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Analytical herbarium : designed for the use of students and private collectors

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0095-Item 0035
Abstract

Analytical Herbarium : Designed for the Use of Students and Private Collectors was published in Farmington, Maine, in 1886 and used to collect botanical samples between May and June 1887.

Dates: 1886-1887

Arbres de l’Amérique sketchbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0187
Abstract

This volume, entitled “Arbres de l’Amérique,” consists of 157 original pencil drawings (exact copies reduced to one third of the originals) of engraving taken from paintings by P.J. Redouté and Pancrace Bessa done for Francois-Andre Michaux’s North American Sylva, Paris, 1817-1819.

Dates: approximately 1850s

English physician's manuscript recipe book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0090
Abstract

This mid-eighteenth century physician’s notebook, most likely English in origin, contains medicinal and food receipts, prescriptions, and contemporary treatments for several common illnesses.

Dates: circa 1721-1766

Language exercises by students of Worcester, Massachusetts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0128
Abstract

Selected schoolwork in the subject of Language by first- through ninth-grade students from Worcester, Massachusetts. It was likely submitted to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dates: 1903-1904

Manuscript formulae and receipts book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0109
Abstract

This nineteenth-century American manuscript contains approximately eighty-five pages of medicinal formulae and household receipts along with notes and sketches of plants and their medicinal properties. The volume dates from approximately 1861 to 1877 and may have been created by a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, resident with a medical or scientific background.

Dates: 1861-1877

Essay on slavery in England

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0127
Abstract

This manuscript essay describes the legal history of slavery in England, focusing especially on the precedents for and limitations of the 1772 Somerset vs. Stewart decision.

Dates: approximately 1860-1890