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  • 1806 Anonymous Lord Chesterfield-type advice for an American “Miss”
    small quarto, 3 manuscript pages, plus address leaf, formerly folded, paper somewhat toned, else in good condition.
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  • 1847 Two Letters to a scholarly New Hampshire Governor’s daughter from her rich cousins
    And: Landis, Kate, Autograph Letter Signed, Philadelphia, April 14, 1847, to her cousin Susan F. Colby, Care of Gen. A. Colby, New London, New Hampshire, containing an Account of her travels from her Mass. home to New…
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  • Bailey Sisters Correspondence
    369 letters, 1489 pp., dated 18 January 1875 to 31 December 1957; bulk from the 1900s-1910s; mostly handwritten, several typed; mostly incoming letters to sisters Vesta I and Ruth Margaret Bailey, with various correspondents including friends and family, or with each…
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  • Lucy Barns letter
    Folio, two pages, plus stampless address leaf, formerly folded, some splitting along folds, light toning to text, else very good.
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  • Marie Remington Wing
    92 letters, 278 manuscript pages, 58 envelopes, dated 1900-1972, with the bulk of the letters from the 1910s-1940s were written to Marie R. Wing and her family. There is also some minor ephemeral material.
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  • Sophia Marshman Manuscript Notebook, 1822-1825
    small quarto, 376 manuscript pp., three thick fascicles, likely three separate notebooks, sewn into the binding with green silk ties, bound in contemporary ½ black leather, green paper covered boards, binding worn and rubbed at corners and edges, no endpapers, entries written…
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