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19170001063ALBANY NEW YORK MANHATTAN NYC NY. Very Good. 1917. On offer is a super early New York State Americana being a home-front World War I 1917 handwritten manuscript daily diary and journal of Gordon Peete Gleason. Mr. Gleason was for a time a journalist based in Albany New York the war important Barge Canal of New York was the major issue of the day and Gordon's beat and his writings in this diary attest to his talents as a writer. From the very first page we note Gordon is a talented emotive observer and a very good diarist especially in that he touches all bases: he writes of every day things such as movies he went to see his family his work duties and the issues of the day and especially current events. The war weighs very heavily on his sharp mind from a global perspective and from his personal point of view and then there's politics; local national international all occupy his thoughts which he gladly shares in the diary. He is earnest but not naïve. He is very likable and an admirable individual. It is beautifully touching the way he describes his wife as 'his little mouse'. Research provides that our diarist was born 28 Apr 1890 in Albany NY and was a press representative for the State Engineer and Surveyor and was caring for an invalid wife and mother. His father was a Manhattan lawyer. In 1910 he is listed as a newspaper reporter in Manhattan then Albany; in 1920 as a newspaper agent in Albany and in 1930 he is a widower and he is a magazine editor in Lumberland Sullivan County NY. Here are snippets: January 1st "1917 ushered in and it starts out splendid for me. Buddy and I went down to see Governor Whitman inaugurated and he had a splendid military display. Went home full of liquid that cheers and going to bed was dead to the world and did not recover till 10:30 at night. March 16: Revolution in Russia. Czar overthrown and troops with the people. An allied move the Czar and his followers being inclined to a separate peace and some in the pay of the German Government. British win a victory in France and in Mesopotamia. Capturing Bagdad and about 20 miles of German trenches. April 17: American torpedo boat destroyer Smith fired on by German U-Boat. French started offensive yesterday 100000 German reported killed wounded or captured within 24 hours. We are still preparing for the fray. Congress is still haggling over the conscription bill. May 23 A horrid lynching at Memphis Tenn. A negro burned to the stake for murdering a white girl. Perhaps he deserved it yet the law should take its course and the South should give the negro a chance to improve himself. Just about every day has an entry. Often just a sentence or two. But there are quite a few entries where he goes on for several pages. He talks about the Draft and how married men are put in a "peculiar" position. Appears to feel somewhat guilty about not enlisting: I fear only for my dear ones and not for myself and was I independent I would have enlisted long ago. Still I owe Frances a duty and a great one and perhaps my duty means that I follow my present course.Also: As I ponder over the future and consider the past I feel I have been a failure. I can see no advancement ahead but I do see a position in the army. I feel certain I will be called to the colors and for myself I care not but for my dearest Mouse I pass many hours in worry.His draft number is 430 and it is reported missing. The last two pages contain a list of events and the days they occurred i.e. June 12: King of Greece abdicated the throne; July 1: Russia strikes in new offensive; July 20: Draft numbers drawn at Washington; etc. This is a very large 10 x 7.5 inch page a day. Some days a line and many days the page cannot contain Gordon. Overall VG.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; ALBANY CONSCRIPTION BARGE CANAL RACISM LYNCHINGS GERMANY WORLD WAR I JOURNALISM JOURNALIST NEWSPAPERS BISMARCK HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT . unknown
18490001664LOCKPORT NEW YORK NIAGARA COUNTY. Fair. 1849. On offer is a super original 1849 - 1855 historic manuscript relic of Western New York being a handwritten journal and diary of John Gould who was a member of the New York Legislature in 1856. Hand dated September 16 1849 to June 10 1855 hand numbered 455 pages makes for a very full very detailed treasure trove of history for the Lockport Niagara County area of New York State. Gould's family were deeply ensconced in the Lockport economy: farming wheat and barley lumbering horses and all manner of other trading throughout the area. Trade economics commerce genealogy religion politics and local events are all detailed by a copious recorder of family daily doings and history. Gould also came back to the book using the free endpapers to leave notes on the death of his father mother building a new house on property bought in 1862 his son's Charles Gould service volunteering two years 29 August 1862 during the Civil War with the 44 Elsworth Regiment New York. The approximately 6 3/4" x 8 1/4" once gorgeous book is absolutely full handwritten in ink and features marbled endpapers raised bands original full leather with ornate trim. The exterior leather is quite worn spine leather well chipped and separated at the back cover. The spine backing is cracked. Overall fair. ; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF JOHN GOULD WESTERN NEW YORK LOCKPORT NIAGARA COUNTY ECONOMY COMMERCE TRADE GENEALOGY NEW YORK LEGISLATURE POLITICIANS PRE CIVIL WAR POLITICS AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS BIOGRAPHY SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . hardcover
18990001941QUAKER CITY OHIO OH. Good. 1899. On offer is an original group of three 3 manuscript diaries handwritten by Miss Lena Gregg Cochran sometimes Lena M. Cochran; later Mrs. Charles Henry Williams. The first two diaries ranging in dates from the end of 1899 through to 1902 are written before she was married and the last diary starting in 1916 was written after her marriage. Lena was from Quaker City Ohio. She was the daughter of local notable Alexander Cochran. Super historical records on both her Father and her husband are easily found online. Lena is not a dedicated daily diarist but she writes when there are important events summaries of her summer's activities some daily accounts descriptive entries of various trips taken her thoughts on the different books she has read entries about her boy who's fighting in WWI and a lot of genealogy information including her husband's side of the family. We also note that there are some super passages when Lena gets very ill in 1917 and she needs an operation. It is a fascinating especially from a modern perspective four page description as her treatment involves "ether" which becomes an intense episode and during recovery they have her knees strapped together and she has to be turned every 20 to 30 minutes. All told there are just over 300 pages of entries. Here are some snippets: Diary 1 75 pages "November 30th 1899 Thanksgiving Day. A satisfactory day clear through. Such a beautiful day and so many things to be thankful for and cross as a bear. Went to church. The sermon by Rev. Lepage very good. Then home to a quiet dinner. Napped till milking time. Went to the M.E. Social with Mrs. Sprague Alice and Annie B. Found there a good crowd. My friends mostly married and engaged and I feel at a distance with them. She then writes the rest in some kind of code. She has a few pages in these diaries that she writes code but just a few. "December 19th 1899 The Masonic banquet. Mother and I went. I sang "The Gypsy Love Song". The supper fine. 5 kinds of meat and everything served beautifully. Afterwards the cake walk perfectly killing. A jolly time. Isaac and Mr. E____ very comical. All voted it a grand success. Heattie and Mr. Gregg came up with me or allowed me that pleasure. Papa on a Western trip. Glass horrible and everything going wrong. Got horned week before last. Thought my eye was gone but felt very very thankful when I found it wasn't. Quite a gash cut and mother frightened nearly to death." "March 15th 1900 A very sad day. Learned by the daily Guernsey times of Mr. Audersoui's death at Phil______ Va by a train. Knocked from a bridge. I met him in Cincinnati. A dreadfully shocking thing. Poor man. He kept writing to me." "April 27th 1900 Birthday. 27 years old. A beautiful day. Peach blossoms in bloom but not the apple blossoms. Busy this morning. This afternoon Mr. and Mrs. ____and I went out The Pike horseback riding. Came home by the woods and gathered wild flowers. Helped get supper and then called on Mrs. Rodgers and went down to see Aunt Em Flint. She doesn't look strong." 2nd DIARY 116 pages "1900. In June I went to Oberlin to attend Commencement. Stayed with Mrs. McDaniel's. Laura was here. Got here Sat. We were met by the train by Laura. Sunday saw many of my old acquaintances. H. H. B. there. Went to the campus that eve. Wed. went to Cleveland and spent a day and a half with the Wood girls. Drove all over the city nearly. Through the park and to Garfield's monument. Very fine. Friday to Buffalo with Laura. Sat. eve Mr. Root called and we went to the Yacht Club; a large building standing out in the lake a little reading room reception room café dancing room and billiard hall. Laura gave a porch party. Very pleasant "stick in the ice cream." Went to the theatre three times. Once to matinee and with Mr. Robertson and Mr. Henland and from there to the Genesee for lunch. Fourth of July to Dunkirk N.Y. and then trolley ride to Fredinia a pretty little town. Dinner at Dunkirk. A perfectly beautiful boat ride. Another trip to Port Coburn. Everybody sick except Miss ____and me. Walked through the little town and bought lemons and chewing gum for sea sickness. A lot of fun. Mr. Root and Camp took us dining to _____ a resort in the Niagara River. They dance very evening. They also took us for an automobile ride through the parks down to the Yacht Club down the Main Street and home ." "December 31st 1900 The old century quietly slipping away and a wonderful one it has been! Tonight from seven to nine we were at the church. Mrs. Ferguson W. C. T.U. Prof. Sharp of Mansfield Lyman Moore and Mr. Rev. Sprague talked. I sang "Room in My Heart." After dinner drove out to Cunningham's with Uncle Sam. He is hale and hearty for 78 years. Aunt Em well except for ear ache. Humor to be cultivated this year with gentleness and Godliness. May the next century find this world that much in advance of the mistakes in politics temperate and social homage. Lena Cochran. The cities all celebrating tonight; tolling bells booming canons and prayers going up from many of the church." "June 24th 1901 Went to Cambridge came to attend the reception given Dr. Will Haines and wife. Met them on the train with Uncle Isaac and Aunt Lizzie. The reception a very pleasant affair. Friday eve. we gave a dinner for them. A lovely time. Harriet a bright unselfish girl her Paris trousseau very elaborate. Wedding gown cream satin cover with hand embroidered lace. Expected Homer B. Sunday." "September 14th 1901 President McKinley died at 2:15 this morning. Awakened by the bells tolling. It seems too terrible to be true. Such a good true noble wise man to be snatched out of the world in such a cruel way .The nation thoroughly aroused. Almost lynched the murderer in Buffalo last eve. Poor Mrs. McKinley!" "September 15th 1901 Our pastor Mr. Rev. Stickler such an earnest good man. He's working very hard and I do sincerely hope and pray he can do the work he hopes to. This is my wedding day according to our gossips. But I saw no sign of it. The groom was in Dayton. Killing reports out. How far off they get. For once the Q. C. people are thrown off the scent completely and I'm glad of it. They are too interested. How little of our future we know. There is so much here to be done. I wish I were a Sampson with the wisdom of _____and the goodness of Paul. Could do a great work here but I don't. Let us be content in work to do the thing we can and not presume to fret because it's little. Mrs. Browning." "October 21st 1901 