![Autograph Letter Signed, Harmony Grove [Maryland] undated, circa 1865, to her friend Mary](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/532/085/1747085532.0.l.jpg)
Autograph Letter Signed, Harmony Grove [Maryland] undated, circa 1865, to her friend Mary
by Hanna
octavo, 4 pages, in good clean legible condition. Hanna, a young woman teaching school in Harmony Grove, Frederick County, Maryland (now a ghost town), writes her friend Mary describing a sermon eulogizing the late Abraham Lincoln, a visit to a nearby Civil War Hospital, and reflections on the terrible loss and devastation resulting from the war. "Mary Darling, … it is nearly school time. I am now teaching three miles from Frederick & board at brother Tommy's. … I am quite well, but... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed, Williamsburg. January 2, 1775 [sic i.e.1776], to an unidentified recipient, possibly William Woodford
by Harrison, Benjamin (1726-1791) Virginia planter, legislator, governor, and signer of the Declaration of Independence
small quarto, two pages, a damp-stain has faded several words in the text, some archival tissue repairs, else in good legible condition. Very likely a retained copy. The intended recipient may well have been William Woodford (1734-1780) American revolutionary war general from Virginia. The letter reads: "My dear Sir I am just inform'd that a letter was yesterday... Read More
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Pray for the Jews! A Sermon Preached at the Thursday Lecture in Boston, August 15, 1816. Published for the Benefit of the Female Society of Boston and the Vicinity for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews.
by Harris, Thaddeus Mason
Boston: Printed by John Eliot, 1816, octavo, 20-page pamphlet, sewn into original plain blue paper wraps, edges untrimmed, ex-library, handstamps on front wrapper, titlepage as well as to several leaves in text, contemporary ownership signature on titlepage, edges slightly ruffled, otherwise very good. Harris offers "prayers" for the conversion of the Jews. Scarce in trade. American Imprints 37798, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Jewish Americana, 49, Singerman, Judaica Americana, 0258
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Autograph Letter Signed “Caroline”, Paris, June 8, 1834, to her cousin, Ellen Hemphill, c/o John Hemphill, Philadelphia.
by Haslam, Caroline
Quarto, 4 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, some old folds, some splits along folds and slight breaks at fold joints, else very good, and legible. Caroline, probably a teenager, writes to her cousin Ellen, who had sailed with her to Europe in the spring and had stayed with her in Paris, where "neither of us [were] in very excellent spirits, you were about commencing a long voyage with entire strangers, and I was soon to return to prison; but how... Read More
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Correspondence of Lilian “Lily” Alice Hawkins, of East Sheen, London, England, to Horst Jacobitz, bank clerk, of Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany, 1930-1966
by Hawkins, Lilian Alice
242 letters, 970 pp., (226 retained mailing envelopes), dated 19 November 1930 to 25 February 1966; however, all but six letters (1946, 1950, 1965-66) are from the 1930s; the letters are handwritten and typed, in legible hands, good condition; 31 of the letters are in German, the rest are in English; many of the envelopes have their postage stamps cut out. There are also 4 postcards and 6 greeting cards to either Horst Jacobitz, or his brother Herbert. Of the 242... Read More
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Correspondence of George Henderson, General Secretary, The Society for the Extension of University Teaching, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, written to Mrs. S. L. Oberholtzer, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1890-1891
by Henderson, George
14 letters, 14 pp. (mostly typed), dated 14 October 1890 to 14 March 1891; of the 14 letters, 13 were written to Mrs. S.L. Oberholtzer, 1 letter is addressed simply "Dear Sir," but likely the recipient was a Professor Thompson; some minor tears at folds of letters, one letter torn through at center fold. The Society for the Extension of University Teaching The Society for the Extension of University Teaching was an outreach program that offered to communities an instructional program that... Read More
