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Gratz family correspondence

File consists of a petition made in September 1775 to the Council of Virginia from traders and others who suffered losses in the Indian War of 1763; and two letters to Michael Gratz regarding trade.

Letter from Rev. John Stuart to James Stuart

Item is a handwritten letter from the Rev. John Stuart in Kingston, Upper Canada to his son James Stuart, personal secretary to Sir Robert Milnes, Lieutenant Govern of Lower Canada, regarding John's daughter Mary, who travelled to Montreal until James could deliver her to Elizabeth Mountain, the wife of Bishop Jacob Mountain in Quebec City. John Stuart discusses the affairs of his other children and his daughter-in-law, Mary Brooks, who was the daughter of the future governor of Massachusetts. The letter offers comments on family relationships and the status of women in the early nineteenth century.

The Quebec gazette

File consists of a broken run of the newspaper, containing accounts of proceedings of the legislature, and notices regarding trade and merchant activity, including Benjamin and Moses Hart.

Album of miscellaneous British autographs and letters

File consists of an album of 79 miscellaneous British autographs and letters. It includes letters written to W.L. Courtney, J.M. Wilson and F. Max Muller. Persons represented include Sir Maziere Brady, R.G. Braybrooke, Sir Samuel E. Bridges, Sir John Burke, W.J. Courhope, E. Curtius, John Cam Hobhouse, Admiral J. Jervis, B. Jowett, C. Knight, A. Legros, Sir H.J.S. Maine, H.W. Massingham, Mowbray Morris, Mark Patison, Bonamy Price, E. Renan, A.H. Sayce, and W.A. Wright.

Letter to William Martin

File consists of a handwritten letter written from a brother and sister to their father in Kent, England, describing their decision to leave Hamilton, Upper Canada, due to unrest in the colony and to escape British tyranny, and to move to Rochester in the state of New York.

Correspondence of Louisa Murray

Box consists of 26 files of reproductions of letters from literary and artistic figures in Canada, such as Susanna Moodie, Daniel Fowler and George Munro Grant, addressed to Louisa Murray (b.1818-d.1894).

Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette

File consists of a broken run of the newspaper collected by Sheldon and Judy Godfrey because of the advertisements for various Jewish business people, including C. Solomon & Co., Samuel & Co. (guns), Theodore Hart, Alexander Levey, Jesse Joseph, A. & S. Nordheimer (piano fortes), John Levy, Simon Hart, A. Hoffnung (jeweller), William Benjamin & Co., H. Benjamin & Co. (crystal block importer), M. Bessunger (oil paintings), J.A. Harte (druggist), R.M. Hart (advocate), Silverman's Extract, and Wulff & Co., as well as an advertisement to builders regarding the construction of a synagogue on St. Constant Street.

Engravings from newspapers

File consists of five prints showing the Port Hope viaduct in Ontario (Illustrated Times, 22 January 1859), the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, Caledonian games on the civic holiday in Hamilton, laying of the corner stone for the Boy's Home in Hamilton (1876), and a hand-coloured rendering of a curling match in Montreal.

Bright, John

File consists of a ticket to the gallery of the House of Commons issued by John Bright and a cyanotype print of an English mine with the inscription on verso, "Do you remember the day you threw my pin down the shaft? Are you sorry?"

Notebook

File consists of a handwritten notebook used by William W. Clark, "Written during my labours on the Blenheim Circuit in the year 1859." It contains sermons entitled: "Preparation to meet God"; "The Worth of the Soul"; "The Fatal Night"; "An Address to Dispisers"; "The Certainty of Death"; "The Young the hope of the Church"; and "The Short bed & narrow covering," Burford, 8 August 1859. The sermons are often accompanied by the numbers of hymns sung at the service.

Notebook

File consists of a handwritten notebook used by William W. Clark while residing in Plattsville, Blenheim Township, Canada West. The notebook begins with a secton on "Questions & Answers on Ancient History," followed by sermons entitled: "An Invitation to enter the Ark of Safety," Plattsville, April 1859; "Blessedness of the Dead that die in the Lord," Fairfield Cottage, Burford, 6 July 1859; "Christian Perfection"; "Difficulties of Death-bed conversion"; and "The Lord; Coming to Judgement." The sermons are often accompanied by the numbers of hymns sung at the service.

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