Famille

(JEWELL, Harvey,and The Goddard Family)Biblio.com

The Holy Bible: Containing The Old & New Testaments Holbrook & Fessenden’s Stereotype Edition

1823620465Brattleborough VT: Holbrook & Fessenden 1823. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick quarto. 683 4 family record 160 687-930pp 2. Old and New Testament each with its own title page. Full contemporary calf the spine with raised bands bordered in gilt creating six compartments the second compartment from the top with a red leather label with gilt bands along the top and bottom and "Holy Bible" in gilt at the center. Boards and spine worn front hinge cracked and separating along the bottom but remains largely sound owner name on the front pastedown small dampstain at the bottom of the tile page two holes in the fore edge of the title page rear free endpaper detached and laid in with some staining and scattered foxing throughout still overall a sound and very good copy. Contains the Apocrypha an index a table of names and "an account of the lives and martyrdom of the apostles and evangelists." Also contains the family record of the Goddard family though the name on the front pastedown is Harvey Jewell. Holbrook & Fessenden hardcover

Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

(Jt) [Orlovo] Meirovitch, AaronMareMagnum

SEFER Z'ELUDOK VE-ORLOVAH : GAL? ED LE-ZIKARON

(FT) Cloth, 8vo. , 329 pages. With Photographs. In Yiddish and Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) Jews -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Jews -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Zheludok (Belarus) Orlovo (Belarus) . Added title page: The book of Zoludek and Orlowa; a living memorial. Letter typed in Yiddish laid in. Light wear to covers, very good condition. (YIZ-1-18)

Dan Wyman Books LLC · Brooklyn, NY 11211, US125,00 €

(lee family)Biblio.com

LEE FAMILY QUARTER-MILLENNIAL GATHERING OF THE DESCENDANTS AND KINSMEN OF JOHN LEE ONE OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF FARMINGTON CONN. HELD IN HARTFORD CONN. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AUG. 5th AND 6th 1884

a62302Meriden 1885first edition. Republican Steam Print. Octavo 116pp. frontis foldout map numerous familty portraits original green cloth hardcover with gilt emblem on front. VG Plus light foxing. no owner marks. Attractive book. Original printing. . hardcover

Xerxesbooks · États-Unis85,00 $US≈ 71,92 €

(Mackay Family History Society)Biblio.com

Early Settlers of Mackay 1860-1885

2009122249Mackay: Mackay Family History Society 2009. 1st edition. As New. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket xvii 526pp. b/w pls. maps index Superb production with many original photos detailing the early settler families of Mackay Mackay Family History Society hardcover

Andrew Barnes Booksellers · Australie229,00 $US≈ 193,76 €

(Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte de France) -Livre Rare Book

Récit des évènements arrivés au Temple, depuis le 13 août 1792 jusqu'à la mort du Dauphin Louis XVII.

39958Paris : Egron et Bossange, 1823 - un volume in-8 broché de 82 pages - rousseurs éparses sinon bon état -

Le Livre à Venir · Chantelle, France90,00 €

(Massachusetts - Welch family letters)Biblio.com

Archive of 47 letters from the family of John N Welch of Boston and Billerica Massachusetts dating from 1814 to 1847.