20 pages long about her trip west. "Silver City New Mexico. October 21st 1901 Got here last Monday after about 2. We started four weeks ago today. Spent Tuesday in Chicago. Went out to see Gail Mr. and Mrs. Hibbard there with John K. in the morning looking at the shop windows on to Denver. Met Miss Manning on the train. Her friend Mr. Robertson took us in. To Colorado Springs. A swell bustling town. Full of eastern tourists. Went to Manitou pretty place and on to the garden of the Gods. Wonderful rocks. Sunset the colors beautiful on the mountains. The drive up to the Cave of the Winds. Scenery perfectly grand. Way down below the trains creeping through the Mt. tunnels. The Cheyenne Gorge magnificent in and out through the great palisades of rocks towering up and out. Some in the shapes of castles. The little stream at the side of the road the ferns and trees growing out of the rocks up to the falls. Then the 286 steps to the top of the little streams head. 5 falls. The tree of Cards a grand view through the canyons. Helen Hunt Jackson's grave at the top of that Mt. Each visitor adds a stone to her memory. Back to Denver that night Salt Lake a disappointment. The worst old dilapidated buildings right around their temple plats. Horrid old empty rooms. All had the same all gone appearance. The statue of Joseph Smith his home which looks like a private hotel and his favorite wife's home. Up to Ogden to the main line. Trains packed going in sections .Met nice people on the route. Dr. Wilkinson of Minneapolis. Lovely. Dr. Heacock of St. Joe Mo. Backache. Ran out of water on the train. Only one diner. The Great Lord of New Castle had to stand in line with mortals of the day for 2 ½ hours waiting to go in dining car. On to Frisco at night. Crossed the bay by moonlight. The lights of the city lovely. Mr. Berring very kind. Y.W.C.H. Miss Wheeler of Farrell St. Evening prayers. A fine home for the girls. Through the Emporium the Mint out to Golden Gate Park to Cliff House saw the seals. To China Town dreadful huts and hovels. Joss House drugstore underground hovels without a bit of fresh air. From Frisco to Los Angeles the sea lovely along the railroad and the Mts. on the other. Derricks right on the sea and the oil floating right on top of water. Oil for fuel not for lighting purposes. Can't be refined. Mr. and Mrs. Scot took us to the Catalina. So very kind through out entire stay. Los Angeles a pretty city. Made up of tourists. Good stores fine blocks hustling everywhere ." DIARY 3 116 pages "April 2nd 1917 Chas. has funeral of Clarence Whitney. Jessie going tomorrow. Mother not well. House far from going smoothly .Jessie returned Friday. I had hardly washed my face or combed my hair while she was gone. Pink held me fast. Went to Cleveland April 18th. Operated on Thursday at Charity Hospital. Taken ill Sunday before coming from church. Charles and I went up in the morning. He came home at 2:30. Dr. H. came in at 9 o'clock. Operated on at 12:30 next day. Full night. Upstairs till 2:30. Came out of the ether some about dark at 9 o'clock enough for a hypodermic. Chas. came every day that week. Preached in Euclid Ave. Cong. Sunday. At home. Miss Catherine McCarthy nurse. Best one known and so kind Serious operation when we thot it so little. Wed. after Charles left so lonely and hard. No sleep till from 4 to 5 that night. Next morning I dreaded the ether and all so much. "In the Cross" Aunt Lydia's book helped too. Be a Queen. I never knew before how much nerve it takes to go through it all. Dr. Jameson helped me so much holding my hand or pulse while I took it. Talked to them and at last said I'm nearly gone! He said "All right" and went to sleep. Chas. helped me by his prayers. Came out of it as quietly said to nurse "Take it off it burns" but it was the awful burning of the wound which felt like a red hot iron. When I vomited the ether it nearly killed me. Kept it up for a day or two. Had to be turned day and night every 20 or 30 minutes it hurt me so to lie still. Miss McCarthy so willing and patient. Wasn't I thankful when I could move myself in my hips an inch. Not much appetite for awhile. My knees strapped together for awhile and laid in a pillow. Cranky about the doors " "My poor mother. We had the bluest most mournful letters. It seems wicked not to have her here. Here I am in bed and Jessie worked nearly to death. How can I have another sick with me now It worries me all the time. Or boy's already arriving in Europe to fight. Lakewood H. Unit there with 6 Oberlin C. boys. Harvard and Princeton boys there too. Enlistment June 5 of all boys from 21-30. Mothers all worried to death. It seems a shame. 189 boys are gone from O.C. and some girls." "August 27th 1917 A week ago we were worried for the Viking Jessie's father's vessel had been given up for lost. We didn't tell her and he turned up alright. Dreadful storms at sea now and so beautiful on land. I'm so thankful we are all on land tho even there dangers are always present. I shall be most thankful when Chas. reaches home safely " "Mother's letters are full of woe. She seems determined to have Bright's disease and die. What can I do It seems a perfect shame. Birthday spoiled for cabbage .Life is pretty complex these days and you wonder how everything will come out. I should like to be as strong as an ox." All of the cover's are very worn especially around the edges. One cover has come completely off. The binding and pages in all of them look good however. The small one measures about 3 ½" x 5 ½" and the larger one measures about 4" x 6 ½". Overall G.; Manuscript; 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF LENA GREGG COCHRAN LENA M. COCHRAN MRS. CHARLES HENRY WILLIAMS QUAKER CITY OHIO ALEXANDER COCHRAN WOMEN`S STUDIES GENDER STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES TURN OF THE CENTURY PRE SUFFRAGE AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . unknown
19430001188ORAN ALGERIA. Good. 1943. On offer is a super exciting World War II manuscript diary handwritten by Major Sidney G. Page from the 151st Station Hospital when he was stationed in Oran soon after the city's capture by the Allies in late 1942 during Operation Torch. Hugely busy amid the hubbub of the Allies building up for the invasion of Italy this diary also offers a rarely seen intimacy in the personal observations and comments littered among the medical details of admissions emergencies procedures and death. Here is a wonderful example: "Busy with 35 admissions at 5 PM. Many of whom are British and most of whom are wounded from Tunis. Intestinal fortitude of the British is wonderful! Some who have lost arms or legs or one of each say 'Am feeling fine nothing wrong with me!' - and all so cheerfully. Everyone pitched in wholeheartedly to help convalescents helping to feed helpless ones." Writing daily sometimes a line and more often longer entries he is a devoted husband and family man writing his wife 'Boo' sending her presents and for the kids too. Major Page is a seems a super fellow. Here are some more snippets: "A Capt. Richard Polk of Army Air Force a patient with laryngitis - learned he played football for West Point and played in the Army-Harvard game at Boston which Boo & I saw. Finally have panes of glass in our room's windows and now it is almost livable with heat turned on. Am working on Primary A Typical Pneumonia cases - hope to correlate about a 100 or more of them and see what we can learn." "Rained all day. Moved 100 pts. patients to crowded ill spaced tents in muddy slit trenched field behind the hospital. Med. Rounds quite a job " About to travel: "Chaplain Hook and I first sat in Lt. King's plane .Capt. Polk showed up and we changed to Capt. Polk's plane. Lt. King crashed an hour later and two nurse killed . while up Capt. Polk let me run the plane for 20 minutes." He is very busy doctoring and administrating and traveling to clinics for service personnel and civilians. He documents important war news letters he's written people he sees medical procedures movies he sees places he visits gifts he receives and gifts he buys for family and friends his own personal observances etc. It's really an amazing account from a well written erudite observer. Here is a final snippet near the end when he returns to America: "The U.S. looks good. I wonder what it holds for me What will the future be like and where will I fit into the picture How will it feel to be back at home with wife and children Won't they be surprised to see me Could hardly sleep tonight." Covers are detached but present otherwise G. ; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; OPERATION TORCH ALGERIA MEDICAL MEDICINE SURGEON ORAN AMERICANA WWII WORLD WAR II HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY . unknown
0011106Manhattan New York Nyc New York City Europe Abroad England Spain. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. On offer are two diaries of a highly affluent American woman who was involved in the operations of Lanman & Kemp the high profile Manhattan drug company. The diaries were kept by Margaret Shepherd Hutton Kemp 1863-1944. Margaret married George William Kemp 1860-1912 in 1889. They had one daughter Margaret Peggy 1890-1940. The Kemps were Irish immigrants to New York and quickly became a highly affluent family. They were the Kemps of the Lanman & Kemp drug dynasty which is currently best known for selling Florida Water. CONTACT BUYER FOR FULL BIO NOTES ON THE KEMPS AND OUR DIARIST. WORD LIMITS ON THIS SITE. Importantly our diarist Margaret was involved in the family business running Lanman & Kemp as indicated by legal records in which she is a defendant on behalf of the company. The diaries themselves are both 5-year diaries that cover the years 1910-1914 and 1920-1924. The first was begun when Margaret was 47 years old. She writes almost every single day and her life is luxurious to say the least. For example In April of 1911 she writes daily of her extended trip to Europe visiting places in Spain such as Madrid and the Alhambra Palace France and England with her husband and daughter. She travels by ship to Europe again in the spring of 1913. The rest of the time the focus is on her daily life in NYC. While each entry is only a couple of lines she is very honest with her diary and one comes to know her. Some excerpts: .In afternoon Peggy Bidy and I walked to Bloomingdales and back I went to late concert Apr 18 1910. "Wednesday Fine out for last time in little car. Went to Dr. Cragins. Peggy went to Biddy at Passaic" June 15 1910. Damp. Report that Titanic had sunk Monday at 2: 20 AM Apr 16 1912. Friday. Fine. Cold. Went to Miss Richards Met KOR. Home with George all aft. He very weak. Dr. Thomas here. Peggy at Ritz dance Dec 20 1912. Heavy rain. Geo died at ten minutes of one. Saw lots of people Dec 24 1912. Monday. Heavy rain all day. Fixing Georges room. Depressed Dec 30 1912. Friday. Fine cooler. Started for Trossachs at 9: 30 in carriage. Sailed down Loch Katrine and back. Had tea at Callandar. Motored to Bridge of Allan July 4 1913. Tuesday. Fine cold. Down shopping lunched with Jim and Peggy. Ed here in aft Dec 22 1914. By the time Margaret begins her second diary in 1920 she is married to Edward Charles Mears Kemp. Peggy is still unmarried she marries later in 1928 at age 37. She references her affluent lifestyle including shopping at Harrods in London June 1 1921 ordering evening coat and day coat Aug 30 1921 and Tea at the Ritz Oct 16 1924 Excerpts from the second diary follow: Fine. Warmer. Peggy and Ed playing golf. I walked out but missed them. Sey took me for a drive. Ed rode. Merries at night Oct 15 1921. Monday. Rain. Ed went to meet Mrs. Ward. I down at League Lecture. Home in aft. Opera at night first night Nov 14 1921. Wednesday. Showers. Went to Harrods alone. Ed had church in room. Had fire. Peg out with Isabelle Baggallays at Eunice and Heath Sept 19 1923. Dine out with Peggy in morning. Home reading. Van Braam here at sea. Heard chimes. May fired Dec 31 1924. This diary is a fantastic look inside a highly successful Manhattan family giving readers a sense of the lifestyle enjoyed by a Kemp wife in middle age and painting a stark contrast to the lifestyle of those of lesser means in New York at the time. Both diaries have substantial notes including names and addresses of those in Margarets life as well as financial documentation. The diaries both measure 5.75 x 4.5 inches. Both of their spines are coming loose but they are otherwise in good condition. Both are 90% complete. Overall Good. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author . hardcover
