Individually catalogued manuscripts, 1591-2005

Scope and Contents: Collection consists of letters by and to Langworthy family members. The primary correspondents are George Washington Langworthy, Sr.; George Washington Langworthy, Jr.; and Lyman Perkins Langworthy to Abigal Jones (nee Langworthy). Letters detail business dealings and events related to life in Greene County, Indiana. Merchant G. W. (George Washington) Langworthy (1816-1893) was born in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York. He became a merchant in Worthington in Greene County, Indiana, becoming a dealer in dry goods, clothing and carpets.

Biographical / Historical: Merchant G. W. (George Washington) Langworthy (1816-1893) was born in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York. He became a merchant in Worthington in Greene County, Indiana, becoming a dealer in dry goods, clothing and carpets.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2010

Preferred Citation: Langworthy family letters, 1874-1885, Individually Catalogued Manuscripts mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11179118

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Scope and Contents: Miniature shorthand manuscript of the Old and New Testament, in hand of Abraham Bassano, 1655. "The Old & New Testament ... after Sheltons first short hand Book"--P. [1]. Ruled in red. Bound in brown leather, with gilt decorations, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2013

Preferred Citation: Miniature shorthand Bible - Abraham Bassano, Individually Catalogued Manuscripts mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/13541029

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Scope and Contents: A bound German language holograph collection of personal reflections on faith and other religious themes such as prayer, confession and baptism. 1863 marked the 300th anniversary of the formation and adoption of the Heidelberg Catechism which was celebrated in both Europe and America. This appears to be a personal reflection in response to the tercentenary celebrations. Bound in pebbled green cloth, with gilt lettering on front cover, gilt edges.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2010

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9968646

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Scope and Contents: The Summer 2009 issue of The Latta genealogy newsletter, which is published approximatedly three times a year. The bulk of the newsletter is dedicated to accounts of individual family members oral history accounts, family anecdotes, reproductions of photographs and corresponence, and a newspaper article transcription. Individuals so described in this issue include James T. Latta, John Donald Latta, and Frank Latta. Additionally, the newsletter publishes the family trees and related anecdotes of two branches of the family (Branch 18 and 27) and notes and queries related to the Latta family. It includes reports, the budget, and other material related to the Latta Genealogy Society, the non-profit organization that funds the newsletter and Latta family research, and its administration.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

Preferred Citation: Latta genealogy newsletter, Issue 38, Individually Catalogued Manuscripts mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11653048

Conditions Governing Access: This collection is open for research.

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Scope and Contents: Collection consists of letters by and to Langworthy family members. The primary correspondents are George Washington Langworthy, Sr.; George Washington Langworthy, Jr.; and Lyman Perkins Langworthy to Abigal Jones (nee Langworthy). Letters detail business dealings and events related to life in Greene County, Indiana.

Biographical / Historical: Merchant G. W. (George Washington) Langworthy (1816-1893) was born in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York. He became a merchant in Worthington in Greene County, Indiana, becoming a dealer in dry goods, clothing and carpets.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2010

Preferred Citation: Langworthy Family Letters, Individually Catalogued Manuscripts mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11179118

Conditions Governing Access: This collection is open for research.

Many collections are housed offsite; retrieval requires advance notice. Please make an appointment a minimum of one week in advance of your visit.

Scope and Contents: Collection consists of Vivat-Bänder. These strips of silk, which derive their name from the Latin fama semper vivat ("may his fame last forever") and Bänder (German, "ribbons"), were printed at the suggestion of a physician as a fundraiser for military medical aid. The examples shown in this collection, produced by a select group of artists, depict significant victories and generals as well as members of the imperial families. With this collection there is also a publisher's printed description with an English translation.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2007

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11667483

Scope and Contents: Collection consists of two postcard albums from soldier Josef Held to his family in Munich. The postcards were sent from the field in Poland and Russia during from 20 June 1916 to 10 August 1918.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/12083795

Scope and Contents: One drawing illustrating life in Ruhleben Camp. An individual in the foreground is carrying a large box full of food, and in the background undifferientiated individuals queue before an office. Signed in corner: FW. Ruhleben Prisoner of War Camp was a civilian detention camp in Ruhleben, Germany during World War I. The majority of the prisoners were British, and many of them were taken prisoner because they were in Germany due to travel, school, or work at the outbreak of World War I. The prisoners largely administered their own internal affairs, and they had active art, theater, music, and sports groups.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2007

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11767878

Scope and Contents: Map depicting the movements of the 32nd General Hospital throughout World War II. Events, places, and people are illustrated with small etchings. "Showing locations, dates and routes of travel beginning with commission ceremony at Indiana University School of Medicine and terminating with demobilization of troops at Camp Atterbury." The 32nd General Hospital was an Army hospital unit organized by doctors and nurses at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The doctors and nurses were officially inducted into the Army on May 13, 1942, and the unit was activated on January 15, 1943 in Texas. Many of the doctors, nurses, and dentists hailed from Indiana, although the enlisted personnel in the unit were from across the United States. They were stationed in England from September 1943 to May 1944, and then they were transferred to France. The 32nd General Hospital was the first Allied general hospital in France after D-Day, and they were stationed in Normany between August and November 1944. In November, they were placed on inactive status and transferred to Belgium; subsequently, it was reactivated and stationed in Germany between March and July 1945. The hospital closed on July 30, 1945, and during that summer and fall of 1945 unit personnel made their way back to the United States. The 32nd General Hospital was official deactivated in October 1945. Map was owned by Crystal Halstead (1911-2006) of Muncie, IN. Halstead was a nurse in the nursing corps during WWII.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11667616

Scope and Contents: Four typed transcriptions of diaries of the Loewenberg family; the bulk of the diaries describe life in Germany during and after the Nazi regime and World War II. The first diary, a computer printout (ca. 1970s), is titled Homeless in exile : days of persecution in fall and winter, 1938-39. It is by Harry Richard Loewenberg, written at the behest of his daughter, Barbara, and chronicles his life in 1930s Germany and emigration from Germany to England. Barbara's historical annotations about the fate of individuals and events after her father's return to Germany are incorporated into the typescript. The second, third, and fourth diaries, all ca. 1970s, are photocopies of typed transcriptions. The second diary is written by Peter Christian Loewenberg and is addressed to his own sons. It recounts his life in Germany throughout the war and in its immediate aftermath, including working under the Organisation Todt and the British army. The third diary, largely from Peter Christian's point of view with one section narrated by his wife, Irma, describes life in Germany after the war, emigration from Germany to the United States, and the first days of their lives in Connecticut. The fourth diary consists of anecdotes about Peter Christian's experiences as a practising physician, both in Germany and in Connecticut.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11767899

Scope and Contents: Lilly Library copy is grangerized by the addition of twenty-four autographed letters, six photographs, and three engravings. The former owner who grangerized these volumes is not known, but a number of letters are addressed to Charles Oliver and several letters in the collection are addressed to "Cousin Charles" and are signed by a "Cousin Lucy," one of which reads: "your affec. cousin, Lucy Oliver."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2007

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8444759

Scope and Contents: Black and white travel photographs with dates and/or location information written or typed on the verso of each of the photos. The photos chronicle Masaryk's travels from Southern France (visiting such cities as Aix-en-Provence, Nîmes, Arles) to Egypt (visiting such cities as Luxor, Cairo, Alexandria, Giza). Among the photos of Egypt are several of archaeologist Howard Carter (taken with President Masaryk) on the site of the Tutankhamun excavation ("Tut-Anch-Ammonova") and several of British Egyptologist, Cecil Mallaby Firth (taken at "Sakkâra u Kahýry"). The photos of Jerusalem feature historic sites and cities such as Bethlehem, the Milk Cave, Nazareth, the Dead Sea, and the Mount of Olives. Other photos document Masaryk's stops in Jordan, Palestine, and Greece (pictures includes Athens, Delphi, Corinth, Mycenae, Epidaurus, Thyrins, Corinth, and Olympia). The photos in this collection are dated from March 11 to April 29, 1927.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2008.0

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8591245

Scope and Contents: Autograph diary written in de la Reyniere's hand in brown ink; each page with entries for between four and seven days. Written in Paris and Montmélian: 1 July 1794 to 1 April 1795. The diary is started during the Terror, just before the fall of Robespierre in July 1794. The diary covers a particularly significant period in de la Reyniere's life, just after the death of his father, the arrest of his mother by revolutionary forces, and his return to Paris after an absence of some years. The diary foreshadows his future as an influential food and restaurant critic and writer, a genre he founded and formed with his contemporary Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826). The diary provides insights into the core of Parisian society and the contemporary world of the revolutionary period. The diary entries reference visits to the Palais Royal, where Grimod and his group ate, socialized and dined at the Cafe de Chartres (today known as Le Grand Véfour). Also mentioned are promanades across the Pont Neuf, in the rue Montmartre, the Tuileries, the Champs-Élysées, and other Right Bank locales.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2014