3100346 letters 100 pages some splits and tears along folds some toning and damp staining else in good clean and legible condition. The letters offer a view of one 19th century Massachusetts family and their lives in the state. The Welch's must have been a family of some prominence and privilege at least for a time. John N Welch ran the customs house in Boston and two letters show him being relieved of his position in 1814 and 1829. His sons went to sea and plied the waters of the world with varying degrees of success. Sample quotes: "Lynn July 28th 1816 James Johnson to Lydia H. Welch Boston My dear Sister … My ride here was not very pleasant; it was very dusty & we were obliged to keep the windows shut which produced very disagreeable sensations in your friend. I never spoke a word till we were within half mile of Lynn. No one interrupted the silence; except a gentleman whose frequent sighs proclaimed him over head & ears in love to look at him was enough to make one sentimental why he sighed so deep sometimes he actually made us start & when he found we observed him he made such horrid grimaces that if there had been any one in stage that I had been the least acquainted with I fear I should not have been able to conceal my laughter. I wish you had been with me to witness his agitation which I believe he affected for oddity's sake why he would have made"even thick lipp'd musing Melancholy to gather up her face into a smile before she was aware" I was obliged to interrupt their cogitations by asking for a glass of water. The lovesick swain turned his dove like eyes on me & looked as if he had rather I had been in the Red Sea than broken the silence my request was complied with in defiance of his looks& he condescended to ask if I felt better. I dared not answer in the negative for I really believe he would have advised the stage man to leave me he was quite handsome but appeared like one of Lord Byron's characters"With pleasure drugg'd he almost longed for woe And even for change of scene would seek the shades below" … Do you think if one of my "mortal supporters" should fail me or I should say it did which is the same thing that a certain Gentleman whose name I would not mention on any account but who appears to exert himself to relieve suffering humanity & to lighten the afflictions of his kindred as much as possible by contributing books &c to amuse them & as I am a kind of a cousin I think I have a claim would extend his charity to me if there is a chance that he would pray let me know he is a good fellow …James Johnson" "New York Nov. 15th 1824 James Johnson to Mr. & Mrs. John N. Welch Dear Friends The Stage called for me on Saturday morning at half past seven o'clock and I was backed a bout Town for nearly an hour … but I was tied as fast from the fear of being left as the Horses in the harness - we however at length collected our passengers and proceeded on our journey – we arrived in Providence at 2 o'clock – and at 4 took passage in the Steam Boat for N. York – we had a very pleasant time down the sound and arrived here at half past six o'clock on Sunday evening. Capt Mackey engaged my passage on Board the Packet ship Canada Cap Rogers and I expect to embark on board tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for Liverpool … I was in hope to have recd a line from your advising me of news from Boston and I still hope that pleasure by tomorrows mail which will arrive before we sail – you must write me in the course of a week or two the Packet ships sail every week from here to Liverpool and a letter bag is always to be found at the reading room in Boston or left at our store Mr. Sewall will forward any letters to my address – I again hope to have this pleasure soon after I arrive in Liverpool …" I took lodgings at Bunkers in Broadway where I found several acquaintance among whom was our old friend Marsh – it is seven years since I saw him till now but I do not see that time has made any alteration in him. …""Boston March 8th 1825 James Johnson to John N. Welch Dear friends … I am about migrating – that is in 3 or 4 days – and I am quite busy in the morning my letters must go to Liverpool… All the public places of amusement I have been to is to see Matthews in his trip to America and an Oratorio – indeed there are no public amusements here – we have been cultivating the fine arts – Painting – but not in the school of West or Sir Joshua Reynolds or Sir Thomas Lawrence but painting on Rugs which we have sipped in great abundance – and if the cols do desert too soon I have no doubt will be much admired. I have visited very pleasantly in several families some of them you know or have heard of Saml Goddard & James Grovener are from Boston and Mr Truman and American artist all have American wives are no bad sample of our fair country women … James Johnson""Gloucester April 15th 1825 Susan to Lydia Welch Boston My much beloved friend … The late calamity by fire in the City has given a powerful impulse to my feelings and induce me to inquire of you for information. I was about to start off for Boston but Mary did not like I should leave her with the school… The Sabbath after I left B. I received letters Mary wishing me to come immediately to Gloucester and take the school vacated by the marriage of Miss M. E. Hayes who has gone to the Michigan Territory. Accordingly the Thursday following I came down and on making some enquiries found the prospect very flattering. Uncle D. thought the encouragement sufficient to commence and the next week sister M and myself jointly took upon ourselves the care of a school consisting at present of 30 scholars we have received application for a number more. Some are young ladies considerably advanced in their studies others who require the first rudiments of education they are generally interesting. We have no reason to doubt but our patronage will be sufficient to continue here through this summer. We board with Aunt Dale our school room is in the next building which makes it very pleasant and convenient. Mary is writing to uncle James telling him of our new situation I hope it will meet his approbation which I appreciate very highly… Now I must say something about the fire which has caused us much anxiety when we first heard of it we were led to fear that Uncle James' store was among the number destroyed still we hoped it might not be till a letter from Capt. G. Whittemore convinced us the truth of it. He says he knew that his friends would feel anxious and that we might not be more alarmed than necessary by exaggerated stories which are always in circulation at such times he could tell us that all his goods were saved and conveyed to the houses of his friends and that his loss would be trivial in comparison with that of his neighbors. … Though the deprivation of property is trifling in comparison with that of friends still when I consider how much he has and now is toiling not only for his own happiness but that of his friends also I feel grieved that his prosperity should in the least be impeded…"'Gloucester June 41825 Susan to Lydia Welch Boston Dear good Aunt Do not call us "lazy girls" If you were here and knew how much we had to accomplish … Our school is large and requires all our time we are confined in the room eight hours every day excepting the Sabbath and when not have either work to fit or writing to do for our scholars which prevents us devoting so much time as we wish to our own exercise or the society of our friends. I was indeed much disappointed that none of us did not write a line by Mr. Pearce but we were not apprised of his intention of leaving us more than ten minutes before his departure we were very much surprised for we had no idea but he would pass the Sabbath with us… What do you think as become of Aunt S. the last time we heard from her she was as usual on the wing to Fryburg where she expected to be at the hundredth anniversary of Lovell's fight; in what course she next directed her flight we have not heard. Last week the Steam boat came in here we anxiously watched expecting that she was on board we anxiously watched expecting that she was on board but was disappointed. Sister M and myself accepted an invitation to take a sail in her went out as far as the Island we enjoyed it much it was quite a novelty being the first steam boat I ever saw. …" "Manchester England June 10 1825 James Johnson to Lydia Welch incomplete letter … we took up our quarters at the Hotel Montmorency Rue St Marc – I had not been many days in Paris before I forgot the narrow dirty streets in the enchantments of the promenades the beauty of the public gardens and the number and magnificence of the Public Buildings… I can not but think that the French feel humbled since the allies occupied Paris – the soldiers look disconsolate and that enthusiasm has fled which animated them under Buonaparte – you meet in every direction memorials of his deeds Triumphal Arches Columns Public Fountains and Palaces were with him every day things – many of great extent which he began remain unfinished and probably will till time shall moulder them or another revolution takes place as it it is not likely that the Burbons will finish what Buonaparte began – we remained in Paris about 3 Weeks and then retraced our steps as business required our presence in Manchester… Friend Welch what is now the topic of conversation with you the presidential election is over and I assure you I am quite satisfied with the result. I am confident we have lost nothing in the opinion of Europe by the choice we have made – for my self I should have been mortified if Jackson had been successful to me he was the most objectionable candidate of all …" "New York July 21 1825 Lydia Welch to her husband John Boston My dear husband … Mr. Marsh said he wou'd write you a few lines… yesterday he came up in a carriage and took us down to see the City Hall and Museum which I was much delighted with – you wou'd be astonished to see the immence growth of this since you were here it is wonderful. Marsh shew me where the last dwelling house was – when he first settled here it seemed as if I cou'd hardly credit him in fact it is becoming over grown. I expect this week to go to the steping mill – I don't expect to derive much pleasure from that view … It seems that Boston heat has exceeded N. Y. heat thus far Marsh says that's the way always with Bostonians they will try to exceed the New Yorkers in everything …""Cap-Sing-Moon China April 4th 1826 Benjamin Welch to his parents Boston Dear Parents According to promise I made when I left Home to write every chance that offer'd I have to acknowledge the receipt of the letters sent by the Champion. I have seen to Nickels. He is as hearty as a Buck likes the Sea he says and as I was told by Henry Sturgis has proved himself the smartest boy in the Ship. He is taller than he was when I left America & withal thinner. I sincerely think that he will do better in the profession he has chosen than that of a Counter Jumper! hold your tongue John. I mean no insinuations. As for myself I am pretty nearly in the same state of health that I was when I left Home which I suppose you will say was a very consumptive state at least I used to think so sometime after dinner. Capt. Edes and I argue very well and from what I inadvertently heard he gives me a very good name to those who visit on board. Mr. Sever & I also argue much better than we did. He finds I am not to be fooled. & begins to think as best to let me alone; at any rate there is more cordiality than formerly. Dear Mother the wish expressed in your letter that I would keep in with the officers of the Brig Mr. Tra. and I were like dog & cat together. He was such a drunken contemptible puppy that I did not hesitate to show my opinion of him upon every occasion as also B. Tufts; in fact he had not one friend in the Brig. I really believe if I had gone home with him I should done my best to flog him before he left the wharf. Yea! even before I had eaten any of those good pies & puddings etc. of yours. - Dear Mother you need feel no anxiety on my account with regard to that detested practice of drinking. I have forsworn it long ago in total. My abhorrence of its effects is as strong as ever the feelings of self respect which I entertain the good opinion of my friends and relations which I esteem more than any thing else the regard which I feel for that of the world in general are strong inducements to a strict forbearance from all spirituous liquors. I am hot enough without the use of stimulatives. I am glad to hear that John is getting on so fast as a ladies man. He is well calculated for it and as his Brother Ben is so far from Home and altogether out of the sphere of action with regard to love affairs he will have fair play & plenty of it. I am certain I should supersede him if I was at Home so I think he had better Chop-Chop as the Chinaman says or else I shall make my appearance as I have a peculiar faculty that way. He will have to keep a bright look out ahead for fear of being run down; however 'self praise goes a little ways' so I think it best to stop here. As for his letter I shall keep that a secret he has reposed his confidence in me & I never will betray him till I receive his permission. I shall only say that I do not wish him a better choice than the one he has made; she is just the one I should wish for myself if I was about to enter into a matrimonial noose. I am getting confounded sleepy so I must perforce close this epistle. Remember me kindly to all friends to Aunt Johnson's folks to Cousin Rebecca & Husband to Aunt & Uncle Welch to all my cousins to Frank Welch give a cousin & a Brother Tar's affectionate remembrance to the Howes give an adopted brother's love & to William if at home to Uncle Hovey & partner to E. Jenkins to the Susans & also to Dumpty Diddleday you know who I mean and to her Sisters Mary & Sarah & all the good folks in Harmony Square give my kindest remembrance & regard tell the Pierces their Brothers are still at the Islands and will not be here these 3 years – they are well according to the last accounts – for yourselves Dear Parents accept my best wishes for your health & happiness & believe me when I subscribe myselfYour affectionate Son B.R. Welch" Boston Jany. 2nd 1832 Benjamin Welch to his father Billerica Massachusetts Dear Father I sail tomorrow for Smyrna in the good Brig Mermaid belonging to your old Friend Robert Edes & my old master & have just time to write you a few lines – Augusta goes with me as Capt Edes has politely offer'd to let her accompany – there is everything to make her comfortable & I anticipate a great deal of pleasure …" "Smyrna May 3d 1834 Augusta Welch to her father-in-law John Welch Billerica My dear Father As Ben is full of business he has commissioned me to write and I consider it a pleasant duty I am going to fulfill it forthwith. He expects to sail either to-night or in the morning for Hivoli a small port about a day's sail from here to be gone three or four weeks taking in oil for a part of the Mermaid's cargo & then to return here for the rest myself the most valuable part the specie. We had 58 days out and I was not sea sick at all I think I am getting to be quite a sailor. Yesterday we had a fine donkey ride about 16 miles to a hot-spring which is quite a curiosity here & considered quite medicinal – But such roads never were seen – Some part of the way it is scarcely wide enough for the animal to walk ion & up hill & down precipices the olive groves & between mountains enough to shake the breath of life out of you – However it was a ludicrous scrape & I enjoyed it mightily – We shall not get away under six weeks & it will be quite August before we get home … Gus" "Havanna Cuba Decr 23d 1834 Henry Welch to his father Boston Dear Father I arrd here about a week or little over ago in good health… we shall leave here in about 3 weeks for Matanzas & New York I expect … who will write me in N Yk if I arrive there for we are going to war with France & I may be captured before I arrive. We have all been busy here talking about the Message & we have whipped France nicely two or three times over …""Hallowell Maine February 25th 1836 Henry Blanchard to John Welch Billerica My Dear Sir … Mr. Welch were you ever down this way If not I advise you to – never come. The whole country here seems to be characterized by its very rugged un-broken surface – the severity of its climate - & the miserly & selfish disposition of its inhabitants. You may judge if I enjoy myself much here. I of course make some exceptions to my description of the people – I speak of them in general - & certainly they are misers & speculators for the most part whose whole object of worship is money. Society with some few exceptions in this town is very bad. There is here a good deal of wealth & of course there will be pretensions to refinement & good manners. But through it all there shows prominently an extreme degree of coarseness & vulgarity. The men are by far the better part of the society than the women' for if they are unlettered & rather rough in their exterior they have generally much shrewdness & some knowledge of the world. They show their shrewdness best perhaps in a bargain; & in your dealings with them you would be rather likely to come off second best. A bad place this for parsons – a strictly honest man here would not probably be long in starving to death. The Capitol of the state is close by me & the Legislature is now in session. I have been to look at the members once – They are as a whole I think rather a more decent looking mess than I have been in the habit of seeing in the Massachusetts Legislature. Of course its political complexion is Jackson – though its most eminent members are Whigs. Among these we see old Mr. Holmes – the greatest man probably the state has ever produced. Augusta – the capitol – is one of the most thrifty towns in appearance I have ever seen. It is I think remarkable for its well built dwelling houses. You will not see a house in the whole village that seems at all the abode of poverty. On the contrary the inhabitants seemed to have vied with each other in erecting elegant edifices. It is very easy to find however that the elegance is mostly outside – very little inside. …""Boston May 30 1837 John Welch to his father Billerica Dear Father … The business community are in a bad state and a great many people are out of business owing to this state of things five of the clerks in our store have been discharged & more are to follow perhaps myself for one. … Henry is nearly loaded for St. Petersburg & I presume will sail tomorrow or next day. Benj. Is daily expected at Darien Georgia – his wife gas got a daughter …" Charlestown Dec. 21 1838 John Welch to his father Billerica Dear Father I have intended to have been up to Billerica to have seen you before I leave for New Orleans. I am going to that place to establish myself in business if possible as I find it impossible to remain here & lay up any money. I have been so much pressed with business for some time that I hardly know which way to turn. I should have been up to see you last month but I have been bothered with Edward Stetson who is a very wild boy …" "New York July 17th 1840 George E. Welch to his father Billerica Dear Father I am aware that you may think strange that I should write to you after so long a silence the reason for that silence is not because I had forgotten you but merely because I thought it would afford you more pain than pleasure to read a doleful account of my miseries misfortunes and mishaps. Father my course through life has been an eventful one and I doubt much if there are many of my age who have seen more trouble more sickness or more cruel unrelenting persecution since I have been going to sea I have had eight attacks of fever of all the different kinds and those attacks of the most malignant nature I have had also seven attacks of cramp the last of which deprived me of my intellect for some time after it had passed away I have been laying on my back with bleeding of the lungs and cough in fact for seven years I have not been to sea without being laid on my beam ends and what is worse midst the burning horrors of those fevers I have heard the cry of persecution midst the racking agonies of the cramp I have heard the most cruel taunts coming from the mouths of my nearest and dearest kin and while laying almost at death door I have awakened to the sheriff setting by my side impatiently waiting for my recovery and then do you think it tended to my recovery to hear that man affirm that he was acting as the agent of my brother and then when the glow of health had scarce begun to tinge my cheek to be dragged to prison and from the windows of a felons dungeon to look upon the very house where I had in common with my brothers received my mother's parting blessing. And father did it become those whose duty it was as Christians relative and as men look passively on and see the wreck of your once noble and high spirited boy if I had done wrong was that the way to reform My is it not strange that mid this wilderness of wo the intoxicating cup has never been raised to my lips and dissipation and pleasure have not been the god of my idolatry… I am now recovering from a severe attack of the Yellow fever it was intimated to me that my life was but short and the chaplain on his own responsibility wrote to Gardner to inform of my situation subsequently when letters were written by Y N Reynolds and Albert Cutler and as yet no answer has been returned since I arrived in the city fever sores have broken out on my body and made a perfect scab of me so much so as so as to make me an object of disgust to myself and of pity to those around while at the Hospital my vessel loaded and sailed without leaving me any order for my wages and for the present I must go without them by the kindness of Albert Cutter Y N Reynolds Esq and the Charterers I have had the means of paying my board that is now expended and God only knows where I shall lay my poor aching head. I can not apply to them when I see no means of repaying them but my cup of misery has long been full and I must put my trust in that God whose inscrutable ways … George E. Allen"

Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis1 750,00 $US≈ 1 480,68 €

(McGuffey, William Holmes).MareMagnum

THE NEW MCGUFFEY FIFTH READER.

352p. Pictorial decorated title page. Illustrated with full page plates. Numerous juvenile scribbling and smudges. Some pages loose. Penciled ownerships of Delta and Mabel Pipes, Fulton Ohio. [These are young children of Alpheous L. Pipes and his wife Mary Jane Sellars]. Sm. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, worn at extremities. Hardbound. PA64 TOP

Bookshop Family Album · Kinzers, US18,54 €

(Mellon family)Biblio.com

Five vintage photographs of the preparations for an outdoor party on the grounds of the Richard B. Mellon estate

1925317441Pittsburgh 1925. Date and negative number in negative. Mounted on loose linen album leaves. Date and negative number in negative. From a contemporary press account of the party in the Pittsburgh Index: "Tuesday night Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beatty Mellon Miss Sarah Cordelia Mellon and Mr. Richard King Mellon entertained more than six hundred guests at an out door dance at their home in Fifth Avenue. An enormous marquee constructed in the terraced flower gardens formed the setting for the dancing floor and the supper-room. The marquee ceiling was draped with sheer white fabric painted in an Oriental design with old gold and blue as the predominating color scheme. Below the ceiling was draped a gold border and the drop back of the recess in which the orchestra was placed represented a woodland scene. In the supper-room a specially constructed fountain played over rocks and forming a background were bay trees pandanus bamboo and palms.The whole idea was suggested to Mrs. Mellon by a garden in the Champs Elysses and the work was carried out under her direction" Provenance: estate of Richard Mellon Scaife unknown

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(Mellon family)Biblio.com

Photograph of a party hosted by Richard Beatty Mellon with guests seated at a long banquet table

1925317486Pittsburgh: Trinity Court Studios 1925. Vintage sepia-toned silver print. 10-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches. Fine. Vintage sepia-toned silver print. 10-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches. Children Sarah Mellon and Richard King Mellon are seated at the table next to their father. Trinity Court Studios unknown

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(Mellon family)Biblio.com

Shadyside Academy Pittsburgh 1922 Yearbook: The Academian Edward Purcell Mellon II's copy

1922H37465Pittsburgh: Shadyside Academy 1922. Hardcover. Very good. 10 x 8 inches oblong hardcover very good light dustiness signed "Ned Mellon" in pencil on flyleaf Edward Purcell Mellon II 1908-1986; he has also annotated some of the football statistics given and he is listed as belonging to the class of 1927. Mellon son of Thomas Alexander Mellon II was the president of Mellon-Stuart Company. Shadyside Academy hardcover

Common Crow Books · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

(Merrill Family)Biblio.com

Our Old Home; Episodes in the Lives of Members of a Branch of the Merrill Family with Blank Pages for the Younger Generation to Continue the Records.

0329A892512Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Norwood MA: Privately Printed Plimpton Press 1932. Hardcover no dust jacket as issued A family history illustrated with photographs drawings and various maps etc. RARE. Very good overall condition with minor toning. No markings etc. NOT EX-LIBRARY. B hardcover

gStrum · États-Unis895,00 $US≈ 757,26 €

(Miller Family Correspondence)Biblio.com

Archive of Correspondence and Ephemera of Maud Bauer Miller of Newark Ohio and Oakland California her children and their spouses 1881-1980

30571Collection 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. Maud Bauer Miller 1863-1942 and FamilyMaud 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.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. 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.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.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.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.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.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.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.Lebbeus Miller died 24 September 1913 and after some time Maud moved to Oakland California in 1921 where she died 11 June 1942.Description and Inventory of Collection: Correspondence: 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: 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.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.An inventory of the letters and the years they were written follows: 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.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.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.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.Ephemera:15 miscellaneous pieces of ephemera includes receipts typed and manuscript verse military papers pamphlets including: "White's Biography Brochures: Ralph Sherman Bauer" 1927 and "About 'The Heights' at Oakland California" 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.58 typed pp. of genealogical notes on the Miller/Bauer/Sherman families some copies of others.17 newspaper clippings mostly dealing with family such as death notices news etc.19 various vital records births deaths marriages etc. for Miller/Bauer/Sherman families various dates.2 telegrams dated 1949 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.3 postcards dated 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Justin Greene from Agnes other.4 invitations/cards date c1892-192658 greeting cards to and from Bauer/Sherman/Miller families mostly not dated.13 used envelopes likely could be matched to letters in collection.Examples of Correspondence:"Perryton Ohio Sept 29th 1884Dear RudolphI 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""Perryton Ohio Sept 2 1900Dear MammaI 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.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…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.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""170 St. Botolph St. Boston Mass.My dear Sister & BrotherI 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 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 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 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""R.S. Bauer Company Lynn Massachusetts Stationers Engravers Printers August 17 1923 Dear Sister: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.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 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.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.'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.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. With best wishes to you and the children from all of us Rudo""Frazeysburg Ohio Nov 4th 1923Dear Mothers & SlatsYou want to call in the neighbors doctors & friends as your son has a pen in his hand…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…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…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 will close with lots of love…Carl Agnes & Kathleen…""Kansas City Mo. June 6 1927Dear Mama & Evelyn:I never have heard from you since you went to Russian River therefore I am wondering how your trip panned out.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 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…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…""9 Sunnyside St. Jamaica Plain Oct 23 1931Dear GrandmaWe 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. 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.""Frazeysburg – O 4/10 1932Dear Mother & All…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…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.…With lots of love from the whole family to Mother Slats & Justin Your scribbling son & all Carl Agnes Kathleen & Pee Wee""March 10 1933My dear folks all: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 deal 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.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!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.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.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.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.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.All love to each of you and the best of luck Your devoted children Cecelia & Jack…""December 9 1933 321 West 29th Street New York City N.Y.Dear Maud: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 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 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…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…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…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.'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. 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…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. Give our love to all of your family and don't forget yourself….yours Hulda"

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(Mills Family of Connecticut)Biblio.com

Small photo album of trip to Colon Panama Feb. 23--April 24 1910 on the S. S. Panama

H1079Paperback. Good. Snap shots on 20pp recording the trip from NY to Colon and Cristobal in Panama in 1910 measures approximately 8 x 5 inches ca. 40 photographs well labeled with white ink. Purchased from the daughter of Kenneth Mills who is pictured as a young lad perhaps 11 years old who told his daughter that seeing the work done on the Panama Canal during this trip inspired him to be a civil engineer. Record of life aboard the boat and once in Colon views of the rectory and of Christ Church and of the sexton and cook for that church. paperback

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The Memoirs of Marshal Ney

1834017780Philadelphia and Baltimore: E.L. Carey and A. Hart and Carey Hart & Co 1834. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. A Fair copy in scuffed and worn original paper-covered boards and cloth spine lacking the spine label. Edge-wear to the spine cloth particularly at the rear fold. The paper quality varies: some pages fairly bright some lightly foxed some quite tanned but all legible. The text block binding is sound. A two-volumes-in-one printing with separate title pages and pagination at 216 and 222 pages with the publisher's catalogue bound in at the rear. A worn copy of a scarce book. E.L. Carey and A. Hart (and) Carey, Hart & Co hardcover

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Correspondence of William Harrison Westall and Emily I. â€œPinkâ€ Justice Westall of Asheville Buncombe County North Carolina â€“ Family of the novelist Thomas Wolfe with family photographs and ephemeral material 1878 â€“ 1903

31319The collection contains 126 letters 377 manuscript pages 7 manuscript essays 19 pages and one Christmas card sent to his Westall cousins by Thomas Wolfe manuscript sentiment in his hand. The collection also includes over 165 Westall – Justice family photographs from the 1880's – 1940s including carte-de-visite cabinet cards boudoir cards snapshots large format studio portraits as well as press photographs. The bulk of the images have been identified by a Westall family member in ink on the verso of the images identifying the sitters. The collection includes 60 related ephemeral items.The correspondence comprises the courtship letters of William Harrison Westall and Emily I. "Pink" Justice. The collection also includes letters to Emily from family members and other suitors. Westall and Justice were both born in Swannanoa North Carolina but at the time of their courtship were both living in Asheville. Westall was working and Justice was a student at Asheville Female College. Westall would become the maternal uncle of the novelist Thomas Wolfe and like his older sister Julia Wolfe's mother displayed similar traits of character. He was confident assertive determined persistent and a bit obsessive. Westall faced opposition from Emily's parents in his courtship in part due to some of these traits. Emily's parents at one point sent her away to visit relatives in Tennessee and effectively banned Westall from their home shortly before their marriage. All of this only served to increase Westall's determination to succeed in his suit. Another source of friction between the young couple was the number of additional "sweethearts" and suitors interested in Emily's attentions.William Harrison Westall was born May 16 1863 in Swannanoa Buncombe County North Carolina. He was the sixth of eleven children Henry Addison Sam Sally Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe1 – the mother of Thomas Wolfe American author William Harrison Lee Mary Crockett Elmer and Greely born to Martha Anne Penland and Thomas Casey Westall a farmer and builder. On both sides he was descended from pioneer families of western North Carolina. He married Emily I. Justice 1863-1942 of Buncombe County North Carolina. The couple had at least two sons. William Harrison Westall ran a successful building supply and lumber company and helped supply the raw materials during Asheville North Carolina's growth from the early 1880's through the early 20th century after the arrival of the Western North Carolina Railroad. William H. Westall even supplied materials to Biltmore in Asheville. Westall's older brother James Manassas Westall 1861-1943 was a prominent building contractor in Asheville during this period.1. Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe 1860-1945 the mother of Thomas Wolfe was born on a farm in Swannanoa nine miles east of Asheville. The fourth of eleven children of Martha Anne Penland and Thomas Casey Westall a farmer and builder. She was educated at Judson College in Hendersonville she taught school for a time but stopped when she married William Oliver Wolfe on January 14 1885.The couple resided in Asheville where their eight children were born: Leslie 1885-86; Effie Nelson Gambrell 1887-1950; Frank C. 188-1956; Mabel Wheaton 1890-1958; twins Grover Cleveland 1892-1904 and Benjamin Cleveland 1892 -1918; Frederick William 1894-1980; and Thomas Clayton 1900-1938.In 1906 Mrs. Wolfe bought for $ 6500 a boardinghouse at 48 Spruce Street which she operated until her death. The house was called the Old Kentucky Home by its former owner it was the Dixieland of Look Homeward Angel and Of Time and the River. The house was purchased by the State of North Carolina in 1975 as a historic site it was then opened to the public as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial.In his novels Wolfe provided a largely autobiographical account of his family's life from the turn of the century on. Julia Wolfe became the fictional Eliza Gant a small compact and persevering woman determined to keep her family together and manage fer boarding house in spite of marital discord and tragedies such as the deaths of her sons Grover and Ben. An able talker with a remarkable memory she provided her son with much raw material for his novels and short stories Her talents in business not only in running the boardinghouse but also in real estate purchases and sales eld to the family's relative affluence; thus Thomas was able to attend a private preparatory school and the University of North Carolina.After her husband's death Mrs. Wolfe continued her business interests and was able to provide financial aid for her son then teaching at New York University and traveling in Europe. When she lost much of her capital in the Florida real estate crash of the 1920s which was followed by the great depression in Asheville she had to depend mainly on her boardinghouse for income. As he son's books became famous she in turn became noted as the real-life matriarch of the fictional Gants. From the early 1930s onward her boardinghouse drew literary pilgrims to Asheville.A close bond existed between Julia Wolfe and her son Thomas from childhood until his death and some commentators have traced similar traits of character such as a prodigious memory ambition verbal power and determination. Their correspondence which spanned thirty years illumines one of the most moving mother-son relationships in American literary history. Always a champion of her son's writing Mrs. Wolfe became ever more so after his death. She often traveled to various parts of the country giving informal talks on his early life and influences. She was buried in the family plot at Asheville's Riverside Cemetery.https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/wolfe-julia-elizabethSample Quotes:"Swannanoa N.C. Aug. 9th 1881 to Emily I. Justice Asheville NC"Miss Pink… I thought I would write you a few lines this morning … Miss Adina has been up for a week she is going home in the morning we had preaching last night at the Depot I would like to know if you ar still in the notion of going to Flatcreek campmeeting. There were a party talking of going to Black mountain this week but they gave out the idea we will all go in September I want you to go I enjoyed the picnic very much I think that I will come to Beaver dam church before very long I want you to let me know when there will be preaching Herre … T.E.W.""Oct. 12th 1882 AshevilleDearest EmilyIt is with feelings of real pleasure that I take up my pen to write you a few lines. It is a privilege for which I feel very much under obligations to you for being so kind as to grant me. I shall take much pleasure in being able to communicate to you my secret thoughts & desires hopes & joys pleasures & expectations and in short I shall burden you with all that I could wish a very dear friend to know. I anticipate much pleasure from our correspondence & shall do my best to make it agreeable to you. I have long felt a deeper interest in you than you have any idea of. I anticipate with pleasure the day when I can feel assured that you do hold an interest in my future welfare & happiness. How much regard I have for you you do not know. It is not in my nature to express much of my real feelings. I may entertain a very high opinion of an individual but I am not the one to express it unequivocally. It is contrary to my nature temperament and disposition and I can no more rebel against these than swim against the cataract of Niagara. Emily you and I have long been friends in the common acceptance of the term "friend" but may I express the fond hope that our friendship may be placed on a higher nobler plane than it ever was before. May I always hope we may be friends in the most aesthetic sense of the term and not simply what the vulgar unthinking world terms friends. We will know each other; We will understand each other even if the outside world considers us as merely acquaintances. I have my faith in life to carve out myself' I have to attain success by my own efforts; My bark drifts lonely on the the turbid waters of life's rapid deeprolling currents with only me to send up heartfelt wishes for its success in the perilous voyage of life with only me to shed a silent heart rendering tear should it meet its destruction amidst the shoals & breakers which ever surround weak mortals in this voyage. I say "only me" because in the seeming friends of earth can be placed but little reliance. May I hope that in this ocean of life I may have one in whom I can place the utmost confidence in whose faith I can have the most unbounded reliance to whom I can turn when clouds overcast my path & all seems dark & dreary when the world casts a frowning glance upon me and hear her sympathizing voice in accents gentle and sweet bid me look upward and onward … Darling I love you! Why need I seek to hide it longer … Remember our promise to each other not to show our letters to any one. Be sure & keep it I will. . H""Bakersville N.C. Dec. 27th 82Dearest PinkI don't know that you care much about hearing from me but I want to hear from you and although I may be in Asheville before very long don't want you to forget me entirely while I am away… I left A Thursday morning took dinner with my sister in Marion and started home that afternoon. Something was going on nearly every night – when I was here before but have not enjoyed it much this time. Skated a little one or two days ago and went to a party last night and had the exquisite pleasure once more of running against a sewing machine agent – "It was said" as the legends go that those awful fellows were so thick here once that a tree fell on a windy day and killed fourteen. That thinned them out a good deal but enough are left to be in the way of organ agents. I sold one organ the day before leaving Asheville and Prof Folk who is working with me sold one …Father is going to build a printing office soon and has made arrangements to publish a Free Will Baptist paper for the Free Will Baptist association in connection with the one he already publishes … Bradley S. Worthen"'Asheville N.C. March 16thm 1883Miss PinkThere will be an entertainment or a show in the Opera Hall at the Court House to night and if the weather is favorably sic and you would like to go; I would be pleased to accompany you there. And if you can go I will call by for you at seven o'clock … Wm. H. Westall""Asheville N.C. Aug. 1st 1883Miss PinkDearest One you may be greatly surprised by getting this letter and it will not be anything very strange if you should be surprised. Your refusing to kiss me good night has caused me to suffer greatly.Oh! I am feeling so badly I can not sleep a wink to night and as the clock strikes one my mind is like a ship on a stormy sea tossing reeling and blown about by a wind of disappointment; I say disappointment because it was a great disappointment to me in bidding you good-night without a kiss as I have had a kiss nearly every time of late when parting with Miss Pink.I am one who honestly truthfully and candidly love you and you have said that you loved me; told me not once nor twice but a great many times that you surely loved me and no one else and that I was the only one that you ever did love well I believed that you did think and do think yet a great deal of me and perhaps did about half-way love me but refusing to kiss me when there was no excuse at all: twelve o'clock at night; when there was no one about; is very plain proof that you do not think so much of me.I do not know why it is that I have fallen so deeply in love with you when you as it seems to me can not love me. You are waring a ring as an "engagement ring" and then you refuse to kiss me; one who you claim to be engaged to and one who you say that you love what is the matterNow Miss Pink: I truly and honestly love you God being my judge and it makes me feel very bad to think that you do not care so much for me.May you prove to me that you do think a great-deal of me and I hope you will never refuse to kiss me again on an occasion like tonight when there was no excuse only that you did not want to. Wy did you ever kiss me Was it because I asked and insisted on it Or was it because you was kissing one who you lovedPeople sometimes kiss others who they do not love but I do not believe that any young lady ought ever to kiss a young man who she does not love but a young lady kissing a young man who she truly loves I don't think there is anything wrong in it.I never heard of a young lady refusing to kiss one she loves when there was no excuse for not doing so and you refusing to kiss me under the circumstances tonight puzzles me very much and I would like to have the puzzle unraveled.I am sure there would not be any harm in you kissing me; even if you do not love me for I can assure you that no one will ever know it by me telling them and as far as anything else is concerned you need never have any fear if I know myself.I of course will come again tomorrow night as I agreed and if you should not get this letter before then perhaps I will not mention this subject or anything in regard to you refusing to kiss me but whenever you do get this letter answer me either by letter or personal conversation. For I want a reconing sic soon in regard to your manners towards me for the last two or three weeks you never refused to kiss me since you first kiss me until of late so there seems to be something rong sic somewhere and I would like to know where it is and what it is.Please excuse this letter for I am feeling so very badly that it is nearly utterly impossible for me to write anything in a systematic or in a grammatical style.I will still add a few more lines; saying I can not believe that you know how much I love you or you would not treat me as you have. If it was possible for me to express by words how much I love you I would gladly do so but there is not words in the English language by which I could express my love for you.Ever since I had the pleasure of meeting you there has been a fire of love kindled in my heart and it has been burning slowly continuously and warmly ever since and all that is lacking to make it an unceasing and everlasting flame to burn forever is a little breeze of love from your heart; and may you soon send that breeze of true love so that it may ease my aching heart.Hoping that you may explain how you feel in regard to what I have said I will close by saying be careful to never let any one get their fingers on this letter. The clock has struck two in the morning and I to bed must go. … W. H. Westall""Asheville N.C. Sept. 29th 1883Dearest One -I thought I would write you a few lines as I am going to Morganton this evening and perhaps will not get back until Tuesday next. I would so much like to have you go with me but I suppose you would not like to go so far alone with me; as you are so much afraid of people talking about you going trips with me alone; and as we would be gone three or four days. But I certainly would like to have you go with me as I shall not enjoy the trip without your company.I hope you will enjoy yourself Sunday if I am so far away from you.It is like pulling eye teeth to me to be absent from you just one Sunday if I am with you so much during the week.I don't wish you any harm but I do wish it would go as hard with you to spend one Sunday without being with me. as it dose sic go hard with me; In other words I wish you loved me as I do you and then you would take it very hard to spend one Sunday without being with me.You may think you do love me as much or more than I do you but I think you are mistaken though it may be so but I think it hardly possible. If I should not get back Tuesday I will write you and let you know about it … W. H.W.""Asheville N.C. January 3d 1884Loved One:-May I ask you to neither get offended nor vexed at the insanity shown in my frequent letters. I have a reason for writing this one as well as for all I have written you.The object of this letter is to tell you my dream of last night. It was about you of course; and as all of my daily thoughts are of you so are my dreams. I will just state the particulars of the dream for if I should try to teel it all it would take a great deal of paper and sometime to tell it …First; I thought you came to see me purposely to explain to me for the way you had treated me while I was sick; I thought you explained everything satisfactory; but I told you that in all our court-ship I never had been led to believe you truly loved me I doubted your sincerity; I thought you then looked me in the face tears came into your eyes rolled down your sweet cheeks and that you throwed your arms around my neck kissed me and said: "God being my judge I love you truly and I am yours until death shall part us; love me else I die."O! darling; though it was a dream you cannot imagine the inexpressible ease of mind and of heart there was when in that dream I saw the tears gushing from your eyes something I never saw since I have known you and when I thought you whispered in my ear "I love thee truly; love me else I die. O Dear; I can see your lovely form in my imagination before me now just as I saw you in the dream. The sadest thing of the dream is it has added greatly to my misery and suffering; The dream was to me: "Misery of Hell changed to the Happiness of Heaven" When I woke and found it all a dream the happiness of the moment vanished.O if I could only be convinced in reality that you loved me in truth as strongly as I was in the dream then I would be more satisfied than I am.I am always saying that I am rendered so unhappy by my unbelief of your love. You say you love me and I believe you do but what I am crying about is you do not love me as I do you; your love affections for me is not strong enough. I have no doubt but what you think you could not love me more; you have said so any way; I think you are just mistaken. You know people sometimes are mistaken in some things. I hope I am in thinking that you do not love me as you ought to.Dear! It has been nearly a long week since I saw you you think if I care any thing at all for you I would come to see you at any time I want to without an invitation that is a mistake I have two or three reasons for demanding an invitation; I have already given you my reasons for not "calling" in so long a time – you are going to school; you say you have to study your lessons; how do I know whether you have any time apart from your books I am not much to impose on any one if I know it and especially on the one I love.Darling we have been engaged for some time and there should not be any doubts in either of us of our love and sincerity if we ever expect to march up to the matrimonial altar together. … Wm. H. W.""Asheville N. C. February 29th 1884Miss Pink Dear:I am not dead but liveth and don't expect to die while I see others living. I imagine I see you to night mourning and weeping because I am not by your side; Then again I imagine I see you sitting around the fireside in the family room or upstairs singing songs of praises enjoying yourself just as well or better than if I were with thee. You asked me the other night "if I would come again Friday night" and I answered "I would"; this is Friday night and I have just returned from your house did not get disappointed seeing you but I imagine you are ready to dispute me when I say I have seen you tonight nevertheless it is so I did not get disappointed in seeing you I saw you at a short distance in a lighted room in the second story of a house' now the reason why I had the great pleasure of seeing you and you not me was there was no light in the window for me.You remember I have said to you that when you were expecting me at any rate when I thought you were if there should be no light in the window for me if when I get in sight of your house and do not see a light in the south window I then suppose you are either not expecting me or you don't care whether I come or not it always makes me feel as if my presents are not desirous on your part: can you blame me I guess you do but Oh Dear do not if you please. You know my nature very well and instead of blaming me for my faults you should try to improve them that is if you truly love me and expect to some day be joined in matrimony with me. You of course did not expect me to night or you would have had a "light in the window" or you did not want me; you know it is very hard for me to think you don't enjoy my company but still I am forced to think some thing what do you suppose it is It is this I have been going to see you too often; staying too long when I do go; nearly every time I have been at your house at night you have at a very late hour begged me to go home as you are not allowed to stay up very late bed time.I hope you will excuse one who loves you dearly and I will try to do better in the future. I cannot blame you for telling me your bed time I cannot blame you for asking me to go home when I am imposing on you when you are wanting to close your eyes in sleep. Why I did not come tonight was I did not think you were expecting me; and I do not want to go any where not being expected; though I can not see why you did not expect me … Wm. H. Westall …""Asheville N.C. March 26th 1884Dear PinkI feel tonight as if I could write you a long letter and it is my duty to do so yet I can not write very much not in the right mood.I feel very mean for acting as I did last night being so provoking as I was you said you hoped I would not always be so I hope so too and I promis you now that I will never do anything in the future which would cause you any unpleasant feelings.I fear you are feeling badly over the way I acted and treated you last night so I write these few lines to let you know that I have repented making a resolution to never do so again; never to do say or act in any way which would not please you.I know I am a perfect fool some times and you must not get any ways offended at me I would feel a great deal better to night if I thought everything was right.Some day I hope you will understand me to know my heart then I know you will love me as I do you. Fearing that I left you last night feeling very unpleasant I make the promis never to do so again knowing that I am a sinful wretch I will close. … W. H. Westall …""Grafton N.M. 6/7 1884Miss Justice… As you say fishing and hunting are very pleasant but I prefer to take mine with out the broken arm… If you could have seen me coming into town. I fear you would not have felt proud of your correspondent. I had a young deer tied behind my saddle and two big turkeys in front of me my clothing was considerably the worse for acquaintance with rocks and bushes blood and deer hair. A very dusty face covered with a months growth of beard was shaded by a wide slouch hat. I carried a ten pound repeating rifle large six shooters and butcher knife and wore two cartridge belts one for the rifle the other for the revolvers. In fact I presented so disreputable an appearance that when I caught the first glimpse of myself in a mirror I instinctively reached for my revolver to defend myself.We planted our first man in Grafton today a cowboy who undertook to lay out one of our Grafton boys who is only about 20 years old and got left. The fight occurred in a horse corral after dark so the shooting was all guess work both emptied their six shooters one bullet grazed Charlie's temple and another passed through his shirt burning the skin a little. Mr. Cowboy got two through the body and one horse was killed. The fellow said before he died that Charlie was a "good one" and not at all to blame. Charlie has not been arrested and I don't suppose he will be he is known to be quiet and peaceable while the other fellow styled himself a bad man from Texas and refused to give his name even after he knew he was dying. The men he was with called him yaller because he had very light hair and rode a yellow horse. They went off and left him for the boys in town to care for and when told he was dead sent back word to bury him in a blanket. We buried him without ceremony in a rough pine box but I suppose he will sleep as soundly as if laid in a silver mounted casket and a two hours sermon preached over him he was well cared for while he lived but Charlie who followed him to the grave wore the only solemn face I saw there… Jas B. Taylor"Asheville N.C. Sept. 27 1884"Miss PinkI am compelled to go this evening to the city of Hickory N.C. will start in about an hour; Will return next Monday or Tuesday Very sorry to go and be absent from you even so short a time. Would be glad to have you go with me but circumstances won't allow it this time. Please don't forget me until I return and thine shall be the prases world without end. William Harrison W"Asheville N.C. March 18th 1885Miss Pink Justice Dear FriendYour long looked for letter just to hand; I had just about come to the conclusion that you did not care enough to write to me I have been weeping wailing and pawing the earth since you left after hearing what I have of your departure from the Asheville Depot; I have been made to understand that you caught a beau the morning you left A – and that your beau laughed at you being so badly struck with him. The beau was a Mr. Tom Ray whom you met at the Depot introduced to you by your brother It was said that before the train left Mr. Ray had forgotten your name and spoke of you as "that fast girl" he told a friend of his that you had told your brother to ask him to sit with you in the train to Parrottsville said you was badly mashed; I think if all this is so you were badly mashed; it seems very strange that as soon as you get out of my eyesight you will act in any such manner. I can hardly believe this; still at some times I cannot help from thinking but what it must be so I am feeling very badly over it still I am not going to die and you must not think so I am compelled to believe you love me a little if you give me entirely up. I am both sorry and glad that you are not contented with your new home and if you want to come back I will come after you ar any time you will meet me at Parrottsville; could I come down some