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1969L2QDFYEGE99FPakistan 1969. An archive of 807 loose photographs 541 in colour including several duplicates some printed in a different format including 65 photos depicting falcons 3 duplicates 36 in colour and 14 photographs of camels 1 in colour. A large collection of 807 photographs providing a unique view into the private life of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan 1918-2004 ruler of Abu Dhabi and founding father of the United Arab Emirates. The photographs depict Sheikh Zayed and his family including Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan b. 1948 relatives and friends partaking in various leisure activities. Also included are some photographs of children probably including Sheikh Zayed's sons possibly Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan b. 1961. The pictures date from a significant period in the history of Abu Dhabi the years leading up to the foundation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971 and from the earliest years of the new federation.A group of pictures is possibly taken in Pakistan many depicting a large manor where a party arrives by helicopter. Sheikh Zayed enjoyed visiting the country to go horse riding and hunting with his falcons. Many photographs depict casual dinner parties gatherings and meetings in the open air. Other photographs show a large party setting off on horseback falcons cPhotograph archive of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's private life.Some photos slightly curled along the edges some slightly discoloured. Overall in very good condition. unknown
1970L7VBA667WXTVPakistan 1970. Stored in large six-leaf self-adhesive tan leather album oblong folio 43 x 34 cm. 40 photographs 29 in colour and 11 black-and-white. Various sizes 300 x 207 mm to 125 x 125 mm. Includes 51 original colour slides. A privately assembled photo album showing the ruling family of Dubai during a state visit to Pakistan apparently in the early 1970s. Pakistan was the first country to accord formal recognition to the United Arab Emirates after the state's emergence in 1971.Nearly half of the images show HH Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum 1912-90 the father of the modern Emirate of Dubai in conversation at dinners and relaxing in the garden. Other photos show his sons the crown prince and later ruler HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum 1943-2006 the present ruler HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The collection was assembled by Azhar Abbas Hashmi a high-ranking officer of the Pakistani UBL bank United Bank Limited founded in 1959 by Agha Hasan Abedi 1922-95 who is seen in seven photographs with HH Sheikh Rashid as well as with his two older sons. While several pictures show the members of the royal family in negotiations with the Karachi banking officials there are also fascinating images of a falconry tour to the Pakistani countryside including a fine portrait of HH Sheikh Ahmed with a falcon perched on his arm. The more than fifty original colour slides show other scenes of the same visit; only four of the images are among the prints included in the album. Some occasional creases and even the odd tear but in general finely preserved. Three photos printed by Karachi's "Eveready Studio" some inscribed in ballpoint with identification on the reverse "Mr. S. L. Anwar HH Mr. Masood Naqvi Mr. Iqbal Khateeb / Mr. Hashmi showing the prospect drawings" one in Arabic another with ownership stamp: "Azhar Abbas Hashmi Vice President Gulf Operations International Division UBL HO Karachi". An unpublished set entirely unknown and without counterparts in the online Keystone or Hulton/Getty press photo archives from the estate of Azhar Abbas Hashmi 1940-2016 Pakistani financial manager and eminent literary patron with close ties to Karachi University. Long with UBL Hashmi would serve as the bank's vice-president before founding several important cultural organisations and becoming known as a man of letters in his own right. It was because of Hashmi's close connections to the Gulf states that Abu Dhabi provided funds to build the Karachi University's faculty of Islamic studies along with Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre and Jamiya Masjid Ibrahi. hardcover
150455721Valladolid 1504. Modern Boards. Near fine. Folio 30.5 by 21.4 cm. 1: 18th-century title leaf 25 1: docket leaves. Manuscript on paper ca. 30-35 lines per page. Text in Spanish. Modern cloth-backed marbled boards; title label mounted at front cover. Slightest hint of horizontal fold throughout mild toning to text light soiling and two small perforations at final docket leaf else a fine fresh copy.<br /> <br /> Early sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript recording the significant legal and religous act in which Doña María de Sarabia d. 1521 a member of the influential converso Cartagena family formally renounces her inheritance rights legítima in favor of the Convent of Santa María la Real de las Huelgas in Valladolid Spain. This act was part of her acceptance into the convent as a nun reflecting both her personal devotion and her family's ongoing engagement with religious institutions in Castile. Joining the convent could be seen as part of a broader family strategy to maintain their status and protect their legacy within Christian society. As very little is otherwise known about María de Sarabia's life the document is a rare and valuable source for understanding not only her personal history but the role she played within the broader context of the Cartagena family. The renunciation of inheritance rights to gain admission to a powerful religious institution reflects the intersection of faith identity and social survival in a period marked by profound social and religious transformations.<br /> <br /> The Spanish term 'converso' refers to those Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism in the 14th and 15th centuries as well as their descendents. The Cartagenas were one of the most well-known and powerful converso families in Castile during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. They rose to prominence through strategic marriages political alliances and service to the Crown. María's father Pedro de Cartagena 1387-1478 was the son of Pablo de Santa María formerly Shlomo ha-Levi; 1352-1435 a former chief rabbi who converted to Roman Catholicism and rose to become the Bishop of Burgos papal advisor and tutor to the future King Juan II of Castile. Her uncle Alvar García de Santa María 1370-1460 was a prominent chronicler and historian at the court of Castile further solidifying the family's influence in religious and intellectual circles. María married García Franco de Toledo d. 1487 a royal accountant and alderman regidor of Valladolid thereby linking her to another influential converso family. Her son Antonio Franco de Cartagena ca. 1455-ca. 1507 served as Chief Accountant to the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella a position that underscores the family's prominence within the royal administration. Another of her sons Pedro de Cartagena 1456-1486 was a poet and knight who became involved in the political and military affairs of the period futher reflecting the family's diverse roles in Castilian society. María's deaf sister the mystic Teresa de Cartagena ca. 1425-1478 was a nun at the Royal Monastery of Santa María la Real de las Huelgas in Burgos another powerful Cistercian convent closely associated with the Castilian aristocracy and a significant center of spiritual and secular power. Many consider her to be the first Spanish-language female author and the first defender of women's intellectual rights. While Teresa was at the convent in Burgos her sister María joined the Cistercian order in Valladolid. Affiliations with these powerful monasteries likely elevated their family's social standing and provided a form of protection especially for converso families seeking to demonstrate their Christian orthodoxy and commitment.<br /> <br /> While many conversos in 16th-century Spain faced challenges particularly from "Old Christians" who doubted the sincerity of their conversions the period also saw substantial integrations of conversos into Christian society. Families like the Cartagenas leveraged their educations connections and positions to contribute significantly to the governance and culture of Spain. This integration was achieved through active participation in the Church royal administration and intellectual life blending their Jewish heritage with their new Christian identities. References: Boase R. Secrets of Pinar's Game: Court Ladies and Courtly Verse in Fifteenth-Century Spain Leiden: Brill 2017 pp. 457-460; Cantera Burgos F. Alvar García de Santa María y su familia de conversos: historia de la judería de Burgos y de sus conversos más egregios. Madrid: Instituto Arias Montano 1952; Piera M. "Debunking the 'Self' in Self-fashioning: Communal Fashioning in the Cartagena Clan" in: Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia ed. L. Delbrugge Leiden: Brill 2015; Robalino G. "Teresa de Cartagena's Feminist Rhetoric and Theology" in: Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women Amsterdam Univ. Press 2024 pp. 43-56; Roth N. Conversos Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain Univ. of Wisconsin Press 2002; Seidenspinner-Núñez D. & Kim Y. "Historicizing Teresa: Reflections on New Documents Regarding Sor Teresa de Cartagena" in: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages Literatures and Cultures 2004: 322 pp. 121-150. unknown
172155346Spain: Chancellary Court of Granada 1721. Original manuscript. Hardcover. Fine. Small folio 33 by 22 cm / 11-7/8 by 7-7/8 in. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Main text in black ink masterfully penned in fine clear Gothic style ruled and bordered in red. 82 unnumbered leaves 4 blank comprising 6 full-page miniatures and 144 pages of text generally 32 lines per page. 36 richly illuminated bands with initials appear throughout the text with occasional ornate initials in black ink. The finely detailed miniatures are painted in rich colors and decorated with metallic gold and silver. The royal seal of Philip V of Spain is stamped in black ink at the bottom margin on the recto of all text leaves as well as the final three blanks; the initials of a royal notary appear at the bottom margin of each page of text. Bound in contemporary crimson velvet lightly rubbed with decorative brocade ribbon ties worn and frayed. All edges gilt; crimson silk guards bound-in to protect the miniatures and illuminated bands. Text in Spanish. Manuscript on vellum fine and clean throughout. Overall a very well-preserved bound document.<br /> <br /> Sumptuously illustrated 18th-century manuscript nobility patent carta ejecutoria de hidalguia commissioned by the De la Barra family of Castile to memorialize the recognition of its noble status in the reign of Philip V King of Spain. As depicted in the illustrated family tree and noted at the opening of the text the family traces their noble ancestry back through five generations to Don Bartholome de la Barra y Zuñiga. "During the late medieval era many individuals received the honor of hidalgo status the lowest rank of nobility but with the passage of time this noble status was not always locally recognized. If a person or family was willing to submit a documented family history to local officials of the Chamber of Hijosdalgo of the Chancellery Court of either Valladolid of Granada they could sue for formal recognition" Neary. While few succeeded in these suits those who did would often commission luxury copies of the paperwork bound with the royal seal.<br /> <br /> While customized for each family the text and images of these nobility patents follow a standardized template which must elaborate on three key themes: religious devotion; service to the crown; and purity of blood limpieza de sangre. The latter required that the family demonstrate the absence of Jewish Muslim or "heretical" ancestry. As is commonly the case the present example opens with an image of the Virgin Mary here receiving the devotion of four members of the De la Barra family depicted on their knees before a sumptuously appointed church altar. The facing image depicts the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove looking down upon the infant Jesus. The other full-page miniatures depict the De la Barra family tree; their coat of arms King Philip V; and the royal coat of arms. The richly illuminated bands contain the names of De la Barra family members or introduce key sequences in the presentation and disposition of the suit. The final four pages of text comprise an official copy of the court's final decision. Penned in an ordinary scribal hand this concluding document was usually written on paper; in the present case the declaration appears on parchment at the special request of the family. The document is signed by Santiago Alcalde y Linares royal notary escribano and dated 3 July 1721.<br /> <br /> Provenance: The engraved bookplates of C. L. F. Robinson Newport Rhode Island and Mary MacMillin Norton appear on the opening blank leaf. Charles L. F. Robinson 1874-1916 described in the auction sale catalogue of his library as "a liberal and discriminating collector of rare books" who acquired many volumes from the Hoe and Huth collections was best known as a collector of rare Americana. A clipping from the auction catalogue lot 595 describing the present manuscript is laid in; a typescript of the description is tipped in at the inner margin along with another printed catalogue description possibly from another sale. Robinson served at one time as president of the Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company of Hartford Connecticut. The Anderson Galleries Catalogue of Rare Books Comprising the Valuable Library of the Late Col. Charles L. F. Robinson of Hartford Conn. lot 595 p. 136; E. A. Neary "Spanish Golden Age Nobility Documents" in: Digital Collections for the Classroom. Online via Newberry Library April 13 2023. [Chancellary Court of Granada] hardcover
18025001018Exeter 1802. Group of 20 legal documents on paper and vellum relating to a property in Exeter including as the centrepiece a vellum manuscript indenture 630 x 790 mm. with the signatures of William and Elizabeth Bligh and many other members of his family Bligh himself having signed the indenture a second time in relation to a coda to the indenture; all in fine condition with original wax and paper seals present. <p><p>A remarkable group of manuscripts regarding the ownership of a property in Exeter over a period of a century and involving William Bligh and numerous close family members. The collection includes a rare example of the signatures of both William Bligh and his wife Elizabeth on the same manuscript document together with the signatures of Bligh's nephews Thomas and Francis Godolphin Bond both of whom had long careers in the Royal Navy and the latter of whom went on Bligh's second breadfruit voyage and kept up an important and revealing correspondence with his uncle. </p> <p>The group of documents relates to a family-owned house at 13 St. Martin's Lane Exeter a narrow street between Exeter High Street and the Cathedral Yard which is incidentally also the location of the historic Ship Inn said to have been frequented by Sir Francis Drake. The earliest material present here dates from 1702 while the other manuscripts trace the later history of the property throughout the eighteenth century.</p> <p>The signatures are attached to a legal indenture which is the last in a substantial group of documents relating to this property a group which also includes a detailed abstract of ownership prepared for the Blighs and the Bonds. </p> <p>The series of manuscripts culminates in an indenture dated 27 July 1802 conveying for a fee of £50 the rights of the Bligh family to one-sixth of a dwelling in St. Martin's Lane to one William Floyde. The property was evidently owned by Bligh in conjunction with his nephews and nieces in the Bond family: Bligh's half-sister Catherine married John Bond and Bligh and his wife were very close to the whole family in particular Francis Godolphin Bond 1765-1839 a distinguished sailor and First Lieutenant under Bligh on the second breadfruit voyage on HMS Providence. Attractively the present document includes the signatures of the entire Bond family notably that of Francis Godolphin Bond but also those of his brothers and sisters: Thomas Bond Rebecca Bond Sophia Bond Samuel Hookey husband of Catharine Elizabeth Hookey née Bond and Jenny C. Bond. A coda to the indenture is a receipt for payment of fifty pounds sterling which is also witnessed by all of the key signatories meaning that William Bligh's signature is actually present here twice.</p> <p>Equally interesting is the August 1801 "Abstract of the Title of Messrs. William Bligh et al" prepared for the transaction which records their interest in the property. This abstract notes that 'William Bligh is a Captain in the Navy and lives at Durham Place Lambeth but is now on board the Irresistable in the North Sea Fleet.' Of the other signatories it is also noted that at the time Thomas Bond was serving on the Raisonable while Francis Godolphin Bond was residing in London.</p> </p> . unknown
