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Bill for George Riggle for November of 1846.

John Bralley is to work for Isaac Williams, surveyor of the road.

Sheet of calculations.

Bill for Edmond W. Lockette, beginning in March of 1844.

Bill for Robert Lewis, beginning on October 30th in 1854.

List of bills owed and purchases made.

List of bills owed and services done for Alexander Pierce by S.C. Bralley, beginning in 1859.

Note stating that James Brooks has paid his debt in full. Note also contains pig-pen cipher that says 'Wythe County Va. Oct. 2, 1816." It is unclear if the date corresponds to the rest of the note.

Undated bill for [Thomas].

Sheet of paper containing the repeated phrase "Commandments ten god gave to men."

undated bill for an unknown person.

Drafts of a promise to pay Mitchell C. Brawley an unspecified sum.

Account sheet of John Bralley.

Constitution of the Cripple Creek Bible Society.

List of people in arrears, presumably belonging to John Bralley.

Crossed out bill; used as paper to get arithmetic solutions.

Weaving pattern for stars and squares, or the Ladies' delight, by Nancy Thrasher.

Weaving pattern for Twitted Bird Eye, made by Mary Jane Trevey.

Vines weaving pattern.

Draft for stars and squares weaving pattern for Mary Jane Trevey.

Weaving patterns by Mary Jane Trevey.

Tennessee Beauty pattern, made by [Mary Jane Trevey].

Sinkin Creek Beauty pattern, made by Mary Jane Trevey.

Fast thread pattern for the back shaft of a loom.

Unlabeled and undated weaving patterns.

Undated weaving pattern, labeled with both Miss [Mary] Jane Trevey and John B. Stuart.

Undated weaving pattern made by Susan Taylor.

Notebook belonging to John Bralley, where he practiced arithmetic (1815-1816). The latter parts of the book contain store accounts from 1832-1846. Parts of the book are written in pig-pen cipher.

Letter from Albert Einstein to Robert E. Marshak dates August 6, 1947. Einstein as chairman of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Sciences, Inc., is asking Marshak and others to push for peace and to ask that the atomic bomb is never used again.

Letter (photocopy) from Albert Einstein to Robert E. Marshak, dated March 3, 1953, thanking him for giving time and energy to the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa.

Photo of the men who participated in the Shelter Island Conference, which occured in June of 1947.

Carbon copy of letter from Richard P. Feynman to Enrico Fermi about new physics research.

Letter (photocopy) from Richard P. Feynman to Robert E. Marshak, dated August 17, 1985, talking about Feynman's joint paper and relationship with Murray Gell-Mann and giving credit to E. C. George Sudarshan and Marshak for their work. Feynman is…

Letter (photocopy) from Robert E. Marshak to Richard P. Feynman thanking him for a previous letter from a conference in Kyoto, Japan, probably referring to Feynman's August 17, 1985 letter acknowledging the contributions of Feynman, Marshak, E. C.…

The February 19, 1987 report on the council delegation visit to the U. S. S. R. from February 2 through February 6 contains remarks from the delegation members--Peter G. Peterson, Henry A. Kissinger, and Cyrus R. Vance--to the Council on Foreign…

Affidavit filled out by H. Halban of the National Research Council of Canada (Montreal Laboratory) for Robert E. Marshak for the Selective Service System in 1943. Halban lists Marshak's duties as performing "secret war research work in specialized…

Letter dated September 28, 1950, from Robert E. Marshak to J. Robert Oppenheimer discussing new physics reaseach related to π− meson-absorption in hydrogen and deuterium.

Letter dated March 16, 1951, from Robert E. Marshak to J. Robert Oppenheimer discussing two papers, "Photo Meson Production" by University of Rochester physics student, Morton F. Kaplon, and Marshak's "Meson Reactions in Hydrogren and Deuterium."

Telegram dated February 20, 1967, from Ruth and Robert E. Marshak to Kitty Oppenheimer offering condolences for the passing of her husband J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Letter from A. Matveyev to J. Robert Oppenheimer discussing the program of an upcoming physics conference.

Thank you letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer to A. A. Abrikosov and I. M. Khalatnikov of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, regarding a previous letter where they gave advice on planning an upcoming conference.

Letter dated December 1, 1947, from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak regarding Marshak's appointment as a member of the School of Methematics of the Institute for Advanced Study for the spring 1948 semester.

Letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak regarding his presence in France as well as CERN.

Telegram from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak informing him that he will be in Europe on May 8, 1963, to speak to Marshak or "Eklund."

Thank you note, undated, from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak. Oppenheimer was thanking Marshak for his note on Okubo [probably University of Rochester physicist Susumu Okubo], and telling him to have a good time on his trip.

Response letter, dated November 1, 1966, to a previous letter from A. Matveyev dated October 28, 1966, where Matveyev gave advice on planning a physics conference. Oppenheimer expressed his thanks for the letter and let Matveyev know that he was in…

Photocopy of a photo of J. Robert Oppenheimer (left) talking to Jim Osborne. Handwritten note says "original photo at UR" [University of Rochester?].

Photocopy of a photo of an unidentified group of men at a conference.

Photocopy of a group photo of participants at a conference.