4 3/4" x 7 1/4" leather notebook containing 80 pages filled with approximately 50 entries, including: "Death's Final Conquest by Shirley" "A Dirge. By D'Urfey" "A Character from Ramsays American Revolution / Aug 27th, 1782" An extract from "Ramsays American Revolution / New York Nov: 25th 1783" "The Wanderer: to the evening Star by Richard Nesbit" "Mary Queen of Scotts Farewell to France" "The Wizard of the Rock / W. M. Smith" "Verses written by the Sea , in a Heavy Gale / Freneau" "From Moore's Irish Melodies / 'The Vale of Avoca'" An "Extract from Goldsmith's England" "Extract from the Lady of the Lake / a Poem by Walter Scott, Esq." "Lines written by Sir Walter Raleigh the night before his execution" An extract "From Miss Bowdler's Essay on Politeness" An extract "From Davis's travels in America / Philadelphia, Autumn of 1797" "Sonnet to Pocahontas by Mr. Rolf" "Extract from Wilson's Pedestrian excursion to the Falls of Niagara. 1800" "Sonnet to a Fly... Decr 6th 1815" "Thank you, pretty cow... Nursery Rhyme"
Leather back cover and quarter of front cover missing Attributed to Joseph Flowerden, published by J. Nourse, London, 1769 Medical work concludes: Finis April 15, 1780 Further medical directions include: Howards Receipt for Curing the Lame Distemper, Yaws, or almost any Corrupt Blood and To Cure a Cancer Dates inscribed in volume are: January 30, 1793 (weather record); 1798 (farm record); 1829 (pencilled note), Alexander Bourbon Kentucky? At end of volume, written dos-a-dos, are 18 pages of songs (2 leaves detached) copied by Alexander Barnett, chiefly while at Camp Hicks Creek in South Carolina, Dec. 28, 1780-Jan. 12, 1781 Names of John Brown, Congressman, and James Barnett, Capt. Jno. Barnett, John Dykes, Solomon Levi, and John Taliaferro also appear
On vellum, folded Holograph signature of Georges Jacques Danton, 1759-1794, revolutionary leader Bears stamped seal in red: Au Nom De La Republique Française Concerns wording on seal of notary acts; changed from Sous le Scel du Roi to Sous le Scel de la Nation
Only photostat (not original) is present Accompanied by: Thomas Pownall, Richmond, Surrey, England, to Benjamin Franklin. Copy of John Almon's "State of the Account of Gov. Pownall's Description of America," with covering letter. Autograph letter signed 3 p. 13, 25, 30 cm.