19860012215Moscow Russia Ussr Soviet Union: Cold War Russia Soviet Union USSR Travel Diary. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. On offer is an interesting travel journal of an American couple who travelled to the Soviet Union during the Cold War a time of intense circumstances between the USA led by Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union led by Mikhail Gorbachev the General Secretary of the Soviet Union. The author of the journal is Peggy Jean Andrews Pugh 1929-2003 SEE BIO NOTES FOLLOWING LISTING. In February 1986 she and her husband joined a tour group to take a trip to the Soviet Union. This was a time of intense negotiations between the USA and USSR. The Soviet government had changed and the Geneva Summit of Nov 1985 had successfully concluded. Rhetoric was toned down no more talk of an evil empire. The U. S and NATO had proposed a joint reduction in conventional force levels in Europe. It was into this geopolitical environment that the Pughs decided to visit the Soviet Union. The first eight pages of the journal include Peggys detailed explanation of their journey to the USSR. Which occurred on February 23-24 1986. Her group flew from Houston Texas to Leningrad St. Petersburg via New York and Shannon Ireland. Once in the USSR Peggy immediately begins to describe life in the Soviet Union by way of explaining her hotel accommodations: .We had been counseled about facial and toilet tissue. The one lacking and the other interesting so we came prepared overly so. The Cosmos was also built for the 1980 Olympics houses 3500 guests. Internal shops - Barioshka sell every souvenir from full length mink to hand crafted baubles. There are only foreigners in the shops. Apparently Russians are discouraged see later note from shopping there. No one else is some of the hotels restaurants serve only foreign guests. Peggy lists highlights of her trip as including a Moscow city tour Pioneer Palace Bolshoi Theater and Moscow Metro. Once in the USSR with their group they toured the city before going on to Leningrad. Unfortunately the tour was not without its issues: .Tanya informs us much to our great dismay that the Communist Party is having its congress - a once each five years occasion. The entire Red Square Kremlin area off limits to the citys million every day foreign and USSR guests. Moscow has a population of 8.5 million. We had looked forward to forward to that tour . The tour began in earnest on Feb 25th. Peggy describes what her group eats the weather and what she sees and learns in her travels. For example on her first day touring she states: .The weather is bright and beautiful very cold We learned a lot about the Communist Party - the Soviets - the congress history and architecture went to lunch Cabbage soup salad big entree and ice cream for dessert we were back on Nicolois bus headed for a Freindship Palace and a Round Table discussion with 3 Russians and an incredibly smooth moderator who could look one straight in the eye and claim that Gorky Park was not allowed in teh Soviet Union because it would make Russians hate Americans Russians - even young ones - really do talk about the Revolution . On February 26 Peggys group tours Moscow where she learns about the educational system in the USSR. On the 27th she visits the Moscow Metro and the New Maiden Convent. On Feb 28 and March 1st the group was in Leningrad. The diary ends abruptly midway through her March 1 1986 entry. Peggy is a great diarist describing the people she sees and meets the vibes in the areas where she visits and comparisons between life in the USSR and the USA at the time. This diary provides excellent insight into life and tourism in the Soviet Union at the time. BIO NOTES: Peggy Jean Andrews was born in Louisiana in 1929. After graduating from Amite High School and Northwestern State College she married Henry Quinton Pugh 1921-2012 and they settled in Lake Charles Louisiana where she began a long and successful career in education. She went on to receive her Masters degree in Education from McNeese State College and was promoted from teacher to school administrator. Henry worked for the Port of Lake Charles authority eventually becoming Assistant Port Director. The diary measures 7 1/4" x 6 1/4". It is in very good condition with no rips tears or bends. The hardcover spine and pages are in tact and attached. Peggy has written on 35 pages legibly in ink. VG. ; Manuscripts; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 35 pages; Signed by Author . Cold War Russia, Soviet Union, USSR, Travel Diary hardcover
18470001851DUMFRIES ONTARIO GALT GUELP BRANTFORD UPPER CANADA. Good. 1847. On offer is a super pre-Confederation manuscript relic of south western Upper Canada economy finance business and enterprise being an 1847 through to 1921 farm ledger handwritten by Thomas Taylor Turnbull a farmer in Dumfries Ontario Canada. The Ledger spans a long time period with entries beginning in 1847 and ending in 1921. The fep is hand stamped 'Lesslie Brothers Toronto' and within the circle of the stamp in tiny precise handwriting the book is dated '1847 Thomas Taylor Turnbull Dumfries'. Turnbull records his expenditures purchases repairs all the names of his workers who owes him and who he owes. The ledger is much more than a simple record of his farm business it reveals his lifestyle dozens of names employees work records names of people he pays for products and services and how he measures his monetary work life in shillings cords and bushels what he grew where he sold his goods his mortgage payments how he works on plastering the exterior of the school house and pays school taxes and donates to the church. He dies in 1902 and there is a page that refers to this through the Transfer of the farm to John in 1904. There is also an unusual record of how Turnbull and his wife's bodies and monument were moved in the cemetery in Komoka Ontario in 1921. There are numerous entries 1903 -1921 by his son Robert they are very interesting to compare with the early entries 1847 - 1890. The later entries mention brand names of products bought milk tickets electric film development Hamilton Spectator newspaper Presbyterian church railroad fare street car tickets etc one can immediately imagine the time shift from rural farm life to the more urban life simply be reading what was purchased. A receipt for the purchase of a phonograph in London Ontario may indicate a move to a city by Robert R.B. Turnbull. There are a few ephemeral pieces tucked in including a super broadside 'flyer' detailing a grocer's sale. In total there are 92 pages relating to 1847 - 1890 and then 24 pages 1890 -1921 for a total of 116 pages. Save for rubbing and general ageing the 8½" x 10" book is G.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF GALT WATERLOO ONTARIO CANADA THOMAS TAYLOR TURNBULL DUMFRIES BRANT COUNTY ECONOMY FINANCE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE CANADIANA PRE- CONFEDERATION LEDGER FARMING RURAL ECONOMY HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS AMERICANA MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . unknown
18660001100AMBOY CAMDEN ROME WILLIAMSTOWN NEW YORK NY. Very Good. 1866. Full-Leather. On offer is a very interesting post Civil War record of historical financial. commercial and governmental dealings being an original manuscript diary handwritten by an unidentified writer there are many many clues that should help pinning down the writer for a local historian or collector of the Amboy/Oneida area of New York who appears to be an important local given the large sums of monies he holds and collects regarding mortgages fees taxes postage etc. He is also the Supervisor postal we believe servicing the area as he mentions many local trips including: Williamstown Durhamville Hillsboro Constantia Utica Albany Rome hurt himself getting off cars in Rome Oswego and Camden. There are copious notes in this page-a-day book; recordings of monies in and out plus the author records progress on his military reports including the input of others under his authority. He also records the everyday and mundane things such as taking his horses to the farrier fixing the runner on his sleigh paying his personal workers for chores and repairs. Other notes include a mailed report for Post Master General his being sent to act as Surrogate for Deloss Banwell a "traveler stayed all night said he was poor paid nothing" mortgages loans appraisals delivering stamps dealing with road warrants estates and writing his supervisor's report . He is married and has 2 daughters. We believe both a daughter and his wife are named Ellen. Many dozens and dozens of names including: John Lewes John Foils William Brown Ashbell Orton online reference to him as resident of Williamstown and a lumberman John Dun George Wilkinson Mrs. Margaret Dykes Mrs. Samuel William Barnes Charles Callner John Whaley G.W. Sergeants Malcom McIntyre Ben Butler William Goweley William Dudley Burton Blowes Jacob Fulmer of Dutch Fork Dr. Allen of Cleveland who treated his wife in Constantia during her vacation. Overall VG.; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; WESTERN NEW YORK AMBOY CAMDEN WILLIAMSTOWN LUMBER CONSTANTIA ONEIDA SYRACUSE ROME ROCHESTER ALBANY COMMERCE ECONOMY POST OFFICE POSTAL RECONSTRUCTION ERA CIVIL WAR ERA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA Als antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . hardcover
1942000042Silver Creek New York. Good. 1942. Hardcover. On offer are two 2 diaries. The first is a 1942 identified as written by Gilbert Smith. The second diary is a 5 year style book that it appears was originally owned and identified on the bookplate as Pvt Charles Sullivan Bangor Maine. Assumedly Gilbert Smith got/bought this book otherwise unused from the Mr. Sullivan who had good intentions to write in this book. This diary is written in for 1943 and 1944. Gilbert Smith was with the 335th AAAF which I believe to be the Armoured Antiaircraft Systems. It seems he talks alot about laying lines and communications. On the last page it has his points stationed from 1940 to1943. He started off at Camp Stewart.then to Fort Dix. After Fort Dix he went to Belfast in 1942 at St. John's Point then to Scotland and England in Liverpool and Glasgow. In 1943 he went to Algiers and to Naples. The second diary is mostly from when he was stationed in Italy. Gives a great day to day account of life as a WW II soldier. He talks of meeting French girls drinking and being hungover playing cards arguing with an officer cleaned guns talks about the filter roomwearing gas masks fixing lines. However the photo album has Gilbert Smiths name in it so I assume this is Smith's diary. It also looks to be in Smith's hand writing. Maybe Sullivan gave it to him. I cannot be sure.The photo album consists of photos of home and the military. There are 52 photos that pertain to the military some are loose. There are close to if not over 200 photos of his life including many of an early Kendall gas station football games 30's New York City Irving Silver Creek area photos of car crashes. The 5 year diary itself is well worn and loose from the binding but is still attached. The 1942 is in good condition.; Manuscript; 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II WWII WW2 EUROPEAN THEATER SILVER CREEK AAF HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA World War Two WWII Americana Navy Army Archive Lot Photographs Armed Forces Red Bull . hardcover
220139Paris, Letouzey et Ané, 1933-2003 17 vol. in-4 ; 13 fascicules in-4, demi-chagrin cerise, dos à nerfs fleuronnés, tranches mouchetées [volumes reliés] ; brochés [fascicules], (reliure de l'époque). Quelques épidermures aux dos.
