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Group of Incoming Letters to Politician and Insurance Executive Everett Chamberlin Benton of Boston and Waverly Massachusetts written by his parents Charles E. and Adda C. Benton and brother Jay B. Benton all of Guildhall Essex County Vermont 1882-1893

03008094 letters 219 manuscript pages with 52 retained mailing envelopes plus 3 telegrams and 1 receipt all dated from 1882 to 1893 as follows: 41 letters 60 pages with 10 mailing envelopes written by Charles Emerson Benton to his son Everett plus 3 telegrams and 1 receipt all dated 1882-1888 all of the letters are posted from Guildhall Vermont to Everett in Boston or Waverly Massachusetts. One of the letters by Charles is actually a copy written to his nephew J. H. Benton Esq. 13 letters 33 pages with 10 mailing envelopes written by Adda Chamberlin Benton to her son Everett dated 1884-1893 these letters are posted from Guildhall Vermont to Everett either in Boston or Waverly Massachusetts. 40 letters 126 pages with 32 mailing envelopes written by Jay Bayard Benton to his brother Everett dated between the years 1882-1889 Jay Bayard Benton writes from Guildhall Vermont and from Northumberland New Hampshire. The later correspondence to his brother Everett was sent from St. Johnsbury Vermont where Jay was attending St. Johnsbury Academy. The bulk of Jay's letters are addressed to Everett in Boston Massachusetts. Everett Chamberlin Benton 1862 - 1924 Everett C. Benton of Belmont Middlesex County Massachusetts was born 25 September 1862 at Guildhall Essex County Vermont son of Judge Charles E. and Adda C. Benton. His father was one of the prominent men of Essex County and for many years held the office of county clerk and was at the time of his death judge of probate. The Benton family came from old revolutionary stock Benton's paternal great grandfather was a captain in the Continental Army under Gen. Washington at Valley Forge and his maternal great grandfather was a member of Capt. Johnson's Minute Men and was present at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. In early youth Everett C. Benton attended the public schools of his native town and the Colbrook and Lancaster Academies in New Hampshire. At the age of fourteen he was appointed a page in the Vermont senate and his political career began at that time. He was next clerk to the secretary of state for two years and was then deputy county clerk of Essex County for four years. Moving to Boston in 1882 he entered the insurance business connected with the firm of John C. Paige. At the death of the founder of the firm he became a part of its organization. In 1910 Benton organized the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Boston Massachusetts becoming its first president. He was also the author of "The History of Guildhall Vermont" a valuable and authentic authority supplying much of the early history of the county as well as the town. Benton took an active interest in politics during his time in Massachusetts and held various political offices. For a number of years he was a member of the town Republican committee of Belmont; in 1890 he was elected a member of the Republican congressional district committee in 1891 a member of the Republican state committee in 1892 chairman of committee on towns in the state committee and in 1893-1895 he was chairman of the executive committee of the Republican state committee. Benton was a delegate to three national conventions and in the Republican National Convention of 1904 was a delegate at large from Massachusetts. He was the Republican candidate for Massachusetts governor in 1912. During the state campaign of 1893 Benton distinguished himself as one of the hardest workers on the Republican state committee and when Governor Greenhalge selected his military staff he recognized Benton's excellent work for the party by appointing him an aide-de-camp on his staff with the title of colonel. Benton remained on the staff of Gov. Greenhalge from 1895-1897. He also served in Company I Third Regiment New Hampshire National Guard and was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston and was its commander in 1911-1912. Col. Benton was a member of the Republican Club of Massachusetts and of the Norfolk Club. He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity serving as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts in 1912 and 1913. Under his administration as Grand Master Massachusetts chartered its first lodges in the Canal Zone. He was also a member of the Metropolitan Park Commission. On 24 January 1885 Benton was married to Willena Rogers and of the six children born to them at least four lived to adulthood: Jay R. Charles E. Blanche A. and Dorothy D. Everett was a Universalist and chairman of the board of trustees of the Second Society Universalists of Boston and was a member of other social beneficial and charitable organizations. Charles Emerson Benton 1825-1892 and Adda Chamberlin 1835-1901 Charles Emerson Benton was born in Waterford Caledonia County Vermont the son of farmer Samuel Slade Benton 1777-1857 and Esther Prouty Benton 1772-1860. He was county clerk and judge of probate. Charles married Adda Chamberlin in the year 1856. She was born at Newbury Orange County Vermont the daughter of Abner Chamberlin 1804-1884 and Mary Hazeltine 1808-1877. Charles E. Benton died at the age of 66 and was buried at Nellie Smart Cemetery at Guildhall Vermont. Adda Chamberlin died at Winchester Massachusetts on 10 September 1901. Jay Bayard Benton 1870- Jay B. Benton of Winchester Middlesex County Massachusetts was born 10 April 1870 in Guildhall Vermont the son of Judge Charles E. and Adda C. Benton of Guildhall. He was educated in Lancaster New Hampshire and at the St. Johnsbury Academy St. Johnsbury Vermont from which he graduated with high honors in 1885 the youngest member of the class. After leaving St. Johnsbury Jay taught school for a term or two at Maidstone Vermont and then went to New York City where for a year he filled the office of librarian in the Young Men's Institute. In 1886 he entered Dartmouth College graduating with honors four years later. While in college Jay was editor of "The Dartmouth" for two years president of the Handel Society chorister in his senior year and assistant librarian of the college for three years. He also became a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and of the Phi Beta Kappa society. From Dartmouth he went to Boston and in the fall of 1890 joined the staff of the "Evening Transcript" he had represented the paper as Dartmouth correspondent. For a while he did reportorial work and was then promoted to the office of assistant city editor where he distinguished himself as an untiring worker and a man of ideas and originality. He remained with the "Transcript" until June 1894 when he accepted the position of assistant managing editor of the "Boston Journal." In this capacity he was largely responsible for the Sunday edition. He was the Boston correspondent of the "New York Dramatic Mirror" a popular member of the Press Club the Newspaper Club and the Papyrus Club an organization of literary men. Jay does not appear to have married and resided in his mother's home in Winchester Middlesex County Massachusetts. Description and Samples of Letters: The letters were written by Benton family members from Guildhall Vermont while Everett C. Benton was living in Boston Massachusetts and active in Republican Party politics. The mother Adda writes about family and domestic matters and local gossip. The father Charles writes about business personal economy and family matters the earlier letters deal in large part with Charles' thoughts on his son's future his possibilities and prospects on entering the insurance business etc. The letters from Everett's brother Jay concern Jay's studies while studying at St. Johnsbury Academy as well as social family and home matters. The letters offered here were written during the period of 1882-1893 when Everett C. Benton first left home to live in Boston to pursue a career in politics and the insurance industry. "Guildhall Sept 18 1882 Dear son Everett I did not send your watch charm as the valise came and your mother will have it ready to send back soon and I thought I would send it in the valise. We are all well and hope you are - Court sits tomorrow and I expect a very short term as usual for the reason that the lawyers are mad with Hartshorn and won't stay to hold a Court. Yours in Haste Truly Charles E. Benton P.S. Your mother is the owner of the James B. Brown store on the other side of the River and wants $300.00 Insurance on it. It is used for a country store and Post Office. You know how it is situated and if you can get it insured at a reasonable rate I want it done otherwise let it go." "Guildhall January 15 1883 My dear son Everett Your long letter and also other came duly and I should have answered the first one before only that I was up at the Brown Mill on Paul Stream four days last week for you uncle Jacob he has rented the mill to T. G. Beattie for 5 years and sold him the personal property and I was up there attending to the appraisal for him and for a wonder he has up to this time found no fault with what I did - Now to your case. My advice is now what it has been for you to stay your year out and perform your duties faithfully then if the business of Mr. Paige is not lucrative enough so that he can afford to pay you such wages as you can live on my advice my advice in that case would be to quit and if there is no other chance I can when you are of age give up the Clerk's Office to you and I will step out and try my luck. If Mr. Paige and Mr. Halt like you they will want to keep you if not then they will make you such terms as will be quite likely to be a notice to you that they can get along without your services. Jacob Benton and Chase are expecting you to come to Lancaster and the last time I saw them I told them I thought it was a little doubtful. Enclose I send you a check for $15.00 so that you may not be obliged to borrow of any body which is one of the meanest habits in my judgment a young man can get into and in the end will be likely to make a dishonest scamp of whoever practices it.With Love Charles E. Benton" "Winter 1882 Dear Everett There is not a single bit of news but I will try and write you a short letter. I am well and am attending to my school like a good fellow. You would think that I was by the good lessons that I have. There is one more week of school and then a week's vacation. The examinations come a week from today and tomorrow Wednesday and Thursday. I am to be examined in Latin Arithmetic Physics and English History. I shall rank high in all. Those from the Graded School are to be examined Saturday. We have finished our Arithmetic. I don't think that I shall take anything its place next term unless it is Geometry. There has been just one case tried at the Colebrook Court and that is not finished yet. It is Harlan Cross vs "Dr" Grant. I don't think that the "Dr" explained the "Philosophy of Dreams" to the jury. It is for seducing and alienating the affections of Mrs. Cross. "De faces de case am" as I understand. Mrs. Cross went to Lancaster to be doctored by Grant. While there he did as the above says and tried to get her to elope with him. She wouldn't but said that she would get a divorce and marry him. Before she could this case was started. All Lancaster have been up to testify. There is a great nuisance in jail in the person of Charles Morrison. He is in for rape and he had ought to be sent to state prison right away without a trial. He calls to every person that passes. The most of his time is spent in chewing and smoking borrowed tobacco.J.B.B." "23 May 1883 Dear Everett .School has finished. We had an exhibition the last day and it was quite a success. I sang the duet "What are the Wild Waves Saying" with Hattie Johnson and everyone said we did it splendidly. I played the accompaniment for tow other pieces. I also read a piece. Miss Johnson is engaged to teach the summer school I'm not going. I am taking music lessons at Lancaster of Prof. C. M. Kumlan. You remember that he is the one that played so long at Island Pond at the convention. He is an elegant player and is a very thorough teacher. Flora Johnson and I go to Lancaster and take a lesson twice a week.Prof. Kumlan has engaged the room that Fred William's barber shop was in for a music room and I take my lessons there.Small Boy" Jay B. Benton "Guildhall Nov 25 1888 My dear Everett When I sent off the package to you I wrote only a little line in my haste - I wanted to tell you that I knit and colored the stockings myself and was afraid they might crock your feet at first - I washed and rewashed them over and over again hoping to get them clear but if they do crock a little do not cut your feet off but take heart that time and good washing will cure the trouble in both cases - feet and hose. Your kind letter more than paid for all the work. You must not blame me if I am selfish and often wish I had you back in your own room at home - Caring for you and your clothes the few years that I had you makes me miss the work. I remember well how clean you always kept your bed - and often when I put your shirt in the wash the crease ironed into the back was there as if it had not been worn - I think you can tell how much a woman loves you by the care she takes of your clothes. Another Thanksgiving is almost here again. Jay is coming just for a day or two. He has not been home since he went to Hanover directly after his return from Europe. I feel as if I had almost lost him. He stays so long away.Take good care of the babies. One thing I wanted to speak to you about when you was here but did not see to it that their heads are kept clean. I mean of the scuz on the scalp. It will be notice by your neighbors if you in you busy work days do not think of it. With much love Mother" books

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Dennett Family LettersABAA

Correspondence of the Dennett family of Kittery York County Maine members of the United States Navy includes Lieutenant Commander Ralph Earle Dennett and sons Lieutenant Commander Armistead Dennett & Midshipman & Naval Engineer William A. Dennett 1910-1959

