Series 2. Notes, drafts, and drawings, undated

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: ""Abuses in Architecture""

: ""Accuse me not, Mr. President, of an irrelevant remark: I speak of the History of Art "

: ""Fareageaerisms"" [sic]

: ""Fragments, scraps, etc. mostly entered into the index rerum Malton [?]""

: ""Having removed a portion of my books to the family seat on the Orange Mountain, I have resolved to break up my library of history, science and art, and to offer it for sale, at low appraisement, if to the free or public libraries of N.Y. and to them onl

: ""Inserted at page 12, paper on Arc. & Principles""

: ""Ladies: for you it belongs especially to cultivate the arts of taste "

: ""Mr. Harvey's exhibition. This display consists of perhaps 200 oil and water color paintings of interesting local views "

: ""Mr. President: In the year 1839 I was secretary of the A.A.F.A.""

: ""Mr. Tuckerman will agree with me that 'good writing should be free from every impertinence.' -- Why not also good architecture?"" signed ""Alexr. J. Davis, Architect""

: ""Note D to page 4. It is recorded that the first book placed in the Library, was Flaxman's illustrations of Homer, $15.00 "

: ""Of the many English publications on Villa Architecture that are before the public, it is commonly received opinion that none have yet appeared which seem to be suited to the tastes and wants of the American people "

: ""Remarks of John Quincy Adams upon Othello & Shakespeare""

: ""Resolved, that the thanks of this class are due, and are hereby presented to the Trustees of the Cooper Union " signed R.J. Halleck, Chair."

: ""Study your plans carefully, and compare them with approved examples, sometime before beginning to build "

: ""Suburban Gothic Villa""

: ""Such contumely thou no more shalt bear --Home. The quoter has ever been the best friend of the Academy of Design "

: ""The general running lines are horizontal. Arches not necessary. The general running lines are vertical. Arches a really fundamental principal [sic] "

: ""The public are most earnestly recommended to the perusal of Loudon's remarks on fire proof buildings "

: ""This design for a school house intends to exhibit a model of fitness and close economy "

: ""To the Superior Court of the City of New York, Alexander J. Davis agst Alvin Higgins, George Higgins 14th Augst, 1865 """

: ""Van Boskerk pedigree"" and 'Herrick pedigree""

: ""Whoever lives in a house, the interior of which is subdivided by lath and plaster "

: ""Why is no abbey or convent found to be absolutely regular?""

: ""With respect to the necessity of cultivating moral principles in aid of refined intellectual studies "

: ""Works printed for the Hakluyt Society, Lond. 1874 Introduction, page ii "

: [""A card addressed to those who care to read it"" signed ""Alex. J. Davis""]

: [""Address"" signed P.F. Robinson, London, 1833.]

: [""How important then that 'our ghostly' instructors should not ignore this great interpreter of the inexplicable " written on verso of printed broadside advertising ""Morgan, Walker & Smith, No. 82 John Street, New-York, agents for the Fulton and Clinton

: [Chronological table]

: [Diagrams]

: [Draft of a letter to an unspecified recipient]

: [Draft of advertisement for A.J. Davis's architecture firm, with notice of sale of 6.25 acres of land on the S. Orange Mountain on verso]

: [Draft of advertisement to appear in the New York Herald, February 18, 1865]

: [Draft of essay on A.J. Davis, with chronological list of his works from 1833 to 1878]

: [Floor plan with caption ""American Cottage No. 1""""Pedigree of Houton"" on verso]

: [Fragment, p. 10-11]

: [Fragment]

: [Letter from Jas. H. McKernan to A.J. Davis, dated New York, July 13, 1870, with genealogical notes penciled on verso]

: [Letter to A.J. Davis dated New York, August 21, 1856, with text in pencil beginning ""Librarians of the several insitutions will examine this collection " written on verso]

: [Letter to Dr. Osgood dated N.Y. May 3, 1871]

: [List of ""Works of Alexander J. Davis"" dated 1831 to 1858]

: [Note in pencil]

: [Note in pencil]

: [Notebook cover]

: [Notes and pencil sketch]

: [Notes in pencil]

: [Notes]

: [Notes]

: [Notes]

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