The Hartlib Papers

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The Hartlib papers are divided into three collections.

You can choose between these collections by clicking on the appropriate titles near the top of the page. The first two collections are subdivided further, and the divisions are selected using the grey list towards the left of the page. The individual documents are displayed on the right of the page. Before each title is its reference code; after is dating information. To view a document, click on its title.


31/1/1 Bundle Wrapper In John Beale's Hand Undated
31/1/2 Treatise On Signalling & Codes, & Let.. 19 December 165..
31/1/7 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib 23 December 165..
31/1/9 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib 10 January 1657
31/1/13 Fragment, John Beale To ? Undated
31/1/17 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib? 26 February 165..
31/1/19 Memorandum On Laws, John Beale 24 February 165..
31/1/21 Memorandum On Laws, John Beale Undated
31/1/25 Fragment Of Letter, John Beale To ? Undated
31/1/27 Part Of Letter, John Beale To Hartlib? 14 August No Ye..
31/1/35 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib? 17 August 1657
31/1/51 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib 15 September 16..
31/1/61 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib? 9 January 1658
31/1/64 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib? 2 March 1657
31/1/66 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib 12 June 1658
31/1/70 Letter, John Beale To Col. Edward Harley 19 May 1660
31/1/71 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib 22 July 1660
31/1/73 Letter, John Beale To Hartlib 28 September 16..
31/1/75 Copy Letter In Scribal Hand H, John Beale To .. 28 September 16..
31/1/77 Memo On A College, John Beale Undated
31/2/1 Letter, M.m.r.? To Hartlib 8 January 1659
31/2/3 Letter, M.r.? To Hartlib 10 January 1659
31/3/1 Letter, John Pym To Hartlib 26 November 163..
31/3/3 Letter, John Pym To Hartlib 26 September 16..
31/3/5 Letter, John Pym To Hartlib 7 June 1638
31/3/7 Letter, John Pym To Hartlib 9 September 163..
31/3/9 Letter, John Pym To Hartlib 30 September 16..
31/3/11 Letter, John Pym To Hartlib 14 November 163..
31/3/13 Letter, John Pym To Hartlib 20 June 1642
31/3/15 Letter, John Pym To Hartlib 8 August 1642?
31/4/1 Notes On Flax And Hemp, Hartlib Undated
31/4/2 Copy Proposal For Working Hemp And Flax In Ha.. Undated
31/4/4 Copy/draft Preface In Scribal Hand G, Hartlib Undated
31/4/5 Copy Letter On Employment Of The Poor, In Scr.. Undated
31/4/7 Letter On Employment Of The Poor, ? To ? Undated
31/4/9 Proposal For Raising Loans For Governments, P.. Undated
31/4/13 Letter, R.? To Hartlib? 5 March 1657
31/5 Copy Extracts Of Letters From Schlezer, In Ge.. Undated
31/6/1 Letter, Herbert Palmer To Hartlib 13 March 1638
31/6/3 Letter, Herbert Palmer To Hartlib 4 November 1643
31/7/1 Printed Pamphlet, Part 2, In German 1653
31/7/1 Printed Pamphlet, Part 1, In German 1653
31/7/2 Copy Extract, Joachim Huebner To Hartlib, In .. 30 September 16..
31/7/3 Copy Extract, Anon., In German 2 October 1653
31/8 2 Extracts & Notes On Glauber's Alkahest,.. Part Dated 30 D..
31/9 Copy Memo On Cleaning Privies In Scribal Hand.. Undated
31/10 Proposition For An Office Of Carriers, Cressy.. Undated
31/11 Advice On An Office Of Address For Servants, .. Undated
31/12/1 Printed Notice Concerning Kepler' Works, In L.. 9 July 1645
31/12/2 Extract From "proceedings No.126", Hartlib 10 February 165..
31/12/3 Alchemical Note, In German 1657
31/12/4 Memo On Beekeeping, In German Undated
31/12/5 Recipe For Mead, In German Undated
31/12/9 Note On Smethwick's Tube In Scribal Hand A Undated
31/12/11 Note On Chomer's Prophecy Of The Downfall Of .. 1650
31/12/12 Note On Astrology, In Latin Undated
31/12/14 Note On Pell's Queries About Roberval In Scri.. Undated
31/12/15 Thoughts On Historia Speculi Concavi, Petty, .. Undated
31/12/19 Recipe In German Undated
31/12/21 Note On Burning Glass, J Hutchinson Undated
31/13 Letter, Morian To Hartlib, & Memo On Goub.. 24 April 1654
31/14 Letter & Notes On Natural History Of Irel.. 27 March 1654
31/15 Printed Booklet, The Carriers Cosmographie 1637
31/16 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German January 1662
31/17/1 Copy Of Address To German Jews In Jerusalem, .. Undated
31/17/3 Memo On Extracting Saltpetre From Fishponds, .. Undated
31/17/4 Note On Mud And Saltpetre, Hartlib Undated