30397863 letters 2569 manuscript pp. dated 1910-1959 with 317 pieces of ephemera including postcards telegrams calling cards invitations printed material documents manuscript notes newspaper clippings greeting cards used envelopes etc. The correspondence in this collection includes but is not limited to the following: 223 incoming letters to Lieut. Alexander Dennett father of Lieut. Comdr. Ralph E. Dennett many from his son Ralph; 40 outgoing letters of Elizabeth Dennett wife of Ralph E. Dennett to her father-in-law Alexander Dennett; 235 outgoing letters of Ralph E. Dennett mostly to his father or sons and 307 incoming letters to him; Lieut. Armistead Dennett son of Ralph E. Dennett 45 outgoing letters and 8 incoming letters mostly to his father or brother; William Dennett brother of Ralph E. Dennett 12 outgoing letters to their father Alexander Dennett; and Midshipman William A. Dennett son of Ralph E. Dennett 32 outgoing letters and 284 incoming letters many from his father and brother as well as friends and associates. The remaining letters and many of the incoming letters to the Dennett's are written to and from family members friends or associates of the Dennett family including Louise Howard Dennett wife of Armistead Dennett and her mother Jill Noble Howard of Round Bay Maryland; "Bunny" Daigle Dennett wife of William A. Dennett and her mother Mrs. L. Daigle of Portsmouth New Hampshire; Dr. John Dennett of Phoenix Arizona an uncle; as well as friends of William A. Dennett: Edmond C. Tarbold Lydia Sawyer Florence A. Paul and Lois S. Gimmi; and friends of Ralph E. Dennett: Alberta Carolyn and Charlie.Dennett Family of Kittery York County Maine Alexander Dennett was born 10 November 1811 at Kittery Maine and died 6 May 1889 in Kittery. He was a farmer and was educated in the common schools. At the age of 19 he moved to York Maine where he eventually conducted a general store and owned coasting vessels. He moved back to Kittery and lived on the ancestral homestead until his death. During the Civil War he was appointed inspector of timber at the navy yard. Politically he was a Whig in early life a Republican afterward. He was a trial justice for many years; represented his district in the legislature in 1849-50-51; and was a delegate to the convention when the Free Soil and Whig Parties fused when the Republican Party was organized. Alexander was frequently moderator of town meetings and selectman of the town. He was active in good works and interested in the great questions of the day and an enthusiastic supporter the anti-slavery and temperance movements. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance and was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church being a charter member of the Second Methodist Episcopal church of Kittery. He married Mary Kingsbury Remick 1819-1878 and together they had at least six children: Ellen Miriam Elizabeth John Sarah Mary Alice and Alexander who was the father of Ralph Earle Dennett. Lieut. Alexander Dennett of the U.S. Coast Guard was born 13 April 1853 at York Village York Maine and died 24 December 1934 at Kittery Maine. His son Ralph was the only heir and executor. Alexander was educated in the public schools Eliot Academy and various private schools. In 1878 he entered the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service as second assistant engineer and was stationed in New York at the office of Consulting Engineer Charles E. Emery. He and his wife resided at a number of locations during his naval career lived in Boston Portland Bucksport Bath Castine Eastport Mobile Baltimore and Somerville while Dennett was attached to vessels William H. Crawford John A. Dix Thomas Ewing Albert Gallatin Woodbury with headquarters at or near these places. He later made first assistant engineer in 1890 and served on the Hannibal Hamlin in 1893. He continued on this ship with the Coast Guard until 1895 when he retired from active labor making his home at Kittery and Thomasville Georgia. He was a Republican in politics and had been a member of the school committee for a number of years and superintendent of schools. He was a prominent member of the Second Christian church. He married first in 1883 to Sarah Eva Paul 1856-1899 daughter of Warrington and Sarah A.E. Paul. Together Lieut. Alexander and his wife Sarah had at least three children William A. Dennett 1886- Ralph Earle Dennett 1891- and Mary Elizabeth Dennett 1894- Sara Eva Paul Dennett died on 9 June 1899. After the death of his first wife he was married a second time to Josephine E. Cox only daughter of Carpenter Joseph Cox U.S.N. retired. Josephine died in 1917 Alexander outlived both his wives. He died in 1934. William A. Dennett 1885-1911 Alexander Dennett's oldest son graduated Cornell University in 1907 in the mechanical engineering course and died at Kittery MEof typhoid fever. He worked at Holyoke and New York City for the Santa Fe Sugar Plantation San Pedro de Maconic San Domingo. Alexander's fourth child Mary Elizabeth Dennett 1893-1895 died young of congestion of the lungs. Lieut. Alexander Dennett's third child was Lt. Comdr. Ralph Earle Dennett USN. He was born 30 July 1890 at Kittery York County Maine and died in February 1986. Prior to entering the Naval Academy he attended Kittery High School and the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter New Hampshire. He attended the Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland. He lived at Upper Darby Pennsylvania at the time of the 1930 Census. When his wife Elizabeth died in 1943 he was stationed at the Portsmouth Navy Yard a position he had held since 1939. Ralph Earle Dennett married Elizabeth Armistead. She was born 3 September 1889 in Virginia. The couple married 4 December 1920 at Washington D.C. Elizabeth died 16 May 1943. Together Ralph and his wife Elizabeth had at least two children: Armistead Dennett and William A. Dennett. After the death of his wife Ralph married a second time to Josephine Cox daughter of Joseph Cox and Joanna Hurd. They married 28 August 1901 at Kittery Maine. Ralph Dennett's oldest son was Lieut. Comdr. Armistead Dennett. He was born about 1922; attended Kittery Schools and Portsmouth High School; and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland in 1941 where he took postgraduate course in ordnance. He served aboard the USS Benson two years in the Mediterranean on destroyers and was a veteran WWII serving in the Pacific theater on a destroyer that was hit by a kamikaze. He later became Commander on several ships including the USS Wallace L. Lind DD-703 1958-1960. Armistead Dennett married Louise Howard. Armistead and his wife had at least one child a daughter Sarah Dennett who was born in May 1948. Ralph Dennett's second son was William A. Dennett. He was born in 1928 and died on 5 January 2013. Like most of the men in his family he joined the Navy and reached the rank of midshipman 4th class. He graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1944 and attended the University of New Hampshire prior to entering the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis Class of 1949. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in 1951 with degrees in both naval architecture and marine engineering. After graduation he was employed by Newport News Shipbuilding and later retired from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1987 after 37 years of government service. He was a member of the Kittery Point Yacht Club the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and several other professional organizations. He enjoyed sailing locally as well as having substantial blue water experience participating in both the Monhegan and Bermuda races. He was an expert navigator well skilled in celestial navigation. William A. Dennett married Mary Irene "Bunny" Daigle of Portsmouth New Hampshire on 9 September 1950 in Maine. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard C. Daigle. Bunny attended the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. Together they had at least one son John A. Dennett. Another Dennett family member who wrote some of the letters in this collection is Dr. John Dennett. He was born in 1869 in Maine. He was a first cousin of Ralph E. Dennett son of his father's brother Capt. John Dennett U.S.C.G. He attended Harvard University and Harvard Medical College. After medical training he worked at Boston General Hospital until developing tuberculosis. In an attempt to regain his health he first moved to Santa Fe then arrived in Phoenix in 1895. Finding initial work as doctor at the Congress Mine he remained there until 1905 when it closed. On August 20 1902 he married Louise Gage niece of the owner of the Congress Mine. After work with the Congress Mine Dennett moved to the Silverbell Mine west of Tucson where he worked until 1910 when the family moved to Phoenix. After the move to Phoenix Dr. Dennett stopped practicing medicine and entered business. He became the manager for a creamery Hassayampa Creamery located at 5th Ave and Jackson St. and later became involved in the manufacturing of evaporated milk. Between 1911 and 1923 both Dr. and Mrs. Dennett were active in business and social activities in Phoenix. Dr. Dennett was president of the Rotary Club active with the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and local Republican Party politics. He died in San Diego California on October 17 1957 at the age of 88.Sample Letters: Ralph Earle Dennett wrote his father Alexander Dennett 162 letters between the years 1909 and 1931. The early letters show Ralph attending school at the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland and received his first command during WWI. He writes his father about the academy and life at the academy and his activities there when he goes out on ships for exercises. He also writes about his various ports of call and the various ships he is assigned to and what he is allowed to tell that the censors won't scrub:"USS Washington Hampton Rds. January 2 1912Dear Mother and Dad - Tomorrow at ten we clear the harbor for another sea trip of uncertain duration they don't have mail boxes at sea the'fore I write while I may. The Admiral expects to take the rest of the little flock with him and join the fleet 400 miles at sea or thereabouts and then we're all going to play horse for little while with the Red Fleet and the Blue Fleet - really a very interesting thing if you can get inside dope on what's going on the only one I really even savvied was the one we were working on when we left Newport last and bad weather bused that up. Later on in the month about 21 the gallant Fifth Seems I never get away from 5th 5th Company 5th Division etc is to go to Key West for the celebration. What celebration I know not just a celebration that's all. I haven't seen an up to date paper since we left the Navy Yard four days ago Old Point is a tiresome sort of a joint at this time of year you can't get your finger on the pulse of affairs down here it doesn't belong the main arterial system of the country. There's life in it still but it's all fungus growth - rooky army lieutenants coast artillery school or "incubators" and their would be or is sweet hearts. Besides Hampton Rds is such a dreary windy place to anchor it hasn't the slightest suggestion of coziness about it but instead the old ship is yawed about in the tide the shore in the dim distance all around the horizon. If you ever sat in a big draughty desolate unfurnished room you can get an idea of Hampton Rds at this time of year. All the time you have the feeling of being somewhere and yet no where. Today has been a very enjoyable day for all; we started coaling at day break and finished about 4 p.m. with intermissions for breakfast and lunch having increased our coal supply by 1600 tons. There's a certain exhilaration that the crew takes on when performing useful work that makes everybody happy. I imagine the novelty would soon wear off if we had to do it every day tho. After leaving Key West the Fifth is expected to arrive sooner or later at Havana to aid in disposing of the wreck of the Maine if she is then ready. Altogether we have a very pleasant outlook for the coming routes and if our plans are not changed we may have a chance to laugh up our sleeves at the boys who have to spend their time at Guantanamo. "Fat" Hicks has fully clinched his job in the Army but he missed connection in getting his orders probably much to Fats disgust. He wanted to be detailed to Fort Riley and run down to Kansas City occasionally to see the girls and perhaps "land" a good one among the latter who had plenty of cash in her jeans but he got a jack-ass mountain paltry out in Fort Russell Wyo.Hoping this will find you well I am your affectionate son Ralph Dennett""March 8 1918 New York NYMy dear Dad My attention has been temporarily turned away from the complication of affairs at home by the passing demand which have been made on my time and thought and shoe leather since I arrived in New York but I have during the lapses of evening after all the various naval Hqtrs have done up their business had some chance to think things over I'll come back to that later. The change in my own affairs have reached the advanced stage of completion where I am now after two days of toilsome "reporting" back and forth between 280 Broadway and City Park Bklyn sometimes alone and most of the time with my predecessor finally installed aboard the "New York" as the com'dg officer of her Armed Guard detachment. From the face of it it looks like a most excellent billet. Tho I have been aboard the ship only once for a few minutes she looks like a very fine lady to me and I'm glad I got the job. "Stitchy" Paine my pred. was loathe to give it up. Said he'd like to stay aboard for the period of the war. Can't find out why they relieved him. Probably too much rank. He was 1908. Tomorrow I shall take a small share of my household goods aboard for the trip and the rest I shall probably store here in New York somewhere. With all the truck you have to handle just now I shall not send it home besides I might need some of the stuff when I get back. My ship sails Tuesday carrying passengers mail and cargo. She is fast and therefore safe. I don't think you need give yourself any worry about me at all Quarters are comfortable and Paine tells me that the officers are congenial. I have a good titled second a lieutenant and 44 men. During the past two days I have worn out my feet and my change pocket hiking and subbing around between different offices of which there are three besides the ship. All in different parts of the city. My voyage will last about three weeks if you have need of any of that money of mine in the York Bank and can get it out in my name you are at liberty to do so.With much love Ralph""New York June 11 1918My dear Dad I have not mentioned the name of the ship here because I would be afraid that the censor if there is one would hold up the letter. I am therefore writing in a deuce of a hurry because there is very little time left you may understand why the feverish remodeling of the ship has been finished as far as possible we are still in very much of an uproar. For myself I have been trying very hard to keep a reasonable hold on what would be ordinarily three different jobs. There are only three regular offices on the ship including the Captain this makes it rather difficult since the remaining number are stripers of only a few weeks experience and are still in the process of training sometimes with only an indifferent amount of progress in their new job day by day. Boucher and myself have had to share between us nearly all the work of organizing and quartering the new crew and it has been some husky. Both of us have stuck pretty close to the job. Not since I have been in the Navy have I been pushed with so much different kinds of urgent work at one time. Leave for me or anybody else connected with the ship was absolutely impossible. I should have liked very much as you must know to come home to see you and the letter you wrote me recently made me home sick but she could not be done this time. Probably my lack of time is due more to mismanagement or shortage of grey matter than anything else. But I can say this: that I have this conciliation I have pushed the job and the job has not pushed me which was what I was fighting for. In case it had been the other way around it would have been a case of being invalidated out of the transport service instead of leave of absence.Give my love to all the folks at home.Ralph""October 12 1918Dear Dad Have arrived on my new station. Give you my word this is awful. After a year or so of real activity it's like being buried alive or a spirit flight to the moon. The only thing missing is the funeral service. Here in front of the casket containing the remains of many a live man's lost hopes they are holding a solemn requiem day by day over embalmed doctrines of naval efficiency while the current of modern sea life sweeps swiftly past the door and on into the joyous vigorous future. It's a sickening decline from the land of Doing to the land of Being. The Bones of this old packet should have been and were laid to rest years ago and there she ought to lie and not rack her poor old frame with the nervous excitement of this day and generation. Nature seems to want to scrap fighting men and fighting machines when they got too large and intricate and unwieldy. She prefers new and growing stock I guess and nothing too good anymore than anything too bad. So it is I see highly trained sailor men in comparative idleness here and amateurs struggling with greater slathers of work elsewhere.Hope you in your lack of companionship and help at home do not find it wholly unbearable. It must be difficult and I realize it now more since seeing you last and remaining in close touch. Better times are probably coming for us all tho let's hope so your affectionate son Ralph.Illinois care P.M. NYC" The collection also contains letters of both of Ralph's sons when they were students at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. There are 36 letters to Ralph E. Dennett from his son Armistead "Army" Dennett. Twelve of these letters are written by "Army" when he was attending the Naval Academy in 1940. His class graduated early due to the outbreak of WWII. There is much in these letters about sailing for the Annapolis sailing team against other schools Harvard MIT Brown etc the types of boats they use and his studies at the academy as well when he goes out to sea on exercises. The other letters are from 1944-1959 when he was serving in the U.S. Navy on the USS Hansworth 1944 or when he was attending Naval Post Graduate School at Annapolis 1945-1946 and later while serving on the USS Juneau 1949-1951."15 March 1940 Annapolis MDDear Dad Still sailing down here. Had a meet Saturday with Brown and Sunday with Haverford. Both were fairly easy but this week we sail with Princeton who beat us last fall by about two points. I think we have to keep hot this spring to make a little reputation for the new team. So far we've sailed seven teams. MIT beat us because as usual we sank more boats. I sent you a letter received this morning. It came in a blank envelope and I almost threw it away as propaganda when I saw it was addressed to "Memphis Maryland." Mrs. Ferrell was here Sunday with no previous word to me. I was out sailing in the races until late and hardly got to see them. She seems to be enjoying herself as usual and hopes you are taking good care of her house. Incidentally Danny says in a terse letter that he wants to buy my boat. If you see Danny please discourage that. What is there to sail with the Caribou gone It's so hard to find a sailboat. I want to keep that one even if she is a pee wee. I think she might plane like a 14 with encouragement. I got to study bull. I got a 2.2 last week on the Dutch wars. Love your son Army.""31 March 1940 Annapolis MDDear Dad We sailed Boston and St. John's yesterday in a fog. We won 61 Â½ to 51 Â¼ to 23. We go to Boston April sixth to race MIT Boston and Harvard. I have my doubts about being with the team. They say maybe if the team gets hot the NAA might think about a boat house on the America dock new sails more boats bigger squad and so on. Be sure if you get a little boat to get one that you can race. Then get Bill to studying Curry and he can really have some fun. He can sail a Dyer by himself if he wants to. The Band X classes are good too. The Tech classes are like the B's loose footed main roomy and don't sink when they roll over. Our 14's are expensive and big and take two men to sail right. So I think either a Dyer or a B would be best. They still cost about $250 and should be hauled up on a float. For pete's sake get a real Dyer. We've got one built by the Annapolis Yacht Yard "exactly like." We can't find any difference in the lines or weight or sail but the thing only sails half as fast as our one good Dyer. Well I hope the Caribou has a good owner. She was like a member of the family. Our back yard won't look the same at all without her masts. My standings are up a little. I don't know why. I think I study less when we sail because every night I'm too tired to bone. Still my math came up. Think I'll go to the chapel.Your son Army""5 April 1940 Annapolis MDDear Dad Your devoted son didn't make the squad of nine that goes to MIT. I was in the top six for last week's race with Boston here but I dropped to eleventh by Thursday when they made out the list. Maybe I can make the next trip in May. Lately I've been averaging about fifth in our ten boats which doesn't mean much. All last fall it was 3.5. Top man has about 2.7 and low man has about 8.5. Still I'd like to know where we are going this summer for our destroyer cruise. Think I'll go to the formation.Love your son Army""17 June 1940 Annapolis MDDear Dad Here I am back with my sad story about being broke again. Mary came down for June Week and stayed through six days and four hops. That and keeping an apartment stocked with everything for a week just ruined me. Now we are going up to Barnegat Bay for a five day race week in scows and I don't own a quarter. We are probably going to be graduated early in three and a half years. They are even making out a new summer schedule and shortening the cruises effective Thursday. Leave and academic year will start early and we will be graduated in February so the officers predict.I have been sailing one of our racing stars at Gibson Island each weekend in a star series there. She is a good boat but I'm not used to her yet and haven't been doing well at all. We tow three boats up behind one of the diesel motor-sailer ketches Saturday go ashore race Sunday come back for supper. The candidates '44 bless 'em are being seen around the yard. Did Dick Underwood ever make it The poor guys look as bewildered as I felt two years ago. Have you got any boat yet Too bad you aren't near one of the real good racing classes. These innocent looking yacht clubs put out some stiff competitors.Your son Army"Ralph E. Dennett's second son William A. Dennett also attended the Naval Academy at Annapolis. William wrote a total of 32 letters to his father. During the years 1945 - 1946 William is at the Naval Academy. There are also letters on the different cruises he takes during his training to Cuba Panama etc.:"Unites States Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland Room 5305 Bancroft Hall 6 July 1945Dear Dad Don't think that I haven't been thinking of home most of the time. This place at times has been almost enough to get me down. I felt very much elated at having passed the physical. That was last Wednesday 27 June. Tuesday night 26 June I left and by the next day at 1400 I knew that I had passed. That night 27th I tried to call you with no success. From then on my time was all spent indoctrinating myself. On the 29th I was sworn in. Days 29th 30th June 1 July 2 3 July I was wishing that I had never come to this place. That feeling has worn off now after having settled down to a routine. Now that I am resigned to my fate I am content to wait patiently for Christmas leave and want very much to hear from home. Your telegram was a moral inoculation. I need letters now very much. I can use up to five of Army's white work uniforms. Tell Clodia to start sending the cookies and other food now. Everyone that goes to the NA now is 19 and up has spent much time in the navy or three years at college or both. My plebe summer roommate is Wm. M. Shanhouse of Rockford Ill. I am trying to arrange rooming with a boy I met as a candidate Bill Hall from Ohio. I like him very much. He will take Spanish as a language so that may separate us unless I take Spanish. I was required to send all non-reg clothing home. Did you get the laundry bag of clothes Monday I have the watch. Saturday tomorrow we take inoculations and such stuff. There were 600 of the 4th Class here when I came and 600 were to come after 1200 in the class of '49. The life here is difficult for me at first. Much harder than when I was helper to the plasterer. Where is Army I wish I could have been home when he was. I will be glad to see him when he comes. Be sure and come to see me if you get the chance. I am moderately homesick moderately to lightly.Tell me how the farm is working out and what goes on Your loving son Bill""United States Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland Room 5305 Bancroft Hall 5 September 1945Dear Dad Don't let the bill worry you. It is for the coming college year and I won't be able to attend. I wrote the Registrar and told him to withdraw me from the student body. The letter was mailed 26 August so it should have gotten there by the time they sent out that bill but it is known how slow UNH is on such matters - see my college certificate of late. There was liberty on Labor Day and rare dining out privilege was granted to plebe summer plebs. Nancy Leeds Army and I had dinner at Carvel Hale. Last Saturday and Sunday I sailed on the Vamarie for an over night race. The weather was rough and all save few were sick. Never let it be said that I was seasick on Chesapeake Bay though - I wasn't. Too many headsails rigged so the Vamarie spent the night thrashing around mostly and placed next to last. That's what poor handling does to the Queen of Ocean Racing. Marched in a P-rade yesterday in Annapolis. Understand we get more Christmas leave - maybe 10 days. Your loving son Bill""United States Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland Room 6313 Bancroft Hall 10 October 1945Dear Dad The word has it that we have town liberty tomorrow afternoon. so I shall follow the trail to Army's apt. and maybe later go to the movie. The big celebration this week is the USNA's 100th Anniversary but the Navy Public Relations or what ever it is has probably been hard at work on the story so that I don't need to tell you. Last night some engraved announcements of the Centennial to those midshipmen desiring to send them to their home town newspaper providing they came from a town of less than 5000 population. Just the thing to send to Aunt Florence. The biggest flop of Centennial Week so far has been Educator's Day. College Presidents from NROTC Colleges about 55 were invited to explore the NA and express their opinions. About ten presidents showed up from places like Case Inst. Tech and Villanova. NA seems to come in for much criticism these days concerning policy toward expansion to include St. Johns and method of teaching. Having just come from college I notice a big difference in the method. I am afraid that the college student has the greater chance for individual thought whereas the midshipman learns mostly to follow orders or a gauge. I like the idea of midshipmen being trained in civilian colleges first and finishing off at this place.Kay Kyser is playing tonight for the Centennial Ball. The P-rade looked well today - 24 companies - it takes 20 minutes for our brigade to pass in review. There were only 16 companies here when Army was a Mid'n. He was amazed when I told him I was in the 23rd Company. Army and his roommate seem to drag a different set of girls each week. I'm going to arrange dining out with Army on a Sunday. That way I can see him and go into town at the same time because we can't have liberty on Sunday unless dining out. I'm having a little trouble with Bull and Skinny but a little application will make everything rosy.I still need to know about insurance - should I pay for it from personal funds which is the only way or ignore it until I graduate. I'll see the financial adviser and ask Army when I can.Love Bill" After his time at the Naval Academy William A. Dennett was honorably discharged due to an illness. After recovering he studied naval architecture and marine engineering at M.I.T. then went to work for Newport News Shipyard. Letters from his wife "Bunny" to her father-in-law Ralph give insight into that chapter of their lives:"May 5 1951Cambridge MADearest Dad Since Bill and I have been quite busy tying up little ends we've not had the time that we would have liked to have had to spend on a visit with you. We shall be seeing you very soon though and in the meantime I have lots to tell you. Bill has had a number of splendid offers of employment from some of the very best yards and firms. He has considered them all very carefully and has decided that the Newport News Ship Yard holds the most future for a young and inexperienced engineer. The salary is of course not particularly spectacular but it is ample enough to allow us to manage without my having to contribute. It has been very difficult for me to get used to the idea of living so very far from home but I have tried not to sway him on that account. I would feel very badly if Bill made a wrong choice because of me because it does seem that it is important to work in the place where one feels most content. We are in any case both looking forward to this summer because it will be marvelous to have a real income and time to enjoy each other. Our last weeks here and there are only thee you know will be filled with activity. Bill has to complete his thesis prepare for exams and pass in lots of last papers in each class. His marks are very good and he has been a credit to both of us. You have good reason to be proud of him as I am. Although he has had just mountains of work he has attacked it all with admirable gusto..Bill and I both miss you and look forward to seeing you soon All our love Bunny & Bill" books

