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ria9780849337703_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; CRC Handbook of Management of Radiation Protection Programs 2nd Edition is unique in that it offers practical guidance for managing various aspects of radiation protection programs ranging from the daily operation of a health physics hardcover
2019Atlantic-9780815369707Chapman Hall 2019. Hardcover. New. Chapman Hall hardcover
2019Atlantic-9780815369707Chapman Hall 2019. Hardcover. New. Chapman Hall hardcover
18340001705DILLER NEBRASKA. Fair. 1834. On offer is a super handwritten blacksmith's ledger dated 1891 to 1892 from a blacksmith's shop in Eastern Nebraska called Miller Brothers Diller Nebraska. There are 144 pages full of entries for repairs on shovels to wagon wheels buggy repairs repairing bolts chain etc. There is a piece missing front cover the back cover corner is worn and chipping as well as a few pages that are blank. Includes an old bill from the Miller Brothers. Overall Fair.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF NEBRASKA BLACKSMITH MILLER BROTHERS DILLER NEBRASKA 19TH CENTURY COMMERCE COMMERCIAL AMERICANA LECTURE NOTES STUDY NOTES DOCTORS 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 . unknown
19290012280Mayfield Maine Hartstown Pennsylvania. Fair with no dust jacket. 1929. Softcover. On offer is a detailed draft of a book tracing the roots of the Ellis Family who resided in Mayfield Maine and Hartstown Pennsylvania. The draft was written by a son of Silence Ford Ellis of the Pennsylvania Ellis lineage. The author of this manuscript is Milo H. Miller 1863-1951. Miller was the author of two books each thoroughly researched genealogical treasures focused on the history of his family. He published A History and Genealogy of the Miller Family 1725-1933 tracing his fathers roots in 1933 and A History and Genealogy of the John Ellis Family 1797-1935 tracing his mothers roots in 1936. This 1929 manuscript is an early draft of the latter. To learn more about Milo Miller SEE BIO NOTES following this listing. The draft manuscript is largely handwritten in Millers tidy hand. He has divided the book into chapters based on the specific branch of the Ellis family he is following and included a section with images and relevant maps. He has written the title page Table of Contents and Preface in pencil. As well as a Preface about the importance of preserving family history and his labor of love and citing his reason for being the one to take on the task: The need of preserving the records during the lifetime of many of the older members of the family seemed imperative; and this seemed like an opportune time to compile such valuable genealogical data for upon such records is based much of the knowledge sought by historical and genealogical societies. The preface is extremely similar to the one Miller would ultimately publish in 1936. The following pages contain Millers typed pages intended for the book which he has glued into the larger pages of the draft as well as pencil-drawn family trees glued in newspaper articles relating to the people and places he is writing about and a hand drawn map of Mayfield Township featuring John Ellis farm. To give a sense of the content of the manuscript some of the titles of the pages in the draft follow: Explanation of the Map of John Ellis Farm Historical Sketch related to John Ellis and the farm Military Service of Benjamin an Enoch Ellis Sketch of Abner Ellis Military Service of Nathan F. Ellis The Death of John Ellis and Philander Coburn Ellis. There is a typed transcription of two Civil war letters between members of the Ellis family in 1863 and further pages discussing the Ellis family in the Civil War. Sadly Miller has cut rectangles out of some of the pages in order to extract photographs he had glued in. It appears he removed the photos in order to create photo pages for the book. The original photos and the cardboard on which they are pasted are included in this collection and the photos can also be seen in his 1936 book. Unfortunately cutting out the photos has impacted several of the family trees Miller drew with big chunks missing from the middle. It also appears Miller removed other content likely for use in the final book. Regardless of any imperfections of this draft manuscript it contains terrific insight into how a genealogist made connections and put his research into a condensed and readable format. It also provides awesome insight into familial connections in Pennsylvania and Maine. This would be a terrific addition to a collection or research arsenal of anyone interested in genealogy Pennsylvania Maine or the evolution of familial lineage. BIO NOTES ON MILO H. MILLER: Milo H. Miller was born to his brother to parents Samuel K. Miller 1822-1896 and Silence Ford Ellis 1828-1899 just outside of Hartstown PA. Milo and his brother Myron Manson Miller 1859-1949 were raised in Hartstown. Milo attended the Edinboro Normal School and Allegheny College. He worked as an education professional following graduation and his hobby was genealogy. He worked as a principal and head of schools in Girard and Knoxville and a principal in McKeesport. In 1894 Milo married Maude Moriarty 1870-1942. They had two children Florence Imogen Miller later Willison and Ellis Miller. Milo devoted much time to genealogical research. Milo retired from education in 1933. A few months after Maude died in September of 1942 Milo travelled to California to stay with Ellis and his family and eventually made his own home in California. The manuscript draft contains approximately 45 pages of content. The collection also includes seven photo boards with original photos cut and glued on to carefully measured boards containing labeled photos of 39 members of the Ellis family organized by family tree. The manuscript is paper bound and intact save for Millers cutouts and a few pages of content that have come unglued from the larger manuscript. There are bends and tears throughout as the book is not bound. Overall Fair. The photo boards are in VG condition. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 45 pages; Signed by Author . paperback
2003SONG141766441XTurtleback Books 2003-03-25. Bound for Schools & Libraries ed. library. Used: Good. 0.75x5.00x7.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Turtleback Books unknown
30571<p>Collection of 123 letters 437 manuscript and typed pages 95 retained mailing envelopes dated 1881-1980 the bulk dating from 1920-1949; also includes over 100 pieces of related ephemera pertaining to the family including photographs postcards telegrams family genealogy vital records greeting cards etc.</p><p><b> Maud Bauer Miller 1863-1942 and Family</b></p><p>Maud M. Bauer was born on 15 September 1863 in Alfred Center New York. She was the daughter of Thomas Dodson Bauer and his wife Hannah S. Sherman. Bauer and his wife were professors at Alfred University at the time of their daughter Maud's birth. Maud's mother Hannah was born 9 December 1828 and married Maud's father on 25 December 1860 in New Albany Indiana. Hannah died 17 June 1910 in Somerville Massachusetts. She had been a teacher and knew seven languages. Hannah was the daughter of Samuel Sherman and Malinda Stanton; Samuel Sherman was the son of Peleg Sherman and Hannah Willett; Hannah Willett was the daughter of Samuel Willett 1751-1843 and Elizabeth Andreas; Samuel Willett served in the American Revolution as a private in Capt. Jone's Company Col. Taylor's Regiment. Documents in this collection show Maud and others in the Miller family sought induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution or other lineage societies.</p><p>Maud M. Bauer moved with her parents to Newark Ohio where she attended the Old Central High School from which she graduated in 1879. She taught her first school at Loyd's on the Jacksontown Pike and later was a teacher at the Perryton School Ohio here she met her future husband Lebbeus D. Miller they were married on 23 March 1882 at the Pilgrim Congregational Church Newark Ohio by the Rev. E.J. Jones. </p><p>Maud worked as a stenographer at a utility company. She was also active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and took her oath from temperance reformer and women's suffragist Francis Willard 1839-1898 the national president of the WCTU and its founder.</p><p>Lebbeus Dunn Miller was born 11 May 1858 in Perryton Ohio. He was the youngest son of Joseph Miller and Elizabeth Custer 1812-1888. His grandfather was supposed to have been one Robert Miller of Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. The Oakland artist-poet Joaquin Miller also claimed to have a grandfather named Robert Miller from Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. Maud's family believed they may have been related to Joaquin Miller but it has not been proven. A pamphlet in the collection about Joaquin Miller's estate "The Heights" in Oakland has manuscript annotations and notes by Maud Bauer Miller detailing the estates history and Joaquin Miller's life. The pamphlet was given to Maud by Juanita Miller Joaquin Miller's daughter. Lebbeus Miller Maud's husband was the great-great grandson of Sarah Ball Custer the sister of President George Washington's wife Martha Ball Washington. There is only one letter in this collection by Lebbeus Miller. The collection mainly revolves around Maud Bauer Miller and her children and their correspondence with each other.</p><p>Maud and Lebbeus Miller had at least nine children: Walter Miller 1883- died young; Frank Stanton Miller 1884-1935; Amie Glen Miller 1886-1958 who married a Mr. Phillips; Sherman Miller died in infancy; Floyd Rudolph Miller 1889-1940 there are a couple of photos of him in the collection; Lorena Eleanor Miller 1893-1960 resided at St. Louisville Ohio she married a Mr. Tiebout; Carl Frederick Miller 1896-1967 resided at Frazeysburg Ohio and married a woman named Agnes and they had a daughter Kathleen. There are a number of letters in this collection by Carl Frederick Miller and his wife Agnes as well as letters of Lorena Miller and Frank Stanton Miller.</p><p>Another of Lebbeus and Maud's daughters was Cecelia Esther Miller 1899-1978 she was born in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio. She attended Perry Township High School graduating in 1916 and moved to Oakland California with her mother in 1921 where she met and married Jesse "Jack" Howard Cole. Cole was born 9 March 1900 in Buncombe Co. North Carolina and married Cecelia in Oakland on 8 November 1926. Jack Cole died on 5 January 1961 in Oakland. He served in WWI enlisting in 1916 and was discharged in 1919 as a corporal with the 115th Machine Gun Battalion. He saw action in WWI with the AEF in occupation Ypres Salient Belgium Veormeze Le-Mont Kemmel engagement; Bellicourt-Nauroy; Premont-Vasch Andigny Engagement; Selfe River; and remained in Germany for occupation purposes. There are a number of letters in this collection by and to Cecelia Miller and her husband Jack Cole.</p><p>Maud and Lebbeus' youngest daughter was Evelyn Elizabeth Miller. She was born 2 February 1905 in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio and died in 1974. She also moved to Oakland California with her mother Maud and sister Cecelia. Evelyn graduated from the Oakland Technical High School in June 1923 and went to work for Western Power Company in Oakland California as a stenographer and later was promoted secretary to the Division Electric Superintendent. She was married at the age of 22 in Oakland on 31 November 1927 to Justin Francis Greene. He was born 30 Oct 1900 Johnson Co. Texas and died 10 August 1961 in San Francisco. He was the son of Arthur Percival Greene born Texas and Laura Richardson born Oklahoma of Johnson Co. Texas. Greene later moved to Oakland California. Greene was a veteran of WWI and WWII. He enlisted in U.S. Navy for WWI 1918-1921 and Marine Crops in WWII 1942-1946 and wound up in the Quartermaster's Department in San Diego California. After the war he worked for the accounting department of P.G. & E. Pacific Gas & Electric he had previously worked for Western Power Company which is where he met his wife Evelyn Miller. Great Western Power merged with P.G. & E. There are a good many letters in this collection by and to Evelyn Miller and her husband Justin Greene.</p><p>Maud Bauer Miller had a brother Ralph Sherman Bauer 1867-1941. He was the proprietor of "The R.S. Bauer Company: Stationers Engravers & Printers" of Lynn Massachusetts. He later became mayor of Lynn. He married Fannie Miller daughter of John Miller shipbuilder of Chicago Illinois. They had one son Paul Sherman Bauer who married Kathrine Williams daughter of Judge Guy R. Williams of Havana Illinois. Paul Sherman Bauer attended Phillips Andover then Harvard Engineering School. There are letters in this collection by Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 and his son Paul S. Bauer 1.