small quarto, 73 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in contemporary ¼ leather and marbled paper covered boards, binding, worn, rubbed and scuffed, entries are written in ink, in a legible hand. more >
quarto, three pages, plus integral address leaf, some splitting along folds, repaired with archival tissue, else in good, clean and legible condition. more >
35 letters, 119 pp., 3 envelopes, dated 7 June 1869 to February 1914. Two of the letters are typed, the remaining handwritten, several letters written after James S. brown’s death; plus 12 pieces of related ephemeral items. more >
folio, three pages of a bi-folium, docketed on last leaf “about a patent Lusk”, formerly folded, portion of last leaf missing at lower corner, not affecting any text, else good. 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