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1906: J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library

By 1900 Pierpont Morgan decided to build a library next to his brownstone at the corner of Madison Avenue and 36th Street.
Collection of manuscript copies, in an unknown hand, of letters written in English and Latin, between John White and Linnaeus, 1771-1774.

White, John, 1727-1780.

1771-1774.

MA 3324

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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Magna Carta in F : wherunto is added more statut[es] than euer was imprynted in any one boke before this tyme, with an almanacke [and] a calender to know the mootes : necessarye for all yong studiers of the lawe.

Imprynted at Lond[on] ... : By me Robert Redman ..., 1539.

PML 195563

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Book

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Printed Books

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"What is it, Ira, that draws man inexorably back to the sea?" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Lorenz, Lee.

MA 12839

Classification

Drawing

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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Head of a Child. Verso: Head of Child Looking up to the Right

Francesco Vanni

1563-1610

1986.109

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Aphrodite in Aulis / George Moore.

Moore, George, 1852-1933.

London : William Heinemann Ltd. ; New York : Fountain Press, [1930]

PML 136027

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Book

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Printed Books

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Typed letter signed "Jerry" : [Cornish, N.H.], to Michael Mitchell, 1982 June 25.

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.

1982 June 25.

MA 6094.19

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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Autograph note : place not specified, to [Mr. Chester], [1862 May].

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.

[1862 May].

MA 4724.152

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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Autograph letter signed : Quincy, to Elbridge Gerry, 1813 Apr. 14.

Adams, John, 1735-1826.

1813 Apr. 14.

MA 157.17a

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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To the most noble Marquese of Worcester this plate of Mr. John Jackson is with Permission Dedicated to his Lordship [print].

Turner, Charles, 1774-1857.

MA 1294.72

Classification

Print

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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