1842100843Wexford Ireland 1842. The combined Arms of Nunn and Westby centre top the ten verses in praise/celebration each with their bubbler surrounding decorative elements include a fox hunt; a pair of fiddle players; a pair of Celtic bagpipe players; a line of Irish Step-dancers; a pair of Celtic harp players; a formal procession with Edawrd Westby Nunn pictured in an open carriage pulled by 4 white horses driven by a harp-playing coachman. 24-5/8 x 15-1/4 inches. Farmed in green birdseye maple frame. The combined Arms of Nunn and Westby centre top the ten verses in praise/celebration each with their bubbler surrounding decorative elements include a fox hunt; a pair of fiddle players; a pair of Celtic bagpipe players; a line of Irish Step-dancers; a pair of Celtic harp players; a formal procession with Edawrd Westby Nunn pictured in an open carriage pulled by 4 white horses driven by a harp-playing coachman. 24-5/8 x 15-1/4 inches. WONDERFUL. Reading in part Verses 7 & 8: Round his estate and grand domain You cannot trace the tryant's hand Stain'd by the ill paid toil and pain Of those who cultivate the land The peasants tran'd to sweat and toil Ere the day's task it has begun With one accord will freely join To bless the name of Nunn The dwellings pf his tenantry Neath Forth's high crags all green and blue O'er van'd scenes to the wide sea In beauteous grace attract the view No absentee here ever sends His minion vile to cause despair No there true grace with virtue blend So great Hill Castle's honored Heir. unknown books
6344SCHOONMAKER FAMILY ARCHIVE. The Schoonmakers were a multi-generational Dutch family who lived in Ulster County New York mostly around Kingston. The first family arrived in New York in the mid-1600s and settled up the Hudson River around Kingston.Archive. 60 manuscripts. Dates range from 1712 to 1836. Places are generally in and around Ulster County New York. This Schoonmaker family archive consists of approximately sixty documents related to several generations of the clan of the Kingston Ulster County region of New York. Some of the highlights include an estate document about a Negro boy meaning the family-owned slaves legal documents signed by women unusual for the time a couple of documents in Dutch etc. There are signatures of many early settlers with Dutch names such as Oosterhout Heermans Van Gaasbeck Tremper Yeoman Van Vliet and Hooghteeling.Some of the highlights include:A four-page document dated April 12 1712 for the estate of Hendrick Schoonmaker. The most interesting line is the mention of a Negro Boy bequeathed.An oversized document dated June 28 1721 related to the DeMayer family. It is signed by Nicholas & Elsie DeMayer as well as Hendrik Oosterhout.An oversized document dated February 18 1729 related to real estate and signed by Johannis Schoonmaker.An oversized document dated May 25 1730 related to property for the estate of Hendrick Schoonmaker. It is signed by Cornelius & Sarah MacLeen and Andries Heermans.A document dated September 11 1733 for real estate. It is signed by Abraham Person & Hendrik Oosterhout; there is a Persen House museum in Kingston.A document dated February 19 1770 signed by numerous figures including Trintje Schoonmaker Ezekiel Masten Abraham Masten and Cornelius Beekman.A letter dated December 9 1811 about Reverend Ostrander performing services in the Dutch language & a call for a Dutch minister.A document dated June 7 1814 about a Kingston church & William Osterhoudt.A receipt dated August 20 1817 for the Columbian newspaper subscription to Henry Schoonmaker.A document dated July 28 1816 signed by Cornelius Tappan to Schoonmaker regarding military regiments.A printed broadside dated October 22 1826 regarding political support for Governor DeWitt Clinton. unknown
1870ABC_47579Australia and England and India 1870. Contemporary maroon cloth embroidered with yellow flowers. Comes in a custom-made black-cloth clamshell box internally covered in burgundy cloth with a black morocco title-label on the spine lettered in gold and a folding liner of the same burgundy cloth. Oblong album ca. 23 x 30 cm. With 36 albumen prints including 14 photographs of Australia. These include houses churches buildings in Springsure Queensland around 1870 photos of Charles with his horse a wonderful picture of an "Alligator killed in the Mackay River" and "bottle trees near Taroon" 5 photographs of India: Bengal Camp Delhi multiple group photos in Darjeeling a group photo in front of the government house in Calcutta and the crew of the H.M.S. Narcissus 17 photographs of Gibraltar America Switserland art pieces and the Dicken family. Further with 24 watercolour paintings of flowers landscapes and people including two of the Taj Mahal and 17 coloured pencil and ink drawings of people. The drawings and paintings are almost all signed S. P. D. or F. E. D. who were likely members of the Dicken family. Most photographs and art pieces are captioned in pencil or brown ink several leaves are decorated with additional drawings or dried plants. Album amicorum of a settler in Australia and his family with rare photographs of Queensland Australia and India in the 1870s.The photographs in the album are extraordinary especially those of the small town of Springsure. In 1841 the first photograph was taken in Australia of Bridge Street in Sydney. While explorers and early colonists quickly became a subject of interest for Australian photographers photographs of early settlements are quite rare. The photographs of the government house in Calcutta and the crew of the H.M.S. Narcissus in the album are also of historical interest. Together with the numerous drawings paintings and poems the album offers a fascinating insight into life in Queensland in the late 19th century.Charles Shortt Dicken 1841-1902 was born in India. He was a lieutenant for the Royal Irish Fusiliers before he settled in Queensland in 1864. He entered the mounted police in 1866 and worked as a police magistrate until he was appointed secretary in the office of the Agent-General for Queensland in London in 1880. When he retired from this position in 1891 he received the title C.M.G Companion in the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. This is awarded to those who render extraordinary or important non-military service to the United Kingdom in a foreign or Commonwealth country. In the final years of his life he contributed to The British Empire series a series of four volumes which aimed to offer trusthworthy information about the colonies and settlement of the British Empire. Dicken was a co-author of volume IV - Australasia published in 1900.The cloth is worn at the head of the spine and shows a few small holes on the boards revealing the leather album beneath. The illustration of the "execution of Mary Queen of Scots" is missing on leaf 12. Some of the dried plants are falling off. The edges and corners of the leaves show some signs of wear the leaves slightly browned. Overall in good condition the photographs artworks and other decorations are very well preserved.l Mennel P. Dictionary of Australasian biography p. 132; The Daily Telegraph november 15 1902 p. 4. hardcover
40260London : John Newton 1st January 1817. Terrestrial pocket globe 3 inches in diameter engraved gores with original hand colour over papier-mâché and plaster sphere the surface in fine order with a recent wax applied for protection two metal pins resting the globe in the original publisher's shagreen case titled Newton's improved pocket celestial globe with engraved diagrams of the constellations the lips coloured red original metal hinge and two hook and eye clasps. A fine example of a rare pocket globe sitting perfectly within its case. A rare and attractive miniature pocket globe showing Cook's third voyage. John Newton 1759-1844 was the founder of a firm of globe makers in London established in the 1780s and continuing on with the involvement of Newton's sons throughout the nineteenth century. This small terrestrial globe in its original case shows the track of Cook's third voyage of 1776-80 with its return to England under the commands of Clerke and Gore. New Holland is shown separated from Van Diemen's Land Port Jackson and Botany Bay are marked and interestingly 'French Discoveries' are captioned along the South Australian coastline a reference to the Baudin expedition. An analemma is drawn over the Pacific Ocean and the 'Antipodes of London' are marked south of New Zealand. References: Dekker Elly et al. Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum Greenwich. London: Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum 1999 pp. 424 - 425 GLBO58 Sumira Sylvia. The art and history of globes. London : The British Library 2014 p. 189 the 1831 edition illustrated. unknown
0301781433 letters 4409 pages 647 retained mailing envelopes dated 1845 to 1944.The collection consists of five cartons of material. The collection includes letters of five generations of the McCulloch family written over the course of one hundred years starting with Major Alexander McCulloch 1779-1886 to his 3rd great grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland 1921-1998 with the bulk of the letters covering the families of Henry Ashby McCulloch his wife Lola Gaylord their daughter Lolita McCulloch and her husband William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita and William's son Ashby McCulloch Sutherland. The collection also includes 3 diaries 3 address books 2 notebooks 1 expense account book plus 942 photographs and approximately 1400 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemeral items with the bulk being from 1900s-1940s.<br /><br /><p><b>History of the McCulloch - Sutherland Families of San Antonio Texas</b></p><p>Major Alexander McCulloch and wife Francis Le Noir 1779-1866</p><p>Major Alexander McCulloch was born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. He was a graduate of Yale and an aide-de-camp to General James Coffee under General Andrew Jackson in the Creek Indian War and the War of 1812 from 1812-1815 in Alabama Georgia and New Orleans. He died in Dyer County Tennessee in August 1846.</p><p>The McCulloch family had been wealthy politically influential and socially prominent in North Carolina before the American Revolution but Alexander McCulloch had wasted much of his inheritance and was unable even to educate his sons. Two of his older sons briefly attended a school in Tennessee taught by their neighbor Sam Houston. After several moves the family settled at Dyersburg where one of their closest neighbors was David Crockett who became a great influence on Alexander's sons Henry Eustace McCulloch and his older brother Ben McCulloch who both would later become Confederate brigadier generals during the American Civil War.</p><p>Major Alexander McCulloch married Francis F. Le Noir who was born 11 April 1779 in Virginia. She was the daughter of a planter and slaveholder. Her only brother John Peterson Le Noir died in New Orleans of a wound received in a skirmish the night of 21 December 1814 while serving in the U.S. Army in the War of 1812. She came to Texas after 1846 and lived at the home of her son Captain John S. McCulloch in Ellis County until her death on 10 May 1866. She and her husband had 12 children together.</p><p>One son of Alexander and Francis was Alexander McCulloch who served in the army of Texas in 1836-37 and was an officer in the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. Another son was Benjamin McCulloch who participated in the Battle of San Jacinto as a private served in the Mexican War as a captain and was killed in the Battle of Pea Ridge Arkansas 7 March 1862 while serving as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. A third son was John S. McCulloch a captain in the Confederate Army who Francis went to Texas to live with. A fourth son and the line of McCullochs that this archive offered here descended from was General Henry Eustace McCulloch. This archive contains one letter written by Major Alexander McCulloch to his wife dated 1845.</p><p><b>General Henry Eustace McCulloch 1816-1895 and wife Jane Isabella Ashby 1822-1896</b></p><p>General Henry Eustace McCulloch was an early pioneer Texas Ranger and Confederate officer. He was born in Rutherford County Tennessee on December 6 1816. Although he played an important role in military affairs in early Texas he received fewer accolades than his more famous cohorts John S. Rip Ford John C. Jack Hays and his older brother Benjamin McCulloch. In the 1830s Ben and Henry McCulloch carried on several economic enterprises. They traveled the Mississippi River on log rafts to various markets and by the end of the decade they had moved to Gonzales to survey and locate lands. In 1839 in the political struggles at Gonzales Henry McCulloch shot and killed Reuben Ross after the latter intoxicated and obnoxious drew his pistols. The angular-featured gentle-looking McCulloch joined the Texas Rangers in the heyday of their role as citizen soldiers against Native Americans and Mexican troops. In the battle of Plum Creek in 1840 against the Comanches he scouted fought with distinction and was wounded. In addition he served as a lieutenant in Hays's rangers in their military operations against the Comanches and Mexican nationals. In 1842 in the attack on San Antonio and retreat by Mexican troops McCulloch scouted infiltrated enemy lines seeking information and participated in the battle of Salado Creek.</p><p>For the next two decades he mixed his military career with other ventures. In 1843 he was elected sheriff of Gonzales and began a merchandising career there. The following year he moved his business to Seguin. During the Mexican War and afterward he served as a captain of a volunteer company guarding the Indian frontier. He became especially adept at organizing regular ranger patrols in intervals from different camps to cover a designated area. In the early 1850s McCulloch served in the state legislature both houses from Guadalupe County and at the end of the decade he accepted an appointment as United States marshal for the Eastern District of Texas. He served as a high-ranking Confederate officer during the Civil War. As Texas left the Union he assumed command of the posts on the northwestern frontier from Camp Colorado to the Red River and used Texas secessionist troops to accept the surrender of federal forces. Given the rank of colonel by the Confederate Congress McCulloch organized the First Regiment Texas Mounted Riflemen in 1861. This body of troops slowed down penetration of the western frontier by Native Americans through a system of patrols and small-scale engagements. After promotion to brigadier general McCulloch commanded the Northern Sub-District of Texas from 1863 to the end of the war. In this role he faced the threats of Indian raids and the movement of Union forces. He also had to deal with the activities of draft dodgers deserters and bushwhackers. At one time he tried unsuccessfully to arrest William Quantrill for robbery and murder. With the war ended McCulloch went home to Seguin with an armed escort for protection against deserters who swore to take his life.</p><p>After the Civil War he remained in the limelight. In 1874 he assisted the newly elected governor Richard Coke in removing Edmund J. Davis from the executive offices. Early in 1876 as a reward for his years of service McCulloch was appointed superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum later the Texas School for the Deaf. Here his lax and inept administration brought about a legislative investigation that made him resign his position in 1879.