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Relation to the discovery of the Mississipi [sic] River
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Map of LaSalle Coal Mining Company's lands : with vertical section, showing the position of the coal
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A map to show the coal veins under the mining company's property. La Salle Coal Mining Company was founded in 1855, so map must be after that date. Note powder magazine set perilously close to "Miner's Houses." MS note: 81839. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Mississipi (sic) River from Iberville to Yazous
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Kashnor notes, "Shows the old French settlement of Point Coupee. The map may have been issued with the idea of a descent upon the back settlements by the English forces during the Revolution. It locates Natches Cliff and ends with the fork of the Yazoo River, where stands the present day Vicksburg." Compass with 4°30' declination shown. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles, English statute. Projection: Plane. Watermark: J B J Bates. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 96.
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François-Marie La Bintinaye letters to Dr. Walker King, (bulk 1789-1803)
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Letters from l'abbé de la Bintinaye to Dr. Walker King, bishop of Rochester, including pieces intended to be forwarded to Dr. King's brother John King (1759-1830) , Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office. Included are letters discussing de La Bintanaye' work on French translation of Edmund Burke's writings and his translation of "plantations laws." Also included are petitions from Dom Augustine de Lestrange (1754-1827) and Trappist monks (1800), the clergy of the Protestant church in Voltaire-Ferney in the Pays de Gex (1824), and French proprietors of a plantation in Matrinique (between 1809 and 1814). Also included is a note to John King regarding a obtaining a passport to a Canadian priest traveling to France (1803, Feb. 10) and a French translation of God Save the King and a poem to "His Britannic Majesty" set to the music of the British anthem composed by French royalists who had settled in British Canada.
mssHM 9653-9663
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Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière letter to Monsieur L'Héritier
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Letter written by Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière to French botanist [Charles Louis] L'Héritier (1746-1800). The letter states that La Billardière sent specimens to L'Héritier for Baltic German botanist [Johann Gerhard] König (1728-1785) and British botanist [Sir James Edward] Smith (1759-1828). The letter, written from Paris in 1791, is in French; one page consists of the address.
mssHM 83086
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Segunda exploracion de la costa septentrional de Californias: handwritten manuscript
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This account of the 1775 expedition to the Northwest Coast of America is based on the diary of Francisco Antonio Mourelle, pilot of the schooner "Sonora" under the command of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Cuadra. In Spanish.
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Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches papers
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A collection of 117 items which covers the years 1754 to 1804; it is chiefly the papers accumulated by Destouches during his command of the squadron of Expédition particulière in September 1780 to May 1781. Included are letters, instructions, communications, intelligence reports, orders and regulations, accounts of salaries and provisions, reports of ships' activities, lists of French ships and their captains, and lists of English ships captured by combined French and Spanish fleets. Correspondents include Chevalier Anne-César de la Luzerne, Jean-François de Galaup compte de La Perouse, Antoine-Raymond-Jean-Gualbert-Gabriel de Sartine comte d'Alby, George Washington, and others. Also included is a journal of Charles H. d'Arsac de Ternay for the year 1780 and Destouches' account of the naval operations at St. Kitts and Nevis. The papers also include a volume of 69 drawings of various coats of arms, and military maps of Huntington Bay, Rhode Island; Gardiner and Plumb Islands, New York; Penobscot Bay, Maine; and Isle de France, by Nicolas Louis de Caille (circa 1754).
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