• Quarto, 4 pages, posted from “Washington Square” New York, “March 29,” no year given, likely 1850’s. The letter writer signs their name “Enquirer” and inquires about Bennett’s opinion on the presumed upcoming American delegation to Paris, France, perhaps concerning some political matter.
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  • small quarto, 3 manuscript pages, plus address leaf, formerly folded, paper somewhat toned, else in good condition.
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  • octavo, 4 pages, formerly folded, some light toning and spotting to wrappers, else very good.
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  • [Brooklyn: Waller and Schrader, 1876] oblong folio, photograph album contains 40 mounted albumen photographs, plus a mounted photographic “title-page”, each photograph mounted on card stock with printed label under each image identifying the subject. Most images measure 7.75 x 4.75 inches, one…
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  • Folk art or naïve watercolor on paper, circa 1868, measuring approximately 7 x 7 inches, watercolor on paper, in four colors, executed on the verso of a portion of a nineteenth century colored print, the paper is brittle and tanned, and with…
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  • quarto, 4 pages, folded, postal markings on integral address leaf, some separations along folds, paper lightly browned, else in good legible condition.
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  • The collection includes twenty-one letters, 115 pages, including sixteen letters from Abraham Paul Leech to his son, and five from friends of John Leech to him, with one pencil sketch and fifteen watercolors by Abraham Paul Leech, circa 1859-1870.
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  • quarto, 4 pages, including stampless address leaf, small hole from seal opening, few slight defects along folds, else very good.
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  • 41 letters, 122 manuscript pp., (9 retained mailing envelopes), dated 17 December 1845 to 18 February 1857; with 17 pieces of related ephemera (calling cards, used envelopes, receipts, will, poem, etc.); Of the 41 letters, 10 are undated; and at least 33…
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  • Mobile, Alabama, May 9, 1840. 2 printed pages plus Partial Autograph Letter (2 x 2” portion of letter torn out) and stamp less address leaf. Sent by the commercial freight forwarding company, Barnewall and Manroy to John Gladstone, Liverpool, England.…
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