147779A Paris, Chez Michaud Frères, 1811-1838 65 vol. in-8, demi-veau vert, dos à nerfs orné de guirlandes et de filets dorés, de guirlandes et de fleurons à froid, tranches marbrées (tomes I à 52) (rel. de l'époque), broché, couv. muette bleue avec étiquette au dos pour les autres volumes. Dos passés. Infimes manques à qqs coiffes, manque de papier au dos de l'un des volumes brochés. Sinon, bel exemplaire, intérieur très frais.
175110715Amsterdam, Michel-Charles Le Cone, 1751. Quatre volumes in-12 (165 x 96 mm), 1 f. n ch., XXVIII pp., 1 f. n ch., 416 pp. ; 2 ff. n ch., 480 pp. ; 2 ff. n. ch., 527 pp. ; 2 ff. n ch., 509 pp. Veau fauve tacheté, triple filet doré d'encadrement sur les plats, armes au centre, dos à nerfs orné d'alérions en caisson, double filet doré d'encadrement, pièce de titre en maroquin, tomaison sur fond brun, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches rouges mouchetées, quelques fines restaurations, petite tache marginale pages 504 et 505 du tome 3 (reliure d'époque).
In -4°, pp. (2), XVI, 492; frontespizio calcografico con busto di Omero (inc. Carloni), esemplare con frontespizio in bianco e nero, barbe, mezza pelle coeva con angoli, al dorso fregi oro, tassello rosso con titolo e autore in oro, fioriture marginali, macchie sul margine esterno di p. 2, strappo restaurato a p. 143 Prima edizione dell’opera di Passeri che, curata postuma da Bianconi e Bottari, si pone come prosecuzione del lavoro di Baglione (v. sopra), che si era fermato al 1642, anno di pubblicazione del suo libro. Passeri era scrittore/artista, allievo di Domenichino: la sua fama è legata prevalentemente all’ampia circolazione che ebbe proprio questo libro, che consta di trentasei ritratti biografici, ordinati secondo l’anno di morte, e che comincia proprio col Domenichino, proseguendo con pittori del calibro di Reni, Albani, Sacchi, Pietro da Cortona, Salvator Rosa, Barbieri (il Guercino), Lanfranco, Algardi; ci sono stranieri come Poussin e Wander (Il “Bamboccio”: e lo scritto di Passeri sarà posto al centro di un dibattito novecentesco su questo artista), ma anche scultori (Fiammingo, Alguardi, Finelli, Peroni), architetti (tra cui Borromini) e il mosaicista G.B. Calandra. Presidente dell’Accademia di San Luca (anche se questo elemento è negato nella biografia di Jacob Hess (che nel 1928 aveva dedicato a P. la sua tesi di laurea), è pacifico comunque collocarlo “nel parterre aristocratico e curiale che presenziava le cerimonie pubbliche dell’Accademia” (Dbi, s.v.): l’appartenenza a questo circolo conservatore si coordina a uno degli elementi più critici del libro, cioè l’inclinazione polemica verso il Bernini. Bernini morì nell’80, quindi non poteva a priori essere incluso nella serie delle biografie di Passeri (che si chiude con Salvator Rosa, morto nel ‘73), ma vari passi dell’opera, e su tutti la descrizione dei rapporti con Borromini nella voce dedicata a quest’ultimo, attestano la vena antiberniniana di Passeri nell’ambito della nota polemica. Nello stesso anno di questa edizione, pubblicata per la prima volta quasi un secolo dopo la morte del suo autore, apparve un’altra tiratura, conforme a questa ma con diverse indicazioni tipografiche, ciò che rende problematico stabilire quale sia esattamente stata stampata prima dell’altra. Rossetti 7983; Cicognara 2344; sulla storia del manoscritto e sulle vicende editoriali si vedano gli studi di Hess, Die Künstlerbiographien von Giovanni Battista Passeri, 1934 e anche Joseph Connors, in “Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians”, vol. 57 No. 4, 1998 (pp. 469-471).
162012571Paris (?), o.Dr., 1620. 1. Auflage 8° (18,5-22,5 cm). 15 Bll., 338 S. Ganzleder der Zeit über fünf Bünden mit goldgeprägter Rückentitel und -verzierung sowie Wappensupralibros [3 Warenabbildungen]
In-8 (mm. 240x172), p. pergamena antica, titolo oro su tassello al dorso (risg. fioriti), 12 cc.nn., 283 pp.num., 1 c.nn. con al verso la marca tipografica xilografata (Serpente alato attorcigliato ad un bastone sorretto da due mani che escono da nuvole. Motto: Salus Vitae); manca l’ultima c.b. Pregevole frontespizio figurato, un bel ritratto del grande condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni e, f.t., una ricchissima tavola con armature e stemmi, tutti inc. in rame; l’opera è divisa in sei Libri ed è ornata da testatine e grandi iniziali figurate a vignetta inc. su legno. "Prima edizione". Cfr. Gamba,1658: "Ediz. in caratteri grandi rotondi, dall'A. dedicata alla comunita' di Bergamo, con lettera sanza data. Ebbe fama lo Spino di scrittore fedele e diligente e questa sua "Vita" è dettata in buona favella" - Choix de Olschki,V,5323: “Biographie fort intéressante. Remarquable le récit de l’entrevue de ‘Christiern I’, roi de Danemarc, avec Colleoni, aux pp. 217-19” - Lozzi,I, p. 143, n. 340. Il frontesp. (con antico restauro) e le due tavole figur. sono stati lievem. smargin.; solo alc. pagg. con lieve uniforne arross., altrimenti esemplare ben conservato.
18730001754BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND to MORPETH ONTARIO RIDGETOWN. Good. 1873. On offer is a super 1873 through 1877 manuscript relic of one man's emigration from Birmingham England to find a new life in Ontario Canada in the town of Morpeth. The handwritten diary claims ownership by "John Somerville Uxbridge Ontario" on the fep but it appears that the original writer was his father who lived in Morpeth Ontario from 1873 to 1877 when diary is written on the north shore of Lake Erie near what is today called Chatham-Kent. We believe John Somerville added his name after he received it from his father. The diary is unique providing many intimate details on the Somerville's travel and life and financials. Immigrating in 1873 Mr. Somerville details his travel on the SS Prussian to his new homeland then uses the diary to note his financial accounts and a most importantly his narrative on his new life until 1877. Mr. Somerville and his wife lived on the farm of a Mr. Richardson in Morpeth and later on the farm of John Armstrong also from Morpeth Ontario. The town of Ridgetown just north of Morpeth is frequently mentioned. In all 54 pages provide a unique look at look for local historians and researchers at this English man's transition from Great Britain to rural Ontario. Interestingly Mr. Somerville used the inner front cover to preserve some stamps which he probably received on the letters from his homeland England. While the book is not in great shape it is very legible. ; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION ENGLAND TO CANADA SS PRUSSIAN 19TH CENTURY MORPETH ONTARIO CANADA UXBRIDGE JOHN SOMERVILLE CANADIANA SOUTHERN ONTARIO RURAL ONTARIO LAKE ERIE RIDGETOWN CHATHAM-KENT CANADIANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS PHOTO ALBUM PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS HANDSCHRIFT HANDGESCHRIEBEN MANUSKRIPT DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . unknown
19400001659EMPRESS OF RUSSIA CHINA INDIA. Good. 1940. On offer is a super original 7 x 8 in. photo diary of a group of Canadian United Church missionaries on a trip to India and China. The trip starts with the sea voyage aboard the Empress of Russia steamship from Vancouver to the Aleutian Islands Japan Shanghai Hong Kong and on to Singapore and India. There are 30 black and white photos a small number of color or colorized pictures with handwritten captions for each one and several diagrams of the Missionary camps and one super drawing of attendees to a large council meeting with all named. While the author is not specifically identified they do a superb job naming each and every person in the photos. There is some rubbing and chipping to the cover the interior is very good but one or two pictures seem to have gone missing but otherwise all are accounted for. Overall G.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CANADIAN MISSIONARIES INDIA CHINA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA TRAVEL CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CHRISTIAN RELIGION MISSON SOUTH EAST ASIA ASIAN SUBCONTINENT CANADIANA STEAMSHIPS SINGAPORE UNITED CHURCH UJJAIN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTRAL INDIA COUNCIL DHAR HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . unknown
18950001841KANSAS CITY MISSOURI. Fair. 1895. On offer is a super manuscript relic of 19th Century life in Kansas City Missouri dated 1895 through 1904 1898 and 1899 are the fullest handwritten by a young woman 13 in 1895 named Elsa Dorothy Field who does a great job as a diarist detailing her life and times as a member of a wealthy family headed by her father Edmund B. Field a bank broker and her mother Enna N. Field. She had a sister by the name of Marcia and a brother by the name of Edmund Mills. The beginning of the 150 page diary lists three different addresses the final being "2415 E. 9th St." a house her grandmother purchased to be closer to the family. At the beginning Elsa uses the first 12 pages to recap her life from 1895 to 1898 and then she writes not daily but with more regularity. She states at one point in 1899: "It really seems like I might write once a week but I really don't have time. I will close now hoping that whenever I write I can be able to record a happy and prosperous time. There is one advantage in not writing often and that is I forget the petty disturbances and things and remember when I write only things that amount to something." As with many teenagers from time immemorial she is introspective to a fault and perhaps self esteem is an issue. She writes on November 19th 1899: "This is my seventeenth birthday. I think that if I could have seen myself as I am now on my seventh birthday I would have been very much disappointed as I supposed of course that I would be a very good musician have lots of friends and a great deal of influence be exceedingly beautiful and have a nice and pretty home. As it is I am a very poor musician I have some friends that I like very well and others whom I care for merely because they are somebody to talk to I have only a little influence and I am not at all satisfied with my appearance. There is one thing that I wanted that I have gotten and that is a beautiful home. Perhaps I wished for things which I will do well to accomplish by 27." Her writings will be of particular interest to historians and researchers of the history of fashion and clothing as she describes in great detail her wardrobe including any new dresses she receives for various social events and being a very social woman she writes quite often about her wardrobe. Here are some snippets: "January 18th 1902 Looking over this book it seems that I have spent a great deal more space in describing my clothes than in anything else but I assure you that if I have spent a great deal of time on it here I do not in any other way for mama often scolds me because I care little about it. Not that I never am dressy or inclined to prim. I simply wear what is sewed on and the best person in the world can't sew everything on a girls dress. When I do fix up or dress to go out I look very swell and quite grand as I am tall but when I am not I look like a reformer. Notwithstanding all of this I am going to describe my new dress which I got just in time to wear to Mattie Lee's ." "February 23rd 1895 We went out to Miss Janie's today. Percey and I rode out on our bicycle and the others road on the cable car. She is making us some lovely doll dresses. Percy built us a nice playhouse in the barn. One of the rooms will lock. We have lots of fun. Papa went away Thursday. He will return Sunday." "January 1st 1896 This is New Years and a great many things have happened. Aunt Zella died but first Uncle Joe died. Sister got here safely and can ride. We went to El Dorado. Miss Janie went too. We