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/14014207

Scope and Contents: Manuscript copy of A Letter written by Denzil Holles (see Wing H2462), copied in 1688 by an unknown person: "London, coy'ed [sic] out AD: 1688."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2011

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9968678

Scope and Contents: Manuscript leaf in medieval Catalan from Maria of Castile authorizing Johan de Masquillem, Court Treasurer, to pay thirty gold florins to pere de Vallseca. Vallseca (probably Eduardo de Vallseca) was a faithful player of stringed instruments or harp of the King's palace and was granted the money for the diverse services which he has performed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11551238

Scope and Contents: An alphabetical list of name of prisoners held in Fort St. Felipe. The handwritten list covers both sides of the sheet, lists alphabetically 95 names of men taken prisoner at the fort St. Felipe. The lists begins with Don Antonio Reverte and Don Ricardo Montero. There are pencil annotations on the list; the names are in a copperplate hand and listed alphabetically with the most distinguished of the prisoners listed first. It is unclear whether this list is related to the Seven Years' War.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10981741

Scope and Contents: Consists of a manuscript travel journal, with the cover tilte "Meine Schweizer Reise, 1895," containing an account of 70 days of travel to and in Switzerland, in narrative form, illustrated with original photographs and printed illustrations, and embellished with original botanical specimens including a rare Edelweiss flower. Text is in German and contains 60 photographic illustations, 3 of which are in color, 9 of which are flanked with authentic flora. Illustrations vary in size from 3 x 4 cm to 9 x 23 cm. The journal documents a trip from Gera on 16 September 1895 through Heidelburg, then to Konstanz before going on to Lucern where the traveler has placed a rare Edelweiss flower and pictures of the area. Continuing to travel through Bern, Interlaken, Ouchy, Montreux, Vernuyaz, and Chamonix in Switzerland. Then the traveler moved to Martigny in France and then to Geneva in Switzerland, where the traveler stays for 17 days before moving to Neuchâtel, Colmar in France and Frankfurt am Main in Germany before returning to Gera.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2013

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/12544256

Scope and Contents: Long holograph letter (3 leaves ([12] full pages)) signed, to Mrs. Malcolm, reporting on her visit to Japan ("this extraordinary country"), describing her journey from Nagasaki to Kobe, but mainly discussing Kobe itself. Lady Baker (née von Sass) was probably born in a German-speaking region of Hungary, although her early life is shrouded in mystery. She was made a refugee in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and afterwards kidnapped by the Ottomans and raised in a harem. In 1859 she was offered for sale in a market of enslaved people in Widden on the Danube. There she was acquired by the explorer Samuel (later Sir Samuel) Baker (1821-1893), later to be famous for his African adventures, notably a failed attempt to discover the source of the Nile (1862-1865) and a four-year stint as commander of the khedive of Egypt's expedition to annex territory and abolish the slave trade south of Gondokoro (1869-1873). Lady Baker accompanied her husband on all of his travels; they embarked on a world tour in 1880-1881.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8095085

Scope and Contents: A manuscript copy of Lowe's war report to the Secretary of War. It covers his complete service as the Chief Aeronaut of the Union Army Balloon Corps (1861-1863), incorporating letters to Lowe from various generals, letters to Lowe from members of the Balloon Corps, and reports by Lowe. In several different secretarial hands, with additions, deletions, and corrections. Lowe's manuscript notes and signature are scattered throughout.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11683773

Scope and Contents: Items related to William H. Carroll's service in the 24th Indiana Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, including a manuscript diary, his 1863 discharge form, and copies of National Archives records relating to his 1865 disability discharge and pension. [1] Carroll's diary is a daily account of his life in the 24th Indiana Infantry Regiment between March 16, 1863 and December 18, 1863. It includes his account of the Battle of Port Gibson on May 1, 1863, the Vicksburg Campaign and the Siege of Vicksburg, and the Siege of Jackson. In the back of the diary Carroll kept an account of his clothing and supplies. At the beginning and end of the volume are penciled accounts, many unlabelled and others related to crops and farming, and manuscript notes, all presumably from a later date. [2] The discharge paper of William H. Carroll, dated 31 December 1863, at Algiers, Lousiana "by reason of Reenlistment as Veteran under G[eneral] O[rder] 191 Series of 1863 War Dept". [3] A photocopy of a transcribed family letter about the Carroll family in the nineteenth century ([2] p.). [4] Photocopies of research material related to the 24th Indiana Infantry Regiment ([4] p.). [5] Copies of Carroll's pension records from the National Archives (1863-1891), which include affadavits concerning his disability discharge and his widow's attempts to claim his pension ([28] p.). [6] Twenty original photographs, including a tintype, of individuals from the Carroll family in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; no. 8 is tentatively identified as William H. Carroll.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11653004

Scope and Contents: Collection includes six items: [1]. Capt. Addison Lee Ewing's handwritten diary (106 p.), dated Feb. 1864-Apr. 1865, with lengthy and detailed entries of his experiences during the Civil War. The diary entries include Ewing's experiences as Commander of Company I, 63rd Indiana Regiment, of the battles they go through, of events (such as attending a "Negro dance"), of the end of the war, and of the death of President Lincoln. Ewing goes to see Lincoln's corpse in the East Room of the White House, and then goes to the funeral, viewing Lincoln's body at the Rotunda of the Capitol. Finally, and just before he leaves the Army and goes home, Ewing is invited by Indiana Governor Morton to pay their respects to President Andrew Johnson. [2]. Included also is a typed transcription (303 leaves ; 29 cm.) of several of Capt. Ewing's diaries, including the one in this collection, dated from Feb. 3, 1862 to Apr. 29, 1865. [3]-[4] Two documents showing his promotions to 1st Sergeant (dated 17 July 1862; 25 x 39 cm.), then to 2nd Lieutenant (dated 2 Oct. 1862; 35 x 26 cm.). [5]-[6] Finally, included is a miniature tintype photo in a gold-tone frame (as well as a print of the picture on photo paper, measuring 90 x 65 mm.) of Capt. Ewing.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8760799

Scope and Contents: Typed letter (1 folded leaf ([2] p.)) signed, from President Woodrow Wilson to Indiana Senator John W. Kern, Sept. 30, 1914, regarding Wilson's opinions about the reelection of Indiana Senator Benjamin F. Shively.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10981826

Scope and Contents: "The text of the patent refers to a new and improved "Compass" that is "intended to facilitate calculation of oblique-angled trigonometry and finding the area of triangles." This codex begins with James but 10 years old, as he begins arithmetic instruction under Mr Tilford. The volume continues with Lilley's voluminous notes for the next seven years, covering a number of mathematical topics, from Subtraction, Dry Measure, Apothecaries Weight, Compound Division, Of Rebate or Discount, Inverse Proportion, A General Rule for Extracting the Roots of All Powers, Promiscuous Questions, etc. This is followed by a 2II ledger for Lancaster Schoolhouse, then a 5ll ledger for Surry Farm, then a 10ll general ledger. Next are 4ll recording family births & deaths beginning with John Lilley [b. 1772] to James Campbell Lilley [d. 1901 (some later entries obviously recorded in a different hand)]. Next are Lilley"s 6 leaves of pen trials, with the repetition (21x, in this instance) of such phrases as "Contention and Strife make uneasy our life James Lilley 1820." The volume concludes with 43II of geometry & land survey problems, cases, etc, dated 1823-1824. A fascinating, unique primary source documenting this individual's mathematical schooling [including current thought & practice], as well as local county history & family genealogy." -- Bookseller's description.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2015

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/15229880

Scope and Contents: Holograph letter (1 sheet ([4] p.)) signed, written by Parke County resident H. H. Durham to his future wife, Susannah Newlin, written in response to a letter of Nov. 21th 1852. It contains news of people and activities in Park County, Indiana at the time.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2009.0

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10981723

Scope and Contents: Cataloger supplied title. The collection consists of 8-10 different sets of Persian playing cards ranging in date from ca. 1850-ca. 1950. Several of the cards (ca. 1850-1900) include portraits of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar. Some of the cards display the rather typical Qajar "farangi" style (i.e., a fascination with European subjects such as women in décolleté). One card is tooled leather (or imitation leather) on wood. Description based in part on information from Christiane Gruber, professor of Islamic Art, Department of the History of Art, Indiana University, 10/07/09. Âs Nas is the game from which poker may have developed, and its earliest record dates back to 17th century Persia (see "Cards Without Traditional Suits, Âs Nas, https://web.archive.org/web/20090221095236/http://playingcards.freewebpages.org/cards79.htm). The majority of the cards bear hand-painted images such as the Sarbaz (the soldier), the Padishah (the king), the Bibi (the queen), animals, and flowers. Accompanied by a hinged red vinyl covered wooden box (ca. 1950?). In the lid of the box is a lacquered panel (6 x 23 cm.) illustrating a hunter, two Caspian tigers, three hares, and three gazelles.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2008