31/17/5 Note For "legacy Of Husbandry", Hartlib Undated
31/17/6 Part Of Interrogatory On Natural History Of I.. Undated
31/17/8 Note On Poultry, Hartlib Undated
31/17/10 Note, Hartlib Undated
31/17/11 Note On Poultry, Hartlib Undated
31/17/12 Note On Cosmetics In Scribal Hand ? Undated
31/18/1 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German A.. 1 January 1658
31/18/4 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German &.. 15 February 165..
31/18/6 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 18 February 165..
31/18/7 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German A.. 1 March 1658
31/18/9 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 22 February 165..
31/18/11 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German &.. 5 March 1658
31/18/13 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 12 March 1658
31/18/15 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 2 April 1658
31/18/17 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 26 April 1658
31/18/19 Copy Extract, Johann Morian To Clodius?, In G.. 30 April 1658
31/18/21 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 30 April 1658
31/18/23 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German A.. 1 May 1658
31/18/25 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 24 May 1658
31/18/26 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 31 May 1658
31/18/27 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 5 June 1658
31/18/29 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German A.. 14 June 1658
31/18/31 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German A.. 16 June 1658
31/18/33 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 18 June 1658
31/18/35 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 21 June 1658
31/18/37 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 25 June 1658
31/18/39 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 2 July 1658
31/18/40 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German 19 July 1658
31/18/42 Letter, Johann Morian To Hartlib, In German A.. 23 July 1658
31/19 Proposal For A New City Regiment For Watching.. Undated
31/20/1 Account For Printing, ? And Hartlib Undated
31/20/2 Accounts For Publishing "legacy Of Husbandry".. Undated
31/20/5 Accounts For Printing Undated
31/20/8 Printed Sheet With Manuscript Accounts Undated
31/20/9 Letter, Richard Wodenoth To Hartlib? Undated
31/20/10 Accounts Concerning Books Part Dated 6 Ju..
31/21/1 Title Page, The Intelligencer Of Health And W.. Undated
31/21/3 Copy Extracts On Medicinal Patent, Matthias S.. 3 October 1649
31/21/5 Copy Report On M. Schmidt's Balsam Sulphuris,.. 1650 And 2 - 9 ..
31/21/9 Note To Intelligencer Of Health And Wealth, H.. Undated
31/21/10 Notes To The Intelligencer Of Health And Weal.. Undated
31/22/1 Ephemerides 1648 Part 1, Hartlib 1648 January-ju..
31/22/14 Ephemerides 1648 Part 2, Hartlib 1648 June/july
31/22/27 Ephemerides 1648 Part 3, Hartlib 1648 June/july-..
31/23/1 Letter, J.c. Von Berg To Hartlib, In German 24 December 163..
31/23/2 Copy Note From The Counsell At Whitehall 12 December 165..
31/23/4 Copy Extract, ? To ? 25 January 1658
31/23/5 Copy Extract, Joachim Huebner To Hartlib, In .. 16 October 1661
31/23/6 Copy Extracts, Heinrich Libhart & Johann .. Undated
31/23/10 Printed Bill On Soap Balls, In German, With M.. Undated
31/23/11 Letter, Johann Sibertus Kueffler To Hartlib, .. Undated
31/23/13 Copy Extract, Hubner To Chancellor Of Branden.. Undated
31/23/15 Memo On Corn Surplus Undated
31/23/17 Notes On Inventors, Hartlib Undated
31/23/19 Notes On Experiments And Inventions, Hartlib Undated
31/23/21 Two Copies Of Plan For German Fortifications.. Undated
31/23/23 Copy Petition To Parliament, Captain Marmaduk.. Undated
31/23/25 Copy? Letter, Marmaduke Nielson To John Pym, .. Undated
31/23/26 Copy Letter, Marmaduke Nielson To John Pym, I.. Undated
31/23/28 Copy Alchemical Letter, Friedrich Kretschmer?.. 1660
31/23/32 Tract On The Benefit Of Free Ports, In German Undated
31/23/36 Copy Letter, Clodius To Kretschmer?, In Germa.. Undated
31/23/38 Copy Letter On The Bibliotheca Augusta, In Ge.. Undated
31/23/40 Copy Letter On Bibliotheca Augusta, In German.. Undated
31/23/41 Copy Tract, With Comments By Joachim Lange, I.. 14 October 1653..
31/23/43 Tract On Agriculture, Anon., In German Undated
31/23/47 Recipe For Mead, In German Undated
31/23/49 Memo On Waste Disposal, In German Undated
31/23/52 Fragment Of Alchemical Tract, Anon., In Latin Undated
31/23/56 Printed Gazette, In French 27 May 1673