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Invitation to participate in the Cleveland Yachting Association 1880 Inter-Lake Regatta

by C. B. Krause

Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Yachting Association , 1880

A JEWISH CAPTAIN IN THE CONFEDERATE CAVALRY OMINOUSLY PROMISES A GEORGIA LAWYER HE WILL SOON PAY A VISIT TO "SETTLE MY BUSINESS WITH YOU . . . FOR THE MANNER WHICH YOU HAVE ACTED TOWARDS ME"

by Captain Edwin Warren Moise to Colonel Seaborn Jones

Camp French [near New Hanover, North Carolina] to Columbus, Georgia 1862

Johnson & Johnson advertising packet including samples of Lintine and Johnson's Rubber Adhesive Plaster

New Brunswick, New Jersey 1891

LIVRE DES MINUTES NO. 8 [FREEMASON RECORD-BOOK]

by [LOGE DE LA CONCORDE] [FREEMASONS / FRANC-MACONNERIE]

[Dijon] : n.p. , [1881-1883]

Letter from Joseph "Joe" Farley, a member of the U.S. water polo team, to his mother written aboard the S.S. President Roosevelt while in the Amsterdam harbor during the 1928 Olympic Games

by Joe [Joseph Farley]

S.S. President Roosevelt, Amsterdam 1928

Letter from a U. S. mariner held captive in Naples after his ship was captured and condemned during the Napoleonic Wars

by Sent by Olphert Tittle

Naples 1810

Letter from a Scottish lawyer requesting information from a ship captain in Baltimore about an ill-fated Indian Ocean voyage aboard the Semaramis that included accusations of drunkenness, incompetence, theft, and mutiny

by Jno Macdougall

Greencock, [Scotland] 1849

Letter from a young lawyer and recent graduate of Hanover College to a friend who was still enrolled reporting the founding of an early independent Memphis fire company to include the purchase of an engine and misconduct at a firemen's ball

by [Xenophon] B. Sanders to Edward "Ned" C. Porter

Memphis, Tennessee to South Hanover, Indiana 1849

Letter from a student at Wesleyan University to a friend attending Charlotte Academy describing admission requirements and encouraging him to attend Wesleyan the following term

by A. Merwin

Middletown, Connecticut 1852

Letter from Ebenezer Stevens & Sons, a New York firm, to Messrs Otard Dupuy, one of the most important Cognac producers in France

by Ebr Stevens & Sons

New York to Cognac, France 1836

Letter from a Marblehead, Massachusetts merchant in Spain informing his family at home of the opportunity to import inexpensive year-old Merino wool and make it appear to be fresh and of high quality

by Samuel Hooper to Robert & John Hooper

Bilbao, Spain 1831

Letter from an American passenger describing the arrival of an immigration ship and informing a prominent, but despicable, Connecticut minister that his long-suffering wife (who would soon initiate one of the most notorious divorce cases of the 19th century) would shortly be returning from Europe

by Sarah Gibbs to the Reverend Dr. Samuel F. Jarvis

Ship Burgundy to Middletown, Connecticut 1837

Letter from the son of a Texas pioneer sent to a sister in Rhode Island which includes information about the construction of Gonzales College; franked with a scarce 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #10A)

by Wm D. H. Peck

Gonzales, Texas 1851

Letter from a gold prospector who served as the "judical chair" for a mining camp

by W. B.

Osceola, [probably Nevada] 1880

Letter from the Territorial Governor of Montana encouraging a man from Illinois to emigrate and start a cattle or sheep ranch

by B. F. Potts to Joseph Barber

Virginia City, Montana to Richview, Illinois 1872

Letter from Frederic de Graft, a Baltimore Merchant, to Mess. Clossmann, a wine merchant in Bordeaux

by Fredric de Graft

Baltimore 1833

Letter from an American in Liverpool describing his efforts to prevent an Englishman from stealing credit for inventing a longitude measuring device based on a theory by a prominent Georgia physician, Doctor Joel Abbott

by Dr. J. Hall

Liverpool 1818

Letter from a young man to his mother describing his travels on the Mississippi River and plan to return East by the Ohio

by Thomas C. Awery, Jr.

Steamer "Mt Vernon" Mississippi River 1847

Letter from a Superintendent of Repair on the Erie Canal to the Deputy Comptroller of New York reporting the monthly salaries of the five locktenders under his supervision

by E. A. King

Port Byron, New York 1839

Letter on Casper and Rongis Stage Line stationery sent by an early and important Wyoming oil prospector from the middle of nowhere via one of the lines stagecoaches

by Iver Johnson

14 miles from any body", Wyoming 1892