Folio, includes 44 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in full leather, hinges cracked, worn, scuffed, rubbed, corners of boards worn through, written in ink in a very legible hand, dated 1786 to 1810, with gaps. more >
quarto, 4 pp. including stampless address leaf with signed Free Frank, hole from seal opening with no significant loss of text, in good, clean, and legible condition. more >
quarto, one page of a four page bi-folium, formerly folded, remains of sealing wax, free franked by Smith on integral address leaf, in very good, clean condition. more >
folio, 3 ½ pages, paper a bit tanned, some minor staining, postal markings on integral address leaf, inscribed neatly in ink, very good condition. 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 >
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 >
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