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Item is an Electro-steel engraved landscape of Miramachi, a french settelment in the Gulf of the St. Larence destroyed by Brigidier Murry detached by General Wolfe for thatt purpose from the Bay of Gaspe. Engraved by Paul asand and retouched by P.Benazech from a drawing on the spot by Capt. Hervey Smyth and published in London Nov. 5th, 1760 T. Jeffries.

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Item is an electro-steel engraving of Emmanuel Jean de la Coste. Painted after nature at Toulon.

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File consists of "Documents Signed by: Duke of Newcastle, Lord Bamington (?), and Lord North; and Lord Chesterfield".

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The "Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts" collection provides a wealth of source material on a range of major writers. John Forster owned the largest collection of Samuel Richardson manuscripts in existence. Forty-seven poems, including odes, sonnets, dramatic prologues and epilogues are included, along with the major archive of his correspondence. Eight-hundred and fifty letters are reproduced, many relating to his work on the major novels "Pamela," "Clarissa" and "Sir Charles Grandison." A vast collection of literary manuscripts, letters and papers of Jonathan Swift are also included in Part Two. Among them is Swift's private diary, that dates from 1727, many personal accounts, correspondence, verses, riddles, a problematic first edition of "Gulliver's Travels" with manuscript alterations that may be autograph and the Dublin Inquisition's Commission of Lunacy on Swift of 1742. Manuscripts of Samuel Johnson include the proof sheets of his "Lives of the English Poets," along with varied correspondence. Correspondence of major authors of the period include that of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Mrs. (Elizabeth) Inchbald, Robert Burns, Edmund Burke, William Cowper, Horace Walpole and David Hume. Some early letters of William Wordsworth date from 1797 and there is a large volume of verse by James Thomson.

Item is phtocopy of a map of Montreal and it's Eviorns from the " Murry Atlas" (compiled 1760-2). Orignal held at the Archives of Canada as indicated by the stam[p on the back "Public Archives of Canada Map Division April 18, 1947."

Warrant for the arrest of Josiah Brownson of New Milford, Conn.

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