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183097163New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830 / New York: New-York Protestant Episcopal Press 1831. 1830 & 1831. 1830 & 1831. Good. - 32mo 5-3/4 inches high by 3-5/8 inches wide. Burgundy calf backed marbled boards with calf corners titled and ruled in gilt on the spine. The covers are scuffed and stained with wear to the joints and head and tail of the spine. 224 pages in all illustrated with a pictorial vignette title page and 3 full-page frontispiece engravings preceding the subsequent title pages. There is evidence of early worming along the front hinge. An early owner's inscription dated 1833 is penned on the front endpaper. There is some minor foxing and soiling throughout with a tiny piece out from the bottom corner of one of the title pages. Good. <p>The four books consist of:<p>1. "The M'Ellen Family: A History. In Four Letters From a Missionary. Fourth Edition. Stereotyped by Jas. Conner New York". New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830. 36 pages with a title vignette.<p>2. "Memory's Tribute or Things Profitable For Reflection. First Series. The Baptism. By the author of 'The M'Ellen Family'." New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830. Pages 1-36 illustrated with a full-page frontispiece included in the pagination.<p>3. "Memory's Tribute or Things Profitable For Reflection. First Series. A Family in Eternity. By the author of 'The M'Ellen Family'." New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830. Pages 37-84 illustrated with a full-page frontispiece included in the pagination.<p>4. "The Meeting of the Travellers. By the author of 'The M'Ellen Family'." New York: New-York Protestant Episcopal Press 1831. Pages 1-104 illustrated with a full-page frontispiece included in the pagination.<p>RARE. New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1830 / New York: New-York Protestant Episcopal Press, 1831. 1830 &am hardcover
30775<p>293 letters 573 pp 76 retained mailing envelopes dated 4 May 1848 to 27 December 1954; bulk of letters date from 1910s to 1950s; with 3 manuscript journals 1904; 1909-1911; and 1943 a newspaper clipping scrapbook an estate ledger and a pedigree register; plus 44 photographs and approximately 130 pieces of related printed and manuscript ephemera. Interesting collection of letters many from the turbulent economic times of the 1930s.</p><p><b>The Family of Eliot Tuckerman Esq. 1872-1959</b></p><p> Eliot Tuckerman was born in New York City on March 12 1872 the son of Gustavus Tuckerman Jr. 1824-1897 and Emily Goddard Lamb 1829-1894 eldest daughter of Thomas Lamb 1796-1887 and Hannah Dawes Eliot 1809-1879. Gustavus Tuckerman Jr. was a Boston Massachusetts merchant who was involved in the China India trade during the mid-19th century. Tuckerman was born on May 15 1824 at his grandfather's house in Edgbaston England the second son of Gustavus Sr. and Jane Francis Tuckerman. As a boy he was tutored by A. Bronson Alcott and Mr. George Ripley and attended the Boston Latin School. Upon completing his early education Tuckerman was expected to attend Harvard College following his brother John Francis Tuckerman Class of 1837. Instead he joined the Boston merchant shipping firm of Curtis & Greenough. In 1847 he was sent to Palermo Sicily to represent the firm in purchasing and shipping cargoes of goods to America including fruit wine linseed licorice cream of tartar and other provisions. Two years later he made a second journey to Sicily to represent the firm. Upon his return to Boston in 1849 he was made partner in Curtis & Greenough. He continued as a partner in Curtis & Greenough and also established business relations for Tuckerman Townsend & Co. in Sicily. Tuckerman Townsend & Co. was a partnership with Thomas Davis Townsend also an employee of Curtis & Greenough. Located at 48 Central Wharf in Boston Tuckerman Townsend & Co. was heavily involved in the import trade with the Mediterranean China and India especially the ports of Palermo in Sicily Singapore and Penang in Malaysia and Calcutta India. Tuckerman acted as the local roving agent for the firm from 1853 to 1859. He purchased goods and coordinated shipments back to Boston. In 1859 Tuckerman Townsend & Co. took heavy financial losses and Tuckerman decided to dissolve the firm rather than continue with business on credit. He moved his family from Boston to New York City and took a job as the treasurer of the Hazard Powder Company a gunpowder company that thrived during the Civil War. Tuckerman died on 11 February 1897 at his West 54th Street home in New York City. </p><p> Gustavus Jr. & his wife had at least four other children besides Eliot: Jane Frances Tuckerman 1852-1947; Hannah Elliot Tuckerman 1855-1860; Emily Lamb Tuckerman 1858-1943; and Margaret Eliot Tuckerman 1860-1948. </p><p> Eliot Tuckerman's aunt was Jane Francis Tuckerman 1818-1856. She was good friends with Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 and the two women were known correspondents. Fuller was an American journalist editor critic and women's rights advocate and associated with the American transcendentalist movement. She wrote many letters to Fuller and was one of Fuller's private pupils and later her assistant on the <i>Dial </i>the chief publication for the Transcendentalists. Jane married John Gallison King 1819-1888 a Boston lawyer from a Salem family however the marriage did not work out. King was part of the circle of friends with Emerson Elizabeth Hoar Cary Sturgis etc. Jane was said to be good friends with Elizabeth Hoar 1811-1878 a classmate of Henry David Thoreau. Hoar was to wed Charles Emerson brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson but Charles died before they married. Emerson treated her as a sister. There are a couple of letters in this collection written to and by this Jane Francis Tuckerman as they are dated too early for Eliot Tuckerman's sister of the same name.</p><p> Eliot Tuckerman received his A.B. cum laude from Harvard College in 1894 and his LL. B cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1897. He was accepted into the bar in 1898 and by 1899 Tuckerman was working with the firm of Evarts Choate & Beaman in New York City. In 1895 Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Eliot Tuckerman founded the Stockbridge Golf Club making it one of the first 100 golf clubs in the U.S. In 1918 Tuckerman was elected as a New York Republican Assemblyman for the Tenth District. There are a couple of pieces of ephemera in this collection for the Republican Assembly Tenth District. </p><p> Tuckerman married Mary Ludlow Powell Fowler 1879-1955 in New York City in April 1915. She was the daughter of lawyer author and Surrogate of New York Robert L. Fowler 1849-1936 of New York City and his wife Julia Groesbeck 1854-1919. Mary had various interests. She was the president of the International Garden Club and a former vice president of the Humane Society of New York. She was the first person to win the annual award of New York City's Park Association for the restoration of the Bartow Mansion in the Bronx and her aid in securing its conversion to a public museum. Mrs. Tuckerman was also active with the Bide-A-Wee home for animals in New York and a World War II president of Bundles for Britain. She also took an active interest in the Colony Club of New York and the Daughters of Holland Dames and the National Society of the Colonial Dames. She was related to the Groesbecks of Cincinnati. Her mother's father was U.S. Senator of Ohio William Slocum Groesbeck 1815-1897 and her aunt was Olivia Augusta Groesbeck Hooker wife of Union Civil War Major General Joseph Hooker.</p><p> Eliot Tuckerman and his wife had one daughter Emily Lamb Tuckerman 1917-2000. Emily married Henry Freeman Allen and had at least three children.</p><p> By 1947 Tuckerman had succeeded Clifford A. Hand's New York law firm and Hand's firm had become Jones Bleeker & Tuckerman. He retired about three years before his death. He had for many years lived at 1209 Park Avenue in New York City before moving to Boston in 1952.</p><p> Tuckerman was an expert on Constitutional Law and in 1927 he sought to have the 18th Amendment dry law declared illegal. There is an essay on Constitutional Law of his in this collection. Tuckerman was also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and of the University Century Harvard Down Town and New York Yacht Clubs fleet captain of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and a governor of the Squadron A Club. He was a trustee of the Morristown School a member of the Pilgrims the Society of the Cincinnati and other societies.</p><p> Eliot Tuckerman died on 29 October 1959 at the age of 87 in Boston and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts.</p><p> Eliot Tuckerman was the cousin of poet T.S. Eliot 1888-1965. His mother and T.S. Eliot's grandfather were first cousins. There are two letters and one card in this collection which were written to his sister Jane Frances Tuckerman 1852-1947. T.S. Eliot calls her his "cousin" as he does their sister Emily. The two letters are typed and signed by Eliot. One of the letters he signs it "Tom St. Eliot" the other "T.S. Eliot." The card is written to both Jane and her sister Emily and is addressed to the Misses Tuckerman. It is a printed card with his "T.S. Eliot" signature.