</p><p>Henry married to Jane Isabella Ashby on 20 August 1840. She was born 17 September 1822 at Shelby Co Kentucky. She was the daughter of John Miller Ashby and Mary Harris Garnett of Kentucky who had been early settlers in the DeWitt Colony which was centered on Gonzales Texas. The couple had a number of children most of who remained in Texas.</p><p>General Henry Eustace McCulloch died on March 12 1895 at Seguin Texas and was buried in San Geronimo Cemetery. He received a full Masonic funeral having been an active freemason after the War in the Guadalupe County Lodge. His wife died the following year on 18 July 1896 at Seguin Guadalupe Co. Texas. There are 4 letters in this collection related to Henry Eustace McCulloch. Two letters are written by Henry Eustace McCulloch to his son in November 1882 and February 1895 with 2 letters written to him.</p><p><b>Henry Ashby McCulloch 1866-1913 and wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord 1871-1944</b></p><p>One of General McCulloch's sons his namesake was Henry Ashby McCulloch who was born 23 July 1866 at Rangers Horn Geronimo Guadalupe Co. Texas. He married on 18 April 1893 and died 22 January 1913 at Buenos Aires Argentina. The present collection is mainly concentrated on Henry his wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord their daughter Lolita "Lola" Beatrice McCulloch as well as Lolita's second husband William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita's son from her first marriage Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland who was adopted by Sutherland and took his stepfather's name.</p><p>Henry A. McCulloch left college in 1884 on account of a shortage of funds and thus did not graduate. From November 1884 to May 1887 he was a surveyor for state lands for Texas and the railways of the western part of the state being headquartered at El Paso. He did some work at this time in the State of Chihuahua Mexico for Davis Brothers of El Paso in 1885. For the last half of 1887 he was transit man and division engineer in charge of estimates for Mexican International Railway for Sabinas to Torreon and on preliminary survey from Torreon to Durango.</p><p>At the beginning of 1889 he was in the panhandle of Texas with William Walter Phelps Co. surveying 5000000 acre land grant in charge of two parties. He went to Mexico in 1890 for the purpose of working for the Wells-Fargo Company who he had been working with previously as a messenger at Eagle Pass Texas being responsible for communications between El Paso and Eagle Pass. In July of 1891 he was appointed "acting" route agent for Wells Fargo at Irapuato Guanajuato and later appointed as the route agent. In 1892 he was transferred to Monterrey and put in charge of all of Northern Mexico.</p><p>During 1892 he married Lola Beatrice Gaylord. And in 1895 he was appointed general route agent with headquarters in the City of Mexico and put in charge of all outside transportation business. While living in Mexico his daughter Lola Beatrice McCulloch was born in Mexico City on 16 August 1896. In 1898 he entered the service of American Surety Company as inspector and served in that capacity and as acting general manager until mid-July 1899 when he resigned because of differences between him and the company. He was immediately given a position as the general superintendent of San Marcos and Tecolutla Railway SM&T RR placed in charge of construction and operation. He stayed in this position a short time again having differences of opinions with his superiors and resigned to take a job in November 1900 with the Mexicana Railway as commercial agent staying only a brief time before taking a job again with the SM&T RR. SM&T RR was bought out by Mexican Eastern Railway. The SM&T was then leased to a corporation called Interoceanic Railway which was owned by stockholders of the Mexican Eastern Railway. McCulloch then became the General Train Master of the Interoceanic and the General Agent of the Mexican Eastern.</p><p>By 1904 he was appointed division superintendent of the Interoceanic Railway and later the same year appointed terminal superintendent for the company. Staying in Mexico he moved over to the Pan American Railroad where he was appointed the assistant general manager and became general superintendent of that company's railways in Mexico. In 1907 he was appointed general manager of Southern Railways of Peru and Dependencies under W. L. Morkill where he remained for several years before taking a position with a group of Argentine railroads. McCulloch died in Buenos Aires in 1913. </p><p>There are a 338 letters and telegrams written both to and from Henry concerning his work in Central and South America with the various railroad companies he was employed by. A number of these telegrams are multiple pages written in code then translated and sent back and forth at great expense in an attempt to keep prying eyes from what the companies were doing in the way of railroads in South America.</p><p>Henry A. McCulloch's wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord was born in October 1871 at Anderson Texas. She outlived her husband by nearly thirty years dying on 12 June 1944 at San Antonio Texas. She was buried at San Antonio's City Cemetery #1. She was the daughter of Edward Gaylord d. 1873 and Cornelia Bernice Milton 1849-1924. She is shown in the 1920 Census as living with her daughter Lolita and Lolita's first husband John Dewees Howard as well as her mother Cornelia Gaylord. Besides her grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland and her nephew William Leigh Morrow she was survived by two nieces Mrs. Sara Capers of San Antonio daughter of Eleanor Stribling Capers and Mrs. D. R. Dance of West Point New York. This archive includes 564 letters written to and from Lola Gaylord McCulloch.</p><p><b>Lolita "Lola" McCulloch 1896-1929 and William Alexander Sutherland 1895-1929</b></p><p>Lolita "Lola" McCulloch was born on 16 August 1896 at Mexico City Mexico. After the death of her father in 1913 the family moved back to San Antonio Texas. She was first married to John Dewees Howard 1895-1982 on 4 October 1916 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio Texas. Howard was the son of M. L. Howard. Her cousins Eleanor and Beatrice Stribling led the bridal party. One of the matrons was the young Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower herself recently married to the future president in July of 1916. However Lolita's marriage ended in divorce. Howard a salesman remarried and shows up in the 1930 Census as being married. He registered for the WWII draft but it is not clear if he served.</p><p>The first marriage of Lolita produced a son Ashby McCulloch Howard. After her divorce Lolita received custody of the child and then married a second time to William Alexander Sutherland on 2 June 1926. Sutherland legally adopted the boy and the boy was given his surname and was Sutherland's heir when he died unexpectedly in 1929. Lolita's second husband William Alexander Sutherland was born in 1895. He was the manager of the Monterrey Mexico branch of the Bank of Montreal and the couple's son Ashby spent his early years living at San Antonio Texas under the care of his grandmother Lola Gaylord McCulloch.</p><p>Lolita "Lola" McCulloch died on 25 March 1929 at her mother's home. She was 32 years old. She was survived by her husband William who would die in a car accident several months later her son mother an Aunt Mrs. Ben Stribling Celeste Gaylord 1874-1939 and cousins Eleanor Stribling; 1903-1985 and Mrs. D. R. Dance Beatrice Stribling 1902-1974 and William Leigh Morrow all of San Antonio. Celeste Gaylord married first Frank Morrow and second to Benjamin A. Stribling 1863-1950.</p><p>Lolita's husband William Alexander Sutherland died 23 November 1929 in a car accident at Monterrey Mexico. He had remained in Mexico after the death of his wife several months earlier. His body was taken back to San Antonio where he was buried. He was survived by a sister Mrs. Russell Cruikshank of Newcastle Canada and a brother Gordon Sutherland of Monckton Canada. There are a number of letters in the archive between Gordon Sutherland and Mrs. Lola Gaylord McCulloch concerning the estate of Gordon's brother William Alexander. William Alexander Sutherland adopted Ashby Henry Howard as his son which is evidenced by documents in the archive. Ashby became the legitimate heir of Sutherland and took his surname. This archive includes 82 letters to and from Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland and 10 letters to and from William Alexander Sutherland.</p><p><b>Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland 1921-1998</b></p><p>Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland was born on 16 March 1921 at San Antonio Texas. His father was John Dewees Howard 1895-1982 the first husband of Lolita "Lola" McCulloch. After the divorce and Lolita's marriage to William Alexander Sutherland Ashby was adopted by Sutherland as his son and given his surname. Since his parents were living in Mexico when his father was working for the Bank of Montreal's Mexico City branch Ashby stayed in San Antonio and lived with his grandmother Lola Gaylord McCulloch. He continued to live with his grandmother after the premature death of both of his parents in 1929.</p><p>Ashby graduated college in 1942 as the valedictorian from the University of the South Sewanee Tennessee and from Harvard Law School class of 1949. After wartime service in Europe as a U.S. Army officer he practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell before joining the International Nickel Co. New York INCO Ltd in 1954. He was an assistant to the general solicitor of the INCO Ltd. at the time of his marriage on 13 April 1956 to Marion Adair Ramsey.</p><p>Marion Adair Ramsey was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Howard Ramsey of Goliad Texas. She attended Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and graduated from University of Texas where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. For three years before her marriage to Sutherland she was associated with the Museum of Modern Art in New York.</p><p>The couple was married on 13 April 1956 at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York. After their marriage they made their home for some time in New York City. Ashby was with INCO until 1983 in New York Paris and Toronto serving in a variety of legal and management positions before retiring as a senior vice president and executive director.</p><p>After Ashby retired he and his family moved back to San Antonio but spent parts of his later years in Venice and San Miguel de Allende. Ashby was a member of the Knickerbocker Club and the Harvard Club of New York City. Ashby was married from 1956 to 1972 to Marion and although they divorced in 1972 they remained close friends. Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland died on 5 February 1998 after suffering for about a year with Leukemia and was buried on 9 February at City Cemetery in San Antonio. Together the couple had at least two children Howard Ramsey Sutherland of London and Ramsey Sutherland Farber of Buffalo. This archive includes 226 letters to and from Ashby McCulloch Sutherland mostly written during the time he was in undergraduate school law school or in military service.</p><p><b>Description of Collection</b></p><p>Correspondence of Alexander McCulloch his son Henry Eustace McCulloch and grandson Henry Ashby McCulloch</p><p>343 letters 743 pages 8 envelopes dated 1845-1913 as follows:</p><p>Alexander McCulloch Sr. 1 letter 2 pp. folding letter-sheet dated Huntsville 1845 written to his wife Francis.</p><p>Henry Eustace McCulloch 4 letters 10 pp. no envelopes dated 1859-1896. Of these 4 letters two were written by him to his son the other two are incoming letters. The letters to his son are dated Seguin Texas 1882 and Rockport 1896 just before he died. One of the letters addressed to him was written by his son S. L. McCulloch and dated Martindale Texas 1883 with the other incoming letter dated 6 May 1859 written by his nephew Rush McCulloch of Wilfred Texas.</p><p>Henry Ashby McCulloch approximately 338 letters 731 pp. 7 envelopes dated 1876-1913. Of these letters 174 are outgoing and 164 incoming. A number of these letters are telegrams or cablegrams some long some fairly short. They include coded cablegrams with transcriptions. These letters are almost all business related and deal with McCulloch's work in Central and South America with various railroads from 1876 up to the year that he died. About half of the letters are from 1912.</p><p><b>Correspondence of Lola Gaylord McCulloch wife of Henry Ashby McCulloch</b></p><p>564 letters 2066 pages 309 envelopes dated 1879-1944 bulk 1920s-1940s as follows:</p><p>Outgoing - 162 letters 534 pages 42 envelopes as follows:</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to her daughter Lolita 17 letters 86 pp. 6 envelopes dated 1908-1928. Some of these letters were written by Lola to her daughter Lolita when Lolita was in Montreal Canada or Corpus Christi Texas.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to her grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland 27 letters 87 pp. 23 envelopes dated mostly San Antonio Texas 1921-1943 with most letters being from 1939-1943 when he was away at college in Sewanee Tennessee at the University of the South and then later at Soldier's Field Boston Massachusetts when he was in military service.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to her sister Celeste Gaylord 4 letters 35 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1907-1913 written by McCulloch to her sister while McCulloch was either onboard a ship or in Mexico or Peru.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to Hilyer-Deutsch-Jarrett & Co. 8 letters 18 pp. 1 envelope dated 1924-1930. Hilyer et al was a lumber company in San Antonio who McCulloch had business with concerning financial instruments between the parties. McCulloch writes from her home in San Antonio as well as from Mexico.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to several insurance companies 13 letters 17 pp. dated 1930. Copies of letters written to several Canadian insurance companies by McCulloch concerning policies of her late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland for her grandson Ashby McC. Sutherland.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to Gordon Sutherland 8 letters 11 pp. 1 envelope dated 1930-1932. Copies of letters of McCulloch concerning the estate of her late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland. Gordon Sutherland is William's brother whose estate was divided between Gordon his sister and William's son Ashby McC Sutherland.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch outgoing letters to miscellaneous correspondents 85 letters 280 pp. 9 envelopes dated 1886-1941. Mostly copies of letters sent to various individuals or companies.</p><p>Incoming - 402 letters 1532 pages 267 envelopes as follows:</p><p>61 letters 301 pp. 43 envelopes of family letters mother cousins nieces and nephews to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1879-1944 mostly 1920s-1940s.</p><p>27 letters 43 pp. 17 envelopes of the Bank of Montreal the Union National Bank and the San Antonio Loan & Trust Co. to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1929-1940 dealing with McCulloch's finances as well as her grandson Ashby McC Sutherland who inherited half of the estate of his father William Alexander Sutherland.</p><p>6 letters 22 pp. 4 envelopes of T. A. Corry of Los Gatos California to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1936-1940. Corry appears to have been a friend of McCulloch possibly a relative also on the LeNoir branch of the family. Corry appears to have been friends with the McCulloch family through his work on Peruvian Railroads.</p><p>19 letters 198 pp. 18 envelopes of Dorothy Cruikshank of Newcastle New Brunswick Canada dated 1929-1940 to Lola G. McCulloch. Cruikshank was the sister of William Alexander Sutherland McCulloch's late son-in-law.</p><p>11 letters 37 pp. 9 envelopes of Ariana Graves Dennison wife of James Edward Dennison. Originally born in Texas she moved to Mexico City Mexico where she writes to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1929-1943. Ariana appears to have been a friend of McCulloch. James Edward Dennison was the treasurer of the American Book & Printing Company of Mexico City.