Large archive of personal and family correspondence consisting of 1,144 letters, 4,183 manuscript and typescript pages, approximately 85 related ephemeral items, 3 account, scrap and notebooks, 4 photographs.
Archive of… more >
octavo, 8 pages, written in pencil, on the letter-head of the Jewish Welfare Board, American Embarkation Center, Le Mans Area, accompanied by original mailing envelope, in good legible condition. more >
12mo, pocket diary, 134 manuscript pages bound in cloth, two days entries per page, text block separated from binding; wear to extremities, otherwise good, entries written in ink, in a legible hand; diary is not signed, but a note tucked in… more >
octavo, single sheet, folded, nicks at edges, affecting text slightly. This may have been a letter, or portion of a letter, evidently folded and mailed. In good legible condition. 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