12mo, 22 pp., plus blanks, blacke leatherette spiral bound diary.
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quarto, one page, with original mailing envelope, formerly folded, in very good, clean condition.
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folio, 210 manuscript pp., bound in ¼ calf, marbled paper covered boards, measures 8” x 12 ½”, dated 29 Oct 1852 to 30 May 1855; covers and spine poor, very worn, spine chipped, text block split in half, couple of signatures loose;…
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18 letters, 28 manuscript pages, mainly quarto and folio, some old tape repairs at fold joints, generally in good legible condition, despite the idiosyncratic handwriting of Francis and several of the correspondents in the collection.
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quarto, 1 page, in very good clean condition.
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Quarto, album containing 61 photographs, nine of which are loose and laid in, images are mounted on 31 leaves, bound in contemporary ½ roan and brown covered cloth boards, binding worn, front cover detached, but present, portions of back-strip missing, old tape…
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two volumes, 12mo, 107, 138 manuscript pages, bound in original roan backed boards, entries written in pencil in a legible hand, very good, clean and legible condition.
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2 diaries, small quarto, 247 pages, plus blanks, and pasted in clippings and pictures, original plain paper wraps, wrappers, worn, badly chipped, detached, but present, entries in ink, generally clear and legible.
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Mansfield: J. A. Hawkins, Photographer, [nd circa 1880] albumen photograph, measuring 4 ⅜ x 7 ¼ inches, mounted on printed burn sienna cardstock mount, measuring 6 x 9 inches, some light staining to image and verso of mount, else in good condition.
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12mo, two pages, inscribed in ink, in good, clean and legible condition.
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