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BOUDINOT FAMILY
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Mrs Elias Boudinot IV (Hannah Stockton, 1736-1808), holding a copy of James Thomson's poem Winter.
Cf. Michael Kammen, A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture (Chapel Hill, 2004), p. 77 ff.
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Rare Books
The gift from Mrs. Landon K. Thorne (a descendant of Elisha Boudinot, who was the younger brother of Elias, member and President of the Continental Congress) included portraits, furniture, silver, manuscripts, and miscellaneous items owned originally by Elias Boudinot. Also included in the collection are a number of volumes from the Boudinot library.
About 20 volumes are association copies and are findable by searching in the catalog for the keyword 'Boudinot' and restricting the search to Special Collections.