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Memorandum From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Diplomatic And Consular Officers Of The United States In Europe, June 7, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed memorandum from the Assistant Secretary of State to the diplomatic and consular officers in Europe introducing them to Samuel D. Warren.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Fred W. Carpenter, June 7, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Fred W. Carpenter concerning the presentation of ladies at the Court of Saint James.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To William Howard Taft, June 7, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to William Howard Taft concerning an audience with Dr. Paul Ritter, the new Minister of Switzerland.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Jonkheer J. Loudon, May 28, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Jonkheer Loudon concerning the effect of the Payne-Aldrich Act on the commercial agreement between the United States and the Netherlands.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Charlemagne Tower, May 17, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Charlemagne Tower concerning a question on the actions of the United States in regards to the Declaration of Paris.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Ramon Pina, May 17, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Ramon Pina concerning a Spanish servant.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Leo Vogel, May 17, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Leo Vogel concerning the lack of response to a dinner invitation.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Johann Heinrich Von Bernstorff, May 15, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff informing the Count that Philander Knox is out of town.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Harvey Washington Wiley, May 6, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Harvey Washington Wiley concerning complaints from the French Ambassador Jean Jusserand about ramifications of the Pure Food and Drug Act on a French manufacturer.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To James Bryce, May 4, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to James Bryce asking Mr. Bryce to provide introductions for Thomas W. Cridler.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Robert Bacon, April 27, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Robert Bacon thanking him for forwarding Dr. Hill's letter on German - Far Eastern relations.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To W. Bayard Cutting, Jr., April 17, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to William Bayard Cutting Jr. concerning his post as secretary to the U.S. Embassy to the Court of St. James.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Edmondo Mayor Des Planches, March 18, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Edmondo Mayor des Planches concerning Italian Consular Agent Vinci.

Note From Philander C. Knox To Ramon Pina Y Millet, March 17, 1909, Philander C. Knox

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Secretary of State to Ramon Pina. The letter contains the confirmation of the selection of Henry Clay Ide to be the U.S. Minister to Spain.

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Ramon Pina, March 17, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Ramon Pina. The letter contains information about Henry Clay Ide, who will be appointed as U.S. Minister to Spain.

Scotland, Ancient Order Of Hibernians

Ancient Order of Hibernians (World)

Correspondence from 1904 to James P. Bree, the National Secretary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, New Haven, Connecticut. The correspondence, concerning Scotland AOH business, includes a letter from John Shields, Michael Fitzpatrick, and Joseph Montague, officers of the Scotland chapter of the AOH stationed in Glascow.

The Value Of The Colonies To The Mother Country, Lenora Estelle Stillman

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

A study of the relationship of a colony to its original country, focusing on the importance fair policies in Spain, England and France and questioning whether or not Europeans emigrating to U.S. colonies remain European citizens or can be considered representatives of their countries.

Home Life In Ancient Rome, Bertha Douglass Tucker

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

This essay documents the similarities between the Romans in 400 BC and Americans in the very early 20th century while also exploring the minor differences in material surroundings, social customs and religious practices.

The Bradford Manuscript, Abbie Gertrude Sherman

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Summary of the Bradford Manuscript, a journal by William Bradford, English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts during his journey on the Mayflower in July of 1620.

Walker’S Appeal, In Four Articles; Together With A Preamble, To The Coloured Citizens Of The World, … (Boston, 1830), David Walker, Paul Royster , Editor & Depositor

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Walker’s Appeal ... is a radical antislavery and antiracist manifesto by a free American of African ancestry. Its bold denunciation of European culture was unprecedented, unrestrained, and startling, viz.:

“The whites have always been an unjust, jealous, unmerciful, avaricious and blood-thirsty set of beings, always seeking after power and authority.”

Walker attacks the slave system and its rampant racism from the viewpoint of America’s allegiance to the idea of freedom; he quotes the Declaration of Independence at length, and strikes a recognizably jeremiad note:

“O Americans! Americans!! I call God—I call angels— I call men, to witness, that your destruction …

The Journal Of Major George Washington, George Washington

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In October of 1753, George Washington, a 21-year-old major in the Virginia militia, volunteered to carry a letter from the governor of Virginia to the French commander of the forts recently built on the headwaters of the Ohio River in northwestern Pennsylvania. The French had recently expanded their military operations from the Great Lakes into the Ohio country, and had spent the summer of 1753 building forts and roads along the Allegheny River, with the design of linking their trade routes and sphere of influence down the Ohio to the Mississippi. Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie believed them to be in …

A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission And Non-Resistance To The Higher Powers: With Some Reflections On The Resistance Made To King Charles I. And On The Anniversary Of His Death: In Which The Mysterious Doctrine Of That Prince’S Saintship And Martyrdom Is Unriddled, Jonathan Mayhew

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After the Restoration of the English monarchy in the person of Charles II in 1660, the new king and his first Parliament declared the anniversary of the beheading of his father Charles I (January 30, 1649) a religious holiday with a special commemoration in the Book of Common Prayer, naming the late monarch a saint and martyr. This holiday was not generally celebrated in Massachusetts until the emergence of several Anglican churches there in the early eighteenth century. In 1750, Jonathan Mayhew, the twenty-nine-yearold pastor of the West (Congregational) Church in Boston, took occasion to dispute the first Charles’ credentials …

A New Discovery Of A Vast Country In America, Louis Hennepin, Jacob Tonson

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Full title: A new discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico with a description of the Great Lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated with …

Old Mens Tears For Their Own Declensions, Mixed With Fears Of Their And Posterities Further Falling Off From New-England’S Primitive Constitution, Joshua Scottow

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This is an online edition of Scottow’s popular tract, published in Boston in 1691, based on the first edition. Later editions were published in Boston in 1715, 1733, and 1749, and in New London in 1769. It is a searchable PDF document. The characteristics of Scottow’s original text (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, italics, etc.) have been retained. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected, and a list of emendations is included at the end. Its typographic design is based on that of the original. The work decries the falling off of New England from the purity and purpose of its original founding, …

A Declaration Of The Sad And Great Persecution And Martyrdom Of The People Of God, Called Quakers, In New-England, For The Worshipping Of God, Edward Burroughs

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From 1656 through 1661, the Massachusetts Bay Colony experienced an “invasion” of Quaker missionaries, who were not deterred by the increasingly severe punishments enacted and inflicted by the colonial authorities. In October 1659, two (William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson) were hanged at Boston; in June 1660, Mary Dyar (or Dyer) became the third; in March 1661, William Leddra became the fourth (and last) to suffer capital punishment or “mar-tyrdom” for their Quaker beliefs.While members of the Society of Friends rushed to Massachu-setts to test the harsh sentences under the newly enacted laws, other Friends in England simultaneously petitioned Parliament and …