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Box 1

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Contains 10 Results:

System of Symbols, circa 1834

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Description

Autograph notes. Note accompanying the manuscript indicates that it was from a group of drawings from the granddaughter of General Henry Clinton, probably circa 1834.

William Coham Turner, 1835-1838

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description

3 items. Calligraphy samples texts of proverbial sayings, probably Turner’s own. Turner taught at Commercial and Mathematical School, Barnstable, England (May 27-31, 1836). Sewn autograph manuscript, 7 pages, (Mid-summer 1835). Sewnautograph manuscript, 9 pages, (November 14-28, 1838). Sewn autograph manuscript, 14 pages

Consummatum Est, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Description

Ephemera, hand-colored etching depicting Jesus on the cross, undated. Printed below picture “Consummatum Est,” It is finished. P. M. Arnold notes “I found this in an old book. I do not know if it is worth keeping as a piece of ephemera, but it looks to me as if it is quite old.”

Everardo Audrich, Three holograph leave originally laid in Institvtiones antiqvariae…, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Description

Notes on the book. Two leaves laid in at page 129 and one leave laid in at page 161. From the library of Joseph Pelli, bearing his bookplate.

Get a Shopping Card! "The Bee Hive" L.S. Plaut and Co., Newark, New Jersey, circa 1900

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Description

Advertisment for an in-house, single payment shopping plan, perhaps a predecessor of the credit card. Also includes letter from Arnold explaining the origins of the item above.

Accession 1488.

Jasper Paul to John Trower, 1806

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Description

Typed letter signed, 1 page