</p><p><b>Some of the Correspondents in the collection are:</b></p><p><b>Emily Tuckerman 1858-1943. </b>Eliot Tuckerman's sister born 22 May 1858 in Boston Massachusetts. When she was three years old she was brought to New York by her parents. Emily went to Mrs. Griffith's School in New York and was a member of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr's little dancing class. She often visited her most intimate friend Jane Minot Sedgewick in Stockbridge Massachusetts in winter as well as summer. She was fond of housekeeping and the greatest help in our home took diplomas in "invalid cooking" and "first aid to the Injured." She travelled in England and Alaska with her friend Ann Mugar Leight. She was the Vice President of Mrs. Parson's Children's School Farm for 21 years. After the death of her parents she traveled extensively with her sister Jane. She met with a motor accident on the Isle of Wight and was sent to Egypt by advice of Sir Victor Moreley of London. After the marriage of their brother Eliot Jane F. and Emily L. made their home together.</p><p><b>Jane Frances Tuckerman 1852-1947. </b> Eliot and Emily Tuckerman's sister Jane Francis Tuckerman was one of the founders of the Friendly Aid Society and the New York County chapter of the Red Cross. She lived at 1201 Park Avenue. A close friend of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt parents of President Theodore Roosevelt she gave her services for many years as secretary of the Orthopedic Hospital of which Mr. Roosevelt was then president. She was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames and had been secretary for twenty-five years of the Causeries du Lundi.</p><p><b>Thomas Stearns Eliot OM 1888-1965 </b>"one of the twentieth century's major poets" was also an essayist publisher playwright and literary and social critic. His grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot 1811-1887 was first cousin to Emily Goddard Lamb Tuckerman the mother of Eliot Tuckerman and his sisters Emily and Jane.</p><p><b>Robert Bowman Dodson 1849-1938 </b>Robert B. Dodson was one of the trustees of the James A. Garland Estate along with Eliot Tuckerman and Maj. Robert Emmet. Dodson was a banker and broker. He married Mary Wells. Dodson was born in Geneva Illinois in 1849 the son of Christian B. Dodson and his wife Harriet Warren. Dodson became associated with John J. Cisco & Co then National City Bank and later a partner in Fahnestock & Company. Harris Charles Fahnestock 1835-1914 was an American investment banker. He was a successful investment banker and was financial advisor to President Abraham Lincoln. He co-founded First Nation Bank of New York a predecessor to Citigroup. In 1881 Harris' son William formed his own investment bank at Two Wall Street Fahnestock & Co. which expanded through the decades and eventually led to the creation of Oppenheimer & Co. in 1950. Dodson was also a trustee of the Bankers' Safe Deposit Co. of 4 Wall Street NYC. Dodson died at his country home at West Islip Long Island on 21 August 1938 at the age of 89.</p><p><b>Major Robert Emmet DSO 1871-1955 </b>was born in Charlottesville Virginia on 23 October 1871. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet 1826-1919 a distinguished physician and medical writer and the great grandson of the Honorable Thomas Addis Emmet who served as Attorney General of New York State and was an Irish patriot and rebel who came to the United States in 1804 after the failed 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion. The Honorable Emmet's brother Robert Emmet was hanged in 1803 for his part in the rebellion. </p><p>Major Emmet was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1892. Be began the study of medicine and graduated the College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University New York in 1896. In May 1898 he became a Sergeant of Squadron A N.G.S.N.Y. and was mustered into active service of the United States as a trooper of New York Volunteers and was ordered to Puerto Rico. He received the D.S.O. Distinguished Service Order -WWI Great Britain and was a Major of the Warwickshire Yeomanry British Expeditionary Force 1914-1918. </p><p>Emmet was married on 25 November 1896 to Louise Garland daughter of James A. Garland and Anna Louise Tuller of New York. After the death of his wife's father Emmet became one of the trustees of the James A. Garland Estate along with Robert B. Dodson and Eliot Tuckerman. </p><p>Louise Garland Emmet's father James A. Garland 1840-1902 was a prominent New Yorker the Vice-President of the First National Bank of New York and a junior partner in the organizing and building of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He came into the orbit of Jay Cooke when Cooke's son was one of his students and was known as an "excellent broker." Garland was a client of Duveen Brothers and a serious collector of tapestries oriental jades and especially Chinese porcelain. The James A. Garland collection of Chinese porcelain was one of the largest and comprehensive in the United States and one of the finest in the world. It comprised over a thousand Kangxi 1662-1722 period blue and white and colored porcelains amongst other items. The collection was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum until his death in 1902 when it was sold to the Duveen brothers for $500000 who then sold it to J.P. Morgan within hours of who allowed most of the collection to remain at the Metropolitan Museum.</p><p>Emmet and his wife had at least three children: Thomas Addis Emmet 1900-1934 who married Evelyn Violet Elizabeth suo jure Baroness Emmet of Amberley 1899-1980 a British Conservative Party politician; Capt. James Albert Garland Emmet; and Aileen "Muffie" Emmet.</p><p><b>William Gardner Choate 1830-1920 </b>was a United States federal judge. Choate was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York serving on the court for only three years resigning on June 1 1881. He resumed his private practice in New York City from 1881 to 1920. He founded the Choate School later Choate Rosemary Hall in 1896 and from 1902 to 1903 he served as president of the New York City Bar Association.</p><p><b>Joseph Hodges Choate 1832-1917</b> brother of William Gardner Choate. was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was associated with many of the most famous litigations in American legal history including the Kansas prohibition cases the Chinese exclusion cases the Isaac H. Maynard election returns case the Income Tax Suit and the Samuel J. Tilden Jane Stanford and Alexander Turney Stewart will cases. In the public sphere he was influential in the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</p><p><b>Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</b> <b>1861-1933</b> an American poet writer and lecturer. She was the younger sister of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. She married Douglas Robinson Jr. 1855–1918. Robinson's maternal grandfather James Monroe 1799–1870 a member of the House of Representatives was a nephew of U.S. President James Monroe 1758–1831.</p><p><b>Sample Quotes:</b></p><p><i>"May 7 1925</i></p><p><i>D.S. Garland Esq. President</i></p><p><i>New York Law Review Corporation</i></p><p><i>280 Broadway New York</i></p><p><i>Dear Sir</i></p><p><i>The Constitution as originally made was simply intended to guarantee to the individual citizen a government which would protect his life his liberty and his right to pursue happiness.</i></p><p><i>That original Constitution which contained few controversial matters was not intended to be flexible and its amendment was not meant to be easy.</i></p><p><i>Since the intrusion into the Constitution of the various Amendments which have been ever increasingly controversial in nature there are every increasing numbers of people who are discontented in one way or another with the Constitution as amended.</i></p><p><i>This discontent leads to increasing demands for further amendments.</i></p><p><i>The Supreme Court which as Mr. Dooley says 'follows the Election returns' now says that it is only necessary to have the votes of two-thirds of a quorum in each house to propose Amendments to the organic law. That is not what the Constitution itself says but it is 'an interpretation' in the direction of flexibility which the amendments to the Constitution have made more popular.</i></p><p><i>In my opinion the acquiescence by the Court in the Congressional interpretation of the Amendment clause of the Constitution is more dangerous for the country than the passage of a law by Congress over the decision of the Court would be.</i></p><p><i>Another Congress can reverse the policy of its predecessor but the Constitution once changed stays.</i></p><p><i>Where it will end we cannot tell but each controversial amendment hastens the end.</i></p><p><i>Yours very truly Eliot Tuckerman</i></p><p><i>ET/M."</i></p><p><i>"T.S. Eliot</i></p><p><i>B -11 Eliot House</i></p><p><i>Cambridge</i></p><p><i>11 April 1933</i></p><p><i>My dear Cousin Jane</i></p><p><i>I shall certainly hope to see you and Cousin Emily in New York; but unfortunately I am not going to be there all that week – it is two separate visits. I shall be there from the 20th to the 22nd; and again on the 27th; and I hope to spend several days in New York in May without any speaking engagements. But I shall try to come on the first occasion; and will telephone.</i></p><p><i>With many thanks</i></p><p><i>Cordially your cousin</i></p><p><i>Tom St. Eliot"</i></p><p><i>"Henry D. Tudor</i></p><p><i>Counsellor at Law</i></p><p><i>35 Congress Street</i></p><p><i>Boston Mass.</i></p><p><i>January 23 1934</i></p><p><i>Dear Mr. Dodson</i></p><p><i>We have been searching for the portrait of James A. Garland by Ooliss. Hope Garland Ingersoll his granddaughter is supposed to have this portrait but we have not been able to locate it.</i></p><p><i>I wonder if you have any recollection in the handling of the estate of James A. Garland Sr. what became of this portrait. It was supposed to go to Bert Garland and hung in his house at Hamilton Mass. I do not know that the estate ever had anything to do with it but on the chance that it did I am writing to know if you have any recollection about it.