staid three weeks and met Mr. Conn. When we came back to Kansas City grandma Mills did not want us to stay at her house anymore and we did not want to stay so we went out on very short notice and found a rented house that suits very well. I go to Humbolt School so does sister. I like it better than I do Woodland School. My last birthday I was thirteen ." "January 13th 1898 After awhile Carlton came. She and Roberta looked so nice in their new dresses. Carlton's was green Bedford cord trimmed in pink satin braid. Roberta's wine color trimmed in black passmenten over white. While we were talking Rosa brought in chocolate and cake. We also told fortunes with our fortune teller doll. Roberta liked hers so well that she wrote it down and took it home. A week from today I will get my grades. I will write them here if I am not ashamed to do it. I hoped I can write them but I won't unless they are good." "May 15th 1898 I have been wanting to write in my diary of over a week but have had so much else to do that I had to let it go. It is just two weeks until school is out. I do not suppose I will have very many more hard lessons .Since I last wrote the United States have engaged in war with Spain. So far we have been victorious but I am very much afraid that it can't last long. Commodore Dewey scored quite a victory over the Spanish fleet at Manila and if he would be enforced could easily hold the Philippine Islands. Those in authority seem slow to act and though it is almost two weeks since it happened no reinforcements have been sent and I am afraid that he may have to leave the islands. I don't say that I would be glad in the least if the U.S. should be defeated yet I think it would be a good thing if the eastern states who brag so ever since the war between the Confederates and Federals would get a taste of war. Here it is the middle of May and although March April and this far in May we have had scarcely a day when It has not rained or been threatening ." "June 21st 1898 Not very long ago I went down to see Carlton in the course of a rather gay and perhaps giddy conversation Carlton asked me if I thought that I had ever reached the highest of happiness or thought that I would be reach there. After a great deal of talking and laughter we decided that neither of us or anyone had reached that height. We also decided that we would keep track of our happy times and try to see if everything was going just as we wanted it to. I do not think every time I am having a good time I will stop to see if just everything is going right or think about anything that would damp my pleasure because if I did the wrong things would swallow up the pleasant things and I am sure there is no time when everything is perfect or a flaw could not be found in the most delightful things .I am going downstairs in a minute and make candy with my sister ." "July 26th 1898 The bells are just striking six. I have just finished a letter to Marcia and Lucille who are spending two weeks with Grandma on her Petlis County farm. I don't think I have had any particularly gay or happy time this last month this last month though I have made friends with one real nice girl Marion Finlay with whom I took supper out at Fairmount Park the forth. Mama is just getting able to be around. On account of her sickness I have had to do quite great deal of sewing really not very much but it seems quite a great deal to me as I have never done much. I tucked Marcia's an old liner skirt of mine which was all right but had been out grown by me I would not be writing here if I had not gotten so warm that I wilted my white collar and don't want to put another one on. I also see that I have gotten ink on my cuffs. I really should put on my swill but when I wear a thin dress I have to wear so many skirts that it makes me hot. Now I have on high black shoes and ribbed black stockings white duck skirt cut in the fashion of the day dark red leather belt white skirt waist red necktie hair in "Gretchen braids." "August 1st 1899 It is over a year since I have written in my diary though since then a great many things have happened and passed which would have been nice to record here if I only had some of the time that I had last summer. Then I was having an exceedingly quiet time and I thought a stupid time but now I look back upon as a very happy and peaceful two months even though mama was sick and the few friends I had whom I visited were out of town. Almost exactly one month after my last writing mama felt like she was able to leave home and go to Excelsior Springs. We went. I found Marion and a Miss Virginia Jones who proved to be a most charming and pleasant Mississipian just my own age over there. We three together with Jessie and Edna Butt two K. C. girls had a very gay time together indeed. After we had staid at Excelsior two weeks we all came home very much fitted mama was especially so. Rosa our old girl disappointed us about coming home so we have done our own work all winter. The day we got home from Excelsior we heard that Virginia who had left the Springs a few days before us for her home in Oxford Mississippi was still in town and that her family could not go home on account of the Yellow Fever .Marion gave a very unique and gay supper and a little informal dance afterwards. She gave it in their new house which was then very near done. The supper a very nice one was eaten on impromptu tables and as the gas fixtures had not been put in after it commenced to get dark the people at one end of the table could not see those at the other. We danced by candle light and to the music of a mandolin guitar and piano. Of course the waltz and two-step were danced but we like the Virginia Reel best ." "August 4th It took us a long time to make up our minds where to go if we went anywhere. Mama Percy Marcia Lucille Edmund Mills and I wanted very much to go west but we did not know whether we could or not. Finally after a great deal of discussion we found ourselves at ten o'clock June 27th on the west bound Union Pacific and the next day at half past eleven we arrived in Colorado Springs. We went immediately to the Spaulding Hotel. Colorado Springs is a beautiful clean place and although the surrounding mountains seem almost at hand the nearest are about three miles distant. They seem close on account of the unusually clear air. Pikes Peak is twenty five miles from there yet is very easily seen. All the houses look as though they have just been painted and there care is very great many nice and pretty ones. There are forty millionaires living on Cascade Avenue. The streets being so wide smooth pretty and otherwise nice the place is a perfect paradise for bicycles ." "I won't attempt to tell of the many interesting ways in which we spent our time in Colorado Springs but will say that I don't regret it at all. The night of the third of July Pikes Peak was illuminated for the first time and although we were fully 25 miles form the top we saw it plainly. It was so cold out that night that we couldn't stay out even though w had on winter wraps as there was a blizzard on Pikes Peak ." "October 6th 1899 Last night all of us went to see Paine's Battle of Manila and fireworks. It was the best thing of its kind that I have ever seen. They had some clowns acrobats and other vaudeville performers who did some very amusing things. The show was given at Exposition Park. Quite a way in front of the seats there was some scenery to represent the Bay of Manila with the Spanish Ships and the castle. The soldiers came out of the castle first and drilled and when they finished threw themselves down to watch the performers that I have spoken of. Finally a serviceman came tearing in telling them that the Americans were coming. Then everything was in confusion soldiers were running every way at once and the women who had been watching the drill ran screaming to the fort. Then the ships opened fire. When the smoke cleared we saw that the Spanish Ships had been damaged and the castle badly damaged by fire. There was a skirmish between three Mexican's and Spaniards on land in which the Red Cross nurses made their appearance. This finished the battle and the fireworks commenced. The fireworks were beautiful. The consisted of fireworks and sky rockets and a great many lit pieces. There was an elephant who moved his trunk and tail very naturally a man who preformed on the trapeze and other things." "January 2nd 1901 Well now I am a twentieth Century Girl and I don't see that I am any different from the girl I was two days ago. I am behind in writing up my diary as usual. If I would write as I go along there would have been many things to write but when I skip so much time I must only mention the most important things which have happened. For a long time mama has been wanting to give a reception and every fall something has hindered her and she has had to put it off. This summer however we made up our minds that we would give it this fall about the last of October and made up our lists and arranged different things " "October 6th 1901 I must tell about my dress. It was made by Mrs. Dexter the best dressmaker in town and everything about it is fine. It is a light blue silk foulard with white figures and little black dots. The skirt has little pleats on the side breadths about two inches apart and there are two graduated circular flounces on the bottom headed with two bands of black velvet ribbon. It was not only my first long dress but it was made with a slight sweep. The waist is made of white chiffon over white silk with a shaped bolero of the tucked silk. The edge of the jacket is finished with lace. There are a number of other little things about the dress which make it very stylish and handsome. Oh I almost forgot to tell about the lining for the skirt or rather the drop skirt which is of blue silk taffeta just to match the dress and furnished with accordion pleated ruffle. Altogether the dress is beautiful and very becoming but I am sure that it is much too fine for me. I enjoyed wearing it and I am very sure that grandma loves to see me in it ." "About the first of October we had our fall festivities which have dwindled considerably in respect to parades but increased in the number of balls. This year we had only one parade The Karnival ___ Parade which really wasn't fit to look at but the two balls which were given in Convention Hall were beautiful. The Priests of Pallas Ball was first and the main festoons of it were the Electric Lights. About eleven the hall suddenly dark remained so a few seconds and when the lights came back the effect was beautiful. The Carnival or Masque Ball was very much like the first only less dignified. I only got to go to one of them this time but expect to go to both next year " "October 9th 1904 For a long time after reading over some of my past notes in this book I have sat and wondered whether I would put anything else down or not. The rest seems so unlike me that is I still seem to be out talking to absolute strangers and recounting things that I really care very little about. I have always wished that I had time to write frequently and dwell more on my pleasant friends and the things I think as it is all I can say of the whole year that I have neglected this book is that I have kept an account of the summer before last which I spent in Europe and that during the following winters when I made music my only study .I am not going to say anymore for I hesitate to bring this little book to a close but sometimes when I feel that a new chapter in my life has begun I will write the closing lines. Although I doubt if anyone ever can tell just when one period in a life story closes and another begins." Included is a three page letter dated April 22 1901 by Elsa to Nadine tucked the pages. The covers of the 6" x 7¼" book are detached but present. The cover page the first two pages of writing and the back page are loose. Overall G.; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF VICTORIAN FASHION VINTAGE CLOTHING KANSAS CITY MISSOURI ELSA DOROTHY FIELD EDMUND B. FIELD VICTORIAN ERA TURN OF THE CENTURY GENDER STUDIES WOMEN'S STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES TEENAGE GIRLS 19TH CENTURY PRE SUFFRAGE AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS AMERICANA MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . hardcover
