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01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0606 Thomas Edison Items, 1896-1927Add to your cart. (3.0 Items)

Collection of items signed by inventor and businessman, Thomas Edison. Transferred from the Krannert Art Museum's L.A. Meyers Collection. 1) Note from Chief Engineer Hutchinson to Edison and Edison's reply, regarding an article written by Meyers. Former Shelfmark: Meyers 169. 2) Photographs and inscription from Edison to Edison Pioneers. Former Shelfmark: Meyers ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0270 La Ciméné [manuscript] : drama per musica del march[es]e Scipione Sacrati., [16--]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. codex. In verse. Foliated 1-57. Origin: Probably written in Italy in the second half of the seventeenth century. Binding: Contemporary leather over pasteboards; marbled pastedowns. Provenance: Bookplate on inside of front board with initials B. O. Former shelfmark: Ms. 409 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Former shelfmark: Italian Plays MS 853S16 Oc (University of Illinois ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0098 La regle Saint Benoit, [ca. 1270?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23670397]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23670397[/url] Ms. codex. Title from opening rubric; place and date from dealer's description. Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (parchment, i is pastedown) + 59 (foliated 1-59) + ii (parchment, ii is pastedown) ; 1-7? (+3) ; horizontal catchwords in inner margin of verso of last leaf of ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0198 La vincitrice Caterina: tragedia spirituale del Vigoroso Accademico Vnito di Cortona., [1614-1615]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/285313189]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/285313189[/url] Ms. codex. Prose play in five acts. Dedication signed: Federigo Venuti. Possibly used as the compositor's copy for an edition printed at Florence by "Gio. Donato, e Bernardino Giunti, e compagni" in 1615. Binding: Limp vellum. Provenance: Purchased from Sansone, July 24, 1961. Herrick, M.T. Italian ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0209 La vie de Francoise Durand [manuscript] : Avec, un recueil de lettres et diffrents ouvrages de piet qu'elle  compose pendant sa vie, transcrits fidell, [MDCCLVI [1756]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. codex. Binding: Contemporary calf with gilt borders and dentelles. Provenance: Acquired from Hammelmann, 20 July 1956. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 209. Letters numbered XXIV-XCVII and dated between 1675 and 1685. Fols. 209v-212v contain a table of contents. -- Fols. 1 and 213-214 blank.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0367 Fernand Laffineur letter, circa 1956Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Papers of Fernand Laffineur, including one autographed letter signed to Nicolas Obolensky.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0078 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck papers, 1795-1816Add to your cart. (11.0 Items)

Papers of Fernand Laffineur, including one autographed letter signed to Nicolas Obolensky.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0368 Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine letter, 1864 December 5Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Papers of Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine, including one autographed letter signed.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0041 Lamplugh, Thomas. Commonplace book, 1642-1678Add to your cart. (1.0 Volume)

This commonplace book (100 pages, many of which are blank) belonged to Thomas Lamplugh, Archbishop of York (1615-1691), likely between 1642 and 1678. The contents, primarily in Latin, largely consist of oratories and notes about religion and other subjects, often delivered at or otherwise mentioning "Oxon." Some later entries, including ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0294 [Land patents] [manuscript]., [1837-1861]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Collection of printed land patent forms, with filled blanks, from 1837-1839, 1857-1858, and 1861. Concerns lands in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Signed by Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln; issued by the General Land Office, Washington, D.C. Ms. Title supplied by cataloger. Presented by Hortense B. Hopkins; Former shelfmark: Q. 973 ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0616 Large music ms. with illuminatrea in Latin on vellum, undatedAdd to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Large music manuscript on vellum.

02/Larsen Henning Larsen Scandinavian Folklore CollectionAdd to your cart. (2275.0 Volumes)

The Henning Larsen Scandinavian Folklore Collection consists of 2 parts: 275 volumes mainly of the works of Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Engebretsen Moe, nineteenth-century collectors and publishers of Norwegian folktales and legends. Also includes 25 mainly first edition Ibsen plays. 2,000 volumes from Larsen's private library consisting largely of books on ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0144 [Latin works], [ca. 1375-1400]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/859210570]www.worldcat.org/oclc/859210570[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0254 [Latin fragment, 17th century?] [manuscript], [16--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

An unidentified Latin fragment containing reference to Isocrates and a certain Theophilus (Saint Theophilus? Theophilus antecessor?). Ms. fragment. Title supplied by cataloger. Script: In an early modern continenal hand. Origin: Location and date conjectures based on script and imprint of book in which fragment was found. Provenance: Originally laid-in between p. 80-81 of IU shelfmark ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0106 [Latin Psalter], [ca. 1375-1425]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560773]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560773[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0128 [Latin epigrams]., [8--? or 9--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70368707]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70368707[/url] Binding fragment containing 16 Latin epigrams by Bede, Cellanus, Damasus, and others. This fragment preserves the only extant witness of Bede's epigrammatic poem "In absida basilice," concerning the dedication of the cathedral of Cyneberhtus, Bishop of Lindsey. Possibly compiled by Milred, Bishop of ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0549 Latrodectus Mactans: a Suggested Remedy in Angina Pectoris, 1889Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Handwritten Manuscript for "Latrodectus Mactans: a Suggested Remedy in Angina Pectoris" written by Dr. Samuel Arthur Jones and was printed in "Homeopathic Recorder" July 1889. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665211312205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665211312205899[/url]

01/01/MSS00116 Laurence Lieberman Papers, 1956-2020Add to your cart. (27.0 Cubic Feet; 31 linear feet of manuscripts and correspondence, as well as over 800 books, serials, and offprints.)

