanatory dictionary
GLC03449
1773
Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Poems written by the "Negro Servant" of John Wheatley of Boston. Printed at London by A. Bell and sold in Boston by Cox and Berry. First edition copy. The first book of poetry by an African American. Bound in nineteenth century vellum, with...
GLC06154
26 August 1780
Dundas, David, Sir, Bart (1749-1826)
to James Dundas
Discusses sending his ill wife away to convalesce, referencing an essay by Montaigne in which he mentions being fonder of his wife after they have been apart. She will be "Sea Bathing, which I believe to be the most powerful restorative we have."...
GLC02549.13
24 May 1781
Mentions the marriage of D. Erskine and the parliamentary elections. Describes his first visit to the opera, which he detested. Compares listening to songs in foreign languages (he does not understand) to "those poor bigots who say their prayers in...
GLC02549.17
11 December 1780
to James Dundas [fragment]
Discusses his wife Isabella's bathing in the sea for health reasons, describing the Russian practice. Notes that James became corpulent and compares him to "Sir. J: Falstaff." Gives news of various old friends, including one currently in India....
GLC02549.59
1778/01/24
Wilkie, J. (fl. 1757-1823)
The London chronicle. [Vol. 43, no. 3298 (January 24, 1778)]
Contains new of the Revolutionary War, debates in the House of Commons, the House of Lords, literary essays, and local London news.
GLC08690
24 March 1782
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
To Francois Barbede Marbois
The delay in transmitting to Marbois letters containing his notes on the State of Virginia. Jefferson states that he: "...was obliged by the movements of the enemy to retire from my house at the same time, to which I did not return till the month of...
GLC08029
May 1765
Duche, Jacob (fl. 1765)
"Amicus Pennsylvaniae"
"Amicus Pennsylvaniae." Manuscript of Duche's blank-verse history of the colony of Pennsyvania (published by Franklin & Hall, 1766), here entitled "an attempt (by way of amusement) to sketch out some of the particulars." Content includs William...
GLC08123
1770
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Sixth edition, printed by J. Dodsley in London. Signed on the title page by James Wilson and Bird Wilson. This was an influential eighteenth century English tract on aesthetics.
GLC07322
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