19620001580near Brattleboro Vermont VT. Good. 1962. On offer is a sensational original 1962 manuscript diary handwritten by a wealthy 28 year old Vermont woman named Katherine. Uniquely this diary is an extremely intimate look into a bitter ill woman who details the horrific life she faces and the numerous challenges: a cheating husband a disease ridden body mental anguish requiring institutionalization a duplicitous doctor an undisclosed disease which may be syphilis UFO and alien sightings and visitations and much much more. Her illness causes painful boils and abscesses many under her breasts that have to be lanced or erupt on their own leaving scars that leave her body disfigured and mutilated. Researchers and collectors of manuscripts specific to women's issues and gender studies will be hard pressed to find a more raw statement of one woman's life than this diary. The author states her husband Paul is 30 years old at one point and that she is unable to have sex with him due to the horrific damage her disease has done to her: She is cared for by 2 servants one to cook one to clean and act as companion at times she has friends and at one point finally decides to divorce Paul and then is courted by Michael an accountant who she wonders how he can love and want to marry a woman in what can only be a sexless marriage. She is sure he is to go running from her if he ever saw her naked body. Katherine is a bitter woman many times calling the woman she 'knows' Paul is having an affair with 'the ugly bitch' one of her medical men is 'Dr. Asshole' and when it comes to Paul she basically ends up saying 'who cares' to enquiries from her mother and girlfriends. She wished he was dead and also at times that she was dead. She was a former homecoming queen and when another woman consoles her she is aghast that an ugly woman should pity her the beauty. She is cruel in her bitterness wondering how a woman that should require a bag over her head to have sex should look upon her with pity. She laments how sad it was her husband didn't know his beautiful bride would turn out to be Frankenstein's monster. She does have friends she sees a lot has dinner with she shops a lot and is always getting her hair done. She talks about killing herself and killing her husband and his girlfriend. She uses a fair bit of profanity and believes in UFO's and actually believes she sees them in her bedroom sometimes at night. She can't have sex so she and her husband sleep in separate bedrooms except for the odd time. In the end they divorce and she finds a new man she can't believe who loves her. This truly is an exceptional narrative. The diary itself is in excellent condition the handwriting is very readable and written in ink. She writes for the whole year of 1962 but doesn't write for every day of the year some months she skips days but usually writes a lot when she does write. Overall about half the diary is full. ; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS ALIENS UFO SIGHTINGS VENEREAL DISEASE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES STDS SYPHILIS GONORRHOEA DIVORCE SEXLESS MARRIAGES WOMEN'S STUDIES GENDER STUDIES NORTHFIELD VERMONT AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORYantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . unknown
19050001954ABOARD THE HMS CORNWALL. Good. 1905. On offer is a super early 20th Century original manuscript Royal Navy Ship's Log handwritten and kept by a Lieutenant Douglas A. St______his signature inscription on the endpaper is hard to decipher. The log book is part statistical and part diary as Douglas begins the book August 5th 1905 through December 1906. There are some anecdotal remarks and some clippings tipped in but for the most part this details the Ship's position and condition on 34 pages. Then there are 20 pages of handwritten diary like notes clippings and anecdotal details of the Ship's cruise Aug 1st 1905 to last entry July 22 'the Home Fleet mobilized I took up my war appointment to HMS Canopus Battleship.' The Ship goes from Spithead to Torbay. He describes the Fleet thusly: '11 battleships; 14 1st Class Cruisers;4 2nd ;8 Scouts; 10 Gun Boats; 8 Parents Ships etc etc; 14 Destroyers; 12 T.B.; 15 Submarines.' Near the back in a separate section are other notes on the Ship some financial and statistical and the on two pages he describes his naval career in detail at the back beginning as a Cadet on HMS Camperdown and many other notable and storied ships such as HMS Boadicea HMS Benbow HMS Hotspur and HMS Theseus to name a few. Sadly his last entry on his career is a Half Pay Lieutenant. The approximately 9½ x 7¼ inch book save for the spine cap missing is G.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF LIEUTENANT DOUGLAS A. ST______ HMS CORNWALL ROYAL NAVY BRITISH NAVY MARINE NAVAL NAUTICAL SHIPS LOG NAVAL LOG BOOKS ATLANTIC FLEET HOME FLEET CHANNEL FLEET BATTLESHIPS DESTROYERS HMS CANOPUS HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . unknown
18550001548SAGAMORE PLYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS MASS MA. Good. 1855. On offer is an interesting original pre Civil War and Civil War era manuscript diary journal and catchall scrapbook handwritten and compiled by we believe Luther Douglas b.1828 and then later his son Charles Everett Douglas b.1852 between 1855 and November 1862. Casual research finds Luther born in Plymouth and Charles in Sagamore Massachusetts. This is backed up with many entries suggesting easy visits and trips to Plymouth. The book is marked "Hired Mens Book" but that is crossed out and then is full of Douglas' writings and clippings save for a couple of pages used by a child Charles it appears. This unusual book has approximately 122 pages with entries a short scrap area: 10 pages have poetry cut from newspapers and/or magazines covering up the journal entries dated from January 1855 or so. This is followed by three pages of entries and then scraps on 19 Presidents not in chronological order are pasted down covering other entries. These were placed later as evidenced by the Abraham Lincoln clipping mentioning the President's martyrdom. The balance is a personal journal and diary centering around work related entries mostly for Sarah or Jacob Perry then Handel Tripp and many many more visits purchases trips and much more. There are a small number of ephemeral inserts one of particular genealogical interest as it is a slip of paper with the note: 'one man's family'. The book itself is a board covered book measuring approximately 6 1/4" x 7 3/4". The paper is somewhat brittle in spots but overall the book is G.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CHARLES EVERETT DOUGLAS LUTHER DOUGLAS GENEALOGY MASSACHUSETTS SAGAMORE PLYMOUTH AMERICAN HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORYantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . unknown
19450001747MANILA PHILIPPINES CAMP BEALE USA. Good. 1945. On offer is a super original World War II manuscript diary handwritten by 22 year old PFC David J. Doran Hq. Co. 3rd Battalion 341st Infantry APO #450. The page a day diary has extensive handwritten entries from July 24th 1945 through April 20th 1946 the day he returns home 271 days worth. In his own hand David states: "To Readers This is a fellow's life in his last year in Army and his return to civilian life. D. J. D." Private First Class Doran does a superlative job detailing his life during the exciting 9 months that are spent in his last days in the service. He begins on his way to Camp Beale in California and then even though the war is pronounced over he and the rest of his battalion head to the Philippines and spend a good deal of time there before heading home. On the cover of his diary and then also on one of the pages in the back he has listed his itinerary. He also wrote while on board the ships going to and coming home from the Philippines. One of the most amazing entries and there are quite a number of them is regarding the Manila massacre which happened in February of 1945 and David who is there on October 13th of 1945 writes a vivid and sad description. While in the Philippines he gets Amoebic Dysentery quite badly and spends a good deal of time in the hospital trying to get rid of it. Here are some snippets: 1945 "July 24th Today is the last full day of my 30 day furlough since I just returned from Europe. We spent 5 months overseas from Rhine to Austria. I'm in the 86th Inf. Div. I saw some of the gang today and said goodbye to them. Went over to the Iheta House in afternoon to see Mary my fiancée. It's sure going to be awful to leave her but I'm anxious to get back and finish it up for good in the Japanese war. He actually abbreviates Japanese but since won't allow it I had to write it this way Went out on my last date with Mary in the evening. Went up to Holmes Hill's. Said goodbye and said same as I said when I left for ETO "See you later." "July 27th Arose at 6:45! Boy that's the earliest I've gotten up for nearly two months. Today was a terrible hot day almost 110. Same as yesterday. I went up to see the rec. center and got my barracks bag and went to the PX about six times to drink cake and beer. Had a letter go off to dad at Okla. City and then went to the show "Ordinary Blonde" with Betty Hutton. Cold in theatre. Japan has refused to surrender. Still think I won't see anymore action. I hope!" "August 1st It was a very warm day and wished we would get to Gruber. At eight tonight we arrived at camp the one we were to train for the Pacific in. It's huge 40000 men. We're the 1st division home from Europe. I found the platoon ok and went in. The guys were glad to see me and told me the dope. No more AT platoon a bigger P & A platoon and 250 men to a rifle company. Marine stuff. We'll be here for 8-10 weeks and then on to Tokyo." "August 4th Today a regimental review was held for Lt. General Patch who came down her to see the 86th. It was just beautiful except that it was so warm I could hardly stand it. 98 degrees. The guys marched so well it looked like West Point Cadets. I guess the training we're getting now is the toughest I've ever had. In fact it's the toughest a lot of these guys have had. In the evening I went into the Day Room and listened to the Hit Parade and wrote mom and dad a long letter. 600 B-290 hit Honshu and Kokkaido." "August 8th Today the Russians declared war against Japan. Great news! Great Britain China Russia and US against Nippon. Atomic bombs hit Nagasaki. War will end soon! Called mom and dad. They will telegram if they can get down this weekend. I'll go to Oklahoma City. Wrote some letters and kept my ears to the radio! Russ has one million men on the Manchukuo boarder. Went to the show "Guest Wife" with Doug Day. It's a race between us getting to the port and the war ending. Hope we win!" "August 10th Things are flying around fast and furious. We left Monday for the Pacific Coast and over seas. Nippon has given all the allies a peace offer. Time will tell whether they will surrender and it will be accepted. I guess the first 4 divisions back from ETO get Army of Occupation duty in Japan. 