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  • Pair of Manuscript Diaries kept by an unidentified United States Navy sailor, a machinist, including accounts of his service aboard USS Octopus, an early US Navy Submarine, 1907-1911
    2 diaries, small quarto, 247 pages, plus blanks, and pasted in clippings and pictures, original plain paper wraps, wrappers, worn, badly chipped, detached, but present, entries in ink, generally clear and legible.
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  • Collection of Incoming Correspondence to Edward M. Paxson, Pennsylvania newspaperman, Lawyer and Supreme Court Justice, 1841-1899
    68 letters, 117 manuscript pages, in very good clean and legible condition.
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  • Group of Letters from Pioneer American Dermatologist Dr. Edward Wigglesworth, to Harvard classmate James Edward Wright, 1871-1895
    five letters, 18 pages, in very good, clean, legible condition.
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  • Group of Incoming Letters to Eli Taylor Andrews, prosperous farmer of Bethel, Connecticut, chairman of the Democratic Town Committee, and fraternally a Mason, dated 1852-1885
    70 letters, 128 manuscript pages, (19 retained mailing envelopes), plus 4 pieces of verse and prose, 14 pages, all dated 3 January 1852 to 22 January 1885. There are 5 letters that are undated. Most of the letters are addressed to Eli…
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  • Oyer & Terminer The People vs James Gray & Elijah Gray Rumsey, Marvin, Redfield Counsels for People Brown, Chandler, Allen, Spencer & Hosmer for prisoners Jurors Obtained …
    folio, 29 pages, text written in both ink and pencil, in two different, but legible hands, paper somewhat tanned, else very good. Docketed on fragment of blank, final page: “Copy of Testimony in case of Gray Taken by the Reporters E. C.…
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  • Typescript Draft of General Ely Samuel Parker’s Narrative, of the Surrender at Appomattox, Signed by Parker, and Dated New York, March 1894
    folio, 14 typescript – carbon pages, on rectos only, lacking the text of page one of Parker’s account, accounting for 19 lines of text in the printed version, supplied here in facsimile, the last page is signed and dated by Parker.
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  • Pennsylvania Folk Art Drawing of a Unicorn by Zachariah Reynolds, of Washington County, Pennsylvania, circa 1812-1814
    The Unicorn Pen and ink and ink wash on paper, measuring 5 ½ x 4 3/8 inches, some toning, slight mat burn, the image is drawn on the back of a manuscript receipt, the receipt bears the signature of Benedict Reynolds, Zachariah’s father. A…
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  • Diaries, Account and Memorandum Books, Correspondence, and Ephemera of businessman Samuel W. Folsom, of Cleveland, Ohio, and his son art dealer Arthur H. Folsom of "Folsom Galleries," an important modern art gallery of New York City, New York, 1867-1927
    58 volumes of diaries of Samuel W. Folsom, over 7,000 manuscript pages, dated 1867-1927, lacking years 1891, 1906, and 1921; 44 account books of Samuel W. Folsom, various paginations, 68, 72, or 120 pages per book (earlier volumes have less pages), with…
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  • Manuscript Diaries of Frank Tenney, dated 1881-1929
    Collection of 28 diaries totaling 8,106 manuscript pages, with 1 visitor's book, totaling 119 manuscript pages (There are also 49 invitations, with envelopes).
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  • “Gardening operations &c Weather Notes &c Beginning April 1889” containing her Gardening Notes from 1889-1903
    octavo, 188 manuscript pages, several inlaid items, inscribed in ink in a notebook bound in ¼ cloth and marbled boards, label on front board of the Harvard Co-operative Society, neatly inscribed in ink, else very good. Contemporary ownership inscription by Markwick on…
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