Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819

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A set of nineteen posters with 112 bust portraits depicting identified men and women, primarily authors, artists, scientists, monarchs, and religious and political leaders from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a group of idealized heads illustrating characteristics identified by phrenologists.

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Manuscript, holograph, signed, with ANS regarding supplies for the frigate Java from Charles de Selding to "Mr. Beatty."

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ALS noting service with his "fleet" and mentioning Queen Charlotte and Lady [Brevoort?].

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Autograph manuscript, signed, dated on board U. S. S. Java, at sea.

A report signed by Lieutenant Joseph MacPherson and five other crew members is on verso.

Abstract: Miscellaneous letters by William Howard Taft, two speeches (one on strikes, the other on liberty under the law) and a colored pen and ink drawing by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, entitled "Ex-President Taft in Retirement." Among the letters the most important was written to Colonel J.C. Hemphill from the White House, July 28, 1911 and discusses Senator Robert M. La Follette's attempt to introduce protectionist legislation on wool. In a number of letters in 1917 Taft writes to classmates of...