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  • Autograph Letter Signed, to James Gordon Bennett, editor and founder of the New York Herald, written by “Enquirer” of New York
    Quarto, 4 pages, posted from “Washington Square” New York, “March 29,” no year given, likely 1850’s. The letter writer signs their name “Enquirer” and inquires about Bennett’s opinion on the presumed upcoming American delegation to Paris, France, perhaps concerning some political matter.
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  • Engaging although Incomplete and Unsigned Letter, written by an unknown Federalist Member of Congress, Dated Washington, Dec. 4, 1811, on National Affairs
    Quarto, 4 pages, formerly folded, in very good, clean and legible condition.
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  • Manuscript “Estimate Book" for an unidentified New York City contractor, dated 1867-1873
    small quarto, 84 pages plus blanks, entries written on lined paper, in ink, bound in half black leather, marbled paper covered boards, worn at tips of spine, corners and edges of boards, boards scuffed, outside hinges of binding mostly open, but boards…
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  • Manuscript Account of Travel from England to Russia and Poland in 1872
    12mo, 68 manuscript pages, plus blanks, and 8 pages of notes, bound in contemporary embossed leather backed flexible stiff wraps, entries written in English, in pencil, in a clear and legible hand.
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  • 23d Regiment N.G.S.N.Y. Camp Woodward Fairmount Park Philadelphia July 1st to 6th 1876. Col. Rodney C. Ward, Com’d’g. Photographed by Waller and Schrader, Brooklyn, N.Y.
    [Brooklyn: Waller and Schrader, 1876] oblong folio, photograph album contains 40 mounted albumen photographs, plus a mounted photographic “title-page”, each photograph mounted on card stock with printed label under each image identifying the subject. Most images measure 7.75 x 4.75 inches, one…
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  • Collection of Correspondence and Ephemera pertaining to Judge Adelbert Canedy Fanning, of Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 1902-1923
    Manuscript archive consisting of 507 letters, 693 pages, both manuscript and typed, (without retained mailing envelopes), dated 1902-1923, the bulk of correspondence being from 1916 to 1923. Correspondence includes 161 retained copies of letters (174 pp) written by Judge Fanning; plus 346…
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  • Collection of Incoming Letters to Miss L. Adelia Martin, of Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York, from family and friends, 1845-1857
    41 letters, 122 manuscript pp., (9 retained mailing envelopes), dated 17 December 1845 to 18 February 1857; with 17 pieces of related ephemera (calling cards, used envelopes, receipts, will, poem, etc.); Of the 41 letters, 10 are undated; and at least 33…
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  • Merchants and Planters Prices Current, [C.A.Stuart, editor?] Vol. II, No. 33
    Mobile, Alabama, May 9, 1840. 2 printed pages plus Partial Autograph Letter (2 x 2” portion of letter torn out) and stamp less address leaf. Sent by the commercial freight forwarding company, Barnewall and Manroy to John Gladstone, Liverpool, England.…
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  • Correspondence of Albert A. Chaplis, a.k.a. Albert Bundza, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and his fiancé Ingeborg Marie Backholm, of Boylston, Massachusetts, written while he was in military service at the Medical Depot, Fort Armstrong, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1935-1937
    Group of 255 letters, 1173 pp., (250 retained mailing envelopes), dated 1935-1937, hand-written, plus 54 pieces of ephemera, in good clean legible condition. Letters written by Albert A. Chaplis to his fiancé Ingeborg “Ingee”…
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  • Group of Love Letters to Flora Temple Lash, whom he married, with sketches and related ephemera
    20 letters, 59 pages, several letters illustrated with sketches, letters dated 1922-1941, the bulk from 1923-1924, with 9 pencil and pen sketches, 17 printed and manuscript ephemeral items, including: exhibition lists, catalogs and pricelists, Christmas cards designed and printed by the artist,…
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