NAGEL, GOTTLEIB, PAPERS, MS. 2142
Sixty-four sermons (in German) delivered by Gottleb Nagel (b. 1844),
possibly a Lutheran minister residing in Maryland; a poem in honor
of
the fiftieth wedding anniversary of an unidentified couple, 1902.
65 items, 1880-98, 1902
NAGLE, HENRY, ACCOUNT BOOK, MS. 2052
Brickmaker (1 760-1819) in Baltimore: names of buyers; costs; receipts;
notes; random calculations for production.
1 vol., 1790-1808
NANJEMOY, CHARLES COUNTY UNDERTAKER'S RECORD, MS. 1721
Costs of funerals and names of deceased.
Photocopy only. Permission for publication must be obtained from
owner.
1 vol., 1892-97
NARRAGANSETT LOG BOOK, MS.1043
Log of the ship Narragansett from her departure from Providence, Rhode
Island, 1849, on a voyage to Savannah, New York, Liverpool, Cardiff,
and
returning to Baltimore. John Burgess was master of the ship from Provi-
dence to New York, and John Edmonds from New York to Baltimore.
1 vol., 1849-1850.
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN,
BALTIMORE BRANCH RECORDS, MS. 1892
Fourteen volumes of scrapbooks documenting this organization's activ-
ities: one volume of the history of the Baltimore group, 1921-71; one
volume of the achievements of members, 1949-51; remaining scrapbooks,
'led by the branch historian, contain newspaper clippings about
members and their artwork and invitations to or announcements of various
art exhibits. Other records: copies of the branch magazines (the Pinion
and
the Baltimore Owl); roster and by-laws, 1968-70; issues of the National
League's magazine (the Pen Women); National League financial statements,
1970-71; assorted pamphlets; minutes of branch meetings, 1925-30; orig-
inal membership cards, 1921.
12 boxes, 1921-78
NATIONAL STAR-SPANGLED BANNER CENTENNIAL MINUTE BOOK, MS. 2263
Minutes of the managing directors of the National Star-Spangled
Banner Centennial held in Baltimore: plans for parades; a ball; a carnival;
concerts; various displays; advertising plans; fund-raising; appropriations.
1 vol., 1914
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY COPYBOOK, MS.839
Volume of lecture notes of M. Stall, c. 1810. Title of lectures was
"The Elements of Natural Philosophy confirmed by Experiments." Neither
M. Stall nor the author of the lectures has been identified.
1 vol., c. 1810.
NAVAL DISTRICT RECORDS, MS. 1668
First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Naval Districts: lighthouse Duties;
import and export duties; entrances and clearances; cargo manifests;
accounts with the Maryland state government.
2 boxes and oversize, 1780-92
NAVAL MILITIA SCRAPBOOK, MS.611
Clippings concerning the activities of the Ist Brigade, Maryland Naval
Militia, stressing drills on the waters of the Chesapeake. Several
pictures
of naval militia uniforms, showing insignia and swords.
1 vol., 1901-1903.
NAVAL VETERAN POST 76, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC,
RECORDS, MS.608
Records of Naval Veteran Post 76, Grand Army of the Republic, include
minutes of meetings and list of members, 1917-1926. List of veterans
buried
in cemeteries in or near Baltimore, with names of cemeteries. Volume
describing type of service, injuries, discharge date, and other details
of indi-
vidual veterans. Log book, 1911-1917, and list of members, 1917. Minute
book, 1903-1910, with constitution, lists of officers, and some correspondence
and newspaper articles.
5 vols., 1903-1926.
NEILSON RECORD BOOKS, MS.613
Records of James Crawford Neilson (1806-1900), Maryland architect,
date
from 1798-1900. Include ledger, 1798-1800 (writer unknown). journals
kept
at Priestford, Harford County farm, 1824-1844 (4 vols.). Sketches of
Deer
Creek for survey for Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad, 1835. Survey
notes
for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1838-1861. Survey journal, 1842-1848.
Memoranda on the Priestford property. Farm notes, 1862-1900. Private
ledger of John C. Neilson, 1864-1896. Architectural notes, 1899. Record
of
Mrs. Rosa Neilson's Baltimore ground rents, 1862-1879.
13 vols., 1798-1900.
NELSON, JOHN, JOURNAL, MS.614
Private journal of John Nelson (1791-1860), United States Minister
to the
Kingdom of Naples and charge daffaires sent to negotiate U. S. spoliation
claims with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Covers January 23-October
14, 1832. Includes copies of public and private correspondence with
the
Secretary of State.
1 vol., 1832 (January-October).
