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  • Three Letter Copy Books of John Byrne, President of the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad Company, 1901, 1903 -1904
    Three volumes, quarto, 1,807 letters, 1,920 pages, the letters are mainly typescript on thin tissue paper, bound in ½ red sheep and pebbled cloth, bindings worn and rubbed, back strips missing, text in very good, legible condition.
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  • Pair of Manuscript Reminiscences of Captivity in Andersonville Prison by two Members of the 8<sup>th</sup> Maine Regiment, written circa 1910-1911
    Octavo and quarto, 13 pages, inscribed on sheets of lined paper in pencil, in very good clean condition.
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  • Minute Book of the Providence Improvement Association of Delaware County Pennsylvania, 1929-1939
    quarto, 91 typed and manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in original ½ leather and cloth boards, front board stamped: “Providence Improvement Association.” Very good condition.
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  • Manuscript map: “Redwood. Scale 3 chains to 1 inch. H. L. Scott Surveyor.”
    Pen, ink and wash, circa 1860s. Folio, measuring 26 ¼ x 18 ⅝ inches. Expertly restored and conserved, backed, else very good.
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  • Manuscript Medical Lecture Notebook of Dr. Robert K. Smith, one-time chief resident of Blockley Almshouse, a.k.a Philadelphia Hospital and Insane Asylum, kept while a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1835-1836
    Small quarto, 124 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in original ¾ leather over marble papered boards, binding worn along edges, corners, spine and spine tips, boards rubbed and scuffed, some toning, entries written mostly in ink, a couple of pages in…
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  • Three letters from the papers of Naval Surgeon and Scientist William Ruschenberger, 1831-1845
    Three letters, 4 pages, as follows:
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  • Correspondence of medical student Samuel Belcher Hunter, of Strong, Franklin County, Maine, written to his future wife Amelia Robinson Lincoln, of Eastport, Maine, while he was in school, and later starting his medical practice, 1854-1855
    Group of 19 letters, 76 manuscript pages, (plus two retained mailing envelopes), all but one are written in ink, all are written in a legible hand, dated 2 August 1854 to 18 September 1855. Hunter writes from various cities: Farmington (4), Strong…
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  • Samuel C. Morton, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Manuscript Letter Copy Book, 1858-1865
    Quarto, bound in cloth, boards detached, very worn and chipped, spine lacking, first signature (unused index) loose, as is first page. Volume comprises 239 mss copied letters on 263 pre-numbered pages, all dated between January 26th, 1858 to October 25th, 1865. Blotter…
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  • Group of Three Letters by Stephen Coburn, Maine lawyer and politician, and several family letters, 1839-1849
    Six letters, 20 pages, two letters retain their original mailing envelopes, in good, clean, and legible condition.
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  • Small Group of Correspondence of Temple Grove Seminary (precursor of Skidmore College) officials, of Saratoga Springs, New York, to banker, Benjamin F. Bancroft, cashier of the National Bank of Salem, New York, 1870-1874
    7 letters, 17 pp., dated 4 February 1870 to 16 August 1875. Letters in very good, clean and legible condition.
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