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  • Catalogue of That Part of the Late Dr. Bentley’s Library, Not Bequeathed to Literary Institutions, to be Sold by Auction, On Wednesday and Thursday, June 14 and 15, 1820, At 9 o’clock, A.M. and 3 P.M. at Blake & Cunningham’s Office, No. 5, Kilby Street, Boston.
    Boston: Printed by Crocker & Brewster, 1820, octavo, 28 pages, disbound, retains original front plain paper wrap, ex-library, small duplicate stamp on title page, some light foxing, else good. The inside of the front wrapper contains an advertisement of books sold by…
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  • , Group of Incoming Letters to General William Buel Franklin, of York, Pennsylvania, Civil Engineer, Veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, 1867-1887
    33 letters, 74 manuscript pages, 1867-1887, also includes 9 newspaper clippings, either obituaries, or stories about General Franklin’s correspondents.
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  • Autograph Letter Signed, with initials, WCW, Switzerland, August 20, 1836, to his sister Elizabeth, Mrs. B. T. Reed, Boston
    quarto, two pages, including stamp-less address leaf, small hole due to clumsy opening, otherwise in very good, clean and legible condition.
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  • Unpublished Manuscript, labor themed novel by William Count, early Labor Party candidate, of Bristol, England, circa 1877-1878
    Small quarto, 307 manuscript pages, bound in ¼ blue cloth, with paper-backed limp boards, possibly a self-made binding, spine chipped, boards worn and stained, some minor staining to preliminary pages, otherwise very good, minor tanning at edges, written in ink, in a…
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  • Collection of Letters from William Cullen Bryant mainly to his brother John H. Bryant, 1815 – 1866
    eight letters (plus two faded letters), 15 pages, some letters damp-stained, and spotted, as well as being a bit brittle, in generally good condition, and readable.
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  • Autograph Letter Signed, Forks of the Yough Settlement, Fayette County, Washington Township, Pennsylvania, to his cousin, R. C., 1795
    folio, 2 ½ page letter, inscribed on a four page folding letter sheet, old folds and creases, some spotting, ink faded on several lines of text, remains of sealing wax on integral address leaf, else in good, clean legible condition.
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  • Autograph Letter Signed. Hall of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Harrisburg, Feb. 27, 1853 (though mistakenly dated 1852)., (free franked by B. B. Chamberlin), to Sam B. Wilson, Beaver, Pennsylvania.
    Quarto, 4 pages, plus original mailing envelope, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
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  • Collection of Incoming Correspondence to William M. Doughty, of Chicago, Illinois, Agent for the Methodist Book Depository and real estate agent for James P. Kilbreth, of Cincinnati, Ohio, dated 1844-1858
    25 letters, 40 pages, dated from September 26, 1844 to April 3, 1858, written, in ink, in a legible hand. One letter is from 1844, the rest are dated between1852-1858. Fifteen of the twenty-five letters were written to Doughty by his brother-in-law…
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  • Manuscript Diaries of William Henry Upton, for the years 1872, 1874, 1876, 1877
    Four volumes, small quarto, 756 pages plus blanks, and several pages of accounts, bound in either original ¼ leather and marbled boards, or ¼ leather and cloth, entries written in a neat legible hand in either pencil or ink. 
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  • Autograph Letter Signed, as Member of Congress, Washington, July 13, 1841, to his wife, Harriet Jack, Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
    quarto, one page, on a folding letter sheet, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, in good, clean, and legible condition.
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