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Ericus Björk letter to Carl Wistrom
First pastor of Old Swedes' Church, Rev. Ericus Björk, handwrote this one-page letter indicating receipt of several hundred books from King Charles XII of Sweden. He also acknowledged setbacks faced by the Swedes as they fought Russia in the Great Northern War, in this letter dated May 3, 1711.
Sir Joseph Gold political and miscellaneous ephemera collection
The attorney and author Joseph Gold was born in London, England, on July 12, 1912; he died on February 22, 2000, in Bethesda, Maryland. The Sir Joseph Gold political and miscellaneous ephemera collection comprises .67 linear feet of newsletters, pamphlets, posters, blank letterhead, and typed pages from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Richard F. Heck papers
Richard F. Heck (1931-2015), namesake of the Heck Reaction, was an American chemist awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions. The Richard F. Heck papers, 1931-2012, comprise personal documents, photographs, professional honors and citations, publications, and material related to his 2010 Nobel Prize, including his Nobel diploma and a doctoral hat from Uppsala University (2011).
Malcolm L. Mackenzie papers
Manuscript recipe book in English and Swedish
Hannah Borg, a Swedish immigrant to the United States, kept this English and Swedish recipe book from the 1920s to the 1940s.