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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Main Author: Logan, James 1674-1751 (Creator)
Collection:James Logan Papers
Collection Number:2011
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
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100 1 |a Logan, James  |d 1674-1751  |e creator 
245 1 |a James Logan papers  |f 1670-1749 
300 |a 1.0 Linear feet  |f 1 linear feet, 1 box, 30 items, 8 volumes 
520 |a 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. 
541 1 |a Gift of Mrs. Daniel Coxe.; 1970 acquired 
650 7 |a Botany--18th century  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Pennsylvania--Politics and government--18th century  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Pennsylvania--Provincial Council--18th century  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Philosophy--18th century  |2 Local sources 
852 |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania  |b James Logan Papers  |l 2011