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Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866.

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4611
Abstract The Lafayette Collection contains materials by, to or about Lafayette and his family, with family documents extending back to 1245 and through the death of Georges Washington Lafayette in 1849. The series "Medals and Coins" covers a century and a half, up to 1931. The collection includes the oldest existing letter from Lafayette (1772), long missives he sent to his wife from America during the Revolution, other letters he wrote while imprisoned in Austria (1792-1797) and during his 1824-5...
Dates: 1520-1973.

Ornithology manuscripts

 Collection — Manuscript box 66 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113569226]
Identifier: 4748
Scope and content Manuscript journal titled Memoranda ornithologica, with entries dated from 1850-1881, documenting bird sightings, bird collecting, and bird people in and about Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-1800s. It cites conversations with Henry David Thoreau while birding along the Concord River, and includes many notes on bird observations and birds collected in eastern Massachusetts, including passenger pigeons. With the journal are two letters. One is from physician and ornithologist Elliott Coues,...
Dates: 1850-1886.

Rare book exhibit slides

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065177341]
Identifier: 13-1-1265
Scope and content

25 items including glass slides of items shown in an exhibit on early European exploration of what is now the United States, including California and upstate New York. Items shown included books (some of them formerly owned by Jared Sparks), maps, and manuscripts.

Dates: circa 1969.

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Administration of estates -- France -- History. 1
Administration of estates -- United States -- History. 1
Belgium -- History -- Revolution, 1830-1839 -- Sources. 1
Birds -- Massachusetts. 1
Bone china (material) 1