210 letters, 298 manuscript pages, most with retained mailing envelopes, dated 1870-1888, the bulk are written in the1880s. Most of the correspondence consists of business letters that are addressed to Horace Kellogg Parsons, a merchant at Florence, Massachusetts. Of the 210 letters…
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86 letters, comprising 607 manuscript pages, most with envelopes, written in ink, pencil, with a couple typed. The letters are written in legible hands. The letters are written by Lila and Belle Jacobs mainly to their mother, but also to their father.…
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221 letters, 1064 manuscript pp., (121 retained mailing envelopes); letters dated 10 May 1892 to 20 June 1926; the bulk date from 1892 to 1909 and only 2 letters written after 1909, those being from 1911 and 1926.
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quarto, three pages plus stampless address leaf, heavily stained and with hole from seal opening, but no loss of text.
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Quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, postal markings, some staining and some minor damage caused when the letter was first opened, else very good.
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folio, 210 manuscript pp., bound in ¼ calf, marbled paper covered boards, measures 8” x 12 ½”, dated 29 Oct 1852 to 30 May 1855; covers and spine poor, very worn, spine chipped, text block split in half, couple of signatures loose;…
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18 letters, 28 manuscript pages, mainly quarto and folio, some old tape repairs at fold joints, generally in good legible condition, despite the idiosyncratic handwriting of Francis and several of the correspondents in the collection.
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68 letters, 117 manuscript pages, in very good clean and legible condition.
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five letters, 18 pages, in very good, clean, legible condition.
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Quarto, two pages, old folds, postal markings on stamp-less address leaf, “free franked”, in very good, clean and legible condition.
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