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Personal papers of Peter D. Ashlock
This collection consists of the personal papers of Peter Dunning Ashlock, which includes research, manuscripts, and publications. It is also comprised of travel information and materials from professional organizations. The collection also includes correspondence as well as newspapers and a map.
Personal papers of Philip L. Henderson
The collection consists of the artwork, photography, and teaching materials of Philip Henderson. Also included is correspondence and various materials of Philip's parents, Dwight and Edith, as well as journals of Philip and Edith Henderson.
Personal papers of Robert E. Hemenway
Robert "Bob" Hemenway was the sixteenth Chancellor at the University of Kansas. Materials in his collection include administrative documents from his time at KU and from previous posts at the University of Kentucky, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Oklahoma; his literary biography of Zora Neale Hurston; and his dissertation on Charles Brockden Brown, amongst other materials related to Hemenway's career.
Philosophie morale
French manuscript composed between 1643 and 1661 on moral pPhilosophy
Physionomie du Théâtre de l'Odéon
An llustrated satire in French against the acting and audiences at the Odéon Theater, Paris,
Pierre de L'Estoile bound manuscript fragment
Fragments of poems, prose, and other items from 16th century French diarist Pierre de L'Estoile.
Pierre Villars' Memoirs of the Court of Spain
Mémoires de la Cour d'Espagne depuis l'année 1678, jusqu'en l'année 1682. Leaf [1] blank, leafs [2-3] are an Introduction suggesting le marquis de Villars to be the author. Engraved portrait of Louis Hector, duc de Villars, with another version pasted on the back. Leaf [4] most of introduction, leaf [5] blank, numbered pages 1-427 text. Leaf [1-12] at the end of the volume is Tables de maitieres, leaf [13] blank. There are also two letters found laid in the volume, located at MS P196.
[Poyer's journal of travels on the European continent]
Preliminary sketch of "Le tarsier podje"
This collection contains a single preliminary sketch, labelled “Le tarsier podje [tarsie Duett?] vol 13 des Iles moluques,” done by Jean Baptiste Audebert for his book Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800). The final illustration appears in the book identified as “Le Tarsier / Tarsius Daubentonii.” This sketch was executed largely in watercolor with some body color and ink details.
Recueil de pièces concernant le Jansénisme,etc.
51 manuscripts or printed tracts or extracts in Latin or French, bound together. They are mostly concerned with theological discipline and many with the Sorbonne.
Remarques sur l'Analyse du Traitté d'Hanovre, 1725-1726
Unbound political-legal tract: possibly a late draft
Robert B. Riss Collection
The collection includes several photographs, personal and professional letters, and other writings by authors, artists, American presidents, nobility, royalty, and other notable persons from the United States, British Isles, and Continental Europe, compiled by Robert B. Riss. English translations for some of the writings in other languages are included, as well as some labels and bookseller information. Links to digital versions for most items in this collection are also included.
Robert L. Gilbert First Issues collection
This collection consists mostly of first issues of magazines and other periodicals published primarily in the United States, mostly during the 20th century.
Rossetti Family Correspondence
Letters from and to Christina, Dante Gabriel, William Michael (and his wife Lucy Madox Brown) Rossetti and their father Gabriele Rossetti.
Saint Sauveur book of medical and technological receipts
Primarily medical receipts (informal directions for compounding and administering folk-remedies); some horse-medicine; also directions for making pigments, for fishing, for removing ink-spots, for secret writing, for catching birds, for making varnish, for mending china...
Sotheby Family Papers
This collection consists of family papers, correspondence, bound books, and various other material of the Sotheby family of Pocklington, Yorkshire, England
Star Chamber collection
Collection of volumes and loose items pertaining to the Star Chamber, a court that existed in England at the Palace of Westminster from approximately the 15th century through 1641, when it was abolished by the Long Parliament.
Stuart Oliver Henry collection of French literary autographs
A collection of letters and autographs of French literary figures, along with a scrapbook of notices and reviews regarding publications by Stuart Oliver Henry particularly related to his works on Paris, France and famous Parisians.
The Dr. David A. Otto, Special Envoy for the Missouri State Teachers Association during the time of the 1971 Paris Peace Talks, collection
Two Cities correspondence, manuscripts, and proofs
Two literary manuscripts by Mademoiselle de Lubert
Marie-Madeleine de Lubert (1702-1785), whose published books identify her more formally as Mlle (Mademoiselle) de Lubert, was the author of about a dozen contes de fées (fairy stories). The two texts in the volume in this collection, "Les événements comiques conte" and "Chélidonide histoire grecque," are unpublished literary manuscripts attributed to Mlle de Lubert.
Un Voyage aérien; dans cinquante ans.
This collection comprises a single manuscript volume containing a novel entitled "Un Voyage aérien; dans cinquante ans," written by Eugène Farcot, a French scientist and engineer known especially as a clockmaker but with a strong interest in aeronautics. The novel describes a fantastic voyage, set fifty years in the future in 1914, to Africa in a large, steam-powered dirigible airship. The novel has 13 chapters; each chapter is foliated separately.
Vaudevilles Codex
Some 1450 songs and verses in a French cursive of about 1695. A number of poems are dated 1682-3, and some back to 1664. They are rather free excursions on the foibles of aristocrats and others in the public eye. Among the names figure Sully, Maintenon, T. Corneille; Mancini, etc. The music to which the airs fit is suggested often, as by Lully or the Italian comedians.
Voiage d'Italie faict en 1660 et 1661.
Book: travel-book. Late draft, with corrections. Full Title: Voiage d'Italie faict en 1660 et 1661 mesle de plusiurs traicts d'histoire, de geographie, de morale, et de poesie tires des meilleurs poetes auec la fondation des uilles, et une exacte description de tout ce quil y a de plus remarquable.
Voyage dans les provinces meridionales de la France
Travel diary kept by Monsieur L'Abbe G, professor emeritus at the University of Paris, to the southern provices of France in 1758.