Norwich, CT: 1780. Bifolium, 12.25 x 8”, [4] pp of ink manuscript. Numbered pages 90-93 at upper corner. A fragment of a diary kept between April and September, 1780, by an unknown farmer in Norwich, Connecticut. The text includes frequent mentions of the weather, agricultural work, and attending meeting, where.....
[Fulton, New York]: 1890s. 8.25 x 6.25”, hand painted, string tied celluloid covers titled “Annals of Joel Adams Streeter”, containing 17 pages of ink manuscript within, plus two manuscript pages laid in, and six photographs either pasted to leaves or laid in. A homemade baby book for Joel Adams Streeter.....
Hagerstown, Maryland: 1870s. Octavo, autograph album binding of blue cloth measuring 7.75 x 5". Inscribed "Ella Heard, Hagerstown Md., Dec. 25, 1870" to front endpaper. Contains 46 pages of autograph sentiments by friends in Maryland, mainly in the early 1870s. Includes several inscriptions from students at the Hagerstown Female Seminary.....
Boston, Massachusetts: 1881 to 1885. Green autograph album binding measuring 9.25 x 7.5", of which 33 pages contain content, including 31 pages of original drawings and watercolors. The autograph album belonged to Minnie H.P. Boner, likely a student at Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, today known as the Massachusetts.....
San Francisco: 1853. Bifolium, 10 x 8", 4 pp of ink manuscript, dated December 15, 1853 at San Francisco. A letter from Alexander M. Schell to his sister, detailing his elopement with a younger woman, Mary L. Durie, and the anger of Durie's mother upon hearing of the marriage. Schell.....
Salem, Massachusetts: Privately Printed at the Sign of the Witch, 1896. Quarto, hand illustrated front cover titled "A Calendar of Happy Days," containing 103 leaves containing hand drawn text and illustration to rectos, bound with green ribbon. A wonderful homemade illustrated book created by an unknown woman hailing from Salem.....
Berkeley: 1969. A collection of 12 newsletters, one booklet, and 16 flyers, published in May through July, 1969, alongside a wave of protests that arose at the University of California, Berkeley in response to an aggressive police response to a May 15, 1969 protest that left one protester dead and.....
North Carolina: 1831 to 1856. A collection of 31 letters, totaling 84 pages, belonging to the Emerson family, a prominent Baptist family in Oakland Township, Chatham County, North Carolina. 21 of the letters were sent by Rosanna Dowd Emerson to her son, Andrew Jackson Emerson, while he was studying at.....
California and Wisconsin: Mainly 1882. A collection of 24 letters sent between members of the Hodges and Jones families of Walnut Creek, California and Platteville, Wisconsin. Benjamin and Emily Hodges were pioneers in Contra Costa County, moving from La Fayette County, Wisconsin to settle near Walnut Creek in 1852, where.....
Various Places, including Panama and California: 1849. Cloth journal binding measuring 5.5 x 3.25", of which 45 pages contain writing in pencil manuscript. The diary and day book of an unidentified 49'er, documenting his trip from New York, across the Isthmus of Panama, and up the west coast of Mexico.....
Washington DC and Lancaster, Pennsylvania: 1866 to 1876. Notebook binding of marbled boards with red morocco spine measuring 13 x 8.25”, containing 43 pages of handwritten diary entries, as well as 14 pages of miscellaneous notes, and five pages of pasted in newspaper clippings. A large format diary kept by.....
Various Places, Including Massachusetts, Vermont, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia: 1854 to 1857. Journal binding of brown marbled boards with leather spine measuring 9.75 x 8”, containing 184 pages of manuscript, almost all in ink, with a few pages in pencil. A three page handwritten index of the diary is.....
Long Beach, California: 1919-1920. Gray cloth journal binding measuring 7.25 x 4.25”, containing 52 pages of ink diary entries, together with a few pages of copied poems. Inscribed “Elsie M. Carlson Y.W.C.A. Long Beach, Cal.” to front endpaper. In very good condition with slight musty odor. A diary kept by.....