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Letter of Introduction Signed, London, Foreign Office, July 31, 1840, Introducing Captain Jebb, of the Royal Engineers, then about to visit Frankurt to inspect Prisons in that City
by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston
folio, two pages, formerly folded, some light wear, else in very good condition. Lord Palmerston writes a letter of introduction for a Captain Jebb of the Royal Engineers, then in charge of constructing a "Model Prison", who was planning a visit to Frankfurt, Germany, to inspect prisons in that city. "Sir, I beg leave to introduce to you at the request of the Marquess of Normanby, the bearer of this letter, Captain Jebb of the Royal Engineers, who is employed, under the directions... Read More
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"Six Months Abroad; or The Marston's Tour in Europe," written by Lizzie Hoyt Henry, of Newton, Massachusetts, while an inmate at Herbert Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, a Private Hospital for the Care and Treatment of Persons Afflicted with Mental Diseases, 1887
by Henry, Lizzie Hoyt
Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 223 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in half red leather, marbled paper covered boards, back-strip loose, but present, worn at corners and edges, text written in ink, in very good clean and legible hand. This curious work contains a one page preface that states: "In writing this account of four tourists' six months sojourn abroad, I am greatly indebted to the work called... Read More
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Typed Letter Signed, Masaku, Kenya, to Eric Vega, Poughkeepsie, New York, October 23, 1977
by Hodges, Norman E.
quarto, two pages, with retained mailing envelope, in very good, clean and legible condition. Hodges writes to Vega describing his work in Africa including an extended interview with Idi Amin over a period of four days in Kampala: "Dear Eric, ... I had a tremendous time of it in Uganda. My 16 hours of interviews with Idi Amin were spread out over 4 days,... Read More
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Decision of Hon. Murray Hoffman, in the Superior Court of the City of New York, in the Case of Morris Ketchum, Thomas Rogers, and Edward Bement, vs. John A. Stevens, President of the “Bank of Commerce in New York.”
by Hoffman, Murray
octavo, 45 page pamphlet, retains front wrapper, rear wrap lacking, roughly disbound from pamphlet volume, pages loose, spine ragged, ex-library, handstamp on front wrapper, wrapper chipped along edges, else good
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The Manchester Homicide. A Sketch of the Life of Albert L. Starkweather, The Murderer of his Mother and Sister. With a Full Report of His Trial and Conviction, and His Confession
by Hotchkiss, A.S.
octavo, 74 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on title page, lacking the printed wrappers, which carried Starkweather's portrait on the cover, text foxed, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, last leaf detached but present, else a good working copy. "He murdered Harriett and Ella Starkweather in bed with an ax and attempted to burn the house, hoping thereby to get the family farm. The phrenologist reported his conscientiousness as weak; his hope, large." – McDade, Annals of Murder, 905. This is a... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed. Richmond, Virginia, February 12, 1842, to New York philanthropist David C. Colden, who had been his New York host and was then welcoming the famed British novelist to America
by Howard, George, [Lord Morpeth, 7th Earl of Carlisle]
Octavo, two pages, in very good, clean and legible condition. 1842 British aristocrat in Virginia on US visit sends message to Charles Dickens, newly-arrived in New York on his first American tour Octavo, two pages, in very good, clean and legible condition. "…Your letter was only just put into my hands upon waking from my berth in the steamer on my passage southward down the Potomac…If you have an opportunity, I should like you to tell Mr. Dickens how much I envy some... Read More
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Reply to “The Alarming Developments” and “Further Developments,” of the Rev. B. F. Clark, of North Chelmsford, Mass., in the Matter of the “Wrong Member of the Middlesex Bar Convicted of Perjury,” &c.
by Huntington, Asahel
octavo, 22 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamps on title page, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else good.
