Item 30: Librarian Notes on McClintock Collection, 1988-1992
Item — Box: 13, Folder: 30
Dates
- Created: 1988-1992
Restricted Note:
Item 9: Princeton University Financial Report, 1958 October 3 [Restricted]: Contains confidential financial information related to Princeton University.
Item 10: Princeton University Financial Report, 1959 May 22 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Princeton University.
Item 15: Wilkes College Financial Report, 1950 May 22 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Wilkes College.
Item 16: Audit Report - Wilkes College, 1950 September 28 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Wilkes College.
Item 17: Audit Report - Wilkes College, 1951 August 24 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Wilkes College.
Item 19: Appraisal of Securities - Wilkes College, 1956 June 29-December 31 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Wilkes College.
Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Notecards
Measurements:
5 in. x 8 in.
Description:
A series of printed notes and handwritten notes regarding the McClintock Collection from various dates around 1988-1992. The first item is a printed note titled “Double Fore-Edge Painting” and is regarding an engraving by Thomas Campbell from 1820. The next item is an advertisement from Pirie MacDonald, a photographer, regarding the frames he is selling. The next item is a copy of a list of items, including the Thomas Campbell engraving. The other items are an autographed letter from Alfred Noyes, a book of the writings of Thomas Paine from 1792, and a map by Lewis Evans. The rest of the items are 10 notecards with handwritten notes by librarians.
Location:
Good, no issues.
Transcription:
Card 1:
Look for S.R. Smith, Wyo.[ming] Valley in 19th Cent.[ury] Red finding
This note written 3/3/92 see Card index
Card 2: 1991 For April 15 Find Shoemaker We were here May 13 to May 21 Catalogue Catlin for May 27 me -Rita Talk to Lorra about another bookcase
Feb. 5, 1992 Did Catlin
Card 3: Paine, Thomas, The Writings of, including, the Rights of man, Common Sense; etc. Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, Albany - state of New York. 1792, 8VO Contemporary finding joints and covers worn. Various paging
Card 4: [Front] Books that Annie and I will be displaying from our McClintock Room for Library Collection of Dec. 2, 1988.
I. Gertrude of Wyoming, by Thomas Campbell. First Editions, Presentation Copy. Blue Ship Case. Boxed, marble boards navy leather back. Tan leather copy. Included in book one: Letter to Dr. Julien Boyd from Federic Kirkland; answering letter from Dr. Boyd to Frederic Kirkland; Autographs of Thomas Campbell, letters, and manuscript of “Lock[?], [?] 1809
2 Double Fore- Edge painting: “The Pleasure of Hope with other Poems, by Thomas Campbell. (Box for it is in cabinet)
3.4.4 [Back] (map) Fisher is in lower left Cabinet
5. Evans, Lewis. Great map of mid 18th cent.[ury] America Geographical, Historical, Philosophical & Mechanical Essays The first Containing an Analysis of a General map of the middle British Colonies in America; and of the Country of the Confederate Indians; a description of the Face of the Country; etc. etc. We [?] displayed a reproduction of the original map, pub. by Ethyl Corp.[oration] in 1955 Lewis Evans was the first to note the existence of oil rear the very site where the oil Industry was founded a century later. (Oil City, Penn[sylvani]a) The map today is one of the rarest issues of Benjamin Franklin’s Press.
Card 5: [Front] 6. Liancount, Duke de la Rockafecoult - Travels through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois and upper Canada in 1795, 96, & 97, 4 Vals. London 1800 (complete with 3 maps + 6 tables)
7. General Sullivan’s address to the Freeman of New Hampshire Portsmouth, N.H. , 1785 Brookside, pp. 8
8. Pennsylvania…Histoire naturelle et Politique de La Pennsylvania et de L’Establishment des Quakers…Map 4 Pennsylvania, 16 mo. Paris 1768. Folding Map
[Back] Case # II 9. John Wilkes; [?] North Briton. 2 Vols. open to pg. 101 “When a man of parts dedicates his [?] to the service of his country, he deserves the highest reward: when he makes them subservient to base purpose, he merits execration & punishment -” - then about Hogarth in 1746
