Commission appointing the Sieur de Maricourt as Commander-in-Chief at the "Mer du Nord." MSS. copy

A letter from D.DroÜaille, priest, to Etienne Guyotte, priest. On same piece of paper is a draught of a transfer of inheritance and a letter from Gaspard and Claude Guyotte to their brother Etienue.

Letter from Antoine Chaudillon (1643-1707) to Rennau (François-Marie Renaud d'Avène des Méloizes ?), officer, concerning debt.

Fonds consists of a manuscript of Mémoires de mathématique et de physique contenant un traité des épicycloïdes (published in Paris in 1674) and illustrated with mathematical diagrams.

The collection includes three warrants to Richard, Earl of Ranelagh concerning payment of troops, 1694-1697 and a signed document in Dutch concerning a Colonel van de Ruyterye, 1702.

Papers (6) concerning the estate of Eustache Lambert Dumont, père.

An early eighteenth-century puppet of a masked and hooded lady, from a Venetian puppet theatre. String puppet of the simpler kind.

The collection was assembled by the Rare Book Department at McGill to group a number of anonymous poetry collections and verse miscellanies dating from roughly the long eighteenth century. These include: a volume written around 1700 containing Milton's Comus and other poems, largely elegiac; a group of 38 original poems from 1774; satires of Cambridge personalities by an undergraduate (1795-1800); a volume of poems bound in vellum written in various hands by George Colin Campbell, Miss Flaxman, Mrs. A. M. Keith, Bernard Bolton, George Tucker and others, with sketches (1817); and Lady Murray's poetry commonplace-book (approximately 1820) containing poems by celebrated authors and some original pieces.

These two volumes of Afforismi dell'Arte Bellica lasciati per eterna memoria del Gran Generale Principe Montecucoli are possibly extracts from his memoirs.

This series consists of a variety of puppets (string puppets, jumping jacks, rod puppets, glove puppets, etc.) and shadow puppets representing many different countries and puppet-making techniques and traditions. It also contains some accompanying materials, including a puppet theatre and accessories for shadow puppet plays.