Group of 31 letters, totaling 113 manuscript, (18 retained mailing envelopes), dated 17 June 1862 to 16 July 1890, plus 1 postcard and 1 circular. more >
2- column news report on the front page of the New York Observer, May 19, 1870. Complete issue of the newspaper, 18 x 25 inches, 8 pages, folded in quarters, light toning to paper, slight loss at fold intersections, else good more >
49 letters, 179 manuscript pages, plus ephemeral paper items, all dated between 18 Jan 1827 to 12 Sept 1913. Of the 49 letters, 32 were written between 1827 and 1859. The ephemeral material consists of the following items: 35 pages, mostly manuscript,… more >
Four volumes, small quarto, 756 pages plus blanks, and several pages of accounts, bound in either original ¼ leather and marbled boards, or ¼ leather and cloth, entries written in a neat legible hand in either pencil or ink. more >
Dramatic eyewitness account of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn’s early morning surprise attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi, the resulting capture by the narrator, a cotton buyer from Rhode Island, and the destruction at the Union supply hub