Hand Writing Collection (#8)

Madison: Solar System
MADISON: SOLAR SYSTEM. Sketch of the Copernican solar system by James Madison. Undated manuscript, probably from the 1760s or 1770s

Roosevelt: Letter to Ethel
ROOSEVELT: LETTER TO ETHEL. Second page of an illustrated letter written by President Theodore Roosevelt to his daughter, Ethel, depicting himself and his children Ethel

War of 1812: Letter
WAR OF 1812: LETTER. Letter to President James Madison from Mr. Jones of the Navy Department, 6 June 1814, regarding the U.S. Naval force on Lakes Erie, Champlain and Ontario

Declaration of Independence
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. The first page of John Adams copy of the Declaration of Independence, in his own handwriting, June 1776

Madison: Death, 1836
MADISON: DEATH, 1836. Dear Sir, Mr. Madison died this morning, without pain. He has been subject to a complaint about the diaphram

Madison: Bill of Sale
MADISON: BILL OF SALE. Page from James Madisons account book, detailing a sale of tobacco from his plantation in Virginia to merchants in Liverpool, England, 31 May 1768

JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826). Second President of the United States. First page of a diary started after his graduation from Harvard College, 1755

ROGER B. TANEY (1777-1864). Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1836-1864. Photographed by Mathew Brady

CONFEDERATE CURRENCY. Banknote for fifty cents issued by the State of Georgia at Milledgeville, 1 January 1863

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Page one of Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation, 1863

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. First page of an autograph manuscript of President Lincolns Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863

SCRIBE: EGYPTIAN. Two scribes, squatting at their desks piled with rolled-up records, assisted by their clerks. A relief from the tomb of Ti at Sakkara, Egypt, dating from the 27th century B.C

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916). American writer. Autograph signature

JAMES BEATTIE (1735-1803). Scottish poet. Steel engraving, English, 1823, aftre the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827). English artist, poet and mystic. Self-portrait in pencil of Blake, from a page of his notebook (the Rossetti Manuscript )

THOMAS WARTON (1728-1790). English literary critic and poet laureate. Aquatint, c1800, after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds

SAMUEL CLEMENS POSTCARD. Postcard from American humorist and writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens ( Mark Twain ), 1887

ADAM MICKIEWICZ (1798-1855). Polish poet. Lithograph, 19th century

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. First page of the Nicolay copy, known as the First Draft, of the Gettysburg Address. The earliest extant version in Abraham Lincolns handwriting, written at Washington, D.C

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. Second and final page of the Nicolay copy of the Gettysburg Address; the earliest extant version in Abraham Lincolns handwriting, written at Washington, D.C

JEFFERSON: INAUGURATION. Thomas Jeffersons handwritten draft of his inaugural address, 1801

JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826). Second President of the United States. First page of Adams Inaugural Address, March 1797

MADISON: INAUGURAL, 1813. First page of the President James Madisons second inaugural address, 4 March 1813

POUND: PISAN CANTOS. Manuscript with the opening lines of the Pisan Cantos, composed c1945 by Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

LANGLAND: MANUSCRIPT, c1375. A manuscript page from the Middle English poem The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland, c1375

IGNATIUS DONNELLY (1831-1901). American politician and writer. Steel engraving, 1869

PROUST: NOTEBOOKS. Notebooks of the French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

PENMANSHIP, 19th CENTURY. Position while Writing. Wood engraving, English or American, c1870s

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882). American philosopher and man of letters. Etching by Samuel Hollyer (1826-1919)

ROBERT BURNS SONG. Heres a health to them thats awa. The holograph manuscript of the song written by Burns in support of the Whigs about the end of 1792

WATSON: PASSPORT, c1782. Passport issued to Elkanah Watson by Benjamin Franklin, from Passy, France, c1782

SCRIBE: ARAB, 14th CENTURY. An Arabic scribe at work, after an illustration from a 14th century manuscript of al-Hariris Maqamat

HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS. Manuscript page of the poem, Les Contemplations, by Victor Hugo, 1850s

BAUDELAIRE: DEDICATION. Dedication by Charles Baudelaire to French writer, Theophile Gautier in Les Fleurs du Mal, published in 1857

CONAN DOYLE: LETTER. Letter from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to his editor H. Greenhough Smith, early 20th century

BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857. Page from the poem, Spleen, with authors notes by Charles Baudelaire, 1857

MONK: SCRIBE, 1488-89. Monk seated writing. Woodcut, from the Mer des Hystoires, Paris, 1488-89

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892). American poet. Etching, late 19th century

EMILY BRONTË: POEM. The beginning of Emily Jane Brontës poem There shines the moon, at noon of night, composed in March 1837

ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963). American poet. Manuscript page with the poem Once by the Pacific

OSWALD VON WOLKENSTEIN (c1377-1445). German lyric poet and adventurer. Manuscript page from a 1425 collection of his songs

VICTOR HUGO: MANUSCRIPT. Manuscript page from La Legende de Siecles, by French writer, Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340-1400). English poet. Illumination from the early 15th century manuscript of Thomas Hoccleves De Regimine Principum

MISSISSIPPI: HURRICANE, 1969. A view of the remains of a grocery store in Gulfport, Mississippi, reopened for business in the aftermath of Hurricane Camille, 22 August 1969

CHARLESTOWN: MAP, 1776. Engraved English map of Boston, Charlestown and environs, marking rebel works, 1776

EBENEZER BUTTERICK (1826-1903). American tailor and fashion business executive. Inventor of tissue paper dress patterns. Half-tone photograph and line engraving, 19th century

CIVIL WAR: LETTER, 1862. A letter from J. K. Newton, a Union Army soldier, to his parents, from Pittsburgh
CIVIL WAR: LETTER, 1862. A letter from J.K. Newton, a Union Army soldier, to his parents, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2 June 1862

COLONIAL COMMISSION, 1772. Commission of Joseph Moors as adjudant, signed by Thomas Hutchinson, the last Royal Governor of Massachusetts Colony, 1772

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