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Two family photo albums and one sketch of a coat of arms with the motto, "Aquilla non captat muscas."

Family photo album.

Bryant Drake daily diaries and church records.  36 items.

Diaries of Nellie Drake and Alberta Stimson, and one pocket-sized copy of the New Testament.

Three of Alberta and Bryant Drake's financial ledgers from the 1920s-1930s and the 1970s-1980s.

Studio photographs of 19 members of Grinnell College class of 1894.

3 albums of photos and letters

One folder of letters from J. T. H. Main to Underwood 1917-29, a brief autobiography of Mrs. Hamlin, and a scrapbook of clippings, primarily about President Main at the time of his death in 1931.

Newspaper clippings: Herron family and Rand School Herron and diplomatic role. 1918-19 Clippings re Pres. Gates Move to oust Herron from Congregational Church. April-June 1901 Herron and Social Democratic Party Clippings. 1891-1914 Fragmentary, undated clippings Parker collection of clippings on Herron affair (3 folders)

Correspondence (J. L. Hill), ca. 1928 Letters: S. Wolcott to Julius Reed, 1832 (from Hill’s collection?) Letters (from Hill’s collection?) [3 folders] Bill of sale of slaves (from scrapbook) Sale of land, July 18, 1828 (from scrapbook) Items from scrapbook Postal receipts, 1840-42 (from scrapbook) Lyman Whiting correspondence and materials (from scrapbook)

Scrapbook contents: Land grant from Pres. James Monroe to James C. Smith for a tract in Illinois, 1817 [letter in code/shorthand/?] Commission to Samuel F. Cooper as U.S. Consul from Queen Victoria, 1876 Partial record of a minister’s meeting, 1799 New Hampshire Gazette, Oct. 7, 1756 [facsimile], 1856 Shipping document, 1715 Handwritten pamphlets, 1715? Photograph of original of “America” “One of two sermons preached at his own ordination by Nathaniel Sparhawk, Lyn End, Mass., 1720 “And if the righteous scarcely be saved...” [handwritten pamphlet], 1791 Letters tied together/or diary from Newburg Port, 1772-80? Letter to James Cummings from Benjamin Allen, 1821 A bond, Barrow to Fantleroy, 1731 Letter to Rev. Jesse Appleton (Pres., Bowden College?), 1803 Bill of merchandise, 1724 Letter to Wm. Pepperell, 1729 A commercial letter to Wm. Pepperell, 1746 Warrant for wages, 1778? Letter from Joel Barlow, 1785 Receipt, 1805 [Diary, 1766?] Notebook, 1813-40? Letter or notes in code/shorthand/? [Notes], 1729 Handwritten pamphlet, No. 18, 1724 [Rev. Ebenezer Parkman?] Notes of Joseph Buckminster, 1774-80? Notes of Rev. Chas. G. Finney Lancaster: Francis Bailey, 1777. (owned by Lyman Whiting) N.B. The “Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states...” are cataloged and shelved at: KF4508 1777