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, Autograph Letter Signed, Bucyrus, Ohio, May 3, 1850, to Henry T. Hall, Conautville, (Conneautville) Pennsylvania.
by Hutchison, Thomas
Quarto, 4 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, in very good, clean and legible condition. 1850 Pennsylvania farmer, unhappy in Ohio, considers move to Maryland where slavery was too "feeble" to have "influence". Hutchison was a farmer from Pennsylvania who had moved to Ohio. He could not encourage his friend Hall, a lumberman, to make the same move because there was not enough good timber in demand, and what there was, had to be hauled thirty miles in wagons as the railroad... Read More
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"Copy of an Act for Surveying and Apportioning the Lands Granted to the Illinois Regiment and Establishing a Town within the Said Grant," - Manuscript Copy by William Munford, Keeper of The Rolls, from the "Original in My Custody" dated January 16, 1818
by (Illinois)
folio, three pages, old folds, small hole in first page, affecting several words, paper a bit tanned, else very good, docketed in in ink: Copy of an Act for Surveying and apportioning the lands granted to the Illinois Regiment and establishing a Town within the said Grant.For Locating and surveying the one hundred and fifty thousand acres of Land granted by a resolution of Assembly to Colonel George Rogers Clarke and the officers and soldiers who assisted in the reduction... Read More
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Pair of Manuscript Business Ledgers Pertaining to the Hermitage Furnace, Westmoreland County, and Iron Master Alexander Johnston, 1810-1812, and 1805-1835
by (Pennsylvania – Early Iron Industry)
Early Pennsylvania Iron Industry – Forge Founded by Maj. Gen Arthur St. Clair. The collection contains two ledgers: Johnston, Alexander, Manuscript Ledger Relating to The Hermitage Furnace, Grist Mill and Store in Westmoreland County, 1810-1812 Folio, 396 manuscript pages, 20-page name index, entries written neatly in ink, bound in contemporary full sheep, tooled in blind, spine label, binding worn, hinges starting, text in very good, clean and legible condition. Johnstons' partial signature is found on the front board. A contemporary manuscript note on the... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed, Hull, September 19, 1837, to C. Waterton, Esq., of Walton Hall, near Wakefield
by Irvine, F.[rancis] (1786-1855),
quarto, 4 pages, in very good, clean and legible condition. Francis Irvine, who had previously served in the British Army in India and Afghanistan, and who had settled in Australia from 1820-24, before falling out with Sydney's governing elite, writes on New Zealand flax and Merino sheep to Charles Waterton (1782-1865) an English naturalist, plantation overseer, and explorer, best known for his pioneering conservation work. "Dear Sir, … At Rotterdam I received a letter from Mr. Vanderbosch of Wilhelminasdorp, near Goes in Zealand,... Read More
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![Autograph Letter Signed (“Ives”). Buffalo, New York, March 19, 1855, to ‘Jonny’ [John Champlin], apparently a former college classmate from Massachusetts or Connecticut](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/411/636/1715636411.0.l.jpg)
Autograph Letter Signed (“Ives”). Buffalo, New York, March 19, 1855, to ‘Jonny’ [John Champlin], apparently a former college classmate from Massachusetts or Connecticut
by “Ives”
Quarto, 4 pages, in very good, clean and legible condition. 1855 - Travels of a young New England businessman in "heathenish" Canada and the Midwest. Ives writes describing his travels in Canada and the Midwest and Theatrical performances in Chicago: "…Well you see I am in the States again and I can assure you that I felt as glad to get this side of the St. Lawrence again as the Jews did to get the 'other side of Jordan' after their forty years... Read More
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Family Correspondence of Herbert Worth Jackson, both incoming and outgoing, to his wife and other family members, 1871-1908
by Jackson, Herbert Worth (1865-1936)
Collection of 98 letters, 315 pages of correspondence, plus related ephemeral material, in very good, clean, and legible condition. Archive of correspondence both incoming and outgoing of Herbert Worth Jackson, his wife and children, dated 1871-1908. The collection includes letters to Jackson from fellow classmates while a student at the University of North Carolina, letters from his mother Elvira Evelina Moffitt (1836-1930), and letters to his wife Anna, both before and after their marriage, as well as their children and... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed, as Member of Congress, Washington, July 13, 1841, to his wife, Harriet Jack, Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
by Jack, William (1788-1852)
quarto, one page, on a folding letter sheet, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, in good, clean, and legible condition. Jack writes his wife that he will be detained in Washington sometime, and excoriates his Whig colleagues: "My Dear Wife, I would have wrote you on Sunday agreeable to my promise but was very unwell… I have been in the House all day - & am about as well as usual I wrote Sidney last evening & least you might be uneasy... Read More
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Collection of Correspondence of sisters, Lila and Belle Jacobs, written while attending school at Dalton, Massachusetts, to their parents Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Dyer Jacobs, of East Windsor, Massachusetts, 1893-1895.