</p><p>Maud also had a sister Hulda Sherman Bauer 1870- who married a Mr.Emmel/Emmal of Glenwood New Jersey and a second sister Marie Sherman Bauer 1873-1948 who married Francis A. Neff Jr. of Salem Massachusetts. There is one letter in this collection by Hulda Sherman Bauer.</p><p>Lebbeus Miller died 24 September 1913 and after some time Maud moved to Oakland California in 1921 where she died 11 June 1942.</p><p><b>Description and Inventory of Collection:</b></p><p> <b>Correspondence: </b></p><p>The letters in this collection are written by and to various members of Maud Bauer Miller's family including Maud Bauer Miller her husband Lebbeus Miller and their children and children's spouses as well as her grandchildren including: </p><p>Evelyn Miller and Justin Greene her husband; Cecelia Miller and her husband Jesse Jack Cole; Carl Miller and his wife Agnes Lorena Miller as well as Maud Bauer Miller's brother Rudolph Ralph Sherman Bauer and her sister Hulda Bauer. Other relatives are Paul S. Bauer Fred Emma Sherman and Maud's grandchildren Dorothy and Frances Miller.</p><p>The bulk of the letters were written by Cecelia Miller Cole 23 and Carl Miller and his wife Agnes 30 and Evelyne Miller Greene and her husband Justin 17 the bulk of these letters were written to Maud Bauer Miller 56. The collection includes letters by Evelyn Miller Greene and her husband Justin 49 as well as Cecelia Miller Cole and her husband 7. There are also letters written by Maud Bauer Miller 8 Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 Frank Miller 3 Dorothy and Frances Miller 2 Paul S. Bauer 1 and other relatives friends business associates; as well as other letters received by Ralph S. Bauer Hannah Sherman Bauer Lebbeus Miller Esther Miller Lorena Miller etc.</p><p>An inventory of the letters and the years they were written follows: </p><p>7 letters 33 manuscript pp. dated from 1881-1918 of these 7 early letters 5 were written by Maud Bauer Miller to her brother Ralph S. Bauer 2 her husband Lebbeus Miller 2 and her mother Hannah Sherman Bauer 1.</p><p>There are 36 letters 134 manuscript and typed pages dated 1920-1929 9 of which are typed. There are 39 letters 119 manuscript and typed pages dated 1931-1939 18 letters are typed. The 75 letters in these two groups contain letters between the Miller family members and represent a good bulk of the collection. The letters written in the 1930s provide a look at conditions in the Great Depression with people out of work work hard to find and the struggles of people to survive even when employed.</p><p>The collection includes 19 letters 82 manuscript and typed pages dated 1941-1949 2 letters are typed. These letters from the 1940s contain letters by Justin Greene husband of Evelyn Miller Maud's daughter when he was in military service during World War II. There is also much correspondence during this period between Maud's daughters' families the Greene and Cole families who were living in Newark Ohio Cole family and Oakland California Greene family and includes descriptions of travel vacation etc. and correspondence between the family members spouses etc.</p><p>The 1960s are represented by 13 letters 39 manuscript and typed pages dated 1960-1967 and finally there are 9 letters 30 manuscript pages dated from 1974-1980 with all of which are hand written. The 1960s features correspondence between the family of Carl and Agnes Miller and Evelyne and Justin Greene.</p><p><b>Ephemera:</b></p><p>15 miscellaneous pieces of ephemera includes receipts typed and manuscript verse military papers pamphlets including: "<i>White's Biography Brochures: Ralph Sherman Bauer</i>" 1927 and "<i>About 'The Heights' at Oakland California</i>" by Juanita Miller given by Juanita Miller to Maud Bauer Miller 1921 it is annotated with manuscript notes by Maud to her children concerning Joaquin Miller the western artist and poet with whom they may have been related to however given the vagaries of Joaquin Miller's life and genealogy it is unclear.</p><p>58 typed pp. of genealogical notes on the Miller/Bauer/Sherman families some copies of others.</p><p>17 newspaper clippings mostly dealing with family such as death notices news etc.</p><p>19 various vital records births deaths marriages etc. for Miller/Bauer/Sherman families various dates.</p><p>2 telegrams dated 1949 </p><p>4 black and white photographs 3 dated 1921-1922 one not dated various sizes 3 photos labeled other not 2 photos of Floyd R. Miller 1 of Evelyn Anna and their mother in San Francisco California.</p><p>3 postcards dated 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Justin Greene from Agnes other.</p><p>4 invitations/cards date c1892-1926</p><p>58 greeting cards to and from Bauer/Sherman/Miller families mostly not dated.</p><p>13 used envelopes likely could be matched to letters in collection.</p><p><b>Examples of Correspondence:</b></p><p><i>"Perryton Ohio Sept 29th 1884</i></p><p><i>Dear Rudolph</i></p><p><i>I rec'd your postal in due time and hasten to reply to it. You must excuse my silence I have hardly found time to sleep this summer. On the 19th of this month we had a hard earthquake shock it shook our house badly knocking down pictures it was accompanied by a loud rumbling report. On last Saturday the 27th inst. we were visited by a terrific cyclone it lasted not over five minutes that is the worst of it; but during that time it did a great deal of damage. I had noticed in the afternoon that a storm was gathering and about half past five I went to the other end of town on an errand thinking that I could return before the rain. I did not stay much over a minute at the house and when I came out I noticed a strange cloud in the north west it had grown very dark the sky seemed almost black save this one cloud which was of a luminous gray color. It was cone shaped like this drawing of a cyclone shape and was moving at a fearful rate not more than 15 feet above the ground that is its lower edge it came rolling and tumbling sweeping everything before it. I ran for dear life to get home for I thought that we were all to be killed and I wanted to be with Leb and Baby but I could not outrun the storm it was on me before I knew it. The street was thickly lined with shade trees all the way until within a short distance from our house; when I reached this cleared space I could hear the trees crashing behind me; and a gust from another direction was blowing against me. My breath gave out before I reached home and I had to turn in at Mr. Beabout's next door. I got inside the gate just as Mr. Berry's house across the street went crashing down. Our barn and Mrs. Bland's stable are flat on the ground. Mr. Berry's house is demolished a dozen or more barns sheep houses houses &c. are ruined right in town; the Disciple Church is pronounced unsafe in an apple orchard back of us but 2 or 3 trees are left. Our old shop had a large portion of its roof rafters and all taken. Some of the weatherboarding is blown off of our house. But I don't think of that I am glad that none of us were killed…We send love to all. Write soon Maud"</i></p><p><i>"Perryton Ohio Sept 2 1900</i></p><p><i>Dear Mamma</i></p><p><i>I received your very welcome letter as I would have rec'd one from the dead. I have written to all of the folks in rotation and have heard from not one letter until receiving your postal. How is Hulda's health this summer I did hope that I would be able to come "East." This summer but that ever-ready question of finance bobbed up and stopped me. I hope that I will be able to come home before I get so old that I can't travel. We are straining every nerve to get a good stock of goods in our store; we have 5 times as much as when you were here. Frank goes to Newark tomorrow to work in the glass-house if he likes it he will stay about 3 mos. and then go to school. We could not spare Floyd for this reason and then I do not think that you ought to keep house. You would have to have some one to prepare and make you eat your meals at the proper time; you cannot stand the same system of recuperation that you did twenty years ago. Floyd is only a child and has a healthy boy's appetite I doubt if you could cook enough in one day to last him a day.</i></p><p><i>We do not intend to stay here all our lives when we have a good chance to sell out we will do so. Now Mamma don't live by yourself. I expect that you have as nearly a perfect home with the girls as you will ever have on earth. "Such polite well-bred children no smoking no drinking no hard or sordid work." No tired out cross worked down women. I know of few such homes. I am always glad to have you with me why not come here To be sure there is nothing inviting in my surroundings but I would give you filial respect. I wish that you would send me one of your dictionaries the next time Rudo sends me anything. Do you think that Frank could find employment with his uncle He is a careful & trusty clerk; his whole trend is to become a businessman he does not care for the professions. I think that Floyd will make a professional man he is just about lazy enough…</i></p><p><i>We have a large filtered cistern just adjoining the back porch and a double floored porch over it 12 x 14 ft. I have had a great quantity of water all summer enough for every purpose & for Mrs. McCann's use to as long as she lived there. The old Dr. died the last of July and she broke up housekeeping right away. She is going to New York about the first of Oct. to spend the winter with her daughter Addie a Bellevue nurse. Dr. Cullison has been on a 'tear' nearly all summer. He uses opium & drinks hard with it and every so often he goes 'stark staring mad.' Drunk I call it for that is what it is.</i></p><p><i>Mr. Blount's son Scott who left his wife & ran off with $200 of his firm's money has married again down in Tenn. His wife got a divorce…We all send love & kisses to you all…Lovingly Maud"</i></p><p><i>"170 St. Botolph St. Boston Mass.</i></p><p><i>My dear Sister & Brother</i></p><p><i>I received your welcomed letter at the hospital sometime ago and was so glad to hear from you personally although I hear indirectly thru Mamma about you & Jack and I am glad to hear that you are both well and seem to be so happy.</i></p><p><i>I am out of the hospital but unable to go to work at present but I will have to do something as soon as I can get hold of a line which is very hard right now and get to work or go on the street as I am only getting $5 a week from the Welfare and I can't eat and pay room rent on that so you see how I am situated so that's the reason.</i></p><p><i>I expect you will think I have one hell of a nerve but dear sister I am going to ask you to advance the money and pay this quarterly ins premium again for me which I shall absolutely refund you in six or eight weeks unless something drastic happens to me and unless this is paid at once I will hose it altogether which I do not want to unless absolutely have to. I know there is not much left of it but there is enough to bury me with should any thing happen and at present that is all I have left to do this job should I pass out.</i></p><p><i>I have borrowed on it now all that it is possible for me to borrow but as I say it will leave me enough for a half decent burial in case anything should happen. Hoping you will attend to his at once for me and I will surely repay you thanking you both and hoping this will find you both in best of health love & best wishes to you both your loving brother Frank"</i></p><p><i>"R.S. Bauer Company Lynn Massachusetts Stationers Engravers Printers August 17 1923</i></p><p><i><br /> Dear Sister:</i></p><p><i>I was very glad indeed to hear from you under date of August 10th and to know that your family were getting along so splendidly. The thing now for you to do is to show a little mercy to yourself. The children have all now received from you everything that a Mother could give and many things more than a Mother generally gives and it seems to me that what little time is allotted to you should be taken in as much comfort as possible. Both you and I are growing old this earth and with that in sight I think it is the duty of both of us to let up on ourselves and serve the rest of our time as easily as possible.</i></p><p><i>You know I am not much of a letter writer. I don't believe Fannie ever got six letters from me in the thirty years we have been married but that should not make any difference between us.