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Formal title:: Account of the destruction of the British armed sloop Liberty at Newport, Rhode Island
Extent:: 0.2 linear feet
Date range:: 1769 and undated
Abstract:: Anonymous letter written to Edes and Gill, printers of the Boston Gazette, describing the destruction of the Sloop
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.591

Formal title:: Mrs. Mary Almy's account of the cannonading of the French Fleet in Newport
Extent:: 0.2 linear feet (2 folders)
Date range:: 1778, 1878
Abstract:: Account of the cannonading of the French Fleet in Newport, Rhode Island, while the city was occupied by the British Army written by Mary Almy (1735-1808), a Loyalist, to her husband, Benjamin Almy (1724-1818).
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.032

Formal title:: G. T. Beauregard letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1857
Abstract:: This collection consists of one letter written by G. T. Beauregard (1818-1893), a United States Army engineer officer and later Confederate Army general, to Dr. Mercer regarding the British invasion on Washington, D.C during the War of 1812.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.501

Formal title:: Birckhead collection of Redwood family papers
Extent:: 0.21 linear feet (1 half document case)
Date range:: 1730-1866 (bulk 1730-1774)
Abstract:: This collection consists mainly of letters, receipts, and accounts relating to Abraham Redwood (1709-1788), the founder of the Redwood Library, and his business dealings in Newport, Rhode Island. Also included are documents concerning the Redwood Library, Abraham Redwood’s contemporaries in Newport, and later letters from David King, a former president of the Redwood Library.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.025

Formal title:: Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1869
Abstract:: This collection consists of one letter from Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (1825-1921), the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States, to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, regarding her publication,
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.502

Formal title:: Charles Timothy Brooks letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1878
Abstract:: Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883) was a Unitarian pastor in Newport, Rhode Island. This collection includes one letter addressed to Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull of Hartford, Connecticut, on July 2, 1878.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.503

Formal title:: Phillips Brooks letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1880
Abstract:: Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was a prominent Episcopal clergyman of Boston, Massachusetts. This collection includes one letter written to Thomas M. March (1812-1903), the Bishop of Rhode Island from 1854-1903.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.504

Brown (John) letter

Formal title:: John Brown letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1859
Abstract:: This collection consists of a facsimile letter of John Brown (1800-1859) to his cousin, Reverend Luther Humphrey in Charlestown, Virginia, in which he reflects upon his imprisonment and upcoming death sentence as a result of his raid on Harper’s Ferry.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.550

Brown (Samuel) letter

Formal title:: Samuel Brown letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1folder)
Date range:: 1788
Abstract:: Letter from Samuel Brown (1753 or 1754-1825), a prominent Boston merchant, to William Vernon (1719-1806), regarding papers received from William Tudor (1750-1819) and a letter from a man called “Gray” about his slaves.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.570

Formal title:: Guide to the Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., collection of manuscripts
Extent:: 0.42 linear foot (1 document case)
Date range:: 1711-1920 and undated (bulk 1711-1870)
Abstract:: This collection consists mainly of letters, receipts, and accounts from 1711-1920 that were collected by Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. (1910-2009). The majority of these documents regard various people, places, and events in Newport, Rhode Island, from the colonial period through the early twentieth century.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.040

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