The Lieberman papers document Laurence Lieberman's (1935-2024) career as poet, poetry editor, and critic. The materials include holograph and typescript manuscripts of essays and poems, as well as correspondence and documents regarding readings, reviews, proofs, contracts, and editorial work. The bulk of the materials date from between 1962 and 2016. ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0151 [Historia scholastica], [12--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63280252]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63280252[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0194 [Lease, between 1603 and 1625, of land in Lancashire to James Anderson]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/245119986]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/245119986[/url] A legal document transferring some land in Clayton, Lancashire from a certain James Browne to a certain James Anderson for an unknown number of pounds, five shillings and eight pence. Ms. fragment. Title supplied by cataloger. Script: In an early 17th century English chancery hand. Origin: Date ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0185 [Lease, 1386 January 28, of Smartys in Westhorselegh from James Berners, knight, to Henry and Matillda Cumbe], [1386]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232575691]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232575691[/url] Land grant by Sir James Berners to Henry and Matillda Cumbe and heirs in perpetuity for a plot called Smartys in Westhorseleghe, Surrey, worth 18s. yearly. Script: In an English chancery hand. Provenance: Acquired from Myers, 15 May 1959. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0213 [Lease, 1729 September 17, of land in Stanton to John Godbold] [manuscript], [1729]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

A legal agreement between Robert Davy and John Godbold in which the latter has agreed to pay eleven pounds for a tenement of land in Stanton (Suffolk?). Ms. document. Accompanying materials: One wax seal (red, 1.6 cm. diam.) mostly extant with the sign of an anchor affixed to foot of document beside ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0129 [Lease, 1664 April 14, of land in the parish of Ivinghoe to Henry Hobbs] [manuscript]., [1664]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Document granting license to Henry Hobbs to sublease land to Joseph Duncombe in the parish of Ivinghoe. Signed "Bridgewater". Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Purchased from Myers, 21 December 1949.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0224 A lecture on elocution for poplar on 9 May 1837. [manuscript], [1837]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. leaves. Caption title on fol. 1r. Origin: Location conjectured by cataloger. Provenance: Gift of Richard Murphy esqr., 9 March 1979. -- Sold by Dobell 16 March 1960 (Cat. 161 no. 525). Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 224. Leaves are numbered on recto in the center near the gutter. -- Verso ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0369 Joseph Sheridan le Fanu letter, 1868 June 20Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Papers of Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, including one autographed letter signed.

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0090 [Legal formulae, in Latin and English], [15-- or 16--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70516041]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70516041[/url] Origin: Written in England, 16th or 17th century. Provenance: Purchased from Norman, 1947. Former shelfmark: x 347.93 L5223 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci (suppl.)

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0239 [Legal document, 1683] [manuscript], [1683]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

An unidentified type of legal document (obligation?) regarding a certain Henrie and Edward & Andrew Morris. Text appears to be identical on recto and verso. Ms. fragment. Title supplied by cataloger. Script: In a 17th century English hand (same hand on recto and verso). Origin: Location based on script. -- Date from verso: "Anno ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0182 [Legal summons, 1649 March 15, to John Monday concerning Ann, wife of William Pembridg], [1649]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192005308]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192005308[/url] Ms. fragment. Text signed "FFra: West"; author's name also appears in first line of text; attributed to Francis West, Lt. of the Tower of London. Dated "xv dii Martij ... 1649" in first line; possibly written in 1650 (Lady Day dating). Title supplied by ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0181 [Legal document], [1645]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166404961]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166404961[/url] Legal document requiring William Penington of Stepney to appear at Newgate Gaol to present a bill of indictment against Robert Berrie. Dated "11 die Aprilis Ano. Reg. Regis Carolis pr xxi", i.e. 11 April 1645. Signed by Isaac Penington. Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0112 [Legal instruments of the Parish of St. Clement Danes, Westminster]., [1572-1600]Add to your cart. (9.0 Boxes)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70692989]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70692989[/url] Legal instruments of the Parish of St. Clement Danes, Westminster, dated 1572 to 1600, consisting almost entirely of bonds whereby the parish, having made provision for certain of its poor, mostly children, is released from supporting them. Unbound, in portfolio. Provenance: Purchased from Myers & ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0121 [Legal document] [manuscript]., [1677 Dec. 10]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Provisional record

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0203 [Legenda aurea], [13--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/437266548]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/437266548[/url] A single leaf from the Legenda aurea, containing the end of the life of St. Mark, the entirety of the life of St. Marcelin, and the beginning of the life of St. Vital. Ms. leaf. Title supplied by cataloger. Layout: Written in 35 long lines, below ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0122 [Legenda aurea], 1285Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/860904164]www.worldcat.org/oclc/860904164[/url]

02/Leiber Fritz Leiber, Sr.  personal collection of booksAdd to your cart. (3.0 Cubic Feet)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/860904164]www.worldcat.org/oclc/860904164[/url]

01/01/MSS00029 Fritz Leiber Sr. papers, ca. 1909-1947Add to your cart. (16.9 Cubic Feet)

Correspondence, promptbooks, scripts, props, scrapbooks, and other theater memorabilia of Fritz Leiber, Fritz Leiber, Jr., and Virginia Leiber, and their acting company, Fritz Leiber & Co.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0234 Les tragedies de Sophocle [manuscript]., [17--]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

A French translation of the works of Sophocles by Estienne Papin. Ms. codex. Title from fol. 2r. -- Translators name from l.5 of poem on fol. 256r. Fol. 2v-4v: La vie de Sophocle. -- Fol. 5r-42r: Ajax. -- Fol. 42v-81r: Electre. -- Fol. 81v-122r: Oedipe I. -- Fol. 122r-164r: Oedipe II. -- Fol. ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0222 Les incommodites de la grandeur comedie [manuscript] / Par le Pere du Cerceau, [ca. 1721]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. codex. Caption title on fol. 1r. Binding: Contemporary full calf with printed waste beneath pastedowns. Origin: Date conjectured on basis of 1721 printed edition. Terminus ad quem is 1797 based on dated autograph on rear pastedown: "Siward 1797". Provenance: Two library ink stamps on front pastedown (rubbed). -- Acquired from Hammelmann, 5 December ...

01/01/MSS00030 Leskosky collection of film press kits, 1939-2007Add to your cart. (57.0 Cubic Feet)

This collection of film press kits was compiled and donated by Richard Leskosky to The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It consists of 37 cartons containing film press kits. Materials include photographs, pamphlets, letters, slides, CD-ROMs and digital press kits (DPK).

