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Collection of 29 manuscript Letters, primarily incoming correspondence to George Hale, of Glastonbury and briefly, Providence, Rhode Island, from family members and Yale classmates, dated 1783-1791

Collection of 29 manuscript letters (totaling 39 pages + address panels, mostly folio and quarto) dating 1783-1791 to George Hale (b. 1759 d. 1803) of Glastonbury, Connecticut, from various correspondents (including Yale classmates) writing to him at Glastonbury and (for awhile) Providence…
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Incoming and Outgoing Business Correspondence of the Health Merry-Go-Round Company, of Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois, 1892-1912

292 letters, 296 manuscript and typed pages, (no retained mailing envelopes), dated 8 November 1892 to 31 August 1912; plus 23 pieces of related paper ephemera mostly receipts (19) and advertisement proofs (3).
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Group of Letters of Paul Arpin, (1811- 1865) French journalist in the United States, and his brother-in-law, artist Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, (1797-1892) known as Henriquel, 1846-1888

A collection of manuscript letters dated 1846-1888, in French, from the family of Paul Arpin, identified as the “oldest French journalist” in the United States, and his brother-in-law Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont.
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Group of Mostly Incoming Letters to General Henry Goddard Thomas, Army Paymaster, while stationed in various Western Forts 1868-1889

39 letters, 114 pages, in good, clean, and legible condition.
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Business Ledger of Sea Captain and Merchant, Henry Kermit of New York City, New York, dated 1786-1810

Folio, includes 44 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in full leather, hinges cracked, worn, scuffed, rubbed, corners of boards worn through, written in ink in a very legible hand, dated 1786 to 1810, with gaps.
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Group of Four Letters by Henry L. Hammond, Treasurer of the Chicago Theological Seminary, to his cousin Mrs. Azelia Giraud Woodhull, New York City, 1863-1865

4 letters, quarto, 7 pages, written on the letterhead of the Chicago Theological Seminary, of which Hammond was then treasurer, in very good, clean and legible condition.
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Collection of Incoming Correspondence to attorney Henry Mason Morfit, Esq., Washington, D.C. claims lawyer and political figure in the Andrew Jackson presidential administrations, 1822-1854

194 letters, 242 manuscript pp., mostly stamp-less letter-sheets, dated 3 June 1822 to 27 September 1854; of the 194 letters, 168 of the letters were written by various individuals to Henry Mason Morfit, Esq.; the remaining 26 are miscellaneous letters written to…
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Collection of 56 Manuscript Diaries kept by Henry S. Funk of Springtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1869-1886, 1888, 1894-1905, 1907-1931

56 pocket diaries, totaling approximately 6167 pages of diary entries, plus 420 pages of memoranda, accounts and notes, various bindings, entries in ink in very good, clean and legible condition.
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Manuscript Journal of Rev. Henry Stanley, of Le Roy, Genesee County, New York, kept while a student at Geneva Academy, dated 1839-1840.

Small quarto, bound in contemporary full sheep backed flexible wrappers, somewhat rubbed and scuffed, with 172 manuscript pages, neatly written in ink, in a very legible hand.
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Letters and Ephemeral material related to Hetty Green and her Howland family members in Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii Territory, 1890-1923

4 letters, 21 pp., plus 5 stock certificates, and 2 stock purchase receipts, dated 13 December 1890 to 9 February 1923.
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