Battle of the Chesapeake
"Last Sunday night arrived here, Mr. Galgy, midshipman of his majesty's strip
Royal Oak, dispatched express by Vice Admiral Arbuthnot. The Following is an
account of an action fought on the 16th, between the British and French
squadrons off the Chesapeake."
New York: James Rivington, printer to the King, the Royal Gazette
Extraordinary. March 26, 1781. Folio E237.R69 1781
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OEuvres de Moliere.
Thomas Jefferson's copy.
London: [s.n.], 1784. E332.2.Z9 M6 1784
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Louisiana Purchase. [Jefferson,
Thomas.] Message of the president of the United States, inclosing a treaty
and conventions, entered into and ratified by the United States of America
and the French Republic, relative to the cession of Louisiana. October 22,
1803.
[Washington, D.C., 1803.] A1803 .U7
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Letter, 1810 January 17.
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, to John W. Eppes, Congress, January 17, 1810,
writing on the ill-effects of long speeches in the U. S. House of
Representatives. MSS 11220
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Fourth March.
Broadside celebrating the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency.
[S.l.: s.n., 1802?.] Broadside 1802 .F68
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Thomas Jefferson Document [1825]
A one page autograph document in Jefferson's hand, ca. 1825, which contains a
classification by age of students enrolled in the first session of the
University of Virginia for the academic year 1825-1826, possibly for
administrative or personal use, and tipped to a larger sheet. To the right
of each student name listed, Jefferson has written one or more of a series
of letters, evidently a code of initials to indicate which professors was
attended by each student. MSS 11164
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Virginiae pars, Carolinae pars.
Untitled map; title is taken from the text of the map. Map is divided into
2 sections; the top part extends from the Dan River in the west to Currituck
Inlet on the Atlantic, with dotted line "A" indicating the boundary between
" Virginiae pars " and "Carolinae pars. " The date March 6, 1727-28 is
printed at the eastern edge of the map and April 2, 1728 printed just east
of the Meherrin River. The lower part of the map, with dotted line "B"
indicating the boundary, is an enlargement of the section from Sommerton
Creek east to Dismal Swamp and Notts Island and on to the ocean. A linear
scale is shown in this bottom portion, but corresponding unit of measurement
is not given. One of 50 copies printed from an original copperplate
uncovered at Oxford amongst a collection of plates given to them in 1755 by
Richard Rawlinson.
[Oxford]: Bodleian Library, 1986. G3880 1728 .V57 1986
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Letter, 1801 March 17.
Thomas Jefferson, Washington, to Philip Mazzei, Pisa, Italy, conveying
personal and public news to his good friend. MSS 11220
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Thomas Jefferson Document ca. 1812
A two page description on a single sheet of paper
(watermarked JOHN WISE) of Jefferson's plans for
designing and building his gardens at Monticello.
The manuscript appears to be a recapitulation of an
earlier diary or journal kept by Thomas Jefferson,
providing minute details of his design, building, and
planting of the vegetable gardens at Monticello,
with four chronological entries: 1808 May 31; 1810
Feb 17; 1810 Feb 24; and 1812 Mar 27. MSS 11164
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Monroe Doctrine.
[Monroe, James.]
Message from the President of the United States to both houses of
Congress at the commencement of the first session ofthe eighteenth Congress.
December 2, 1823.
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1823. Folio J82.A57 Dec.2
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Letter, 1827 August 4
An autograph one page letter, August 4, 1827, from James Madison, Rector of
the University of Virginia, Montpellier, to Nicholas Philip Trist, Secretary
of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, Tufton near
Charlottesville, concerning the vacancy that occurred at the University when
Thomas Hewitt Key, Professor of Mathematics, returned to England in 1827. MSS 11201
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The Political Cabinet.
Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark.]
Boston, 1806-7. F592.3 1806b
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Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint Flint, Timothy.
Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint from the Red River, to the Ouachitta
or Washita, in Louisiana, in 1836. Found in Waldie's Circulating Library.
Part I, no.18. Philadelphia, 1836. Folio A1836 .F54
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Indenture, February 12, 1823
The additional papers of the Preston family of Abingdon, Virginia and
Columbia, South Carolina includes legal and financial papers, including this
indenture, which pertain to Francis Preston, Robert Preston, William C.
Preston, Robert R. Preston, and William R. Preston & the heirs of Francis
Preston. MSS 11166-b
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Runaway Slave Broadsides 1856 1860
These broadsides from Alexandria, Virginia and Prince George's County,
Maryland are typical of the time. Broadside 1856.S46
Broadside 1860.A18
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The House Servant's Directory... comprising hints
on the arrangement and performance of servant's work... with friendly
advice to cooks and heads of families.
Roberts, Robert
Boston: Monroe and Francis; New York: Charles S. Francis, 1827. TX 331 .R64 1827
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Civil War Manuscript 1861
Civil War manuscript, written for Leslie's illustrated Newpapers,
"Recollections of a Leslie's Special Artist in the Civil War, No. 1,
Baltimore, Generals Butler and Banks and the baffled insurrectionists. " MSS 11219
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Union and Confederate campaigns in the
lower Shenandoah Valley. Illustrated.
Twenty years after, at the first reunion of Sheridan's veterans on the
fields and in the camps of the valley.
Whitney, William H.
[Boston, 1884.] Folio E470.3 .W47 1883
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Civil War Diary of William S. Hotchkiss
September 15, 1864 to May 17, 1865
William S. Hotchkiss of the 1st Regiment, New York Engineers, recounts his
service under Grant during the seige of Petersburg, his advance in pursuit
of Lee right up to Appomattox, and his return through a conquered Richmond.
MSS 11226
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Two photographs from Big Stone Gap and South Tacoma, Virginia, undated. MSS 11211 North End of Natural Tunnel, Scott
County, Virginia
"This wall rises to a perpendicular height of nearly 300 ft. This tunnel is
one of nature's wonders surpassing in grandeur the famous Natural Bridge of
Virginia or Mammoth Cave of Kentucky".
A Catalogue of the Animals of North America
Containing an Enumeration of the known Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles,
Fish, Insects, Crustaceous and Testaceous Animals; many of which are new,
and never described before...
Forster, Johann Reinhold.
London: B. White, 1771. QL151.F7 1771
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Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the
East-Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation:
together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being
encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine,
agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical
description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionaea Muscipula: or,
Venus's Fly-Trap.
Ellis, John
London, 1770. SB117.E4 1770
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