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0216 [Letter, February 28, Aldwincle, John Webster to Sir Francis Bodenham], 1616-1645Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861284561]www.worldcat.org/oclc/861284561[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0293 [Letter 1777 Feb. 10 to William Eden] [manuscript]., [1777]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Lord North to William Eden: "I received the inclosed this evening from Mr Vardill. Perhaps the information may be of service to Col: Smith. I am sorry to tell you that I am more apprehensive than I was that there is some truth in the article of news ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0307 [Letter and typescript poem, 3 Rutherford Place, New York City, to Iriving Moore] [manuscript]., [ca. 1905]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter and poem from Albert Bigelow Paine to Irving Moore, responding to a request for material to include in an anthology of Illinois poets, which Moore co-edited with L.E. Robinson; Paine mentions that he lived in Xenia, Ill. until he was 18, but does not know any other Illinois writers, ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0288 [Letter] 1861 Jan. 18, Milledgeville [to] J.C. Early [manuscript]., [1861]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Hamilton writes to J. C. Early about a vote and relays his feelings that "an awful war is just at hand". Holograph. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Removed from Harwell 1518, Apr. 15, 2009.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0604 Letter of Patent, 1654 October 20Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter of patent, 1654 October 20, by which property in Denbigh County Wales is granted to Hugh Dryhurst. Sheet. 37x68cm. fold. to 24x11cm. Ms. on parchment. Broken seal, pendant. Former Shelfmark: MS 347.2 G798l Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99196550412205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99196550412205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0518 H. G. Wells letter to Aage Marcus, 1911Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to [Aage Marcus]. [circa. 1911] Link to course catalog: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656182212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656182212205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0507 H. G. Wells letter to George Meek, 1910Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to [George] Meek. [ca. 1910] Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181112205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181112205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0487 Letter to [Mrs. Siegfried Sassoon], 1937Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to 'Dear Hester' [Mrs. Siegfried Sassoon], reading: 'It's lovely of you to give me refuge. May I come on May 9th.?' Written on one side of a correspondence card, c. 88 x 112 mm. dated March 5, 1937. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134712205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0517 H. G. Wells letter to Alistair Taylor, 1932Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to [Alistair] Taylor. date July 14, 1932. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656182112205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656182112205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0506 H. G. Wells letter to C. S. Evans, 1930Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS From H. G. Wells to C. S. Evans. dated Match 7, 1930. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181012205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181012205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0554 Letter to Col. A. R. Wyme, 1846Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS to Col. A. R. Wyme from William Harris. Former Shelfmark: Uncat 77 979 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665974212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665974212205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0531 Letter to G. V. Marks, 1922Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to G. V. Marks. dated August 3, 1922. Link to catalog record:[url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188512205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188512205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0556 Letter to Grace Ziegler, 1977-1981Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS sent to Grace Ziegler from American Radio Broadcaster, Lowell Thomas concerning the release of the second volume of his autobiography. dated Nov 23, 1977. Also contains two clippings from 1981 reporting the death of Lowell Thomas and Letter written by Grace Ziegler to the University of Illinois about the letter ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0570 Letter to H. G. Wells, 1945Add to your cart. (1.0 Letters)

A.L.S sent to H. G. Wells by Chunder. Dated June 18, 1945.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0484 Letter to Herbert Rix, 1902Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to Herbert Rix, agreeing to take part in conference, evidently on aspects of heredity & breeding, suggesting Archdall Reid & Galton are invited, asking to be informed of the date & place. dated 1902/08/05 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134412205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134412205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0486 Letter to M. Davray, 1929Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to M. Davray, his French translator, saying 'Why the telegraphic haste? A thousand down is not enough by itself & also I want details of the proposed agreement...' 1 page. dated April 29, 1929. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134612205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134612205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0500 H. G. Wells letter to Madam Rolland, 1937Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to Madam Rolland. dated June 2, 1937. French Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180412205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180412205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0568 Letter to Matthew Davenport Hill, 1856Add to your cart. (1.0 Letters)

A.L.S from Frances Trollop to the penal reformer Matthew Davenport Hill, expressing unequivocal support for his daughters in making their way in the world as writers. Dated 5th Sept. 1856

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0488 Letter to Mr. Norman, [19--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to Mr. Norman saying, "Thanks. I'm sending for some copies of the [u]Forward[/u] .' Written on a correspondence card, 88 x 113mm. [n. d.] Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134812205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0545 Letter to Palmer, undatedAdd to your cart. (1.0 Items)

A.L.S from H. G. Wells to Palmer. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665148712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665148712205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0503 H. G. Wells letter to Perris, 1910Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS, from H. G. Wells to Perris. dated 1910/11/25 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180712205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0501 H. G. Wells letter to R. K. Watson, 1902Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to R. K. Watson about the First Men in the Moon, expressing gratitude for the attention Mr. Watson has given his book and accepting his "sound" criticism on matters of scientific fact; he does, however, point out that the book was reviewed in [i]Nature[/i] and ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0505 H. G. Wells letter to R. Weatherall, 1932Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to R. Weatherall. dated December 7, 1932. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180912205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180912205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0508 H. G. Wells letter to Russian Ambassador, Count Benckendorff, 1914Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to Russian Amabassador, Count Benckendorff. [d. 1914] Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181212205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0509 H. G. Wells letter to Semya, 1907Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

ALS from H. G. Wells to Miss Semya. dated March 3, 1907. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181312205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181312205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0589 Letter to T. R. Malthus, 1820Add to your cart. (1.0 Letters)

A.L.S to T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus from Dulgald Stewart. Dated August 10, 1820.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0492 Correspondence Wells and M. Meeter, [1915 - 1916]Add to your cart. (2.0 Items)

1) Draft of letter from M. Meeter to Wells [n. d.] 2) ALS from H. G. Wells to M. Meeter [n. d.] Provenance: Gift from A. Brouwer-Heybrock. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135212205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0077 LETTER, 1965 MARCH 7, HANCOCK, N.H., TO HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA, ILLINOIS.Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

