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Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s
2 linear feetCorrespondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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- Abbott, Berenice, 1898-19911
- Affry, Franco̧is d'✖[remove]1
- Aldington, Richard, 1892-19621
- Allilueva, Svetlana, 1926-2011✖[remove]1
- Appleton, Jesse, 1772-1819✖[remove]1
- Arcambal, Jacques Phillipe, 1765-18431
- Auslander, Joseph, 1897-1965✖[remove]1
- Bacon, Leonard, 1887-19541
- Badeau, Adam, 1831-18951
- Baldwin, Faith, 1893-19781
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.) -- Photographs1
- France -- History -- 18th century1
- France -- History -- 19th century✖[remove]1
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Sources1
- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century1
- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century1
- United States -- History -- 18th century1
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