Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Miscellaneous manuscripts

Authors

• Ewing, John, 1732-1802
• Ewing, Hannah
• Nicholson, John, 1757-1800
• University of Pennsylvania. Trustees
• Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Call number

Misc Mss Box 6 Folders 47-48 Box 6 Folders 47-48
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9913867363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190791472

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1774-1792

Summary

Consists of 2 folders. There are eleven original letters: eight letters dated 1774-1775 from John Ewing to his wife, Hannah Ewing; one dated 1775 to Ewing from an unidentified correspondent in Aberdeen; one dated 1794 from Ewing to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania; and one of 1797 to John Nicholson. These are accompanied by a provenance note. In addition there are photostatic copies of two more letters: three copies of a letter dated 1780 from Ewing to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania accepting his appointment as Provost; two of these copies are positive images, the third is negative; and one copy (negative) of a letter dated 1792 from Ewing to the Trustees.

Notes

• Mrs. Wright's gift was in memory of William Anderson Hall, son of Judge James Hall, who was the son of Sarah Ewing Hall and grandson of John Ewing.
   

Extent

13 items (18 leaves)

Provenance

• The eleven letters dated 1774-1797 were gift of Mrs. Wright, May 1931.
   

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Provenance note
• fol. 2r — Letters to and from John Ewing