1) Draft of letter from M. Meeter to Wells [n. d.] 2) ALS from H. G. Wells to M. Meeter [n. d.] Provenance: Gift from A. Brouwer-Heybrock. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135212205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0194 [Letter, 1747 May 23, to Sarah Wescomb, Enfield] [manuscript] / S. Richardson., [1747]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Holograph, signed. Title supplied by cataloger. Lacks bottom right corner. Accompanied by a facsimile of Richardson's 1757 April 2 letter to Erasmus Reich and transcriptions by John Dussinger. Former shelfmark: MS F. 826 R39? (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). [b]Also Contains:[/b] [Letter 1757 April 2, London to Erasmus Reich, Leipzig] / S. Richardson. Title supplied ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0231 [Letter, 11 March 1852, James Buchanan to William P. Schell, Esq.] [manuscript], 1852Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Holograph by Buchanan in which he asks Schell to present a petition that the polls be kept open later than the customary 7 o'clock closing hour in order to allow the laboring men of Lancaster to vote after supper. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99196953812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99196953812205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0242 [Letter, 1953 June 24, from President Eisenhower to Dr. R. B. Downs] [manuscript], 1953Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Answers a letter of R.B. Downs, president of the American Library Association, meeting in annual Conference. Commends the "spirit of conscientious citizenship ruling its deliberations," and praises the service of the country's librarians in the cause of freedom of inquiry, of the spoken and written word, and of exchange of ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0139 [Letter, 1909 Jan. 18, Redding, Conn. to William Dean Howells] [manuscript]., [1909]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter of Mark Twain, 18 January 1909, to William Dean Howells in which Twain discusses Howells's "Poe article" and Jane Austen's prose. Holograph, signed. Title supplied by cataloger. On Twain's letterhead, "Stormfield Redding Connecticut". Provenance: Accompanied by note: "Mark Twain to William Dean Howells (given me by Mr. Howells, New York, January 26, 1909. ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0196 [Letter, ca. 1761, W Shenstone to Mr. Livie] [manuscript], [ca. 1761?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. document. Title, location and date supplied by cataloger. Date conjectured on basis of marginal note: "Buy Priestley's rudiments. of English grammar 1s. 6.", which was first printed in 1761 (ESTC T46906). Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 196. Document contains a trace of red sealing wax.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0131 [Letter, 1824 Jan. 26, Frankfurt an der Oder to Georg Reimer] [manuscript]., [1824]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter of Leopold von Ranke to his publisher, George Reimer, in which he discusses his Geschichten der romanischen und germanischen Vlker von 1494 bis 1514, his apprehensions about state censorship, and his method of citation as used in the book. Holograph, signed. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Purchased by the University of Illinois ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0145 [Letter, 1893 April 23, London to John Swinnerton Phillimore] [manuscript]., [1893]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter signed by a "C. B. Rep." (possibly a pseudonym?), 23 April 1893, to John Swinnerton Phillimore. Letterhead has address "86. Eaton Place. S.W." Holograph, signed. Title supplied by cataloger. Former shelfmark: Uncat. MS. Q. 091 M681 no. 5 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0187 [Letter, 1740 June 21, Newington to Enoch Watts] [manuscript]., [1740]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Holograph, signed. Title supplied by cataloger. Dated "Newington June 21st, 1740". Addressed on verso "To Mr Enoch Watts in Southamton". With red wax seal. Provenance: Purchased from Norman, 1 July 1948.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0299 [Letter, 1828 Jan. 15, Dublin to his nephew William] [manuscript]., [1828]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Henry Whenham to his nephew William: "My dear William ... Gilchester must have had some difficulty in making choice between the case which looked best & the lock which is best. Which ever has fallen to your lot I trust it may be useful to you. Having heard ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0125 [Letter, 1905?] May 13, Campden, [Gloucestershire, to Penelope] Wheeler [manuscript]., [1905?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Other title: Formerly cataloged under the title: A.L.S. to Mrs. Penelope Wheeler (actress). Holograph, signed. Title supplied by cataloger. Former shelfmark: Uncat 75 1 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0302 [Letter, 1902 Jan. 17, Max Gate, Dorchester, to Frederic George Kitton] [manuscript]., [1902]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Thomas Hardy to Frederic George Kitton, apologizing for his delayed response and declining an offer to write the introduction to a new edition of Thackeray, "with my thanks for Mr Sproul's invitation to me to contribute to such an interesting & important series of books"; the edition of ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0324 [Letter, 1963 Aug. 7, Berkeley, Calif., to Mary Jane Wilson] [manuscript]., [1963]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from James D. Hart: "Aug 7, 1963 Dear Miss Wilson: I've just reread your essay of 1946 for the first time since you gave it to me and I find it a fine piece of work. I hope the enclosed will help bring it up to date along with ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0325 [Letter, 1963 Sept. 20, Berkeley, Calif., to Mary Jane Wilson] [manuscript]., [1963]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from James D. Hart to Mary Jane Wilson regarding her request for suggestions from Hart on an article she had written. Hart mentions Wilson's recent visit to Berkeley and continues, "I count myself very lucky to have you as the historian and bibliographer of The Hart Press. With the ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0227 [Letter, 1769 January 18, Henry Kurtz to his brother, Peter Kurtz] [manuscript], [1769]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. fragments. Author's name from signature at end. -- Title supplied by cataloger. Origin: Location and date from head of first fragment recto which reads: "Philad. of 18 January 1769". -- Verso of second fragment stamped "Philadelphia". Provenance: Gift of Professor Henri Stegemeier, 4 December 1958. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0310 [Letter, 1794 Oct. 21, Fetter Lane, London] [manuscript]., [1794]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Christian Ignatius Latrobe addressed to "Revd. Sir", probably Thomas Williams or Matthew Wilks; Latrobe notes that he has enclosed a copy of his 'History of the mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America', which he translated from the German of George Henry Loskiel, and ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0305 [Letter, 1761 Sept. 28, St. James's Place, to an official in the government war office] [manuscript]., [1761]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Alexander Leslie, Lord Lindores, to an official in the government war office; Lindores remarks on the death of Ensign Francks, as reported by Captain Marschall, who commanded two of Lindores's companies "at Emden"; Lindores recounts the abilities and accomplishments of a sergeant major in his regiment, "either a ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0298 [Letter, London, to "My dear sir"] [manuscript]., [between 1863 and 1872]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from John Francis Maguire addressed to "My dear sir", describing his delivery of a speech before "the Government" (presumably the House of Commons); the author indicates that he is sending the speech to "the Freeman", per the request of Sir John Gray, but that it will first appear in ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0221 [Letter, 1968 September 17, Baladine Klossowska to Gerhard Mayer] [manuscript], [1968]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger. Accompanying materials: Envelope postmarked Paris 1968 addressed to Mr Gerhard Mayer in Highland Park, Illinois. -- Two photographs: one a photo of a sketch of young Rilke with inscription by Merline on the back which reads "Rilke ... ans nach einer ... Baladine Foto"; the ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0280 Edward Russell, earl of Orford letter, 1697 Nov. 4, [1697]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Autograph letter signed, written during the period of Orford's representing Cambridgeshire as M.P. The letter solicits a favor on behalf of "one of the honest men of Cambridge" and is endorsed "Ld. Orford touching the Hartfordshire Malsters &c. Recd. the 6th of November 1697." Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Gift of ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0282 [Letter, 1827 to Joseph Hume] [manuscript]., [1827]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter of Nathaniel Morgan, 1827, to Joseph Hume, M.P., in which Morgan discusses Henry Burgess's 1826 book on banking (A letter to the Right Hon. George Canning, to explain in what manner the industry of the people, and the productions of the country, are connected with, and influenced by, internal ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0133 [Letter, 1844 April 3, London to Charles T. Parsons] [manuscript]., [1844]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

