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Arthur Rackham illustrations for Peter Pan, a 13th-century manuscript poem, and a passionate plea from Dorothea Dix are among this month’s newly digitized items. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]

Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937. Peter Pan in Kensington gardens.
London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.
Typ 905R.06.195 (A)
All 50 color plates of Arthur Rackham’s drawings from this limited edition.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4554230

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Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939. The Peter Pan portfolio
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Typ 905.12.7265
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:4621011

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Belon, Pierre, 1517?-1564. De aquatilibus, libri duo.
Parisiis, Apud C. Stephanum, 1553.
Ang 47.46
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4391479

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Costa, Margherita. Il violino.
In Francfort, Per Daniel Wastch, 1638.
IC6 C8234 638v
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4597560

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De regimine mensium.
Manuscript, 13th century.
MS Typ 590
A Latin poem in Leonine hexameters giving prescriptions for health for each month of the year.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:881146

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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts
Boston, Printed by Munroe & Francis, 1843.
69-167
“I shall be obliged to speak with great plainness, and to reveal many things revolting to the taste, and from which my woman’s nature shrinks with peculiar sensitiveness. But truth is the highest consideration. I tell what I have seen–painful and shocking as the details often are—that from them you may feel more deeply the imperative obligation which lies upon you to prevent the possibility of a repetition or continuance of such outrages upon humanity.”
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4597559

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Drigo, Riccardo, 1846-1930. La flûte magique: ballet comique en 1 acte.
Leipzig : J.H. Zimmermann, c1912.
M1523.D77 V6 1912 (A)
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4516788

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Harvard University. [Diploma of John Jeffries, M. A.]
Manuscript on vellum; Cambridge, 30 Dec 1768.
MS Am 1220.9
Jeffries was a Boston physician, surgeon, scientist, and the first man (with Jean-Pierre Blanchard) to fly a balloon across the English Channel. The diploma is signed by Edward Holyoke, Nathanael Appleton, John Winthrop, Andrew Eliot, Samuel Cooper, Joseph Willard, and Thomas Hubbard.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4434399

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Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe, 1707-1783. Copper plate for Description des batailles de la Chine.
Between 1766 and 1774.
TypR-83
Exquisitely detailed copper plate engraved by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas after a drawing by Jean Denis Attiret (“Battle of Khorgos”) for the series of prints Description des batailles de la Chine, which was commissioned by Chinese emperor Qianlong and published between 1769 and 1774 under the direction of Charles Nicolas Cochin.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4621848?buttons=y

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Minstrel cabinet cards.
1172 cabinet cards of minstrel performers, chiefly from the 2nd half of the nineteenth century.
HTC Photographs 1 (partial)
http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/deepLinkResults?kw1=minstrels&index1=Anywhere&repositoryLimit=Harvard%20Theatre%20Collection

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Rājamārtanda.
Manuscript, undated.
MS Indic 157
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4597561

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Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771. Jubilate agno
Manuscript, 1759-1763.
MS Eng 719
Surviving pages of a poem written by Smart, chiefly while he was in the Bethlehem Royal Hospital; first published in 1939.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4455391

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The Vicksburg Almanac, for the year 1844.
Vicksburg, Miss. : O. O. Woodman, 1843.
APA.W859V.1844
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4597558

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Virgil, etc. [Collection of 16th century texts on classical literature].
FC5.A100.B565v
This collection of 22 works on classical literature has been heavily annotated by a contemporary student.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4434450

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Vita Divi Swiberti Verdensis ecclesie Episcopi.
Cologne : Heinrich von Neusse, 1508?.
NC.G3125.A508v
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4589794