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1875000851Tippecanoe Indiana IN. Good. 1875. On offer is an original archive of handwritten Pearson family correspondence seventeen 17 letters in total most with covers some covers with letters absent dating from 1870s through early 1900s. For the most part the letters are to Hannah Pearson and a few to Warren Pearson. Incoming mail from far-flung family includes Arkansas Alaska Ohio to Tippecanoe Indiana. There are two trade letters most notably from Recreation Magazine the early precursor of the Boy Scouts of America. Overall VG.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA ALS ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES CIVIL WAR ERA WAR BETWEEN THE STATES CONFEDERACY CONFEDERATE INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS MARION OIL INDUSTRY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT . unknown
19170001285SPEEDSVILLE NEW YORK. Good. 1917. On offer is an original manuscript diary handwritten by a 45 year old woman still living with her parents in or near Speedsville New York in Franklin County. The writer mentions some possible clues as to who she is: "December 25th 1923. The family Xmas dinner was enjoyed at Laura's. Those present were; Frank Laura and Bernice Lant Paul Alice and Laura Mayor and father Mother and Sister Lewis. We enjoyed a fine dinner and nicely remembered with gifts." Certainly this appears to be a daughter or sister 'in-law' to the Lewis family. Local collectors and historians will have many clues as she also states that on January 21st 1918 her mother turns 64 and on January 22nd same year her father turns 69. She also maintains a super genealogical section with many generations of specific details. Here are some snippets of this 96 page diary: 1917 "December 25th Christmas day once again. Father met Laura and family in Berkshire yesterday p.m. Brought them home to stay till this p.m. The weather mild and seasonable with good sleighing. We enjoyed a good but simple dinner. The following were at table. Father mother Flora Laura Frank Alice Bernice Aunt Emma and Mr. Baker. After enjoying the good things to eat the table was cleared and then our little gifts exchanged the money value not great but they were rich in love and all good wishes. Which are the most satisfactory of this life." "December 26th The men began ice cutting today by the covered bridge. Ice 10 inches. Mrs. Stinerd called this p.m. brought her xmas gifts to show me including knitting bag. Growing colder tonight." 1918 "January 18th Today is the first of five days shut down in all industries by order of government to relieve the fuel situation. We are having weather around the zero mark continuously." "February 2nd Wind and snow. 30 below tonight. Clear today. This month begins food regulations according to government orders. Mon. & Wed's wheatless days Tues meatless Friday porkless. One meal each day wheatless. Can buy only a certain amount of wheat flour and must buy at the same time as much of some other cereal product. All bakers must make war bread. The nation is also on short rations of fuel and sugar." "March 3rd Alice left us this morning at 9:15 to meet her people in Berkshire to return home. Seems lonesome without her. Wish we might have kept her longer. Services in St. John's today. Mr. Nanz kindly loaned me a book to read "Meditations for every day in the year". I have been reading it and like it very much ." "May 29th Miss Root came today to make us a visit. She and mother went to Red Cross meeting this p.m. Raining tonight. Mrs. Lipsett and Mr. Hobson returned to their home from spending winter in N.Y. City. F. Maynard sold his farm to Mr. Holtman." "June 5th All boys reaching the age of 21 years since June 5th 1917 must today register for miller orders. In Tompkins Co. Today is house cleaning day. Hired woman and two paper hangers. Ma went to Ber. tonight with Louis and Lydia." "August 8th Old Home Day in Speedsville Park. I spent the day with Mrs. Lipsett as in former years. The weather was perfect till after the gathering broke up. Than a hard thunder shower came up." September 5th This afternoon the funeral services for Mrs. Harry Boyer two o'clock at the house. Pa ma and F.B. attended. She was 45 years of age. Been ill quite some time. Left home only a week ago to Endicott Hospital. Aunt Jane came down here this forenoon. I have been ill in bed all day from sick headache. Raining tonight." "September 12th Raining. Today all men between 18-45 who are not already registered must register for military or government work as needed for to help win the war." "October 16th All day meeting of the Red Cross at Mrs. Leggs. Spanish influenza raging everywhere." "November 5th 7th 9th and 11th Election. A nice and sunny day. Pa been to Berkshire this the first election for the women to vote. Alfred Smith elected Governor of New York .The Lant family and party started for Florida today by auto. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Jordan a son Gilbert Ephriam Jordan .Mr. Pierce and family have moved into Mr. Meeks red house. This their first night there. Mr. Thompkins and family have moved during the week in with their son Leonard. Mr. Nanz called this p.m. Germany surrendered. Great celebrations everywhere." 1919 "January 22nd Pa's 70th birthday. The last evening party was to celebrate for him also. Their 65-70 birthday's have been a nice and pleasant one for them. Mrs. Lipsett brought them a cake and beautiful white narcissus. Laura wrote them a letter enclosing views of Daytona Florida where they are now staying. Edith Hulsander sent them a card Mrs. Stinerd gave a set of soup plates and Louise G. brought them some of her birthday cake. This is quite a lot of January birthdays. Thurston the 17th Louise the 20th Ma's the 21st Pa's the 22nd and Maud J. the 25th." "February 10th & 12th The funeral of Joseph Phillips aged 57 tumor on brain cause of death. Burial at West Slaterville .The funeral of Miss Mary Osborn aged 78. Service at Universalist Church. Burial at Jinksville." "May 13th My birthday was nicely remembered again this year by loving friends having received a box of lovely violets a collection of shells 4 letters box candy glass of orange conserve and a book The Story of Waitstill Baxter." "August 24th Sunday. Laura Frank and the girls came over this morning and took us up to Caanan sic. We looked over the old homes ate our dinner on the porch of our old house. Called on friends. Came home in a thunder shower." "October 8th Hard freeze last night. Ma feeling better. Lena came down a little while this p.m. Today begins the great transcontinental contest. Airplanes have been flying over all day. Saw my first." Collectors and local historians will be appreciative as she mentions many names: Arthur Boyer Meeks Patch's Store Stinerd Coleman's Hall Blackman Chafee Mildred Freeland Legg Edna Maynard Goodrich Comstock Eighmy Frank Yaple Pangburn Lant Dr. Heaton Arch Deacon Hagerman Josephine Jordan Lipsett Hattie Yoeman Roy Franklin Harry Zimmer Ethel Nichols Doughty Foster Rena Mae Harris and more. The diary was kept in a 3 ¾" x 6" black tablet that is G.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; WOMENS STUDIES PRE SUFFRAGE WESTERN NEW YORK CENTRAL NEW YORK GENDER STUDIES WORLD WAR I HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . unknown
19732090202122600301Fukutakeshoten 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Fukutakeshoten paperback
76371aafin-folio, 20 pièces en tout (18 pièces manuscrites sur papier, 1 sur parchemin et 1 enveloppe avec 6 cartes postales imprimées) avec un plan cadastral en couleur dessiné à la main, plusieurs documents avec timbres ou sceaux sous papier,
269861895 1897 1897. A. A Bibliography of the Works of The Brontë Family Brontë Society Publications Part 1 Printed January 1895 34 pp. 8vo light brown wraps some damage and staining around staples small stain to other edge mainly good; B. A Chronology of the Principal Events in the Lives of the Brontë Family Bronte Society Publications PART V Printed March 1897 light brown wraps 11pp. 8vo shadow round edge mainly good. C. A Supplement to the Bibliography of the Works of The Bronte Family containing a list of Books and Magazines not included in the previous portion Bronte Society Publications Part VI light brown wraps 19pp. good condition. All apparently scarce. 1895, 1897, 1897. paperback