86 95 97 104th are the ones. I can plan to be in about one more year I guess. Who knows. Went to the show then to beer party in the Day Room." "August 14th The Big Day surrender." "August 17th Today was a big day. We were issued new clothes and reissues. Had to get a gas mask and go thru the gas chamber. PS the wars over. We are going over it's a definite now! Either mop up or occupation. 200 guys telegrammed Truman bitching about going overseas. I don't blame em. We'll be gone about 1 year and then some! Oh hell! The 86th -boy-Ill join the Air Corps next time! Me with 31 PI's. McArthur clamped down in Tokyo." "August 23rd USS Lowndes Third day on shipboard. The compartment was stuffy as hell all day so I spent most of the time topside talking with Rose Laury and Oakly. We hashed over old times back in Germany and the states. Had a fire alarm on ship today and everyone went topside. A storm blew up. Read a story about a sailor who hid out on Guam for 2 ½ years under Japanese occupation. It puts a lump in a guy's throat. It's getting warmer the father we get into the Pacific. We're out by Pearl Harbor now 1500 miles." "September 1st Awake this morn nice and early. It didn't rain last night at all. It's hot as hell out here now. We arrived at Eniwetok in the Marshalls. The isle is barren shot to hell and 127 palm trees. But it's a mighty Pacific bastion. Marines of the 4th fought here 2 years ago. It's an atoll the highest point being 40 ft. Coral rock. Lots of planes good landing strip. 50-75 ships in the harbor 10 APA's with troops. Anxious to know where we're to go. Seems funny so many troops are here. Saw good movie on ship tonight. Hot as blazes. The landings on Japan went off good today. Hope we go there rather than the Philippines." "September 8th Today was organizing. The sea is so rough. Everything has been locked down. Hurricane warning up. I'll be so glad when we're on land again. Chows getting unbearable! This is the 18th day. We passed the Yap Islands sometime last night and are on our way to the Philippines. I was pretty sick today. Rained terribly hard and drenched most of the time. Dream of home and civilian clothes all the time. Too bad it will be some time yet. Goodnight folks." "September 10th Hit the Philippines today and came right up along shore between Leyte and Samar. Now in the straights of San B. It's beautiful islands and looks so peaceful. On one island there were gorgeous homes shot to hell. Coconuts were floating all thru the water storm probably brought them out so far. It's amazingly hot. Rumor has it Luzon now and I guess maybe they're right this time. I like what I've seen so far it's gorgeous! Palms and jungles." "September 13th At 9:30 we went ashore at Batangas Luzon in ISVP's. We damn near died carrying all our equipment out to the boat. We landed on beach with native gals selling everything including their bodies. It's hot! Dusty. Trucks to camp. We built our own camp. It rained poured! Muddy as hell. All settled. Eat K rations. Have a Philapino boy "Tommy" speaks English as well as we. Japaneses terrible. Mosquito netting at night. Hot!" "October 2nd The beer rations came in today but I didn't order any for I don't like it and besides no peso's yet. Tomorrow's payday. Signed pay roll today. Last night the 786th Ord. sent up flares again and caught a couple town Nips raiding the mess hall. They were shot. Japaneses are still coming down from the hills even though the war is over. Rain today. High winds. Tent came down soaked to the skin. The stars are coming out and all ok now. Night folks." "October 13th Manila Ten of us left for Manila to the new area. Company will come in two weeks. Saw Manila. It's ruined 90 percent. Cologne was equal to it. Saw San Tomas prison where Brinks were. Also saw Corregidor! Poor Manila it's pathetic. It will take years to rebuild it. Saw a Calif. car with 45' license. Japanese prisoners by "millions". Philippino scouts Aussies Anzacs. Melting pot of the world! Everything is ruined. Black market terrible. Town smells of death and disease. Walls one and two sides. We're 8 m from Bataan. Nichols Field Clark field." "October 19th Today I was on guard. I lay around all morning preparing. Stood guard and went on post. At 3 I was relieved. I was told 8 of us were to go up to a guerilla camp on the other side of Luzon. We packed and took down our bunks. 2 radio men 1 switchman and 5 P & A are going. We drove all night. H Co. 343rd an Corregidor's same as Bataan. This battalion may leave same day soon for Central Luzon." "November 2nd Today is my banner day! Latrine orderly! I poured gasoline down into it and there must have been a cigarette in it for it blew up in my face. I was thrown up against the side and couldn't see. Mc Clusky took me to the Medic's. I'm all bandaged up my hands are worse. My face is blistered and my hair singed. I have a 24 hr. bed rest. My hand aches pretty badly. The stupid guy that threw the cigarette. I'm lucky I wasn't blinded. I was sure scared for a minute. I'm pretty lucky. Boats coming in from Manila now." "November 16th Today the inspection came off and it did go fairly well. Col. Numfy from Regs. came around and did the maneuvers. I didn't get gigged. A guy has a chance now. 3 boys from K Co. were brought in dead today shot in the back by snipers. Japaneses. Near Batangas. I knew them all fine fellows. What a hell of a time to do it when the wars over. Shot in the back! Poor families! No show tonight so I read from Post till 10. Nite folks." "December 6th Well I'm in the hospital again third time while in the army. It's Dengue Fever this time! I'm really writing this as I couldn't then. I woke up "this" morning with an awful and I do mean awful headache and ache all over. I went to medics and temperature was 104 so I went to Batangas. I could hardly move. Got some shots and one penicillin shot. I guess I slept the remainder of the day. My head ached so. Nite folks." 1946 "January 7th Today the news came 25000 GI's held an "orderly" demonstration in Manila protesting the insufficient war department. MP's were sent to put it down and ¾ of them joined it. Two companies in this Battalion failed to fall out due to the fact that "we're to train as battle line ____" again! Also 7 men landed and two 1st Lts. in the guard house! I don't blame em. I only hope I can keep my mouth shut and don't get in trouble! I hope so! The thing seems more serious than some brass think! The wars over brass means nothing." "February 6th Last night 30 Philippino's raided the supply office and held up the guards and took clothes and then a ___. The guards at the gate opened with a 50 MG and killed six of them. The guards were Scouts. Also four wallets were lifted and Bagraz's was one of them. Also one radio. Thieves! I'd like to catch them. Typed 27 pages of lesson plans Krams. Wrote some letters to folks and Jeanne. Damn her no letter for 5 weeks!!." "February 17th I awoke about five this morning by shots I thought and went to the door and low and behold it was two Philippinos were running for the gate and then a spurt of fire and they dropped! They tried to raid the 2-4 section again ." "February 19th 2nd day in the hospital. I was diagnosed and it was Amoebic Dysentery and quite bad. I run to the little house behind the ward every hour. I take pills and plenty of them. The army never runs out of pills. I ran over to the Red Cross and read awhile. Bret and Mac said to stay in bed as I've a temperature of 101. I guess I'll be here about a week or so. Gee the nurses are gorgeous so American. First white gals I've seen in 6 months." "March 23rd Yes today I am 23 years old. The best present possible. I'm in depot ready to go home. I awoke early 6:30 A.M. Went for a shower and then mess I take the word literally. Went for clothes issue. I threw the overcoat back in the Japaneses face and the long johns " "March 28th Got up at 3:30 A.M. Had a lousy chow. Full out at 5:00 A.M. by rosters and three were thousands of us. At 9:00 A.M. after "hop-hop" game we got on cattle cars and headed out to the harbor at Manila. Boarded ship the USS Haan. At 11:00 I said "Bye Luzon" as my foot hit the gang plank. Left dock at 12 noon. Rumor says 13 days to the states. Ungodly hot in hold 5D! Passed gallant Corregidor 8 ft. drum! and were on our way. Thank God." "March 31st Right now they are latching down everything to the deck as a typhoon is about 100 miles from us. We're heading south towards Guam in hopes will miss it. The sea is rough and I'm becoming quite sick. I slept topside last night and fixed up the Poncho so I didn't get wet. I won't dare tonight even if they allow us to. Chow is unbearable and I'm hungry as hell but I'll go through hell just to get home again believe me! The wind is getting worse and the ship is rocking terribly. Oh to just see some land." "April 20th At 4:30 today I was discharged from the Army of the USA. I'm a civilian. "Diplomas" were presented in the Chapel by the Major. I gave my last salute. I said a prayer for the men we lost and the Rhine Danube and Luzon! Left Camp Beale via bus to Sacramento to take plane for LA tomorrow. Sacramento Hotel. Yes I'm out. It's all over there is no more. Hence I'm discharged. Thus ends my diary!" The above quotes are from only 27 of the 271 days represented so there is so much much more in this truly fascinating diary. The diary measures about 4 ½" x 6" and the cover is very worn and pulling away from the binding. The pages starting from the beginning to January 22nd are starting to pull away too but the rest are clean and attached to the binding. Overall G. ; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CAMP BEALE PHILIPPINES MANILA LUZON WORLD WAR II WWII WW2 DAVID J. DORAN US ARMY 3RD BATTALION 341ST INFANTRY AEF AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES PACIFIC THEATRE SOUTH PACIFIC AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS PHOTO ALBUM PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS HANDSCHRIFT HANDGESCHRIEBEN MANUSKRIPT DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . hardcover
19770001599Akron Ohio OH. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. On offer are two intimate and unflinchingly honest diaries kept between 1977 and 1983 by a man living in the Akron Ohio area who signs himself R. but is identified through a note in another hand as Robert. Across six years of scattered yet compelling entries Robert documents his private life as a bisexual father a heavy drinker and recreational substance user and a man searching for connection amid the economic and emotional instability of working-class Ohio. Robert begins his first entry in October 1977 with the resolve of someone trying to turn his life around: I bought this book today in another attempt to keep a journal Today was pay day and since my rent is paid I decided to treat myself to some new books. Oct. 19 1977. He also writes with relief about belonging to a local art studio community: The people there Drew Linda Pam Jean and others accept me. They let me into their world. How good it feels to belong. Oct. 19 1977. But even in these hopeful early pages his inner conflict is plain. He writes of a one of his friends from the studio named Pam whom he loves deeply but cannot fully have: We love each other yet we may never have sex. She needs women and I need men. I think my sexuality is more open than hers. I prefer women but am also interested in men. Oct. 19 1977. The following day he attends his first appointment at Portage Path Mental Health Clinic now Portage Path Behavioral Health in Akron. In this entry exposes both institutional misunderstanding of his sexuality and his refusal to internalize shame: My visit to the clinic was amusing. It was apparently another evaluation visit. They want to determine who will be the best therapist for me. The doctor who interviewed me asked a number of questions about my sex life. At the end he