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8521513

Scope and Contents: Autographed letter, dated June 1896 in New York, from Sam Loyd to Mr. Raynor opining that Raynor's puzzle would not succeed because it is too similiar to previous puzzles, specifically the "15 Block puzzle" for which Loyd claimed credit. Loyd talks at length about what makes a new puzzle successful and marketable, and he gives advice on how one should enter the puzzle trade.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2010.0

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11344520

Scope and Contents: 19th century bound collection of 40 hand-drawn and illustrated (in black, white and greys) picture problems and 11 problem figure outlines. Images include people, buildings, and architectural adornments. The leaves are hand numbered (leaves 45-48 are blank); the only other writing in the volume appear on the recto of the front free endpaper (former owner's mark, "Wotton, 17 Cavendish Sqre"), recto of the front free endpaper ("Edee"(?)), leaf 32 ("fish woman"), and leaf 44 ("tea pot"). The former owner could be Henry Rendell Wotton. The Calendar of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1874, lists a H. Rendell Wotton, residing at 17 Cavendish Square, London, as a member (a Fellow since Feb. 14, 1856). Henry Rendell Wotton, surgeon, is listed as a resident of 17 Cavendish Square in Boyle's Fashonable Court and Country Guide, and Town Visiting Directory Corrected for 1857. A pencil sketch of a man in 19th century dress (a double breasted overcoat) is drawn on the verso of leaf 46; a sketch of a man's face appears at the top left-hand corner of leaf 8.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2010

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9849422

Scope and Contents: Unique and unpublished late 18th century (ca. 1780 per dealer's description) cryptographic manuscript, with 15 handwritten pages of undeciphered code in the form of fractions, numerals and slash-marks. The manuscript's initial lines of code, which are shorter and centered on the page, suggest a title or attribution; these are followed by nearly 200 lines of encrypted text, which is divided into sections with alphabetical headings. The encrypted pages are for the most part interleaved with blanks, suggesting that the author may have intended the encrypted text to be decoded. Also included at the back of the volume are two additional, unrelated encrypted texts, both of which are signed and dated to the 19th century. The first is a lengthy series of mathematical exercises (143 p.) involving fractions signed, "Christophorus Althaus Münster 1817"; and the second a transcription of five German poems (7 p.), entitled, "Carmina diversa ex optimis poetis exce[r]pta" and dated 1867. Includes numerous blank leaves as well.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2010

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9095201

Scope and Contents: Consists of a manuscript book of tangram puzzle solutions, written by a school teacher from Bartholfelde as a gift for Ernst August, Crown Prince of Hanover. The text is in German cursive, known as Kurrent or Alte Deutsche Schrift. Thirty-one leaves of the volume have handwritten text and tangram puzzle solutions. The solutions have short descriptions of the solutions accompanying them.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2012.0

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/12429950

Scope and Contents: An album presented to W. J. Wetenhall, the outgoing Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society of London, by H. R. Sharman, the Society's secretary. The album covers the activities of the Society for 1876, the year Wetenhall was Chairman of the Society. After the initial introductory material about Wetenhall, including a brief biography and portrait, and the Society, the album has six groupings of material: Home Counties League; Excursion; Parliamentary Reports, Acts, Papers, & Letters; Anniversary Dinner; Testimonial; and Miscellaneous, Including False Character Cases, Funeral of Col. Richards, Committee Dinners, Grocers Licenses, National League Conference, Letters, &c. It concludes with a description of the Transfer of the Keys ceremony in which Wetenhall stepped down and the new Chairman, Alfred A. Cole, was inaugurated. Materials in the album include society publications and programs, newspaper clippings, manuscript correspondence and notes, memoranda, Parliamentary publications, and telegraphs.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2011

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11767874

Scope and Contents: 17th century Spanish language holograph land sale document involving a vineyard in the pueblo de Calellia de Palafrugell, near Gerona, Spain.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8248452

Scope and Contents: Collection consists of forty Indiana bank notes from 1815-1859 (several are in uncut sheets of 2-3 notes), one facsimile $20.00 bill (The Marine Bank of Buffalo 1902), a facsimile page from a Citizens' Bank of Gosport checkbook, a proof copy for a "2009 Indiana Currency Calendar," a printout of an article, "Free banking in Gosport," by Douglass Boshkoff (originally published in The Ten O'Clock News, Mar. 2004), and three color photographs (ca. 2000; two photos taken in Shoals, Ind. ("Dover Hill") and a photo of the "Welcome to Historic Gosport" sign).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8626994

Scope and Contents: Fire insurance policy taken out by Isaac Strutt, Esq., of Groton (1809) and receipts for premiums paid (1810-1821). Strutt took out a policy for £2200 that insured ten buildings: a mansion house, a farm house, a cart lodge, two brewhouse and dairy buildings, and five stables and barns. Strutt paid £6 and 1 shilling annually for coverage.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2004

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11653032

Scope and Contents: A bound collection of notarized documents from the notary public Juan de la Parra Diosdado, written in Puebla de los Angeles (Mexico) in 1594. The documents include powers of attorney, contracts of sale and purchase, marriage dowries, wills, and promissory notes. The file reflects the legal dealings of the period in the second city of New Spain.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8627017

Scope and Contents: The original typed script ([129] leaves for the play, The five kings, includes Copland's extensive handwritten notes, drawings and a half sheet of music. The script is accompanied by four original photographs; in addition, there are 9 leaves of colored xerox reproductions of 15 photographs, a black & white inscribed photograph (dated 1985) of Copland, an invitation to a memorial concert for Copland (Apr. 20, 1991), a handwritten note to Victor [Busso] from Verna Fine (Apr. 22, 1991), and the program for the Aaron Copland Memorial Concert (Apr. 20, 1991). Photographs include two black and white portraits of Copland (ca. 1957), various pictures taken during the 1980s with Copland (featured in the pictures are Leonard Bernstein, Victor Hugo Busso, Irene Wiley and Elliot Goldenthal). From 1982 to 1987 Victor Busso acted a the primary caretaker for Copland, managing his household, cooking and keeping track of nurses. During that time, Busso took on several friends as cohelpers, among which were Irene Wiley and Elliott Goldenthal. For additional information, see Howard Pollack's Aaron Copland (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000), p. 543-544.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8264417

Scope and Contents: Holograph copy of "On the banks of the Wabash, far away," signed by Paul Dresser and dated "4/24/1903."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10981837

Scope and Contents: Catalogue for Pontus Carles' 1991 exhibit at the Marc Espinosa gallery in Paris and Galerie F in Berlin. Accompanying manuscript note from Thomas Günther removed to Bibliographical File.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11653054

Scope and Contents: Two impressions of Be Well from the portfolio Without Witness (2010). Autograph letter from the artist to Breon Mitchell removed to vertical file, Dept. of Manuscripts.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2011.0

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11344554

Scope and Contents: A collection of 115 drawings and watercolors related to the home front in Dijon, France, during World War I. The illustrations provide a glimpse of daily life in Dijon, the latest fashions, regional clothing styles, and military life during the war; most of the illustrations are accompanied by holograph comments, observations and musings. There are several illustrations of American Red Cross nurses, with the notation, "Les Américaines à Dijon." Some of the notes appear to be addressed to the soldiers' families. The illustrations vary in size (12-32 cm.), many of which are rendered on slips and scraps of paper or are cut into various shapes, and are mounted on folded leaves of various colors of heavy paper (27 folded leaves). The collection also includes seven loose leaves of illustrations.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8080728

Scope and Contents: Unique artists' book from the library of Ruth E. Adomeit. Accordion style, bound in embroidered-cloth boards.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 1996

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/12346976

Scope and Contents: Includes 45 portraits (several of which are tintype or ferrotype) of the Hawkins family from the 19th century. Those photographs that are labeled include the names: Laura B. Hawkins, "Uncle" Merton J. Hawkins, Anne-Elizabeth Robinson ("Irene's mother"), "Aunt" Jane Jagger ("sister to mother"), Emily Turner, Anna Stenus (?), John Mitchell Stenus, Abram Homer (?) Stenus, Uncle Sirus(?) Stenus.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

