Full Title: Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist; Compiled from his own Diary, in the Possession of his Family, his Confidential Letters; the Communications of his Surviving Relatives and Friends; and Other Authentic Sources of Information. By James Baldwin Brown, Esq. LL.D of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. [...]
Full Title: Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl or Orford. Now First Collected. In Four Volumes. Vol. III. 1735-1756. London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, Bond-Street; and Colburn and Co., Conduit-Street. 1820.
To George Montagu, Esq.
Strawberry-hill, May 26, 1765.
If one of the one hundred events, and one hundredth part of the one hundred thousand reports that have [...]
Full Title: The Cambridge and Saybrook Platforms of Church Discipline, With the Confession of Faith of the New England Churches, Adopted in 1680; and the Heads of Agreement Assented to by the Presbyterians and Congregationalists in England in 1690. Illustrated with Historical Prefaces and Notes. Boston: T.R. Marvin, Printer, 32 Congress Street. 1829.
HISTORICAL PREFACE.
. . . On [...]
Full Title: The New-York Mirror, and Ladies’ Literary Gazette. Volume VII. Number 13. New-York, Saturday, October 3, 1829. Edited by George P. Morris, Volume VII. New York. Printed and Published at the corner of Nassau and Ann Streets.
Eighteenth-Century Heart Pendant
Happy Valentine’s Day
THE LOVER AND THE ECHO.
LOVER.
Why am I doom’d the pangs to prove
Of absence, [...]
Full Title: Manuscript travel diary of Richard Randall, leaving New York in 1822 on a voyage bound for Gibraltar, Malta and Sicily. 1822-1823.
[Richard Randall’s description of the Jews, Moors and Spaniards in Gibraltar, transcribed from his manuscript travel diary in which he recorded his impressions of his voyage to the Mediterranean in 1822 and 1823.]
As [...]
Full Title: Manuscript travel diary of Richard Randall, leaving New York in 1822 on a voyage bound for Gibraltar, Malta and Sicily. 1822-1823.
[The following is an excerpt taken from the beginning of Richard Randall’s 87 page handwritten travel diary. Randall left the port at New York in December of 1822 to embark on a voyage [...]
Full Title:
Memoirs of A Captivity Among Indians of North America, From Childhood to the Age of Nineteen: With Anecdotes Descriptive of Their Manners and Customs, To Which Is Added, Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory westward of the Mississippi.
Written by John Dunn Hunter. Printed in London by Longman, Hurst, [...]
Full Title:
An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibit, I. The origin, affinities and primary signification of English words, as far as they have been ascertained. II. The genuine orthography and pronunciation of words, according to general usage, or to just principles of analogy. III. Accurate and discriminating definitions, with numerous authorities and [...]
(Click on statement to enlarge.)An Albany court statement, 1766.
(Click on warrant to enlarge.)A New-York warrant, 1784.
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This passport was written for Richard Randall at the Consulate of the U.S. of America at Malta, and signed by Consul Joseph Pulis in 1823.