</i></p><p><i>I do not know anything about the Neff family except that I suppose they are alive and well as they never visit us. The only time I ever see them is when I go over to Salem and force myself into their presence.</i></p><p><i>Huldah is not very well although she keeps happy and busy with her grandchildren. We expect her to spend Sunday after next with us at the little farm we own in Amesbury where we spend the summer time. It is a twenty-one-acre place on the border of a Lake. We have six acres in garden and raise almost everything the household needs up there including a little 'hell.'</i></p><p><i>It seems to me that Warren Harding died in order to tie the American people closer together and bring out the universal spirit of reverence for men who have served the Nation which spirit was rapidly disappearing in all directions. You probably know that all progress the World has ever made has been the result of some shock. It seems that people no matter how civilized or well educated or Christianized they may be respond always nobly to the 'gospel of the shock' and are not so early in responding to any other gospel.</i></p><p><i>Calvin Coolidge has visited us at our summer home with his wife and two children and I have a personal acquaintance with him. He will make a great President. There is no doubt about it as he has all the qualities of World Leadership without any of the personal magnetism or 'bull' that men in public life general possess. His heart and head are 100% all right and his capacity is marvelous.</i></p><p><i><br />With best wishes to you and the children from all of us Rudo"</i></p><p><i>"Frazeysburg Ohio Nov 4th 1923</i></p><p><i>Dear Mothers & Slats</i></p><p><i>You want to call in the neighbors doctors & friends as your son has a pen in his hand…</i></p><p><i>I have been busy this summer and fall lots of work. I have been away from home most of the summer started in the first of April and came home to stay two wks ago and have been gone five days of that time. I had to cut the gang that I have been working all summer back to fifteen men was working between 34 & 40. The oil business sure is on the bum here. I wish you would have them to strike dry holes out there as the Cal. oil can be sent to the eastern refineries for less money than the oil here. We have lots of work but are doing just what we can with the men we have…</i></p><p><i>Mother you were asking about the house & Keylor's. Kelyor's moved out the first of Oct. and I haven't any renter now. I have the house up for sale and I think mother that the way things are and the location that if you can get $600.00 out of your home you had better let it go and I will say if the house belonged to me that if I could get $500 I would sell because the house will have to be painted in the Spring & I am afraid it will have to be roofed. If you will leave it to me to make the deal and use my own judgement I may be able to sell. I told you what I would take if it were mine. If you think this not enough let me know. Houses are renting in Perrytown for $3.50 & $4.00 per month so you will have an idea what things are like over there. I don't know whether Agnes told you that I lowered the rent in Apr. for Kelyor I cut it back to $6.00 and that was about a $1.50 more than any other house was renting for and this is not hearsay but personal inquiry. Please consider these things and let me know where I stand…</i></p><p><i>How is the K.K.K. in Cal It is getting to be pretty strong around here. They held a big conclave at Zanesville last night I went down to get me some new harness and saw the parade…</i></p><p><i><br />I will close with lots of love…Carl Agnes & Kathleen…"</i></p><p><i>"Kansas City Mo. June 6 1927</i></p><p><i>Dear Mama & Evelyn:</i></p><p><i>I never have heard from you since you went to Russian River therefore I am wondering how your trip panned out.</i></p><p><i>I didn't write you the day I should because I did some very special work for two attorneys from Washington D.C. three & a half days last week & as it was rush work I was kept on the jump. They have a big case to try in Federal Court today & for two or three days so my work is thru. However in those 3 ½ days I made $25.00 but had to rent a typewriter to take home to do the work on so I got it for a month & it was $4.00 but yet that was pretty good pay I'll say and they were so pleased & appreciative of my work.</i></p><p><i>I do hope I get steady work soon but the weather is so bad – it is raining today again and these Missourians are sure afraid to start anything in the rain. Also the flood has caused a great depression in work. However we will persevere I guess and we will get settled someday…</i></p><p><i>Let us hear from you soon just a note…We both are fine. Jack's Colonel had to take an 18-day sick leave due to the accident he had three weeks ago so Jack is left alone with all the medical units to care for so I fear he is going to be very busy. Lots of love to you both Cecelia & Jack…"</i></p><p><i>"9 Sunnyside St. Jamaica Plain Oct 23 1931</i></p><p><i>Dear Grandma</i></p><p><i>We received your letter and was glad to hear from you. We are glad to hear that you have been able to take a vacation. Yes I am working in the same place and Frances is working for the Fire Underwriters. She works in the office. We are sorry that our father has had such bad luck but it seems that every time he goes to the Hospital that his women always leave him because he doesn't have any money to give them. If he had been living a good Christian life he wouldn't have all this trouble now.</i></p><p><i><br />Naturally we should be loyal to our Mother for all the care she gave us when my father was so mean to her. She brought us up to be what we are now and we should really be a credit to her. We are sorry to hear that Uncle Floyd is having a hard time with his business. It is terrible here in Boston. So many are out of work. Most of us are just lucky enough to keep our jobs. I hope that things will be easier for everybody soon. We are having such changeable weather lately. So many people have got colds. Well we hope you are in the best of health and wish the others the same with love and regards to the rest your granddaughters Dorothy & Frances."</i></p><p><i>"</i><i>Frazeysburg – O 4/10 1932</i></p><p><i>Dear Mother & All</i></p><p><i>…I have been very busy for the past three weeks and have quite a bit of work a head of me. How is business out there Things are getting worse here every day. I am still holding my job but don't know for how long. I have orders to cut off four of my men the 15th of April. The oil business in Ohio is shot for a long while cannot compete with the Western fields. I hope that Evelyn & Justin can still keep their positions. Tiebout has been working most of the time since the first of the year. So we have not seen or heard much of them. We have had sickness most of the winter. I started the ball rolling when I had the flu. I lost 4 days work the first time I have been off for six years of course I was paid but I hate to have my record broken…</i></p><p><i>Our company has been taking over some production that the Lenard Oil & Gas Co has had connected and has made a lot of extra work for me. I just finished a new gathering system & built a pumping station over back of Staddens Bridge. I am just starting a new gathering system u at Perryton my old home town on brother Joseph Chaney farm. So you see with having to entertain Joseph & look after my work I will be very busy. I hope that Floyd & Anna can come out of this slump with flying colors. Tell them just to take it easy and just make a living and be satisfied there isn't any use of them trying to build up a big fortune just for their kids to fight over. If they can't make anything they needn't to worry for they have lots of company. I have the same size pay check coming in every 2 wks and haven't saved anything for 2 yrs but greens are coming on now so I guess we will have something to eat.</i></p><p><i>…With lots of love from the whole family to Mother Slats & Justin Your scribbling son & all Carl Agnes Kathleen & Pee Wee"</i></p><p><i>"March 10 1933</i></p><p><i>My dear folks all:</i></p><p><i>I received your nice letter the other day and one hasn't much to write about or think of now except the national situation but somehow and someway I am sure that none of us will go hungry. Don't you worry about us back here and we are not going to worry about you folks but just rust in things coming back within a short time. Rome wasn't built in a day and the President has to have time to put into effect a new <u>deal </u>and a new policy. Now don't laugh for it is really a serious situation. But let's give him a chance to do right and perhaps if they make him a King or Mussolini or something he can do something and the Lord above knows that our Congress will never get us anywhere so give the President free reins and his chance to do something. I am for you Franklin if you make a go of it and will even vote for your reelection if you bring this country out of it but I fear he cannot stand the strain and will not be with us that many years longer.</i></p><p><i>Poor Jack is dumbfounded being a Southerner by birth and just having recently returned from the South where his folks sort of rechristened him a Democrat and made him believe that Roosevelt was our Savior etc. all this after I had Jack made a pretty good Republican for the past six years all my work wasted in vain after his Mother and Sisters etc. told him Roosevelt was great. He doesn't know what to think and of course cannot get to me to talk personally but just has to write his ideas etc. after the banks closed but he is trying to cheer me up and yet deep down in his heart he says that what I told him last summer would happen if Hoover was not re-elected if just about all coming true right the first ten days of the Democratic administration. However Jacks says he is a good sport and if Roosevelt saves the country and brings us out of this without suffering too much and makes things better I must become a Democrat but if Roosevelt fails and has to call on Republicans etc. to help him out of this crisis then Jack is never to speak to another Democrat ha!</i></p><p><i>Anyways folks here is what all of us connected with our organization have figured out. If you are paid 20% cash and rest checks do not spend on cent of the cash but hide it some safe place and pass every payroll check immediately on to the grocer baker candlestick maker etc. Don't hold a check a minute. Now Evelyn and Justin I am not sure whether our mortgage read that you had to pay gold tender or not but be most certain that you get a separate receipt for every cent you pay on your mortgage and hold on to those receipts. Don't let any ifs or ands get into the receipt either. Either they take your checks or they don't and get your receipt to these checks. If you get paid in small denomination checks buy so you may get back a little silver and then use another check for the next purchase etc. until you get every check out of your hands. Even buy your next winter coats underwear shoes new tires and everything possible that you can get them to take the checks that is payroll checks for and get yourself all fixed up. Buy all the groceries possible with such checks and store them away. Things in cans and that will keep. The theory is if worse comes to worse have some things on hand to eat and have those checks in some other fellows' hand and then your employer is responsible for the payroll checks or Roosevelt is or anyone but you.</i></p><p><i>Do the same way with the new money they issue and don't hold on to it but buy with it for all you can and pay on your mortgage with it if they will take it pay your insurance taxes etc. but do not hoard it for when the new money is finally called in unless a precedent is set it will be discounted and the ones holding it will get about 35 c on the dollar for all they have in their possession. However some new laws or other may off set these prophesies but pay for everything with those checks and save every cent of currency you get quarters halves etc. And don't keep from buying things you need because next year things will be so high you will not be able to buy them so fix up the car the house lay in grocers and get yourselves underwear coats suits dresses etc. to do for another year if you can possible do so with this new money you might be paid with.</i></p><p><i>However it usually takes all we make to live on as a rule but at that we are passing it on and will not be caught with it on hand. Mother has a hobby about holding onto checks and that is why I warned you about returning my little Kansas City checks immediately and not hold on to them for I was afraid this would be coming. I had no idea that Mother was holding onto any other checks or would have warned her also. We weren't the only ones; millions and millions are in the same boat and if only we all eat that is the main thing.