</p><p>13 letters 72 pp. 10 envelopes of Charlotte St. John Elliot of Sewanee Tennessee to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1939-1943. Charlotte St. John Elliot 1870-1958 was born 24 June 1870 at Savannah Georgia to Robert W.B. and Caroline Elliott of South Carolina. Her father was a clergyman at San Antonio on the 1880 Census and this may be how Elliott came to know Lola Gaylord McCulloch. Elliott lived at Sewanee Tennessee with her lifelong companion Marie Truslow a sculptor. Charlotte was described as a "tall dignified and benevolent woman" and Truslow as "stumpy bucktoothed and vivacious." They were said to wear "long dresses black or dazzling white and heavy amber beads and pearls pendant over very ample bosoms." Elliott was friends with the southern writers Walker Percy and his cousin William Alexander Percy and her name shows up in a book about Percy Walker page 285 "<i>The House of Percy: Honor Melancholy and Imagination in a Southern Family</i>" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994 Marie Jermaine Truslow 1871-1958 Elliott's partner was a resident of Sewanee from 1924 until she died at the age of 86 in 1958. Her death came 11 days after the death of her partner Elliott on 17 February 1958. She was listed as a friend of many years to Charlotte Elliott with whom she shared a home at Sewanee.</p><p>Truslow was born in Brooklyn New York 6 August 1871 the daughter of James Linklater Truslow and his wife the former Amelia Louise Adams both later of Summit New Jersey. Truslow became a sculptor of note and had studied in Florence Italy and Dresden Germany. She and Charlotte had been classmates at St. Catherine's School in Brooklyn before both went abroad to study. At the beginning of WWI they were both back in New York City and met again and together opened the Home Studio for young ladies interested in studying music and art. Elliot was a dramatic soprano and once was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Elliott is found advertising in the <i>New York Tribune</i> 3 Nov 1918 and the <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i> 23 Feb 1919 as a singing instructor. In 1924 the two women closed their school and moved to Sewanee where they purchased a home and were active in the cultural affairs of the community for many years. Elliott was the granddaughter of Bishop Elliot a principal founder of the University of the South at Sewanee the university where Ashby McCulloch Sutherland attended. After the death of the two women they were buried next to each other at the University Cemetery. The 1940 Census taken for Sewanee lists Truslow as "head" of the household and Charlotte's relationship to her as "friend." An earlier census in 1930 listed Charlotte as "partner" to the head of house which was Truslow.</p><p>16 letters 19 pp. 6 envelopes dated 1924-1934 of Hilyer-Deutsch-Jarrett & Co. Hilyer et al was a lumber company in San Antonio who McCulloch had business with concerning financial instruments between the parties.</p><p>14 letters 17 pp. dated 1913- 1930 mostly 1930 of several insurance companies concerning mainly the estate/policy of William Alexander Sutherland McCulloch's late son-in-law and the inheritance of her grandson Ashby McC Sutherland.</p><p>17 letters 87 pp. 12 envelopes dated 1929-1944 of Alice Caruthers Reed of Charlotte and Durham North Carolina to Lola G. McCulloch. Alice appears to be a friend of McCulloch. She was born in Mexico the daughter of a physician. Her father lived at San Antonio as did Alice before she married George L. Reed an accountant with a chemical company and moved to Virginia and then later to North Carolina.</p><p>18 letters 34 pp. 10 envelopes dated 1930-1934 of Gordon Sutherland to Lola G. McCulloch. Sutherland is the brother of McCulloch's late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland. The letters mostly concern the estate of Sutherland and the inheritance of McCulloch's grandson Ashby McC Sutherland.</p><p>16 letters 66 pp. 11 envelopes dated 1929-1943 of "Suzie" of Mexico City Mexico to Lola G. McCulloch. Suzie lives in Mexico City. She appears to be a friend of the McCulloch family.</p><p>184 letters 636 pp. 127 envelopes dated 1884-1943 incoming letters from various individuals to Lola G. McCulloch. The letters consist of correspondence from many friends and associates business or otherwise.</p><p><b>Correspondence of Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland daughter of Lola Gaylord McCulloch and Henry Ashby McCulloch</b></p><p>82 letters 388 pp. 60 envelopes dated 1906-1928 as follows:</p><p>Outgoing - 52 letters 221 pp. 31 envelopes as follows:</p><p>22 letters 115 pp. 15 envelopes dated 1906-1918 the bulk from 1914-1915. Letters written by Lolita to her parents from Mexico Washington D.C. New York NY and elsewhere.</p><p>26 letters 98 pp. 14 envelopes dated 1924-1928. Letters written by Lolita to her son Ashby McCulloch Sutherland when she was living in Mexico or visiting Canada and her son was living with Lolita's mother Lola Gaylord McCulloch in San Antonio Texas. Lolita's husband William Alexander Sutherland was working for a branch of the Bank of Montreal located in Mexico City Mexico.</p><p>4 letters 8 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1909-1910. Letters written by Lolita to others.</p><p>Incoming - 30 letters 167 pp. 29 envelopes as follows:</p><p>30 incoming letters 167 pp. written by various individuals to Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated 1913-1924. The bulk of the letters were written to Lolita in 1915 when she was living at San Antonio Texas. The letters are written by friends cousins and male romantic interests.</p><p><b>Correspondence of William Alexander Sutherland husband of Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland father of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland</b></p><p>10 letters 39 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1928-1929. Of these 11 letters there are 3 outgoing by Sutherland dated 1928-1929 and 7 incoming to him dated 1928-1929. One of the outgoing letters is to his son Ashby the other 2 are business related. The 7 incoming letters appear to be both family and business.</p><p><b>Correspondence of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland son of Lolita McCulloch and William Alexander Sutherland</b></p><p>226 letters 689 pp. 227 envelopes dated 1928-1944 as follows:</p><p>Outgoing - 177 letters 520 pp. 152 envelopes as follows:</p><p>165 letters 496 pp. 144 envelopes dated 1930-1944 written by Sutherland to his grandmother Lola G. McCulloch who became his legal guardian after the death of his parents in 1929 when he was 8 years old. Most of the letters were written by Sutherland when he was away at college at Sewanee Tennessee attending the University of the South 1938-1942 or when he was at Harvard Law 1942-1943 at Cambridge Massachusetts or in military service 1943-1944 at Soldier's Field Boston West Springfield Massachusetts or at Camp Lee Virginia and Camp Ellis Illinois.</p><p>12 letters 24 pp. 8 envelopes dated 1928-1929 written by Sutherland to his parents William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita McCulloch Sutherland. These letters were written by Sutherland when he was a child living at his grandmother's in San Antonio Texas and his parent were living in Mexico or visiting Canada.</p><p>5 letters 10 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1938-1941 written to friends or family.</p><p>Incoming - 89 letters 169 pp. 75 envelopes as follows:</p><p>89 letters 169 pp. 75 envelopes dated 1932-1944 some undated. All of these 89 letters are written to Ashby when he was either away at college or in military service or when he was on break at home in San Antonio. These letters were written classmates friends in military service college administrators as well as family aunts cousins etc. and women who were perhaps romantic interests before he finally married in the 1950s.</p><p><b>Correspondence of Celeste Gaylord Morrow Stribling</b></p><p>39 letters 173 pp. 26 envelopes dated 1908-1937 as follows:</p><p>26 letters 120 pp. 17 envelopes dated 1908-1937 written by Stribling to her sister Lola G. McCulloch.</p><p>13 letters 53 pp. 9 envelopes dated 1913-1937 written by Stribling to her mother and family members.</p><p><b>Correspondence of John Dewees Howard 1st husband of Lolita McCulloch Sutherland</b></p><p>3 letters 8 pp. 3 envelopes dated 1917-1930. Two of these letters are written to Howard; the other one is written by him to his wife Lolita McCulloch Howard later Lolita McCulloch Sutherland after she divorced Howard and remarried Sutherland.</p><p><b>Miscellaneous Letters of the McCulloch and Sutherland families</b></p><p>166 letters 363 pp. 12 envelopes dated 1867-1943. These letters are written to and from various individuals some correspondents are relatives of the McCulloch and Sutherland families others not. Some are apparent copies but not signed thus not knowing who wrote them. A number are from the 19th Century and deal with the Milton family relatives of Lola Gaylord McCulloch's mother Cornelia Bernice Milton Gaylord.</p><p><b>Address Books Diaries Expense Accounts Memorandum and Notebooks:</b></p><p>3 address books 33 42 29 pp. one measures 3 ¼" x 5 ¼" bound in black leather dated 1909 another</p><p>measures 2 ¾" x 5" flip top binding bound in calf not dated c. 1910 and the third states it belonged to "Lola B. Gaylord McCulloch San Antonio TX" and measures 4" x 6 ¼" bound in stiff black cloth.</p><p>1 diary 117 pp. measures 4 ¾" x 6" bound in crumbling leatherette dated 1926 five year diary only one year used diary mostly written in the first half of year. Diary appears to be kept by a female with a boyfriend or fiancé named "Bill."</p><p>1 diary of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland measures 5 ½" x 7" bound in puffy cheap leather dated 1 July to 2 Sep. 1935. Diary is a five year diary but our diarist only kept a couple of months in 1935.</p><p>1 diary 5 pp measures 4" x 6 ½" bound in cloth dated 1-11 Jan. 1921 possibly written by John Dewees Howard or a relative of Lolita McCulloch as it mentions Lolita and she would have been married to Howard in Jan 1921.</p><p>1 expense account book 53 pp. measures 4" x 6 ½" bound in red flexible leather dated 1910-1911 documents monthly expenses servants wages foodstuffs washing governess shoe repairs school expenses etc. Presumably the accounts of Lola Beatrice Gaylord McCulloch or her husband H. A. McCulloch.</p><p>1 notebook 12 pp. measures 4" x 6 ¾" bound in paper used by someone to keep music lesson notes not dated.</p><p>1 notebook 2 pp measures 4 ¼" x 6 ¾" bound in flexible cloth front wrapper states "H.A. McCulloch Register Silver" and contains two page lists of the "silver" owned by McCulloch silverware pots cups plates etc and the values.</p><p><b>Photographs:</b></p><p>Approximately 942 photographs various sizes from small snapshots measuring 2" x 3" to large portraits at 10" x 12" some photos from Mexico Texas California many of family members some of industry or businesses some are labeled many not some dated many not all are black and white good condition dated circa 1890-1940s but undated photos could be older. Counted within this photograph total are 20 cabinet card photos 14 cdv's 2 tin types 1 negative and two small photograph albums.</p><p><b>Ephemera:</b></p><p>Approximately 1400 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemera dated 1836-1944 with bulk being from 1910s -1940s as follows</p><p>Postcards: 129 postcards used mostly incoming postcards to Mrs. H. A. McCulloch from her grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland with several to her daughter Lolita son-in-law John Dewees Howard and to Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland from others dated c.1910-1943.</p><p>47 real photo postcards some used some not of the used cards they are dated c. 1909-1939 unused cards possibly dated earlier.</p><p>Telegrams: 49 telegrams dated c1900-1940 mostly written to H.A. McCulloch or his grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland most written to H.A. McCulloch in 1911 some were written to Sutherland when he was in college at the University of the South.</p><p><b>Manuscript & Printed Ephemera:</b></p><p>5 Certificates: National Honor Society Secondary Schools San Antonio Texas 1935; Junior High School Diploma San Antonio Texas 1937; Diploma Senior High School San Antonio Texas 1938; Membership Phi Gamma Mu Tennessee Beta Chapter University of the South 1941; Diploma from University of the South. 1942.</p><p>47 legal documents including: wills estate papers property deeds insurance policies contracts etc. of the McCulloch family dated circa 1836-1942 with most being from 1908-1942 with 9 of the documents being in Spanish and dated 1895-1929.</p><p>102 manuscript pp. various miscellaneous notes jottings recipes verse etc.</p><p>103 calling cards business cards or invitations.</p><p>80 manuscript documents related to schooling such as exams tests essays report cards circulars appearing to be of Henry Ashby McCulloch and his grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated circa 1880s-1940s.</p><p>22 medical receipts from doctors for service on Mrs. John D. Howard Lolita McCulloch Sutherland; Ashby Howard Sutherland; William A. Sutherland; Mrs. H.A. McCulloch.</p><p>84 pieces of manuscript receipts and accounts dated 1830s-1930s for McCulloch and allied families.</p><p>51 printed pieces of ephemera such as circulars advertisements brochures etc.</p><p>123 pieces of banking ephemera such as bank statements cancelled checks bank receipts etc. mostly of Mrs. H.A. Lola Gaylord McCulloch and her son Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland.</p><p>61 general receipts for clothing hotels food books Quaritch funeral taxes etc. a number of them on letterhead dated 1909-1941</p><p>75 newspaper/magazine clippings some concern McCulloch/Sutherland family such as the auto accident in Mexico that killed Alexander Sutherland.</p><p>35 typed pages various items verse translations of coded telegrams family history etc.</p><p>204 greeting cards mostly written to Mrs. H. A. McCulloch and her grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated circa 1924-1944.</p><p>168 used envelopes likely separated from letters within this collection.</p><p>Miscellaneous Ephemera: 2 pairs of Masonic white gloves; 1 Masonic apron; 1 used worn black leather wallet inscribed "E.H. Gaylord."</p>