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Scope and Contents: An amateur nature-print album of 135 large specimens of garden plants, field flowers and medicinal plants, printed in grey or grey-black ink on 28 folding plates and 104 folio leaves, all hand-colored by a contemporary hand (with the exception of two), manuscript nomenclature in Latin and Czech. Three of the largest impressions are of new world plants--tobacco, love-lies-bleeds, and staghorn sumac. The plates are printed in grey and are hand-colored to match the original plant; some are touched with varnish. The 100 terminal blank leaves were used to dry and flatten the specimens. Each plate is annotated in brown ink (a slightly larger hand has corrected or expanded these annotations in black ink). The inclusion of Czech and some German vernacular names points to the album's place of production.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2011

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Scope and Contents: Two letters by G. W. Freytag to an unknown senior civil servant, possibly Johannes Schulze in the Ministry of Culture in Berlin. The first letter is by G. W. Freytag to the recipient thanking him for a diploma of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, which Freytag was admitted to on Dec. 10 1829. It also makes reference to a dictionary that his is working on. The second letter also concerns the dictionary, which is most likely his "Lexicon Arabico-Latinum," the first volume of which was published in 1830. Also, included in is an older biographical manuscript.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2011.0

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Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, photographs, music, and other printed items relating to the production of Aristophanes' "The Acharnians" in 1892, inspired by the headmaster of Leamington College at the time, W. J. Ford. For this production Ford performed the role of Dicaeopolis and spoke a new parabasis, written by himself. The items are pasted onto 22 unnumbered leaves of the album and consist of 1) Autograph letter from Ford's widow, Kitty, to his brother Lionel Ford, 5 June 1922 presenting this volume. -- 2) Large handbill or poster for the production (28 x 21.5 cm), printed in red and black, advertising dates and times of the three performances on 15, 17, and 20 June. -- 3) Caricature frontispiece designed (according to Mrs.Ford's letter and a review pasted into the volume) by Henry Ford, fourth brother of W.J. Ford. -- 4) Printed programme (2 p., 24.5 x 18 cm.) for the play, detailing actors, scenery designer, composer, etc. -- 5. 8 large photographs (each approx. 15 x 20.8 cm.) of the action and set of the production; with a general view of the college, taken (according to a review which reproduces one of them) by Smart and son of Leamington. With captions in ink, presumably by W. J. Ford. -- 6) A large variety of press cuttings of review of the play, beginning with the school magazine ("The Leamingtonian") and continuing with local and national journals, including the Leamington News, the Birmingham Post, the Daily Graphic, Vanity Fair, the Cheltenham Chronicle and the St. James's Gazette, all identified in the same hand as item 5. -- 7. Text of the Parabasis written by W. J. Ford, in both Greek and English (facing pages), printed but cut out and mounted; with a note also in the same hand. -- 8. The Music to the Acharnians of Aristophanes. Composed for performance at Leamington College in 1892 by George Prior, Mus: D: Oxon. Small folio, 15 p., the title page printed in letterpress (on green card) and the main text of the music reproduced in photolithography(?).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

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Scope and Contents: Title page printed in red and black. Lilly Library copy is extra-illustrated with six steel engraved portraits of Bryant, 40 reproductions of classical engravings by Carter and Andrews, and twelve and a half pages of Bryant's original holograph manuscript leaves bound into the text at appropriate intervals. Bound in contemporary red morocco, ruled in gilt on the covers and compartments on the spines, raised bands, gilt dentelles, blue cloth endpapers.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2007

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Scope and Contents: Barter's heavily corrected working manuscript for his lengthy and discursive notes to accompany his full translation of the Illiad, published by Longman in 1854. In 1850 Pickering published a collection of Poems, four printed pieces of which the author has pasted in with the manuscript note, "This printed matter is from my volume of poems published by Pickering in 1850. WGTB."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2004

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Scope and Contents: Sketch for the cover of Zázrak v rodině : humoristický román (1929), here titled Zázrak v rodině : román.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2007

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Scope and Contents: Manuscript, with corrections, of the text Noc s Ofélií, in the author's hand.

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Scope and Contents: Autographed letter, dated January 18, 1881 in Bombay (Mumbai), India, from Edward Rehatsek to Mr. Wood. Rehatsek reviews Mortimer Howell's A Grammar of the Classical Arabic Language. He concludes that it is a knowledgeable but impractical work since the advanced scholars who could best make use of it would go directly to the sources themselves. A more practical endeavor for Howell, who was in the employ of the government, would have been a descriptive catalogue of the Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the Northwest provinces, of which only those in Oude (Awadh) had been catalogued. Rehatsek, however, is not volunteering to compile said descriptive catalogue, for he is 62 years old and a liver complaint is his "inseparable companion for life". Included within the item are four leaves of manuscript revisions of the letter, possibly for publication.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

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Scope and Contents: Extensive manuscript Arabic-Latin lexicon, very probably in the hand of Christoph Crinesus, inscribed on the front pastedown in a different hand from the manuscript itself, 'Opus M. Christoph Crinesii, Acad. Aldorff." The manuscipt on paper is arranged verso-recto with vellum tabs at fore-edge marking each letter of the Arabic alphabet; ruled in double columns (numbered to 539) and includes a Latin index, [29] leaves at end (11 leaves preceding the index and several pages elsewhere blank). The sources of the Arabic words and their meanings are recorded. These sources include 'Erp. Gram.' (i.e. Erpenius's Grammatica Arabica, first pulished in 1613), 'Proverb. Arab.' (i.e. Erpenius and Scaliger's Proverbiorum Arabicorum centuriae duae, 1614) and 'Matth.' (most likely Peter Kirsten's Notae in Evangelium S. Matthaei, 1611). There are also references to 'Tit.' (probably the Arabic edition of the Book of Titus published in Leiden in 1612), 'Judae" (an Arabic version of St. Jude's Epistle published in Breslau in 1611), and Kirsten's Grammatices Arabicae (1608).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

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Scope and Contents: Original manuscript in ink, possibly the earliest substantial Chinese/English dictionary. The work consists of 1 p. captioned "Scale of Principal sounds in English & Chinese"; 3 pages with headings, but otherwise blank; 104 p. alphabetical index of English words or phrases with their equivalents in Chinese characters; 242 p., each divided into two vertical columns, with a listing of "13,316" characters with their meaning or meanings in English. Winthrop describes the work thus: "The foregoing is a translation of de Guignes great Chinese, french & Latin Dictionary, printed at Paris by order of Napoleon and finished in 1813. It was sent to me by an American Lady of my acquaintance who resides in Paris. I received it at Boston on 7 August, A.D. 1818 & about a week afterwards began this work, I finished it this 24th March A D 1818. Anno AEtatis 57. The original is a large folio of twelve hundred pages & printed on Vellulm paper. [signed] James Winthrop" -- final leaf.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

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Scope and Contents: Manuscript poem about "inside the TV"; title taken from first line.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/12426910

Scope and Contents: Autographed letter, dated June 27, 1925 in Seattle, Washington, from Dr. James Branch Taylor to George W. Soliday about counting in the Ute language. Taylor joined Powell's 1828 expedition to Colorado, where he took notes on the Ute language; in this letter, he recounts "a fat old Indian, sitting astride a log ... recit[ing] to me the mode of counting" and lists Ute words for 1-33, 40-43, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 next to the corresponding numbers with a few additional notes.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

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Scope and Contents: An original typed and handwritten manuscript, title page is dated 1893, which includes comparative lists arranged one word per page of over forty different Algonquin languages/dialects, apparently from both published and unpublished sources; the language names are typed, the words inserted by hand in ink. Pages 254-256 lists sources. With a letter from Wallace Tooker to Gatschet loosely inserted, dated October 16, 1895, discussing Algonquin terms for "rainbow."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8591115

Scope and Contents: Manuscript copy of part of H.C. Kocke's Neger-Engelsch Woordenboek in two exercise books. Notes on the inside front covers identify the copyist as W. Boekhoudt "Gecopieerd in Maart 1846 door W. Boekhoudt." Volume 1 (p. 1-48 p.) includes A-H (harki). Volume 2 (p. 49-96) includes H (hárki) - N (nékki).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8083550

Scope and Contents: Mimeographed film script; numbered shots, camera and editing directions, dialogue, and action, with ms. annotations. "Please return to: Raymond Stross Productions LTD, 12 Bourdon Street, London ..." Printed label on p. [2] of wrappers: "Curtis and Page, 117 Finchley Road ... Typewriting--Duplicating." Film based on George Simenon's "Homme qui regardait passer les trains"; released in London 1952. In original plain red wrappers.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

