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  • Group of Letters, Papers, and Ephemera Pertaining to John Proctor Clark, the leading Jurist of his generation in New York State, 1899-1932
    Collection of letters to Clark from leading men of New York State, including several Supreme Court justices, (Finch, Ingram, Scott etc.) There is also material written by Clark including retained copies of letters from Clark to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard…
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  • Group of Letters pertaining to New Jersey Author, John Robert McMahon, dated 1914-1928, plus notes and related materials
    672 letters, 695 pages, mainly typescript, 5 telegrams, one small quarto notebook, circa 1914, 117 manuscript pages, 19 pages of typescript and manuscript notes, approximately 39 bills, receipts, invoices, and other ephemeral items. There is some damp staining and wear to letters…
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  • Group of 8 Manuscript Diaries of prominent Washington, Pennsylvania attorney, John W. McDowell, 1908-1915.
    8 volumes, quarto, bound in original ¼ and ½ leather, and cloth covered boards, all volumes show rubbing and wear to edges, corners, spines, with one volume lacking spine, a couple of others having chipped spines. The diaries were kept in a…
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  • Manuscript Archive of the Rev. Joseph Templeton and family, of St. Louis, Missouri, including correspondence, land documents, business, legal and personal papers, dated 1810s- 1910s.
    Archive consisting of 166 letters (313 pages), plus approximately 560 pieces of paper ephemera, manuscript and some printed items, of which about ⅓ concerns land and properties (deeds, grants, property maps, taxes, etc) mostly in St. Louis, and elsewhere, and with about…
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  • Correspondence of the family of Sarah “Sally” B. Keithly, of Ringo’s Mills, Kentucky and fiancé, and later husband, William J. Hisha, of Lake Village, Indiana, including letters of family, friends, and associates, 1885-1923
    67 letters, 225 manuscript pages, dated 3 May 1885 to 6 September 1923; the bulk of the letters date from 1885 to 1892; 2 of the letters are not dated; 50 of 68 letters were written between 1889-1890.
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  • Diary of Petty Officer Henry Roginski (USN) while serving onboard the U.S.S.<i> Bataan </i>during the Korean War, 1950-1951
    12mo, 43 manuscript  pages, (measuring 3 ½" x 5 ½"), unbound, unsewn, written in ink, in a legible hand, very good condition, dated 5 July 1950 to 11 Oct 1951. While the diary is not signed, the provenance comes from the fact…
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  • "Copy of an Act for Surveying and Apportioning the Lands Granted to the Illinois Regiment and Establishing a Town within the Said Grant," - Manuscript Copy by William Munford, Keeper of The Rolls, from the "Original in My Custody" dated January 16, 1818
    folio, three pages, old folds, small hole in first page, affecting several words, paper a bit tanned, else very good, docketed in in ink: Copy of an Act for Surveying and apportioning the lands granted to the Illinois Regiment and establishing a…
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  • Manuscript Records Three Organizations of Tonica, La Salle County, Illinois: Tonica Musical Association; Ladies Missionary Society of the Congregational Church; and the Record Book for the Tonica Grange No. 213, 1881-1927
    Four volumes, 436 pp., dated 20 August 1881 to 7 January 1927, as follows: 1. Tonica Musical Association, Tonica, LaSalle County, Illinois; octavo, 21 pp., composition book, bound in wrappers, worn at edges, paper somewhat tanned, entries written in ink, in a legible hand;…
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  • Group of Three Letters written by Anthony Corkrin, Philadelphia merchant, to Vito (Victor) Viti, Fellow Merchant of Philadelphia, while Viti was traveling, in Ohio, New Orleans and New Bedford, 1840-1847
    three letters, five pages, quarto, some splitting along horizontal folds, otherwise in good, legible condition.
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  • Collection of Incoming Correspondence to Mrs. Lettie C. Hayes Grant, of Barbours Mills, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania and Sterling Run, Cameron County, Pennsylvania, wife of Col. Robert P. Grant, banker and dairyman, 1869-1875
    104 letters, 534 manuscript pp., dated 19 December 1869 to 1 March 1875, with the bulk dating from 1870-1874. 7 letters are not dated, but fall within the same general time frame of the rest of the collection.
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