0301781433 letters 4409 pages 647 retained mailing envelopes dated 1845 to 1944.The collection consists of five cartons of material. The collection includes letters of five generations of the McCulloch family written over the course of one hundred years starting with Major Alexander McCulloch 1779-1886 to his 3rd great grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland 1921-1998 with the bulk of the letters covering the families of Henry Ashby McCulloch his wife Lola Gaylord their daughter Lolita McCulloch and her husband William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita and William's son Ashby McCulloch Sutherland. The collection also includes 3 diaries 3 address books 2 notebooks 1 expense account book plus 942 photographs and approximately 1400 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemeral items with the bulk being from 1900s-1940s.<br /><br /><p><b>History of the McCulloch - Sutherland Families of San Antonio Texas</b></p><p>Major Alexander McCulloch and wife Francis Le Noir 1779-1866</p><p>Major Alexander McCulloch was born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. He was a graduate of Yale and an aide-de-camp to General James Coffee under General Andrew Jackson in the Creek Indian War and the War of 1812 from 1812-1815 in Alabama Georgia and New Orleans. He died in Dyer County Tennessee in August 1846.</p><p>The McCulloch family had been wealthy politically influential and socially prominent in North Carolina before the American Revolution but Alexander McCulloch had wasted much of his inheritance and was unable even to educate his sons. Two of his older sons briefly attended a school in Tennessee taught by their neighbor Sam Houston. After several moves the family settled at Dyersburg where one of their closest neighbors was David Crockett who became a great influence on Alexander's sons Henry Eustace McCulloch and his older brother Ben McCulloch who both would later become Confederate brigadier generals during the American Civil War.</p><p>Major Alexander McCulloch married Francis F. Le Noir who was born 11 April 1779 in Virginia. She was the daughter of a planter and slaveholder. Her only brother John Peterson Le Noir died in New Orleans of a wound received in a skirmish the night of 21 December 1814 while serving in the U.S. Army in the War of 1812. She came to Texas after 1846 and lived at the home of her son Captain John S. McCulloch in Ellis County until her death on 10 May 1866. She and her husband had 12 children together.</p><p>One son of Alexander and Francis was Alexander McCulloch who served in the army of Texas in 1836-37 and was an officer in the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. Another son was Benjamin McCulloch who participated in the Battle of San Jacinto as a private served in the Mexican War as a captain and was killed in the Battle of Pea Ridge Arkansas 7 March 1862 while serving as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. A third son was John S. McCulloch a captain in the Confederate Army who Francis went to Texas to live with. A fourth son and the line of McCullochs that this archive offered here descended from was General Henry Eustace McCulloch. This archive contains one letter written by Major Alexander McCulloch to his wife dated 1845.</p><p><b>General Henry Eustace McCulloch 1816-1895 and wife Jane Isabella Ashby 1822-1896</b></p><p>General Henry Eustace McCulloch was an early pioneer Texas Ranger and Confederate officer. He was born in Rutherford County Tennessee on December 6 1816. Although he played an important role in military affairs in early Texas he received fewer accolades than his more famous cohorts John S. Rip Ford John C. Jack Hays and his older brother Benjamin McCulloch. In the 1830s Ben and Henry McCulloch carried on several economic enterprises. They traveled the Mississippi River on log rafts to various markets and by the end of the decade they had moved to Gonzales to survey and locate lands. In 1839 in the political struggles at Gonzales Henry McCulloch shot and killed Reuben Ross after the latter intoxicated and obnoxious drew his pistols. The angular-featured gentle-looking McCulloch joined the Texas Rangers in the heyday of their role as citizen soldiers against Native Americans and Mexican troops. In the battle of Plum Creek in 1840 against the Comanches he scouted fought with distinction and was wounded. In addition he served as a lieutenant in Hays's rangers in their military operations against the Comanches and Mexican nationals. In 1842 in the attack on San Antonio and retreat by Mexican troops McCulloch scouted infiltrated enemy lines seeking information and participated in the battle of Salado Creek.</p><p>For the next two decades he mixed his military career with other ventures. In 1843 he was elected sheriff of Gonzales and began a merchandising career there. The following year he moved his business to Seguin. During the Mexican War and afterward he served as a captain of a volunteer company guarding the Indian frontier. He became especially adept at organizing regular ranger patrols in intervals from different camps to cover a designated area. In the early 1850s McCulloch served in the state legislature both houses from Guadalupe County and at the end of the decade he accepted an appointment as United States marshal for the Eastern District of Texas. He served as a high-ranking Confederate officer during the Civil War. As Texas left the Union he assumed command of the posts on the northwestern frontier from Camp Colorado to the Red River and used Texas secessionist troops to accept the surrender of federal forces. Given the rank of colonel by the Confederate Congress McCulloch organized the First Regiment Texas Mounted Riflemen in 1861. This body of troops slowed down penetration of the western frontier by Native Americans through a system of patrols and small-scale engagements. After promotion to brigadier general McCulloch commanded the Northern Sub-District of Texas from 1863 to the end of the war. In this role he faced the threats of Indian raids and the movement of Union forces. He also had to deal with the activities of draft dodgers deserters and bushwhackers. At one time he tried unsuccessfully to arrest William Quantrill for robbery and murder. With the war ended McCulloch went home to Seguin with an armed escort for protection against deserters who swore to take his life.</p><p>After the Civil War he remained in the limelight. In 1874 he assisted the newly elected governor Richard Coke in removing Edmund J. Davis from the executive offices. Early in 1876 as a reward for his years of service McCulloch was appointed superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum later the Texas School for the Deaf. Here his lax and inept administration brought about a legislative investigation that made him resign his position in 1879.</p><p>Henry married to Jane Isabella Ashby on 20 August 1840. She was born 17 September 1822 at Shelby Co Kentucky. She was the daughter of John Miller Ashby and Mary Harris Garnett of Kentucky who had been early settlers in the DeWitt Colony which was centered on Gonzales Texas. The couple had a number of children most of who remained in Texas.</p><p>General Henry Eustace McCulloch died on March 12 1895 at Seguin Texas and was buried in San Geronimo Cemetery. He received a full Masonic funeral having been an active freemason after the War in the Guadalupe County Lodge. His wife died the following year on 18 July 1896 at Seguin Guadalupe Co. Texas. There are 4 letters in this collection related to Henry Eustace McCulloch. Two letters are written by Henry Eustace McCulloch to his son in November 1882 and February 1895 with 2 letters written to him.</p><p><b>Henry Ashby McCulloch 1866-1913 and wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord 1871-1944</b></p><p>One of General McCulloch's sons his namesake was Henry Ashby McCulloch who was born 23 July 1866 at Rangers Horn Geronimo Guadalupe Co. Texas. He married on 18 April 1893 and died 22 January 1913 at Buenos Aires Argentina. The present collection is mainly concentrated on Henry his wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord their daughter Lolita "Lola" Beatrice McCulloch as well as Lolita's second husband William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita's son from her first marriage Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland who was adopted by Sutherland and took his stepfather's name.</p><p>Henry A. McCulloch left college in 1884 on account of a shortage of funds and thus did not graduate. From November 1884 to May 1887 he was a surveyor for state lands for Texas and the railways of the western part of the state being headquartered at El Paso. He did some work at this time in the State of Chihuahua Mexico for Davis Brothers of El Paso in 1885. For the last half of 1887 he was transit man and division engineer in charge of estimates for Mexican International Railway for Sabinas to Torreon and on preliminary survey from Torreon to Durango.</p><p>At the beginning of 1889 he was in the panhandle of Texas with William Walter Phelps Co. surveying 5000000 acre land grant in charge of two parties. He went to Mexico in 1890 for the purpose of working for the Wells-Fargo Company who he had been working with previously as a messenger at Eagle Pass Texas being responsible for communications between El Paso and Eagle Pass. In July of 1891 he was appointed "acting" route agent for Wells Fargo at Irapuato Guanajuato and later appointed as the route agent. In 1892 he was transferred to Monterrey and put in charge of all of Northern Mexico.</p><p>During 1892 he married Lola Beatrice Gaylord. And in 1895 he was appointed general route agent with headquarters in the City of Mexico and put in charge of all outside transportation business. While living in Mexico his daughter Lola Beatrice McCulloch was born in Mexico City on 16 August 1896. In 1898 he entered the service of American Surety Company as inspector and served in that capacity and as acting general manager until mid-July 1899 when he resigned because of differences between him and the company. He was immediately given a position as the general superintendent of San Marcos and Tecolutla Railway SM&T RR placed in charge of construction and operation. He stayed in this position a short time again having differences of opinions with his superiors and resigned to take a job in November 1900 with the Mexicana Railway as commercial agent staying only a brief time before taking a job again with the SM&T RR. SM&T RR was bought out by Mexican Eastern Railway. The SM&T was then leased to a corporation called Interoceanic Railway which was owned by stockholders of the Mexican Eastern Railway. McCulloch then became the General Train Master of the Interoceanic and the General Agent of the Mexican Eastern.</p><p>By 1904 he was appointed division superintendent of the Interoceanic Railway and later the same year appointed terminal superintendent for the company. Staying in Mexico he moved over to the Pan American Railroad where he was appointed the assistant general manager and became general superintendent of that company's railways in Mexico. In 1907 he was appointed general manager of Southern Railways of Peru and Dependencies under W. L. Morkill where he remained for several years before taking a position with a group of Argentine railroads. McCulloch died in Buenos Aires in 1913. </p><p>There are a 338 letters and telegrams written both to and from Henry concerning his work in Central and South America with the various railroad companies he was employed by. A number of these telegrams are multiple pages written in code then translated and sent back and forth at great expense in an attempt to keep prying eyes from what the companies were doing in the way of railroads in South America.</p><p>Henry A. McCulloch's wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord was born in October 1871 at Anderson Texas. She outlived her husband by nearly thirty years dying on 12 June 1944 at San Antonio Texas. She was buried at San Antonio's City Cemetery #1. She was the daughter of Edward Gaylord d. 1873 and Cornelia Bernice Milton 1849-1924. She is shown in the 1920 Census as living with her daughter Lolita and Lolita's first husband John Dewees Howard as well as her mother Cornelia Gaylord. Besides her grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland and her nephew William Leigh Morrow she was survived by two nieces Mrs. Sara Capers of San Antonio daughter of Eleanor Stribling Capers and Mrs. D. R. Dance of West Point New York. This archive includes 564 letters written to and from Lola Gaylord McCulloch.</p><p><b>Lolita "Lola" McCulloch 1896-1929 and William Alexander Sutherland 1895-1929</b></p><p>Lolita "Lola" McCulloch was born on 16 August 1896 at Mexico City Mexico. After the death of her father in 1913 the family moved back to San Antonio Texas. She was first married to John Dewees Howard 1895-1982 on 4 October 1916 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio Texas. Howard was the son of M. L. Howard. Her cousins Eleanor and Beatrice Stribling led the bridal party. One of the matrons was the young Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower herself recently married to the future president in July of 1916. However Lolita's marriage ended in divorce. Howard a salesman remarried and shows up in the 1930 Census as being married. He registered for the WWII draft but it is not clear if he served.</p><p>The first marriage of Lolita produced a son Ashby McCulloch Howard. After her divorce Lolita received custody of the child and then married a second time to William Alexander Sutherland on 2 June 1926. Sutherland legally adopted the boy and the boy was given his surname and was Sutherland's heir when he died unexpectedly in 1929. Lolita's second husband William Alexander Sutherland was born in 1895. He was the manager of the Monterrey Mexico branch of the Bank of Montreal and the couple's son Ashby spent his early years living at San Antonio Texas under the care of his grandmother Lola Gaylord McCulloch.</p><p>Lolita "Lola" McCulloch died on 25 March 1929 at her mother's home. She was 32 years old. She was survived by her husband William who would die in a car accident several months later her son mother an Aunt Mrs. Ben Stribling Celeste Gaylord 1874-1939 and cousins Eleanor Stribling; 1903-1985 and Mrs. D. R. Dance Beatrice Stribling 1902-1974 and William Leigh Morrow all of San Antonio. Celeste Gaylord married first Frank Morrow and second to Benjamin A. Stribling 1863-1950.</p><p>Lolita's husband William Alexander Sutherland died 23 November 1929 in a car accident at Monterrey Mexico. He had remained in Mexico after the death of his wife several months earlier. His body was taken back to San Antonio where he was buried. He was survived by a sister Mrs. Russell Cruikshank of Newcastle Canada and a brother Gordon Sutherland of Monckton Canada. There are a number of letters in the archive between Gordon Sutherland and Mrs. Lola Gaylord McCulloch concerning the estate of Gordon's brother William Alexander. William Alexander Sutherland adopted Ashby Henry Howard as his son which is evidenced by documents in the archive. Ashby became the legitimate heir of Sutherland and took his surname. This archive includes 82 letters to and from Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland and 10 letters to and from William Alexander Sutherland.</p><p><b>Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland 1921-1998</b></p><p>Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland was born on 16 March 1921 at San Antonio Texas. His father was John Dewees Howard 1895-1982 the first husband of Lolita "Lola" McCulloch. After the divorce and Lolita's marriage to William Alexander Sutherland Ashby was adopted by Sutherland as his son and given his surname. Since his parents were living in Mexico when his father was working for the Bank of Montreal's Mexico City branch Ashby stayed in San Antonio and lived with his grandmother Lola Gaylord McCulloch. He continued to live with his grandmother after the premature death of both of his parents in 1929.</p><p>Ashby graduated college in 1942 as the valedictorian from the University of the South Sewanee Tennessee and from Harvard Law School class of 1949. After wartime service in Europe as a U.S. Army officer he practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell before joining the International Nickel Co. New York INCO Ltd in 1954. He was an assistant to the general solicitor of the INCO Ltd. at the time of his marriage on 13 April 1956 to Marion Adair Ramsey.</p><p>Marion Adair Ramsey was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Howard Ramsey of Goliad Texas. She attended Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and graduated from University of Texas where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. For three years before her marriage to Sutherland she was associated with the Museum of Modern Art in New York.</p><p>The couple was married on 13 April 1956 at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York. After their marriage they made their home for some time in New York City. Ashby was with INCO until 1983 in New York Paris and Toronto serving in a variety of legal and management positions before retiring as a senior vice president and executive director.</p><p>After Ashby retired he and his family moved back to San Antonio but spent parts of his later years in Venice and San Miguel de Allende. Ashby was a member of the Knickerbocker Club and the Harvard Club of New York City. Ashby was married from 1956 to 1972 to Marion and although they divorced in 1972 they remained close friends. Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland died on 5 February 1998 after suffering for about a year with Leukemia and was buried on 9 February at City Cemetery in San Antonio. Together the couple had at least two children Howard Ramsey Sutherland of London and Ramsey Sutherland Farber of Buffalo. This archive includes 226 letters to and from Ashby McCulloch Sutherland mostly written during the time he was in undergraduate school law school or in military service.</p><p><b>Description of Collection</b></p><p>Correspondence of Alexander McCulloch his son Henry Eustace McCulloch and grandson Henry Ashby McCulloch</p><p>343 letters 743 pages 8 envelopes dated 1845-1913 as follows:</p><p>Alexander McCulloch Sr. 1 letter 2 pp. folding letter-sheet dated Huntsville 1845 written to his wife Francis.</p><p>Henry Eustace McCulloch 4 letters 10 pp. no envelopes dated 1859-1896. Of these 4 letters two were written by him to his son the other two are incoming letters. The letters to his son are dated Seguin Texas 1882 and Rockport 1896 just before he died. One of the letters addressed to him was written by his son S. L. McCulloch and dated Martindale Texas 1883 with the other incoming letter dated 6 May 1859 written by his nephew Rush McCulloch of Wilfred Texas.