49 letters, 120 manuscript pages, written on folio and quarto size sheets, some letters are joint letters, having one page written by a parent, another page from a sibling, all letters dated from 20 June 1819 to 15 October 1860. There are…
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quarto, 4 pages, formerly folded, neatly inscribed in ink, dated Carrollton, January 9, 1863, addressed to his “Sister Fannie and all the rest.” In very good legible condition.
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quarto, one page, plus stamp-less address leaf, in very good, legible condition.
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94 letters, 219 manuscript pages, (with 52 retained mailing envelopes), plus 3 telegrams and 1 receipt, all dated from 1882 to 1893, as follows: 41 letters, 60 pages, (with 10 mailing envelopes), written by Charles Emerson Benton to his son Everett, plus 3…
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Collection of 83 letters, 502 manuscript pages, no envelopes, letters dated January 11th to November 8th, 1888. Letters are in good condition, written in ink, in a legible hand.
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Philadelphia: 1820, first edition, octavo, 55 pages, sewn as issued, text browned, title page stained, several corners dogeared, else a good copy. Rare in trade, only one copy has appeared at auction and that in 1908. American Imprints 629, and 1791, one…
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The archive includes: 16 letters, 45 manuscript pages, dated 1824-1838, with 11 manuscript pages of documents and papers, dated 1827-1836, plus 162 manuscript page genealogy book of the Bradford family, dated 1825; and a 76 page manuscript “Friendship Book” of Mary…
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63 letters, 88 manuscript pages dated 6 January 1836 to 16 December 1908. Of the 63 letters, 11 are not dated and about a half a dozen letters have pieces missing, with some text lacking. A number of the letters are folding…
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212 letters, 288 pages, 132 post cards, 49 printed and manuscript ephemeral items, including trade cards, circulars, etc., 13 snapshot photographs presumably of family members c. 1890s-1920s, plus 4 miscellaneous manuscripts, reminiscences etc., by family members c. 1890-1900. The bulk of the…
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24 letters, 41 manuscript pp., dated 15 February 1887 to 21 December 1891, written on U.S. Letter Sheet Envelopes (self envelopes). Of the 24 letters in the collection, 13 were written in 1887; in 1888; 1 in 1889; 3 in 1890; and…
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