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Bill of sale : Boston, Mass., to Mr. Abit, 1772 Jan. 10.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (1 p.) ;
Document. Bill for spices purchased at Callender's "Cheap Grocery-Store, South-side the Market; - Where West-India Goods, Fruits and Groceries, Of every kind, may be had, WHOLESALE and RETAIL - Fresh and Good."

[Essay on nineteenth century English poetry].

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (17 p. on 17 leaves) ;
TMS. Very heavily edited in the author's hand.

Letter : to A.E. Housman, 1922 July 7.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (2 p.) ;
ALS. Writes Housman "to report NO GO in the Shelley MSS as far as I am informed by careful enquirers particularly Mr. Peck of Exeter as per letters enclosed which have been given to me by Mr. O. Doughty."

Letter : to Sarah Disraeli, [1841] July 24.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (4 p. on double sheet) ;
ALS. To his wife, Disraeli writes that he has made some good speeches "each one more successful." He also describes dinners he has attended and recent events in Parliament.

Letter : Woking, to Laurence Housman, 1921 Feb. 15.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (4 p. on 2 leaves) ;
ALS. Discusses her efforts to arrange a meeting between Housman and her friend Mr. Lane. Also writes of a recent trip to the country.

Water on the brain.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (16 p.) ;
AMs. Play. Manuscript draft.

Letter : to E. Landseer Grundy, 1891 Feb. 3.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (3 p. on double sheet) ;
ALS. Replying to Grundy's note of 29 January, Lewis states that he could teach drawing to Grundy's son, in 12 lessons at a cost of 2.10. With drawing at bottom of letter.

Letters : to J.N. Frye, London, 1823 Feb. 6. and Mar. 29.

Bryn Mawr College
2 items (together 4 p.) ;
2 ALsS. The first letter is positive: "You and Mr. Lightfoot are glorious dogs--I accede with pleasure. [Lazarus] is up and looks heroically." In the second letter he responds with indignity to the increasing irritability of his creditor. "I have had money transactions before now with friends, and have troubled them often, but I was never in my life so harrassed, hampered, pestered, plagued, ferretted, and insulted as I have been for these last three weeks."

Letter : Newark, N.J., to Col. Jonathan Rhea, Trenton, N.J., 1808 Nov. 26.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (3 p. on double sheet) ;
ALS. Discusses some matters of business as well as of gossip. Also asks: "What think you of the non-intercourse Bill? I think should it take place, there would soon be the D--l to pay in the East. The quotas of malitia [sic] to be held in readiness is with a view of ordering the people into submission--but the Yankees are not to be frightened with rifles. But of all the calamities which await us may the Lord of his infinite mercy deliver us from a civil war."

Letter : Ryde, Isle of Wight, and Geneva, to Mrs. Thomas J. Chew, New York, 1844 July 1 and Aug. 27.

Bryn Mawr College
2 items (together 8 p.) ;
2 ALsS. To her mother, describing a European tour she is taking with her husband. With a postscript written by her husband, G.R. Lewis, on the first letter.

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