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  • Group of Three Autograph Letters Signed written by Dr. Benjamin Bowen Carter, China Trader, and the First American to Learn Chinese written on a China Trade Voyage, Canton, New Holland, Australia, and “At Sea”, 1799-1800
    Folio, 18 pages in ink, on 10 loose leaves, these letters were evidently retained copies, apparently excised from a letter-copy book, some marginal defects minor tears and punctures to several leaves, some chipping, but no loss of text. The letters are written…
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  • Collection of Correspondence and Ephemera, concerning Benjamin Fewkes and Family, lace and hosiery weavers, of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, and Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, considered to be the originator of the Hosiery Industry in America, 1819-1866
    49 letters, 120 manuscript pages, written on folio and quarto size sheets, some letters are joint letters, having one page written by a parent, another page from a sibling, all letters dated from 20 June 1819 to 15 October 1860. There are…
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  • Manuscript Civil War Letter of Benjamin Franklin Burnham, of Enfield, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, Musician Co. C., 15th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, written while at Carrollton, Louisiana, January 9, 1863
    quarto, 4 pages, formerly folded, neatly inscribed in ink, dated Carrollton, January 9, 1863, addressed to his “Sister Fannie and all the rest.” In very good legible condition.
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  • Autograph Letter Signed, Williamsburg. January 2, 1775 [sic i.e.1776], to an unidentified recipient, possibly William Woodford
    small quarto, two pages, a damp-stain has faded several words in the text, some archival tissue repairs, else in good legible condition. Very likely a retained copy. The intended recipient may well have been William Woodford (1734-1780) American revolutionary war general…
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  • Autograph Letter Signed. Dec. 31, 1838. Skippack, Pennsylvania, to state Senator David Fullerton, [Harrisburg?]
    quarto, one page, lacking stamp less address leaf, docketed on verso, formerly folded, else in very good, clean and legible condition.
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  • Autograph Letter Signed Philadelphia, June 28, 1817, to Nathan Guilford, Corresponding Secretary, Western Emigrant Society, Cincinnati
    quarto, one page, plus stamp-less address leaf, in very good, legible condition.
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  • Group of Incoming Letters to Politician and Insurance Executive, Everett Chamberlin Benton, of Boston and Waverly, Massachusetts, written by his parents Charles E. and Adda C. Benton, and brother Jay B. Benton, all of Guildhall, Essex County, Vermont, 1882-1893
    94 letters, 219 manuscript pages, (with 52 retained mailing envelopes), plus 3 telegrams and 1 receipt, all dated from 1882 to 1893, as follows: 41 letters, 60 pages, (with 10 mailing envelopes), written by Charles Emerson Benton to his son Everett, plus 3…
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  • Correspondence of Beulah Irene Peters, of Parryville, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, written to Charles L. Miller, Superintendent of the Missouri Furnace Company, at St. Louis, Missouri, 1888.
    Collection of 83 letters, 502 manuscript pages, no envelopes, letters dated January 11th to November 8th, 1888. Letters are in good condition, written in ink, in a legible hand.
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  • Authentic Documents Relative to the Black River & St. Lawrence Countries; Being Extracts from Addresses, Reports, &c. Made to the Agricultural Society of Jefferson County, (N.Y.). Published by Richard Burr
    Philadelphia: 1820, first edition, octavo, 55 pages, sewn as issued, text browned, title page stained, several corners dogeared, else a good copy. Rare in trade, only one copy has appeared at auction and that in 1908. American Imprints 629, and 1791, one…
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  • Manuscript Ballad “Bold Dighton” “Being the Account of an action fought of Gouadalope in 1805 where ninety five Americans and near three hundred Britons made their escape from the prison at that place”
    small folio, 4 pages, portion of sheet clipped at bottom not affecting text, some scattered staining, foxing, and toning to paper, else legibly inscribed in ink, very good.
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