folio, 29 pages, text written in both ink and pencil, in two different, but legible hands, paper somewhat tanned, else very good. Docketed on fragment of blank, final page: “Copy of Testimony in case of Gray Taken by the Reporters E. C.… more >
194 letters, 242 manuscript pp., mostly stamp-less letter-sheets, dated 3 June 1822 to 27 September 1854; of the 194 letters, 168 of the letters were written by various individuals to Henry Mason Morfit, Esq.; the remaining 26 are miscellaneous letters written to… more >
New York: J. Van Norden & Co., printers, 1840, octavo, 43 page pamphlet, retains plain front wrapper, ex-library, handstamp and other markings on front wrap, else good. more >
folio, three pages, plus integral address, leaf, formerly folded, postal markings, and some dust soiling to address leaf, else in very good, clean, legible condition. more >
8 volumes, quarto, bound in original ¼ and ½ leather, and cloth covered boards, all volumes show rubbing and wear to edges, corners, spines, with one volume lacking spine, a couple of others having chipped spines. The diaries were kept in a… more >
Single sheet, measuring 3 x 8”, 1 page, with docketing on verso. J.E. McCombs, Constable, ordered to summon “William Baynard, Negro, to be and appear…to answer unto Francis G. Smith admn. of Saml. G. Smith, Decd. In a plea of Debt…” 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