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Letter proposing the establishment of a "Pant Factory" in Hattiesburg, Mississippi

by W. O. Huff

Meridian, Mississippi 1904

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 send from a young petty officer assuring his brother that he was going not going to renege on his commitment to work for the Purser of Commodore Perry's flagship, the USS Mississippi, on its voyage to Japan to force the Shogunate to open the country to foreign trade and allow the resupply of American whaling vessels

by B. Roberts to J. Edwin Roberts

New York Navy Yard to Church Hill, Maryland 1852

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

The Letters of P.H. Pearse

by PEARSE, P.H. (Edited by Séamas Ó BUACHALLA)

Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : Humanities Press , 1980

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 Retsoff Mining Company to the Powell Brothers "Shadeland" stock farm

by Foster & Brown to Messers Powell Brothers

Retsoff, 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

PREVENTING A SECOND "STARVATION WINTER" FOR THE BLACKFEET TRIBE

by Major Rueben A. Allen

Blackfeet Agency, Montana 1884

Privately carried stampless letter containing sequential messages from three Havana merchants to Boston lamenting the state of the White Sugar Market in Cuba

by Addressed to Samuell Gray Esq

Havana, Cuba to Boston Massachusetts 1835

Proceedings of a Court Martial of long-AWOL Confederate soldier that imposed punishment which would be considered cruel and unusual today

by Trial of Isham Stone

Camp near Kenston, North Carolina 1863

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

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 RELATING 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]

Returned mail sent to a World War II Marine who was captured on Corregidor and died in a Japanese prison camp

by Sent by Mr. & Mrs A. Mikucki from Chicago to Private First Class Walter Mikucki at the Osaka Yodogawa Bunsho POW Camp in Japan

1945