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South Dakota Photographica: Huffman FamilyABAA

ANNOTATED VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM FEATURING A FARMING FAMILY IN SOUTH DAKOTA WITH PICTURES OF IDENTIFIED NATIVE AMERICANS

1928WRCAM55666Various locations in South Dakota including Pierre and Oahe 1928. 230 photographs mounted on album leaves captioned in white or red ink throughout. Images range from 2 1/2 x 2 inches to 3 1/2 x 5 inches. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black leatherette photograph album string-tied. Minor edge wear. Several leaves detached some photographs wholly or partially removed most in nice condition. Overall good condition. An interesting annotated vernacular photograph album featuring a South Dakota family in the first quarter of the 20th century. Members of the family are variously identified as Anna Beulah and Dwight Huffman aided by a few pages of typed family notes that accompany the album. The album was kept by an unidentified member of the Huffman family who refers to herself in the first person in a few photographs including a group shot of school girls captioned "Domestic Science Class when I was a 'Frosh.'" Comparisons of photographs indicate the author of the captions is probably Anna Huffman. Most of the photographs feature people from multiple generations of the Huffman family in South Dakota including Grandma Benjamin. These men women and children pose in front of houses and on farms on the South Dakota prairie and at various spots in the capital city of Pierre. The family members are captured in a variety of activities common to rural life: feeding livestock killing and cleaning chickens gardening stacking hay camping cutting their own hair extracting a cow from a muddy lake tilling farmland with early motorized tractors and fishing in Lake Oahe. Two photographs feature Robert Benjamin Huffman - one of him while at Illinois State Normal University now Illinois State and one showing him in his World War I uniform. According to the family notes accompanying the album Robert was killed in France on October 1 1918. Several more lighthearted photographs in the album show women laughing and clowning for the camera; one photograph shows a female family member dressed as "the Hawaiian in the school parade." Particularly interesting are the three photographs featuring Native Americans two of them identifying the subjects. The first of these features Mr. and Mrs. Spotted Bear in Oahe S.D. The second shows Mr. and Mrs. Spotted Bear standing with Mr. and Mrs. Tall White Man. The third photograph captures a large group of Native Americans sitting in a wide circle with the caption reading "An Indian Conference Pierre So. Dak." Other landmarks captured here include "The old school house" the "M.E. Church at Pierre So. Dak." the "Old Missouri" River the Red Wing Seminary the "Sorensen Home Oahe So Dak." and the South Dakota State Capitol building. As with other family albums there are also numerous vacation shots with various family members in New York Virginia and Illinois; at some point Beulah and Anna drove from South Dakota to New York for vacation. An interesting collection of annotated vernacular family photographs from the rural American West. hardcover books

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Dubuisson family.ABAA

A mirror for the matron. Distributing the effects of Jacques-Charles Renaud Dubuisson.

17415090Montreal: 3 April 1741. Reference: PENF #242. When Seigneur Dubuisson died in 1739 he was Commander in the West Major of Trois-Rivières. He had commanded the fort at Detroit from 1710 to 1715 wreaking devastation to the Fox Nation. In the late 1720s he commanded Michilmackinac and continued to confront the Fox. His daughter Louise married Tonti commander at Green Bay Wisconsin and at Fort Frontenac; his daughter Madeleine married Philippe de Joncaire the Indian agent and interpreter. The document testifies that the children received their father's furniture and effects inventoried elsewhere from la Dame de Dubuisson "with the exception of a mirror . which we have left her for her lifetime." In addition to Tonti and Joncaire the document is signed by Marianne du Dubuisson Jacques-Charles junior and by witnesses and the notary. 210 x 230 mm; two pages 22 lines of text. Barked--or rather bitten--at upper left corner. Some ink blemishes. 3 April unknown books

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Cricket. Blomfield Family. Charterhouse School. Haileybury SchoolABAA

Cricket Scores" title in MS on upper cover. Album of newspaper clippings

18712437Charterhouse School 1871. Hardcover. Very good. Dates: 1871-1877 and 1910. Small 4to. 37 ff. mostly with newspaper clippings neatly pasted in on both sides 4 ff. in manuscript "Summary of Scores" from 1871-1877 and 1910. Several leaves excised; it is possible that the present album had been re-purposed. On a few of the stubs appear fragmentary MS notations suggesting that the notebook may have once been divided alphabetically. We find on certain stubs "Ai" followed immediately by "Ao" and then several leaves later: "Her. - Hes" followed by "Io." Binding rebacked with smooth calf. In very good condition. Highly interesting homemade album of Cricket Scores available nowhere else specifically documenting the triumphs of three young members of the Blomfield family namely: E.G. Edward George C.J. Charles James and R.T. Reginald Theodore. One wonders if the present album was created in order to promote friendly competition between the brothers two of whom went to Haileybury School and one went to Charterhouse; all three went up to Oxford. There are scores and game synopsis of matches were between Haileybury Charterhouse Marylebone Cricket Club MCC Westminster Trinity College Oxon. Exeter Oxon. and more. One of the more interesting features about the album is that it provides a fascinating record of one family's love of the game: Â¶ Edward George 1853-1885 entered Charterhouse School London in 1865 and transfer upon the School's removal to Godalming in 1872; in 1873 he went to Trinity College Oxon. where he earned a B.A. in 1877 and M.A. in 1879; thereafter he served as Curate of St. Mary's Portsea until 1883 and then Vicar of St. Mark's Woolston until his death in London in 1885. Â¶ Charles James 1855-1928 went to Haileybury School; he underwent military training at Sandhurst and served as an army officer in India Sudan and Natal. He attained the rank of Major General before his retirement in 1917. NB: this individual is not to be confused with a noted architect of the same name b. 1862 d. 1932. Â¶ Reginald Theodore 1856-1942 also went to Haileybury School; he earned his B.A. from Exeter Oxon. in 1880 and M.A. in 1884. He became an architect and was knighted in 1919. He is remembered mainly for his work designing British war memorials. Â¶ The parents of the three young men were Rev. George John and his first cousin Isabella Blomfield of Bow Devonshire whose own father Charles James Blomfield was Bishop of London. Â¶ At the end is a "Summary of Scores" for the years 1871-1877. Following this in a different hand is the year 1910; although the initial of the last name "Blomfield" remains the same the other initials belong to Reginald Thomas and his two sons Henry George and Austin. Â¶ See Stedman Charterhouse Register 1872-1900 passim. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We are grateful to Catherine Smith Archivist of Charterhouse School for much useful information concerning the Blomfield Family. hardcover books

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Connett FamilyABAA

Copper plate "William Connett Hat Manufacturer Rahway New Jersey 1815 Warranted Water Proof." showing woman with an American Eagle

242581Engraved by P.E. Hamm Phila. 4-1/4 x 4 inches. Used. Engraved by P.E. Hamm Phila. 4-1/4 x 4 inches. with smaller electroplate of same image. unknown books

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Hoskyns Chandos Wren. Frontis illustration by George Cruikshank. Original artwork by members of the Hewitt family Maude GertABAA

Original Artwork Talpa: or the Chronicles of a Clay Farm an Agricultural Fragment

1854004407London: Lovell Reeve 1854. Third edition. Half Calf. Very Good. Extra-illustrated with 23 original pen and ink mostly whimsical drawings by the Hewlitts. 12mo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 240 pp. With the Hewletts' original drawings inserted. These original drawings are larger than the original text by about 2 cm and so the book when opened has an unusual eccentric appearance. Rubbing along joints and corners. Scattered light foxing. Lovell Reeve books

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Waterman Burlingham and familyABAA

Letters to a Civil War deserter who escaped to Canada

1863008667Edmeston New York 1863. Unbound. Very good. Two letters: one two-page letter and one four-page letter. Both have mailing and storage folds. Clean and legible. Centerfold of one has a split mended with what appears to be archival repair tape. Both letters were written by Waterman Burlingham a New York farmer to his son Horace in Canada. Horace deserted from the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment in April 1863 along with 43 other men. One letter also includes notes from Horace's mother and sister. While the letters update Horace about family happenings it is Waterman's desertion information that is significant: "We received a letter from you last spring which informed us that you was . . .safe and sound on Canada grounds which we was very glad to dear. I felt some afraid that you would meet with difficulty in the attempt to cross over. I am sorry to have you from home . . . but under the circumstances glad that you are safe from arrest which you would not have been any where in the States The Provost Marshal by the name of Cole living in Albany came to the flats and arrested John Sivcet Bradley Sheldon Seymour West and John Yates put hand cuffs on them & was off in a hurry. . . . The Marshall said to Coons that he had 200 names of Deserters on his list & orders to take all that he could hear off he said his territory went as far west as Rochester . . . now a word of advice to you don't you be enticed by no man or woman to cross back into the states a man in some office of the government left with a large amount of money and went into Canada a short time ago. Some of these city officers that understand catching men tracked him to Canady & . . . and got him to cross over into this States & then snapt him and if they find out where you are they will play sharp in some way. . . . Don't you write to anyone anything that will hurt Richard E. Seill you know the law makes him accountable for any breach of trust if he is Post Master don't let any body know that he harboured you or informed you what was agoing on or any one else keep everything to yourself for if Barrett or Tresdell should find out that any one helpt you or done any act that they could get an advantage of they would probably take it so be very careful when you write to any one." books

