folio, diary contained in two sections, the first headed: Augusta Michigan May 18, 1865 Jottings by an Invalid; 40 pp., held together by a pink, silk cord along top edge. The second headed: Andrew M. Gardner, Journal July 1st, 1865, An Invalid…
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Archival collection containing approximately 580 items, including printed paper and manuscript ephemeral items, but also including correspondence, diary, business ledger, photograph, etc., as follows:
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quarto, 2 ¼ pages of a four page bi-folium, neatly inscribed in ink, very good condition. An early and most interesting letter on disunion and the escalating tensions between North and South, which has affected the friendship of the correspondents:
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Pocket diary, narrow 12mo, containing 162 day entries, (out of 365 days, three days per page, 63 pages, plus blanks), 11 pages of cash accounts, and 4 pages of memoranda at end. Bound in original bleak leather wallet style binding, in very…
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Thirty seven letters, 144 pages, octavo and quarto, many original mailing envelopes included, with some related ephemera, in very good, legible condition.
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Manuscript dispatch from the field inscribed in ink on a sheet measuring 3 x 8 inches, formerly folded, in very good clean condition. Housed in a recent ¼ morocco and cloth clamshell box. The dispatch reads: Petersburg 16 Jan ‘65   "Genl…
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Milwaukee: Strickland & Company, [1862]
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