NESBIT, REV. CHARLES, A SYSTEM OF LECTURES ON
ETHICS, MS.615
Numbers 81-184 of A System of Lectures on Ethics delivered by the Rev.
Charles Nesbit during the first quarter of 1792. Further details on
Nesbit
and location where lectures were delivered are not known. The shorthand
contractions used are explained in the front of the volume.
1 vol., 1792.
NETTERVILLE PLACE ACCOUNT BOOK, MS.616
Household and personal account book kept at Netterville Place ( ? Howard
County). Owner of volume unknown. Petty expenditures are listed in
detail.
1 vol., 1833-1835.
NEW CHARTER UNION MINUTE BOOK, MS.842
Minute book of the New Charter Union, an organization founded for the
purpose of promoting good government in Baltimore.
1 vol., 1898-1899.
NEW MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MINUTE BOOK, MS.617
Minutes of meetings of the New Mercantile Library Association, 1902-1929
(association founded as the Mercantile Library Association, 1839).
The
volume ends with the closing of the Library in December, 1928, and
the
gift of its books to the Enoch Pratt Free Library in 1929.
1 vol., 1902-1929.
NEW MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION PAPERS, MS.1377
Small collection of typescript and printed materials pertaining to
the
operation of the New Mercantile Library Association. Include Treasurer's
records, reports to stockholders, and the gift of the association's
books to
the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1929.
16 items, 1902-1929.
NEW WINDSOR LIBRARY COMPANY RECORD BOOKS, MS.618
Records of the library company at New Windsor, Carroll County. Vol.
1 is
a Treasurer's account book, 1840-1852, listing subscriptions for stock,
some
cancelled and blank stock certificates, and statements of receipts
and
expenditures. Vol. 2, book record, 1841-1847, listing titles of works,
bor-
rowers' names, return date, and remarks. In the back of this volume
is a
list of subscribers to the New Windsor Library Company.
2 vols., 1840-1852.
NEWCOMER & COMPANY ACCOUNTS, MS.1018
Accounts of Newcomer & Company, run by Benjamin Franklin Newcomer
(1827-1901), flour and grain merchants. Include daybooks, 1899-1901,
1903-
1907, 1921-1925. Cash book, 1894-1900. Ledger book, No. 1, 1896-1900.
5 vols., 1894-1925.
E. T. NEWELL COMPANY, INC. RECORDS, MS. 1907
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings of auction sales of automobiles,
houses, and rugs by this Baltimore firm and its successors: Galton
and
Barron; Galton, Orsburn, Baker Company, Inc.; and Galton, Orsburn
Company, Inc.
1 vols., 1924-32
NEWSPAPER INDEX, MS.633
by the Maryland Historical Society, 1950, completed by William Freeham.
Index to Baltimore, Maryland, non-Maryland, and foreign newspapers
held
Map showing locations of the newspapers at the society at that time.
1 vol., 1950.
NICHOLSON AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, MS.1470
Autograph album, 1857-1918, of Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson (later Mrs.
Edward Shippen). Contains verses and inscriptions by friends. Records
of
dates of marriages and deaths of friends, kept by Mrs. Shippen.
1 vol., 1857-1918.
NICHOLSON AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS, MS-1099
Autograph albums belonging to Rebecca Lloyd and Leila P. Nicholson,
with signatures and poems of friends.
2 vols., 1855-1856.
NICHOLSON PAPERS, MS. 2340
Genealogical charts and other papers concerning the English origins
of
the Nicholson family and connections with the Johns family; a brief
biography of Isaac Forester Nicholson (1836-1923); two receipts for
Isaac
Forester Nicholson's attendance at a local school, 1897-98, and a note
informing him of his election to the -Maryland Club, 1902; items relating
to Isaac Forester Nicholson's donations to Emmanuel Church, 1910-13,
and Isaac Lee Nicholson's (1809-91) donations to Memorial Church,
1863-64; appointment of Isaac Lee Nicholson as corporal in the Maryland
Volunteers, 1861.
19 items, 1860-1919
NICHOLSON PAPERS, MS. 2340.1
Land papers of Josiah Small, 1845-49, involving Isaac Lee Nicholson
(1809-1891); travel diary on voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia,
1822;
manuscript poems in German from Bremen, 1810.