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African American Family Photo AlbumABAA

African-American Family Photo Album

19773399S.l. 1977. Very good. 109 color photos tipped in or pasted into an "Aloha Hawaii" Album 280 x 200 mm: wood covers with black lacquer handpainted flowers islands a beach scene with a volcano in the distance side stitched with brown and white thread patterned endpapers. Binding and photographs in excellent condition. Added: three 8" x 10" photographs. Time capsule of a seemingly ordinary African-American family containing wonderfully BORING photos of interracial Christmas celebrations. The present photo album contains 109 color photos taken ca. 1962-1977. Remarkable are the nine photographs of black and white friends and family apparently enjoying each other's company on Christmas and New Years' Eve. Others photos include mom dad the kids / family & friends visiting / ladies posing / Christmas trees / siblings together / kids in group shots / football & High School graduation / hanging around at home / a trip to Boot Hill Cemetery Dodge City Kansas / a lazy cat and much more. Notable also is the photo of Robert Kennedy placed in the living room. The name of this family has escaped us but deserves to be rediscovered. unknown books

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Hughitt FamilyABAA

Family photograph album

191049372n.p. n.d. 1910. The 14 photographs in this album were undoubtedly produced by a professional photographer using a large format camera. The pictures are well composed sharply focused and unusual in their scale. They picture a family in leisure-time activities such as hunting gathering leaves and observing caged rabbits. Especially noteworthy is their time at a lake cabin and visiting Twin Cities sites. The cabin is a fine Victorian piece of gingerbread with a wrap-around porch ideal for napping and reading. The wife/mother is seen holding a copy of the periodical American Motherhood which was published 1903-1919 making it possible to date these images around 1910. The family includes twin boys one of whom is seen in the same picture reading a copy of the children's magazine Buster Brown. What appears to be a stuffed squirrel appears in three of the images. The album contains 14 beautifully toned photographs including one in which the oldest child assists a workman possibly making maple syrup. Seven loose prints accompany the album one duplicate. Among these are three pictures made at Fort Snelling and Minnehaha Falls suggesting that the family either lived in the Twin Cities or visited there. While the identity of the photographer is unknown there is a clue to the heritage of the subjects. Laid into the album is a newspaper clipping about one Marvin Hughitt 1837-1928 upon his retirement from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in 1925. It is possible that the family in these photographs were descendants of Mr. Hughitt with the mother or father a likely grandchild. This is an unusually nice album of family photographs. unknown books

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Casey and Norton Family CorrespondenceABAA

Collection of Correspondence Papers and Ephemera of the Edward Casey and Mary Norton Families of Farmington Connecticut; Lanesborough Massachusetts; and Whiting Vermont 1809-1829

3081519 letters 39 pages plus 10 manuscripts totaling 76 pages as well as related ephemeral material.The collection consists of the following items:19 letters 39 pp. dated 4 September 1809 to 11 December 1821; 8 letters are not dated but are from the same period early 19th century as the rest of the letters in the collection which includes:- John Casey to Joshua Casey Ferrisburgh 1809.- Charles Smith to Edward Casey 1815.- Beloved Mother to Beloved Friend and Respected Husband Lanesborough 1816.- Alexander Ely to Eli Garlish dated Pittsfield 1816.- Edward Casey to Mary Casey New York 1816.- J. Bissup to Edward Casey Pittsfield 1817.- to Edward Casey Mr. Stanneys 1817.- Gideon Norton to Edward & Mary Casey Pittsfield 1817.- Lucy Norton to Edward & Mary Casey Lanesborough 1818.- Sally Norton to Mary N. Casey Lanesborough 1819.- Edward Casey to Pittsfield 1821.- Remaining letters are not dated they were written by: J and A. Casey to C. and M. Casey; Sally Norton to Mary Casey; to Edward Casey; Eliza Phelps to Edward Casey; others incomplete. 10 manuscript papers totaling 77 pages dated 12 April 1806 to 1 May 1829 as follows:- 44-page manuscript dated 12 Apr 1806 to 26 July 1807 which is a religious reflective diary of sorts by an unknown author but the author does tell us he was 18 years old on 12 April 1806 giving the author a birth year of 1788 which suggests Joshua Casey Mary Norton Casey as prospective authors.- 16-page manuscript dated 1 May 1829 "Town Clerk's Office Whiting VT" distribution of estate of Ezra Allen Esq.- 2-page manuscript dated 1 October 1818 estate distribution of Charles Norton Lanesborough Massachusetts.- 1-page manuscript dated 10 February 1818 for 25 acres in Whiting Vermont for the poor.- 1-page manuscript not dated includes 3 epitaphs for gravestones of Timothy S. Norton Daniel C. Norton and Charles Norton.- 1-page manuscript dated January 1813 concerns part of a quarry being sold by J. Elijah Phelps of Lanesboro to Edward Casey also of Lanesboro.- 12 pages of miscellaneous manuscript writings some with religious content.15 manuscript ephemeral items including receipts invoices memoranda notes etc. dated 26 February 1810 to 23 February 1817. Some of the manuscript material and correspondence in the collection consists of correspondence between family members and friends. Much of the material has highly religious content which specifically references and deals with the Second Great Awakening a period of strong religious revival that took place in America during the first several decades of the 19th Century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States the Second Great Awakening was especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. This religious awakening was unique in that it moved beyond the educated elite of New England to those who were less wealthy and less educated. The center of revivalism was the so-called Burned-over district in western New York the region produced dozens of new denominations communal societies and reform. The correspondents in this collection lived in towns in Massachusetts and Vermont that straddled the border of New York State. Closely related to the Second Great Awakening were other reform movements such as Temperance which is touched on in one letter.Sample Quotes:"Pittsfield Augt 29 1816Mr. Eli GarlishSirMr. Casey informs me that you refuse to let him quarry on your land either as agent for Elisha Ely or myself. That you are abusive & threaten to use all legal & illegal methods in your power to prevent his working the Quarry.A man possessing a Lordship of six or eight hundred acres of land ought in order to command respect to be a gentleman. At least he ought to be above pocketing $500 for a lease of part of his estate and then refuse the lease the right of occupying the premises agreeable to the tenor of the lease. And he further ought to be ashamed of pocketing a large sum for work done on the quarry & then in the face of & contrary to the tenor of his own instrument appropriate the Quarry to his own use and when called on for a settlement break out into a passion â€“ go to a tavern quarrel with the hostler & swear that he 'will whip Ely like an honest man' â€“ Believe me Mr. Garlish a man possessing a Lordship ought to hold such conduct in the utmost abhorrence for if such abuses were tolerated in the community the vilest wretch would have the same right to fall on & give you a bruising that you would have to assault another man â€“ be assured that I lay no claims to the character of a bully or blackguard neither am I to be intimidated.Get yourself cool my good friend. Lay your hand upon your heart call on your conscience follow the dictates of your better judgement & my head for it you will at once see the folly of your present proceedings and the necessity of a speedy adjustment with Casey who has full powers to act for Elisha Ely and also a settlement with me for you may rest assured that you are entangled in a web of your own manufacture & unless by honorable means you extricate yourself it will eventually prove very detrimental to your interest. I am &c. Alexander Ely""Lanesborough Jan the 11 1818Dear Brother & SisterI have been informed this evening that Mr. Stone is in the neighborhood tho it a late hour I will not fail of writing a few lines to inform you of the health of our friends. Father Norton's family are much as they were when brother left here except Sally who for five days was very feeble and I think rather lower that when you left here since that time she has been on the gaining hand but is not able to sit up much now. Isaac Smith fails very fast and today I have been informed that his mouth is very sore.It has been a xxxxxx time amongst professors of Religion this fall and fore part of winter but for a few days past I am informed their attention has been called conferences have been very full and some that have been very careless and stupid are now enquiring to know what shall I do to be saved. Otis Smith came forward in conference a few evenings ago and made a very humble acknowledgement for his treatment of professors and asked their forgiveness and is wondering if Christians saw such a beauty in the character of xxxxxxx he now discovers why they never told him and I hope that he will be a bold soldier of the cross as was Paul the persecutor. And my dear Sister while I am informing you of the prosperity of Zion in Lanesborough me thinks I hear you anxiously enquiring after the little branch of Zion in Pittsfield it has been a dark and trying day amongst us in general since you left as but some seem to be more engaged of late and feel as tho God was about to visit us by his spirit. Today I have been to meeting and five of the sisters spoke and some if I am a judge really possessed the spirit of the meek and lowly Jesus. It reminded me of the milk's kin carrying the ark to its place. Affectionately yours Lucy Norton""Thursday April 3Dear SisterWith acclamations of joy and songs of praise I would inform you the Lord is in this place and I think we may adopt the language of the Prophet great is the Holy one of Israel in the midst of thee. Mr. Ebenezer Squire came here yesterday to inform us they had such a meeting to Mr. L. Clarkes the night before as had not been in town for twenty years about forty or fifty people were assembled and no appearance of an idle spectator some were speaking forth the wonders of redeeming love others inquiring to know what they should do to be save not scarcely one but what had some thing to say. They have meetings every evening and Mr. S says there is not a family on the street but what there is more or less awakened in it this awaking has not appeared very visible until about a fortnight or three weeks and now Sister I suppose you may well think that by this time I am ready to ask the question why I should be confined when the day has come that I have so many years prayed for desired to have and at times believed would come yet I think I am truly say I rejoice in the government of that God that orders my trials and changes in life and believe will be my object of love and adoration in a boundless eternity.Saturday April 5 Doctor Roberts came here yesterday to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord he said from Mr. Collins down to Pittsfield line there is fifteen or twenty hopefully converted within a week. The Doct. observed it and the Lord's doings and marvelous in his eyes and so marvelous that he scarcely could believe when he sees amongst those that have attend a hope Mr. Morrell Squire Rust Long and Betsey Smith Otis' wife and some three of Mr. L. Clarkes children Sully Squire in our neighborhood.Sister you will at once discover from my different dates it is some time since I began to write and from my many pieces I know not when or where to stop I think I am some better but not able to be aboutAdieu my much love Sister Sally Norton""Having had it on my mind time after time to sit down the texts of scripture which I have preached from it had my mind to set down the following which I began in the 18 years of my age the 12th day of April 1806.I at this time attempt to set down some of my life passing through God's grace it may be for the honor of his cause and praying if it should ever fall into the hands of those that know not God they would consider as no man knows the things of a man but by the spirit of a man so no man knows the things of God but by the spirit of God and feeling myself a dying creature and believing when I quit this earthly tabernacle I shall praise God in nobler strains than here we can conceive of. I wish to do this is the fear of God hoping that it might be the means of doing good to his cause. I hope that I shall strive to not build up pride and paint it over to such the natural ear. But wishing to do it not knowing but it might fall into the hands of tempted lambs of Christ which are in the same way that God by his almighty grace has commanded me to goâ€¦" books

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Colgate a Colby Family LettersABAA

Group of Letters of the Colgate Family William Colgate and his wife; their son James B. Colgate and his wife Susan Colby; and daughter Mary Colgate including letters from the allied Colby family 1826-1852

30846Group of31 letters 92 manuscript pages in very good clean and legible condition Collection of family correspondence of the Colgate family founders of the company known today as Colgate-Palmolive and benefactors of Colgate University including letters from William Colgate his wife Mary Gilbert Colgate their sons James Boorman Colgate and Samuel and letters to their daughter Mary Colgate from family and school friends. The collection also includes a letter from James Boorman Colgate to his fiancÃ© and first wife Ellen Hoyt and letters to his second wife Susan Colby. The letters deal with family matters including early letters from teachers at Hamilton Academy the future Colgate University and notices of the Colgate's involvement with the school in its early days fundraising for it and even a "sewing circle" which made articles of clothing for the students. Letters to Mary Colgate and Susan Colby from their school friends describe life at various early female boarding schools including Miss Sheldon's School in Utica New York and Emma Willard's school in Troy. William Colgate 1783-1857 was born in Hollingbourn England in 1783 emigrated with his family to America in 1795. He worked as a tallow chandler and in 1806 founded his own firm for the manufacture of soap which became outstanding. This company is today known as Colgate-Palmolive one of the largest manufacturers of household and personal products. In 1811 he married Mary Gilbert and had nine children. Colgate was a Baptist and was a generous benefactor of the schools which later became Colgate University in Hamilton New York. James Boorman Colgate 1818-1904 capitalist and philanthropist born in New York City son of William Colgate he married Sarah Ellen Hoyt of Utica New York in 1844 the couple had one son before her death in 1846. Colgate then married Susan Farnham Colby of New London New Hampshire in 1857 with whom he had two children. Colgate continued his father's patronage of the academy in Hamilton New York that bore his name upon the merger of Madison University and Colgate Academy in 1890 the university was renamed Colgate University in honor of the many contributions of the Colgate family which included at least one million dollars given by James Colgate. Colgate also gave substantial donations to Colby Academy in New London New Hampshire the home of his wife. References: American National Biography volume 5 pp. 232-233; and 231-232. Dictionary of American Biography volume II part two pp. 298-299 books

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Miller Family CorrespondenceABAA

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 killedâ€¦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 enoughâ€¦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 divorceâ€¦We all send love & kisses to you allâ€¦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 handâ€¦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 haveâ€¦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 standâ€¦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 paradeâ€¦ I will close with lots of loveâ€¦Carl Agnes & Kathleenâ€¦""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 Â½ 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 â€“ 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 somedayâ€¦Let us hear from you soon just a noteâ€¦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 & Jackâ€¦""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 â€“ O 4/10 1932Dear Mother & Allâ€¦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 brokenâ€¦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.â€¦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 & Jackâ€¦""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 â€“ 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 largeâ€¦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 camelsâ€¦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 waysâ€¦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' â€“ 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 onceâ€¦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 yourselfâ€¦.yours Hulda" books

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Alexander and Harrison Family LettersABAA

Collection of Correspondence of the Alexander and Harrison Families of Litchfield and West Winfield Herkimer County New York and elsewhere 1852 - 1924

029947Archive of family correspondence consisting of approximately 474 letters totaling 2266 pages of correspondence most with original mailing envelopes plus 34 pieces of ephemera mainly used envelopes all dated between 4 October 1852 to 14 March 1924. Letters are written in ink and pencil written in legible hands in good condition with normal wear. Correspondents in the collection include three generations of the extended Alexander and Harrison families of Litchfield and West Winfield Herkimer County New York including Olive E. Alexander who married Thomas E. Harrison Olive's sister E. Jane Alexander and the children of Olive and Thomas Harrison: Dr. Herbert A. Alexander Leonard Alexander and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Harrison. Other correspondents include the brothers of Thomas E. Harrison Jane Alexander sister of Olive other brothers and a number of cousins and friends who have dispersed across America in the migration west. Of the 474 letters 326 are written to Lizzie Harrison another 59 are written to her brother Dr. Herbert A. Harrison generally when he was away at school in Manhattan studying medicine or doing a residency at a hospital in Washington DC. Lizzie appears to have never married stayed at home and cared for her parents until their respective deaths and became the center point for the family for all relevant news of members who had left home. Many of the letters written to Lizzie were written by her brother Herbert over 45 letters and Hebert's wife Delia over 50 letters who Lizzie became good friends with. Lizzie's cousin Carrie Alexander who moved to Michigan with her parents would later marry the Rev. Albert S. Tedman and reside in Detroit for time as well as other locations in Michigan. Carrie writes 41 letters to Lizzie keeping her apprised of her life and how things are going in Detroit. Lizzie also receives letters from many friends and cousins from various places particularly from New York State and Michigan but also as far away as California. There are also letters written to Lizzie from her brother Leonard as well as her father and mother Thomas and Olive Harrison. Dr. Herbert A. Harrison receives 59 letters and writes 46. His main correspondent is his sister Lizzie. Earlier correspondence from the 1850s to 1870s concern the Alexander sisters Jane and Olive Lizzie's mother and their friends and cousins. In all Olive E. Alexander Harrison writes 31 letters and receives 13 many from her sister Jane and Jane Alexander who never married writes 3 letters but receives 27. Thomas E. Harrison Lizzie's father in all writes 12 letters receives 15 mostly to and from his children Lizzie Herbert Leonard. Alexander and Harrison Family History Thomas E. Harrison was born in Litchfield New York on 25 February 1836. He was the son of Stephen Harrison 1806-1894 who came from England and settled first in New Hartford and then at Litchfield about 1833. He married Mary Watson 1810-1890 and they had eight children Thomas E. Harrison being one of them. Thomas was a justice of the peace for a number of years. Thomas married Olive E. Alexander of Litchfield New York about 1865. She was the daughter of Joseph Alexander 1797-1861 and his wife Eliza Warner 1801-1860. Olive's father had a small farm of about 105 acres at Litchfield where he grew oats and corn and had some milk cows and pigs. Olive became a school teacher and taught at Winfield in 1856 and at Litchfield in 1858. At the time of her parent's death they were buried at the Jerusalem Hill Cemetery in Herkimer County New York. The Alexander's had a second daughter by the name of Esther Jane Alexander 1824-1883 Olive's sister who features in the early correspondence of this collection. Dr. Herbert Alexander Harrison was born in 1871 at West Winfield Herkimer County New York. He was the son of Thomas E. Harrison 1836-1920 and Olive E. Alexander 1839-1893. Herbert had a sister Mary Eliza Harrison 1867-1929 and a brother by the name of Leonard E. Harrison 1876-1936; both were living at West Winfield when Herbert died in 1915. Herbert's sister Mary Eliza Harrison titled "Lizzie" in the correspondence was educated first at the West Winfield Academy then at the State Normal School at Albany where she graduated in the class of 1888. She became a teacher and for awhile taught at Selden Long Island. She is found living with her parents and her brother Leonard in the 1892 NY State Census and listed with no occupation. Lizzie M. Harrison of North Winfield is shown contributing $25.00 in 1895 to the Daniel Hand Fund for the Education of Colored People. A later letter in the collection shows her to be contributing money to the Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee. When the 1905 New York State Census was taken she is shown living with her father and brother Leonard her mother having died. She was not listed with an occupation but rather listed for her occupation as "house work." She is later found to be a charter member of the Society of Middletown Upper Houses. On 3 October 1910 a passenger manifest for the ship Celtic shows her arriving at the Port of New York from Liverpool England. Her father accompanied her to Europe. Herbert's brother Leonard E. Harrison attended the West Winfield Union School and Academy. Leonard died of pneumonia contracted after he was hospitalized for a fall. He was a farmer and a graduate of Cornell University. He left a wife Edith Bonfoy Harrison 1885-1973 and a son Walter L. Harrison 1914-1994 a student at Cornell when his father died. There are several letters in this collection written to Lizzie by a woman named Edit. It may be her sister-in-law Edith Bonfoy Harrison. Herbert A. Harrison grew up in West Winfield and attended the village school and was graduated from the West Winfield Academy. Deciding to study medicine he went to New York City and took a course in the New York Homeopathic College from which he graduated. A number of letters written to and from his sister Lizzie were written at the time that he studied at New York Homeopathic College. After taking his degree in medicine at the N.Y.H.M.C. & H. in 1895 he served two years as an intern at the Washington Hospital and then began practice in Cooperstown N.Y. When he was living at Washington DC there is some further correspondence between him and his sister Lizzie. After several years at Cooperstown he took a special course in eye ear nose and throat diseases at the New York Ophthalmic Hospital which he completed in June of 1903 and remained at NYOH for six months as house surgeon before returning to Cooperstown where he practiced until July of 1905 when he removed to Utica New York and followed his profession residing at 8 Scott Street and having an office in the Evana Building. He was a member of the staff of the Utica Homeopathic Hospital. He attended Plymouth Church and was a member of the West Winfield Masonic Lodge. He was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy the American Ophthalmological Ontological and Laryngological Society the National Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis the New York Homeopathic Society the Central New York Medico - Chirurgical Society and the Utica Homeopathic Club. In 1903 he married Miss Delia Ellison 1867-1956 of Utica the daughter of Henry Duane Ellison 1833-1910 and Elnora Josephine Arnold 1837-1888. Together the couple had two sons one Thomas Duane Harrison 1904-1984 and Leonard Harrison b. 1911. Delia wrote 54 letters in this collection to her husband's sister Lizzie who she appears to have become close friends with. There are a couple of letters written to Delia's sons Thomas and one written by Thomas in this collection. On May 13 1915 while walking the track on his way to the station at East Creek New York. Dr. Herbert A. Harrison was struck by a train and instantly killed. He had the custom of taking the train to East Creek then walking about ten minutes on the train track to a farm that was owned by his wife nearby. This collection contains several letters of condolence written to Herbert's sister Lizzie. Letters upon the death of Thomas E. Harrison Herbert and Lizzie's father are also included in this collection. He died in 1920. Overall the correspondence collection is interesting in that it shows the changing of one generation to the next. Thomas E. Harrison a farmer sends his children to university to become professionals a teacher and a doctor. The collection also shows the extended family migration west the women keeping in touch with folks back home wishing them to come and move west with them with promises of a better life. Most of the correspondents tend to be women and the conversations of the letters tend to be dominated on the domestic sphere of life that they controlled. books

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Edgeworth FamilyABAA

Bound collection of French pamphlets relating to the French Revolution Napoleon etc.

1800244358vp chiefly Paris 1800. 8vo. Half calf and boards rebacked preserving most of original spine. 8vo. Sammelband of pamphlets pertaining to the Directory Council of 500 and Napoleon's rise to power. SIGNED "C. Sneyd Edgeworth / June 1817" on the half-title of the first pamphlet. Charles Sneyd Edgeworth was Maria's half-brother; his mother Elizabeth Sneyd was Mr. Edgeworth's third wife. With a list of pamphlets in Charles's hand on the first blank. An important anti-Napoleon pamphlet "Vrai Sens du Vote National" is INSCRIBED by the author Camille Jordan "par Mr Edgeworth de la part de l'autor" partially trimmed. unknown books

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Massachusetts The Alden FamilyABAA

DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DESCENDANTS OF A MAYFLOWER PASSENGER

73838An archive of manuscript documents letters and indentures dating between 1735 and 1829 from the Alden family descendants of a Mayflower passenger the Hon. John Alden who was the seventh signer of the Mayflower compact and arrived with the Pilgrims in 1620 serving as one of the Governor's assistants. He settled in Duxbury and was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater Massachusetts a town 20 miles from Plymouth and 26 miles from Boston where his descendants settled as farmers and leaders in the community. The collection contains a total of 48 documents relating to a variety of members of the Alden family. Among the earliest documents are four legal documents dated between 1735 and 1737 concerning the sale of land by Daniel Alden 1691-1767 to his brother Seth 1710-84. Their great grandfather was Mayflower passenger John Alden. Seth lived all his life in Bridgewater while his brother became a magistrate and moved to Connecticut. An additional five documents in the collection record the purchase of property in Bridgewater by Seth Alden from other family members. Other documents show that members of the Alden family were involved in military activities before and after the American Revolution. The collection contains a contemporary copy of a letter addressed to Captain Seth Alden and dated February 27 1756 ordering him to make a list of "the several persons in the regiment under your command that have been employed in his Majesty's service within the two years last past." A second document dated September 25 1755 includes a list of names with the heading: "Capt. Seth Alden having drafted those that are here after." Two additional documents one dated 1790 are related to Captain Joseph Alden likely Seth's son and provide names of the whole "train-band" in his company. An additional 11 undated documents list soldiers by name and their return of arms and ammunition while three more documents consist of lists of names one which is labeled "A list of the 2nd Company 3rd Regiment." Another small segment of this collection contains four documents two which are printed with holographic annotations concerning the collection of taxes between 1818 and 1829 for repairing and amending Bridgewater highways. Thomas Alden was listed as the surveyor of highways in Bridgewater and it appears he compiled these lists showing the amount of the assessment for each resident. There are also two letters to Thomas from Cyrus Alden then living in Boston. Cyrus complains about the condition of a horse he left with Thomas and in the other letter attempts to convince Thomas to set up a store in Bridgewater which he is willing to fund. The documents are toned with general wear to some and creasing from prior folds. All are legible and together represent a rich resource of local history and genealogy concerning an American founding family. unknown books

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Walpole Family Copy SALLUST 8634 BCE BARBOU Joseph Gerard fl. 17521788.ABAA

Caii Sallustii Crispi quae exstant opera. Nova edition expurgate.

1774WB16372Paris: Typis Barbou via Mathurinensium 1774. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 155 x 94mm. Pagination: xxxvj 346pp. 2 the Catalogus. Signatures: a12 b6 A-O12 P6. Three full-page plates engraved by Étienne Fessard 17141777 after Charles Nicolas Cochin 17151790 one is the frontispiece depicting a neoclassical scene of cherubs presenting the bust of Crispus Sallust to muses. Woodcut printers device of the brothers Barbou on title page two flying storks feeding each other a worm in foliated ouroboros: symbolizing fraternity typographic and engraved head- and tail pieces. Near contemporary French mottled tan calf gilt-ruled border spine gilt in six compartments one with red morocco lettering label and title SALLUS/TIUS marbled endpapers silk bookmark all edges gilt; some light edgewear and minor scuffs; few minor marginal stains throughout; overall a very good and sound copy of this scarce edition. The signature Tho. Walpole on a front flyleaf verso and the armorial bookplate with heraldry of Thomas Walpole the younger 17551840 Eton and Cambridge-educated British ambassador to Bavaria from 1783 to 1788 and the son of the British financier Thomas Walpole 17271803 also the nephew of Sir Robert Walpole 16761745 and cousin to Horace Walpole 17171797 whom he succeeded in the barony on front pastedown. Armorial crest as the bookplate of Spencer Horatio Walpole 18061898 Home Secretary and second son to that Thomas d. 1840 affixed to front marbled endpaper and his signature under that of his fathers as Spencer H. Walpole with a note written in his hand about a Roman history fragment by Granus Licinianus presented to the British Museum in Dec. 1859. Thomas Walpole the younger was 19 years old when this new edition was issued from Barbous press and he likely acquired it early on for his studies. This copy remained in the Walpole family for over 120 years. Later ex-libris of the American Arthurian scholar Nathan Comfort Starr 18961981 affixed to a front flyleaf. New duodecimo edition of Roman historian Sallusts Roman history covering the Jugurthine War the Conspiracy of Catiline and with the Vita of Sallust by Stephan A. Phillippe. It was first published by Joseph Gérard Barbou fl. 17521788 in Paris in 1744 with the imprint Sumptibus Mich. Steph. David filii. Another edition was produced by Barbou in 1761 followed by this nova edition expurgate of 1774 as the new cleansed version of the text. The reading of Roman histories was incredibly important to the law-abiding and enlightened audiences of Western Europe. This copy is significant for its distinguished provenance from a branch of the Walpole family who were likely the original owners. The Walpole family were deeply entrenched in 18th century British government; it would have been crucial for Thomas and Spencer Horatio to be well-read and maintain erudite political discourse with their contemporaries. Thomass cousin the better-known Horace established the famed Strawberry Hill library and press also contributing to the learned position of the family. The year 1774 the same year of this edition saw the death of King Louis XV of France and much social and political tension in the decade prior to the French Revolution. Sallusts works became particularly popular during the Enlightenment as they encouraged a deeper reading of the mind and manners of men. The preliminary note by Spencer Horatio proves that he had great depth of knowledge about social history and scholarly works. He was a lawyer by profession but was appointed to the rank Home Secretary in 1852 before the government fell and reappointed in 1858 only to resign in 1859 interestingly the same year as this copys dated note. The Barbou press was known for their fine and ample editions of classic history works and the French engraver Charles Nicolas Cochin the Younger was well-received in his time enjoying the court patronage of Louis XV. The famous portrait engraving of Thomas Walpole the elder was made by Cochin and it is likely these history engravings appealed to the family who might have regarded him as a favorite. This copy has a wonderful Walpole ownership history and is an important Sallustian Enlightenment-era work that is rarely found. OCLC locates two institutional copies in the US at NYU and BYU. Brunet V: 87. Typis Barbou, via Mathurinensium hardcover books

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Haring Erastus and familyABAA

A SERIES OF FISHING TRIPS TO MAINE 1928-1939 as recorded by the Haring family in a photograph album containing about 160 photos heavily captioned beneath or along side the photographs or on adjacent leaves in white ink

