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Bound play manuscript in German, "Der Hofmeister und die Gouvernante," about 1783-1806. Accompanied by a published version of the play edited by Michael M. Metzger and Gerard F. Schmidt (Water de Gruyter & Co., 1969). Schmidt has inscribed the published volume "Given to the Library of SUNY Binghamton, to accompany the original manuscript of the play."

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Twelve-page typescript review essay, focused in part on John Gardner's 1978 book "On Moral Fiction." Lester goes on to discuss the views of the literary establishment toward children's literature, and concludes with what he calls an example of moral fiction, "an African tale which my wife and I have rewritten. It is a tale from the Baila people of Zambia which they call 'The Child and the Eagle.' My wife and I have renamed it 'The Man Who Knew Too Much.'"

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Letter from Jules Michelet, in French. Postmark dated January 11, 1838.

Scope and Contents Four pieces of correspondence as follows:- Manuscript copy in Mill's handwriting of a letter dated November 26, 1858 from George Grote to John Stuart Mill offering condolences on the death of Mill's wife.- Letter from John Stuart Mill to George Grote, dated November 28, 1858, on mourning stationery, replying to Grote's letter.- Letter from John Stuart Mill to Thornton Hunt, dated April 24, 1861. Mill reports that he does not know the identity of the...

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Letter from the Austrian novelist Karoline Pichler dated July 23, 1829 and written in German. Recipient may be named Maltitz.

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Letter or letter fragment in French, signed and dated variously.

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Letter from H. W. Robbins to Professor Brown, January 15, 1923. Typed on letterhead of the University of Minnesota Department of Rhetoric and Public Speaking. Robbins thanks Brown for copying out citations from books not available at the University of Minnesota, and presents "herewith the few deductions I have been able to make regarding the translation of Guilel. Bewfu."

Scope and Contents Letter from Ellen Terry to Charles Oram Lander, February 3, 1917. At the top of the first page is written vertically "Pray excuse a 'dictated' note." Terry thanks Lander for his note and writes that she should have written sooner but that she has been "laid up by an attack of bronchitis." The letter is signed in green ink, and on the verso she has added, also in green, "If you care to take the chance of finding me at home some evening about 5 o'clock pray look in at 215 'to say how do you...

Scope and Contents Manuscript volume of sixty (60) leaves, containing French verse in ink, all in the same hand. Contents:[first leaf] blank[second leaf] Title page: "Thuisiana. | ou | choix de quelques pieces de poesies | pour des Amis. | [pen flourish] | " . . . ne te ut miratur turba labores, | contentus paucis lectoribus. | Horace."[i]-ii: "Vers à Mrs Lutwyche. | en lui adressant le Recueil." At the end of the poem...

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Letter from Alfred Herbert Tubby to Sir Reginald Wingate, November 22, 1920. Tubby sends a copy of his recently published book, "A Consulting Surgeon in the Near East."