</i></p><p><i>Sincerely yours</i></p><p><i>Henry D. Tudor"</i></p><p><i>"Baden-Baden May 8th '34</i></p><p><i>Dear Eliot</i></p><p><i>I apologize for not acknowledging receipt of your cable of April 3rd as I was reasonably sure Mrs. Emmet would not do so but I some how forgot it till I got your letter…</i></p><p><i>I wrote him Dodson some time back asking what you & he thought about distributing the final dissolution payment of the 1st Security Co. in the next quarterly distribution as I do not see how we can do otherwise in view of our paying income tax on it as income. Apparently the liquidating dividend received last year of the Passaic water Co. is in the same a similar category & should be distributed as income…</i></p><p><i>I hope everything goes well with you & Dodson. I wish they would treat the gangsters with the same merciful ruthlessness they use in similar miscreants here & I Italy. They tell me on all sides there is no need of locking your front door now in Germany & many of the people in the north do not do so. Visitors tell me they never lock their hotel doors now in Germany & never lose anything. The streets too are perfectly safe at any hour of the night. I wonder which is freedom – here or the terror in the New York where a mutual friend of ours trembles every time her front doorbell rings after 9 P.M.</i></p><p><i>I wish Roosevelt would make the States attack crime ruthlessly. I believe a marked subsidence of crime would bring a return of confidence & a business revival. It sounds fanciful but I believe it is NOT. Yours R. Emmet"</i></p><p><i>"Sept 27 '34</i></p><p><i>Dear Eliot</i></p><p><i>I have just arrived here Paris for a week on our way to London…</i></p><p><i>I am greatly disappointed not to have seen you when over here but delighted to hear you enjoyed it all so well. I think few people realize the romance of Scotland. Motoring there is far more fascinating I think than anywhere on the continent…</i></p><p><i>We are just from Montreux in Lk. Geneva via Basle. My wife ran into Germany to see the Dr. for the day but was too shy to spend any longer there than necessary. Charming people though these southern Germans are. The air there was charged with anxiety I thought and with espionage & spying with severest reprisals for disloyalty I have been told. Every one was so guarded in speech & so anxious lest they be overhead & misrepresented at least the few I got to know…</i></p><p><i>Best luck yours R. Emmet"</i></p><p><i>"</i><i>Sheppard Jones & Seipp</i></p><p><i>Attorneys & Counsellors</i></p><p><i>New York</i></p><p><i>April 26th 1935</i></p><p><i>Re – Emmet - General</i></p><p><i>Trust for Mrs. Emmet – Garland Estate;</i></p><p><i>Possible sale of First National Bank Stock</i></p><p><i>My dear 'Rob' and 'Tuck':</i></p><p><i>After our telephone conversations of this morning there came in the following brief note from 'Bob' Emmet dated the 17th:</i></p><p><i>'Dear Jack: My wife insists I maligned her by writing you she had threated to sue the trustees if they sold any of the Bank Stock so I thought you better know though she is as determined as every to hold on to the stock if she can influence matters.'</i></p><p><i>It seems to me that this demonstrates conclusively what I have told you both namely that 'Bob' had no animus against either of you in writing what I quoted in my letter to you of April 24th.</i></p><p><i>Faithfully yours John S. Sheppard</i></p><p><i>JSS:D</i></p><p><i>Robert B. Dobson Esq.</i></p><p><i>960 Park Avenue New York City</i></p><p><i>Eliot Tuckerman Esq.</i></p><p><i>49 Wall Street New York City"</i></p><p><i>"Robert Dodson</i></p><p><i>Robert Emmet</i></p><p><i>Eliot Tuckerman</i></p><p><i>Trustees for Louise G. Emmet</i></p><p><i>Under the will of James A. Garland</i></p><p><i>2 Wall Street</i></p><p><i>New York</i></p><p><i>September 19 1935</i></p><p><i>First National Bank</i></p><p><i>2 Wall Street</i></p><p><i>New York</i></p><p><i>Gentlemen:</i></p><p><i>Will you kindly purchase without haste for our account as Trustees as above stated the following mentioned bonds and stocks:</i></p><p><i>$30000 New York City 4% bonds due 1980.</i></p><p><i>$20000 Commonwealth Edison 3 ¾% bonds due 1965.</i></p><p><i>$5000 San Diego Consolidated Gas & Electric First 4% bonds due 1965.</i></p><p><i>$9000 American Gas & Electric 5% bonds due 2028.</i></p><p><i>$8000 North American Co. 5% bonds due 1961.</i></p><p><i>And</i></p><p><i>50 shares American Tobacco Co. B Stock</i></p><p><i>Please charge the same to our account with advice to us at the above address.</i></p><p><i>Yours truly</i></p><p><i>Robert B. Dodson Trustee</i></p><p><i>Eliot Tuckerman Trustee"</i></p><p><i>"Oct 3rd '35</i></p><p><i>Baden-Baden</i></p><p><i>Dear Eliot</i></p><p><i>Many thanks for yours of Sept 24th giving the prices at which the new purchases were made through the First National Bank…</i></p><p><i>We expect to be here or in Freiburg Germany till Oct 18th then after a short stay in Paris off to England for a couple of months Nov & Dec with the family. Great fluttering in the dive cots for several more are going to school this term having only the youngest at home in Tanney's family & two in each of the other two.</i></p><p><i>The thought that they may be training & fattening up to kill & be killed in a quite unnecessary war seems an incredibly revolting thought when one realizes that all wars are begun for Loot Gain or Revenge. I am barbarian enough to have really enjoyed my war experience but am thoroughly ashamed of the remains of Fallen Nature still uneradicated in me that permitted me to enjoy what I know was opposed to Christian principles. I have always enjoyed a gamble of a game of wits & chance & believe that must be the foundation of the situation. I certainly had no hard feeling or hatred for the enemy at any time any more than during a game of polo or steeplechase….</i></p><p><i>Yours R. Emmet"</i></p><p><i>"January 11 1937</i></p><p><i>Dear Dodson</i></p><p><i>I attended the annual meeting of the stockholders of the bank this morning and at the request of Mr. Fraser and Mr. Welldon called the meeting to order and nominated them to act as chairman and secretary of the meeting.</i></p><p><i>Mr. Fraser took up the enclosed statement item by item and explained the differences as compared with the previous year's report. The number of stockholders has increased from 4708 to 5102. The government has ruled that the bank may make announcement of the dividend to be paid four times each year instead of twice as has been done for the past year. This will be done.</i></p><p><i>The decrease of deposits was mainly due to the government requiring increased reserves in the banks. Many banks carry balances with the First National which reduced their deposits. Also some of the corporate balances were smaller than formerly. Of the Government Bonds owned by the Bank 40% are due in 5 years or less and 51% are callable in 10 years. The profits are less this year as many of the bonds held by the bank were refunded in 1936 which resulted in profits in 1936 not recurring in 1937. Also the income was reduced by the fact that the refunding bonds carried coupons at a lower rate of interest.</i></p><p><i>There were 282 shares present in person at the meeting and 72205 shares among them ours represented by proxies.</i></p><p><i>There were gains in miscellaneous income from the fact that commissions were received in some of the Estates held in the trust department and the rents of the building now 74% rented increased.</i></p><p><i>That's about all I learned from Mr. Fraser.</i></p><p><i>After the meeting I stopped to speak with Searles the first assistant cahier. I mentioned to him that I had noticed that Mrs. Loew's Estate held no bank stock. He suggested that perhaps she had put that in trust for her children during her life. Maybe so.</i></p><p><i>I have put the various receipts int eh file and have nothing further in the way of business to report.</i></p><p><i>I hope Mrs. Dodson and you are well and happy. I stopped in to see Jack Morgan for a minute and he said it was a good time to be philosophical and I try to be but for me it is not easy.</i></p><p><i>With best wishes</i></p><p><i>Yours Sincerely</i></p><p><i>Eliot Tuckerman</i></p><p><i>Robert B. Dodson Esq.</i></p><p><i>ET: JB"</i></p><p><i>"</i><i>The Vestry</i></p><p><i>St. Stephen's Church</i></p><p><i>Gloucester Road S.W.7</i></p><p><i>12 January 1939</i></p><p><i>Dear Cousin Jenny</i></p><p><i>Thank you very much for your kind and welcome letter. I am sorry that I unintentionally deceived you concerning my whereabouts; it was simply that I could not find your address and enclosed the card and envelope to Henry to forward to you. Nevertheless I shall hope to see you and Cousin Emily at some time during this year if no war intervenes to prevent. I had hoped to come in the autumn but both politics and some uncompleted work prevented me.</i></p><p><i>With best wishes for 1939</i></p><p><i>Affectionately your cousin</i></p><p><i>T.S. Eliot"</i></p><p><b>Examples from the 1943 Journal:</b></p><p><i>"August 10 Thursday…45 subtracted from 1943 brings us back to 1898 and the glorious days of San Juan Hill and the first Roosevelt now rather eclipsed; but perhaps history will refocus attention on his name. And here we have a lot of Spanish War vets convening in Boston with their wives in attendance. 45 years and caps and badges & wives don't add by and large any great dignity to the human body; rather humps & bumps and thick legs and horrid obesity all over in the most unexpected spots - and I dare say not infrequently to the brain; - which is indicated by the very fact of their foregathering and dressing up. In the last few days they have been passing resolutions; memorializing Congress and FDR in a number of ways on a number of subjects one of which which caught the reporters' eye was a stern recommendation to the federal authorities whoever might be the proper one to forbid any and all Orientals – Japs & Chinese from entering the U.S.A.: where upon the Civil Liberties League whooped & hollered and asked how this behavior fitted in with Mr. Wilkie's plan for one world." </i></p><p><i>"Aug 22 Sunday…We were very much intrigued to find that Nancy Oakes had been at their school in New York when she married Count de Marigny clandestinely and admitted it one afternoon after an examination on banking. Consternation! and inability to get Lady Oakes on the telephone before the Count came and claimed her & carried her off. A great to do but nothing much to do about it. Both Miss C. & Mlle. T foresaw unhappiness sizing up the Count as a scallywag who didn't care anything about Nancy but had an eye o her money. He had been divorced from his first wife Farnesworth and all the available records were dark. And now look what she is facing! Her husband accused of murdering & trying to burn the body of her father – in the Bahamas!."</i></p><p><i>"Aug 24 Tuesday…There are lots of WAVES at the Victoria lining up to go somewhere and I am much impressed with their style their carriage & their dress. Also recalling Bly's remarks about the uniform color of their stockings. I wonder if the U.S. Gov. issues them or commands them to use only one color of lip stick. I had a good opportunity to come to this conclusion…"</i></p><p><i>"Aug 25 Wednes…I was struck by the eventual usefulness of Copley Square. At last a valid solution of that much vexed triangle has been found; it has become a vegetable garden for the Copley Plaza Hotel surrounded by a low white picket fence covered with vines; a well-worn path around it. The garden itself is very professional set up in north-south rows of everything good to eat and thriving under the skill of a professional farmer; who picks your beans as you sit in the merry-go-round & has 'em cooked when you've finished your cocktail. The garden does not occupy the entire grassy terrain but leaves the corners free -and as might be expected they are dedicated by the completely unimaginative Mr. Long of the Park Dept. east to the exceedingly ugly raised garden a design in horrible stubby plants; a large V and north-south on Dartmouth St. of all things groups of spindly rabble trees! Doubtless it's Mr. Long's fond secret hope to do something about the tree shortage…"</i></p><p><i>"Aug 26 Thurs…A nice quiet day with little happening. I call on Ralph Gray in the early morning. He seems pretty perky and wants me to take on the job he is yielding of custodian with Howard Church of the B.A.C. funds. There being little or no funds that seems no arduous job for me and I gladly take it off Ralph's shoulders…Bly lunches with Mrs. Ellery Sedgewick at Emily Webbs who remarks on my North Haven Church and is joined by Tom Metcalfe from the adjacent Museum of Modern Arson as he likes to call it in memory of the Beacon Street episode…"</i></p><p><i>"Aug 31 Tues…I have taken Ralph's place as trustee of the B.A.C. educational funds. I could hardly do less though I'm heartily sick of trying to save that club house. And here are Stanley & I – Stanley for the most part – getting up a serious of lectures for next winter in the hope that we may gather in a few dollars - and persuade the tax assessors the Club is an educational institution & should not be taxed…"</i></p><p><i>"Sept 1 Wed…I get the Ms. Of our lecture courses to Ms. King of Todd and Walter Kilham & I enjoy a particularly pleasant luncheon at '270'…What a gay place 270 is at lunch time! Seemed full; even the cocktail lounge…M.F. chic & charming winked at me across the room Harriet Allen and her Roger Warner were near by & a perfectly lovely lady with large limpid eyes & vivacious mouth - & 2 friends sex female faced me at a near table Walter a little irritated that his back was to her. But I noticed he managed a number of good squints in her direction. We both would undoubtedly recognize her again – and may go back to do so…"</i></p><p><i>"Sept 11 Sat…And in the meantime it should be noted that Adolph Hitler has made a speech…a rather pitiful affair probably from Berchtesgaden over the radio justifying everything in Italy and on the Russian front. He is lost…and he knows it…probably now at the control of the army who are using him to bolster public moral as much as he can. Meantime they have taken over Rome put the Pope under protective custody which rather pleases me the Pope never to my mind took a strong position and now he is being used for what his prestige & that of the shrines of Rome can give the Nazis as protection…"</i></p><p><b>Collection Inventory:</b></p><p><b> Outgoing Correspondence of Eliot Tuckerman:</b></p><p>81 retained copies of letters 106 typescript pages mostly unsigned dated 7 May 1925 to 22 December 1950; written by Eliot Tuckerman to others; the bulk of letters date from the 1930s 1 letter from 1925 2 from 1940 and 1 from 1950; 48 of the letters were written by Tuckerman to Maj. Robert Emmet; 12 letters written to Robert B. Dodson; the remaining to various individuals; of these 79 letters 2 are handwritten copies. Tuckerman Emmet and Dodson were trustees of the James A. Garland Estate with Emmet's wife was one of the heirs. Emmet is mostly in Europe with Dodson and Tuckerman in New York City. Most of this correspondence is about the Garland Estate investing for the estate quarterly distributions stocks bonds cash on hand arguments with Mrs. Emmet over the handling of the estate worries about the economy worries over the political scene in Europe Germany etc.</p><p><b>Incoming Correspondence of Eliot Tuckerman:</b></p><p>78 letters 157 pp. mostly handwritten dated 11 December 1933 to 27 December 1954; written by Major Robert Emmet to Eliot Tuckerman. Emmet's wife Louise G. Emmet was an heir to the James A. Garland Estate of which Tuckerman was one of the Trustees handling the estate for Mrs. Emmet. Emmet and his wife appear to have gone to Europe for an extended stay lasting multiple years to seek treatment of his wife's ailments. Major Emmet and Robert B. Dodson were also Trustees of the Garland Estate. Emmet writes several letters discussing the changes going on in Nazi Germany. Much of the correspondence deals with the Garland Estate.</p><p>15 letters 16 manuscript pp. dated 20 June 1934 to 19 January 1938; written by Robert B. Dodson to Eliot Tuckerman; Dobson like Tuckerman was one of the Trustees handling the James A. Garland Estate for Mrs. Louise G. Emmet who was the heir and the wife of Major Robert Emmet also a Trustee. Much of the correspondence deals with the handling of the Garland Estate.</p><p>6 letters 20 pp. mostly handwritten dated 11 March 1919 to 12 March 1927 written to Eliot Tuckerman from family: his mother 1; Aunt Elizabeth 1; Jane and Emily Tuckerman 1; Jane F. Tuckerman 2; Emily Tuckerman 1. </p><p>4 letters 14 pp. handwritten dated 16 June 1901 to 10 March 1915; written by various members of the Choate family to Eliot Tuckerman: Mabel Choate of New York City; J. H. Choate Jr. writing from Munich Germany; Anne Hyde Choate of New York; and Wm. G. Choate of Rosemary Farm Wallingford Connecticut. Tuckerman worked for the Evarts Choate & Beaman law firm in New York City for a number of years.</p><p>4 letters 12 typescript pp. dated 15 and 30 October 1935; written by Herbert J. Bickford to Eliot Tuckerman these are two original letters plus copies of those letters; Bickford was a member of the firm of Evarts Choate Curtin and Leon Allen W. Evarts Joseph H. Choate Jr. John J. Curtin & Maurice Leon of New York City New York. Bickford helped on the Garland Estate.</p><p>3 letters 4 typed pp. dated 3 February 1919 to 2 August 1918; written by Henry Campbell Black to Eliot Tuckerman; Black was the editor of "The Constitutional Review" a publication that published an article by Tuckerman. There is an essay/article in the ephemera collection which would appear to be a copy of this article that Tuckerman wrote for this publication.</p><p>3 letters 4 typed pp. dated 24 April 1935 to 20 September 1938 written by John S. Sheppard to Eliot Tuckerman; Sheppard was an attorney with "Sheppard Jones & Seipp" of New York City New York John S. Sheppard Catesby L. Jones & Henry G. Seipp; Sheppard may have been working for the Emmet family on the Garland Estate or for the Emmet family individually from the estate.</p><p>35 letters 66 pp. mostly handwritten by various individuals to Eliot Tuckerman dated 15 March 1887 to 22 December 1950; of these letters 23 are dated from 1915 to 1917. In 1915 Tuckerman was engaged and married and in 1917 he and his wife had their first and only child. These letters from 1915 and 1917 discuss these two events in Tuckerman's life. The collection includes letters from: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE 1884-1970 American railroad executive a champion yachtsman an innovator and champion player of contract bridge and a member of the Vanderbilt family; Christine Griffen Keen sister of U.S. Senators John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean and wife of William Emlen Roosevelt 1857-1930 prominent New York City banker and cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt; presumably a Frances Tracy Morgan daughter of Jack Morgan American banker finance executive and philanthropist who inherited the family fortune and took over the business interests including J.P. Morgan & Co. after his father J. P. Morgan died.</p><p><b>Incoming Correspondence to Mary Fowler Tuckerman wife of Eliot Tuckerman:</b></p><p>12 letters 35 pp. mostly handwritten dated 29 September 1915 to 14 December 1932; written to Mary Fowler from family: her husband Eliot Tuckerman 5; her father Robert L. Fowler 5; Jeanie and Emily Tuckerman 1; and her brother 1.</p><p>21 letters 66 pp. mostly handwritten dated 8 March 1915 to 7 April 1948 written by various individuals to Mary Fowler Tuckerman wife of Eliot Tuckerman; 7 letters are not dated and are from the same time period; 9 letters are from 1915 and 1917 with the undated letters likely being from this time period as they pertain to Mary's marriage to Tuckerman 1915 and the birth of their daughter 1917. Some of the letter writers are from prominent New York City families: Rachel Lenox Porter Frances de Peyster Sarah D. Gardiner Alice Crary Sutcliffe Margaret E. Zimmerman etc.</p><p><b>Incoming Letters to Emily Lamb Tuckerman and her sister Jane F. Tuckerman sisters of Eliot Tuckerman:</b></p><p>10 letters 27 pp. handwritten dated 1 January 1854 to 26 June 1943; written to Emily Lamb Tuckerman by various individuals both family and friends including her sister Jane and her cousins. A couple of the letters congratulate Emily upon her engagement. One or two of these earlier letters appear to be for another Emily Tuckerman perhaps an aunt of Emily Lamb Tuckerman. One may have been written by Jane F. Tuckerman 1818-1856 as it was written in 1854 thus the Emily it is addressed to would have to be someone else.</p><p>9 letters 14 pp. dated 18 October 1872 to 12 January 1939 written to Jane F. Tuckerman; one letter is written Corine Roosevelt Robinson an American poet writer and lecturer and the younger sister of President Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. Another correspondent is the poet T. S. Eliot who writes two letters to Ms. Tuckerman both are typed and signed with envelopes dated 11 April 1933 and 12 January 1939. T.S. Eliot calls Ms. Tuckerman his cousin and mentions her sister "Cousin Emily" as well. T. S. Eliot also signs a Christmas card "T.S. Eliot." The envelope is addressed to "The Misses Tuckerman" in New York City in 1938. </p><p><b>Miscellaneous Letters to the Tuckerman Family:</b></p><p>12 letters 32 pp. handwritten dated 4 May 1848 to 11 May 1935; miscellaneous letters written amongst members of the Tuckerman family.</p><p><b>Journals Estate Ledger Pedigree Register Scrapbook </b></p><p>Journal of Eliot Tuckerman octavo 63 manuscript pp. plus blanks bound in limp leather boards worn at edges dated 3 August to 9 September 1904; inside front flyleaf reads <i>"Eliot Tuckerman / Personal Memoranda."</i> First page states: <i>"Tour of Duty with Troop A 1st New York Provisional Cavalry – at Manassas Va. September 1904" </i>followed by: <i>"Pursuant to the provisions of the "Dick Bill" the Army authorities called for troops from the eastern States to take part in maneuvers to be held on the ground where the battles of Bull Run were fought in the Civil War…" </i>This journal appears to be about this exercise that Tuckerman was a part of.</p><p>Journal of Eliot Tuckerman octavo 39 manuscript pp. plus blanks bound in limp leather boards worn at edges dated 1909-1911; written in ink in legible hand. The inside front flyleaf of the journal has inscribed: <i>"Eliot Tuckerman / Journal / Dec 25 1909 / from E.L.T." </i>The volume appears to have been given to Tuckerman for Christmas 1909 from his sister Emily Lamb Tuckerman." The first page is dated <i>"December 25 1909"</i>with the last entry dated <i>"1911 July 26."</i>The volume was only occasionally used by Tuckerman.</p><p>Journal of an unidentified woman octavo 198 manuscript pp. dated 13 August to 27 September 1943 written in ink in a legible hand; kept in a copybook. This journal was written by a single woman who works in an office in Boston possibly the architectural firm of Kilham & Hopkins formed in 1899 or 1900 by its founding members Walter Harrington Kilham 1868-1948 and James Cleveland Hopkins 1873-1938. The firm later became Kilham Hopkins & Greeley after William Roger Greeley 1881-1966 joined the firm in 1916 and Kilham Hopkins Greeley and Brodie after Walter S. Steve Brodie 1911-1985 joined the firm in 1945. The firm has been recognized for its contributions to early 20th century reform housing including its work at the Atlantic Heights Development in Portsmouth New Hampshire at the Woodbourne Historic District in the Forest Hills section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston and for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company in the Salem Point Neighborhood of Salem Massachusetts. A number of the firm's works including Blithewold and Hose House No. 2 have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The journal does have the writing making architectural comments design comments etc. and she may very well be an architect herself. She lives with a woman by the name of Bly. The journal recounts daily activities and life of a woman in the Boston area traveling to Milton New Bedford elsewhere mentions of the war efforts etc. She at one point takes over as custodian of the funds of the Boston Architectural Club from architect Ralph Gray.</p><p>Estate Ledger Book for <i>"Estate of Emily Lamb Tuckerman / Died July 8 1943"</i> & <i>"Estate of Jane Frances Tuckerman / Died October 18 1947"</i> small quarto 69 manuscript pp. bound in quarter leather cloth edges worn written in ink legible hand; both estates' accounts kept in the same ledger.</p><p>Register of Pedigree. Approved by The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 1915. Copyrighted 1895 by William Gordon Ver Planck. "The Pedigree of Jane F. Tuckerman" 33 pp. written in ink legible hand with blanks and with further handwritten material tucked in bound in oblong 4to measures 16" x 10" cloth boards wear to edges. A genealogy of the Tuckerman family compiled by Jane Frances Tuckerman.</p><p>Scrap Album of 59 newspaper articles clipped from New York City papers and laid into a quarto volume measures 10" x 14" boards detached dusty. The articles appear to be mostly written by or about Eliot Tuckerman and his fight to declare the 18th Amendment Prohibition wrongly enacted. </p><p>"Wedding Presents" ledger small oblong quarto 40 pp. with blanks written in pencil legible hand bound in boards with leather worn away; not dated but mentions Emily Tuckerman as giving a gift with the Fowler family as being the first listed possibly kept by Eliot Tuckerman's wife Mary Fowler and would date from 1915; occasionally in the "remarks" column it states "For Eliot" which would seem to indicate it was indeed kept by Eliot Tuckerman and his wife Mary Fowler; includes lists of names and gifts given sometimes other remarks such as where the gift was purchased the address of the person who gave the gift usually city etc.</p><p><b>Photographs:</b></p><p>44 photographs black and white various sizes from 2 ¾" x 4" to 8" x 10"; includes 3 cabinet cards 2 cyanotypes most of the photos are inscribed and labeled on rear many appear to be of Jane F. Tuckerman some of her sister Emily; 5 of the photos were taken at the Biddle home in Andalusia Bucks County Pennsylvania; others in Maine; not dated circa late 19th and early 20th century.</p><p><b>Ephemera:</b></p><p>Paper Ephemera: Approximately 130 pieces of both printed and manuscript paper ephemera including manuscript notes essays printed material used envelopes calling cards greeting cards estate papers written genealogy pages post cards telegrams newspaper clippings etc.</p>
19782090502113717339Not Available 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1847ALEX321Stereotyped by J. Fagan for Lindsay and Blakiston Philadelphia: . 1847 222 p. 8 full page plates. Bookplate of New Horizons a gift of Rosemary Hall School June 17 1863. Early manuscript inscription of Simeon Baldwin from his father Jan. 1 1848. Manuscript ownership of Roger Sherman Baldwin 1883. Simeon Baldwin 1761-1851 was son-in-law of Roger Sherman patriot of the Revolutionary and Constitutional era and father of Roger Sherman Baldwin 1793-1863 an American politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Connecticut from 1844 to 1846 and a United States Senator from 1847 to 1851. As a lawyer R.S. was most notable for his participation in the 1841 Amistad case. Plates beginning to brown. Front hinge cracked. 180 mm. Original green cloth binding embossed in blind. Front board decorated with a scene in gilt of two of Washington's soldiers crossing the Delaware. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Head and tail of spine worn with slight loss. Corners worn with loss. Hardbound. Very Good. PAIMP 24. Hardcover. Very Good. (Stereotyped by J. Fagan for) Lindsay and Blakiston, Philadelphia: . hardcover
30284<p>10 letters 31 pages neatly inscribed in ink several retain original mailing envelopes very good legible condition.</p><p>Group of letters pertaining to the Wheeler and Stanton families. Daniel N. Stanton one of the correspondents is a distant cousin of Henry Brewster Stanton of New York American social activist abolitionist and reformer. Henry Stanton's wife Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the pioneer advocate of woman's rights.</p><p>Daniel N. Stanton married Harriet C. Wheeler on May 2 1864. Harriet was born about 1839 she was the daughter of Samuel and Jane Wheeler of Newton Corner Massachusetts. She had two sisters: Mary C. and Elizabeth W. as well as a brother Albert who was serving with the 44th Massachusetts Regiment. There are a few letters from one of Harriet's friends "Katy." Mary Wheeler's letters indicate she was living in Northhampton Massachusetts under the care of a Dr. Edward Denniston. Denniston ran a home for invalids at Springdale Northampton Massachusetts called the "Springdale Water Cure" it was devoted to the relief and cure of chronic disorder and disease.</p><p>Boston January 26 1862 Daniel N. Stanton to Hattie Wheeler</p><p>"My dear Hattie</p><p>According to promise I take the most agreeable and pleasing opportunity to write the only one I <u>love</u>. It appears so very strange when I consider and carefully reflect on the past circumstances of our acquaintance that we should have been so mysteriously brought to believe that we could lose each other.</p><p>Often when engaged in my daily avocation have I thought of you then I would try and banish such thoughts forever from my mind but it certainly seems to have been a foregone conclusion that I should under any and all circumstances lose you.</p><p>There is one promise that I have been determined to keep and that was never to allow myself to use artificial influence to accomplish what I so much desired. I knew that such affection would never last if won fairly and <u>honorably</u> that however great might be our troubles and trials we could look back on the past and without a regret say that as we were true in the beginning we would hold out true to the end. Many are the vices and temptations which are hourly surrounding us in this unfriendly world. Such we must meet with defiance.</p><p>I have seen those who have started with all the bright hopes of a future before them in a short time sunk to the depth of degradation with all their imaginary hopes blasted forever. This I am sorry to say has often been caused by their own folly.</p><p>I could meet all other trials but if from any deception of mine I were called on to meet with disgrace with the one I had idolized it would be far preferable to me to seal up my earthly cares before I ever feel the pangs of such a curse…"</p><p>Sherborn August 7 1862 Katy to Elizabeth Wheeler</p><p>"Dear Lizzie</p><p>I received your letter late on the 8th and was very thankful to hear from you. I am very sorry you are so unwell and your father too. It seems as if all the afflictions come at once. You speak of going to the beach. Now Lizzie won't the sea breeze be too much for you. I think if you should go farther up in the country it would be more beneficial you would not be exposed so much to the East winds. …</p><p>You may laugh Lizzie but the inhabitants of Sherborn are very patriotic they have held three meetings to get fourteen volunteers. Wilson spoke one night. Charles Train the next I don't know the third one. They will hold one tonight believe it will take two to finish off what do you think of that. The ladies are pulling lint making shirts and shoes and every they can think of for their comfort…"</p><p>Howard Hotel New York October 8th 1862 Daniel N. Stanton to Hattie Wheeler</p><p>"Dearest Hattie</p><p>Another day has past and I am still in this city. I don't think I am any better prepared to say when I can leave than I was two days ago; something is always comeing up to prevent me from starting. I know you fully appreciate my condition and are willing to wait with patience I have been feeling lonely and at a loss to know what to do evenings since I got here being so long in the society of one who had a faculty of cheering me in my uncomfortable hours it comes hard to be parted from her. Last night I went over to Brooklyn to hear Cassius Clay & Henry B. Stanton speak. The Hall was crowded to overflowing and the people cheered them to the top of their voices…"</p><p>Newton November 9 1862 to Mary Wheeler from her father</p><p>"Dear Mary</p><p>The Storm continues & I have not been out today neither have any of us. Mr. Crane & Juliet Wheeler are here Sam is at home clearing up his attic room. I rec'd your letter of 6 & 7 inst yesterday morning same time I sent you a little letter from Hattie. Your letter was quite a relief to us as a few days before I learned from Mr. Dickenson that you was too sick for miss "Hattie" to leave you to go & here Mr. Goff lecture we presumed you had one of your sick turns but as you did not say anything about it we suppose it passed off without your being very sick. I notice what you say about removing you appear to be satisfied with your new "room" or <u>rooms</u> if it but one room the Doctr should not charge but for <u>one</u> & board for two - the 2 $ for fires is 2 $ pr week or that's what he has charged you for the past 5 weeks …on his bill which I got yesterday a pretty tall bill … it seems by the papers that the 44 Regt with others have captured 3000 Rebels at Plymouth NC we hope to have a letter from Albert giving particulars…"</p><p>Sherborn November 23 1862 Katy to Mary Wheeler Northampton</p><p>"Dear Mary</p><p>I was much pleased to have a paper from you I heard in particular where the 44th went in Battle was some afraid that Albert was either killed or wounded however I heard they had a hard time of it. These are sad times Mary I see no prospect when the end will come. I suppose you are aware that I have been to your house and staid three weeks. I did not calculate to stay more than a day or two of course. I did not take any clothes only what I had on except a common dress while there I helped Hattie clean up the house and we did clean in earnest. Cleaned out all the closets washed all the china. Hattie and the girl cleaned all the paint and windows. I put down all the chamber carpets washed all the muslin curtains and ironed them including yours. When I left everything looked as nice as wax. …"</p><p>Newton January 8 1863 Samuel Wheeler to his daughter Mary</p><p>"Dear Mary</p><p>I rec'd yours of yesterday this morning and was sorry to learn you have been sick again; it appears to me that those attacks come oftener than they did but are of shorter duration … I have just written Albert a long letter & we sent him a box of "fixins" yesterday you can keep his record of 12 pages till I come up as it will cost you 3 postage stamps…"</p><p>Northampton April 12 1864 Lizzie Wheeler to her father</p><p>"Dear Father</p><p>By this time you have rec'd a telegram from Mary saying that she will go home tomorrow with Dr. Huntington in the afternoon train which reaches N. C. about 11 p.m. Dr. H called on us quite unexpectedly yesterday & hearing that Mary intended going home soon offered very kindly to take charge of her if she would go Wednesday afternoon… For myself I stay a few weeks longer as we think best – Dr. Denniston will go to Springfield with Mary & see her safely in the cars – She is not very smart today tho' she thinks she shall be able to go. If not you must not be disappointed-…"</p>
200413629New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like new hardcover with dustjacket and ex cat June 10 - Sept. 12 2004 1 pp sponsors statement - The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation 1 pp sponsors statement The Bank of NY 1 pp director's foreword 1 pp ack 374 figure illus. mostly 4/C 244 6 pp chronology 31 pp list of exhibitions in his lifetime. . Like New. Hardcover. 2004. Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover
31294<p>31 Letters 80 manuscript pages three pages of manuscript poetry in very good clean and legible condition.</p><p>This group of correspondence was mainly written by members of the White Family Quakers from Wilmington and elsewhere in Delaware and Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The letters are mainly sisterly letters between the White sisters Ruth Ann Amelia Sarah Jane to each other and other sisters including one Deborah who emigrated to Illinois. The letters contain family news discussions of social and domestic life current events in Wilmington Philadelphia and Illinois amongst other topics.</p><p>The White family were Quakers and were engaged in farming manual labor storekeeping and school teaching in Wilmington and in Kent County Delaware and in Philadelphia. Deborah White Alphonso and later Amelia White later moved to Jacksonville Morgan County Illinois where they established a farm.</p><p>Sample Quotes:</p><p>Philadelphia 3d Mo. 15th 1842 to Amelia H. White Wilmington Del.</p><p>"My dear Sister</p><p>… you would oftener receive a letter from me but the same duties are gone through day after day but this is one of more interest because long anticipated Alphonso is once more a dweller under his mother's roof after dinner today he bid adieu to W. C. Betts and has launched upon the world I hope his may be a prosperous voyage that no adverse gale make shipwreck of his and our hopes and such will be my desires for thee if thy life should be prolonged until that day and I would like to impress upon thy mind my dear Sister that unless thee makes good resolutions and abides by them thee will instead of being lov'd by all thy friends and happy in thy own mind will be disliked by them and unhappy because the stings of a guilty conscience will be felt disobedience to the commands of those who have the care of thee will always be punish'd and that is one sting easily evaded if thee will only use a little exertion it is just as easy to obey as to disobey I expect thee will think my letter now it has come is not very palatable but oh my anxiety for thee increases for each day must I tell that I was disappointed when I was down I had anticipated seeing thee very much changed how sorry was I to perceive thee wasa the same and yet not exactly I thought I could trace some improvement and such might be the case in every instance if thee would exert thyself and that but little thy Heavenly Father has endors'd thee with gifts which if thee will take pains to cultivate will make thee a pleasure and a comfort I will here close with this subject although it is one I could wish to impress upon thy mind with an indelible hand let it sink deep into thgy heart and ever remember it is always open to the searching eye of him who never slumbers bring all thy thoughts and actions to this test and I will have no fears for thee…</p><p>I have received four more squares from Jersey they must like me better than my Wilmington friends do not forget to give my square to Bassetts and ask them each to make me one also Aunt Eliza Jane Eliza John Alphonso and James.