15 resultados para Jones, Michael

em Harvard University


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Draft of a letter concerning Croswell's Mercator map.

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These appear to be Parmele's notes on a work by the scholar William Jones (1726-1800) regarding the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity.

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Three letters and one price circular for patent wrought iron nails. Correspondence includes details on nail design and prices, as well as gossip about mutual friends and associates.

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Four letters regarding nail manufacture and the state of their business. Jones also recounts chance meetings with mutual associates, including a satirical account of one exchange.

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Five letters, in which Jones recounts a club meeting and toasts and songs given, and provides updates on the business and descriptions of nail manufacture and design. He also comments on fashions of the day and includes an anectdote about a lecture he attended that was so dull, one audience member "fell fast asleep & tumbled down with a crash that startled everyone in the room." Letter dated 1814 March 24 is addressed to "Fanny" but also contains a message to Tudor from Jones.

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Four letters regarding the nail business, including information on prices, designs, and types of metals. Also included is news of friends and a description of festivities on election day in Birmingham, and Jones’ thoughts on politics and the fate of Napoleon. The last letter regards an unsettled account related to the nail factory.

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One letter responding to the letter from Jones dated 1819 October 22 about an unclosed account. The letter outlines details of Tudor’s engagement with Williams, Jones & Co. to run the nail factory.

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Document outlining terms and conditions of Tudor employment as manager of the Birmingham nail factory.

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Four letters discussing news of friends and domestic politics and the presidential election, in addition to trade and purchases of certain goods.

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Four letters regarding unrest in Chile, the election of Vice President Joaquín Vicuña and inception of the Chilean Civil War, and subsequent events related to the war.

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Two letters in which Jones requests that Tudor relay his regrets to José de la Mar for missing the general’s installation as president of Peru, and mentions he is sending Tudor an ensign to be used "at the Palace."

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Handwritten indenture between grantors Anthony Blount and John Jones, and the Trustees as grantees for a parcel of land originally included in Mr. Savill Simpson's farm.

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In this deed of feoffment, written on Dec. 10, 1677, Thomas Sweetman agreed to sell his dwelling house, barn, and orchard to his son-in-law, Michael Spencer, for the cost of eighty pounds sterling. The property was located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on what was then the northwest corner of the grounds of Harvard College, and was sold "together with the wood lot upon the rocks and cow commons belonging to it." The deed specifies that both Sweetman and his wife Isabel were to be allowed to occupy the property until their deaths, and further explains that Spencer and his family were already living in the dwelling house, occupying three rooms. The document was signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of Daniel Gookin, Jr. and John Bridgham. It was also signed by Thomas Sweetman.