</p><p>Henry Ashby McCulloch approximately 338 letters 731 pp. 7 envelopes dated 1876-1913. Of these letters 174 are outgoing and 164 incoming. A number of these letters are telegrams or cablegrams some long some fairly short. They include coded cablegrams with transcriptions. These letters are almost all business related and deal with McCulloch's work in Central and South America with various railroads from 1876 up to the year that he died. About half of the letters are from 1912.</p><p><b>Correspondence of Lola Gaylord McCulloch wife of Henry Ashby McCulloch</b></p><p>564 letters 2066 pages 309 envelopes dated 1879-1944 bulk 1920s-1940s as follows:</p><p>Outgoing - 162 letters 534 pages 42 envelopes as follows:</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to her daughter Lolita 17 letters 86 pp. 6 envelopes dated 1908-1928. Some of these letters were written by Lola to her daughter Lolita when Lolita was in Montreal Canada or Corpus Christi Texas.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to her grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland 27 letters 87 pp. 23 envelopes dated mostly San Antonio Texas 1921-1943 with most letters being from 1939-1943 when he was away at college in Sewanee Tennessee at the University of the South and then later at Soldier's Field Boston Massachusetts when he was in military service.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to her sister Celeste Gaylord 4 letters 35 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1907-1913 written by McCulloch to her sister while McCulloch was either onboard a ship or in Mexico or Peru.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to Hilyer-Deutsch-Jarrett & Co. 8 letters 18 pp. 1 envelope dated 1924-1930. Hilyer et al was a lumber company in San Antonio who McCulloch had business with concerning financial instruments between the parties. McCulloch writes from her home in San Antonio as well as from Mexico.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to several insurance companies 13 letters 17 pp. dated 1930. Copies of letters written to several Canadian insurance companies by McCulloch concerning policies of her late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland for her grandson Ashby McC. Sutherland.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch to Gordon Sutherland 8 letters 11 pp. 1 envelope dated 1930-1932. Copies of letters of McCulloch concerning the estate of her late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland. Gordon Sutherland is William's brother whose estate was divided between Gordon his sister and William's son Ashby McC Sutherland.</p><p>Lola G. McCulloch outgoing letters to miscellaneous correspondents 85 letters 280 pp. 9 envelopes dated 1886-1941. Mostly copies of letters sent to various individuals or companies.</p><p>Incoming - 402 letters 1532 pages 267 envelopes as follows:</p><p>61 letters 301 pp. 43 envelopes of family letters mother cousins nieces and nephews to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1879-1944 mostly 1920s-1940s.</p><p>27 letters 43 pp. 17 envelopes of the Bank of Montreal the Union National Bank and the San Antonio Loan & Trust Co. to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1929-1940 dealing with McCulloch's finances as well as her grandson Ashby McC Sutherland who inherited half of the estate of his father William Alexander Sutherland.</p><p>6 letters 22 pp. 4 envelopes of T. A. Corry of Los Gatos California to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1936-1940. Corry appears to have been a friend of McCulloch possibly a relative also on the LeNoir branch of the family. Corry appears to have been friends with the McCulloch family through his work on Peruvian Railroads.</p><p>19 letters 198 pp. 18 envelopes of Dorothy Cruikshank of Newcastle New Brunswick Canada dated 1929-1940 to Lola G. McCulloch. Cruikshank was the sister of William Alexander Sutherland McCulloch's late son-in-law.</p><p>11 letters 37 pp. 9 envelopes of Ariana Graves Dennison wife of James Edward Dennison. Originally born in Texas she moved to Mexico City Mexico where she writes to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1929-1943. Ariana appears to have been a friend of McCulloch. James Edward Dennison was the treasurer of the American Book & Printing Company of Mexico City.</p><p>13 letters 72 pp. 10 envelopes of Charlotte St. John Elliot of Sewanee Tennessee to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1939-1943. Charlotte St. John Elliot 1870-1958 was born 24 June 1870 at Savannah Georgia to Robert W.B. and Caroline Elliott of South Carolina. Her father was a clergyman at San Antonio on the 1880 Census and this may be how Elliott came to know Lola Gaylord McCulloch. Elliott lived at Sewanee Tennessee with her lifelong companion Marie Truslow a sculptor. Charlotte was described as a "tall dignified and benevolent woman" and Truslow as "stumpy bucktoothed and vivacious." They were said to wear "long dresses black or dazzling white and heavy amber beads and pearls pendant over very ample bosoms." Elliott was friends with the southern writers Walker Percy and his cousin William Alexander Percy and her name shows up in a book about Percy Walker page 285 "<i>The House of Percy: Honor Melancholy and Imagination in a Southern Family</i>" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994 Marie Jermaine Truslow 1871-1958 Elliott's partner was a resident of Sewanee from 1924 until she died at the age of 86 in 1958. Her death came 11 days after the death of her partner Elliott on 17 February 1958. She was listed as a friend of many years to Charlotte Elliott with whom she shared a home at Sewanee.</p><p>Truslow was born in Brooklyn New York 6 August 1871 the daughter of James Linklater Truslow and his wife the former Amelia Louise Adams both later of Summit New Jersey. Truslow became a sculptor of note and had studied in Florence Italy and Dresden Germany. She and Charlotte had been classmates at St. Catherine's School in Brooklyn before both went abroad to study. At the beginning of WWI they were both back in New York City and met again and together opened the Home Studio for young ladies interested in studying music and art. Elliot was a dramatic soprano and once was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Elliott is found advertising in the <i>New York Tribune</i> 3 Nov 1918 and the <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i> 23 Feb 1919 as a singing instructor. In 1924 the two women closed their school and moved to Sewanee where they purchased a home and were active in the cultural affairs of the community for many years. Elliott was the granddaughter of Bishop Elliot a principal founder of the University of the South at Sewanee the university where Ashby McCulloch Sutherland attended. After the death of the two women they were buried next to each other at the University Cemetery. The 1940 Census taken for Sewanee lists Truslow as "head" of the household and Charlotte's relationship to her as "friend." An earlier census in 1930 listed Charlotte as "partner" to the head of house which was Truslow.</p><p>16 letters 19 pp. 6 envelopes dated 1924-1934 of Hilyer-Deutsch-Jarrett & Co. Hilyer et al was a lumber company in San Antonio who McCulloch had business with concerning financial instruments between the parties.</p><p>14 letters 17 pp. dated 1913- 1930 mostly 1930 of several insurance companies concerning mainly the estate/policy of William Alexander Sutherland McCulloch's late son-in-law and the inheritance of her grandson Ashby McC Sutherland.</p><p>17 letters 87 pp. 12 envelopes dated 1929-1944 of Alice Caruthers Reed of Charlotte and Durham North Carolina to Lola G. McCulloch. Alice appears to be a friend of McCulloch. She was born in Mexico the daughter of a physician. Her father lived at San Antonio as did Alice before she married George L. Reed an accountant with a chemical company and moved to Virginia and then later to North Carolina.</p><p>18 letters 34 pp. 10 envelopes dated 1930-1934 of Gordon Sutherland to Lola G. McCulloch. Sutherland is the brother of McCulloch's late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland. The letters mostly concern the estate of Sutherland and the inheritance of McCulloch's grandson Ashby McC Sutherland.</p><p>16 letters 66 pp. 11 envelopes dated 1929-1943 of "Suzie" of Mexico City Mexico to Lola G. McCulloch. Suzie lives in Mexico City. She appears to be a friend of the McCulloch family.</p><p>184 letters 636 pp. 127 envelopes dated 1884-1943 incoming letters from various individuals to Lola G. McCulloch. The letters consist of correspondence from many friends and associates business or otherwise.</p><p><b>Correspondence of Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland daughter of Lola Gaylord McCulloch and Henry Ashby McCulloch</b></p><p>82 letters 388 pp. 60 envelopes dated 1906-1928 as follows:</p><p>Outgoing - 52 letters 221 pp. 31 envelopes as follows:</p><p>22 letters 115 pp. 15 envelopes dated 1906-1918 the bulk from 1914-1915. Letters written by Lolita to her parents from Mexico Washington D.C. New York NY and elsewhere.</p><p>26 letters 98 pp. 14 envelopes dated 1924-1928. Letters written by Lolita to her son Ashby McCulloch Sutherland when she was living in Mexico or visiting Canada and her son was living with Lolita's mother Lola Gaylord McCulloch in San Antonio Texas. Lolita's husband William Alexander Sutherland was working for a branch of the Bank of Montreal located in Mexico City Mexico.</p><p>4 letters 8 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1909-1910. Letters written by Lolita to others.</p><p>Incoming - 30 letters 167 pp. 29 envelopes as follows:</p><p>30 incoming letters 167 pp. written by various individuals to Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated 1913-1924. The bulk of the letters were written to Lolita in 1915 when she was living at San Antonio Texas. The letters are written by friends cousins and male romantic interests.</p><p><b>Correspondence of William Alexander Sutherland husband of Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland father of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland</b></p><p>10 letters 39 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1928-1929. Of these 11 letters there are 3 outgoing by Sutherland dated 1928-1929 and 7 incoming to him dated 1928-1929. One of the outgoing letters is to his son Ashby the other 2 are business related. The 7 incoming letters appear to be both family and business.</p><p><b>Correspondence of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland son of Lolita McCulloch and William Alexander Sutherland</b></p><p>226 letters 689 pp. 227 envelopes dated 1928-1944 as follows:</p><p>Outgoing - 177 letters 520 pp. 152 envelopes as follows:</p><p>165 letters 496 pp. 144 envelopes dated 1930-1944 written by Sutherland to his grandmother Lola G. McCulloch who became his legal guardian after the death of his parents in 1929 when he was 8 years old. Most of the letters were written by Sutherland when he was away at college at Sewanee Tennessee attending the University of the South 1938-1942 or when he was at Harvard Law 1942-1943 at Cambridge Massachusetts or in military service 1943-1944 at Soldier's Field Boston West Springfield Massachusetts or at Camp Lee Virginia and Camp Ellis Illinois.</p><p>12 letters 24 pp. 8 envelopes dated 1928-1929 written by Sutherland to his parents William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita McCulloch Sutherland. These letters were written by Sutherland when he was a child living at his grandmother's in San Antonio Texas and his parent were living in Mexico or visiting Canada.</p><p>5 letters 10 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1938-1941 written to friends or family.</p><p>Incoming - 89 letters 169 pp. 75 envelopes as follows:</p><p>89 letters 169 pp. 75 envelopes dated 1932-1944 some undated. All of these 89 letters are written to Ashby when he was either away at college or in military service or when he was on break at home in San Antonio. These letters were written classmates friends in military service college administrators as well as family aunts cousins etc. and women who were perhaps romantic interests before he finally married in the 1950s.</p><p><b>Correspondence of Celeste Gaylord Morrow Stribling</b></p><p>39 letters 173 pp. 26 envelopes dated 1908-1937 as follows:</p><p>26 letters 120 pp. 17 envelopes dated 1908-1937 written by Stribling to her sister Lola G. McCulloch.</p><p>13 letters 53 pp. 9 envelopes dated 1913-1937 written by Stribling to her mother and family members.</p><p><b>Correspondence of John Dewees Howard 1st husband of Lolita McCulloch Sutherland</b></p><p>3 letters 8 pp. 3 envelopes dated 1917-1930. Two of these letters are written to Howard; the other one is written by him to his wife Lolita McCulloch Howard later Lolita McCulloch Sutherland after she divorced Howard and remarried Sutherland.</p><p><b>Miscellaneous Letters of the McCulloch and Sutherland families</b></p><p>166 letters 363 pp. 12 envelopes dated 1867-1943. These letters are written to and from various individuals some correspondents are relatives of the McCulloch and Sutherland families others not. Some are apparent copies but not signed thus not knowing who wrote them. A number are from the 19th Century and deal with the Milton family relatives of Lola Gaylord McCulloch's mother Cornelia Bernice Milton Gaylord.</p><p><b>Address Books Diaries Expense Accounts Memorandum and Notebooks:</b></p><p>3 address books 33 42 29 pp. one measures 3 ¼" x 5 ¼" bound in black leather dated 1909 another</p><p>measures 2 ¾" x 5" flip top binding bound in calf not dated c. 1910 and the third states it belonged to "Lola B. Gaylord McCulloch San Antonio TX" and measures 4" x 6 ¼" bound in stiff black cloth.</p><p>1 diary 117 pp. measures 4 ¾" x 6" bound in crumbling leatherette dated 1926 five year diary only one year used diary mostly written in the first half of year. Diary appears to be kept by a female with a boyfriend or fiancé named "Bill."</p><p>1 diary of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland measures 5 ½" x 7" bound in puffy cheap leather dated 1 July to 2 Sep. 1935. Diary is a five year diary but our diarist only kept a couple of months in 1935.</p><p>1 diary 5 pp measures 4" x 6 ½" bound in cloth dated 1-11 Jan. 1921 possibly written by John Dewees Howard or a relative of Lolita McCulloch as it mentions Lolita and she would have been married to Howard in Jan 1921.</p><p>1 expense account book 53 pp. measures 4" x 6 ½" bound in red flexible leather dated 1910-1911 documents monthly expenses servants wages foodstuffs washing governess shoe repairs school expenses etc. Presumably the accounts of Lola Beatrice Gaylord McCulloch or her husband H. A. McCulloch.</p><p>1 notebook 12 pp. measures 4" x 6 ¾" bound in paper used by someone to keep music lesson notes not dated.</p><p>1 notebook 2 pp measures 4 ¼" x 6 ¾" bound in flexible cloth front wrapper states "H.A. McCulloch Register Silver" and contains two page lists of the "silver" owned by McCulloch silverware pots cups plates etc and the values.</p><p><b>Photographs:</b></p><p>Approximately 942 photographs various sizes from small snapshots measuring 2" x 3" to large portraits at 10" x 12" some photos from Mexico Texas California many of family members some of industry or businesses some are labeled many not some dated many not all are black and white good condition dated circa 1890-1940s but undated photos could be older. Counted within this photograph total are 20 cabinet card photos 14 cdv's 2 tin types 1 negative and two small photograph albums.</p><p><b>Ephemera:</b></p><p>Approximately 1400 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemera dated 1836-1944 with bulk being from 1910s -1940s as follows</p><p>Postcards: 129 postcards used mostly incoming postcards to Mrs. H. A. McCulloch from her grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland with several to her daughter Lolita son-in-law John Dewees Howard and to Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland from others dated c.1910-1943.</p><p>47 real photo postcards some used some not of the used cards they are dated c. 1909-1939 unused cards possibly dated earlier.</p><p>Telegrams: 49 telegrams dated c1900-1940 mostly written to H.A. McCulloch or his grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland most written to H.A. McCulloch in 1911 some were written to Sutherland when he was in college at the University of the South.</p><p><b>Manuscript & Printed Ephemera:</b></p><p>5 Certificates: National Honor Society Secondary Schools San Antonio Texas 1935; Junior High School Diploma San Antonio Texas 1937; Diploma Senior High School San Antonio Texas 1938; Membership Phi Gamma Mu Tennessee Beta Chapter University of the South 1941; Diploma from University of the South. 1942.</p><p>47 legal documents including: wills estate papers property deeds insurance policies contracts etc. of the McCulloch family dated circa 1836-1942 with most being from 1908-1942 with 9 of the documents being in Spanish and dated 1895-1929.</p><p>102 manuscript pp. various miscellaneous notes jottings recipes verse etc.</p><p>103 calling cards business cards or invitations.</p><p>80 manuscript documents related to schooling such as exams tests essays report cards circulars appearing to be of Henry Ashby McCulloch and his grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated circa 1880s-1940s.</p><p>22 medical receipts from doctors for service on Mrs. John D. Howard Lolita McCulloch Sutherland; Ashby Howard Sutherland; William A. Sutherland; Mrs. H.A. McCulloch.</p><p>84 pieces of manuscript receipts and accounts dated 1830s-1930s for McCulloch and allied families.</p><p>51 printed pieces of ephemera such as circulars advertisements brochures etc.</p><p>123 pieces of banking ephemera such as bank statements cancelled checks bank receipts etc. mostly of Mrs. H.A. Lola Gaylord McCulloch and her son Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland.</p><p>61 general receipts for clothing hotels food books Quaritch funeral taxes etc. a number of them on letterhead dated 1909-1941</p><p>75 newspaper/magazine clippings some concern McCulloch/Sutherland family such as the auto accident in Mexico that killed Alexander Sutherland.</p><p>35 typed pages various items verse translations of coded telegrams family history etc.</p><p>204 greeting cards mostly written to Mrs. H. A. McCulloch and her grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated circa 1924-1944.</p><p>168 used envelopes likely separated from letters within this collection.</p><p>Miscellaneous Ephemera: 2 pairs of Masonic white gloves; 1 Masonic apron; 1 used worn black leather wallet inscribed "E.H. Gaylord."</p> books