A note found among the papers of Isabella Parsons, daughter of the recipient, after her death in 1946. Consists of the autograph signature of Dickens, his address "1 Devonshire Terrace York Gate Regent's Park.", the date "Third April 1844", and the following note: "For C.T.P. with Mr Dickens' compliments. But ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0306 George William Featherstonhaugh letter, 1832 Oct. 13, Buckland, Va., to William Buckland, Christ's Church, Oxford, England, [1832]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from George William Featherstonhaugh to William Buckland, discussing the geology and mineralogy of the area surrounding Buckland, Virginia; while the author briefly touches on the larger geological features and mineral deposits of the entire American East, he focuses on the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains, particularly on a lode ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0327 [Letter, 1951 Oct. 20, Paris, France, to François-Marie Braun, Brussels, Belgium] [manuscript]., [1951]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Elisabeth Greffulhe to F.-M. Braun, in which Greffulhe discusses a letter that Braun had sent to her sister. Ms. document. Holograph, signed. Title supplied by cataloger. Origin: Dated "20 Octobre 1951"; on letterhead labeled "10, Rue d'Astorg. VIIIe."; original envelope postmarked "Paris VIII 49 Rue La Botie 18-00 23-10 1951". Former shelf-mark: Uncat. ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0296 Peter Cunningham letter, 5 May 1866, to Horace Baker, [1866]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Peter Cunningham to Horace Baker, thanking Baker for a compliment, reminiscing about an Archaeological Institute meeting in Norwich, and asking Baker to give his regards to "Mr. Fitch the Chemist" and a Mr. Henry Harrow. Ms. document. Holograph, signed. Title supplied by cataloger. Dated: 5th. May 1866. Former shelf-mark: Uncat. MS 70185.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0112 [Letter, 1840 Mar. 20, London to David Milne] [manuscript]., [1840]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter of Charles Darwin, 20 March 1840, to David Milne (unnamed in the letter) in which Darwin discusses earthquakes, comments on his scientific writings and promises to send his correspondent, referred to him by the geologist Sir Charles Lyell, a copy of a forthcoming essay. Holograph, signed. Title supplied by cataloger. Dated "12 ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0301 [Letter, 1863 Sept. 22, Mobile, Ala. to General Winder, Richmond, Va.] [manuscript]., [1863]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Jules C. Denis, Major and Provost Marshal, to General John H. Winder, Commander of Henrico County, informing him that he is sending him three men: H.H. Cowdry and H. Bailey, both "charged with disloyalty" to the Confederate States of America, and J.P. McGregor, who "ran the blockade & ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0309 Barton Booth letter, 1732 Nov. 5, [1732]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Barton Booth: "Sir, When I desird the favour of seeing you this evening I had forgot that I had appointed a gentleman to hear his tragedy read at [the] same time. A messenger came to me this morning to put me in mind of the appointment. As the ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0297 [Letter, 1924 Apr. 5, Auburn, New York to Dixie] [manuscript]., [1924]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letter from Samuel Hopkins Adams addressed to "Dixie", asking her to investigate advertising "the copies of Life" (presumably his Life of Henry Foster, M.D.) in Publishers Weekly and The Bookman; Adams remarks that his agent, Carl Brandt, "thinks that the Century volumes probably haven't much value." Typescript letter with autograph in ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0167 [Letter, 1650, Oxford to Richard Royston, London], [1650]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/06934793]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/06934793[/url] Three fragments of a letter, removed from the binding of a copy of Peter Heylyn's Theologia veterum of 1654 (Wing (2nd ed.), H1738). The letter is an order "[F]or mr Royston [B]ookseller att ye Angell in Ivy lane whose [?] in London" from ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0092 [Letter, 3 January 1451, to John a Berney, Sir Thomas Howes, Walter Shipdham, and Geffrey Spirlynge], [1451]Add to your cart. (2.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70342929]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70342929[/url] Signed letter of John Fastolf, upon whom Shakespeare based his character, Sir John Falstaff. The document is dated 3 January 1451, and is addressed to Fastolf's cousin, John a Berney, and to Sir Thomas Howes, Walter Shipdham, and Geffrey Spirlynge. This letter ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0201 [Letter, 1633 June 15, Westminster, to "My very good lorde"], [1633]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436870175]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436870175[/url] Letter from Thomas Wentworth, humbly thanking "My very good lorde" for visiting him before his "removall into the cuntry", and for all that this "very good lorde" has done for him; Wentworth acknowledges his indebtedness to the recipient and ensures the recipient that ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0113 [Letter, 1516 Dec. 13, Milan to Rev. Marco and associates], [13 Dec. 1516]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63670250]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63670250[/url] Letter from Marchese Orlando Pallavicino of Milan concerning the surrender of property, formerly the dowry of his second wife, Domitillia, ne Gambara, to his creditor, Bernardino Ghillio. Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger. Dated "die xiij dicembris. M. D. xvj" and signed "Rolando m[arch]ese pall[avici]no man[o] ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0114 [Letter, 1595 Dec. 21, Rome to Giovanni Francesco Ridolfi], [21 Dec. 1595]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63135735]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63135735[/url] Letter from Cardinal Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini notifying Giovanni Francesco Ridolfi that goods for the Duke of Urbino, passing through the customs house at Rome, are to be immune from payment of duties. Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger. Dated "Di Palazzo 2i di Dicembri i595"; ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0157 [Letter, 1622 Nov. 19, Whitehall, London, to King James I], [19 Nov. 1622]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68965522]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68965522[/url] Letter addressed to King James I, dated 19 Nov. 1622, describing the steps taken in the dispute between the British Cabinet and the Dutch in which the British apparently endeavored to "appease" the latter but without much effect. Signed by William Herbert, Third ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0284 Martin Secker letter books, [1910-1931]Add to your cart. (8.0 Items)