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Scope and Contents: A collection of nine volumes of Plays and playgoers: a theatre-goer's record, which include first hand manuscript accounts of theater and musical productions, operas, and ballets performed in various venues primarily in Chicago and London from the years 1913 to 1934. The scrapbooks include playbills, newspaper, program and magazine clippings interspersed with detailed entries on each performance. The compiler of these scrapbooks is unknown.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8252964

Scope and Contents: One page holograph letter signed, with integral address leaf, written at Philadelphia to the Editors of the Monthly anthology. Concerns the exchange of numbers of the Philadelphia medical museum, printed by Dobson, for numbers of the Monthly anthology.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

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Scope and Contents: Words and music (1948) is a movie loosely based on the lives and work of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8248481

Scope and Contents: A British 19th century holograph commonplace book of selected poems and songs, with extracts and notes ([76] leaves of blue paper, watermarked 1797, bound in green cloth, printed label on spine). Selections include, for example, "The Vicar of Bray," William Cowper's Robinson Crusoe, "Nell Batchelor the Oxford Pye-Woman," and "The death of Nelson." Written on the front loose flyleaf: "Charles Baker's, If these selections were made & written by my Father, of which there is some evidence in the shapes of some of the capitals, they must have been executed before he adopted that fine Italian hand which he used for at least forty years ..." Baker appears to have practiced a variety of script styles.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2005

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Scope and Contents: Photocopying permitted only with the permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library. A transcription by Jean Marr Wilkins (completed for a class assignment at Indiana University, Bloomington) of a 1687 commonplace book, believed to be written by an English woman, Hannah Swynock. The commonplace book is part of the Lilly Library's Parker manuscripts collection. "For Professor Solt's seminar, submitted by Jean Wilkins, 11 December 1991." Printed on one side only.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2014

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/13937016

Scope and Contents: A manuscript volume of epigrams. The volume consists of two divisions: Epigrams moral and entertaining and A collection of amusing and instructive epigrams. Both divisions have their own title page and consist of 7 epigrams, each within a different decorative hand-drawn border.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2012

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Scope and Contents: Original rebus manuscript ([4] p.) with pen and ink, watercolor, and cutout images from printed sources; completed on both rectos and versos of two folio leaves. With approximately 800 words and 225 images. Pages have been re-tipped into original quarter leather folder with marbled boards. A family letter written as an April Fool's Day gift, from Paterson, NJ, where the unidentified author/artist had moved from New York in 1865. A business man and head of a family, he sends this to his aunt in New Bedford, both for amusement and for information on life in Paterson, where he works as a cashier and bookkeeper in the newly established Danforth (later Cooke) Locomotive and Machine Company. The letter also gives an interesting description of Paterson itself. The rebus is "signed" at the end with a cutout silhouette of the author. The autobiographical information and names of relatives cited in the letter might help to serve to identify the author.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2013

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Scope and Contents: Eighteenth-century manuscript of English, as well as biblical, proverbs and sayings. Tipped in at front is a note in the hand of Peter Opie that states that this is a collection "more of phrases & sayings than true proverbs. Compiled from various sources, but sources not given." Ms. note on front free endpaper notes that the "new endpapers with which the original MS is bound are dated 1847."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2002

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Scope and Contents: Lilly Library copy is a unique volume, illustrated with 5 original watercolors by French artist/illustrator Albert Bligny (1849-1908). The illustrations are interspersed throughout the text and are signed "A. Bligny." The volume was bound by Marius Michel in full red morroco, gilt decorations, green silk and marbled endpapers, with original printed wrappers bound in. Bookseller's printed slip, "With compliments, Quevedo Tobias Rodgers, Justine Budenz ...," tipped in at front.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

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Scope and Contents: A unique artist's book by Thomas Offhaus, with his original watercolor illustrations coupled with letterpress text. Bound in rust-colored illustrated boards, edges untrimmed, with black leather shelfback.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

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Scope and Contents: A unique artist's book, with cursive holograph text and original acrylic paintings by Zylla on facing pages. Zylla pairs his large picturesque panels with selections from Samuel Beckett's "Worstward Ho." According to Beckett scholar, Dirk Van Hulle: "It is an attempt to reach the worst possible condition, which proves to be an asymptotic journey: like the infinitesimal attempt to reach 'nothing' with words, the worst cannot be attained with words. For as Shakespeare already wrote in King Lear: 'And worse may I be yet; the worst is not, So long as we can say This is the worst' (IV.1.27-28). Beckett copied this sentence in his 'Sottisier' notebook (RUL MS 2901) while or shortly before he was writing Worstward Ho" (The Literary Encyclopedia website, 03/12/09).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

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Scope and Contents: A unique artist's book on double leaves with cursive holograph text and original artwork by Angela Hampel; author's name, title and artist's name are from the accompanying green printed slipcase (German translation of poem is printed in white on the front of the slipcase). Signed by the artist and dated, 2009, on p. [4] of wrappers. Accompanied by one grey sheet with the German translation by Elmar Tophoven of a Samuel Beckett poem, Bon bon il est un pays, originally published in the collection Six poèmes (1947-1949) printed in white; signed in typescript: "Samuel Beckett, uübersetzt von Elmar Tophoven." Both items are housed in a green cloth clamshell case.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9531234

Scope and Contents: A unique artist's book, with cursive holograph text and original artwork by Klaus Zylla on facing pages. Zylla pairs his large picturesque panels with selections from Samuel Beckett's "Le dépeupleur."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9531456

Scope and Contents: A unique artist's book with cursive holograph text and original artwork by Antje Wichtrey. Signed and dated by the artist on the back pastedown: "Granada/Gotha 2006."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

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Scope and Contents: Holograph manuscript, signed at end, undated. Leaves numbered 1-5 with an additional "page 3 bis à inserer." A review discussing Artaud's adaptation of a French translation of M. G. Lewis's Gothic novel, The monk (Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1931). Cocteau comments that translation is done to overcome crises of sterilty.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

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Scope and Contents: Collection includes two letters, five black and white photographs, and a newspaper clipping of a book review. Both letters are typed and signed by Ionesco to Rosette Lamont, one dated May 20, 1969, the other dated Jan. 11, 1980. The five black and white photographs (four of which are by Beverly Pabst) each feature Ionesco: [1] Ionesco sitting on a chair in a patch of lawn surrounded by tall trees; marked in pencil on the verso: "Eugène Ionesco a Cerisy-la-Selle/l'ete 1978" and inscribed by Pabst for Rosette [Lamont]; [2] a close-up of Ionesco reading a newspaper, with Pabst's stamp on the verso; [3] Ionesco smiling and holding a microphone on a stage, with Pabst's stamp on the verso; and, [4] Ionesco pensively holding a microphone on stage, with Pabst's stamp on the verso; marked in red China crayon, "Return to J. Harris," and a post-it asking, "do we have consent?" and, in another hand, "Yes!"; and, [5] Ionesco with Rosette Lamont, with a mss. note on verso: "June, 2001. To Rosette, Photo found when cleaning out my mother's house. Love, Penny." The newspaper clipping from The New York Times Book Review, March 23, 1975, includes a review of Story Number 4, the English edition of Ionesco's Conte numéro 4.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2009.0

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Scope and Contents: This undated typed letter, signed, with several penned corrections, contains a statement on the role and purpose of a translator. In the letter, Calvino praises the "Translation Center at Columbia and its magazine" with its educational mission to study and improve the "difficult art of translating." Written on personal stationery, with the author's name printed in light grey italics: "Italo Calvino."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

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Scope and Contents: Selection of manuscript poems by late 18th-century and early 19th-century Portuguese poets, all copied on laid paper in the same hand. Opens with "Satyra: Que [Ser?] Jose Agostinho de Macedo a Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage"--page 27. Followed by "Resposta de Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage. Á Satyraque lhe [Ser?] Jose Agostinho de Macedo. 1802" (page 34). Final section composed of "Poesias de Manoel Maria Barbosa du Bocage" and "Verdades duras" (ages 46 and 52). Only date to appear in the text is 1802. Verso of penultimate leaf signed in purple by Antonio Antunes d'Almeida, possibly the owner and copyist.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2013

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/16814479

Scope and Contents: A printed receipt of purchase for a copy of A Collection of original poems and translations, by John Whaley (see Foxon, p. 888), with the receipt number, the buyer's information and Whaley's signature in ink. The work was "printed for the author" in 1745 and sold by subscription. The receipt is numbered 99 and was given to "Mr. West" in exchange for five shillings "being the full payment for a copy of A Collection of Poems, by Mr. John Whaley, which I promise to deliver in Sheets, as soon as printed." The "Mr. West" noted on the receipt is James West (1703-1772), the politician and noted bookcollector.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8230864

Scope and Contents: Autograph manuscript of Arnold's poem The Indian judge. The poem is in pencil and contains a few small corrections in Arnold's hand.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2011

