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The American Preceptor
Alexander Scott Bullitt essay regarding politics, government, and education of the Native Americans, ca. 1790
Letter from Joshua Fry to Jonathan Clark, 31 October 1808
Letter from Joshua Fry to Jonathan Clark, 23 October 1808
Letter from Richard Clough Anderson to Jonathan Clark, 17 October 1801
Letter from William Clark to John Hite Clark, 15 and 16 December 1808
Letter from William Clark to Edmund Clark, 15 April 1809
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 1 October 1808
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 2 March 1802
Alexander Scott Bullitt essay regarding politics, government, and land laws, ca. 1790
Alexander Scott Bullitt essay reagrding politics and government, ca. 1790
Letter from Elijah Smith to Samuel Brown, 29 October 1820
Receipt for money received from Samuel Balwin for the Female Academy, 1808
Letter from John Speed to Polly Speed, 20 April 1816
Letter from Anna Blake to Harriet Corlis, 25 December 1819
Broadside entitled "Some Notices of Kentucky, Particularly of its chief town, Lexington," 28 August 1828
A brief sketch of the history of Lexington, Kentucky, and of Transylvania University
A catalogue of the books belonging to the Lexington library company, 1821
Report of the managers of the Kentucky Auxiliary Bible Society, 1817
A catalogue of the books belonging to the Harrodsburg Library Company, 1824
The Southern Cultivator, 1840
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 1 October 1808
Letter from John Coborn to James Taylor, 26 November 1806