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  • The Life and Travels of Abel Turner, Minister of the Gospel. Written by himself. Written for his Wife, dated 1839.
    12mo, approximately 24 fascicles stitched together, 451 pages, not bound, some signatures loose, written in ink in a neat and legible hand.
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  • Manuscript Account Book Dunbarton, Merrimack County New Hampshire 1813 -1829
    folio, 218 pages, plus 27 page alphabetical name index, contemporary sheep, binding worn, boards detached, but present, entries kept in a clear meticulous hand, good condition.
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  • Autograph Manuscript Draft of the Text of an Unknown Broadside, or Address upon: The Stamp Act, American Civil Rights and Liberties
    [New York: circa Autumn 1765-1766] folio, two pages. Heavily corrected and emended, with numerous textual changes, some of which have been entirely crossed out. Corners of sheet rounded with some loss of a few letters, right foredge and bottom edge of paper…
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  • Collection of 17 Pocket Diaries and Assaying Notebooks of this Noted Mining Engineer and Metallurgist, Including Three Diaries of his First Wife Jennie R. Dwight 1884-1896
    Collection of 17 pocket diaries, various bindings and paginations, approximately 982 pages, plus blanks and inlaid materials, in very good clean legible condition.
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  • Manuscript Diary of Benjamin Dix, tanner, of Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, dated 1848-1855.
    Small quarto, 354 pages, bound in full sheep, red leather label on spine reading "Journal." The binding is worn and scuffed, edges, corners and tips of spine show wear, interior good, written in ink, in a hand that while legible, takes some…
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  • Business Ledgers of McKay family, Caledonia, Genesee County, New York, 1819-1822.
    Two volumes, folio, 237 manuscript pages as follows: Volume 1, 129 page ledger, plus a separate laid in 4 page list of accounts and 1 page statement for an individual's account for wheat at the "new mill." Volume 2 has a 108…
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  • Manuscript Letter Copy Book of Charles McIntier, broker, of Boston, Suffolk County and Winchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, kept during the "Panic of 1837," and which deals with his various business ventures including his lumbering operations in Maine, as well as his ownership of Johan Nepomuk Malzel's mechanical panorama, the <i>Conflagration of Moscow, </i>dated 1837-1838
    folio, 106 pages, plus blanks, contains approximately 162 separate letters dated July 28, 1837 - September 19, 1838, original ¼ leather spine, and marbled boards, tips of spine worn, edges and corners of boards worn through, else in very good, legible condition.
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  • Archive of Letters, both incoming and outgoing, for Cornelius Christie, Esq., and Family, of Leonia, Ridgefield Township, Bergen County, New Jersey, dated 1851-1887<strong>.</strong>
    Archive of 228 Letters, 765 manuscript pages, many with original mailing envelopes. The bulk of the correspondence dates from the 1850's (161 of 228 letters, 448 of 765 pages), when Cornelius Christie was a student at Yale College, and afterwards at Harvard…
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  • Collection of Letters and Documents Detailing His Early Land Speculation and Settlement in Western Iowa 1855-1858
    Collection of 14 letters, mainly quarto, 51 pp., written to his parents and business associates The collection also contains a group of 38 additional letters, receipts and documents dating from the 1860's - 1870's, concerning Clapp's real estate investments sent to Clapp's…
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  • Archive of Correspondence of Soldier -  Musician Pfc. Dana W. Edwards of Livermore, Maine, of the First Band A. A. A. T. C., Camp Edwards, Massachusetts and the 109<sup>th</sup> Inf., 12<sup>th</sup> Div., 1<sup>st</sup> Army, written primarily to his fiancée, and later wife, Elinor E. Weber, of Farmington, Maine, dated 1939-1948.
    Archive of 622 letters, over 2.700 manuscript pages, with enevelopes, includes a 40 page diary of Elinor E. Weber, plus 20 postcards, photographs, and other ephemeral material.
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