Secker's file of outgoing, typewritten correspondence to numerous authors and publishers between Sept. 5, 1910, and Jan. 19, 1931. Arranged chronologically; each volume includes a manuscript index of names. Typescript (mimeograph). Title supplied by cataloger. Binding: Bound in manufactured letter-books. Provenance: Purchased from Stevens, Apr. 24, 1969. Former shelfmark: MS 655.442 Se2? (University of Illinois ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0083 Letters to Mrs. Blackburn, 1854-1895Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Secker's file of outgoing, typewritten correspondence to numerous authors and publishers between Sept. 5, 1910, and Jan. 19, 1931. Arranged chronologically; each volume includes a manuscript index of names. Typescript (mimeograph). Title supplied by cataloger. Binding: Bound in manufactured letter-books. Provenance: Purchased from Stevens, Apr. 24, 1969. Former shelfmark: MS 655.442 Se2? (University of Illinois ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0084 Morris, William. Letters to William Allingham, [1869?-1881?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Only three of the letters include the year in the date line: 186- (printed), 1874 and 1881. The dates 1869-1881 are those assigned the letters by the former owner, Arthur G.B. Randle. Autographed letters signed.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0086 Letters from recipients of copies of James Webb Young's booksAdd to your cart. (1.0 Boxes)

Advertising consultant, vice president of the J. Walter Thompson Co., New York visiting lecturer in the University Of Illinois College Of Journalism in 1963. Most of the letters are typed, with holograph signature. Former shelfmark: q B.Y732y1l

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0304 [Letters to W.B. Tegetmeier, 1880-1904] [manuscript]., [1880-1904]Add to your cart. (12.0 Items)

Mss. documents. All letters are signed; all letters are holographic, except the 2 from H. Buxton Forman dated 1883, which were probably written by a secretary. Title supplied by cataloger. Former shelf-mark: Uncat 72 11 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). 1. [Letter from Edith Clarke, 1880 May 27, Kensington, London, asking Tegetmeier what ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0269 [Letters to Gaston Gallimard, Berthe Lemari, and Louis de Robert, 1917-1918] [manuscript]., [1917-1918]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Six holograph letters from Proust to his publisher Gaston Gallimard, Berthe Lemari (Gallimard's assistant), and Louis de Robert, regarding Proust's concerns about the publication of  l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs and Le Ct de Guermantes. One letter is dated "17 Aout 1918". These letters are not found in Pascal ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0303 [Letters and photograph, 1910-1925] [manuscript]., [1910-1925]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Seven letters from John Masefield to Penelope Wheeler, containing remarks on her performance in a production of "The tragedy of Nan" that the author attended; recommendation for a song for a performance of "The tragedy of Nan"; recommendations for a production of "The locked chest"; compliments on another of Wheeler's ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0514 H. G. Wells letters, 1903-1944Add to your cart. (3.0 Items)

1) ALS, dated 1903/12/04 2) ALS, dated 1944/08/24 3) Autograph, undated Provenance: Purchased from Christies Jun 6, 1997 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181812205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0499 Letters from H. G. Wells, 20th centuryAdd to your cart. (2.0 Items)

2 ALS from H. G. Wells. Recipient unknown. [n. d.] Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180312205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180312205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0605 Letters of Disraeli, 1835-1880Add to your cart. (4.0 Items)

Clippings relating to his political and literary life, photographs, documents, etc. Collected by Wilfred Meynell before, during, and after writing his biography. With manuscripts notes and descriptions by Meynell. Includes 18 a. l. s. of Disraeli, two other autograph letters (one written by Sarah Disraeli and one by Mrs. Gore, the ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0504 H. G. Wells letters to Joseph McCabe, 1943Add to your cart. (2.0 Items)

1) ALS from H. G. Wells to [Joseph] McCabe. dated August, 30 [19]43. 2) ALS from H. G. Wells to [Joseph] McCabe. dated November 2, 1943. Link to catalog record:[url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656180712205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0483 Letters to Freeman, Richard A., 1932Add to your cart. (5.0 Items)

Correspondence from H. G. Wells to Richard A. Freeman. 5 ALS making arrangements to give talk to the October Club, protesting at the suggested title, "Impotence of Reformism, subsequently criticising the Club, enclosing "A revised & extended note of the propositions I sent you previously', & explaining why he does ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0490 Letters to G. B. Gloyne, [19--?]Add to your cart. (2.0 Items)