</p><p>Now I will speak of our family concerns for I suppose they will have some interest Alphonso because the most recent comes first and I will say of him what I guess few sisters can that instead of going off on an excursion the day he was twenty one he went and commenced work for himself for my part I think it very much to his credit William had no work for him so he has commenced with his brother Richard. W – told Rebecca that if he had work he would have kept him for five years and that is recommendation enough Father has got work in W – we are very glad to hear it and hope it may continue all summer… Ruth Ann"</p><p>"Philadelphia 2nd Mo 21st 1843 Amelia H. White Wilmington Del.</p><p>My dear Sister</p><p>… I often think of you sometimes sadly and would that it were in my power to aid all hands in some way or other but I know not what to do however I hope you may succeed in getting a house and thee must do all in thy power to assist Aunt and thee can do a great deal without neglecting any of thy studies they are very essential for thy welfare for unless things take a sudden and mighty change thee will have to make thy own living as all thy family has and if thee continues to improve we may all sometime join and success I sometimes think of Esops fable of the bundle of sticks by which to represent a family united cannot be broken but once let a single stick be taken out it requires very little to snap it into pieces so let us be like the bundle…</p><p>Last sixth day I went to see the funeral of Commodore Hull it was a very solemn and imposing spectacle the tramp of soldiers the muffled drums and the tears of the sailors as they bore him to his lat narrow home was a most touching sight and now I must say adieu… Ruth Ann…"</p><p>1st mo 31st 1846 to Amelia H. White No 3 Crown Street Philadelphia</p><p>"My dear Sister</p><p>… I suppose you have not heard of a situation for me oh dear me that is a draw back to all my enjoyments I often wonder where my lot will be cast next and among what kind of people but away with this or my letter will be doleful I suppose thee would like to hear how I am passing my time at present I am at David Bassetts and have been since last fourth day there is not much outdoor enjoyment at present for the roads are in a most deplorable condition so that the society of our friends is the pleasure we now have last week we had some delightful sleighing the first evening we spent with a friend at Sharptown when we started for home they drove us around by Woodstown which lengthened our ride some for or five miles… the next day which was sixth day we started about 9 o'clock … for Samuel Allens at Mullica hill and a more delightful sight I never beheld every blade of grass or stubble glittered in the sun like so many diamonds for everything was covered with sleet … we reached our destination about 12 o'clock remained until about 4 when two other sleigh loads joined us as we went to a glass works we went a round about way and by that means had a long drive through the pines or rather at the side of them while we were riding there the sun set and it was truly a glorious sight … blowing glass was a curiosity to me and at the same time I could not help commiserating the poor fellows whose lot it was to stand before such a fire enough to burn them crisp I don't know how they stand it but use is indeed second nature they did not appear to mind it any more or indeed as much as we do baking by a hot fire the gentlemen of our party purchased glass horns singing glasses and several things for us but as is generally the case they got broken long before we got home we arrived at our starting place Elisha Bassetts at half past two oclock after riding more than 50 miles … Ruth Ann"</p><p>Wilmington 4th mo 26th 1846 to Amelia H. White No 3 Crown Street Philadelphia</p><p>"My dear Sister</p><p>… I think it is now probable I shall have to return on 7th day for E. W. will want to go up to the meeting and thee knows that is the day they always go as things have turned up for me the time is not as convenient as it would have been at any other season for my visit will have to be curtailed I regret it exceedingly for I should like to go to Meeting but I suppose what cant be cured must be endured tell Rebeca that I priced bonnets according to her wish they are the same prices here as there Thee says thee is thinking I am so well suited that I have given out the idea of a place of my own there thee is mistaken it is what I would most desire if I had the means or was well assured of my success but I reckon I need never expect to get the little spot I spoke of for Aunt R will hang on to it I expect well so be it perhaps there will some place turn up for us yet I should like us to be fixed together as we once were thee strive hard for what thee is after for I know not where thee would get a situation it appears to me times are exceedingly dull and I fear from what I can gather they will be worse before they are better Uncle told me that one of the houses or the house had passed a bill prohibiting specie payments and he very much feared it would the senate if so farewell to business in general today is coloured quarterly meeting so we could not expect anything else than rain while we ought indeed to be thankful for it was very much wanted I suppose… Ruth Ann"</p><p>Wilmington 6th mo 28th 1846 to Amelia H. White No 3 Crown St Philadelphia</p><p>"My Dear Sister</p><p>… I know not how it is but of all dull places W – goes ahead or rather the people the people. I expect if I was to stay here for twenty years to come not one of my friends or acquaintances would come and say lets take a walk if I go drum them up they go but of themselves they seem to take no interest in you I have never been up the Brandywine yet and no place do I want to go more As G was saying the other day she had never been up since we were all up there together the time that Jim and all hands were down from the city so we are going to make an attempt some of these times … I should be glad to see thee here but the civility must be returned and thee knows how it is at home thee will have to consult those who are better able to give advice than I feel in that case I am I know not what kind of a girl she is now but as a child I never thee well knows I approved of her for a very intimate acquaintance yet youth must have friendships and I am the last one to wish thee or anyone else to be debarred from forming suitable ones thee know what I wish thee to be and my earnest desire is that thy conduct thro life may be such as to insure they comfort and happiness here and thy eternal happiness in the land of spirits …"</p><p>"Wilmington 9th mo 27th 1846</p><p>My dear Sister</p><p>… I have fully made up my mind that as I have to be confined in a store and have the charge of other people I may as well enter into the whole business and reap whatever benefit there may be derived from it and that heaven may prosper my undertaking I most fervently desire I have said nothing to the folks here about it and I expect when I do it will be quite a surprise and indeed I know not what E – will do for between thee and me she does not spend half her time in the store leaves it all to those around her I hope she may always have honest folks about here or else she may be somewhat the poorer a many a dollar I could take and she be none the wiser if I was so disposed but I hope ever to be preserved from the temptation. I take the greater part through the day fix it at night and so on it is easy to be seen how any one disposed to do that that was many could succeed this in confidence. …Ruth Ann `</p><p>Mantua ville Philadelphia 11th mo 15th 1848 to Deborah White Jacksonville Illinois</p><p>"My own Dear Mother</p><p>… I do not suppose you had much to do with Politicks in your travils our bricklayers were minus a lime barrel and I suppose Old Zack is to fill the chair honourable at the White house may his presiding be of peace and happiness to himself the people and the Country and bring better times for they are hard just now. There has been some excitement in consequence of the baisin of the spring garden waterworks cracking and the water rushing out carrying every thing before it including some 50 feet on 2 sides of the wall of Girard Colledge so you may judge of the force of the water to carry away walls 3 ft thick and the people of spring Garden and the libertys were with out water till it was attached from the City a lucky chance the old pipes were not removed. … Time has seemed long since thee left us the house felt desolate enough and … they affectionate daughter Rebec"</p><p>"Prairie Cottage Illinois June 17th 1850</p><p>Dear Sarah</p><p>As I have just washed and curled my two children's heads and they are quietly amusing themselves by looking at the chickens and goslings I thought I would improve the time by writing a few lines to you I have looked in vain for a letter from the Eden of the world and begin to think that you have forgotten these western wilds & that we dwell there … it is dismal enough out here it rains about 5 days out of the week and then the ground is so saturated with water that the farmers cannot work the remainder many of them have had to replant several times and a number have not got all their ground broke up yet and that they have given up entirely our folks have ploughed one day this week and went to try again to day but had to give it up this being Friday too however Alphons is better of than most others in our neighborhood he had his corn planted very early and it had time to be up before the heavy rains came on and consequently had very little to replant considering his corn looks as well if not better than it has ever done before there was a great prospect of wheat but I have heard some say that it is getting spoiled and if the wet weather continues it will all be ruined