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This manuscript recounts the captivity of John Knubley, Master of the Mountezumar and Alexander Scott among the Moroccans after a ship wreck in 1810.
Knubley, John, active 1810-1817
There are three letters from Lord Selkirk, one from Lord Dalhousie, and eight from Lady Selkirk. The early letters concern the Red River Settlement and the North West Company. The letter from Lord Dalhousie, 1824, concerns legal matters, and the two late letters, 1828 and 1833, from Lady Selkirk are personal in nature.
Gale, Samuel, 1783-1865
Philip Pearsall Carpenter Fonds
Carpenter's "Orations on philosophical topics" stem from his days as a student at Manchester College, York.
Carpenter, Philip P. (Philip Pearsall), 1819-1877
Fonds consists of tales, fables, poems, odes, epigrams, etc, collected by Sarah Wilson between 1820 and 1825.
Wilson, Sarah, active 1820-1825
"Laure", a novel in French, is ascribed to Maria Neglet by a pencilled note in another hand.
Neglet, Maria, active 1820
Fonds includes The Duel, a prose short story, December 1838, 68 pages. Also included are prose pieces by Susan Corse, dated March-August 1838, and Elements of the philosophy of the human mind [approimately 1860?].
There are translations from Ovid, Juvenal, Persius and Horace written in the years 1819, 1820, and 1821, verses on several subjects, and a translation of the "De arte poetica".
Pendred, V., approximately 1821
This collection consists of 90 letters most of which were written to Sir John Philippart and to Mr. George Virtue.
Porter, Jane, active 1823-1849
McGillivrays, Thain and Company Fonds
Consists of letters from John Franklin, the Arctic explorer.
McGillivrays, Thain and Co.
Gustavus William Wicksteed Fonds
This material consists of a journal kept at St. Giles de Beaurivage.
Wicksteed, G. W. (Gustavus William), 1799-1898