</i></p><p><i>Now don't worry about us back here because we aren't going to worry about you. We know we all are pulling together and don't' knock the President for heaven's sake. That will ruin the country if we do and don't help him during this crisis now that it is on.</i></p><p><i>Do you all notice that Herbert Hoover is remaining in the East Wonder who is insisting that he remain there There is much hopes here that he is being asked by Wall Street or other financiers to remain near until this passes over and that is why he did not go on to California with Mrs. Hoover. He may have to save us yet.</i></p><p><i>All love to each of you and the best of luck Your devoted children Cecelia & Jack…"</i></p><p><i>"December 9 1933 321 West 29th Street New York City N.Y.</i></p><p><i>Dear Maud:</i></p><p><i>Isn't it about time I answered your letter of November sixteenth I think so – we were glad to hear from you and to receive your tin-type. There is not the faintest doubt that 'Tommie' was your Father is there You look just like the photo that his final widow sent us you also look well and very alert don't' look seventy.</i></p><p><i>I am glad that you can get a 'kick' out of prohibition and attending conventions yes I remember your snatching the man's whiskey bottle and how gentlemanly he offered you a drink.</i></p><p><i>I am glad that you are able to help the ministers even if it was only six cents rather a low price for a poem and music too. I do believe in helping others; even ministers they are the poorest paid swindlers there are and lots of them are self-hypnotized and believe their own patter. I am glad that you are feeling better in your ribs and should now if you could only use Christian Science you would know that you were not hurt and were in error when you thought you were. Sounds 'dippy' but there are lots of lunatics at large…</i></p><p><i>Will finally returned John's capital but the hard times set in before he was able to make any interest for them and I guess now we are going to arrive in H--- poor we will not be camels…</i></p><p><i>Will walks the streets and avenues continuously looking for a job but so far all that he has accomplished is leaving his name and address at various shops and factories this certainly is 'The Land of the Spree and the Home of the Knaves.' One has to be a bootlegger kidnapper or some other kind of crook to make money these times; and we are too old to learn crook ways…</i></p><p><i>Rude writes he is having his troubles trying to get any work out of the negroes and he says the English bosses are about as lazy as the coons. He seems to find the climate all right so far but the place is called 'the white man's grave yard.'</i></p><p><i>Glad that Frank still has a little work Victor is still looking for a job our kind of work seems to be like 'the dodo' – extinct.</i></p><p><i><br />Rude's address is Tarkwa Gold Coast Colony West Africa. Elsie just arrived there when he sent his last letter she said she had a wonderful trip ever since she left Peru enjoyed every minute of it. She had three days in London and flew over the city for a half hour to see it all at once…</i></p><p><i>It is mean of you to remind me that Christmas is nearly here. Christmas without money is fake. You know that Hannah always said 'it was a Catholic celebration gotten up by the priests to get the harvest money away from the people that Christ was born in July.' You can't prove it by me I wasn't present at the Virgin's lying-in.</i></p><p><i><br />Give our love to all of your family and don't forget yourself….yours Hulda"</i></p>
192012744Washington DC: Austin Jenkins Co. Manufacturing Publishers of High Grade Subscription Books 1920. Very good. Irregularly paginated with a selection of the published text along with numerous plates and unused subscription leaves at the end of the text. Original blue cloth decoratively stamped in red grey and black on the front cover with additional flap attached to the front fore-edge which folds inward showing the intended spine of the book. Light wear and soiling corners and spine ends rubbed. Title page with slight tear in gutter margin some minor scattered soiling to text light staining to outer margin of last few leaves. About very good but binding unusually bright and square. A handsome salesman's sample book for Kelly Miller's "Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War and Why and For What Purpose America and the Allies Are Fighting and the Important Part Taken by the Negro." As with similar salesman's "dummies" the work contains a selection of text including the table of contents numerous illustrated and photographic plates in various tints and with some in color intended to appear in the final published work and a section for subscribers to fill in orders blank here. The latter includes a page of text detailing the composition of the intended final published text with a chapter list text about the "Great Historical Value" of the book a short biography of the author and details about three different editions available to buyers: "Library" bound in "Rich red morocco" with sixteen color plates priced $350 "Popular" "Vellum de Luxe cloth" also with sixteen plates priced $2.75 and the "Million" edition "Cloth binding without color plates" priced $2.50. The author himself African American was the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University. A particularly bright example of an informative and visually-rich salesman's sample book for a noted African-American publication celebrating the service of Black troops in the Great War. Austin Jenkins Co., Manufacturing Publishers of High Grade Subscription Books unknown
1945List2747Paris France; and Washington D.C. 1945. Six 8 x 10 inch and smaller typed pages; one 4 x 5 inch card with two tickets; one twenty-six page 4 x 5.5 inch pamphlet; one six page 6 x 8.5 inch pamphlet; six 2.5 x 3.5 photographs and two 3 x 4.5 inch photographs. Of the printed matter most is affixed to paper some small tears and folds; overall excellent; photographs near fine. Mary J. Bremer 1917–2019 was a Technician fourth grade from Grant Township Nebraska. Her correspondents here include June Miller 1920–deceased an aviation cadet from Michigan and John Melotte 1919–deceased an artilleryman from Philadelphia. Bremer and Miller were members of the Women’s Army Corps WAC. Established in May of 1942 as the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps the WAC converted to active duty in July of 1943. The women of WAC known as Wacs served in noncombatant roles across the various theaters of World War II.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a small archive of Bremer’s documents and photographs relating to WAC: a few letters including a description of Paris the day after the Nazi surrender; two pamphlets including the War Department pamphlet Two down and One to go –; and a collection of photographs of Eisenhower’s victory parade and Roosevelt’s funeral procession.<br /> <br /> On April 12 1945 President Roosevelt died of a stroke in Warm Springs Georgia. His body was returned to Washington two days later and a military procession escorted it from the train station to the White House. Two photographs of the funeral procession are included in the archive. One showing a woman at the start of a section of the parade is identified verso as “WACs led by Capt. Machenâ€.<br /> <br /> The following month the Nazis surrendered. Bremer’s friend June Miller was stationed in Paris at the time. She wrote to Bremer the next day describing the celebration:<br /> “It began the night before when we stood on the roof and watched the flares go off all over the city--just like the 4th of July; the Sacred Couer was blazing with lights and it looked like a miniature fairy-land. Last night all the famous old buildings including the Arc d’Triumph was all lit up the fountains in the parks at Concord in front of the Trocadero--they were all going and the kids were wading and splashing around having the time of their life. It was really something to see--something the French had been waiting a long time for. “Fini le guerre†they kept saying--the end of the war!â€<br /> <br /> Miller also claims to have witnessed a bomber flying a celebratory loop through the Eiffel Tower:<br /> <br /> “When we came out of the Trocadéro the fountains were on and what a sight that is. Looking down over the water that looks like a miniature waterfall to the Eiffel Tower at the bottom of a small hill. And if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes I would never have believed that I saw a small bomber come through the bottom but that’s just what it did--and just did clear it too. The planes seemed to be going as wild as the people on the ground--they were so thick up there that pretty soon we thought surely something would happen.â€<br /> In June Dwight Eisenhower returned from Europe and a homecoming parade was held for him in Washington D.C. Six photographs of this parade are included in the archive including a shot of his plane arriving at the airport and one where he is visible standing in the back of a Jeep.<br /> <br /> Miller notes in her letter from Paris that “you wondered what was coming next; where we would go from here ‘cause in a sense there is still a war very definitely going onâ€. In fact John Melotte who seems to be Miller’s partner writes to Bremer that he “May be slated for that place they call the CBI but don’t tell June please. She does not want me to even mention the place in my letters so I let well enough alone†July 15 1945. Hostilities would continue in the CBI—the China-Burma-India theater—until September of that year.<br /> The process by which soldiers were selected to be sent to the Asia-Pacific theater is laid out in the War Department pamphlet Two down and One to go –. The pamphlet reminds them that there are still “a couple of big jobs ahead†the primary one being to “crush†or “smash†the “Japs†and the second one being to occupy and police “conquered lands . until the peril of future aggression is gone.†It is a visually striking piece with illustrations in a bold black and red color palette; its cover is a reproduction of a caricature of Hitler Mussolini and Hirohito by Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk.<br /> <br /> Also included in the archive are a card from a friend with tickets to an American League baseball game; a humorous poem congratulating Wacs Ruth O.B. and Lenore I. Nier on new work assignments; and a Christmas 1945 WAC pamphlet with a dinner menu and list of WAC officers. The pamphlet assures the Wacs with a note from Colonel Kenton Cooley “Before another Christmas you all will have returned to civilian life and each of you will take with you my appreciation and my sincere admiration for a great job well done.â€<br /> Of interest to scholars of women’s history especially in the military; and of the events leading up to the end of the Second World War. unknown
1961144325Paris: Agence VU 1961. Two vintage borderless photographs of Arthur Miller 1961. With an inscription in French regarding the date and location of the shoot signed by photographer Daniel Frasnay on the verso of one of the photographs.<br/><br/>7 x 9.5 inches Near Fine. Agence VU unknown books
185520582Sacramento CA: B. B. Redding State Printer 1855. 1st edition. Not in Cowan nor Greenwood. Bound in later blue-grey paper wrappers. Overall VG a faint qtr-circle stain to upper left of text paper/'San Quentin / -- 1855 --" written diagonally to lower half of front wrapper. Ex-lib with 2 small stamps to t.p. & a lightly penciled purchase annotation in the gutter after the 1st leaf 10 Nov 61 JR $10.00. 54 2 pp. "Register and Descriptive List of Convicts under Sentence": pp. 12 - 35 beginning with 1851; "Transcript of Received Escaped and Returned Prisoners since the Inspection of State Prison Books": pp 38 - 40. Last leaf blank. 8vo. 23.5 cm x 14 cm. <br/><br/>This an interesting factual account regarding the early days of the prison an era when it wasn't quite impregnable edifice that now stands; in 1854 75 of 520 incarcerated individuals had escaped without recapture. This situation caused Governor John Bigler to write: "Gentlemen: Having learned from various reliable sources that quite a number of escapes have recently occurred from the State Prison which to some extent is in your charge I deem it my duty respectfully to invite your attention to the section of the law regulating your duties. These escapes permit me here to remark give great force to allegations daily and publicly made that the prison building is insecure and that its management is not such as to fully accomplish the object of its erection in prevention and punishment of crime." However since the place is still going strong one can be reasonably confident the governor's concerns were addressed. Rare; Not in Cowan Greenwood nor Rocq. Not in the LoC on-line catalogue. OCLC & Melvyl record but one copy UCSB & no copies have been at auction these last 25 years. No other copies currently offered via the on-line matching services. B. B. Redding, State Printer unknown books
1911860New York: Review of Reviews Company 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A very good first edition complete ten volume set. Blue cloth with gilt title stamping on spine. Shelf wear on head and tail of all volumes. Top edges gilt. Bindings slightly shaken otherwise a very good set with minimal wear. Portrait endpapers. Pages are clean and bright. Small tear to page 32 of volume one; long tear to photo on page 37 of volume two. Maps and thousands of period black and white photographs. 8 x 11 quarto. Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65 with Text by many Special Authorities. Foreword by President William Howard Taft. Part I - The First of the Great Campaigns. Part II - Down The Mississippi Valley. Part III - The Struggle for Richmond. Part IV - Engagements of the Civil War Up to July 1862. A vital primary resource for anyone interested in the "War between the States." This multi-volume set requires extra postage billed at actual cost. Review of Reviews Company hardcover books
194942144NY:: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. The winner of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama the Tony Award for Best Play and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Made into the 1951 film. First edition orange cloth blue topstain "Printed in U.S.A. by American Book - Stratford Press Inc." on copyright page. Top edge and board edges show moderate fading else very good in a very good minor edge wear small chip at base of spine larger chip in upper corner of rear panel also about a half inch chip at the crown of the spine but the chipped portion is present though detached first state original $2.50 price on front flap author's photo on rear flap dust jacket. ; 139 pages . Viking, hardcover books
19741408072Doubleday & Company Inc 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Doubleday and Company Inc. 1974 1974. Quarto. First Edition First Impression. Limited to 150 copies with a signed bound in introduction and with a numbered and signed lithograph on Japanese paper by Henry Miller; laid in. Original black morocco leather titles to upper board and spine in gilt. Fine in unevenly faded slipcase. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
30571<p>Collection of 123 letters 437 manuscript and typed pages 95 retained mailing envelopes dated 1881-1980 the bulk dating from 1920-1949; also includes over 100 pieces of related ephemera pertaining to the family including photographs postcards telegrams family genealogy vital records greeting cards etc.</p><p><b> Maud Bauer Miller 1863-1942 and Family</b></p><p>Maud M. Bauer was born on 15 September 1863 in Alfred Center New York. She was the daughter of Thomas Dodson Bauer and his wife Hannah S. Sherman. Bauer and his wife were professors at Alfred University at the time of their daughter Maud's birth. Maud's mother Hannah was born 9 December 1828 and married Maud's father on 25 December 1860 in New Albany Indiana. Hannah died 17 June 1910 in Somerville Massachusetts. She had been a teacher and knew seven languages. Hannah was the daughter of Samuel Sherman and Malinda Stanton; Samuel Sherman was the son of Peleg Sherman and Hannah Willett; Hannah Willett was the daughter of Samuel Willett 1751-1843 and Elizabeth Andreas; Samuel Willett served in the American Revolution as a private in Capt. Jone's Company Col. Taylor's Regiment. Documents in this collection show Maud and others in the Miller family sought induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution or other lineage societies.</p><p>Maud M. Bauer moved with her parents to Newark Ohio where she attended the Old Central High School from which she graduated in 1879. She taught her first school at Loyd's on the Jacksontown Pike and later was a teacher at the Perryton School Ohio here she met her future husband Lebbeus D. Miller they were married on 23 March 1882 at the Pilgrim Congregational Church Newark Ohio by the Rev. E.J. Jones. </p><p>Maud worked as a stenographer at a utility company. She was also active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and took her oath from temperance reformer and women's suffragist Francis Willard 1839-1898 the national president of the WCTU and its founder.</p><p>Lebbeus Dunn Miller was born 11 May 1858 in Perryton Ohio. He was the youngest son of Joseph Miller and Elizabeth Custer 1812-1888. His grandfather was supposed to have been one Robert Miller of Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. The Oakland artist-poet Joaquin Miller also claimed to have a grandfather named Robert Miller from Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. Maud's family believed they may have been related to Joaquin Miller but it has not been proven. A pamphlet in the collection about Joaquin Miller's estate "The Heights" in Oakland has manuscript annotations and notes by Maud Bauer Miller detailing the estates history and Joaquin Miller's life. The pamphlet was given to Maud by Juanita Miller Joaquin Miller's daughter. Lebbeus Miller Maud's husband was the great-great grandson of Sarah Ball Custer the sister of President George Washington's wife Martha Ball Washington. There is only one letter in this collection by Lebbeus Miller. The collection mainly revolves around Maud Bauer Miller and her children and their correspondence with each other.</p><p>Maud and Lebbeus Miller had at least nine children: Walter Miller 1883- died young; Frank Stanton Miller 1884-1935; Amie Glen Miller 1886-1958 who married a Mr. Phillips; Sherman Miller died in infancy; Floyd Rudolph Miller 1889-1940 there are a couple of photos of him in the collection; Lorena Eleanor Miller 1893-1960 resided at St. Louisville Ohio she married a Mr. Tiebout; Carl Frederick Miller 1896-1967 resided at Frazeysburg Ohio and married a woman named Agnes and they had a daughter Kathleen. There are a number of letters in this collection by Carl Frederick Miller and his wife Agnes as well as letters of Lorena Miller and Frank Stanton Miller.</p><p>Another of Lebbeus and Maud's daughters was Cecelia Esther Miller 1899-1978 she was born in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio. She attended Perry Township High School graduating in 1916 and moved to Oakland California with her mother in 1921 where she met and married Jesse "Jack" Howard Cole. Cole was born 9 March 1900 in Buncombe Co. North Carolina and married Cecelia in Oakland on 8 November 1926. Jack Cole died on 5 January 1961 in Oakland. He served in WWI enlisting in 1916 and was discharged in 1919 as a corporal with the 115th Machine Gun Battalion. He saw action in WWI with the AEF in occupation Ypres Salient Belgium Veormeze Le-Mont Kemmel engagement; Bellicourt-Nauroy; Premont-Vasch Andigny Engagement; Selfe River; and remained in Germany for occupation purposes. There are a number of letters in this collection by and to Cecelia Miller and her husband Jack Cole.</p><p>Maud and Lebbeus' youngest daughter was Evelyn Elizabeth Miller. She was born 2 February 1905 in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio and died in 1974. She also moved to Oakland California with her mother Maud and sister Cecelia. Evelyn graduated from the Oakland Technical High School in June 1923 and went to work for Western Power Company in Oakland California as a stenographer and later was promoted secretary to the Division Electric Superintendent. She was married at the age of 22 in Oakland on 31 November 1927 to Justin Francis Greene. He was born 30 Oct 1900 Johnson Co. Texas and died 10 August 1961 in San Francisco. He was the son of Arthur Percival Greene born Texas and Laura Richardson born Oklahoma of Johnson Co. Texas. Greene later moved to Oakland California. Greene was a veteran of WWI and WWII. He enlisted in U.S. Navy for WWI 1918-1921 and Marine Crops in WWII 1942-1946 and wound up in the Quartermaster's Department in San Diego California. After the war he worked for the accounting department of P.G. & E. Pacific Gas & Electric he had previously worked for Western Power Company which is where he met his wife Evelyn Miller. Great Western Power merged with P.G. & E. There are a good many letters in this collection by and to Evelyn Miller and her husband Justin Greene.</p><p>Maud Bauer Miller had a brother Ralph Sherman Bauer 1867-1941. He was the proprietor of "The R.S. Bauer Company: Stationers Engravers & Printers" of Lynn Massachusetts. He later became mayor of Lynn. He married Fannie Miller daughter of John Miller shipbuilder of Chicago Illinois. They had one son Paul Sherman Bauer who married Kathrine Williams daughter of Judge Guy R. Williams of Havana Illinois. Paul Sherman Bauer attended Phillips Andover then Harvard Engineering School. There are letters in this collection by Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 and his son Paul S. Bauer 1.</p><p>Maud also had a sister Hulda Sherman Bauer 1870- who married a Mr.Emmel/Emmal of Glenwood New Jersey and a second sister Marie Sherman Bauer 1873-1948 who married Francis A. Neff Jr. of Salem Massachusetts. There is one letter in this collection by Hulda Sherman Bauer.</p><p>Lebbeus Miller died 24 September 1913 and after some time Maud moved to Oakland California in 1921 where she died 11 June 1942.</p><p><b>Description and Inventory of Collection:</b></p><p> <b>Correspondence: </b></p><p>The letters in this collection are written by and to various members of Maud Bauer Miller's family including Maud Bauer Miller her husband Lebbeus Miller and their children and children's spouses as well as her grandchildren including: </p><p>Evelyn Miller and Justin Greene her husband; Cecelia Miller and her husband Jesse Jack Cole; Carl Miller and his wife Agnes Lorena Miller as well as Maud Bauer Miller's brother Rudolph Ralph Sherman Bauer and her sister Hulda Bauer. Other relatives are Paul S. Bauer Fred Emma Sherman and Maud's grandchildren Dorothy and Frances Miller.</p><p>The bulk of the letters were written by Cecelia Miller Cole 23 and Carl Miller and his wife Agnes 30 and Evelyne Miller Greene and her husband Justin 17 the bulk of these letters were written to Maud Bauer Miller 56. The collection includes letters by Evelyn Miller Greene and her husband Justin 49 as well as Cecelia Miller Cole and her husband 7. There are also letters written by Maud Bauer Miller 8 Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 Frank Miller 3 Dorothy and Frances Miller 2 Paul S. Bauer 1 and other relatives friends business associates; as well as other letters received by Ralph S. Bauer Hannah Sherman Bauer Lebbeus Miller Esther Miller Lorena Miller etc.</p><p>An inventory of the letters and the years they were written follows: </p><p>7 letters 33 manuscript pp. dated from 1881-1918 of these 7 early letters 5 were written by Maud Bauer Miller to her brother Ralph S. Bauer 2 her husband Lebbeus Miller 2 and her mother Hannah Sherman Bauer 1.</p><p>There are 36 letters 134 manuscript and typed pages dated 1920-1929 9 of which are typed. There are 39 letters 119 manuscript and typed pages dated 1931-1939 18 letters are typed. The 75 letters in these two groups contain letters between the Miller family members and represent a good bulk of the collection. The letters written in the 1930s provide a look at conditions in the Great Depression with people out of work work hard to find and the struggles of people to survive even when employed.</p><p>The collection includes 19 letters 82 manuscript and typed pages dated 1941-1949 2 letters are typed. These letters from the 1940s contain letters by Justin Greene husband of Evelyn Miller Maud's daughter when he was in military service during World War II. There is also much correspondence during this period between Maud's daughters' families the Greene and Cole families who were living in Newark Ohio Cole family and Oakland California Greene family and includes descriptions of travel vacation etc. and correspondence between the family members spouses etc.