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  • Collection of Incoming Correspondence 1870-1877
    40 letters, 57 pages, octavo and quarto, some damp-staining and wear, letters written in both pencil and ink, generally in very good legible condition.
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  • Incoming Correspondence to New York City attorney, William Allen Butler son of early “Albany Regency” member Benjamin F. Butler, written by U.S. Senator George F. Edmonds, of Vermont; U.S. Congressman Simeon B. Chittenden, of New York; & others, 1864-1895
    15 letters, 27 pp., dated 6 February 1864 to 15 March 1895; of the 15 letters, 12 are dated 1879 to 1883; also includes a three-page manuscript note; and 2 used bank checks.
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  • , Group of Incoming Letters to General William Buel Franklin, of York, Pennsylvania, Civil Engineer, Veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, 1867-1887
    33 letters, 74 manuscript pages, 1867-1887, also includes 9 newspaper clippings, either obituaries, or stories about General Franklin’s correspondents.
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  • Unpublished Manuscript, labor themed novel by William Count, early Labor Party candidate, of Bristol, England, circa 1877-1878
    Small quarto, 307 manuscript pages, bound in ¼ blue cloth, with paper-backed limp boards, possibly a self-made binding, spine chipped, boards worn and stained, some minor staining to preliminary pages, otherwise very good, minor tanning at edges, written in ink, in a…
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  • Collection of Letters from William Cullen Bryant mainly to his brother John H. Bryant, 1815 – 1866
    eight letters (plus two faded letters), 15 pages, some letters damp-stained, and spotted, as well as being a bit brittle, in generally good condition, and readable.
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  • Collection of Incoming Correspondence to William M. Doughty, of Chicago, Illinois, Agent for the Methodist Book Depository and real estate agent for James P. Kilbreth, of Cincinnati, Ohio, dated 1844-1858
    25 letters, 40 pages, dated from September 26, 1844 to April 3, 1858, written, in ink, in a legible hand. One letter is from 1844, the rest are dated between1852-1858. Fifteen of the twenty-five letters were written to Doughty by his brother-in-law…
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  • Manuscript Diaries of William Henry Upton, for the years 1872, 1874, 1876, 1877
    Four volumes, small quarto, 756 pages plus blanks, and several pages of accounts, bound in either original ¼ leather and marbled boards, or ¼ leather and cloth, entries written in a neat legible hand in either pencil or ink. 
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  • Archive of William R. Ayer, of Lincoln, Penobscot County, Maine, merchant and lumberman, includes Correspondence and Ephemera, 1807-1911
    96 letters, 109 pages, plus 766 ephemeral items, all dated from 1807 to 1911. The letters are dated from 19 March 1859 to 1 September 1879. The ephemeral materials are dated from 1807 to 1911, with the bulk of the ephemera dating…
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  • Typescript Autobiography of Zenas Randall Bliss, with accounts of his service on the Texas frontier in the 1850s, the Civil War, and in Texas and elsewhere in the West during the Indian War period
    quarto, five volumes, 656 pages, typescript, and typescript carbons, with occasional manuscript corrections and emendations, bound in various boards, with handmade cloth spines, two volumes signed by Bliss, bindings with wear and rubbing, text in very good clean and legible condition.
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  • Military Papers, Photographs and Ephemera of Henry Zimmerman, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a.k.a Sgt. John Fagan, Veteran of the Indian Wars and the Philippine Insurrection, dated 1877-1927.
    27 pieces, includes 7 military discharge papers, 5 letters (1 manuscript, 4 typed and signed), 3 printed War Department special and general orders sheets, application for estate papers, 4 photographs, and 7 other military related papers.
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