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Scope and Contents: A holograph note, signed, by R.D. Blackmore to an unidentified female correspondent regarding the translation of "Erema" or "Springhaven" into French. The note reads: "Dear Madam, I have not head that either 'Erema' or 'Springhaven' has been translated into French; but once or twice I have discovered long afterwards that 'French leave' had been taken. Believe me faithfully yours, R.D. Blackmore ..." With a newspaper cutout printed portrait of Blackmore affixed to top of letter.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8264435

Scope and Contents: Two items ([5] loose leaves and 1 notebook): (1) Propos litteraries de la traduction des poèmes: five loose leaves of Maurois' holograph notes for his introduction to Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese (Brentanos, 1944) and his thoughts on translating poetry in general. In the introduction, he reflects: To translate a poem is difficult; to translate it into verse is almost impossible. (2) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets traduits du portugais, Traduction franc̦aise de André Maurois: Maurois' holograph notebook of his French translation of Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and his introduction (in French) to the 1944 Brentanos' published edition (see Lilly PR4189 .A1 1944). There are a few penciled corrections to the sonnets (appearing to be "final" drafts of his translations), whereas the introduction ([7] leaves at end) bears numerous corrections and changes. Laid in the notebook are two loose printed leaves (18 x 13 cm.) of page proofs(?) (p. 79-80, 95-96, which include the French translations of sonnets XIX-XX and XXVII-XXVIII).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

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Scope and Contents: Illuminated manuscript on vellum

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2010

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9383913

Scope and Contents: William Harris Dowding, newspaper poet, of Bristol, England. His collected verse was published in To freedom's lover and other pieces by William Harris Dowding; selected after sixty years of verse-making. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1917.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2005

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8068277

Scope and Contents: Holograph letter from Alexander Dyce to Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, January 3, 1836, London. Dyce discusses publishing and the literary scene in London. He describes his encounters with and impressions of William Wordsworth and Robert Southey, and he mentions the habits and forthcoming publications of several individuals, including John Mitford, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Dawson Turner, and John Campbell (1766-1840). See vertical file for transcription.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2011

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11767871

Scope and Contents: Typed letter (1 sheet ([1] p.)) signed, from John Quinn to Adrian H. Joline regarding John M. Synge's book "Poems and Translations." Quinn mentions John M. Synge's recent death in March 1909.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2007

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10981831

Scope and Contents: Author's first draft and corrected galleys of Memories of an Edwardian and neo-Georgian, published by Martin Secker in 1937 and republished the following year as Memories of an Edwardian. A mixture of holograph and typescript leaves, extensively revised and corrected by the author, many leaves with manuscript or typed sections pasted on. An important and entertaining account of four decades of bohemian literary life, with recollections of Dowson, Machen, Frank Harris, Richard Middleton, Ford, T.S. Eliot, Pound, and many others. The textual differences between the manuscript and the published book become extensive from chapter 17 onwards. At chapter 20, the manuscript ends at what is the first paragraph of p. 263 of the published book, which carries on for a further 11 pages, including a closing chapter. The final sentence of the manuscript contains his last words on D.H. Lawrence: "Above all it should not be forgotten that he possessed to a pre-eminent degree the quality most necessary to a great literary success in England, the power of boring the humanist to tears."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9628332

Scope and Contents: A collection of newspaper clippings from various press-cutting services and a scrapbook containing mounted publishing and theater ephemera, ranging in date from 1939 to 1956, assembled by British playwright and novelist Alan Kennington. The scrapbook includes items relating to Kennington's career including letters, telegrams, documents, reviews, newspaper and magazine clippings, and book jacket samples. There are letters from "The Playwrights' Club," agents, film companies, and the BBC. Clippings are pasted on pages 1-114 of the blank scrapbook (pages have printed numbers). Pages 115-200 are blank.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2010

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9627309

Scope and Contents: Cover title. Annotated typescript, with the manuscript notes and ownership label of Peter Cotes. The cast of Cote's 1951 production of Loaves and fishes, 27 March 1951 (see Who's Who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage 1952), are written in ms. on leaf [1]. Inscribed and signed by producer Peter Cotes: "This was my script for the first [?] of Maugham's very last play, produced in 1911 and revived by me in 1950, Peter Cotes." In original brown wrappers, typed title on front cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8235585

Scope and Contents: Two holograph letters (3 sheets ([6] p.)) signed, from Alan Sillitoe to calligrapher John C. Tarr and wife, Dorothy. Letters describe progress with his writing, describing finishing Loneliness of the long distance runner, his winning the Authors' Club First Novel Award in 1958 for Saturday night and Sunday morning and winning the Hawthornden Prize in 1960 for Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2007

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10981731

Scope and Contents: Collection conists cheifly of poems in typescript and manuscript. Poems consist of 38 sheets of selected poems. Most of the poems are in typescript, others photocopied, with many pages signed, for possible book publication. One sheet with some biographical information about Moya written by David Gascoyne. Also includes one envelope where poems were originally held and sent to David Gascoyne in Colchester, England.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2011.0

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11981390

Scope and Contents: A holograph letter, signed, from W.D. Howells to Mr. Garrison, of the Boston Houghton, Mufflin, & Co., 13 Nov. 1906, with instructions to accept the "New York concerns offer for Silas Lapham." Written on Hotel Regent (New York City) letterhead, with the dated (14 Nov. 1906) ink stamp of the Houghton, Mifflin office. Included also is a fragment of another letter with Howells' signature and an autographed calling card belonging to Howells.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8264420

Scope and Contents: Collection consists of 17 items: 1. Two souvenir "James Whitcomb Riley Birthplace, Greenfiled, Indiana" pinback buttons -- 2. William A. Bixler's copy of The James Whitcomb Riley reader (edited by Charity Dye, Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, c1915) -- 3. Advertisement sheet (1 folded leaf ([4] p.)) and a photocopy of "A Dream That Came True," with instructions on how to order "a painting made to order of the Ol' Swimming Hole" by Bixler -- 4. Newsclipping (no date) "Riley, the Hoosier Poet, Pleased with Oil Painting of the 'Old Swimming Hole," Praises Artist Wm. A. Bixler" -- 5. Newsclipping from the Indiana Sunday Star (Feb. 2. 1913), "Painter Artist Born in Sod House Wins Riley's Favor" -- 6. Newsclipping from the Sunday Star (Indiana Star) (July 13, 1941), "Riley Day Observed at Tailholt Made Famous in His Poems" -- 7. Advertisement sheet for Bixler's "Autumn Leaves" book -- 8. Newsclipping from The News-Herald (Dec. 22, 1941), "Famous Painting is Copied in Franklin" -- 9. Two copies (different variants) of the booklet, "From the Birthplace of James Whitcomb Riley," issued by the Greenfield Art Association ([12] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.) -- 10. Newsclipping (no date, Sun. Oct. 20), "Historic Home Plans Day with Riley"-- 11. Newsclipping from the Milwaukee, Wis., Journal Green Sheet (May 15, 1941), "Author-Singer Painted the Same Picture 5,000 Times" -- 12. One sheet (1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.) of The Old-Fashioned Dinner Bell (poem) by Bixler -- 13. One folded sheet (39 cm.), "Riley Program Broadcast Here" -- 14. One booklet ([8] p. : ill. ; 14 cm.) James Whitcomb Riley Centennial, 1849-1949, with the address label of Wm. A. Bixler on back cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8431505

Scope and Contents: Wooden walking stick (80 cm. in length) with leaf carvings at the top once belonging to Indiana author James Whitcomb Riley.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2001

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9534719

Scope and Contents: See vertical file for bookseller's description. Includes several items (two manuscript notes and one printed newspaper clipping) pasted to a leaf of brown wrapping paper (43 x 18 cm.) by Whitman; there are numerous holograph revisions and editorial corrections for the accompanying newspaper clipping (39 x 7 cm.) in Whitman's hand. Affixed to the top of the brown paper is a holograph introduction to the article, signed in the third person three times by Whitman (1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 17 x 15 cm.). Affixed to the bottom of the brown paper is a holograph note (1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 8 x 18 cm.) signed by R[obert] U[underwood] Johnson, dated "New York, March 31, 1900," explaining the circumstances under which Whitman sent his introduction and revisions to him.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2011

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10027190

Scope and Contents: Author, journalist, poet, screenwriter, and film critic James Agee (1909-1956) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. After his father's death, he was educated at Saint Andrew's school for mountain boys, run by Episcopalian monks affiliated with the Order of the Holy Cross, where he met and began his friendship with Father James Harold Flye. He attended Phillip Exeter Academy, where he was the editor of the Monthly, and was accepted to Harvard University's class of 1932. At Harvard he was the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Advocate. On his graduation he became a journalist for Fortune Magazine. He also wrote for Time Magazine, and worked for The Nation as a film critic. His works include Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) and the posthumous A Death in the Family (1955), in addition to his screenplays for African Queen (1951) and The Night of the Hunter (1955).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10981835

