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  • Unsigned, Intriguing, and Possibly Secret, Manuscript Note Concerning the Treaty of Paris 1782-1783
    small folio, one page, formerly folded, top edge lightly browned, else very good. Text neatly inscribed in ink on laid paper. The sheet, judging from the fold marks was evidently folded into a very small triangle of just over an inch in…
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  • Manuscript Notebook kept by Albert Cushing Crehore in 1899 relating to his work with George Owen Squier on Synchronous AC Telegraphic Systems
    Small quarto, approximately 180 pages, entries in both pencil and ink, plus numerous laid in materials, including diagrams, etc., bound in contemporary oil cloth covered flexible boards, paper label mounted on front cover reads: "A.C. Crehore & G. O. Squier Cable E."…
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  • Autograph Manuscript headed with the initials R.E.D., dated January 7, 1919
    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.
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  • Manuscript Petition, headed: To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New York The Petition of Matthew Adgate and Noadiah Moor of the County of Albany & State aforesaid & others the Subscribers hereunto humbly sheweth…
    [Albany September 3, 1781] folio, 3 pages, old folds, some spotting to paper, old archival tape repairs along folds of second page, else in very good, clean and legible condition.
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  • Manuscript Political Notes of a Civil War Copperhead from New Hampshire, possibly suppressed – 1852-1864
    Three separate fragments of manuscript political notes and text by a passionate New Hampshire man, presumably a Democrat and Civil War Copperhead, 1852-1864. It would not be surprising if the pages were at some point separated, or hidden, because of the author’s…
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  • Manuscript Account of Travel in Alaska July - August c. 1924
    octavo, 51 pages, written on the letterhead of the Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, rectos only, neatly inscribed in pencil and ink, very good.
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  • Correspondence of Marie Remington Wing and Family, dated 1900-1972
    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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  • Correspondence and Ephemera of Martha Curtis and her fiancé and later her husband, oil producer Warren E. Burns, of Marietta, Ohio, 1903-1966
    Collection of 261 letters, 1951 pages, (with 243 retained mailing envelopes), dated 1903-1966, the bulk date from the years 1900-1920, and almost all are hand written. There are also over 360 pieces of ephemera as follows: 94 calling cards, greeting cards, and…
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  • Diaries of Mary Ann Ette “Nettie” Converse Lord, of Parker, South Dakota and Long Beach, California, wife of banker Louis Kossuth Lord, 1897-1931
    22 volumes, small quartos. comprising approximately 7,947 manuscript pp. of diary entries plus approximately 341 manuscript pp. of memoranda, notes, cash accounts and bills payable; dated 1897- 1900, 1903-1905, 1907-1908, 1913, 1917, 1919-1920, 1922-1924, 1926-1931; one day entry per page…
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  • Correspondence of University of Pennsylvania graduates, science teacher Mary Gwendolyn Hunsicker, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and her fiancé medical student James Bryant Mason, of Urbana, Illinois, 1922-1934
    288 letters, 1217 manuscript and typed pp., (284 retained mailing envelopes), dated 26 June 1922 to 31 August 1934, with bulk of correspondence (284 letters) dating from 1923-1924; Also included are photographs, 3 postcards, 6 telegrams, 8 greeting cards, and 11 miscellaneous…
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