down on the Illinois river and through the American and Magoupin Macoupin bottoms the wheat fields are 10 feet under water poor prospect that of good flour the water the last we heard was within a few feet of being as high as it was the last great freshet at St Louis they cannot approach the levee in the steam boats but have to go in small boats and flats. …</p><p>The cholera is approaching very near to us there has been several cases in Jacksonville and generally fatal we have not heard from there since last Saturday when it was on the increase then a lady in our neighbourhood was taken with it or something very near it was not expected to recover but I hear she is getting better she had just came home from a visit to Kentucky and suppose she contracted the disease on board of the boat her husbands uncle was travelling with her and he died the next day after he reached home from cholera it is the general opinion that we shall have a great deal of sickness this summer … the fruit in this country is all killed I do not think we have a dozen peaches or Apples in our orchard we shall miss them sadly but perhaps it is better as it is might have been worse for the Cholera had there been plenty of fruit. We had a terrible hurricane passed over here a short time ago which done a vast deal of damage blowing down houses and barns I think there was 8 houses that we heard of that was laid level with the earth but we did not hear of any person being killed we seen the hurricane but did not fel the effects of it it just passed us by there was large trees carried the distance of 2 and 3 mile and some persons have lost part of their furniture which they have not heard of yet I do not think I ever heard so much thunder and accompanied with such vivid lightning the storms this summer is truly awful and so many of them too I dread to see a cloud coming up for I think we are going to have a storm … Harvest commences next week when we expect to have our wheat cut by the machine I and Ferguson Tindall have purchased one and they are to cut ours … A L White"</p><p>"Wilmington August 23d 1851</p><p>My Dear Sister</p><p>… Mrs Sloan the two Masters Sloan and their respective Nurses are all at the Lawyers she has been in town a week and has never yet called on Aunt Ruth but it is just like her the nurses brought the children here yesterday a little while the oldest is quite a pretty child and the younger is the exact counterpart of its Mama so of its beauty I leave thee to judge it looks as though is might be Jane's own face put on it it seems like quite a good natured child… Joe A is also here from Indiana on a visit and Jim has got a situation as purser on board a steamship to sail between New York and England the salary is sixty dollars pr month …</p><p>Well I suppose the road down there is alive today with people going to Camp I do not wish myself among them for Camp meeting to me is a most detestable place; however every one to their liking I expect Janey was off among the first although she stood to it she did not expect to go. The Darkies have one today at Chester I think theirs must be very amusing.</p><p>Tell Mother her deeds and papers of the Orange Street property are all in safe keeping so she can give her mind repose on that subject give my love to her and tell her Janey Rice says she supposes she Mother has to remain during thy absence so keep Old Cadwallader in his right position. I suppose he and Friend John went to the Camp in company they ought to doubt Friend John as Minister… Amelia"</p><p>"Geo Town X Roads Jany 26 1855</p><p>Dear Amelia</p><p>As you seem to have concluded not to write any more I am just going to say to you that after this effort you need expect no more from us 'till you write again You have nothing that I can think of to prevent you from writing to us every week … but I suppose you are so happy now in the west and are so intent in the pursuit of pleasure that you do not like to bring your fancy back to the contemplation of the common place things and people of Kent Co … We are moved and have a large good and comfortable house 120 acres to till in corn 60 to put in oats and any quantity for pasture so you see we have room indoors and out… Lawrence</p><p>"Seconday 29th</p><p>My Dear Sister</p><p>I will endeavour to finish the letter although L has left very little for me to say … I have a nice large house with passage parlor sitting room and kitchen I have use for my stair carpet and I have all furnished except the Parlor it is full of emptiness I would like to quilt some tis such a nice room for such work there is a nice garret and seller a milk house with brick floor and a place to pump the watter around the pans a porch at the back part of the sitting room is an elegant place for styock we have about 30 head of hogs 14 head of cattle 15 of sheep tow nigger woman four nig children Henry Elias Goler and a boy named Martin Emaline calls hers Louin so thee sees we are well supllyd with two and four legged stock there is an apple orchard at Stullville so we will still have plenty … I bought a pare of mules yesterday price $ 200.30 so now I can get a Horse when I want one Randolph will be kept for carriage and saddle …"</p><p>"Near George Town X Roads 4th mo 1855</p><p>My Dear Sister</p><p>I am seated once more with the determination of answering thy letter little Alponah as he calls himself is asleep Miss Prissy has her tin plates filld with nutts on a chair playing George is in the kitchen with the Nigs L is in the Barn. Bis has a paper reading tis a dull whet Sabbath and I have a fire up in thy room where I now am… tell mother there is to be a great Circus next fifth day week to set all the niggers crazy and drain their pocketts… Sarah Jane"</p><p>"Wilmington 5th Month 2d 1858</p><p>Dear Sister</p><p>… Many of our store keepers experienced a trying time last fall and some even had to make assignments and G. Buzby who we used to think was so well off in the world settled with his creditors at 50 cents to the dollar I think that is paying debts easy some did not pay even that much Smith & Brother who I named when West as owing us 470 dollars has not yet made any payment to this day what part we are to get is unknown we fear it will not be much but Hillary and I still hold up and Joseph is with us as heretofore… Abraham Allardice"</p>
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo. , 515 pages. In Yiddish. With photos and facsimiles. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Poland -- Lodz -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland Lodz. Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland Lodz. Lodz (Poland) -- Ethnic relations. Other titles: Geshichte fun Jidn in Lodz in di jorn fun der Deitsher Jidn-Ojsrotung. Responsibility: A. Volf Yasni. OCLC lists 41 copies worldwide. Ex-library, otherwise Very good condition. (YIZ-7-6A) xx
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. Ex-library with minimal markings, very good condition. (YIZ-1-18A)
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo. 2 volumes. Vol. 1 306 pages; Vol. 2 305 pages. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Soviet Union -- History. Jews -- Ukraine -- History. Title on added title page: Cities and towns in the history of the Jews in Russia and the Ukraine. Responsibility: fun M. Osherovitsh. OCLC: 38718164. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Ex-library with bookplate, marking on spine, and stamp on title page. Light wear to cover and spine. Text in very good condition. (YIZ-6-5)
20375Dijon, Imprimerie Eugène Jobard, [s.d, années 1880 ?] 1 volume 9,7 x 15,4cm Reliure plein maroquin rouge; dos à 5 faux nerfs et titre doré; 1er plat orné d'un grand fer doré aux initiales "BP", le même sans initiale au 2nd; filet doré sur les bords; contreplats, encadrés d'une dentelle dorée, et gardes de soie moirée violette; tranches dorées. 504p. dont 1 titre-frontispice en couronne florale multicolore; pages en encadrements de couleurs aux motifs très variés, 6 chromolithographies hors texte dont 1 frontispice. Très superficielles petite fente de charnière et rayures aux plats; quelques pâles rousseurs marginales.
Titre-frontispice gravé par H. ROBINSON d'après une composition de Louis FRANçAIS (1814-1897), chromolithographies hors texte d'A. LEROY excepté le frontispice de THUR, édité par Belin-Leprieur et Morizot. Français
1801RO80067807CHARLES Etienne. 1801. In-12. En feuillets. Etat d'usage, Livré sans Couverture, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 32 pages. Extrait d'un volume relié.. . . . Classification Dewey : 306.8-Mariage et famille
19402110502150414214Great Japan Oratorical Society Kodansha 1940. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Great Japan Oratorical Society Kodansha paperback
19752110502150412293Geneisha 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Geneisha paperback
19702110502150406741Naniwashobo 1970. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Naniwashobo paperback
19702110502150406760Naniwashobo 1970. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Naniwashobo paperback
BIO602MChez l'Auteur, non daté. Histoire de la famille bayonnaise Saint-Laurent, polycopié A4, environ 30 pages recto-verso. Nombreuses illustrations couleurs. Anciennes marques d'agrafes sur couverture.
Milano, 1950, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 1037/1042 con una fotografia e 4 tavole fotografiche. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
191015961Partitions sur l'Angleterre Lelong 1910 approx.
191015959Partitions sur le Militaria,Partitions sur l'Angleterre Wykès Henry 1910 approx.
15964Partitions sur l'Angleterre Labbé Marcel
191015958Partitions sur l'Angleterre Labbé Marcel 1910 approx.
190517084Partitions sur les Lettres et poste,Partitions sur la Politique et gouvernement Hayard 1905