Scope and Contents: Collection consists of various materials and correspondence by and about Kay Boyle. Collection includes an invitation to Peggy Sarasohn from Kay Boyle, along with a transcript of Sarasohn's testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities; a poem, "Songs for the beginnings," by Steve White, including a ms. note; a typed copy of "A statement for El Greco and William Carlos Williams," by Kay Boyle.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11179109

Scope and Contents: Annotated mimeographed playscript. The stage manager's personal annotated copy, with drawings of the stage set, as well as notes and corrections throughout; accompanied by a loose leaf ([1] p.) with the names of the cast members and their addresses (several names and addresses are added at the bottom of the typescript list in manuscript). According to the Internet Broadway Database, Light up the sky opened on Nov. 18, 1948 and closed on May 21, 1949; the general stage manager was Don Hershey and the stage manager was Terence Little. It is not clear from the script which individual made the notes, etc.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/81783033

Scope and Contents: Original postage stamp collage. The text of Kilmer's poem is hand lettered, bordered by a scene made from pieces of postage stamps, details added in water-color, probably by Dorothy C. Alyea. The stamps clipped for the collage include a 1 cent B. Franklin, first issued in 1922-1923; a 1/2 cent Nathan Hale, first issued in 1925; a 1 1/2 cent Harding, first issued in 1925; a Special Delivery stamp, first issued in 1925; and a 1 cent George Washington, first issued in 1938.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2007

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8080720

Scope and Contents: One undated holograph letter signed, written to Bob Wilson of The Phoenix Book Shop, New York, on an illustrated folded card (13 x 9 cm. which opens to 18 x 13 cm.) . Printed in capital letters on the cover of the card is: FUCK DEATH, with an illustration of a horse's head surrounded by a horseshoe. According to McClure's website (http://www.mcclure-manzarek.com/mmbiblio.html) this card was printed in "San Francisco: Privately Published, 1959 ... It does not bear Michael McClure's name."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2003

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8649483

Scope and Contents: Two letters written by a young camper Milton Aion; annotated by Clifford Odets while he was a camp counselor.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2010

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/12083486

Scope and Contents: Two pen and ink sketches for the book, Wein (published in 1933 by the Prague wine firm Jos. Oppelt's Neffe), for which Adolf Hoffmeister was the illustrator: [1]. Bottle of wine with label, "Wein," with a wine glass on either side; feather quill pen resting in glass on right hand side (22 x 30 cm. matted to 36 x 44 cm.) -- [2]. Bespeckled man reading a wine list, with "Weinkarte" printed in reverse on one of the leaves the man holds (31 x 22 cm. matted to 44 x 36 cm.).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2007

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8649487

Scope and Contents: Six letters written to author Wilhelm Hemsen, by Hermann Hauff (in Stuttgart), dated as follows: (1) Nov. 13, 1855(?); [2] Sept. 27, 1856; [3] Nov. 6, 1856; Dec. 3, 1856; Dec. 8, 1857; and, June 19, 1858. The letters discuss Grimm's translation of an article on Shakespeare, which led to the Hauffs receiving a half dozen of Emerson's essays in translation--translations so poor Hauff could do nothing with them. But the translations of Emerson he has now received [from an unnamed translator] seem to him much better. In subsequent letters the discussion over the translation of Emerson's essays into German continues. He raises specific objections to various words and phrases, although he suggests that it's a worthy effort for a woman...He eventually decides to revise the whole of the translation. Herman Hauff became private secretary of the publisher Johann Friedrich von Cotta in 1827. Upon the death of his brother, Wilhelm Hauff, in that year, he took over as editor of the Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände , and remained in that post until his death. In addition to essays which he published in numerous journals, he was the author of Skizzen aus dem Leben und der Natur . He was active as both an editor and translator. Wilhelm Hemsen (1829-1885) was a friend of Mörike nd Nerthold Auerbach, and an acquaintance of many famous literary figures. In 1869 he became the Court Librarian in Stuttgart.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8235594

Scope and Contents: Holograph letter ([4] p.), signed, from Johann Ludwig Tieck to his publisher Georg Andreas Reimer (1776-1842), dated June 17, 1839, concerning his work (in collaboration with August Wilhelm von Schlegel) on the German-language edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works, which appeared in 1838/1840 in twelve volumes.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8264445

Scope and Contents: Holograph story in verse, with handcolored illustrations.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2006

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/7313610

Scope and Contents: A mouse named Mabel resolves to visit the moon, which she thinks is made of cheese. On her way, she meets her friend Dora the donkey, who wishes to go to the moon with her. However, their travel is delayed by the search for Dora's lost carrot seeds, and the moon wanes and disappears before they can begin their journey.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2010

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11667614

Scope and Contents: Illustrated manuscript of an unpublished juvenile book. The book follows the life cycle of the eponymous Freddy, a green frog, and is dedicated "To Joan and All Boys and Girls who are interested in the preservation of wild life in America". The half-title, illustrated title page, and dedication are drawn in pencil. The text is cut up and pasted down typescript with twenty-seven pencil illustrations are incorporated into the narrative.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11767915

Scope and Contents: See Vertical File for publication history. Comprising a title page, 240 numbered pages, and a contents page for the Compendium Physicae, and illustrated with diagrams and tables throughout. The last page is signed "Finitum April 15 1710. John Coit." Two additional manuscript texts are included: Of ethicks and its end / Charles Morton (42 p., dated at end: 1710); and, Advice to young ministers / Charles Morton (19 p., dated at end: 1710). There are 3 additional pages of later miscellaneous notes, dated from 1742 to 1753.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8251497

Scope and Contents: One bound volume of Professor Hilbert's manuscript teaching notes. The year 1896 is based on textual information (see p. 195, which includes a statement about the French mathematician Jacques Salomon Hadamard, who had "just two weeks ago" proved the prime number theorem (1896)); other dates also support 1896: p. 24, "Mo 2 XI" (i.e. Monday, 2 Nov.); p. 40, "Mo 9 XI" (i.e. Monday, 9 Nov.); and, p. 72, "Mo 23 XI" (Monday, 23 Nov.).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8895833

Scope and Contents: A unique privately-made manuscript diary (164 written pages) with 55 finely-drawn watercolors illustrating over 230 flowers with their Latin and English names, date and place found, and additional information such as the kind of soil and measurements for each sample. Included are six pages of the taxonomy of the corresponding class and family, with descriptions and characteristics, as well as a full index and map. Also included is a twenty-page essay on fertilization with drawings. In all probability the author was influenced by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1867), who was a celebrated botanical artist from the north of England, and believed botany had a place in the education of women. Woodall's map provides the locations where she found her flora, mainly in Northeast England. The diary records Phyllis K. Jewson Woodall's daily travels in order to find different specimens. She then draws and describes each plant in great detail, illustrating one to a sheet mounted on heavier stock with description on the facing sheet. Her notes describe details after the specimen has been seen under a microscope.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10869489

Scope and Contents: Head and shoulders portrait of 19th century paleontologist/geologist Louis Agassiz, taken when he was about 60 years of age. Image is 93 x 58 mm., pasted to a slightly larger card, with the studio's name printed in brown on the back. Written over the printed name of the studio, "Warren's," in mss. on front below photo: Prof. Agassiz.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2010

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9154900

Scope and Contents: An original sepia portrait photo of an elderly Muir, well-dressed, and examining a flowering plant. Photograph was taken about 1908 (see University of the Pacific, John Muir Papers). Mounted on a slightly larger backing. The photograph is signed "Kraig." The Barry Cassidy Rare Books blog (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=421643038065, 8/21/10), suggests that this might be one of two Oakland photographers, Albert W. Kraig or Victor Kraig.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2010

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/9154913

Scope and Contents: An album of 32 original pencil drawings of freshwater fish by David Starr Jordan, on variously sized sheets of paper, most identified beneath the image, most species found in Georgia. Accompanied by the newspaper clippings that the original drawings were folded in before being placed in the album; also includes dealer's description and an evelope addressed to "Mr. G. S. Myers, Dept. of Zoology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2014

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/14154192

Scope and Contents: In this holograph receipt, dated 12 Nov. 1747, Edwards notes that he has received two pounds two shillings from James West (1703-1772) "for [his] second part History of birds."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8184054

Scope and Contents: Consists of presentation medal depicting neurologist Jean-Athanase Sicard. The front of the medal features engraved image and name of Jean-Athanase Sicard by A. Morlon. The reverse lists, in French, Sicard's achievements in the field of medicine. Medals such as this are normally given as gifts to doctors on graduating from medical school or other important occasions.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2009.0

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11981377

Scope and Contents: Medical artices annotated by Francis Day, with some of his natural history notes. Day commonly had his articles and notes bound up with blank leaves for further annotation. In this volume, the printed Tropical Fevers (originally published in the Lancet and subsequently published in Indian Annals) is bound and extensively annotated and corrected by Day with notes on a preface and dedication. Other notes and articles, transcribed in manuscript and annotated, follow: "Notes on Cochin" Aug. 1-2, 1861; diseases of the liver; dracunculus, or guinea-worm; peenash, or worms in the nose; elephantiasis; berberi (incomplete); vaccination; and ignipeditis, or burning in the feet. When read from the reverse, the volume contains an incomplete article on a type of palsy and notes on natural history.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/12426907

Scope and Contents: Laboratory notebook, ca. 1908-1910, written by Ernest G. Eberhardt. The notebook pages (most of which are handwritten) are not numbered, but have been indexed by Eberhardt's son, Edward Eberhard, numerically according to their first lines (plus second lines in some cases). Accompanying materials include: an Eberhardt family tree (with note dated 2008), photocopies of two articles about Ernest G. Eberhardt, a photocopy of a letter from Eli Lilly to Ernest G. Eberhardt (dated Mar. 18, 1952), and a photocopy of Edward Eberhardt's inventory of the collection (including notes on his father's career).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 20008

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8083563

Scope and Contents: A holograph day book and ledger ([119] p.), dated 1856-1869, written by Charles S. Wilson in Howard County, Indiana. He records the work on his farm, the workers he hires and their pay. In addition, he tells of his planting and harvesting. Wilson also keeps records of his purchases and tells of going to church camp meetings.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8184403

Scope and Contents: See Vertical File for additional information. Two manuscript accounts of Star Chamber dinners, the first of which is: "The expenses of the Dyettes provided for the Queenes most honorable Counsell at her graces Starchamber at Wesm[inster] during the Hillarye Tearme in the year of the Raigne of our most Sov[er]aigne Lady Queen Eliz in the xxvii Anno dm 1590[/1]," specifically for the 3rd, 5th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 27th and 29th of February, 1591, with the names of those who dined on each occasion witten in the margins. The second account is for the six dinners held on the 24th, 29th, and 31st of January and the 5th, 7th and 13th of February, 1594 [i.e. 1595].

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2009.0

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8376776

Scope and Contents: Original manuscript list (in two columns, written on one side only) gives the food necessary for a Fleshday dinner, with prices, and the food for supper, with prices. Among the items enumerated are: mutton, veal, capons, chickens, beef, shoulder of mutton for gravies, turkeys, pigeons, larks, partridges, pheasants, rabbits, tarts, and kid.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8184416

Scope and Contents: An 1899 Japanese manuscript "catalog" containing 18 pages of color paintings of the traditional Japanese confections called Wagashi. Many of the designs mimic such forms as mountains, mushrooms, birds, and a turtle. Some are abstract forms with multiple references while others mimic the art of origami.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8993873

Scope and Contents: Wire service copy from United Press International, dated November 16th, regarding the testing of the first hydrogen bomb.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift: 2008

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/10981715

Scope and Contents: See Vertical File for bookseller's description. Detailed account of the internal service rules and orders governing the Office of Ordnance in England in the later 17th century written for Christian Lilly. The first part of the manuscript (p. 1-64) is the warrant which established the modern Board of Ordnance in 1683, describing the structure of the organization and elaborating the duties of each of the officers and employees. This is followed by the amendments of James II in 1686, William III in 1689 and 1690, and Anne in 1702.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2008

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11767910

Scope and Contents: See Vertical File for bookseller's description. Three holograph "journals" written in the form of letters addressed to Shufeldt's fiancé, Elise, and signed "Mace"; each is sewn in self-wrappers with hand-drawn and colored covers of nautical themes and is numbered on the cover: "Letter No 1," "Letter No 2," and "Number of Letter No 3." The entries describe Shufeldt's travels in detail and his devotion to his "far-off-sweetheart" in depth. Included also are several hand-drawn maps and views throughout the letters. The collection includes the three postmarked mailing envelopes with Miss Elise Buckingham's Zanesville, Ohio, address. A holograph letter from Buckingham to Shufeldt, dated March 7, 1883, breaks their engagement; the letter is in a small envelope marked "The Last."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8376778

Scope and Contents: This album contains 49 black and white photographs chronicling the cruise of the USS Enterprise to Madagascar (rest of the pages of the album are blank); includes a holograph list of the photographs (2 folded leaves ([4] p.)). The USS Enterprise, a barque-rigged screw sloop, was launched 13 June 1874 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, USA, by John W. Griffiths, a private contractor; and commissioned 16 March 1877, Commander George C. Remey in command. She was later commanded by Bowman H. McCalla around 1890. Recommissioned on 12 January 1882, the USS Enterprise cruised the east coast until 1 January 1883 when she sailed on a three-year hydrographic survey that took her completely around the world. The findings on this cruise added materially to the knowledge of the oceans, their currents, and their bottoms. Enterprise was decommissioned at New York on 21 March 1886.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2013

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/12539206

Scope and Contents: One page holograph letter signed, lacking the integral address leaf, written at Worcester to Mr. Leffingwell, thanking him for his letter of the 12th and for sending Dr.Langdon's subscription paper.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8114714

Scope and Contents: A short note written by Thomas Fleet to "Mr. Rogers," marked Boston, March 7, 1792. In the note, Fleet directs Rogers to "deliver to the Bearer the one half Barrell of the superfine Flour, you mentioned yesterday," on his account.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8184404

Scope and Contents: A partially printed receipt (1 leaf ([2] p.)) with a holograph list of the books (and their prices) noted, dated 1 August 1763, and signed by James Keating. The printed portion, which reads, "Stratford, 176_, Brought of James Keating, Bookseller Stationer & Printer," is engraved. The bill was marked as paid on 14 May 1764.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8235574

Scope and Contents: Forgery consist of a short permission note supposedly written by George Washington on September 12th, 1780.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11981382

Scope and Contents: Forgery consists of short letter from supposedly from Whitman dated for Apirl 3, 1891.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2012

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11981391

Scope and Contents: Mid-16th century Latin manuscript leaf (marked as "i" on verso) summarizing household accounts for the entertainment expenses (totalled) for the years 1539-1560 during the reigns of four sovereigns: Henry VIII (1539 and 1540), Edward VI (1550), Mary I (1556 and 1557), and Elizabeth I (1559 and 1560). The emphasis in the accounts is on household and food expenses.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8260620

Scope and Contents: A unique artist's book by Pontus Carle, with his original painted, textile and paper collages coupled with the hand lettered text includes the poem, Malacoda (from Echo's bones, and other precipitates, 1935). Bound in blue boards, hand lettered on cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2009

General: See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8091273

Physical Description: Bound in modern three quarter calf, marbled boards. [350] p. ; 26 cm.

Scope and Contents:

1. James Winthrop (1752-1821), the translator/compiler, is sixth generation of John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1769 and assumed the duty of librarian in 1772. He was a founding member of the American Academy of Arts, a Judge of Common pleas in Middlesex, Mass., and a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Although his primary interest was in the interpretation of biblical prophecies, Winthrop was also interested in philology and languages. His friendship with William Bentley and Timothy Alden induced him to leave his extensive library, which was in its day one of the best private collections in Massachusetts, to Allegheny College, of Meadsville, Pa.
2. Binder's title.
3. Bound with: Locke, John. Common place-book, on the principles practiised by John Locke esq. New-Haven : Published and sold by Increase Cooke & co., 1804.
4. Original manuscript in ink, possibly the earliest substantial Chinese/English dictionary. The work consists of 1 p. captioned "Scale of Principal sounds in English & Chinese"; 3 pages with headings, but otherwise blank; 104 p. alphabetical index of English words or phrases with their equivalents in Chinese characters; 242 p., each divided into two vertical columns, with a listing of "13,316" characters with their meaning or meanings in English. Winthrop describes the work thus: "The foregoing is a translation of de Guignes great Chinese, french & Latin Dictionary, printed at Paris by order of Napoleon and finished in 1813. It was sent to me by an American Lady of my acquaintance who resides in Paris. I received it at Boston on 7 August, A.D. 1818 & about a week afterwards began this work, I finished it this 24th March A D 1818. Anno AEtatis 57. The original is a large folio of twelve hundred pages & printed on Vellulm paper. [signed] James Winthrop" -- final leaf.
5. See IUCAT record: https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8071777

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased: 2008