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BOX 1-7 REEL 1-4 Correspondence and Other Material, 1741-1858
Correspondence, invitations, envelopes, photographs, clippings and other printed matter, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged chronologically in bound volumes.
BOX 1 REEL 1 1741, Sept. 1-1795, Jan. 20 undated
BOX 2 REEL 1 1795, Jan. 21-1799, Apr. 16
BOX 3 REEL 2 1799, Apr. 17-1811, Jan. 29
BOX 4 REEL 2 1811, Jan. 30-1816, Dec. 26 See also Oversize
BOX 5 REEL 3 1816, Dec. 27-1822, May 22
BOX 6 REEL 3 1822, May 26-1842, Nov. 14
BOX 7 REEL 4 1842, Nov. 16-1858, Jan. 19, undated
BOX 8-17 REEL 4-6 Writings, 1793-1829
Published and unpublished writings.
Arranged by subject.
BOX 8-10 REEL 4 Miscellaneous, 1823, undated
BOX 11 REEL 5 Cadmus: or, a Treatise on the Elements of the Written Language, 1793-1802, undated For additional material see Container 18 same heading; Reel 7
BOX 12 REEL 5 Julia, undated
BOX 13 REEL 5 Lucy, undated
BOX 14 REEL 5 African colonization, Greece, and other writings, 1804, 1823, undated
BOX 15 REEL 6 Religion, undated
BOX 16 REEL 6 Science, 1825-1827, undated
BOX 17 REEL 6 Sleep, 1829, undated
BOX 18-20 REEL 7 Miscellany, 1777-1865
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, invitations, commissions, a diploma, financial material, notes and other writings, and printed matter.
Arranged by topic, name of person, or type of material.
BOX 18 REEL 7 Visiting book, Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton, 1792-1834
Banks, Joseph, undated
Bound copies of letters, 1829-1830, 1865
Bound copies of letters from William Thornton, 1792-1801
Cadmus: or, a Treatise on the Elements of the Written Language, 1793
The Life of Dr. William Thornton, undated
Notebook, undated
Diaries, 1777-1782
BOX 19 REEL 7 Notebook, circa 1783
Commission, 1784
Notebook, 1786
Commission, 1794 See also Oversize
Almanac, 1795
BOX 20 REEL 7 Bankbook, 1850
Boston Investigator, 1838
Commission, 1802 See also Oversize
Diploma, 1784 See also Oversize
Expense books, 1795
Federal Republican, 1813
First annual report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States, 1818
Invitations, 1802, 1830
(2 folders)
La Grece, 1825
National Journal, 1829, June 17
Pennsylvania Packet, 1790
Printed matter, including clippings relating to George Washington memorial, 1799-1862, undated
(2 folders)
Washington assemblies, 1842, 1849
(2 folders)
Washington Gazette, 1821
Petition, Thornton et al., to Joseph Lewis, 1813 See also Oversize
Account book, 1798-1799
Expense book, 1794-1804
Thornton, Anna Maria Brodeau, copies of her letters, 1820-1826
Religious studies, extracts, undated
Thornton-Latrobe controversy, correspondence, 1798-1806
BOX 21not filmed Addition, 1810-1812
A letter and a pamphlet.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 21 Correspondence, 1810
Pamphlet, 1812
BOX OV 1-OV 3 REEL 2, 7 Oversize, 1784-1813
A diploma, commissions, and a petition.
Arranged and described according to the series, folders, and containers from which the items were removed after the microfilm edition was completed.
BOX OV 1 Correspondence and Other Material
1811, June 6 (Container 4; Reel 2)
Miscellany
Commission, 1794 (Container 19; Reel 7)
Commission, 1802 (Container 20; Reel 7)
BOX OV 2 Diploma, 1784 (Container 20; Reel 7)
BOX OV 3 Petition, Thornton et al. to Joseph Lewis, 1813 (Container 20; Reel 7)

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