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Manuscript Letter Copy Book of George Augustus Wilcox, of Madison, Connecticut, and Detroit, Michigan, Lawyer and Real Estate investor in Lumber Lands, 1878-1884

Quarto, approximately 694 pages, bound in half black leather, and cloth covered boards, spine badly chipped, portions of back-strip missing, corners and tips worn, covers rubbed and scuffed, letters dated 4 February 1878 to 5 March 1884.
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Six Autograph Letters Signed, Chippewa Bay, New York, New York City and New Haven Connecticut, 1911-1912 to Miss Helen D. Whitney, “Hedge Lee”, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, and 471 Park Avenue, New York

six letters, 44 pages, accompanied by original mailing envelopes, some occasional wear and staining to paper, else in good, legible condition.
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Manuscript Estate Inventory of Pioneer American Seedsman and Gardener, George Morris of Philadelphia, 1794 – “A true and perfect inventory of all and every the goods rights & Credits of George Morris Deceased”

folio, one page, formerly folded, docketed on verso: “Inventory of Geo. Morris Estate 1794”. Some splits along folds, and separations at fold joints, else in good, clean legible condition.
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Group of Letters pertaining to George H. Safford, seventh Secretary and Treasurer of Howard University, mainly letters to his mother in Hopkinton, New

49 letters, 83 manuscript pages, 12 postcards, correspondence mainly written in ink, in very good, clean, and legible condition, many letters written on Howard University letterhead.
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Archive of Incoming Correspondence to Episcopal Minister the Rev. George William Douglas, of New York City, New York, American Preacher, Author, and Religious Leader, 1831-1925

Archive of correspondence consisting of 186 incoming letters, 356 manuscript pages, dated from 1831 to 1925 and written by over one hundred individuals to Rev. George William Douglas (1850-1926). The collection includes 130 letters (250 pp.) from American correspondents, dated between 1864…
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Archive of Correspondence, Diaries, Memorandum and Account Books, and Ephemera, for the Related Families of Barger, Gilkeson, Hall, Van Meter, and Whitesel, of Buckhannon, Moorefield and Petersburg, West Virginia, 1820s-1950s

Large manuscript archive consisting of: -571 letters, 1074 pages, dated 1820s-1940s, the bulk from 1898-1900. -5 Diaries (540 pp.), of Thomas R. Hall, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, dated 1937-1949 (with gaps). …
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Group of Letters written by Giovanni Pasini, Italian Immigrant to America, written from various Locations in the American West, California, Idaho, Montana, and Nevada to his family in Italy, 1892-1919

Eight letters, 13 pages, letters are written in Italian, in both ink and pencil, some folding, staining, and dust soiling, else in good readable condition. There are no retained mailing envelopes, so determining where Pasini’s family lived in Italy will require further…
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Business Correspondence for the Great Northern Railway Company between Henry J. Velten, Agent at Olney, Montana and Mack Curtis LaBertew, Superintendent of the Kalispell Division, at Whitefish, Montana, plus others, 1921-1922

89 letters, 97 pp., 1 envelope, dated 23 Sept 1920 to 11 Dec 1922; a couple of the letters are written out telegrams. Correspondences includes 43 business letters written by Henry John Velten, agent for the Great Northern Railway Company at Olney,…
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Group of Incoming Correspondence to William R. Amberson (1915-1977) relating to research collaboration in physiology pioneered by Archibald V. Hill (Nobel prize 1922) in muscle heat and nerve heat, 1928-1931

8 letters, 17 pages, plus a later offprint by William R. Amberson. Incoming correspondence, plus one retained outgoing letter, both typescript and manuscript, several with hand drawn diagrams, in very good, clean and legible condition.
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Group of Four Autograph Letters Signed by the Marquis de Lafayette, written from La Grange 1822 - 1824, plus two letters by his son Georges Washington Lafayette, 1823 and 1827

small quarto and quarto, 6 letters, 9 pages, in very good, very clean and legible condition.
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