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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 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 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 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 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 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 reporting on a two-day "teacher's association" conference that was mailed in an illustrated envelope featuring the two-story Bridgewater Normal School, the first building in the United States specifically built for the education and preparation of future teachers

by "Madison' to "Uncle & Aunt"

Bridgewater to Fall River, Massachusetts 1861

Letter to Thomas H. Gallaudet requesting that he arrange for the residential treatment of a prominent Massachusetts woman at the Hartford Retreat for the Insane

by Horatio Brinsmade

Pittsfield, Massachusetts 1840

Letters to a Civil War deserter who escaped to Canada

by Waterman Burlingham and family

Edmeston, [New York] 1863

Mail sanitized during the response to 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and infected 17 others

Alaska and Washington DC 2001

A NAIVE YWCA WORKER IN PRE-CIVIL WAR CHINA - ARCHIVE OF AN IDEALISTIC ANTI-IMPERIALISTIC MISSIONARY TEACHER

by "Jo" [Josephine Brown]

Hsi Chi Men, China 1925-1926

OVER TWO TONS OF SALT IS SHIPPED FROM THE LARGEST SALT MINE IN NORTH AMERICA TO ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S LARGEST HORSE AND CATTLE BREEDING FARMS. - Small packet of materials related to the shipment of "lump salt" from the Retsof Mining Company to the Powell Brothers' Shadeland stock farm

by Foster & Brown to Messers Powell Brothers

Retsof, New York to Springboro, Pennsylvania 1888

One-page Mexican-American War letter from a newly appointed ensign in the Missouri Volunteers as his unit prepared to depart Camp Lucas in Missouri on the Great Platte River Road in route to establishing Fort Kearny for protection of the Oregon Trail

by John V. Masters to the Honorable C. Masters

Camp Lucas (St. Louis), Missouri to Warren Court House, Pennsylvania 1847

One-page letter on illustrated stationery from a prize-winning poulty breeder who served as the Superintendent of P. T. Barnum's Bridgeport Hospital

by C. H. Crosby

Bridgeport, Connecticut : Bridgeport Hospital , 1890

Psychiatric hospital letter from a schizophrenic Alaskan, who murdered his gold-miner father during a paranoid delusion

by From Eino Robert Mack to Aune Mack

Juneau, Alaska and Portland, Oregon 1948

RECEIVED 67 CARDS . . . I AM ABOUT THE SAME HOPING YOU ARE ALL WELL." "Disinfected" post card sent from a patient at the Mt. Alto Tuberculosis Sanatorium to family at home

by Jake

Mont Alto, Pennsylvania : Mont Alto State Sanitorium , 1910

RECOMMENDATION FOR A FLORIDA PHYSICIAN AND PLANTATION OWNER TO RECEIVE A FEDERAL COMMISSION AS A LIEUTENANT OF DRAGOONS; Free-franked folded-letter from Florida State Senator James H. T. Lorimer to U. S. Senator J. D. Wescott

by James H. T. Lorimer

Tallahassee 1848

RECORD-SETTING NON-STOP THEATRICAL TRAIN TRIP - An archive pertaining to Jarrett & Palmer's famous transcontinental Lightning Express

by Various

New York to San Francisco 1876

A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE MURDER OF A LOUISIANA WATCHMAKER; Two-page folded letter sent by the Justice of the Peace from Thibodeauxville, Louisiana to the Postmaster of Iberville

by A Justice of the Peace from Thibodeauxville, Louisiana

Thibodeauxville 1831

[Research and Publication Archive of GRAHAM GREENE: A Bibliography and Guide to Research]

by [Bibliography]. WOBBE, R.A.

Various [Majority Institute, WV] : np , [ca. 1960-1980]