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Extrait des maximes manuscript
This volume provides brief principles of military science, dating from 1747 and written in French. Included is a later plan of battle of Lobositz, October 1, 1756, added in German.
Family estate papers of the Marquis de Sade
The Gaufridy Collection includes 1,880 manuscript letters and documents received by the Marquis de Sade's estate manager, Gaspard Gaufridy, and other materials from the Marquis, his wife, and other correspondents during the last quarter of the 18th century. The correspondence primarily concerns the management of the de Sade family estates. Also present are draft transcriptions in modernized French prepared in the mid-1960s by University of Kansas faculty and their students.
Finance de l'Angleterre collection
Frank Kersnowski papers
This collection includes correspondence and recordings of interviews with Irish writers, and additional paper materials related to interviews with the writers. The materials were compiled by Dr. Frank Kernsnowski, an English Professor and Irish studies scholar who earned his doctorate at the University of Kansas, and retired from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. Also included are enclosures removed from Kersnowski's book collection of Irish literature.
Franklyn D. Ott and Aleta Jo Petrik-Ott papers
This collection contains scientific and scholarly material regarding algae and ferns, written or gathered by Franklyn D. Ott and Aleta Jo Petrik-Ott.
Frederick Allan Whitehead papers
This collection consists of activist publications from the 1960s and 1970s, including from the Stevens Institute of Hoboken, New Jersey, and from the Students for a Democratic Society, maintained by Fred Whitehead from when he was a student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and Columbia University in New York.
French fortifications
36 plans of late 17th century fortifications, primarily in the region between France and Belgium.
French Treaty of Alliance with Spain and Valais
Copy of a treaty between France and Spain and Valais during the reign of Louis XIV, possibly copied in 1730. "Renouuellement d'alliance entre le Roi tres Chretien de France et de Nauarre d’une part et les louables Cantons Catholiques de la Suisse et la louable Republique de Valais de l'autre fait a Soleure le 9 mai 1715."
Gas. Ferquet letter
Gas. Ferquet writes during the Crimean War to an unknown recipient ("Madame") about his appreciation of the camaraderie of the war and the appointment of Ernest Louis Octave Courtot de Cissey (1810-1882) to General of the Brigade.
Généalogie de la maison de Turgot
Created in 1775 by Denis François Gastelier de la Tour, this apparently unpublished genealogy traces the Turgot family, prominent in 18th-century France, back to the 15th century. The full title reads: "Généalogie de la maison de Turgot faite en Juin 1775, par le S[ieu]r Gastelier de la Tour auteur de l’Armorial des Etats de Languedoc et de plusieurs autres ouvrages."
Giuseppe de Lama bound book of annotated poems
Bound book of poems, annotated. Fair copy (holograph?) made apparently to present to the dedicatee, "Madame la Comtesse Blanche Uggeri de la Somaglia" (Somaglia, Bianca Uggeri Capece della, 1743-1822, of Piacenza). The volume includes social verses with semi-biographical notes on the Parisians who inspired them and their own poems. There are also some political allusions.
Hollis Hedberg papers
Hollis Dow Hedberg was a world famous geologist who would become Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. The majority of this collection relates to his work for the Gulf Oil Corporation in various capacities in Venezuela and later in their corporate offices.
[Il pastor fido.] Imitation du Berge Fidele, pastorele Italiene pour...Charlote Helene Gaiant
A 17th- or 18th-century copy of the pastoral tragicomedy, Il pastor fido, written in 1590 by the Italian poet and diplomat, Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612).
James Joyce miscellany
A collection of photostat copies compiled by James F. Spoerri of Irish-born author James Joyce letters, primarily to publisher Grant Richards; poet Ezra Pound; Irish writer James Stephens; Joyce's daughter, Lucia Joyce; Joyce's sister, Eileen Joyce Shaurek, and others. The backs of some of the photostats are annotated with a repository name. Collection also includes some newspaper clippings and reprints of prospectuses for the novel Ulysses.
Jane van Meter collection
The bulk of the Jane van Meter collection is correspondence, mostly letters from Sylvia Beach, who was owner of the Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris, France and for whom van Meter was an assistant. Identification documents, notecards from van Meter's studies at the Sorbonne, personally inscribed books, and photographs of van Meter in Paris and later in life on the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence make up the rest of the collection.
Jane Wofford Malin collection
Jane Wofford Malin grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, had a career teaching French in Texas, and then retired to her home town of Lawrence, Kansas. This collection documents her life and her connections to Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, and in France and abroad. The correspondence in this collection, as well as papers and photographs of Malin and each of her parents, represents two generations of Midwestern life.
Jean François Champollion manuscript
Volume regarding alphabet of phonetic hieroglyphs, written by the French scholar and philologist who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early 1820s. Apparently a copy of a printed book. "Lettera a Dacier…relative all’alfabeto del geroglifici fonetici…da Champollion il giovane a Parigi Presso Firmino Didot…1822, prima traduzione Italiana di C. Vandoni 1824."
John Armstrong collection
Collection of primarily political and military letters and manuscripts written by Colonel John Armstrong of the British Army of the early 18th century, an engineer and expert on the Dunkirk fortifications in France.
John Gould drawings
Preparatory manuscript artwork and separate lithographic prints for the bird books created by John Gould and the artists employed in his publication workshop in London, England, in the 19th century. Birds found in these books exist around the world, including in North and South America, Asia, Australia, the United Kingdom and continental Europe, the Himalayan mountains, New Guinea, and Papua.
Journal Astronomique de ma Campagne dans L'Inde
Travel and astronomy diary of an individual (Cotignon?) who spent time in India in the late 18th century.
Le maniere dont on doit se comporter dans les principales actions de la guerre
Manual for an officer of the Imperial army, written by François Paul Martin, baron de Theillieres, who rose to the rank of colonel and commanded the troops of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Volume concerns the Holy Roman Empire and Tuscany, Italy.
Letter from Gustave Flaubert to "Mon cher ami" [Henri-Félix Duquesnel]
In this brief letter written from his home in Croisset, France, the writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), is asking playwright and theatrical producer Henri-Félix Duquesnel to respond to an earlier letter.
Letter to Madame la Comtesse de Renty
This note was written by an amanuensis at Versailles, France, and pencilled notes indicate that it is signed by the Marquis de Castries (1727-1801) when he was Marechal de France. The letter is sent to Madame la Comtesse de Renty at the Convent de la Roquette, Faubourg, St. Antoine in Paris and is an acknowledgement of her request for payments, which are in arrears, and instructs her how and where she may receive what is due her.
Letter written by Deschamps
This letter, signed by "Deschamps sindic" [i.e. syndic] was found in the pages of the book Mémoire à consulter, pour la communauté des habitants de la Guillotière, & mandemant de Béchevelin. It was written from La Guillotière to "Monsieur" on November 3, 1786. This covering letter accompanied the copy of the "Mémoire" and invited the recipient to participate in the deliberations of the assembly.
Letters, literary manuscripts, and personal papers of the Porter family
The Porter family papers consist of letters, literary manuscripts and personal papers of an English literary family from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Two-thirds of the almost 3000 items in the collection consists of the correspondence of the siblings, Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842), Jane Porter (1776-1850), Anna Maria Porter (1778-1832), and other members of the Porter family.