17948725<p>Two volumes in one. Bound in early twentieth century half green morocco over green cloth boards. Five raised bands with gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. From the library of H. Bradley Martin with his modest bookplate to front pastedown. Includes Sotheby's lot-bookmark from the famous sale. As is common this volume lacks the title preliminaries to volume two. Complete with 101 attractive hand colored full-page plates. Plate 19-26 35-36 and 83-86 are bound out of order. Other than Bradley's plate no previous owners' names or other defacements.</p> Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. and Published for the Authority by R. Faulder hardcover
1867000060Colebrook Connecticut CT 1867. On offer is a superb archive of 59 original manuscript multi-generational family of diaries spanning the civil war era through the early 20th century. The Carrington Family Diaries 1867 - 1913. All 59 diaries from members of the Carrington Family of Colebrook Connecticut. The patriarch Edward Sr. wife Sarah Ann Terry Carrington sons Edward C. Jr. died in the Civil War and Edwin T. and daughters Sarah and Kate. Edward Sr. died in 1878 and Sarah Ann Terry Carrington died in 1881. Both are buried in the Colebrook Center Cemetery in Colebrook Connecticut. Sarah Ann Terry Carrington mother was the daughter of Eliphalet Terry of New York. The group breaks down as follows: Sarah Terry matriarch wife of Edwin: 11 diaries: 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877. typical diary entries; Edward Carrington Snr father of Edwin: 8 diaries: 1857 1867 1868 1869 1870 1872 1873 1874. sporadic point form entries for the most part business like records of day to day business and some personal content.; Edward Carrington Jnr: 4 diaries: 1855 1855 1857 1860. typical diary entries of an obviously young man.; Katherine Carrington a daughter: 2 diaries: 1868 1872. typical diary entries. Edwin Carrington patriarch after Edward Snr: 34 diaries: 1875 1876 1878 1879 1880 1881 1883 1884 1885 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1903 1904 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913. like the father sporadic at tmes point form entries for the most part business like records of day to day business interspersed with personal content. ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND: Lieut. Edward Carrington son was killed in the Civil War in St. Marks Florida in the Natural Bridge Conflict on March 6 1865 but the family did not get the news until March 22 1865. In 1871 the son Edwin was married to Charlotte nicknamed Lottie born April 9. 1847 and the couple moved to Scio NY. Edwin then moved to Bay City Michigan it appears in 1875. His wife and son Winny born in 1873 did not move with him to Michigan but rather stayed in Scio NY. Edwin traveled extensively on business by train and then in the later years by automobile and visited his family about every two months coupled with his business trips. Edwin was Secretary and Treasurer of the Bay City Building Company Rifle Room Company and Ausable Lumber Company in Michigan. Edwin and Lottie's son Winny died at the age of two years and eights months on 2/15/1876 and father did not make it home in time. A daughter Sarah was born in 1876; a son Eddy was born in 1877 and a daughter Gracie in 1882. Some of the earlier years have diaries from more than one member of the family. Edwin's diaries of 1875 - 1913 are both diaries as well as his business day planners. All have notations at the back of expenses and costs. As a hobby he enjoyed duck hunting. In 1901 Edwin and Lottie became grandparents by Sarah. The diaries mention both the deaths of Lincoln and McKinley. Several diaries have newspaper articles tucked at the back. One is an article about Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. There are two articles about how the Edward Carrington Sr. family made their "fortune" in 1874. THIS IS A SENSATIONAL AND UNIQUE MULTI GENERATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY THAT WOULD BE THE PRIDE AND CENTERPIECE OF ANY SERIOUS DIARY COLLECTOR. Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Manuscript. unknown
164461556Paris, P. Rocolet 1644 In-folio, plein maroquin pourpre, sur les plats double encadrements de filets classiques dorés bordés de roulettes ornées, fleurs de lys dorées aux angles de l’encadrement intérieur, lequel est empli d’un semé de fleurs de lys avec armes dorées au centre, dos à nerfs orné de caissons de semé de fleurs de lys dorées, tranches dorées rel. de l'époque, [4] ff.- 533 pp. -[4] ff. Dos restauré habillement. Vignette de Pierre Rocolet gravée sur cuivre par Briot, au f. de titre. Le frontispice gravé par Claude Mellan manque, petites galeries de vers marginales, quelques mouillures marginales.
190512728Various locations in Maryland and Delaware 1905. Autobiography: 11a341pp. typescript carbon on yellow paper marked "COPY" at head of first page. Two pages with long corrected sections stapled to original leaves occasional emendations in type. Minor edge wear. Very good. Family Bible: various paginations plus numerous plates and with seven 19th-century photographs at rear in the "Family Portraits" section. Square folio. Original black leather and gutta percha stamped in gilt and blind. Some scuffing edge wear and soiling to boards. Occasional soiling and wear internally with some portions of text and portrait pages at rear chipped and/or detached. Rear hinge separated. Good condition. An amazing collection consisting of a carbon typescript of a previously unknown and unpublished autobiography a family Bible with manuscript notations and original photographs memorializing Howard Talbot Jason and his family. The Jasons were a prominent African American family in Maryland and Delaware in the 19th and 20th centuries whose members included prominent ministers physicians and educators. Howard Talbot Jason 1867-1955 was educated at the oldest HBCU in the country Pennsylvania's Lincoln University and worked as an educator Presbyterian missionary and minister.<br /> <br /> Much more will now be known about Howard Talbot Jason due to the present typescript autobiography. From contextual clues the work was evidently transcribed by his daughter Grace Jason Perry likely from Howard's handwritten original which may still reside within the Jason family or more likely has been lost to history. Howard's autobiography begins with his birth in Easton Maryland and some background information on his slave-born father William. Sadly Howard had "no particular remembrance" of his mother who died when he was six. He then details some events of his childhood his early working life as a waiter fisherman laborer and barber his education at "a school for colored boys not far from my town of Hockessin Delaware" and Lincoln University and his time serving as a missionary in Puerto Rico where among other things he experiences "Jim Crowism". In fact Howard's autobiography is mostly concerned with his time at Lincoln and his missionary work in Puerto Rico when his account concludes unfinished and in mid-sentence on page 34. A few notes from his daughter Grace are typed out on the last page as she has "not been able to figure out just where this belongs in Dad's autobiography." The work covers Howard Talbot Jason's life from birth to about 1905 constituting roughly the first half of his life. We know of no other extant copies of this autobiography though we cannot count out the possibility that other examples may reside with Jason family descendants. In any case the emergence of this work provides a phenomenal new understanding of an important African American figure in Maryland and Delaware.<br /> <br /> The autobiography is accompanied by an informative family Bible kept by various members of the prominent Jason family namely Howard Talbot Jason. The Bible was gifted to Howard Talbot Jason in 1894 by his father William Jason evidenced by the gift inscription on the front flyleaf. Three pages between the Old and New Testaments listing details of marriages births and deaths provide critical information on the Jason family beginning with the marriage of William Jason 1831-1929 and Mary E. Wing 1839-1873 on December 16 1858. Three other marriages are recorded between 1883 and 1894. The "Births" page records the birthdays of nine members of the Jason family between 1831 and 1872. The next page records the deaths of ten Jason family members between 1866 and 1955 the latter being the death of the aforementioned Howard Talbot Jason. The Jasons lived around Easton and Trappe Maryland and later in other locations in Delaware and Pennsylvania.<br /> <br /> In addition to the life details of the various Jason family members the Bible also houses seven 19th-century photographs in the rear. This includes six CDVs and one tintype featuring five men and two women almost certainly picturing Jason family members. Most are housed securely inside oval windows but two display photographic studio information both from Philadelphia photographers. One of the photographs seems to picture William C. Jason Sr. 1859-1943. He appears to be the most notable among the family members here. William C. Jason Sr. was a barber and printer in his youth then later a Methodist minister educator and second president of Delaware's State College for Colored Students now known as Delaware State University. He is also the namesake of Jason Beach a formerly-segregated stretch of recreational shoreline for African Americans located in Trap Pond State Park outside Laurel Delaware where there is a historical marker about him.<br /> <br /> The Bible was apparently retained by a member of the family after Howard Talbot Jason who provides an additional notation in more modern blue ballpoint ink beneath the original gift inscription stating that "Howard Talbot Jason also had three brothers named William Ernest and Alonzo." This same family member also laid in a note about various siblings of Lena Bertha Wright Jason dated in 1989 a substantial collection of her personal papers reside at Harvard. Family Bibles retained by African-American families in the 19th and 20th centuries are rarely encountered in the marketplace. And though marked as a copy it is possible even likely that the typescript of Howard Talbot Jason's life is a unique survival of an as-yet-unknown African American autobiography. unknown
1883Original with family inscriptions. Wooden Case. Very Good. Original wooden case for a brass set of scales used by Dr. David Townsend during the battle of Bunker Hill and other events requiring medical attention during and after the American Revolutionary War. unknown
1711002657Lugduni Batavorum (Leide, Leyde), Apud Petrum Van der Aa, Bibliopolam, 1711 In-folio (41 x 27 cm), (1) ff., 15 pp., (8) pp., veau marbré, dos à six nerfs orné, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, triple filet à froid entourant les plats, double filet doré sur les coupes, tranches rouges (reliure d'époque). Illustré d'un frontispice, un portrait de l'auteur, 1 vignette de titre, 4 vignettes dans le texte, et 60 planches gravées. Première édition en latin du "Cabinet des raretés de l'île d'Amboine" (Amboinsche Rariteitkamer), publié en hollandais en 1705 ; l'auteur, atteint de cécité, est ici représenté dans son cabinet. Précieux exemplaire provenant de la famille de Charles de MONTESQUIEU, de la bibliothèque du Château de la Brède, avec l'ex-libris des Secondat, barons de la Brède et de Montesquieu, "Virtutem Fortuna Secondat, Ex Bibliotheca Bredanense", et les initiales C. M. à l'encre. Bel exemplaire. // Folio (41 x 27 cm), (1) ff., 15 pp., (8) pp., marbled calf, spine tooled raised on six bands, red morocco title label, triple blind fillet borders on covers, double gilt fillet on turns-in, red edges (contemporary binding). Illustrated with a frontispiece, a portrait of the author, 1 vignette on title, 4 vignettes in the text, and 60 engraved plates. First edition in latin of the "Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet" (Amboinsche Rariteitkamer), first published in german in 1705 ; the author, blind, is here depicted in his office. Precious copy from Charles de MONTESQUIEU family, from the "Château de la Brède" library, with the book-plate of the Secondat, barons de la Brède et de Montesquieu "Virtutem Fortuna Secondat , Ex Bibliotheca Bredanense", and initials C. M. hand-written. Fine copy (Nissen ZBI 3520)
Folio, First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece in mezzotint by John Faber, title in red and black, fine engraved dedication [to Arthur Onslow], 3 fine engraved portraits, 7 engraved plates of architectural details, illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text, and several fine engraved head- and tail-pieces, small worm-hole in blank margin of first dozen or so leaves, small, neat twentieth-century signature on front free endpaper, age-stain on bottom blank margin of frontispiece; strongly bound in contemporary full calf, sides with double frame border in gilt, expertly rebacked in calf to style, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartments with red leather label lettered and dated in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean, crisp copy in sympathetically restored period binding. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE MARQUESS OF ORMONDE AND OSSORY AND BEARS HIS FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. With the 'Directions to Bookbinder' leaf (which is sometimes missing) and several relevant cuttings loosely inserted. The plates are by Thorowgood, Vandergucht and Mynde. One of the earliest biographies of Sir Christopner Wren, and a primary source of information about his life and works, Parentalia was compiled originally by his son Christopher who, however, died before the work was finished; it was subsequently completed and published published by Wren's grandson Stephen. As a biography of an English architect, the work is preceded only by the account of Inigo Jones prefixed to the second edition of 'Stoneheng Restor'd' (1725). EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Thomson, p.182.