Various Places: 1869-1871. Quarter morocco binding with marbled boards measuring 13.5 x 8.5", containing 127 pages of class notes and 19pp of diary entries. The book belonged to Joseph Tatnal Baily of Paterson, New Jersey, a civil engineer who graduated in 1870 from Rochester Polytechnic Institue. The bulk of the.....
Germanton, North Carolina: 1859 to 1868. Ledger binding of marbled boards with leather spine, 7.75 x 6.25", containing 31 pages of ink manuscript as well as many blank pages. A ledger kept by Adison C. Myers of Germanton, Stokes County, North Carolina, documenting the management of land inherited by his.....
Swansborough, North Carolina: 1789. Single leaf measuring 13 x 8", with two pages of ink manuscript, headed "Swansborough in N. Carolina November 20, 1789" and signed by Jonathan Boardman. An 18th century letter by Jonathan Boardman (1751-1791), a Norwich, Connecticut man who moved to North Carolina sometime in the 1780s.....
Wilmington, North Carolina: 1791. Bifolium, 9.5 x 7.5”, with four pages of manuscript. A partial letter, lacking a second leaf (or more), by a woman, written upon arrival in Wilmington, North Carolina, and featuring a rich description of the town in the late 18th century. The letter was sent to.....
Mount Prospect, Mississippi: 1840. Manuscript letter, 8.5 x 11", three pages, sent in January, 1840 by Mary Brougher of Mount Prospect, in Tippah County, Mississippi, to Jane Craig of Hudsonville, Mississippi. Toning to paper, separations along folds. Brougher was from a pioneering Mississippi family, daughter of Frederic Brougher, a native.....
San Francisco: 1861. Bifolium, 10 x 8", three pp. of ink manuscript. A letter sent by David S. Prindle, a mover and builder in San Francisco, back home to his father in Connecticut, dated November 26, 1861. The first page contains Prindle's patriotic thoughts on the Civil War service of.....
Fresno, CA: 1906. Unbound manuscript comprised of 13 leaves measuring 8.5 x 11", with ink manuscript to rectos only, titled "Highlights of my Childhood." A memoir written by Hal Baldwin of Fresno, California in 1906, recounting his childhood in Central City and Boulder, Colorado in the 1870s and 1880s. The.....
Peoria, Illinois: 1904 to 1911. Notebook binding of quarter leather with black boards measuring 10 x 8", of which 57 pages have been filled. A manuscript and typed minutes book of the Physicians Club of Peoria, Illinois, including 50 pages of handwritten and typed meeting minutes, dating from 1904 to.....
San Francisco: Circa 1900. Journal binding measuring 8.5 x 7.25", of which 49 pages have been filled out with manuscript recipes in ink. Inscribed "Agnes A. Wieboldt" to front pastedown, together with a San Francisco address. Remnant of additional title label present to front cover, which was originally pasted over.....
Philadelphia: 1854. 8 x 6", full brown leather binding with tooled decorations along edges, containing 117 pages of ink manuscript. Inscribed "Receipt Book. Green Bank. December 17th, 1821. Recopied January, 1854" and "Maria Green, Silver Pine, Jan. 17th, 1854." A manuscript cookbook compiled by Maria Kirkham Green (1797-1876), of Philadelphia.....
Connecticut: 1782. Two items related to the Revolutionary War service of Samuel Pulford, a member of the Continental Army from Fairfield County, Connecticut. Includes a handwritten note, 7.5 x 4", dated 1782, directing a delivery of "the depreciation notes due unto Sam Pulford for his service as a soldier in.....
San Francisco: 1857 & 1861. Three manuscript letters, totaling 12 pages, two measuring 8.25 x 5.25”, dated 1861, and one 8.25 x 6.5”, dated 1857. The letters were sent by Thomas F. Dingley of San Francisco, to his sister in Maine. According to census records, Dingley was in the grocery.....