36 items, 1810-49
NILES, EMORY H., PAPERS, MS. 2274
Chief Judge (1892-1976) of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City:
twenty-two bound volumes, 1939-67, containing clippings from the Bal-
timore Daily Record of cases in the Court of Appeals, Superior Court,
and
Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City; cases consist of wills, divorces,
arrests without proper warrant, negligent use of automobiles, abortions,
illegal aliens, bookmaking, homicide, workman's compensation; copies
of
lectures by Judge Niles at conventions and college commencements;
published articles by Niles; copies of his charges to the grand jury
and
lower court juries; histories of the grand jury and the pardon procedure;
information on the black lawyer in Maryland; a 1914 diary written by
Niles while in Europe as a Rhodes scholar; six loose-leaf volumes of
miscellaneous papers for his plan for the selection of Judges, Maryland
judicial Selection Council, Inc., Admiralty Court of Maryland, and
communism in the United States in the early 1950s.
2 boxes and 28 vols., 1939-73
NINE BRIDGES DAYBOOK, MS.619
Daybook, 1817-1818, for sales at a store at Nine Bridges (Bridgetown),
Caroline County, Maryland. Owner of store not identified.
1 vol., 1817-1818.
NINETY-ONE CLUB RECORDS, MS. 1959
Ninety-one Club formed in 1891 by Daniel Coit Gilman (1831-1908),
president of the Johns Hopkins University, for the purpose of attracting
prominent lecturers: two volumes of meeting minutes and membership
lists; a history of the club for the years 1891-1906.
3 vols., 1891-1943
NINTH REGIMENT RECORD BOOKS, MS.620
Descriptive book, Company B, 9th Regiment, Maryland Volunteer Infantry,
June-December, 1863; contains names of officers, non-commissioned officers,
and enlisted men commanded by Captain James W. Brady. Volume of
morning reports, Company B, August, 1863-February, 1864, at duty sta-
tions at Lafayette Heights, Harper's Ferry, Brown's Crossings, Duffield
Sta-
tion, Maryland Heights, and Relay ( ? ) Barrack.
2 vols., 1863-1864.
NON-WAR CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE MINUTE BOOK, MS.622
Carbon copies of the minutes of this branch of the Maryland Council
of
Defense (William L. Marbury, Chairman; Joseph Evans Sperry, Vice
Chairman; Oscar D. Green, Secretary). Deal with consideration of and
decisions on applications for various construction projects.
1 vol., 1918.
NORBURY, TACY BURGES, PAPERS, MS. 1885
Papers of Miss Norbury's (I 799-183 7) attendance at Beardsley's Select
School for Girls in Baltimore: daily records noting attendance, behavior,
and spelling, 1813-15; arithmetic book, 1812-19.
2 vols., 1812-19
NORMAN-JOHNS PAPERS, MS.1378
Indentures and miscellaneous papers relating to the Norman and Johns
families (especially James D. Norman, Wilham Norman, John Johns),
Mainly land papers and accounts.
25 items, 1747-1886.
NORRIS FAMILY PAPERS, MS.1112
Newspaper clippings concerning Dr. Amanda Taylor Norris, a Baltimore
doctor and the first woman to practice in the city in that capacity.
Genealog-
ical material compiled by Dr. Norris, tracing her family back to the
16th
century; reminiscences and family anecdotes.
1 V01.51 20th century.
NORRIS PAPERS, MS.1379
Letters of Jonathan Norris and his son, Henry C. B. Norris. Bulk of
material
is from Jonathan to Henry while the latter was in Omaha and contains
news
of family and friends, references to political conditions in Baltimore.
50 items, 1861-1875.
NORTH-EAST FORGE CASHBOOK, MS. 1693
Accounts of a Principio Company forge by Thomas Russell and entered
as evidence in Russell's legal action against the company.
Pedley, 1063, 1225, 1614 1 vol., 1771-82
NORTH WEST FORK BRIDGE STORE DAYBOOK, MS.621
Daybook for sales at a store at North West Fork Bridge, over the Patuxent
River. Owner of store not identified.
1 vol., 1786-1788.
WILLIAM AND DINAH NUTHEAD COLLECTION, MS. 2188
Three of the earliest extant forms published in Maryland. Manuscript
tobacco receipt from Charles Griffeth, 1716.
For discussion of these items refer to Lawrence C. Wroth, "The Saint
Mary's City Press: A New Chronology of American Printing," Maryland
Historical Magazine 31 (June 1936): 91-111.
4 items, 168?-1716
NUTTER-RICHARDS PAPERS, MS.624
Deeds, patents, agreements, and depositions dating from 1786-1832,
relating
to land owned by the Nutter-Richards families of Dorchester County,
Maryland, and Sussex County, Delaware. MS. volume of verse and miscel-
laneous items of Catherine H. Collins, Wilmington, 1820.
1 vol. and 69 items, 1786-1832.