2 ALS from H. G. Wells to G. B. Gloyne regarding iguanas. [n. d. ] Provenence: Purchased from Alan and Rosalie Newton. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135012205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135012205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0519 Letters to John S. Kebabian, 1967-1984Add to your cart. (2.0 Items)

1) TLS from Dan H. Laurence of New York University to John S. Kebabian. dated April 15, 1967. 2) ALS from Anthony West to John S. Kebabian. date July 9, 1984. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187212205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0494 Letters to Mark Sullivan, [19--?]Add to your cart. (2.0 Items)

2 ALS from H. G. Wells to the writer, Mark Sullivan, each trying to arrange a meeting. [n. d.] Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135412205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135412205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0489 Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Parker, 1914-1918Add to your cart. (6.0 Items)

6 ALS from H. G. Wells to Mr and Mrs. Parker. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134912205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134912205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0074 Letters, 1804-21., 1804-1821Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Politician, agriculturist. Letter to Ralph Benson, approving his political views and announcing publication of his letters in Cobbett?s Weekly political register. Two letters to Dr. George Mitford, father of Mary Russell Mitford, from whom Cobbett had purchased a dog. And a letter to a "James" asking him to find employment ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0248 [Letters, 1730-1732, from Jonathan Richardson to Ralph Palmer] [manuscript], [1730-1732]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Contains four letters from the author to Ralph Palmer esqr. in Little Chelsea. The third letter contains mention of Milton's Paradise Lost. Ms. codex. Author's name from autograph on fol. 5r. -- Title supplied by cataloger. Script: In an early 18th century English hand. Binding: Modern aquamarine cloth. Accompanying materials: With 4 seals: Fols. 5v, ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0300 [Letters, 1942, London to William] [manuscript]., [1942]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Three letters by Ruth Pitter addressed to "Dear William", discussing the author's new book (presumably "The rude potato"), which she calls a potboiler, noting that "2,000 subscribed before publication" but that "Macmillan (N.Y.) not only won't print it, but implore that no on shall, in America"; the author thanks William ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0136 [Letters, 1843 May 16-June 7, London to W.H. Aspinwall] [manuscript]., [1843]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Letters from Bentley to Aspinwall regarding Bentley's acquisition of the publishing rights for William H. Prescott's History of the conquest of Mexico. Bentley eventually acquired the rights and the work was published in 3 vols. in October 1843. The letters are all dated from New Burlington Street. Holographs, signed. Title supplied by ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0192 [Letters, 1601-1674], [1601-1674]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244296151]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244296151[/url] A collection of six letters, mostly English, concerning administrative matters. Ms. documents. Title supplied by cataloger. No. 1: Bifolium letter in French signed by Charles de Bourbon (notes in pencil identify him as the comte de Soissons who died in 1612). Dated in last line: ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0120 [Letters, 1671-1686, to Sir Robert Clayton and John Morris] [manuscript]., [1671-1686]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

A collection of 10 letters and 2 documents from Francis Newport, Earl of Bradford, and Andrew Newport, addressed to Sir Robert Clayton and Alderman John Morris. 1. Francis Newport to Robert Clayton, 7 February 1671. 2. Francis Newport to Robert Clayton, 3 March 1671. 3. Francis Newport to John Morris, 2[?] February 1673. 4. ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0241 [Letters, 1706-1710] [manuscript], [ca. 1711?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Contains copies of 229 letters, mostly in Italian, dating between 19 April 1706 and 27 December 1710. Ms. codex. Italian and French. Title supplied by cataloger. Contains copies of 229 letters, mostly in Italian, dating between 19 April 1706 and 27 December 1710. Binding: Contemporary vellum. -- Faded text on spine: "Letters in MS in ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0063 LETTRE DE NOEL DIX-NEUF-CENT-TRENTE-DEUX ECRITE A JOCELYNE PAR UN CERTAIN BELITRE., 1932Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Contains copies of 229 letters, mostly in Italian, dating between 19 April 1706 and 27 December 1710. Ms. codex. Italian and French. Title supplied by cataloger. Contains copies of 229 letters, mostly in Italian, dating between 19 April 1706 and 27 December 1710. Binding: Contemporary vellum. -- Faded text on spine: "Letters in MS in ...

01/01/MSS00106 Gay and Lesbian flyers from San Francisco, 1989-2001Add to your cart. (0.3 Cubic Feet)

Collection of ephemera relating to gay and lesbian culture in San Francisco from the 1990s. Consists chiefly of club flyers advertising parties and events. Also includes materials relating to movies and theater, AIDS activism, local businesses, religion, and other assorted items.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0173 Libellus concionum ad populum [manuscript]., 1675Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. codex. Title from fol. 1v. Date and author from fol. 114r. Location supplied by cataloger. Imperfect?; 2 leaves possibly missing between fols. 9 and 10. Note on fol. 114v reads: "This last sermon was preached at Averham. Jan: 17 1691". Binding: Contemporary worn calf. Provenance: Purchased from Gilbertson, 2 Oct 1950. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0135 [Liber ...de la porta archipresbiteri ecclesia], [14--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Purchased from Olschki, March 4, 1960

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0107 [Liber de regimine principum, etc.], [14--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70692957]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70692957[/url] Provenance: Acton Griscom, High Point, New Jersey -- Purchased from Harper, 1955. De Ricci. Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci (suppl.)