</p><p>The 1960s are represented by 13 letters 39 manuscript and typed pages dated 1960-1967 and finally there are 9 letters 30 manuscript pages dated from 1974-1980 with all of which are hand written. The 1960s features correspondence between the family of Carl and Agnes Miller and Evelyne and Justin Greene.</p><p><b>Ephemera:</b></p><p>15 miscellaneous pieces of ephemera includes receipts typed and manuscript verse military papers pamphlets including: "<i>White's Biography Brochures: Ralph Sherman Bauer</i>" 1927 and "<i>About 'The Heights' at Oakland California</i>" by Juanita Miller given by Juanita Miller to Maud Bauer Miller 1921 it is annotated with manuscript notes by Maud to her children concerning Joaquin Miller the western artist and poet with whom they may have been related to however given the vagaries of Joaquin Miller's life and genealogy it is unclear.</p><p>58 typed pp. of genealogical notes on the Miller/Bauer/Sherman families some copies of others.</p><p>17 newspaper clippings mostly dealing with family such as death notices news etc.</p><p>19 various vital records births deaths marriages etc. for Miller/Bauer/Sherman families various dates.</p><p>2 telegrams dated 1949 </p><p>4 black and white photographs 3 dated 1921-1922 one not dated various sizes 3 photos labeled other not 2 photos of Floyd R. Miller 1 of Evelyn Anna and their mother in San Francisco California.</p><p>3 postcards dated 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Justin Greene from Agnes other.</p><p>4 invitations/cards date c1892-1926</p><p>58 greeting cards to and from Bauer/Sherman/Miller families mostly not dated.</p><p>13 used envelopes likely could be matched to letters in collection.</p><p><b>Examples of Correspondence:</b></p><p><i>"Perryton Ohio Sept 29th 1884</i></p><p><i>Dear Rudolph</i></p><p><i>I rec'd your postal in due time and hasten to reply to it. You must excuse my silence I have hardly found time to sleep this summer. On the 19th of this month we had a hard earthquake shock it shook our house badly knocking down pictures it was accompanied by a loud rumbling report. On last Saturday the 27th inst. we were visited by a terrific cyclone it lasted not over five minutes that is the worst of it; but during that time it did a great deal of damage. I had noticed in the afternoon that a storm was gathering and about half past five I went to the other end of town on an errand thinking that I could return before the rain. I did not stay much over a minute at the house and when I came out I noticed a strange cloud in the north west it had grown very dark the sky seemed almost black save this one cloud which was of a luminous gray color. It was cone shaped like this drawing of a cyclone shape and was moving at a fearful rate not more than 15 feet above the ground that is its lower edge it came rolling and tumbling sweeping everything before it. I ran for dear life to get home for I thought that we were all to be killed and I wanted to be with Leb and Baby but I could not outrun the storm it was on me before I knew it. The street was thickly lined with shade trees all the way until within a short distance from our house; when I reached this cleared space I could hear the trees crashing behind me; and a gust from another direction was blowing against me. My breath gave out before I reached home and I had to turn in at Mr. Beabout's next door. I got inside the gate just as Mr. Berry's house across the street went crashing down. Our barn and Mrs. Bland's stable are flat on the ground. Mr. Berry's house is demolished a dozen or more barns sheep houses houses &c. are ruined right in town; the Disciple Church is pronounced unsafe in an apple orchard back of us but 2 or 3 trees are left. Our old shop had a large portion of its roof rafters and all taken. Some of the weatherboarding is blown off of our house. But I don't think of that I am glad that none of us were killed…We send love to all. Write soon Maud"</i></p><p><i>"Perryton Ohio Sept 2 1900</i></p><p><i>Dear Mamma</i></p><p><i>I received your very welcome letter as I would have rec'd one from the dead. I have written to all of the folks in rotation and have heard from not one letter until receiving your postal. How is Hulda's health this summer I did hope that I would be able to come "East." This summer but that ever-ready question of finance bobbed up and stopped me. I hope that I will be able to come home before I get so old that I can't travel. We are straining every nerve to get a good stock of goods in our store; we have 5 times as much as when you were here. Frank goes to Newark tomorrow to work in the glass-house if he likes it he will stay about 3 mos. and then go to school. We could not spare Floyd for this reason and then I do not think that you ought to keep house. You would have to have some one to prepare and make you eat your meals at the proper time; you cannot stand the same system of recuperation that you did twenty years ago. Floyd is only a child and has a healthy boy's appetite I doubt if you could cook enough in one day to last him a day.</i></p><p><i>We do not intend to stay here all our lives when we have a good chance to sell out we will do so. Now Mamma don't live by yourself. I expect that you have as nearly a perfect home with the girls as you will ever have on earth. "Such polite well-bred children no smoking no drinking no hard or sordid work." No tired out cross worked down women. I know of few such homes. I am always glad to have you with me why not come here To be sure there is nothing inviting in my surroundings but I would give you filial respect. I wish that you would send me one of your dictionaries the next time Rudo sends me anything. Do you think that Frank could find employment with his uncle He is a careful & trusty clerk; his whole trend is to become a businessman he does not care for the professions. I think that Floyd will make a professional man he is just about lazy enough…</i></p><p><i>We have a large filtered cistern just adjoining the back porch and a double floored porch over it 12 x 14 ft. I have had a great quantity of water all summer enough for every purpose & for Mrs. McCann's use to as long as she lived there. The old Dr. died the last of July and she broke up housekeeping right away. She is going to New York about the first of Oct. to spend the winter with her daughter Addie a Bellevue nurse. Dr. Cullison has been on a 'tear' nearly all summer. He uses opium & drinks hard with it and every so often he goes 'stark staring mad.' Drunk I call it for that is what it is.</i></p><p><i>Mr. Blount's son Scott who left his wife & ran off with $200 of his firm's money has married again down in Tenn. His wife got a divorce…We all send love & kisses to you all…Lovingly Maud"</i></p><p><i>"170 St. Botolph St. Boston Mass.</i></p><p><i>My dear Sister & Brother</i></p><p><i>I received your welcomed letter at the hospital sometime ago and was so glad to hear from you personally although I hear indirectly thru Mamma about you & Jack and I am glad to hear that you are both well and seem to be so happy.</i></p><p><i>I am out of the hospital but unable to go to work at present but I will have to do something as soon as I can get hold of a line which is very hard right now and get to work or go on the street as I am only getting $5 a week from the Welfare and I can't eat and pay room rent on that so you see how I am situated so that's the reason.</i></p><p><i>I expect you will think I have one hell of a nerve but dear sister I am going to ask you to advance the money and pay this quarterly ins premium again for me which I shall absolutely refund you in six or eight weeks unless something drastic happens to me and unless this is paid at once I will hose it altogether which I do not want to unless absolutely have to. I know there is not much left of it but there is enough to bury me with should any thing happen and at present that is all I have left to do this job should I pass out.</i></p><p><i>I have borrowed on it now all that it is possible for me to borrow but as I say it will leave me enough for a half decent burial in case anything should happen. Hoping you will attend to his at once for me and I will surely repay you thanking you both and hoping this will find you both in best of health love & best wishes to you both your loving brother Frank"</i></p><p><i>"R.S. Bauer Company Lynn Massachusetts Stationers Engravers Printers August 17 1923</i></p><p><i><br /> Dear Sister:</i></p><p><i>I was very glad indeed to hear from you under date of August 10th and to know that your family were getting along so splendidly. The thing now for you to do is to show a little mercy to yourself. The children have all now received from you everything that a Mother could give and many things more than a Mother generally gives and it seems to me that what little time is allotted to you should be taken in as much comfort as possible. Both you and I are growing old this earth and with that in sight I think it is the duty of both of us to let up on ourselves and serve the rest of our time as easily as possible.</i></p><p><i>You know I am not much of a letter writer. I don't believe Fannie ever got six letters from me in the thirty years we have been married but that should not make any difference between us.</i></p><p><i>I do not know anything about the Neff family except that I suppose they are alive and well as they never visit us. The only time I ever see them is when I go over to Salem and force myself into their presence.</i></p><p><i>Huldah is not very well although she keeps happy and busy with her grandchildren. We expect her to spend Sunday after next with us at the little farm we own in Amesbury where we spend the summer time. It is a twenty-one-acre place on the border of a Lake. We have six acres in garden and raise almost everything the household needs up there including a little 'hell.'</i></p><p><i>It seems to me that Warren Harding died in order to tie the American people closer together and bring out the universal spirit of reverence for men who have served the Nation which spirit was rapidly disappearing in all directions. You probably know that all progress the World has ever made has been the result of some shock. It seems that people no matter how civilized or well educated or Christianized they may be respond always nobly to the 'gospel of the shock' and are not so early in responding to any other gospel.</i></p><p><i>Calvin Coolidge has visited us at our summer home with his wife and two children and I have a personal acquaintance with him. He will make a great President. There is no doubt about it as he has all the qualities of World Leadership without any of the personal magnetism or 'bull' that men in public life general possess. His heart and head are 100% all right and his capacity is marvelous.</i></p><p><i><br />With best wishes to you and the children from all of us Rudo"</i></p><p><i>"Frazeysburg Ohio Nov 4th 1923</i></p><p><i>Dear Mothers & Slats</i></p><p><i>You want to call in the neighbors doctors & friends as your son has a pen in his hand…</i></p><p><i>I have been busy this summer and fall lots of work. I have been away from home most of the summer started in the first of April and came home to stay two wks ago and have been gone five days of that time. I had to cut the gang that I have been working all summer back to fifteen men was working between 34 & 40. The oil business sure is on the bum here. I wish you would have them to strike dry holes out there as the Cal. oil can be sent to the eastern refineries for less money than the oil here. We have lots of work but are doing just what we can with the men we have…</i></p><p><i>Mother you were asking about the house & Keylor's. Kelyor's moved out the first of Oct. and I haven't any renter now. I have the house up for sale and I think mother that the way things are and the location that if you can get $600.00 out of your home you had better let it go and I will say if the house belonged to me that if I could get $500 I would sell because the house will have to be painted in the Spring & I am afraid it will have to be roofed. If you will leave it to me to make the deal and use my own judgement I may be able to sell. I told you what I would take if it were mine. If you think this not enough let me know. Houses are renting in Perrytown for $3.50 & $4.00 per month so you will have an idea what things are like over there. I don't know whether Agnes told you that I lowered the rent in Apr. for Kelyor I cut it back to $6.00 and that was about a $1.50 more than any other house was renting for and this is not hearsay but personal inquiry. Please consider these things and let me know where I stand…</i></p><p><i>How is the K.K.K. in Cal It is getting to be pretty strong around here. They held a big conclave at Zanesville last night I went down to get me some new harness and saw the parade…</i></p><p><i><br />I will close with lots of love…Carl Agnes & Kathleen…"</i></p><p><i>"Kansas City Mo. June 6 1927</i></p><p><i>Dear Mama & Evelyn:</i></p><p><i>I never have heard from you since you went to Russian River therefore I am wondering how your trip panned out.