said he thought someone could help me with my problems including my sexual identity. I told him I wasnt there to be cured and that I didnt feel it was an important problem. Oct. 21 1977. Robert is also unusually frank about his thoughts even when they disturb him. Once in each of his diaries he acknowledges attraction toward minors yet makes clear moral boundaries: he records these thoughts as intrusive and emphasizes that he would not cross the line between fantasizing and realizing those fantasies. The honesty of these confessions uncommon for the period underscores the diarys psychological depth and its documentary value in understanding mid-century male sexual self-examination. Roberts early entries swing between reflection and self-destruction. Im trying to read Sartre while drunk on my ass why Oct. 21 1977 he writes chronicling nights of alcohol and amphetamines. In 1978 he grows close to a woman named Gina whose son becomes a surrogate for the fatherly devotion that steadies him: Actually Im getting bored and if it werent for Ginas son Nickie whom I love almost as if he were my own Id stop seeing her altogether Apr. 24 1978. Soon after his affections shift againfirst to a co-worker then to Debbie the woman he marries the following year. By 1979 Robert is remarried and father to a five-month-old daughter Robin alongside Sarah his daughter from his first marriage. His writing oscillates between tenderness and guilt: We have a five month old daughter and Sarah whos six now loves her and we love both of them. They are our girls and we have a beautiful family. Im happy and I think Deborah is happy too. Dec. 29 1979. But within the same entry he admits I drink a quart or two or a six pack a day Debbie always covered for me at work and never said a word but I know she was getting more and more unhappy now I drink a quart or two or a six pack a day. He clings to his daughters as his redemption: When Sarah is here all three of the girls sleep together in one bed and I sleep on the couch I often come in and look at them smiles on their faces Im a lucky man to have a beautiful family. Dec. 29 1979. In 1980 his focus widens beyond the personal to the political and existential. Moved by global unrest and John Lennons death he writes: With the impending conflicts in the world and the death of John Lennon I am suddenly rudely reminded of the nonsense of violence hate and war I must find a way to contribute to the world What can I do How can I as one man work to stop the horror that threatens to engulf us Dec. 18 1980. Days later optimism gives way to fatiguelawyers unpaid bills frozen water pumps and the decision to work through Christmas. In the summer of 1981 Robert seems to have a greater need to express himself through poetry on diverse subjects ranging from Sarah getting her ears pierced to his own mortality dreams and faith. The writing grows increasingly fragmented yet more revealing. In December a long and disorganized entry drifts through dream and memory: he imagines moving to his deceased fathers farm to live with and have relations with his fathers widow muses on a coming war in which the governments of US and USSR talk of a limited war in Europe of dropping A-bomb there to prove a point. How rude Dec. 5 1981 The first diary ends with a letter written in another hand almost certainly his wifes: Dear Robert I know this is your book exclusively and I didnt read anything I just cant talk about the way I feel. It just never comes out right. Apr. 27 1982. The second volume opens with domestic warmththe smell of my wifes cookingthen turns sharply to a sexually graphic poem about his lust for an unnamed Boy followed by reflections on the demolition of a hotel and porno theater where he describes his introduction to male-for-male sexual exchange. Context suggests that by mid-1982 his marriage to Deborah has quietly ended; the tone shifts from domesticity to transience loneliness and wandering. The final entry written in November 1983 during a trip to Florida following his grandfathers death closes on a note of exhaustion and moral ambiguity. Robert travels south with his mother stepfather and brother to settle family affairs grieving but restless. He admits to rifling through his grandfathers belongings for prescription drugs he could use recreationally. After finding nothing of use in the deceased mans belongings he confesses that he borrowed about seven or eight 5 mg Valiums from his grandfathers widows bathroom.The diary ends with Robert fixated on yet another woman: Depressed. Lonely. My new lover of four months left behind from a distance I notice how much I love her April 11 1983. His final paragraph sees him alone in Florida off his diet and eating ice cream. Some longer excerpts give a flavour for Roberts writing throughout his diaries: I may have overcome my addiction to cough syrup if not to codeine in general. The idea of drinking syrup makes me sick Im trying to read Sartre while drunk on my ass why Oct 21 1977. I love the night. Tonight Im going to speed all night. The night world is so quiet. I feel sometimes as if I am the only person left or maybe the only person who ever was. Once in a while I turn on the radio just to know that someone else is alive and awake Little blue and clean capsules with blue and white balls inside. I keep getting rushes from it My head is in a good place tonight must now go back to work. Almost 9: 15pm . Oct 26 1977 Gina had gained weight her hair was longer. She was not as beautiful as I had thought she would be. But we sat in her apartment and talked I took some liberties with her caressing her breasts and kissing her she told me about her son his father had been black . We have been sleeping together for two months here he explicitly describes his sex life with Gina I met a woman at work named Penny Breen to whom I am attracted Im already scheming how her daughter and my daughter will get along Its 1: 00am. Im tired of not making any money April 24 1978. I gave up my switch board job and went back to driving cab again. I work during the day now Debbie never webt back to the swtich board We make more money than ever but we just spend it faster. Were behind on the rent and utilities and they shut off our television cable yesterday but were happy Dec 29 1979 Cant say enough about my daughter Sarah. She is growing up and becoming more beautiful every day Shes been losing her teeth and growing new ones She is learning to write and can make up her own sentences The first one I saw was You will not go Im a lucky man to have a beautiful family. For next year Im going to try to quit drinking and using other drugs I want to Dec 29 1979. I am suddenly rudely reminded of the nonsense of violence hate and war. I have again been made aware of the need for each of us and specifically for me to become active in the ideals of non violence. I must find a way to contribute to the world What can I do How can I as one man work to stop the horror that threatens to engulf us December 18 1980. Boy I want you/Boy I want to explicit you/Boy I want you to bend over before me explicit And boy when its over I want to kiss your lips and leave without knowing your name carefully excerpted from a longer poem to avoid sexually explicit content in this write-up April 9 1982. Taken together these diaries offer a rare working-class portrait of bisexual identity addiction and mental-health struggle during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Roberts writingby turns erotic remorseful and self-awarereveals a man negotiating authenticity in a time and place that offered few models for it. His introspection however flawed stands as an unfiltered record of human contradiction: love shame devotion and survival on the margins of social acceptance. Both diaries are hardcover volumes together containing 97 pages of manuscript entries spanning from October 19 1977 through April 11 1983. The first measuring approximately 7.75 x 4.5 inches comprises about 71 pages of writing a tipped-in poem and an explicit Polaroid photograph presumably of the author with entries made sporadically between 1977 and 1982. The second smaller volume 6 x 3.5 inches continues Roberts reflections from April 2 1982 to April 11 1983 filling about 26 pages. Both diaries are well preserved showing only minor external wear with tight spines intact pages and legible handwriting throughout. Overall Very Good condition. ; Manuscripts; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF LGBT HOMOSEXUALITY GAY INTEREST SEXUAL DEVIANCE DEVIANTS BISEXUAL RISQUE GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT GENDER ISSUES GENDER STUDIES MEN'S STUDIES COMING OUT SEXUAL ADDICTION DRUG ADDICTION ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORYantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel.; Signed by Author . hardcover
19170001612SCHOFIELD BARRACKS OAHU HAWAII. Fair. 1917. On offer is a super original 1917 - 1918 66 page manuscript relic of American World War I training and military procedures handwritten by William Keliikui Wilcox Company I 1st Infantry who was born in Ulapalakua Maui Hawaii May 30 1887. Sergeant Wilcox lists his daily activities officer's rank and responsibilities condition of rifle reports hand drawn maps trench tactics gas warfare hygiene procedures notes on gas warfare tactical use of tanks procedures of courts martial shoe tests payroll notes and some financial sections duty roster diagram cook's duties recipe for bread longhand addition . There is also a letter to the Camp Commander of Schofield Barracks regarding a commission to Lieutenant as he has completed Officer's Training School. Wilcox identifies himself on the cover and notes 'Camouflage Chieftain' Military Training Camp Castner Brks barracks Oahu. The journal is kept in a flip style notepad which is somewhat fragile and has chips and rubbing a few loose pages and some pages were excised but appears otherwise complete and overall Fair.; 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF OTC OFFICER'S TRAINING WORLD WAR I WWI WW1 SCHOFIELD BARRACKS CAMOUFLAGE CHIEFTAIN WILLIAM KELIIKUI WILCOX ULAPALAKUA MAUI HAWAII AMERICANA US ARMED FORCES HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito . unknown
18650001539NEW YORK NY THOMASVILLE ALBANY GEORGIA GA. Good. 1865. On offer is an intriguing manuscript relic of the immediate post Civil War and Reconstruction eras being a handwritten diary dated New York July 26 1865 sporadically until April 1866 some financials at the back by an unidentified cotton buyer. The diary follows our buyer from social events in New York to a trip to Thomasville and Albany Georgia. The diary is perhaps one-third filled but researchers and historians of the era beside reading interesting background to the cotton business they will also find some interesting narrative from this man who discovers his partner is up to no good: the cotton purchased is reweighed and does not match the records: "I caught Mr. Brooks in rather a dark transaction. Talked plain to him." Other relevant business matters are also detailed: an expense breakdown for this trip a buyout list for purchasing the cotton a loan payment list what looks to be a donation list and finally an abbreviation table the cotton sellers are represented through the diary by initials this chart tells you the name that corresponds to the initials going to the Highlands races . Many names are mention if full and in part including: Rob John Mrs. Pease Mr. Thorn Passamore's Cotton Mr. Brooks Col. Barnard Mr. Lester . Overall G.; 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF COTTON BUYER THOMASVILLE ALBANY GEORGIA THE SOUTH CONFEDERATE STATES CIVIL WAR THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORYantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . unknown