Collection, 1492–1783, 1 m., 681 items. Artist, antiquary, and collector. Includes: (a) "A Summary Account of the Voyage of the Late Captain James Cook undertaken by order of the British Government...," which contains extract from a letter from Captain Clarke at Kamchatka to a friend in England; and (b) "Accounts of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America...," which comprises copies of accounts published by the Westminster Magazine (August 1780), London Magazine (March 1780), London Public Advertiser (18 September 1781), and William Coxe's Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America: to which are added, the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce between Russia and China (London, 1780). (YI 1411 Q/F8) Printed catalogue. Finding aid available: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/LCP_LCPDuSimitiere
Stephen Grellet (1773-1855)
Papers, 1790–1855, 1 ft., 1,300 items. Quaker minister. Includes some correspondence and a report, in French, on social conditions from his Russian mission in 1818.