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0027 [Liber assisarum cum tabula], [15--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70155106]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70155106[/url] fol. 1r-62v: [Liber assisarum cum tabula, in Law-French] fol. 63r-68r: [Lectura sur l'estatuts de anno nono, de anno undecimo, etc., in several hands] fol. 69r-95v: [Lecturae super statutis autumnalis temporis] fol. 96v-99v: [Legal memoranda on the property of Sir Richard Morgan and his father-in-law, Robert Bayly ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0210 Libri de anima [manuscript], [1681]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. codex. Script: In a 17th century English secretary hand. Binding: Contemporary speckled calf. Origin: Written in England in 1681. Location based on script; date from colophon: "16a. Julij 1681". Provenance: Embossed armorial stamp on fol. 6r: "Bibliotheca Augusta Rhodocanakiana". -- Acquired from Heffer, 15 December 1941. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0572 Lincoln/Sandburg 6 cm Locket, undatedAdd to your cart. (1.0 Boxes)

Antique wood-and-metal locket, inside of which is a compartment with hand-written labels, "To Carl Sandburg" and "A. Lincoln Blood-Hair", and what appears to be a hair and piece of fabric.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0153 [List of birds at Shade Swamp Sanctuary] [manuscript] /, [1928-1929]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. documents. Title supplied by cataloger. [Letter from Armstrong to Oberholser (1 leaf)] -- [List of birds in the Shade Swamp Sanctuary (11 leaves)]. List dated 15 Dec. 1928; letter dated 11 March 1929. Provenance: Acquired from Harry Oberholser, 29 Sept. 1947. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 153.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0014 List of incunabula held by the University of Illinois Library, 1920s?Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

This item is a 13-page list of incunabula owned by the University of Illinois Library around the 1920s. Entries include copy-specific information about each item.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0109 [Lists, reports, and valuation of rolling stock, etc., 30 June 1850 to 6 March 1854] [manuscript], 1850-1854Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

1. Contents list. 2-4. Statement of locomotive stock (3 copies). 5-8. Statement of carriage and wagon stock (4 copies). 9. List of engines and tenders with valuation. 10. List of stock (3 leaves). 11. Report to the directors of the London & South Western Railway, signed James Fenton (6 leaves). 12-13. Statement of stock with valuation ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0195 The little pilgrim [manuscript] / by W.G. Wills, [between 1865 and 1887]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. codex. Date supplied by cataloger. Disbound. Fols. 16 and 34 blank. Unruled blank leaf laid-in between fols. 15 and 16. Provenance: Ink stamp on title page: "11 May 1894 Lord Chamberlain's Office". Provenance: Purchased from Fletcher, 27 June 1957. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 195.

01/01/MSS00031 Samuel Litvin collection of Martin Litvin materialsAdd to your cart. (2.4 Cubic Feet)

Videotapes, audiocassettes, and articles from the Galesburg Post written by Martin Litvin about various authors, including Carl Sandburg.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0370 Ivy Litvinov papers, 1970-1977Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Papers of Ivy Litvinov.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0257 Lo spirito del religioso formalo su quello di Giesu? Cristo. [manuscript] : esortazioni alla perfezzione religiosa / composte dal A.P. Nicolo di Digio, [ca. 1688]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Full Title: Lo spirito del religioso formalo su quello di Giesu? Cristo. [manuscript] : esortazioni alla perfezzione religiosa / composte dal A.P. Nicolo di Digione provinciale de Cappuccini della provincia di Lione. ... Tradotto dal Francese Ms. codex. Author and title from title page on fol. 1v. Collation: pi A-R?. Binding: Modern yellow and ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0669 Lobby card collection, 1939-1941Add to your cart. (34.0 Items)

This collection consists of promotional images from 32 films produced in the United States between 1939 and 1941. The majority are colored photographs or film stills.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0431 Luther M. Lorance collection of Iwo Jima accounts, 1920-2003Add to your cart. (1.0 Boxes)

Collection assembled by Luther M. Lorance. Collection consists of handwritten, World War II battle accounts by Marines at Iwo Jima.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0198 [Lord chancellor's speech to the parliament] [manuscript]., [ca. 1680]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Manuscript copy, made in England about 1680, of a political satire in verse, by an unknown author. First published in A collection of poems on affairs of state (1689), vol. 2, p. 14 (Wing S2302). See also the Roxburghe ballads (1883), vol. 4, p. 616-619. Ms. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Purchased from ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0496 "Love and Mr. Lewisham" manuscript, 1898-1899Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Autograph working manuscript of "Love and Mr. Lewisham" by H. G. Wells, circa 1898-1899, English. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135512205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135512205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0371 Edward Verrall Lucas correspondence, 1922 November 14-1922 December 21Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Papers of Edward Verrall Lucas, including one autographed letter signed (1922 November 14) and one postcard (1922 December 12) to a Mr. White.

01/01/MSS00076 Lucy Kroll papers, 1982-1984Add to your cart. (9.0 Cubic Feet)

The Lucy Kroll Agency was an American talent agency, founded in 1947 by Lucy Kroll (1909-1997). Also head of the agency, Kroll acted as the agent for many famous literary and theatrical figures, such as poet-writer Carl Sandburg and actor James Earl Jones. This collection contains 28 drafts/proofs of novels, ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0372 Hugh Kingsmill Lunn letters, 1932 October 2-1932 October 23Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Papers of Hugh Kingsmill Lunn, including one autographed letter signed (1932 October 2) to George B. Shaw and one autographed letter signed (1932 October 23) to Bertram Rota.

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0085 [The lyf of oure Lady], [14--?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70417334]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70417334[/url] Origin: Written in England, 15th century. Colophon: "Explicit quod Edward Fulford et cetera amen." Provenance: Ownership note of Christopher Collyer -- Label of the Gloddaeth Library -- Lord Mostyn -- Purchased from Stonehill, 1947. Former shelfmark: x 821 L98l 14-- (University of Illinois ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0373 James E. Lyon letter, 1901 May 29Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Papers of James E. Lyon, including one typed letter signed to Grant Richards.

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0076 [Lyte book of hours], [ca. 1390?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76802865]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76802865[/url] Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, fol. iv (modern paper; i is pastedown) + 165 (medieval parchment) + v (modern paper; v is pastedown) ; quires unsigned. Layout: Calendars written in 4 columns of 30-33 lines; text written in 19 long lines; frame-ruled. Script: Written in ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0374 Rosina Bulwer Lytton papers, 1858 May 16Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Papers of Rosina Bulwer Lytton, including one autographed letter signed to the editor of Court Circular.



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