New Britain: 1855. Letter measuring 8 x 5 inches, folded. Fine condition. An interesting letter from Elihu Burritt to S.H. Dale, Esq., likely of Maine, discussing an invitation to a speaking engagement. Burritt expresses reluctance to address the unnamed association, due to his involvement in “unpopular movements.” He writes, “.....
London, United Kingdom: likely late 1800s. Single four page letter measuring 4 ½ x 7 inches. Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble (1809–1893) was a British actor, writer, and later abolitionist. After her initial retirement from acting, she married Pierce Mease Butler, maternal grandson of American Founding Father Pierce Butler. Butler and.....
Concord, New Hampshire: December 1859. Single two-page letter measuring 5 x 8 ¼ inches. A letter from Joshua Reed Giddings (1795–1864) written from Concord, New Hampshire, to A. H. Barnes, Esq., in Dover. Giddings was a prominent abolitionist, lawyer, and congressman from Ohio. He was famously censured by the House.....
Tuskegee: 1914. Oblong 8vo, decorative pebbled cloth over thin boards, 8 x 5 inches. With fourteen pages of inscriptions from fellow classmates. Some pages detached, wear and toning, good condition. An interesting book of dedicatory verse to a student in the Tuskegee Institute class of 1915, from his classmates, all.....
United States: 191–1964. Twenty-seven letters, two typed documents (totaling four pages), six photographs, and nine pieces of ephemera including two of Haynes’ heavily stamped passports. One of the typed documents and two of the letters belong to Olyve Jeter, Haynes’ second wife. Many items affixed to loose scrapbook leaves. George.....
New York City: 1970. Single letter measuring 8 x 10.5 inches, one single-sided sheet. In March of 1969, eight members of the Black Panther Party (BPP) were arrested in Chicago, accused of conspiracy to incite a riot. In April, twenty-one BPP members were arrested in New York City and charged.....
Memphis, Tennessee: March 18, 1865. Printed Article 95 inventory form completed in manuscript, recording the effects of Jorden Turner, Private in Captain S. A. Walker’s Company B, 63rd Regiment, United States Infantry. 8 x 10 inches. A scarce Civil War document recording the death and remaining property of Jorden Turner.....
New Orleans, Louisiana: August 29, 1866. 4to, bifolium, with text to one page and docketed verso, 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches. A Reconstruction-era Freedmen's Bureau medical order issued in New Orleans on August 29, 1866, directly connected to the famed Rost Home Colony in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, the.....
United States: N.d. Thirty-one pages: three typed pages with editorial marks measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches; twenty-eight pages of handwritten notes measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ and smaller. Content warning: This description mentions sexual assault. Alex Haley (1921–1992) was an African American author, known for his bestselling.....
New York City: November 1870. Single one-page letter measuring 8 x 9 ¾ inches. A letter from Reverend Edward Parmlee Smith (1827–1876), then a field secretary of the American Missionary Association, requesting a free or half-priced Singer sewing machine for the “colored young men & women” who are “working their.....
Los Angeles, California, and Albuquerque, New Mexico: 1927–1933. Three letters totaling seven pages and one postcard. Two letters from 1927 and one from 1928; postcard appears to be stamped 1933. Letters from friends in Los Angeles to James M. Jones, who has moved away to attend Howard University. The friends.....
Boston: 1772. Single sheet measuring 12 ½ x 8 inches. Notes in margin in an early hand, fine. Richard Gridley was an artilleryman, military engineer, and entrepreneur, who had a prolific career in several conflicts including the Revolutionary War, where he served as an engineer. Offered here is a very.....
Haverstraw: 1782. Single page measuring 7 x 9 inches. Trimmed at margin with very small amount of loss to text else fine. An interesting and significant letter written by Ann Hawkes Hay to George Washington in 1782, seeking passage for a family member of the loyalist physician James Latham, a......
London: March 26, 1779. Autograph letter signed, Joseph Green, to Boston merchant Samuel Eliot. Folded letter datelined "London, Mar. 26th 1779," with "Rec'd 22nd Decr. 1779" docket on top flap. 7 x 9 ¼ inches, 3pp. A thoughtful Revolutionary-era letter written by Joseph Green, the Boston clergyman, poet, satirist, and.....
Cannstatt, German Empire: March 1884. Single eight-page letter measuring 8 x 10 ½ inches. Quite delicate with tears at some folds, often intersecting with text. Slight odor. A letter from a man to his daughter Jennie, written from the Hotel Hermann in Cannstatt in 1884. Cannstatt was founded around 90.....
Augusta, Georgia: January 1818. Single letter, three 9 x 16 inch pages, letters with some tape repairs and stray holes at folds, still quite legible. A letter written by Calvin Barnard to his friend Asa Holman of Bolton, Massachusetts, describing the former’s trip from Boston to Augusta, South Carolina from.....
Fort Gibson, Indian Territory: July 30, 1852. Single two-page letter measuring 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches, postmarked Fort Gibson. Damage to upper right corner intersecting with text; repairs with archival tape; with small portion of text continued on cover missing. A letter from James Johnson at Fort Gibson to.....
France: 1910. Three letters totaling twenty-two pages, 5 x 8 inches and smaller. Folded; some with large tears at folds though entirely legible. Frederick MacMonnies (1863–1937) was an American expatriate sculptor and painter, known in the US for works including Nathan Hale and Bacchante and Infant Faun. In 1907, New.....
Mahébourg, Mauritius: August 1830. Single unsigned fourteen-page letter measuring 8 x 12 ¾ inches. In 1830, Mauritius was a British colony, captured from the French in 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars. It was originally a Dutch colony, and the Dutch had introduced enslaved labor to the islands. Enslaved people were.....
Panama City, Panama: June 29, 1851. Single three-page letter measuring appx. 8 x 10 inches. Stampless cover marked “STEAMSHIP” and circled rate marking “40”. A letter from Henry Francis Douglass (1826–1897) while on his way to the California gold mines, sent to his wife Lydia Lillibridge (1828–1904) in Voluntown, Connecticut.....
Greenville, Illinois: 1954. Two stapled packets of mimeographed typed pages (eighty-seven and twenty-eight pages), with one signed. An autobiography and genealogy written by Ulysses S. DeMoulin (1871–1955), founder of DeMoulin Bros., a uniform manufacturing company which now mainly supplies marching band attire. The genealogy incorrectly traces the family’s history back.....
Calaveras County, California: 1889–1898. Seventy-two documents. Most sheets measure about 14 x 16 inches and are folded in half. The Utica Mining Company was owned by mining moguls Alvinza Hayward, Charles D. Lane, and W.S. Hobart, and ran mines in Calaveras County, California. This area, located on a portion of.....
Likely Plumas County, California: January 1860. Single four-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ½ inches. A letter from “Charly” to his wife or fiance, written in January of 1860 from “Ganser [possibly sic] Valley”, likely in Plumas County, California. Located in the Sierra Nevada, Plumas County contained a number.....
Oakland and San Francisco, California: December–November 1871. One four-page letter measuring 5 x 8 inches; one five-page letter measuring 6 ¼ x 8 inches; one photograph measuring 4 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. With envelopes. Two letters, from Alice C. Lantelle in San Francisco and “Mamie” in Oakland, to their.....
California and Oregon: c. 1887–1921. 160 total items. "Description of Pacific Coast Outlaws" 32pp 8vo in cloth wraps; wraps excellent with some staining; contents very good to excellent with some water damage. Thirteen copies found on OCLC. Two business cards, one with manuscript notes; 106 letters dating 1906 to 1911;.....