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  • Correspondence of Arthur D. Lee, of Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York to Annette “Nettie” C. Isbell, (his fiancée, later wife), and other letters of the Isbell-Lee families, 1855-1891; with Manuscript Diary (1865- 1867) of Annette "Nettie" C. Isbell, also of Westmoreland.
    Collection of 124 letters, 477 manuscript pages (no retained mailing envelopes) correspondence dated 2 August 1855 - 29 January 1891, with the bulk being from 1867-1873. With: Manuscript diary of Nettie Isbell, dated 1865-1867, small quarto, 246 pages, bound in contemporary ¼…
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  • Manuscript Letter Copy Book of Arthur M. Greene, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, and later the founding dean of Princeton University's Engineering School, with letter copies of his contractor father, Arthur M. Greene, also of Philadelphia, dated 1885-1902
    Quarto, approximately 356 letters, on thin tissue like paper, totaling 503 pages, bound in half leather, pebbled cloth, lacks spine, boards detached, corners and edges worn, front flyleaf detached, some water staining, letters dated 28 December 1885 - 17 November 1902. Most…
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  • Manuscript Friendship Album of Augusta A. Mills, 1824-1831
    small quarto, 59 pages of manuscript entries, plus blanks, bound in full red Morocco, “Augusta A. Mills” tolled in gilt on front board, some minor wear and rubbing to edges and extremities, bookseller’s label of Peter Burtsell, Stationer, New York, on front…
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  • Autograph Letter Signed to her friend Mary, Harmony Grove, Maryland, undated, but post-Civil War, 1865
    octavo, 4 pages, neatly inscribed in ink, partially cross-written, very good.
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  • Collection of Letters by Axel Lindblom, Swedish American sailor aboard the U.S.S. Decatur, 1902, to his brother Knut
    sixteen letters, 51 pages, inscribed in ink and pencil, primarily dated 1902, but includes one letter dated 1894 from Knut Lindblom to his brother Axel, several letters in Swedish, some minor wear and soiling, else in good legible condition.
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  • Autograph Letter Signed, New Philadelphia, Ohio, January, 30, 1841, to Leander Ransom, Columbus, Ohio
    Folio, 3 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, separations along folds, small hole in bottom of second leaf, affecting signature, else in good legible condition.
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  • Correspondence of Wellesley College graduate Persis Loring Conant, of Portland, Maine, and her fiancé, later husband, Law Professor Hugh Webster Babb, of Boston University, along with letters of their parents, siblings, children, Wellesley College friends, and associates, including art collector Edward Perry “Ned” Warren, author of “A Defence of Uranian Love,” 1884-1964
    Large archive of 1507 letters, 6631 manuscript pp., dated 31 October 1884 to 19 May 1964; plus over 300 pieces of ephemera, including two photograph albums, related to the Babb and Conant families. Note: A complete inventory of the collection, and biographical sketches…
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  • Correspondence of sisters, Vesta I. and Ruth Margaret Bailey, both clerks, and stenographers, of Middlebury, Vermont and West Somerville, Massachusetts, and family, 1875 – 1957
    369 letters, 1489 pp., dated 18 January 1875 to 31 December 1957; bulk from the 1900s-1910s; mostly handwritten, several typed; mostly incoming letters to sisters Vesta I and Ruth Margaret Bailey, with various correspondents including friends and family, or with each…
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  • Autograph Letter Signed, Boston November 24, 1845 and a Printed Circular both Addressed to Cornelius Master, Penn Yan, New York
    quarto, two pages of four page bi-folium, formerly folded, in good legible condition. Printed circular, one page folio, in very good condition.
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  • Archive of incoming correspondence and ephemera of Benajah Pratt, of Oxford, Maine, including letters from the family of Boston merchant John Welch, founder of Welchville, Maine, 1812-1939
    679 letters, 1181 manuscript pages, dated 1812-1939, with about half dating from 1840s-1860s, plus approximately 1,750 pieces of paper ephemera as follows: 1285 pieces of receipts for goods, or services, foodstuffs, property taxes, various accounts, etc., as well as 465 legal documents…
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