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James Logan papers
These papers reflect James Logan's activities as agent for the Penn family, land speculator, and scholar. Letterbooks, 1734-1748, several of which are marked "friendship" or "business," include correspondence to Letitia Penn Aubrey, Samuel Blunston, Peter Collinson, John Fo...
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| Collection: | James Logan Papers |
| Collection Number: | 2011 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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1.0 Linear feet 1 linear feet, 1 box, 30 items, 8 volumes |
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These papers reflect James Logan's activities as agent for the Penn family, land speculator, and scholar. Letterbooks, 1734-1748, several of which are marked "friendship" or "business," include correspondence to Letitia Penn Aubrey, Samuel Blunston, Peter Collinson, John Fothergill, Josiah Martin, Thomas Penn, William Penn III, Richard Peters, John Reading, and Ralph Smith; also additional letterbook of single letters, on scientific subjects addressed to Johann Albrect Fabricus, Abraham Gronovius, Hugh Hones, Carl Linnaeus, Richard Mead, and Hans Sloane. Logan's scholarship is further represented by drafts of "The Duties of Man as they may be deduced from Nature," [1736], and excerpts from Pietro Giannone, Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples, as reported in Archibald Bower, Historia Litteraria. There are also [Joshua Francis Fisher's] abstracts from Logan's Notes for and answer to George Keith, 1699; Of the Eseans, n.d.; literary, philosophical and religious fragments, n.d.; William Logan poem for Philadelphia, 1685.
Letters to Johann Albrect Fabricus, Abraham Gronovius, Hugh Hones, Carl Linnaeus, Richard Mead, and Hans Sloane mostly written in Latin. |