193864886Maine 1938. Photograph album 7 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches 44 of 48 leaves employed both sides used for either mounting photographs or describing them or both with short narratives about trips occasionally interspersed; affixed to two leaves are reproduced copies of a 1937 manuscript map executed by Erastus Haring picturing the lake hand-colored blue and identifying physical features and property owners all along its shores. The Erastus Haring family of Suffern New York vacationed at the same time at the same cabin on Sebec Lake about 40 miles northwest of Bangor for twelve summers recording their fishing adventures and other outdoor activities e.g. sailing waterboarding in the album. The majority of the photographs depict the Haring family especially sons Warren and Horace boating and catching salmon trout and bass with many "action" images and more of "stringed" fish; also captured are occasional fishing hiking or sight seeing trips to nearby spots in Maine e.g. Moosehead Lake Rangeley Lake Bar Harbor Mount Katadhin. A number of the photos focus on community life around the lake with outdoor meals neighbors in front of houses fish preparation for meals etc. The detailed captions add a great deal of context to the album; in addition to exhaustive identification of people places and dates there are manuscript full-page poems at least one attributed to Mr. Haring with content related to fishing pithy quotations related to the sport "the fellow who keeps his hook in the water catches the fish" and descriptions of the day's fishing events "with Richard it may be a long time before he catches another as large as this one". Two photographs missing two laid in loose an excellent family pictorial record of summer excursions for land-locked salmon and other species mostly on Sebec Lake northwest of Bangor. Brown faux-crocodile leather binding gilt stamped "Photographs" on upper cover tied. 11157. hardcover books

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Higgins FamilyABAA

Manuscript. Early American Student's Ciphering Book

17933003Cape Cod MA 1793. Folio paper stock ca. 300 x 200 mm. 24 pp. on laid paper MS entries covering every page. In contemporary "home-made" rough canvas wrappers worn some damage with loss of text and inherent soiling to text. At least 8 ff. have been excised at the end and elsewhere. Fair condition but an extraordinary survival. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve backed with lig-free board. This crude manuscript graphically exhibits the extraordinary lengths to which colonial American students had to go in order to teach themselves. Provincial home-made textbooks such as this one almost never survive; we are unable to explain how -- or why -- this relic survived at all especially considering its lamentable condition. The manuscript was certainly owned by the Higgins family of Cape Cod who had descended from the Mayflower and who fought during the Revolutionary War see below. The present ciphering book solves often complex math and word problems generally in the service of commerce. Currency is almost exclusively in British coinage but there is one reference to the conversion of British pounds into DOLLARS fol. 7v. The present manuscript bears the date "April the 17th year 1793" in a later hand! on the final page: thus the MS features a very early reference to U.S. dollars by an American student NB: on April 2 1792 the U.S. Congress created the United States dollar as the standard unit of currency. Lessons herein include the Numeration Table; Addition of Money; Addition of Troy Weight; Addition of Dry Measure; Subtraction; Multiplication Table; the Golden Rule or Rule of Three and more. PROVENANCE: Higgins family of Eastham / Granville / Orleans MA. Several hands have contributed to the creation of the MS. On the verso of the penultimate leaf are written the first names of several members of the Higgins family including Solomon Anna Elisa etc. These names were written below an exercise concerning the application of the Golden Rule to calculate the division of a bequest in this instance the Higgins family itself. On the recto of the final leaf is the repeated inscription of a member of the Higgins family who has resisted identification. The text on the verso of the final leaf is dated 1793 but this was clearly written by a later hand. On this page are written the names of several debtors to an unidentified individual including "Timothy Doane of Eastman" and "Solomon Higgins of Granville." More provenance research on this MS will no doubt prove rewarding. unknown books

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Ashley JA. and Family of Michigan J. A.ABAA

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM CONTAINING MORE THAN 80 SIGNATURES INCLUDING PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS WILLIAM H. SEWARD JOHN A. DIX HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW PRESTON KING CHARLES SUMNER AND OTHERS; ABOUT 40 SIGNATURES OF MEMBERS OF THE 36TH AND 37TH U.S. CONGRESS AND CABINET MEMBERS DATED ABOUT 1861; SOME PROMINENT MEN FROM TEHE MONTANTA TERRITORY; AND ABOUT TWENTY-TWO SIGNATURES FROM THE AREA AROUND EUREKA CALIFORNIA DATED 1908-1909 MANY OF WHICH ARE U.S. ARMY AND NAVY OFFICERS

1900366431900. 5-1/4" x 7-3/4". Approx. 160 pp. Autograph album with red gilt decorated covers worn boards detached but present spine missing. Pages have been removed and the remaining pages are mostly loosened. Signatures are written both directly on the book's pages and also on separate pieces of paper tipped in. Some toning and staining of the occasional page. While the binding is in in fair condition the pages that remain are Good to Very Good. Autographs include in part: "Auburn Nov. 14 1860 Dear Sir I comply very cheerfully with the request contain in your courteous note and remain Respectfully your obednt servant William H. Seward" U.S. Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 Governor of New York and U.S. Senator from New York. "Washington 11 Feb 1861 Sir I have the pleasure of complying with your request. Respectfully yours John A. Dix". Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. "Yours truly Henry W. Longfellow" Famous poet and author of "Paul Revere's Ride". "Washington Dec. 16 1860/ Mr. T.A. Ashley/ Dear Sir Your letter of Dec. 10 is recd. Respectfully Preston King." Early free soil politician. "Dear Sir Faithfully Yours Charles Sumner" Massachusetts senator and Radical Republican. "Very truly yours Schuyler Colfax member from Indiana" "Washington Feb. 25 1861 to F.A. Ashley Esq. Dear Sir Yours of the 21st received and I hereby comply with your request Respectfully yours & c. Owen Lovejoy/ F.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich." U.S. Representative from Illinois conductor on the Underground Railroad brother of Elijah Lovejoy friend of Abraham Lincoln. "Washington D.C. August 24 1890 J.B.Cheadle Frankfort Indiana/ Represented the 9th Indiana District in the 50th & 51st Congresses. Elected in 1886 by 3416 majority and in 1888 by 4450 majority." "Very truly your friend W.H. Coffron North Baruch Mich. Washington D.C. 11/30/'84" with cartoon face. Michigan physician; graduate treasurer secretary and professor of Georgetown University. "With best wishes J. N. Gillette Governor of California Sept. 9th 1909". "House of Representatives Washington Feb. 21st 1861/ G.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich. Sir Yours of the 19th came to hand this evening. Very respectfully your obedt. Servant Cyrus Aldrich" Minnesota; "Yours truly Jas. Harlan" Early Free Soil politician federal judge U.S. Cabinet Secretary of the Department of the Interior under President Johnson; "Mason W. Tappan Ho. Reps. Washington 2/14/1861 Sir I am making a hand somewhere; and I prefer to make it before I start to run at all" New Hampshire "I'll try it and let you know Sam Gordon Miles City Aug. 17 83" New York native later settled in Montana where he established the Yellowstone Journal. "Albany April 10 1861 Dear Sir If you think my humble name written with my own hand will add anything to the value of your collection it gives me pleasure to make this small contribution. Yours with respect Ira Harris/ To F.A. Ashley Esq." New York senator and friend of Abraham Lincoln. "My Dear Bill Yours Truly J. Guthrie Asst. U.S. Inspector Hulls San Francisco CA Eureka Ca. March 2 1905" H. Winter Davis "James R. Doolittle "Louis Kerrsft Rear Admiral U.S. Navy 2nd March 1905"; "Yours very truly/ Alex. W. Buel"Michigan; B.F. Magee M.C. Michigan; "Truly Yours John T. Shurtleff Sept. 25 1909" H.P. Baldwin'; A.A. Burnham CT; Chas. A. Mack Jr.; Kinsley S. Bingham MI; Frank Higham Detroit M.; R.E. Trowbridge MI; W.K. Sebastian AR; John A. Gilmer NC a member of the Confederate Congress; JesseD. Bright IN owned plantation in KY with slaves and was the only person from a Northern State expelled from the Senate for his Confederate sympathies; J. Morrison Harris MD; Wm. Bigler PA 12th governor of PA ; John Cochrane NY; Zachariah Chandler Michigan leading abolitionist in Congress; M.S. Latham MI; Alex. W. Buell MI; John J. Perry Oxford Maine; Kit Adams; Emerson Etheridge TN; Edgar Cowan U.S.S. PA; Jno Goode PA; Miss T.C. Ashley; Loren C. Caddell; USMP Maj. Samuel Ruggles prominent New Yorker ; W.J. Thorne M; Alfred Ely; Katie Lackey; "Eureka July 23 1908 Hit the bear hard! Charles Ausyl Clarke U.S. Navy with much affection for Mr. Bell"; "Washington City D.C. Feby. 14 1861/ I am Truly Yours J. Markley" Ohio; Milton S. Davis Lieut. U.S.S.; C. Case IN; Harry C. Frankenfield DC 11/30/84; W.B. Holland; Sedley Chaplin supt. Construction Supervising Architects Office Treasury Deptt. Sept. 21 1909: Edward J Morris PA; William Pennington NJ; Neal Delano; Miriam F. Richmond; "A of Michigan" followed by signatures of Frank Johnson Charles B. Wood Gore Porter R.E. Frazer Aaron C. Jewett George Kingsley James A. Brown Dept. of Medicine; "Edwin Z. Pritchett 1st Lieut. 1st Field Artillery June 24 1909"; Walter S. Sturgill; Edgar H. Towar Detroit; 4/30/1861; B. Stanton Ohio; J Stout Oregon; H.H. Munds 1883 Billings MT; Senator from California R.L. Edwards; R.F. Woolfield and WH. Coory Montana; and others. unknown books

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CIRCUS Cooke FamilyABAA

Disbound albums of photographs relating mostly to members of the Cooke family depicting circus performances around the world as well as portraits and other travel photographs

192038961Various places 1920. Two oblong albums or portions of albums with many detached images. In all approx. 300 photographs. Many trimmed and mounted mostly 2x3 inches or smaller. A fascinating archive of photographs relating to the famous family of Cooke's Royal Circus. The Cooke family was one of several notable families during their time of circus performers and owners that spanned several generations. In circus families family members were taught and trained in the necessary skills of various acts in the circus from a young age and then integrated into the family business. Cooke's Royal Circus was started by Thomas Cooke in Scotland around 1780 after which he and his extended family members traveled around Scotland and England doing performances. They were especially noted for their equestrian acts and continued to gain in popularity and grow to around forty participating family members by the 1830s. In 1836 Thomas Cooke's son brought the show to America where they performed in cities including New York Boston and Philadelphia before returning to Britain following a mixed reception. They continued to perform throughout the rest of the 19th century and the 20th century in both travelling shows and various "permanent" locations. Images include animal acts with elephants and horses as well as clowns stunts and other acts. Many images are captioned detailing locations including Great Britain including performances at Wembley Stadium France Italy and India. Although mostly from the 1920s the album includes a loose carte-de-visite of John Henry Cooke autographed by him on verso and dated 1874. unknown books

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Pitts Family PapersABAA

Group of Papers and other materials of Esek Pitts his son Amos Wood Pitts and family of Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts includes papers on Abolition Slavery History and Genealogy 1819-1909

03015613 letters 35 manuscript pp plus various papers 266 manuscript pp. on Abolition and Slavery and History and Genealogy; plus other printed and manuscript paper ephemera and photographs all dated 1819-1909. Esek Pitts 1775-1834 Amos Wood Pitts 1804-1858 and Esek B. Pitts 1837-1888Esek Pitts was born about 1775. He learned the trade of hatter but became a pioneering wool manufacturer in the Mendon area of the Blackstone River Valley in Massachusetts. He was chosen as captain of a military company and was for many years a Justice of the Peace. He also served for many years as a selectman in the town of Mendon Massachusetts and for a couple of terms as a state legislator during the period of Andrew Jackson's presidency.Esek married Abigail Wood on 5 April 1803 at Uxbridge Massachusetts. Together the couple had at least eight children: Maria Pitts Fairbanks1803-; Amos Wood Pitts born 14 February 1804; Louisa Pitts Buffum 1805-; Esek Brown Pitts d. 1837; Fanny Willard Pitts Munyan 1810-; Abigail Pitts Capron 1813-; Job Pitts 1815-1891; and Emeline Pitts Wallis 1819-1857. Esek died 12 September 1834 his wife died shortly thereafter on 7 October 1834.The present collection of papers seems to have descended through the family of Amos Wood Pitts 1804-1858 as several items have his name or his son's name on them. Amos Wood Pitts was born 14 February 1804 at Uxbridge Worcester County Massachusetts and died 16 November 1858. He had a good education in the higher English branches of scholarship and was a school committeeman and town clerk of Mendon at one time. Amos was also a skilled accountant and served in his youth as a sub-manager of a woolen manufacturer presumably his father's company.Amos Wood Pitts married Mary Ann Ballou. She was born about 8 June 1806 and died 12 January 1875. Together Amos and Mary Ann Ballou had at least four children: Esek Brown Pitts 1837-1888; Seth Simmons Pitts 1838-; Joseph Pitts 1842-; and Flora Abigail Pitts 1847-1848.Amos' son Esek Brown Pitts was born 8 Nov 1837 at Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts. He served as a private in Company H 15th Mass Infantry from at least 25 May 1861 to 28 November 1862. He died on 22 May 1888. He made a living in the manufacture of boots and moved to Chicago. The Bible that he kept with him during the Civil War is present in this collection. Esek B. married Lizzie M. Gleason 1854- on 15 June 1874. Esek and Lizzie had at least one daughter Flora May Pitts who was born in 1875 at Northbridge Massachusetts.The archive includes the following letters papers photographs and ephemera:Correspondence:13 letters 35 manuscript pages dated 4 May 1819 to 10 May 1909. There are 2 letters addressed to Esek Pitts and 2 letters written by him the other letters are by later family members. Four of the letters appear to be retained copies a couple of which are possibly incomplete.Manuscript Papers on Abolition:60 manuscript pp. address on Abolition "Whether the proceedings of the Abolitionists are or are not justifiable was stated by us in the affirmative to depend very much upon the question whether slavery was or was not an evil which ought to be abolished."The piece compares the North and South and it mentions Calhoun and the fact that the South is waking up to the fact that the North was winning this argument in their state legislatures. It appears the talk may have been given to a society or organization as the writer addresses "Mr. President." Not dated but John Calhoun is cited and he died in 1850 thus circa 1830s-1850s. The authorship is unclear but is likely one of the Pitts men either Esek or his son Amos.41 manuscript pp. address on Abolition "There is a proposition while I believe may be safely predicated; and that is that the system of American slavery is either right or wrong. And if so it follows of course that it ought to be either sustained or abolished. If the latter then of course the object which the abolitionists have in view is a good one."Not dated circa 1830s-1850s. The author is likely one of the Pitts men either Esek or his son Amos.6 miscellaneous manuscripts on the subject of Abolition and Slavery 20 manuscript pp. includes 3 items: "Letters to the Editor" pieces meant for publication in the local newspaper Woonsocket Patriot plus 2 other pieces titled "Beauties of South Slavery" numbered 1 & 2 with the subtitle "By their fruits ye shall know them." The sixth piece dated 1838 and is perhaps notes for an address written for the Lyceum about Abolition. Five of the six pieces are not dated circa 1830s-1850s. The author is likely either Esek or Amos Pitts.1 volume 14 manuscript pp. plus blanks bound in marbled paper wrappers not dated c.1835-1836.Includes several pieces of verse and prose by E.B. Pitts dated 1835 on first page then 6 pages on Abolition appears to have been written for the newspaper Woonsocket Patriot plus a letter to the editor and miscellaneous notes about Abolition also presumably by Esek B. Pitts.Other Manuscript Papers on History Genealogy and Restorationist Society:1 volume 10 manuscript pp. plus blanks measures 7 Â½" x 12" bound in marbled paper wrappers includes: "Records of the First Restorationist Society Millville Book No.1" dated 23 April 1837 - 17 May 1841. Manuscript meeting minutes for this society of which Amos Wood Pitts and Esek B. Pitts were members. Amos W. Pitts was the clerk for the society.28 manuscript pp. various topics some political some appear to be pieces written and/or rewritten for submission to newspaper Woonsocket Patriot etc not dated circa 1830s-1850s. Author is likely either Esek or Amos Pitts.26 manuscript pp. a historical paper on early American exploration Cabot to the Puritans not dated circa 1830s-1840s authorship is unclear but likely either Esek or Amos Pitts.13 page manuscript on the importance of history worn at edges some tears at folds likely by one of the Pitts men not dated circa 1830s-1840s54 manuscript pages of genealogical and historical notes on the Pitts family not dated circa late 19th Century.Printed and Manuscript Ephemeral Material:1 oversize certificate torn and in pieces for Esek Pitts 1775-1834 his appointment as a Justice of the Peace dated 20 January 1826 partially printed and completed in manuscript.1 U.S. Treasury Department form for $100.00 payable to Esek B. Pitts for his discharge bounty from military service with Company H 15th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War dated 22 April 1872 partially printed and completed in manuscript.Photographs:3 photographs one tintype 5 Â½" x 7 Â½" of a woman one cabinet card 4 Â¼" X 6 Â½" of two small children one cabinet card of young man none are dated or signed two taken by Albee photographer of Athol Mass.Books Pamphlets and Printed Ephemera:1 pocket Bible with signature of Esek B. Pitts 15th Regt. Massachusetts Volunteers presented to Pitts by a member of the 20th Mass Regiment dated 9 March 1862. Esek B. Pitts was the son of Amos Wood Pitts and the grandson of Esek Pitts 1775-1834."Northbridge in the Rebellion. An Address Delivered by George L. Gibbs before Jesse L. Reno Post 167 G.A.R. Memorial Day May 30 1889 at Whitinsville Mass. with an Appendix Containing Statistics Concerning the Town of Northbridge in the Rebellion" Published by Request. Uxbridge Mass L.H. Balcome Steam Printer 1889. Wrappers 40 pages lacks rear wrapper."Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 9. New Series. The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: An Appeal to the Legislators of Massachusetts" By L. Maria Child. Boston: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society 1860. 36 pages."An Address to the People of Massachusetts by the Friends of Temperance and of the Statute of 1838 'For Regulation of the Sale of Spirituous Liquors'" Boston: Printed by Perkins & Marvin 1838. 24 pages.1 volume containing: "Literary Port Folio" No. 1-5 Jan 7-Feb 4 1830 pages 1-34; No. 9-26 March 4 - July 1 1830 pages 65-202 207-208 published in Philadelphia includes 2 plates lacks pages 35-64 203-206 possibly others after 208 dis-bound very worn."Historical Facts and Stray Thoughts from The Old Elder Ballou Meeting House in the town of Cumberland R.I." by Anna M. Whipple 1897. 15 pages 3 plates good."Fourteenth Annual Commencement of the Women's Medical College Chicago Hershey Music Hall April 22 1884" Maria Louis Pitts was a member of the Class of 1884.1 card announcing death of "James G. Herd" of Clark Herd Manufacturing Co. who died on 2 Nov 1913 sons to take over business.1 copy Worcester Daily Spy newspaper dated April 11 1863 worn at edges and folds some tears 4 oversize pages has account of the "Battle of Ball's Bluff."Miscellaneous Ephemera Items:1 folding leather wallet worn name of "Amos Wood Pitts Mendon" inside flap. books

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Bradford FamilyABAA

Archive of material related to Daniel Dunscomb Bradford of New York New York Consul at Paris France and a great-grandson of William Bradford Pennsylvania's first printer 1824-1838

030081Hardcover. Very Good. The archive includes: 16 letters 45 manuscript pages dated 1824-1838 with 11 manuscript pages of documents and papers dated 1827-1836 plus 162 manuscript page genealogy book of the Bradford family dated 1825; and a 76 page manuscript "Friendship Book" of Mary Ann Rodgers Bradford c. 1828-1838. Daniel Dunscomb Bradford 1808-1837 Daniel Dunscomb Bradford was born on 14 May 1808 the son of Jacob Bradford 1771-1816 and Elisa Dunscomb of New York City. He was baptized at Trinity Church New York City. Daniel was the second great grandson of William Bradford 1658-1752 the first printer in Pennsylvania and also the printer of the first book and newspaper in New York City. Daniel's father was first cousin to William Bradford 1755-1795 the second Attorney General of the United States 1794-1795. His grandfather Cornelius Bradford was the brother of the Revolutionary War printer William Bradford 1791-1791 the printer for the first Continental Congress. Daniel was one of five children the other four being: Margaret D. Cornelius died young Cornelius second of this name and David Dickson. At the age of 19 Daniel or "Dunscomb" as he was called commenced studying law and was admitted to the practice of law in 1831. He sailed for Europe after visiting England and proceeded to France where he was appointed the American Vice-Consul at Paris which office he held until his death in Paris on 5 December 1837 at the age of thirty years old. While in Paris as Consul Dunscomb was one of two non-family members present during the burial of General Lafayette in 1834. Bradford was also appointed the secretary of a committee of Americans in Paris who organized an appropriate expression of sorrow by the American people for Lafayette's death. David Dickson Bradford 1806- brother of Daniel Dunscomb married Mary Ann Rogers daughter of Dr. George Rogers of New York City by whom he had at least three children: Margaret Gage George Rogers and Mary Elizabeth. David Dickson Bradford became a seaman and eventually captain of his own vessel. Correspondence: 11 letters 34 pp. of Daniel Dunscomb Bradford written to his brother sea captain David Dickson Bradford and his sister-in-law Mary Ann Bradford dated New York and Paris 29 October 1828 - 6 April 1836. One of the letters is incomplete and two others are torn with loss of text with general browning and wear. These letters mainly concern family matters though bigger issues do intrude. In one letter 2 Jan. 1830 Dunscomb breaks the news of Cornelius Bradford's death in Jerusalem a later letter congratulates Dickson on his forthcoming marriage another discusses the welfare of their mother another writes of the family fortune or rather the lack thereof and their careers and aspirations such as sea-captain employment possibilities for Dickson etc. Dunscomb Bradford enjoyed writing on such subjects as how to behave as a gentleman and how to be happy in love and marriage. Dunscomb Bradford took his brother Cornelius Bradford's place as Consul in Paris on the latter's death in August 1830. Dunscomb too died young on 5 December 1837 and was buried in PÃ©re Lachaise. 5 miscellaneous letters 11 pp. include: 1 letter of Capt. E.M. Donaldson to David Dickson Bradford dated Philadelphia 22 May 1824 discussing travel plans for "Mrs. Hall" and "the children." 1 letter copy of David Dickson Bradford to his brother Dunscomb Bradford dated New York 24 February 1833; 1 letter of David Dickson Bradford to his wife Mary dated 5 March 1834. 2 letters of Robert Dumont to David Dickson Bradford dated New York 3 Sept. 1836 and 16 Jan. 1838 the latter written at the request of Bradford's mother informing Dickson of the death of his brother Dunscomb in Paris. The correspondence generally soiled browned and worn. Some sheets torn at wax seals etc. But it is in generally good legible con hardcover books

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Hughes Family CorrespondenceABAA

Manuscript Archive of Correspondence of the Hughes Family of Texas Massachusetts and New Hampshire including Lucy Stephenson Hughes and her daughter traveling department store professional Jeanie Hughes and George Forbes Hughes and Gerard Hastings Hughes students at Harvard University and early Aviators in world War One American Expeditionary Force dating - 1900-1966.