</i></p><p><i>I didn't write you the day I should because I did some very special work for two attorneys from Washington D.C. three & a half days last week & as it was rush work I was kept on the jump. They have a big case to try in Federal Court today & for two or three days so my work is thru. However in those 3 ½ days I made $25.00 but had to rent a typewriter to take home to do the work on so I got it for a month & it was $4.00 but yet that was pretty good pay I'll say and they were so pleased & appreciative of my work.</i></p><p><i>I do hope I get steady work soon but the weather is so bad – it is raining today again and these Missourians are sure afraid to start anything in the rain. Also the flood has caused a great depression in work. However we will persevere I guess and we will get settled someday…</i></p><p><i>Let us hear from you soon just a note…We both are fine. Jack's Colonel had to take an 18-day sick leave due to the accident he had three weeks ago so Jack is left alone with all the medical units to care for so I fear he is going to be very busy. Lots of love to you both Cecelia & Jack…"</i></p><p><i>"9 Sunnyside St. Jamaica Plain Oct 23 1931</i></p><p><i>Dear Grandma</i></p><p><i>We received your letter and was glad to hear from you. We are glad to hear that you have been able to take a vacation. Yes I am working in the same place and Frances is working for the Fire Underwriters. She works in the office. We are sorry that our father has had such bad luck but it seems that every time he goes to the Hospital that his women always leave him because he doesn't have any money to give them. If he had been living a good Christian life he wouldn't have all this trouble now.</i></p><p><i><br />Naturally we should be loyal to our Mother for all the care she gave us when my father was so mean to her. She brought us up to be what we are now and we should really be a credit to her. We are sorry to hear that Uncle Floyd is having a hard time with his business. It is terrible here in Boston. So many are out of work. Most of us are just lucky enough to keep our jobs. I hope that things will be easier for everybody soon. We are having such changeable weather lately. So many people have got colds. Well we hope you are in the best of health and wish the others the same with love and regards to the rest your granddaughters Dorothy & Frances."</i></p><p><i>"</i><i>Frazeysburg – O 4/10 1932</i></p><p><i>Dear Mother & All</i></p><p><i>…I have been very busy for the past three weeks and have quite a bit of work a head of me. How is business out there Things are getting worse here every day. I am still holding my job but don't know for how long. I have orders to cut off four of my men the 15th of April. The oil business in Ohio is shot for a long while cannot compete with the Western fields. I hope that Evelyn & Justin can still keep their positions. Tiebout has been working most of the time since the first of the year. So we have not seen or heard much of them. We have had sickness most of the winter. I started the ball rolling when I had the flu. I lost 4 days work the first time I have been off for six years of course I was paid but I hate to have my record broken…</i></p><p><i>Our company has been taking over some production that the Lenard Oil & Gas Co has had connected and has made a lot of extra work for me. I just finished a new gathering system & built a pumping station over back of Staddens Bridge. I am just starting a new gathering system u at Perryton my old home town on brother Joseph Chaney farm. So you see with having to entertain Joseph & look after my work I will be very busy. I hope that Floyd & Anna can come out of this slump with flying colors. Tell them just to take it easy and just make a living and be satisfied there isn't any use of them trying to build up a big fortune just for their kids to fight over. If they can't make anything they needn't to worry for they have lots of company. I have the same size pay check coming in every 2 wks and haven't saved anything for 2 yrs but greens are coming on now so I guess we will have something to eat.</i></p><p><i>…With lots of love from the whole family to Mother Slats & Justin Your scribbling son & all Carl Agnes Kathleen & Pee Wee"</i></p><p><i>"March 10 1933</i></p><p><i>My dear folks all:</i></p><p><i>I received your nice letter the other day and one hasn't much to write about or think of now except the national situation but somehow and someway I am sure that none of us will go hungry. Don't you worry about us back here and we are not going to worry about you folks but just rust in things coming back within a short time. Rome wasn't built in a day and the President has to have time to put into effect a new <u>deal </u>and a new policy. Now don't laugh for it is really a serious situation. But let's give him a chance to do right and perhaps if they make him a King or Mussolini or something he can do something and the Lord above knows that our Congress will never get us anywhere so give the President free reins and his chance to do something. I am for you Franklin if you make a go of it and will even vote for your reelection if you bring this country out of it but I fear he cannot stand the strain and will not be with us that many years longer.</i></p><p><i>Poor Jack is dumbfounded being a Southerner by birth and just having recently returned from the South where his folks sort of rechristened him a Democrat and made him believe that Roosevelt was our Savior etc. all this after I had Jack made a pretty good Republican for the past six years all my work wasted in vain after his Mother and Sisters etc. told him Roosevelt was great. He doesn't know what to think and of course cannot get to me to talk personally but just has to write his ideas etc. after the banks closed but he is trying to cheer me up and yet deep down in his heart he says that what I told him last summer would happen if Hoover was not re-elected if just about all coming true right the first ten days of the Democratic administration. However Jacks says he is a good sport and if Roosevelt saves the country and brings us out of this without suffering too much and makes things better I must become a Democrat but if Roosevelt fails and has to call on Republicans etc. to help him out of this crisis then Jack is never to speak to another Democrat ha!</i></p><p><i>Anyways folks here is what all of us connected with our organization have figured out. If you are paid 20% cash and rest checks do not spend on cent of the cash but hide it some safe place and pass every payroll check immediately on to the grocer baker candlestick maker etc. Don't hold a check a minute. Now Evelyn and Justin I am not sure whether our mortgage read that you had to pay gold tender or not but be most certain that you get a separate receipt for every cent you pay on your mortgage and hold on to those receipts. Don't let any ifs or ands get into the receipt either. Either they take your checks or they don't and get your receipt to these checks. If you get paid in small denomination checks buy so you may get back a little silver and then use another check for the next purchase etc. until you get every check out of your hands. Even buy your next winter coats underwear shoes new tires and everything possible that you can get them to take the checks that is payroll checks for and get yourself all fixed up. Buy all the groceries possible with such checks and store them away. Things in cans and that will keep. The theory is if worse comes to worse have some things on hand to eat and have those checks in some other fellows' hand and then your employer is responsible for the payroll checks or Roosevelt is or anyone but you.</i></p><p><i>Do the same way with the new money they issue and don't hold on to it but buy with it for all you can and pay on your mortgage with it if they will take it pay your insurance taxes etc. but do not hoard it for when the new money is finally called in unless a precedent is set it will be discounted and the ones holding it will get about 35 c on the dollar for all they have in their possession. However some new laws or other may off set these prophesies but pay for everything with those checks and save every cent of currency you get quarters halves etc. And don't keep from buying things you need because next year things will be so high you will not be able to buy them so fix up the car the house lay in grocers and get yourselves underwear coats suits dresses etc. to do for another year if you can possible do so with this new money you might be paid with.</i></p><p><i>However it usually takes all we make to live on as a rule but at that we are passing it on and will not be caught with it on hand. Mother has a hobby about holding onto checks and that is why I warned you about returning my little Kansas City checks immediately and not hold on to them for I was afraid this would be coming. I had no idea that Mother was holding onto any other checks or would have warned her also. We weren't the only ones; millions and millions are in the same boat and if only we all eat that is the main thing.</i></p><p><i>Now don't worry about us back here because we aren't going to worry about you. We know we all are pulling together and don't' knock the President for heaven's sake. That will ruin the country if we do and don't help him during this crisis now that it is on.</i></p><p><i>Do you all notice that Herbert Hoover is remaining in the East Wonder who is insisting that he remain there There is much hopes here that he is being asked by Wall Street or other financiers to remain near until this passes over and that is why he did not go on to California with Mrs. Hoover. He may have to save us yet.</i></p><p><i>All love to each of you and the best of luck Your devoted children Cecelia & Jack…"</i></p><p><i>"December 9 1933 321 West 29th Street New York City N.Y.</i></p><p><i>Dear Maud:</i></p><p><i>Isn't it about time I answered your letter of November sixteenth I think so – we were glad to hear from you and to receive your tin-type. There is not the faintest doubt that 'Tommie' was your Father is there You look just like the photo that his final widow sent us you also look well and very alert don't' look seventy.</i></p><p><i>I am glad that you can get a 'kick' out of prohibition and attending conventions yes I remember your snatching the man's whiskey bottle and how gentlemanly he offered you a drink.</i></p><p><i>I am glad that you are able to help the ministers even if it was only six cents rather a low price for a poem and music too. I do believe in helping others; even ministers they are the poorest paid swindlers there are and lots of them are self-hypnotized and believe their own patter. I am glad that you are feeling better in your ribs and should now if you could only use Christian Science you would know that you were not hurt and were in error when you thought you were. Sounds 'dippy' but there are lots of lunatics at large…</i></p><p><i>Will finally returned John's capital but the hard times set in before he was able to make any interest for them and I guess now we are going to arrive in H--- poor we will not be camels…</i></p><p><i>Will walks the streets and avenues continuously looking for a job but so far all that he has accomplished is leaving his name and address at various shops and factories this certainly is 'The Land of the Spree and the Home of the Knaves.' One has to be a bootlegger kidnapper or some other kind of crook to make money these times; and we are too old to learn crook ways…</i></p><p><i>Rude writes he is having his troubles trying to get any work out of the negroes and he says the English bosses are about as lazy as the coons. He seems to find the climate all right so far but the place is called 'the white man's grave yard.'</i></p><p><i>Glad that Frank still has a little work Victor is still looking for a job our kind of work seems to be like 'the dodo' – extinct.</i></p><p><i><br />Rude's address is Tarkwa Gold Coast Colony West Africa. Elsie just arrived there when he sent his last letter she said she had a wonderful trip ever since she left Peru enjoyed every minute of it. She had three days in London and flew over the city for a half hour to see it all at once…</i></p><p><i>It is mean of you to remind me that Christmas is nearly here. Christmas without money is fake. You know that Hannah always said 'it was a Catholic celebration gotten up by the priests to get the harvest money away from the people that Christ was born in July.' You can't prove it by me I wasn't present at the Virgin's lying-in.</i></p><p><i><br />Give our love to all of your family and don't forget yourself….yours Hulda"</i></p> books