10. History of england, John Wilkes, 1768 and a Letter to Earl Temple
11. John Wilkes; a letter to General Johnson 1770 in reply to Johnson’s [?] Alarm”
12. Wilkes’s speeches in the House of Commons 1786 His own copies (2 Vols.)
Card 6: 13. John Wilkes An Essay on Woman and other pieces. Original Holograph Letter giving an account of the Preceeding(sic) in both Houses of Parl[iment] in the matter of Wilkes’s Essay on Woman & the text of the Resolution
14. Full page 8vo, with addressed [?] [?] to monsieur Suard. King’s Bench Prison 1796
15. Thomas Paine, Witness of, [?] The Rights of Men, Common Sense, and Crisis Paine was sec for Foreign Affairs to the Congress of the U.S. in the Late War” Printed in 1792
Card 7: Trumbull, Henry History of the Discovery of America: of the Landing of our Forefathers at Plymouth, and of their most Remarkable Engagements with the Indians In new England From their first landing in 1620, until the final subjugation of the natives in 1679, etc. Boston published by Goerge Clark. 1833 [?] 8VO Folding hand colored frontispiece
Card 8: next time Look for these:
Card 9: (NOT IN OUR CARDS) LOOK FOR THESE IN [?} NOT YET CATALOGED
Card 10: 1/89 These pamphlets have been cataloged and archived with Boyd’s files.
Card 2: 1991 For April 15 Find Shoemaker We were here May 13 to May 21 Catalogue Catlin for May 27 me -Rita Talk to Lorra about another bookcase
Feb. 5, 1992 Did Catlin
Card 3: Paine, Thomas, The Writings of, including, the Rights of man, Common Sense; etc. Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, Albany - state of New York. 1792, 8VO Contemporary finding joints and covers worn. Various paging
Card 4: [Front] Books that Annie and I will be displaying from our McClintock Room for Library Collection of Dec. 2, 1988.
I. Gertrude of Wyoming, by Thomas Campbell. First Editions, Presentation Copy. Blue Ship Case. Boxed, marble boards navy leather back. Tan leather copy. Included in book one: Letter to Dr. Julien Boyd from Federic Kirkland; answering letter from Dr. Boyd to Frederic Kirkland; Autographs of Thomas Campbell, letters, and manuscript of “Lock[?], [?] 1809
2 Double Fore- Edge painting: “The Pleasure of Hope with other Poems, by Thomas Campbell. (Box for it is in cabinet)
3.4.4 [Back] (map) Fisher is in lower left Cabinet
5. Evans, Lewis. Great map of mid 18th cent.[ury] America Geographical, Historical, Philosophical & Mechanical Essays The first Containing an Analysis of a General map of the middle British Colonies in America; and of the Country of the Confederate Indians; a description of the Face of the Country; etc. etc. We [?] displayed a reproduction of the original map, pub. by Ethyl Corp.[oration] in 1955 Lewis Evans was the first to note the existence of oil rear the very site where the oil Industry was founded a century later. (Oil City, Penn[sylvani]a) The map today is one of the rarest issues of Benjamin Franklin’s Press.
Card 5: [Front] 6. Liancount, Duke de la Rockafecoult - Travels through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois and upper Canada in 1795, 96, & 97, 4 Vals. London 1800 (complete with 3 maps + 6 tables)
7. General Sullivan’s address to the Freeman of New Hampshire Portsmouth, N.H. , 1785 Brookside, pp. 8
8. Pennsylvania…Histoire naturelle et Politique de La Pennsylvania et de L’Establishment des Quakers…Map 4 Pennsylvania, 16 mo. Paris 1768. Folding Map
[Back] Case # II 9. John Wilkes; [?] North Briton. 2 Vols. open to pg. 101 “When a man of parts dedicates his [?] to the service of his country, he deserves the highest reward: when he makes them subservient to base purpose, he merits execration & punishment -” - then about Hogarth in 1746
10. History of england, John Wilkes, 1768 and a Letter to Earl Temple
11. John Wilkes; a letter to General Johnson 1770 in reply to Johnson’s [?] Alarm”
12. Wilkes’s speeches in the House of Commons 1786 His own copies (2 Vols.)
Card 6: 13. John Wilkes An Essay on Woman and other pieces. Original Holograph Letter giving an account of the Preceeding(sic) in both Houses of Parl[iment] in the matter of Wilkes’s Essay on Woman & the text of the Resolution
14. Full page 8vo, with addressed [?] [?] to monsieur Suard. King’s Bench Prison 1796
15. Thomas Paine, Witness of, [?] The Rights of Men, Common Sense, and Crisis Paine was sec for Foreign Affairs to the Congress of the U.S. in the Late War” Printed in 1792
Card 7: Trumbull, Henry History of the Discovery of America: of the Landing of our Forefathers at Plymouth, and of their most Remarkable Engagements with the Indians In new England From their first landing in 1620, until the final subjugation of the natives in 1679, etc. Boston published by Goerge Clark. 1833 [?] 8VO Folding hand colored frontispiece
Card 8: next time Look for these:
Card 9: (NOT IN OUR CARDS) LOOK FOR THESE IN [?} NOT YET CATALOGED
Card 10: 1/89 These pamphlets have been cataloged and archived with Boyd’s files.
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
Contact:
84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu
84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu