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A SPLENDID THOREAU MANUSCRIPT

[NUMBER 630]

631

Original Manuscript Notes, 4 pp., 4to. 1851-57. General nature notes, mostly for the months of February and March from 1851 to 1857, evidently intended for transcription in fuller form in his journals.

Some of the notes are:

"Begin to walk with unbuttoned coat & without mittens." Mar. 12, '53.
"Great Concert of song sparrows, Mar. 14, '54."
"Difficult getting on & off Walden. Mar. 7, '55.''
"Bee skilling drones now-a-days. Mch. 28, '57."
"Sit day and Eve without a fire! Feb. 18, '57."'

632 THORNE (CHARLES R., celebrated Actor and caricaturist). Series of 8 caricatures, one signed. With 2 letters of Stuart Robson verifying them. 10 pieces.

633 THORPE (ROSE HARTWICK, Author of "Curfew must not Ring to-night!"). Autographed verse from this popular ballad, dated March 25, 1899, and signed.

634 THROCKMORTON (JOSEPH). A. L. s., 1 p., 4to. Shrewsbury, April 4th, 1776. To A. Durham.

Fine letter to be laid before the Committee of Safety.

635 TILDEN (SAMUEL J., Statesman, Governor of New York). A Collection of 12 A. L. s. and 1 L. s. by Tilden, together with 17 letters to and concerning him. 30 pieces.

FINE LETTERS, with few exceptions, addressed to Daniel Manning.

636 TROLLOPE (ANTHONY, Novelist). 2 A. L. s., 3 pp., 12mo and 8vo. Feb. 3, 1870 and March 1, 1876.

637 TROUP (ROBERT, Lieutenant in the Revolution, Aide to Gen. Gates). A. L. s., 1 p., folio. Head-Quarters 3 Miles above Still Water, Sep. 19, 1777. To Matthew Visscher, Sec. of the Albany Committee of Safety. With respect to the imprisoned Tories at Albany.

638

FINE LETTER.

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A. L. s., 2 pp., 4to. Geneva, 18 August, 1817. To Henry Dwight; D. s., 2 pp., folio. January 5, 1796. Indenture. 2 pieces.

639 TRUMBULL (JOHN, Artist and Soldier in the American Revolution). A. L. s., 1 p., 4to. Lebanon, July 6, 1782. To J. Wadsworth. Concerning an appointment.

640 TRUMBULL (JONATHAN, Aide to Washington). A. L. s., 2 pp., 4to, with postscript on the third page, signed with initials. Lebanon, May 20, 1797. To Israel Putnam. Introducing a young man who is going to Ohio to become a settler there.

641 TUCKERMAN (HENRY T., American Author). A Collection of 14 A. L. s. (one with initials), a A. Ms. Poem, signed, and an A. N. s. on circular. New York and Newport, April 22, 1846 to Sept. 19, 1868. To Alfred B. Street. 16 pieces.

642 TYLER (JULIA GARDINER, Wife of President Tyler). A. L. s., 2 pp., 8vo. Shawsville, Nov. 2nd, 1885. To Mrs. Mixon. Sending a sample of her needlework to a New Orleans Exposition.

643 TYLER (ROYALL, Jurist, and in Shay's Rebellion). A. L. s., 2 pp., folio. Windsor, February 11, 1799. To Samuel Williams.

644 UNITED STATES CONGRESS. Presidents of the Senate. A. L. s., L. s., and D. s. of Presidents of the United States Senate, from 1789 to 1903. Wanting only four names. 60 pieces, which include a few duplicates.

This collection includes specimens of Richard Henry Lee, Ralph Izard,
William Bradford, Theodore Sedgwick, James Hillhouse, etc., etc.

645 VAN BERGEN (MARTIN G., Member of the Council of New Netherland). D. s., 2 pp., folio. Jan. 25, 1770. Legal decision. Signed also by G. Ousterhoute, and another.

646 VAN CORTLANDT (PHILIP, General in the Revolution). A. L. s., 1 p., folio. Cortlandt Town, Jan'y 10, 1820. On legal matters.

647 VAN DYKE (HENRY). Original Autograph Manuscript of "Discovery and Invention," in pencil, signed, 18 pp., 4to. Albany, Oct. 10, 1909.

At the end is written in ink: "Oration delivered at Albany, Oct. 10, 1909.
The original MS and only autograph, given to Mr. Manning with the com-
pliments of Henry Van Dyke." This oration was delivered at the Hudson-
Fulton celebration.

648 VAN RENSSELAER (STEPHEN, Eighth Patron). 2 A. L. s., 2 pp. each, 4to. 1823-7; 2 D. s. by Solomon Van Rensselaer, Soldier in the Indian Wars and the War of 1812. General Orders, Albany, April 1 & Nov. 15, 1808. 4 pieces.

649 VAN RENSSELAER FAMILY. A. L. s., L. s. and D. s. by Solomon, J. Rutson, Robert, John S., Henry, Philip, Stephen, and Killian, van Rensselaer. 14 pieces.

650 VAN RENSSELAER-TAYLOR ALTERCATION. A brief Statement of Facts which led and attended the Affray in the City (Albany) on the 21st inst. Printed Broadside. 1 p., folio. Albany, 1807

The broadside relates to a quarrel between H. V. vanRensselaer and Solomon van Rensselaer on the one side, and Judge Taylor, a Mr. Jenkins, Cornelius Schermerhorn, Francis Bloodgood and Dr. Charles D. Cooper on the other. An account is given of the assault in State street, and the document ends with the statement that Solomon van Rensselaer lies dangerously ill of his wounds.

With this Broadside is a legal document relating to this case.

651 VERHAEREN (EMILE, Belgian Poet). A. Ms. Stanza of four lines, signed, 1 p., 8vo. N. p., n. d.

Entitled "Les Infirmières,'' an extract from "Des Ailes Rouges de la
Guerre.''
A FINE MEMENTO OF THE BELGIAN POET, written during the war
and but a short time before his death.

652 VICTORIA (QUEEN OF ENGLAND). D. s., 1 p., folio. Windsor, Aug. 5, 1841. Warrant for half pay. Portraits, etc.

653

D. s., 1 p., oblong folio. Buckingham Palace, May 18, 1854. Commission as Lieutenant. With portrait.

654 VISSCHER (MATTHEW, Revolutionary Patriot). A. L. s., 1 p., oblong 8vo. Albany, 21st Nov., 1782. To Mayor Abraham Ten Broeck. Signed also by Abraham A. Lansingh; D. s. by John Lindesay, 1 p., oblong folio. June 16, 1741. Indenture. Endorsed by John Lindesay, Sebastian Visscher, and several others. 2 pieces.

655 WAGNER (RICHARD, Celebrated Composer). A. L. s., 3 pp., 8vo. Luzern, March 31, 1867. To Ludwig II. King of

Bavaria.

Fine letter in which he calls the king "Parsival,” relating largely to the personnel of a forthcoming opera.

656 WALKER (L. P., Confederate Secretary of War). L. s., 1 p., 4to. Richmond, June 15, 1861. To the President of the Virginia State Convention. Accepting in stately terms a proffered seat of honor in the Hall of the Convention.

WALPOLE'S "WIVES" GO TO CHELTENHAM

657 WALPOLE (HORACE, EARL OF ORFORD). A. L. s. "O," 1 p., 4to. Strawberryhill, Aug. 15, 1795. To an intimate friend.

"Come to me as soon as you please only give me a little notice, that I may not be engaged in the neighbourhood, which may happen now as my Wives go to Cheltenham on Tuesday . . I was much entertained yesterday by a letter from a Mr. Bush desiring I would favour him with a ticket for him and three of his friends to pass an Intellectual hour in my house here. I dont know whether that fine phrase was to inspire me with an Idea of his Taste, or to captivate mine."

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I was much disaps pointed at not seeing you yesterday, buot much more sorry for the cause, which I hope you Medicines have quite removed, & have enabled you to come to me as soon as you please only give me a little novice, that I may not be engaged in the reighbourhood, "which may happen now as my Wives go to Cheltenham on Juesday. I have the history of kipon, xyetamobliged to you for thinking on me; still more for That of Kaarebborogh, which I like much, & had not seen. It is not only preferable to all other topical Description from its smallhood, but as it tells one just what I like most to find in that species of books, an an account of the pictures on in the several leats, may it has not incessant repet tions from Dugdale of the genealogies of the Beauchnoyes, revilles to posicion the several manors in succession from the time of the conquest.

Kirgate is much obliged to you, and I suppose will be more so if you ever are so good as to supply him with the prints.

I was much entertained yesterday by a letter from a Mr Bush in great Ormandsstrect devising woud favour him with Ticket for him on Thrle of thing Trends to pass an Iretellectual hear in my her house here. I don't know whether That fine phone was to inspire me with an Idea of his Taste, or to exptivate mire!

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AN INTIMATE LETTER FROM WALPOLE

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[NUMBER 657]

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