6625London: John Murphy. Mezzotint printed in colours and finished by hand by Gosse small tear to lower margin. A charming colour-printed mezzotint of English country life<br/> <br/> Two young children are shown leaning on a stile looking out with interest at the world outside the confines of their home. The family dog looks up at the viewer. Behind them a fairly substantial cottage built of stone with two brick chimneys sits comfortably in its wooded surroundings beneath a pleasant blue sky. The whole scene is composed of richly contrasting colors and forms and could serve to illustrate the beginning of a fairy tale. John Murphy unknown
194942144NY:: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. The winner of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama the Tony Award for Best Play and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Made into the 1951 film. First edition orange cloth blue topstain "Printed in U.S.A. by American Book - Stratford Press Inc." on copyright page. Top edge and board edges show moderate fading else very good in a very good minor edge wear small chip at base of spine larger chip in upper corner of rear panel also about a half inch chip at the crown of the spine but the chipped portion is present though detached first state original $2.50 price on front flap author's photo on rear flap dust jacket. ; 139 pages . Viking, hardcover
2001421286New York: Viking 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed on the title page to a Tony Award-winning actress: "To Marian Seldes Arthur Miller." Laid in is an invitation to Seldes to join Miller director Jerry Zaks and author Scott Griffin to dinner at Elaine's as well as a warm note to Seldes from Griffin. A nice theatrical association. Viking hardcover
196352191New York: The Village Squire 1963. Very good plus. Collection of original illustrated sales brochures for the raccoon coats beach capes and cocktail suits of influential gay menswear designer Bill Miller's Greenwich Village boutique. Christian William Bill Miller research subject of Alfred Kinsey and friend of Auden Cocteau Coward and Gore Vidal was famously once the most beautiful man in Manhattan. Though Miller was a Fullbright scholar and photographer whose remarkable design career ranged from plastics research for the Coast Guard to advertising and stage sets to modernist furniture and menswear his personal accomplishments are still eclipsed by his association with Kinsey and the many photographs taken of him by others: a cautionary tale for anyone tempted to be too beautiful or to have too many famous friends: "Paul Cadmus drew him George Platt Lynes photographed him and everyone wanted him" Kaiser. <br /> <br /> Described in one contemporary trade publication as "a testing ground for avant-garde men's fashion ideas" The Village Squire was co-founded by Miller with Frank Lawrence in the late 1950s and made its reputation by shrinking shirts ironing out the pleats of Ivy style and lowering front rises to dangerous levels. These collected brochures sell Miller's Italian-influenced hopsack blazers and fitted everything-else with a knowing camp worldliness while the Spring and Summer lines bring in an increasingly outré line of "masculine playsuits" tapered knitwear creating "muscles you never suspected you had" and lace-up briefs in corduroy denim and leather all illustrated on strapping young men somewhere in the South Pacific. Four original 16-page folded sales leaflets with black and white illustrations with additional 3-page "Slack Anatomy" brochure and one-sheet order form. Light soil and dampstaining to one leaflet; all others show minor edgewear only. (The Village Squire) unknown
195831923N.P. CA: Fink 11/20/58 1958. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. FOUR PAGE TLS FROM ROBERT FINK 11/20/58 to Henry Miller from his close friend Robert Fink on 8vo. off-white bond in near fine condition. "Dear Henry:- / I need two paperback Colossi very badly. One for Edie's Spanish teachers also teaches French. He was at one time a student of Wallace Folie and for some curious reason never read any of your books! So I wish to give him Colossus since he is a nice Jewish boychik and his wife is a typical New York girl from the era when all the Yiddish mamas during the 20's were naming their daughters Shirley. The Gentiles used other names. . . ask your first wife!. Anyway the enclosed is for the Colossi. / I don't know the author of that limerick "tome". It is banned like the Tropics so I can't get one although I have tried". What follows is more about Miller's new sound system Fink's shopping for corduroy slacks for Miller & Capri pants for Eve a note about Nexus & 28 'dirty' limericks Bob's naughty specialty & Miller's fascination. A curious letter signed twice -at the bottom of page 1 & page 4. Page one in very good condition with one short closed tear repaired archivally otherwise the following pages are in fine condition. Robert Finkelstein later Fink was a fan correspondent and benefactor of Henry Miller. Their friendship strengthened when Fink and his wife Edie moved to Los Angeles from Chicago in 1949. Fink soon found an excellent job in Los Angeles and opened his own successful electronics business. The Finks visited Big Sur on weekends sometimes taking food and other gifts for which Miller reciprocated with manuscripts and water colors. Fink offered help in Miller's attempts to help other impoverished writers who appealed to him for funds food or a place to stay. Fink also began defending Miller against vilifying editorials writing articles praising Miller's works and character. Provenance: PBA /The Personal Archive of Henry Miller Part I Fine Modern Literature Thursday June 26 1997. Original Autographed Letters & Documents. Fink, 11/20/58 unknown
19701774Albuquerque: Loujon Press 1970. First Edition. Easily the most elaborate production by Jon and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb of the Loujon Press the last title they would produce together before Jon's death in 1971. 'Insomnia' was the second of Miller's books published by Loujon. In the mid-1960's Miller became infatuated with a Japanese cabaret singer named Hoki Tokuda. He'd spend hours at the piano bar in the Imperial Gardens Restaurant in Hollywood listening to Hoki sing. Miller eventually married her and sometime in 1965-66 he got insomnia worrying about the relationship prompting him to write this book. The Economy Edition was produced because many of the regular Loujon Press subscribers could not afford the deluxe edition; it was an expensive item $1200.00 in 1970 produced in tiny numbers and issued in a special wooden box complete with a suite of 12 watercolors. For the Economy Edition subscribers could purchase 'Insomnia' with or without the watercolors the present copy offered without them. Shifreen & Jackson A175h. First Printing "Economy Issue" one of 199 copies. Quarto; variously-colored offset and letterpress-printed sheets comb-bound into unprinted off-white pebbleboard covers; gold yellow teal and black floral-patterned foil dustjacket; x 50pp colophon; illus. Though not called for this copy is inscribed by Miller on the first page: "To Mag - Long may it wave! Henry Miller 1/16/71. Hint of toning to lower edges of pebbleboard covers else fresh and Fine. Dustjacket with light wear to corners and a small chip to lower left corner of front panel discreetly mended on verso; Very Good. With an illustrated announcement letter laid in measuring 11.25" x 14" printed on recto and verso; light wear to extremities with old horizontal fold at center; Near Fine. Loujon Press unknown
19741408072Doubleday & Company Inc 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Doubleday and Company Inc. 1974 1974. Quarto. First Edition First Impression. Limited to 150 copies with a signed bound in introduction and with a numbered and signed lithograph on Japanese paper by Henry Miller; laid in. Original black morocco leather titles to upper board and spine in gilt. Fine in unevenly faded slipcase. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover
19666836Tucson: Loujon Press 1966. First edition. Fine/Very Good . One of 26 copies in the "A to Z Leather Inscription Edition" inscribed by Henry Miller to the poet Jack Grapes this being copy G. The inscribed copies were the most limited in a total edition of 1524 which also included 99 signed copies. Beautifully bound in half crimson morocco by the Schuberth Bookbindery in San Francisco. This is a lovely quirky production designed edited and letterpress printed by Loujon Press editors Louisa and Jon Webb in Tucson Arizona on "Loujon's ancient 8 x 12 C&P Letterpress". 87 pp. plus illustrations. A Fine copy in the Very Good dustjacket some offsetting to inside of jacket and small tear to lower corner of back panel and Fine publisher's slipcase with the Loujon Press prospectus with a handwritten note from the press and the original shipping box.<br /> <br /> "Written in 1937-38 in Paris this book was penned without carbon & gifted as a long intimate book letter to the painter Hans Reichel who died 1958: now a Loujon Press 1524-copy first edition" from the dust jacket. The work is here presented with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell and illustrations reproduced from Reichel's own work.<br /> <br /> Jack Grapes is a Los Angeles poet publisher and former editor of the poetry journal ONTHEBUS 1989-2017. Notably his work appears along with Henry Miller's in The Outsider the short-lived but influential literary journal published by the Loujon Press 1961-1969. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Loujon Press unknown
1939342980Paris: The Obelisk Press 1939. Softcover. Very Good. Fifth printing. Printed self-wrappers. Pages browned a modest tear on the front wrap and first leaf a nice and pleasing very good copy with no restoration. Miller's best known work an acknowledged classic detailing with then-unprecedented sexual candor his expatriate experience in Paris. It was banned for decades in the United States. The first edition consisted of 1000 copies the next four printings were 500 copies each so this is one of the first 3000 copies. Because of the fragile binding early editions are usually found in poor condition. Very scarce. The Obelisk Press unknown
185143015Edinburgh 1851. <p>Miller Hugh 1802-56. Autograph letter signed to Edward Charlesworth 1803-93. 1 page plus integral blank. Edinburgh 21 February 1851. 201 x 126 mm. Small tears along fold not affecting text traces of former mounting light soiling along folds but very good. Docketed by recipient. </p> <p>From Scottish paleontologist and geologist Hugh Miller author of works of popular science including The Old Red Sandstone 1841 Footprints of the Creator 1850 and The Testimony of the Rocks 1856 to fellow paleontologist Edward Charlesworth editor of the Magazine of Natural History. </p> <p>"I am glad to see you have added a . shell column to your columns of British Fossils. Please set me down as a subscriber for a £2 . . set; as also for a £2 . . set of the fossils of the Mountain Limestone . . . I am at present engaged with printers and woodengravers in getting up a fourth edition of my little work the "Footprints" which will contain prints of a few curious unique organisms picked up since I had the pleasure of seeing you in Autumn last . . ."</p> <p>Although he had little formal scientific training Miller made important contributions to paleontology including the discovery of several previously unknown species of fossil fish. A deeply religious man Miller believed that "the fossil record confirmed in broad outline the cosmic drama depicted symbolically in the Bible" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. His geological studies had convinced him of the Earth's great age but he held that the fossil record represented separate creations rather than the transmutation of species over time. His Footprints of the Creator was intended as a rebuttal of the evolutionary theory put forth in Robert Chambers's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 1844. The fourth edition of Footprints mentioned in Miller's letter came out in 1853. Miller's letter is on the letterhead of The Witness a Scottish evangelical newspaper of which he was the editor.</p> . unknown