by Jacobs, Lila and Belle
86 letters, comprising 607 manuscript pages, most with envelopes, written in ink, pencil, with a couple typed. The letters are written in legible hands. The letters are written by Lila and Belle Jacobs mainly to their mother, but also to their father. The collection includes the following: 15 letters, 88 pages, dated 1893; 42 letters, 287 pages, dated 1894; 24 letters, 205 pages, dated 1895; 5 letters, 27 pages, undated; 3 postcards; and 2 pieces of paper ephemera, which are... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed, Washington, D.C. Wednesday 23 April 1862, likely sent to an unidentified American Naval Commodore on James’ Rifled Shot and which had just been successfully used at the Battle of Fort Pulaski
by James, Charles Tillinghast (1805-1862)
small quarto, two pages, in very good, clean and legible condition. "My dear Commodore, I had this pleasure at Springfield, Illinois in March last, since which I have not the pleasure of a reply from you. I ordered a few shell sent to your address, to be used in the guns you had on hand that were rifled at Pittsburg, whether they were rifled to make good shooting or bad I had no means of knowing. Enclosed I take the liberty of handing you... Read More
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![Speech of Thomas A. Jenckes, of Providence, upon the Resolution to Annul the Decree of the Supreme Court, in the Case, Ives vs. Hazard et al., Delivered in the House of Representatives of Rhode Island, on the 23d and 24th Day of February, 1859. [Reported by William Henry Burr.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/409/135/1147135409.0.l.jpg)
Speech of Thomas A. Jenckes, of Providence, upon the Resolution to Annul the Decree of the Supreme Court, in the Case, Ives vs. Hazard et al., Delivered in the House of Representatives of Rhode Island, on the 23d and 24th Day of February, 1859. [Reported by William Henry Burr.]
by Jenckes, Thomas A.
octavo, 27 page pamphlet, text printed in double columns, lacking wrappers, removed from bound pamphlet volume, else a good copy.
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Autograph Letter Signed, New York, December 20, 1845, to his uncle, Luther Jewett, and Aunt, Portland, Maine
by Jewett, James C.
Quarto, 2 ½ pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, in very good, clean and legible condition. Jointly written to his uncle and aunt in Portland. Letter from young Maine sea captain who became a "salor of fortune" ad nearly drove Daniel Webster into War. "My dear Uncle, The wind now being fair, my crew all on board, in a few hours more, I shall be once more afloat. I am awaiting turn of the tide to get out. Would to... Read More
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Archive of the Correspondence of Charles H. Jones, Jr. and his fiancé, (later wife), Margaret M. French, as well letters of his father Charles H. Jones, founder of the Commonwealth Shoe & Leather Co., of Whitman, Massachusetts, and Maine, 1925-1951
by Jones, Charles H., Jr
No Binding. Very Good. Archive of 316 letters, comprising 1,311 pp., with 28 pieces of ephemera, (including calling cards, used envelopes, and postcards), all dated between 1925 and 1951, with the bulk of material being 1925 to 1938. Of the 316 letters, 112 of them (545 pp.) were written by Margaret M. "Peg" French to her fiancé, and later husband Charles H. "Peter" Jones, Jr., and are dated 1925-1927. Charles writes 146 (598 pp.) of these 316 letters... Read More
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