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Collection of Incoming Correspondence to Guy R. Phelps (and others), Secretary, later President, of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Hartford, Connecticut, 1847-1868

431 letters, 510 pages, dated 1847 to 1868. The bulk are dated 1847-1851, with 3 letters dated 1852, and 1 letter dated 1868.Of these 431 letters, there are 380 incoming letters to Guy R. Phelps of Hartford. Phelps also wrote several of…
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Manuscript Business Correspondence of broker and wholesale merchant George F. Fuller, of Springfield, Massachusetts, written to fellow merchant, Horace Kellogg Parsons, of Florence, Massachusetts, with other Correspondence written to Parsons, 1870-1888.

210 letters, 298 manuscript pages, most with retained mailing envelopes, dated 1870-1888, the bulk are written in the1880s. Most of the correspondence consists of business letters that are addressed to Horace Kellogg Parsons, a merchant at Florence, Massachusetts. Of the 210 letters…
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Collection of Correspondence of sisters, Lila and Belle Jacobs, written while attending school at Dalton, Massachusetts, to their parents Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Dyer Jacobs, of East Windsor, Massachusetts, 1893-1895.

86 letters, comprising 607 manuscript pages, most with envelopes, written in ink, pencil, with a couple typed. The letters are written in legible hands. The letters are written by Lila and Belle Jacobs mainly to their mother, but also to their father.…
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Cotoosa Springs Located in Walker Co. Geo. Six miles West of the Tunnel, and Two miles form the W. & A. Rail Road, and Five miles from the East Tenn. & Geo. Rail Road. 436 Miles from Charleston, S.C. – 300 Miles from Augusta Geo. – 405 from Savannah, Geo. – 214 from Macon, Geo. 113 from Atlanta, Geo. – 25 miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. This Beautiful Watering Place, Is now Opened for the Reception of Visitors, and the Accommodations are ample for Five Hundred Persons. The Proprietors Have Spared No Expense to Make this Delightful Place the Saratoga of the South. They Have Secured the Services of a Celebrated German Brass Band, from Charleston, S. C. We say to all who wish to patronize Enterprising Men, and who wish to have a Watering Place in Georgia, second to none in the United States, Go to Cotoosa. If you love to hear good Music, and breathe the Pure Mountain Air, and drink the cool and healing waters of Life. Go to Cotoosa. These Springs possess Medicinal qualities in a remarkable degree, and are of unequalled variety, consisting of Fifty-Two Springs. The Proprietors will give their Personal attention. Mattey, Hickman & M’Donald.

[N.p., n.d. circa 1850] broadside, measuring 14 x 10 ⅜ inches, text printed in blue ink on light blue paper stock, in a variety of type fonts and sizes, illustrated with a cut of the Cotoosa Springs establishment, all within a typographic…
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Autograph Letter Signed, from an unidentified Czech man, dated Paris, June 28, 1848 to Mons. Jean Pflanzer, Horazdiowice, Bohemia, describing his travels in America

Quarto, three pages of a four page bi-folium, written neatly in ink on a pictorial letter-sheet, depicting the View from Near the Ferry House, U. S. Side, at Niagra Falls, small oil stain at lower right hand corner, else in very good,…
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Autograph Letter Signed, Cornwall, New York, July 9, 1856, to Hon. Josiah Sutherland, Member of Congress

octavo, 2 pages, formerly folded, in very good, legible condition.
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Archive of Correspondence of Soldier - Musician Pfc. Dana W. Edwards of Livermore, Maine, of the First Band A. A. A. T. C., Camp Edwards, Massachusetts and the 109th Inf., 12th Div., 1st Army, written primarily to his fiancée, and later wife, Elinor E. Weber, of Farmington, Maine, dated 1939-1948.

Archive of 622 letters, over 2.700 manuscript pages, with enevelopes, includes a 40 page diary of Elinor E. Weber, plus 20 postcards, photographs, and other ephemeral material.
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Correspondence of Daniel Alden Reed, attorney and football player of Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York, “All American” left guard for Cornell University, written prior to becoming a U.S. Congressman, 1892-1909

221 letters, 1064 manuscript pp., (121 retained mailing envelopes); letters dated 10 May 1892 to 20 June 1926; the bulk date from 1892 to 1909 and only 2 letters written after 1909, those being from 1911 and 1926.
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Autograph Letter Signed. Philadelphia, March 30, 1840., to Edward Burd, Paris (care of Hottinguer & Co., by Steamship British Queen via England)

quarto, three pages plus stampless address leaf, heavily stained and with hole from seal opening, but no loss of text.
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Autograph Letter Signed, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Jason Toory [Torrey], Bethany, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1821

Quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, postal markings, some staining and some minor damage caused when the letter was first opened, else very good.
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