Sunday leaving Asheville Sunday morning and come backwith you in the evening the same day if so I would rather do that than visiting your Aunts as it is so far from the Depot If I could go and return the same day it would be much better then I would not loose any time please let me know how it is; I will be so glad to see you back in Asheville once again if you don't think so very much of me I have not been contented at any time since you left I walked all over Asheville Sunday had no where to go no place to lay my head I was a miserable boy; I would not spend another such Sunday for the whole world. I wish you could love me so that you would be perfectly contented with me so that you would be perfectly contented with me so that you would never think of traying to catch another beau it seems as though you wanted to travel the world over to see if you could find some one who is better handsomer and more of a "big bug" than I it may be when you travel over the world more you will come to the conclusion that I am about as good a boy as you could ever find. I have become a little wreckless since you left me still I will never cease to love you it matters not where you go or how long you stay. Suppose I should go away for my health to be gone six months and should ask a young lady to sit with me in the train and make her think I was badly mashed on her how would you like it I don't get guess you would like it very much so it is with me but I can't help myself; I have had two teeth filled and I still love you. … Wm. H. Westall …""Asheville N.C. March 26th 1885Miss Pink Justice My Dearest OneYours just to hand conveying to me the sad and shiking sic fact that you had not as yet received a line from me since you left Asheville. Dear after waiting a long weary and toilsome week I received a long and interesting letter from you which I answered by return mail. I have now been looking for an answer and instead I get a letter giving me a raking for not writing to you… I cannot blame you for feeling sad and lonesome if you think very much of me but I am surprised at you not coming home if you are so lonesome and sad.I wrote you in my other letter that if you were not pleased and home sick and wished to return home I would come after you anytime. It hurts me to think you are not enjoying yourself… I will not advise you to come home if you don't want to; as badly as I want to see you for if you could gain your health as you once had it it would be the best thing you could do and you and I would be the more happier. If the place is such as you describe I don't think you will improve very much … William H. Westall""Asheville N.C. April 3d 1885Dear PinkYours just to hand and I cannot tell you how very glad I am to hear from you after waiting so long for a letter I had just about come to the conclusion that you had met with someone who you could think more of than I and had given up the idea of writing again.I was very much surprised at you putting off coming home so long; as you seemed to be so anxious and home sick; I expected that you would write me to come at once for you instead of putting it off three long weeks but I suppose you are very well contented now; judging from the way you write; you say for me not to tell your people about you coming home that they don't want you to come; and that you are not pleasing them now that it is I that you are trying to please; well; I am very glad to hear you say that; but I have one thing to say it is this; If you are contented in Tenn and you think by you staying there is summer it will be the meanes of you regaining your health I would advise you to stay Don't come back to A – just to please me I would rather you would stay if it is your pleasure to do so and you get well by so doing still I will be glad when you by so doing; still I will be glad when you are in A again where I can see you when ever I want to you did not say whether or not you were or not you were getting better; I suppose you are or you would have been complaining. I don't want you to come back and then say it was I that brought you otherwise you would have remained in Tenn and improved your health. If you think it best for you to stay I would advise you to stay. I have stood your absence one long month and have to stand it three week longer …I have gotten so I can view every thing in a reasonable manner and I don't my feelings to cause me to advise you any other way than what would be best for you. … It occurred to me that I would not like to spend any time in Tenn if it is such a lonesome place as you say it is; therefore I thought when you got ready to come home. I would arrange it so that I could start on the train here in the morning and return with you in the afternoon the same day getting to Asheville at sun down; so I selected Sunday for the day so it would not interfere with my business. I suppose I can go to Bridge Port and back in the same day making the connections with trains you know more about that than I as you have gone over it.You seem to think that I surely have by this time caught another sweet heart … it seems to me if you cared very much for me and thought I would likely get another sweet heart after you left A you would not have gone and after having gone it seems to me as though you would not put off coming home but would take up the cross and come at once. … W. H. W.""Asheville N.C. July 21st 1885Miss Pink Justice Dear FriendI have just returned home from the Div. room and read your letter of inquiry. I am surprised at you not knowing why I have not been down.As you know last Wednesday night when I was at your house your Mother ordered you to bed at half past nine o'clock which was only to let me understand that I was not welcome there; so where I am not welcome I shall not go.I suppose your mother is mad with me on account of me telling what I did about your uncle; If I should have made and told what I did and could not prove it there would be some reason in her getting mad but all of what I told came from a true source and can be proved besides other smutty things.If your Mother or any one else gets mad with me for telling what I have told will just have to get mad I can not help it and I don't care while I can not blame you with anything I can and will say that I have been at your present home for the last time unless it be under circumstances which I don't expect to look for now.I am grieved to think of how things terminated and am very sorry but it can not be helped now.I would be very glad to see you and have a long talk with you but if I can not see you without coming to your present home I will never see you; while now tears flow down my cheeks I have made up my mind not to place my self in a position where I would likely be insulted.I can not find fault with you you can not help your surroundings or responsible for what your kind people do I once enjoyed life but I can not say that I do now for about two months I have not been satisfied with things in general there will have to be a great change.If you can not meet me somewhere else than at your present home I don't know when you will get to see me surrounding circumstances are such.I heard of your thinking of going off and am glad you did not go; There are a great many things I want to ask you but I will wait until I see you … Wm. H. W. …""Asheville N.C. November 18th 1885Miss Pink Dearest OneI write you a few lines to night but have nothing strange or special to say only that I am feeling so blue and lonesome that I can not content myself anywhere or at anything. I have tried to read but am so blue I can not interest myself reading any thing; so I concluded I would spend a few minutes writing you a short letter.You have of late several times complained of me not writing "good" letters as I once did. Now: if I could always feel as I do to night when writing to you you never again would complain of me not writing you "good" letters for if I should be lost to final words with which to do it. If I were now by your side I could show you better than I could tell you any way.I have been as you know very unsettled in my mind and feelings for some little time but to night I feel as though "all is well" and settled as far as I know or am concerned.For the last year we have had troubles and differences of many kinds: my hopes tonight are that all such is past and gone to come no more and for the future I hope that our troubles if any will be "little ones"It has not been very long ago since when troubled I looked forward and hoped for the day to arrive when I would have forgotten you: when all feelings of love would have gone and vanquished my troubled and unsettled mind but O now what a wide difference what a almost sudden change has come I now look forward to the day when we will be happy with each other I hope you and I will never again do anything or act so as to offend the other.I wish I could have seen you to night I would not be feeling so blue I am going the "appointed time sure" sure Friday night look for me and try to be glad to see the one you so much -------- Don't mourn or grieve but be merry over all things smile brightly smile on me as you never did before and the praises shall be yours forever.I would write more but for the lack of time will have to close excuse pencil writing and believe me I beg you to be the same True Will"'Asheville N.C. January 15th 1886Darling PinkIn obedience to your command and my desire I write you a few lines. While I write the south wind is hissing and howling furiously and threatening stormy weather; I am afraid we will have very disagreeable weather for quite a while yet. I will not be very surprised to see a deep snow on the ground tomorrow morning when I awake from my slumbering.I had quite a nice time last evening at the party I enjoyed myself as much as I could have you not being there with me. I am very sorry circumstances were such that you could not go for I am sure you too would have had a good time. If you did miss this time you shall not miss all we will have a "good time" "one of these days" if nothing happens and you don't lose all hopes and confidence in me. While we have had so many "ups" and "downs" I can not help but think that things will be adjusted some day soon and all then will be peace and happiness I hope so any way.While I know you are talked to by your parents about me which tends to make you mistrust me and after so long a time try to separate us I can not help but think it will take more than human influence to part us Those who have tried to separate us shall repent. I can not help but believe you have a feeling t''ward me that will never never die. Our court-ship has been quite a long one. We have had a hard time we have a great many times come near unto separating but now I don't believe there is anything that will separate us but death.The best we make of this life it is a hard one let us try and do better in the future – trying to make each other more happier and then we will be as inseparable as the Trinity. I will not get to see you before Sunday after noon at which time I am going to see you if I am run out of Doubleday Town … W. H. Westall"'Asheville N.C. January 26th 1886Darling Pink… I am nearly dead to see you and it is nearly death to me to wait until Sunday next before seeing you again. One week from you seems as a year to me. I heard that one of your old sweet-hearts" has been down to see you but hope there is no truth in the report still I can not help being a little uneasy.Can't you come up town one evening this week so that I may get one "peep" at you before SundayDo come and come around to see me I will be more than glad to see you. Dear Do try and make me think that you Love me; if you do don't be afraid to let people know it. Don't you think I am crazy If you do you are not much mistaken. I am so busy this evening and so tired that I can not think of any thing to write. … W.H.W.""Asheville N.C. Jan. 30th 1886Dear PinkYour letter received this morning was very glad to hear from you but very sorry to have you accuse me of Lieing sic you may get mad with me and abuse me in any way you can but to accuse me of "bare face" Lieing sic is a death blow to me; I would rather have you accuse me of anything else than Lieing sic I wrote you that I had heard that one of your old Sweet-hearts had been down to see you; I did hear it and I told you nothing else but the truth when I told you about but had I known that you would "give me the Lie" about it I would not have mentioned it at all I don't believe I ever wrote you a letter without having something to quarrel about and should I live one hundred years I don't think it would be any better; you or I one always mad; Hell on earth and Hell hereafter. I would have come down last night but did not get your letter until this morning. I am feeling very badly this morning but can not help iyt. I will go down tomorrow after non and we will fight it out satisfactory no doubt.I did not go to see Rush last night or any one else I am not "bad off" enough to go to see any one. Your abused Darling W.H.W."

Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis3 750,00 $US≈ 3 172,88 €

(Programme).Livre Rare Book

Soirée littéraire & artistique. Knock ou le triomphe de la médecine. Donnée par l'Ecole Normale d'Instituteurs (Privas).

20453Privas, imprimerie Volle, 1927. 1 cahier, couverture illustée par B. P. (élève de l'Ecole Normale de Privas), cadre ornemental., dos en partie fendu. Texte sur une double page.

Librairie Ancienne du Vivarais · Saint Etienne de Boulogne, France10,00 €

(RAEMY, Alfred):Livre Rare Book

Canton de Fribourg. Familles bourgeoises. Nomenclature par communes. Répertoire alphabétique. Statistique.

123465aafPosieux, Alfred Raemy, 1901, in-8vo, 65 p., titre avec le cachet de la bibl. Cantonale Fribourg avec D-2000 (pour double), reliure en demi-cuir récent, titre doré au dos, bel exemplaire.

Harteveld Rare Books Ltd. · Fribourg, Suisse80,00 CHF≈ 76,45 €

(Roosevelt Family Item)Biblio.com

The Monogram Album Of Minnie B. Roosevelt

187012808New York: Matthews 1870. Unique. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong duodecimo embossed brown cloth gilt. Unpaginated. Professionally rebacked;. Commercially produced album to be sold to individuals to house a collection. Minnie O'Shea Fortescue was the mistress of Robert B. Roosevelt TR's notorious uncle. He later married her. Minnie has collected approx. 350 monograms from family members government officials other dignitaries and friends. TR is of course represented. Minnie's B. Roosevelt's ownership signature in ink is on the front free fly leaf. Matthews hardcover

Austin's Antiquarian Books · États-Unis1 000,00 $US≈ 846,10 €

(Roosevelt Family) Whittelsey, Charles Barney, compilerBiblio.com

The Roosevelt Genealogy 1649-1902

1902232993Hartford: J.B. Burr & Co 1902. First Edition. 121 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Crimson cloth. Very Good spotting on front cover. First Edition. 121 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. J.B. Burr & Co hardcover

The Old Mill Bookshop · États-Unis175,00 $US≈ 148,07 €

(SAMURAI FAMILY CRESTS)Biblio.com

Book of Samurai Family Crests.

1820305224Edo 1820. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. blue paper wrappers worn stitched. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. Japanese woodcut book on the crests and symbols of the Samurai families. WITH: A series of 99 small manuscript information cards on for ceremonial use for Samurai families denoting their crests and banners pen ink and colors. First half of 19th century each card 70 x 55 mm some affected by worm tracks. unknown

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis3 000,00 $US≈ 2 538,30 €

(SCHOONMAKER FAMILY ARCHIVE)Biblio.com

An Archive Related To The Schoonmaker Family Of Ulster County New York

6344SCHOONMAKER FAMILY ARCHIVE. The Schoonmakers were a multi-generational Dutch family who lived in Ulster County New York mostly around Kingston. The first family arrived in New York in the mid-1600s and settled up the Hudson River around Kingston.Archive. 60 manuscripts. Dates range from 1712 to 1836. Places are generally in and around Ulster County New York. This Schoonmaker family archive consists of approximately sixty documents related to several generations of the clan of the Kingston Ulster County region of New York. Some of the highlights include an estate document about a Negro boy meaning the family-owned slaves legal documents signed by women unusual for the time a couple of documents in Dutch etc. There are signatures of many early settlers with Dutch names such as Oosterhout Heermans Van Gaasbeck Tremper Yeoman Van Vliet and Hooghteeling.Some of the highlights include:A four-page document dated April 12 1712 for the estate of Hendrick Schoonmaker. The most interesting line is the mention of a Negro Boy bequeathed.An oversized document dated June 28 1721 related to the DeMayer family. It is signed by Nicholas & Elsie DeMayer as well as Hendrik Oosterhout.An oversized document dated February 18 1729 related to real estate and signed by Johannis Schoonmaker.An oversized document dated May 25 1730 related to property for the estate of Hendrick Schoonmaker. It is signed by Cornelius & Sarah MacLeen and Andries Heermans.A document dated September 11 1733 for real estate. It is signed by Abraham Person & Hendrik Oosterhout; there is a Persen House museum in Kingston.A document dated February 19 1770 signed by numerous figures including Trintje Schoonmaker Ezekiel Masten Abraham Masten and Cornelius Beekman.A letter dated December 9 1811 about Reverend Ostrander performing services in the Dutch language & a call for a Dutch minister.A document dated June 7 1814 about a Kingston church & William Osterhoudt.A receipt dated August 20 1817 for the Columbian newspaper subscription to Henry Schoonmaker.A document dated July 28 1816 signed by Cornelius Tappan to Schoonmaker regarding military regiments.A printed broadside dated October 22 1826 regarding political support for Governor DeWitt Clinton. unknown

Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. · États-Unis15 000,00 $US≈ 12 691,50 €

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