30367Archive consisting of 374 letters totaling 1888 pages 207 retained mailing envelopes plus over 100 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemera. Of the 374 letters in this collection 270 are incoming correspondence to Lucy Stephenson Hughes wife of Texas rancher William George Hughes an English immigrant to Texas in 1878. Of the letters written to Lucy 82 were written by her daughter Jeanie 63 by her son George and 47 by her son Gerard. George and Gerard were for the most part attending Harvard University at the time they were writing their mother. Lucy wrote 48 of the letters mostly to her children. Other correspondents to Lucy are her aunts in England 8 letters a niece Esther Stout in California 18 letters as well as another family member Sarah F. Hughes 15 letters. There are other correspondents with Lucy who appear to be friends or associates. Biography of the Hughes Family William "Willy" George Hughes rancher was born at Kensington London England on May 29 1859. He attended Marlborough College and immigrated to America; he arrived in New York on September 15 1878 reached San Antonio on the twenty-ninth and immediately entered apprentice training as a shepherd without pay. He soon bought 160 acres of land three miles west of Boerne in Kendall County where on March 22 1879 he began what later became a very successful ranching operation. One of his early achievements was to import the superior Oxfordshire Downs sheep and start developing high-quality breeding stock that brought premium prices. Also through diversification outstanding management skills and hard work he amassed some 7000 acres of ranchland of his own and leased several hundred additional acres of state school land. Hughes quickly recognized the potential of Angora goats in his integrated ranching operation and was among the first ranchers to bring this breed to Kendall County. He purchased his seed stock from William M. Landrum of Laguna Uvalde County who moved to Texas from California in 1883. When President Grover Cleveland persuaded Congress to reduce import tariffs and Australian wool flooded the United States market in 1887 Hughes immediately switched from sheep to Angora goats and mohair production. Another innovative ranching practice he initiated was to buy cheap mustang mares and breed them to his registered Arabian stallion thus producing a durable high-quality riding horse that was popular with the United States Cavalry. During the Spanish-American War he trained and delivered hundreds of horses to cavalry units both in San Antonio and at the Mustang Island staging area near Corpus Christi. Hughes married Lucy C. Stephenson on June 28 1888. Lucy was born August 18 1864 at Alston Nenthead Cumberland England. She died sometime after 1940. She was the daughter of John James Stephenson 1821-1895 and Ann Dover Clark 1827-1905. Her parents immigrated to Kendall County Texas about 1872 where her father had a farm. The family is found in Kendall in the 1880 Census. After her marriage in 1888 Lucy's mother came to live with her and her husband and they are found together in Kendall County in the 1900 Census. Lucy's sister Ella was also living with them. The couple had three children Jane Elizabeth "Jeannie" Hughes 1889-1977 George Forbes Hughes 1892-1971 and Gerard "Jerry" Hastings Hughes 1895-1996. In addition to attending her children and keeping house Lucy encouraged by her husband began a productive dairy business with a herd of registered Jersey cows. The dairy sold up to 400 pounds of butter a month in San Antonio. Hughes founded Hastings Texas and became its first postmaster on April 17 1890. The post office was named for his father William Hastings Hughes. Hughes helped organize the Hastings one-teacher school in the mid-1890s. He wrote numerous articles and scientific papers on raising and marketing Angora goats. He also collaborated with his famous uncle Thomas Hughes author of the classic Tom Brown's School Days and founder of Rugby Tennessee in writing letters about his early Texas ranching experiences that were later published in a book GTT -Gone to Texas 1884. Hughes died in a train accident at Bellville Illinois on November 25 1902 while on his way to show his prized Angoras at a northern livestock exhibition. William "Willy" George Hughes was the son of William Hastings Hughes an established wine importer who invested in failed land deals with his brother Thomas Hughes which forced the young Willy to head out on his own to Texas. William George Hughes' uncle Thomas Hughes was a scholar known for his classic book "Tom Brown's School Days" 1880. Thomas visited America for the first time in 1870 to visit his friend James Russell Lowell. He later founded a Christian-Socialist oriented community at Rugby Tennessee and edited the book "G.T.T. Gone to Texas" published in London by Macmillan & Co. in 1884. The book includes letters written by Thomas' three nephews sons of his brother William: William George Hughes Gerard "Chico" Hughes and Henry "Harry" Hughes. The book is an excellent account of cattle and sheep ranching in Texas and it was intended by Thomas to be used to help prospective English immigrants to Texas. The book is considered one of the best accounts of Texas immigrants and ranch life. William George Hughes' father William Hastings Hughes later in life immigrated to New York. William Hastings Hughes' grandfather was John Hughes an artist and author. His wife Margaret Elizabeth Wilkinson immigrated to Thomas Hughes community at Rugby Tennessee. John Hughes was the only child of the Rev. Thomas Hughes vicar of Uffington Church one of three canons at St. Paul's Cathedral London England. The Rev. Hughes wife was Mary Ann Watts friend of Sir Walter Scott. She wrote a biography of Scott. After the death of her husband Lucy gave up Texas and moved to Massachusetts where she is found in the 1910 Census living at Milton Norfolk County Massachusetts. Lucy's sons George and Gerard attended Milton Academy. After Milton Academy George and Gerard attended Harvard together. The boys lived in the "yard" at 42 Matthews Hall when in the fall of 1916 a notice was posted which stated the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps the Army Air Corps of those days wanted a group of volunteers to enlist for the purpose of learning to fly and becoming Reserve Military Aviators RMAs. George and Jerry decided to apply together. They were among the vanguard of the early fliers. George had previously had some flying experience when he joined the flying club while attending Dartmouth 1911-1912. They applied and were asked to report to Governor's Island NYC for physical examinations in December of 1916. In late February 1917 they were told to travel to Mineola Field Garden City Long Island New York for one last series of tests they arrived in April of 1917 just at the time that America entered World War One. The lack of trained military pilot instructors meant that the Hughes brothers were taught by civilians. The Hughes brothers were among the first of the new American pilots and as such instead of heading to the front and fighting in the war as they had hoped they were initially assigned as pilot instructors. After pilot training and even before his commission as lieutenant George F. Hughes was sent to Dayton Ohio in July of 1917 to be a flight instructor at the new Wilbur Wright Field. There were simply not enough military instructors so George was hurried into becoming an instructor. By October 1917 George was made squadron commander of the 12th Aero Squadron moving it from Dayton Ohio to New York on to Amanty France then to the front. He went from being a flight instructor to being in charge of 10 officers and 150 men and their equipment which formed the 12th Aero Squadron and to make sure everyone and everything arrived in France safely by December 1917. The 12th Aero Squadron was designated an "observation" squadron and were combat ready by May 1918. George flew with the 12th Aero until the middle of July than was put in command of a new outfit the 258th Aero Squadron which he helped to ready. Just as the 258th became combat ready the war ended. George's brother Jerry after flight school was also assigned to a position as flight instructor. His station was at Chanute Field Rantoul Illinois. He arrived at the new air field in September of 1917. In December 1917 Jerry got orders to proceed to Rich Field at Waco Texas. He instructed at Waco until August of 1918 when he was sent to France. Foul weather slowed his training at Issoudun's American flying school. After Issoudun he spent time at the American gunnery school at St. Jean de Monts which he completed in a week. He was assigned to a combat unit but arrived in Toul France just as the war ended. The brothers thought they would be with the 258th Aero Squadron as part of the occupying forces in Germany but George took sick emotional breakdown and the brothers came back to New York with most of the other soldiers being released from service in February of 1919. In 1920 Lucy was found living with her daughter Jeanie in Newburgh Orange County New York. Lucy was listed as not working while Jeanie was a superintendent at a department store. After the war the Hughes brothers bought the Garden City Garage Garden City Long Island New York. Here they ran an airplane and auto mechanic business until 1946. Jerry was active in founding the Garden City Chamber of Commerce and served as its 3rd President. He also helped in a plan to create 6000 parking spaces in the Garden City area for customers of its businesses a project that drew national attention for its scope and planning. Lucy in 1925 is found in the New York State Census to be living at Hempstead Nassau County New York with her daughter Jeanie who was now working in real estate and her son Gerard who had the garage. The two brothers had married: George to Frona Brooks in 1927 and Jerry to Charlotte Christ 1904-1995 in 1928. George and his wife had two children Octavia and Anita. Jerry and his wife had four children Anne Thomas Jean and Marian. In the 1930 Census Lucy and her daughter are living together at Garden City Long Island Nassau County New York. Jeanie is now listed as a "psychologist." The two women are living with Octavia the daughter of George who was divorced living with his daughter Octavia and his sister Jeannie and his mother. Gerard Hughes appears to have outlived everyone in the family dying in 1995 at 101 years old. His sister Jeannie died in 1977 with Lucy dying sometime after 1940. Description of Archive: 1900 - 1903. 3 letters 13 pages 2 envelopes all three of these letter are to Mrs. Lucy Stephenson Hughes at Hastings Texas. One is written by S. F. Hughes Milton MA and two from W. Cameron Forbes Sheridan WY & Boston MA. W. Cameron Forbes is likely to be William Cameron Forbes partner in J. M. Forbes & Co. he writes to Lucy on the company letterhead. An investment banker he later became Governor-General of the Philippines 1908-1913 and Ambassador of the United States to Japan 1930-1932. He was the son of William Hathaway Forbes President of Bell Telephone Company and Edith Emerson daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1912 -1913. 43 letters 245 pages 37 envelopes of these 43 letters most are written in 1913. Of the 43 letters 37 are written to Mrs. Lucy Stephenson Hughes including letters from her children George 12 Gerard 8 and Jennie 6. Other letters to Lucy are written by her Aunts 5 from England Robeston Wathen Narberth. Sarah F. Hughes writes to Lucy 3 times and 3 times to George Forbes Hughes from Orchard Knoll Milton MA. Other letters are written to Lucy from friends or others. There are also 2 letters written by George one each to his sister Jennie and brother Gerard and one letter written by Gerard to his brother George and one letter written by Gerard to his brother George. The letters to Lucy start out addressed to her at Ossipee New Hampshire but apparently George temporarily moved to Everett Washington There is talk in one letter of George not being able to enter Harvard but instead going to Washington State for work. George writes to his family on the letterhead of the "Everett Railway Light and Water Company" where he apparently worked in its office. Some of the letters from 1913 from Gerard H. Hughes are written when he was attending Harvard University and he and his family are trying to convince George to give up Everett and go to Harvard. The letters offer a look at life at the university at this time. Gerard was living at 42 Gray's Hall in the "yard." One letter talks about unannounced guests a student dropped by in the middle of the night to crash at his place: "He had with him a futurist picture done by the illustrious Edward Forbes curator of the Fogg Museum and instructor of art in Harvard - at least that's what grandma told Miss Wakefield. It was news to me. The picture was supposed to represent a nigger in a water-melon patch Oh those witty Forbes! So Clever!. When Walter went he said he didn't like carrying that picture because people might think he did it. They would have grounds all right; 'cause he looks like a wandering artist without a cent." The same letter describes a prank pulled on a new Jewish student: "Speaking of kidding people I must tell you about our top floor. The occupants are: Kimball and Richardson K & R. Co. Sylvester Rothschild commonly known as Uncle Roth or simply Roth also "Unk". Besides these are minor characters: Mr. Zunston Zee Saffron & Schoenfeld. Uncle Roth is always on his high horse and one time bade me not speak to him "in such an authoritative manner." He is a Jew and a Freshman and as green as grass. K & R. Co. have been trying to get his goat all year and they have succeeded pretty well. The other day they were fooling with him and he bust a window pane. Then they saw their chance. They borrowed Zee's typewriter and wrote a letter for "Unk" in which they stated that they were sorry to inform him that because of disorderly conduct he was placed on probation. They signed the letter with "Henry A. Yeomans." Yeomans was the dean of the undergraduates Roth got the letter yesterday and hasn't slept since. He asked the janitor if he had squealed on him and the janitor said he hadn't. Unk then went and saw his faculty adviser. This august personage fell for it too and said that he couldn't tell how serious it might be but that he didn't like the sound of "disorderly conduct." Natural the poor goat is wild. He left the letter lying on his desk and K & R Co. naturally pinched it and burnt it destroying all evidence against themselves. In the meantime these rascals have been sympathizing with him and scaring him to death. They told him that if he cut he would be fired and so he can't get to see the Dean for fear of cutting. Anyhow he is going to try and see the Dean tomorrow and confess all his sins. When he tells Yeomans that he is on "pro" for busting a window pane the old boy will die laughing. I have never seen such a simple fool as Rothschild is." Rothschild later became the Vice-Consul to Gothenburg Sweden. 1914 - 51 letters 280 pages 40 envelopes of these letters 42 are written to Lucy C. Stephenson Hughes Her children Gerard 15 Jennie 10 and George 3 wrote most of them but there are also 7 letters written to Lucy from her niece Esther Stout of California 2 letters from her Aunt in England 1 letter from Sarah F. Hughes and 4 letters written by others including her friends and Henry A. Yeomans the Dean of undergraduates at Harvard University where her sons George and Gerard are studying. Also among these 51 letters is one letter written by Lucy to Dean Yeomans a typed copy of the letter sent by Dean Yeomans to Gerard 5 letters from Lucy to Gerard and 1 letter from George to Gerard. It would appear that Gerard was having a tough Freshman year at Harvard and was risking not being welcomed back for Sophomore year. There is also a letter from George to his Uncle Ainslie expressing his thoughts of quitting his job in Everett Washington and returning East to go to school at Harvard. The letters written by George and Gerard are written from Harvard and discuss chool life etc. 1915-1916 186 letters 894 pages 120 envelopes of these letters 124 are written to Lucy with 100 of these 124 written to her by her children Jennie 60 George 19 and Gerard 21. Others were written to Lucy by her Aunt in England 1 Sarah F. Hughes 4 her niece Esther Stout of California 10 and the rest by friends or associates. There are also four letters to Lucy from her stock broker W. C. Buck of J. M. Forbes & Co. The rest of the letters in this group are 9 letters from Lucy to her "boys" George and Gerard combined with 19 letters from Lucy to her son Gerard and 12 letters from Lucy to her son George and one letter to her daughter Jeanie. There are also 7 letters to Gerard from his sister Jeanie and 6 from Jeanie to her brother George. There are 2 letters from Sarah F. Hughes to George plus 1 letter from Esther Stout to her cousin Jeanie and 1 letter from "Edith" to George. One letter to Lucy is from the Dean's Office at Harvard concerning her son George. One letter is written by Gerard to his brother George. There is also a copy of a letter from Dean B. S. Hurlbut concerning the poor academic record of George at Harvard which lands George on probation with the University as well as other letters concerning life at Harvard. For several years Jeanie worked in the department store field W. T. Grant Company Deisel - English Stauses traveling throughout the Midwest New England and New York. In one letter she talks of a company in Ohio wanting her to move there to be their buyer and in another she writes to her mother about being in New York City and happy to get out: "I am rather glad to be out of New York just at present with so many strikes going on. The men on theFifth Avenue busses were striking when I left & now all of the Third Ave Street lines are striking. Don't worry dear about my becoming intimate with my business associates. There is a barrier which they cannot vault & which they seldom try to overcome." She also seems to have addressed women's clubs on her work: "Before leaving Lima OH today I went to the College Women's Club Luncheon as their only speaker and gave them a short talk on my work. They seemed very much interested. There were only 37 women I believe. I didn't mind talking the least bit." In 1916 it was still quite unusual for women to be in the workplace especially traveling on the road. Jeanie experiences what today would be termed sexual harassment. In one letter 22 Mar 1916 to her brother Gerard she writes: "I am staying at a hotel - you can imagine what it is like - city about thirty to forty thousand salesmen - "drummers" - Moses! How I hate the breed - a victrola that nearly sets my teeth on edge." Later in the same letter she writes: "Oh these drummers! How I hate the breed. My I do wish I could lay some men dead with a glance! There would be a few ready for their coffins in this junk place! One glance is enough to give them my opinion of them and that is all that is really necessary." Jeanie also reveals some tricks of the trade to keep men at bay when on the road: "My little ring is a wonderful asset - it always puts people at ease. Men are such conceited things that if they don't think you are engaged they are sure you are after them." Jeanie feels particularly harassed by Jewish men. In a letter dated April 1916 Jeanie is at Toledo Ohio and Anti-Semitic feelings are aroused: "Back to the Travelers tonight armed with a smile.I am glad that it is to be only two more weeks for although I am getting lots of fun out of it I must say that I shall be glad to be back. I dislike drummers & traveling men and when they begin to think that mine is a traveling profession I hate them worse than ever. Marshall Fields men are usually real men - nice clean cut looking the sort you can talk to about the sale of certain things without putting them into their place every two seconds. But some of those little jews - liars! And vulgar - I feel as though a conversation with them contaminated me. However my work brings me in contact with them abut seldom. The teaching & general efficiency work I enjoy to the fullest. If the Strauses want to pay me $5000.00 I'll see what I can do to elevate them - I wouldn't go for less. I would heaps rather stay with the Deisel people for $1600 any day then go to that place and make thousands for the Strauses anyway. I declare I am getting to hate Jews - they deserve to be persecuted." Overall the content of Jeanie's letters relating to her work on the road for department store companies is quite interesting for the time period. 1918 - 25 letters 112 pages 1 envelopes; of these 25 letters 2 are written to Gerard 1 to Jennie and 23 to their Mother. Of the letters written to Mother 22 are written by her son George and 1 by her son Gerard. These 1918 letters offer much interesting description and observation on the lives and experiences of military aviators during World War One. One letter dated 26 August 1918 George makes the following comments to his brother Gerard: "Paris is a hell of a place take the advice of an older brother and stay away from it. I went there with about $400 and came away poverty stricken in less than a week and didn't have anything to show for it except a pair of shoes that cost me the grand sum of 225 francs. One would have a duck fit back home if a dealer asked $40 for some foot wear but over here it's a case of "c'est la guerre" and one becomes quite immune to little chings like that." Later in the same letter he writes: "I think I'll try and get into bombing in the near future and from there to chasse. I'm beginning to get "fed up" on this observation game. I hear that back in the States they are giving men advance training in the various branches and you cast your lot for better or worse with no chance of transfer from bombing to chasse or vice versa or anything else. If that's so stick at the game of instructing and leave this war business alone. Chasse is too swift a game to go into with out some previous experience on the front and yet I'll be damned if I want to keep on warping these old hay racks for the rest of my days. Of course if one is lucky enough to get into a bunch using a two-seater fighter like the "Bristol" that's all right but ------! All the evidence personal and otherwise that I can get hold of still tends to show that flat skidding turns are the best maneuvers to pull to escape archies and hostile airplane and as a last resort go down in a fast spiral. But the main thing is to keep your eyes peeled in my opinion about 7/10 of all two-seaters shot down were caught napping or the observers' guns jammed; 3/10 may be shot down in a regular fight but I doubt it. A single chasse plane won't go near a two-seater that shows signs of having spotted him - surprise is their winning card and the one they try to play at all times." In a letter of 23 Oct 1918 George writes to his mother about the plane he was flying and the difficulty of it: "I have always had good luck in drawing ships most generally get eh best one in the market; my luck held good that trip and I drew an exceptionally good bus for a Sop. I was the last to take off and strange to say I arrived at the end of our journey about two hours ahead of the next there. It was quite a trip almost up to Calais; its quite a trick to run one of those rotary motors and the gang at the Paris field didn't think I could get away with it as I had never driven anything but a stationary motor; in the rotary type the cylinders are arranged in a circle and the whole think revolves like a big grindstone; naturally when it gets turning over at a clip of 1200 -1350 revolutions a minute there's quite a torque which tends to pull the nose of your ship to one side or the other. I took off down the field lie this â†’ the first think I knew I was in the air like this â†’â†‘ and before I could stop the damn thing I was going back down the field over the hangars "commuca" Â Strange to say I reached my destination without mishap but the next time I tried to fly the fool think - I could keep the motor running long enough to get off the ground." Almost all of the 1918 letters offer this sort of insight into the World War One aviator. 1949 -1966 - 11 letters 32 pages 3 envelopes; 3 letters dated 1949; 7 letters dated 1950 1 letter dated 1966; 3 letters are written by George to his daughter Octavia; 3 letters are written to Octavia from her Aunt Jeanie Hughes; 1 letter written to Octavia from her grandmother Lucy C. Hughes; 1 letter to Octavia from her sister Ann Hughes; 1 letter written to Octavia and Jeanie from a friend; and 1 letter to Jeanie from a friend in England. Undated - 55 letters 308 pages 4 envelopes. Of these 55 letters 41 of them are written to Lucy C. Hughes with 39 of them written to her by her children Jeanie George and Gerard. There is one letter written to Lucy by Sarah F. Hughes and 1 letter to Lucy by her niece Esther Stout of California. There are 7 letters written to George 3 from his sister Jeanie 1 from his brother Gerard 1 from Sarah F. Hughes and 2 others; 5 letters written to Gerard H. Hughes from his sister and mother and 2 letters are written to Octavia Hughes by her father George F. Hughes. Several letters appear to be incomplete. Miscellaneous Ephemeral Items Checking Account register of Lucy Stephenson Hughes 13 pages1903-1906. 3 telegrams Jeanie to her mother circa 1913-1915. 12 postcards/cards 1914-1916. 1 mss page hours worked for Mrs. Hughes 1914. 54 letterhead receipts 1913-1915 mostly 1914. 1 paystub for Octavia Hughes 1949. 58 mss pages no date appears to be notes some in French for perhaps classwork some verse etc. 20 various printed items: invitations notices advertisements school items etc. 1913-1965. 9 envelopes. books

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