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Box
Title
Engravings, Drawings, Music, Correspondence, and Other Materials
Date(s)
- 1651-1914 (Creation)
Extent
57 folders
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Scope and content
Material in folders 1-2 (and 45-23 through 45-26) came to Cushing Library in a three-ring binder with the handwritten spine title "Prints." Material in folders 3-16 came from a binder titled "Buffon prints etc." Material in folders 17-31 came from an untitled blue binder. Material in folders 32-45 came from a binder titled "Music." Material in folders 46-57 was found among Robert L. Dawson's unsorted personal papers.
46/1-2: 16 engravings on single sheets, various artists and printers.
46/3-6: 34 engravings on single sheets, various artists and printers.
46/7-13: 7 watercolor drawings.
46/14-16: 3 pencil and ink drawings.
46/17-22: P. Sarrut (sic?), 6 pencil drawings of military officers, possibly British, 1914.
46/23-27: 5 pencil drawings, unsigned.
46/28-30: 3 pencil engravings and watercolors.
46/31: 2 assignats.
46/32-45: 14 French musical compositions, i.e., sheet music.
46/46: Discours au roy sur le succes de ses armes(Paris, 1745), verse, 7 pp.
46/47: 8 military or civil service certificates, completed in manuscript.
46/48: Correspondance secrete et familiere, de M. [Rene-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin] de Maupeou avec M. de Sor???, Conseiller de nouveau Parlement (1771), 76 pp., with accompanying collector's note: "by Pidansat [sic?] de Mairobert."
46/49: Anne de Bellinzani (widow of Michel Ferrand) vs. Mademoiselle de Vigny, 3 printed legal memoranda, 1736-1742, with accompanying dealer's notes.
46/50-51: 2 religious tracts (Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1697).
46/52: Mandement et instruction pastorale de monseigneur l'eveque de Troyes(Paris, 1729).
46/53-55: 3 Italian printed legal brief, 1759, with accompanying collector's notes.
46/56: The Declaration of Captain James Hind (close Prisoner...) (London: G. Horton, 1651).
46/57: Anno Tricesimo Primo Georgii III. Regis: an Act for granting to His Majesty a certain Sum of Money, to be raised by a Lottery (N.p., Undated).