16192607n.p. 1619. Early 17th-century account ledger of Giulio Cesare and Luco Spinola two brothers of the Genoese patrician family recording debts and credits over a period beginning in 1619 and ending in 1631. Information about individual debts is registered at the top of each page with ample blank space underneath for successive transactions relating to the debt. Other pages are filled with tables recording transactions in a given period of time pertaining to different debtors and creditors. Although the book was evidently begun in 1619 some of the entries record transactions dating back to 1599. The entries are written in a single neat hand which only occasionally turns into a hasty scrawl. Six loose leaves inserted into the pages contain records of transactions from 1599 to 1630. The brothers were evidently responsible for the finances of their mother Lamilla whose name appears frequently as well as their sisters. One of them Luiggia born Livia was in a convent while the other Benedetta had her dowry managed by her brother until her marriage to her cousin Paris Salvago. Reflecting the Spinola familys twin spheres of influence in Genoa and Naples both places appear in the transactions with somewhat more mentions of Naplesprobably an indication of the focus of Giulio Cesare and Lucos business interests and a plausible explanation for why their accounting ledger should be bound in such a splendid Spanish-Neapolitan binding. Folio manuscript 25 x 35 cm consisting of 119 numbered leaves and 70 blank leaves; 6 loose folded leaves. Contemporary black morocco wallet binding most likely Neapolitan or Spanish elaborately and densely tooled with original morocco reinforcements with decorative red stitching on lower edge i.e. spine; some minor worming and abrasion. Vellum title shows minor soiling and so do extremities of scattered leaves but generally in an excellent state of preservation. hardcover
141846N.p.: N.p. 1970. Archive of 16 photographs seven double weight and ten single weight of rock performers circa the late 1960s and early 1970s. Struck by photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s most with his stamp and manuscript identification number on the verso. <br /> <br /> Artists represented include Bob Dylan The Rolling Stones The Who Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell Sly and the Family Stone Santana Jim Morrison Tina Turner The Allman Brothers Band including standalone shots of Duane Allman and others. The Santana photos are especially notable as the band already a live sensation is performing at Woodstock just ahead of the release their first album. <br /> <br /> As a photographer for both record labels and magazines such as "Rolling Stone" Jim Marshall was one of the most prolific and influential chronicles of rock music during the 1960s and 1970s. Among his most iconic photographs are images of Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire at Monterey Pop Johnny Cash performing at San Quentin and The Beatles backstage at their final live concert at Candlestick Park. In 2014 he was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy the only photographer to be so honored. <br /> <br /> Photographs variously 5 x 7 inches and 8 x 10 inches. Fine overall. <br /> <br /> For details please inquire. N.p. unknown
16192607n.p. 1619. Early 17th-century account ledger of Giulio Cesare and Luco Spinola two brothers of the Genoese patrician family recording debts and credits over a period beginning in 1619 and ending in 1631. Information about individual debts is registered at the top of each page with ample blank space underneath for successive transactions relating to the debt. Other pages are filled with tables recording transactions in a given period of time pertaining to different debtors and creditors. Although the book was evidently begun in 1619 some of the entries record transactions dating back to 1599. The entries are written in a single neat hand which only occasionally turns into a hasty scrawl. Six loose leaves inserted into the pages contain records of transactions from 1599 to 1630. The brothers were evidently responsible for the finances of their mother Lamilla whose name appears frequently as well as their sisters. One of them Luiggia born Livia was in a convent while the other Benedetta had her dowry managed by her brother until her marriage to her cousin Paris Salvago. Reflecting the Spinola familys twin spheres of influence in Genoa and Naples both places appear in the transactions with somewhat more mentions of Naplesprobably an indication of the focus of Giulio Cesare and Lucos business interests and a plausible explanation for why their accounting ledger should be bound in such a splendid Spanish-Neapolitan binding. Folio manuscript 25 x 35 cm consisting of 119 numbered leaves and 70 blank leaves; 6 loose folded leaves. Contemporary black morocco wallet binding most likely Neapolitan or Spanish elaborately and densely tooled with original morocco reinforcements with decorative red stitching on lower edge i.e. spine; some minor worming and abrasion. Vellum title shows minor soiling and so do extremities of scattered leaves but generally in an excellent state of preservation. hardcover books
1800LD4931c. 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Half brown cloth and morocco gilt-stamped lettering on spine; oblong Folio; with 15 signed pencil drawings on paper about 315x485 mm each mounted on heavy cardstock with caption handwritten in French in ink in lower margin of mount. Circa 1800 with hand-lettered title-page indicating that this collection was mounted and bound in 1930. Cloth blistered; drawing paper a bit toned with some faint foxing here and there. <br/><br/>These extraordinary historical scenes by Chatillon trace the births deaths marriages and battles of the Earls of Shrewsbury from the First Earl John Talbot 1390-1453 an important English military commander during the Hundred Years War to Francis Talbot 1623-1667 the 11th Earl who met his more scandalous end in a duel with the Second Duke of Buckingham. John Talbot distinguished himself for his bravery in battle and is believed to have fought alongside Henry IV in the famous Battle of Shrewsbury 1403 in which King Henry IV defeated a rebel army led by Henry "Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland. The battle serves as the climax for William Shakespeare's "Henry IV Part One" and John Talbot appears with speaking lines in "Henry VI Part One." The Countess of Auvergne remarks of him "Is this the scourge of France / Is this the Talbot so much feared abroad / That with his name the mothers still their babes" The Battle of Shrewsbury is also the first in which English archers fought each other on English soil and archers are featured in the battle scenes illustrated here -- alongside armored horses waving flags the stern expressions of the valiant and the agonized faces of the wounded. The scope and intricacy of these drawings is difficult to capture with language -- no detail is left unrecorded from the coat of arms on a shield to the embroidery on a wedding dress the vaulted arches of a church the sinews of dog the teeth of horse gnashing its bit. A must-see please inquire for images or a complete list of captions. hardcover
1800LD4931c. 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Half brown cloth and morocco gilt-stamped lettering on spine; oblong Folio; with 15 signed pencil drawings on paper about 315x485 mm each mounted on heavy cardstock with caption handwritten in French in ink in lower margin of mount. Circa 1800 with hand-lettered title-page indicating that this collection was mounted and bound in 1930. Cloth blistered; drawing paper a bit toned with some faint foxing here and there. <br/><br/>These extraordinary historical scenes by Chatillon trace the births deaths marriages and battles of the Earls of Shrewsbury from the First Earl John Talbot 1390-1453 an important English military commander during the Hundred Years War to Francis Talbot 1623-1667 the 11th Earl who met his more scandalous end in a duel with the Second Duke of Buckingham. John Talbot distinguished himself for his bravery in battle and is believed to have fought alongside Henry IV in the famous Battle of Shrewsbury 1403 in which King Henry IV defeated a rebel army led by Henry "Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland. The battle serves as the climax for William Shakespeare's "Henry IV Part One" and John Talbot appears with speaking lines in "Henry VI Part One." The Countess of Auvergne remarks of him "Is this the scourge of France / Is this the Talbot so much feared abroad / That with his name the mothers still their babes" The Battle of Shrewsbury is also the first in which English archers fought each other on English soil and archers are featured in the battle scenes illustrated here -- alongside armored horses waving flags the stern expressions of the valiant and the agonized faces of the wounded. The scope and intricacy of these drawings is difficult to capture with language -- no detail is left unrecorded from the coat of arms on a shield to the embroidery on a wedding dress the vaulted arches of a church the sinews of dog the teeth of horse gnashing its bit. A must-see please inquire for images or a complete list of captions. hardcover books
2595Sans lieu, ni mention de fabricant (fabrication artisanale sur mesure), sans date (circa début XXe siècle). Dimensions du théâtre seul : 100,5 x 64,5 x 41 cm ; théâtre monté avec tissu : 210 x 175 x 41 cm. Cet exceptionnel « jouet », entièrement démontable, n’est pas un simple théâtre de marionnettes pour enfants. Il a été spécialement conçu pour s’adapter aux fonds de scènes et coulisses de la série du Grand Théâtre Nouveau éditée par l’Imagerie Pellerin quelques années plus tôt. Un soin particulier a été apporté aux détails ornementaux, inspirés des plus beaux théâtres à l’italienne : des loges ont été placées sur les côtés et de multiples décors en métal doré entourent la scène… qui est éclairée par plusieurs petites ampoules ! En effet, le théâtre est électrifié afin que les spectateurs puissent pleinement profiter de la représentation. Sur le côté, une manivelle permet de faire monter et descendre un rideau peint sur une toile. Afin d’encadrer le théâtre et de dissimuler les manipulateurs des figurines, on peut suspendre un grand tissu en velours jaune orné de pans symétriques de toile rouge (faisant office de rideaux), qu’un système de cordes permet de plisser. L’ensemble comporte également : - 12 sujets (en plâtre, cire, papier mâché, textile et bois), que l’on suspend grâce à un fil de fer (un cuisinier, un lion, 2 pingouins, un ramoneur, un Père Noël, un personnage féminin et 5 masculins). - 3 livres miniatures (accessoires de scène)- une dizaine de décors différents (fonds et coulisses), découpés et montés sur cartons - 10 ampoules d’origine - Un petit projecteur pour l’arrière de la scène - des programmes et tapuscrits originaux pour deux spectacles présentés au milieu des années 20 : La Revue Déchaînée et Nuit Blanche. Ces charmant « programmes officiels », empreints d’humour et agréablement illustrés à la main, en couleurs, par un certain « Pigemoiça », ont été rédigés par Luap Noterbel et Lechim Noterbel, soit Paul et Michel Lebreton. Il s’agit probablement des heureux propriétaires du théâtre. Fils d’un fabricant de chaînes, Lebreton (& Usdin), ils vantent les mérites de l’entreprise paternelle dans la partie « réclame » de leur publication.
18299273Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1829 - 1833 ; 2 tomes reliés en 3 volumes in-folio atlantique (53 x 35,3 cm) ; demi-chagrin maroquiné à coins grenat, dos à nerfs soulignés de filets fins à froid, titre doré en lettres majuscules, filets à froid sur les plats, armes poussées à froid sur le premier plat de chaque volume, ex-libris Belton House (Grande-Bretagne), tête dorée, tranches juste ébarbées (reliure de l’époque) ; [4], 4, 9, [1 bl.], 50 pp. ; [4], pp.51-143, [1 bl.] pp.; [4], 143, [1bl.] pp. et en tout 254 lithographies hors-texte tirées sur Chine contrecollé sur vélin fort (quelques unes le sont directement sur la feuille), par Taylor, Fragonard, Eugène Isabey (17), Jorand, Deroy, Bourgeois, Sabatier, Bouton, Jaime, Athalin, Adam, J.D. Harding, Dauzats, Daguerre, Regnier, Brascassat, Ciceri, Bichebois, Tirpenne, Goré, Nouveaux, Villeneuve, Hubert, Monthelier, Alcaux, etc... ; 15 dessins in-texte lithographiés, 3 grandes lettrines de style celtique.