190444684<p>London : Chatto & Windus / Exeter : James G. Commin 1904. A "new and complete" library edition : limited to 600 numbered sets. "The most curious papers of the sort I ever saw" - the extraordinary treasure trove of the letters and papers of several generations of the Paston family of Norfolk and London chronicling their lives tribulations successes and failures as they rose from humble beginnings to high society - "They are the richest source there is for every aspect of the lives of gentlemen and gentlewomen of the English middle ages . The history of the family in the fifteenth century is theirs alone" ODNB. Although collections of the letters had appeared from 1787 onwards this edition with nearly 1100 letters and papers edited by James Gairdner 1828-1912 of the Public Record Office was much the most comprehensive to appear until modern times. Six volumes. Demy 8vo 218 x 157mm. Bound in a smart mid-twentieth-century half blue crushed morocco banded and gilt; top edges gilt; spines just a touch darkened but a very good set - clean and sound. With the nautical bookplate of the notable collector George G. Stevenson in each volume.</p> London : Chatto & Windus / Exeter : James G. Commin, 1904. hardcover
199037226Sotheby's 1990. "Day of sale Tuesday 3rd July 1990 at 11.00 am in the large gallery 34-35 New Bond Street London W1." Parts 1 & 2. Many full colour illustrations throughout both volumes. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Folio. Sotheby's Hardcover
18832090502126803273Hakumon Head Office Ginza Tokyo 1883. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Hakumon Head Office (Ginza, Tokyo) paperback
18992111902160200719Koshinbi name book publishing office 1899. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Koshinbi name book publishing office paperback
19752110502150600162Fukutakeshoten 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 5 Fukutakeshoten paperback
3733793<p>Massachusetts likely Boston ca. late 18th to early 19th c. 14 x 11 inches. Watercolor ink pencil gouache highlights on a sheet of laid 18th c. paper very browned and mounted to a thin wooden backing. jnsbjc367325</p> <p>Watercolor arms were produced by a number of New England painters but the most prolific of the post-Revolutionary heraldic artists was John Coles Sr. 1749-1809 and his son John Coles Jr. 1778–1854 who studied with Frothingham under Gilber Stuart. The Senior Coles first appears in the Boston directories in 1796 as a “Heraldry Painter†but he was also a printer and publisher of engravings. From 1806-1807 he was located at 61 Newberry Street. Coles Jr. began his career in 1803. Nina Fletcher Little; American Antiquarian Society</p> <p>The present coat-of-arms was accomplished for the Hammonds of Massachusetts. It is unlike any other coat-of-arms we have seen for the Hammonds in America. The fronds or “cornstalks†are almost identical to those drawn by the Coles. See our example of the coat-of-arms for the Nickerson family also of Massachusetts for comparison. </p> <p>The arms may have been partly-derived from an English origin or completely made up from whole cloth by the Coles. Depicted on the gold-decorated shield of the coat of arms are a cross bearing a single fleur-de-lis and lion heads in each quadrant. The crest depicts the Great Seal of the United States atop a knight’s helmet. Supporting elements include two additional eagle heads in gold the “Cole†fronds in green additional vegetation in red and a banner with the legend “By the Name of Hammond.â€</p> <p>The likely patron for this coat-of-arms is Samuel Hammond 1748–1842 a Boston Tea Party participant cited in a recent article: “In 1773 he was 25 when he participated in the Boston Tea Party and a small quantity of tea accidentally lodged in his boot.†</p> <p>The Coles’s watercolor may have sought to re-brand the Massachusetts Hammond branch as a newly-minted and distinctly American family using the American eagle in the crest to mythologize Samuel Hammond’s role in the American Revolution.</p> <p>“Samuel Hammond was born in 1748 in Newton Mass. and was a ‘teamer’ meaning that he owned a team of horses and several wagons that could carry goods between Boston and neighboring towns and later a farmer in Vermont. In 1770 he married Mary née Rogers and had three children. In 1773 he was 25 when he participated in the Boston Tea Party and a small quantity of tea accidentally lodged in his boot. In the late 1770s he and his family moved north and were one of the founding settlers of Wardsboro where he died in 1842.†accessed online per “Wardsboro man honored as part of Boston Tea Party anniversary†and via Brattleboro Reformer. See Falk.</p> unknown
191264208Portland & Astoria OR & Knappton WA: J.F. Ford Photographer ca. 1912. Four silver gelatin photographs sized 6.5 x 8.5 in. mounted on thick gray studio boards sized 9 x 11 in. nearly all w/ negative number and photographer’s signature in the negative at lower margin all four w/ register marks in pencil at corners for printing second photo w/ original pencil drawing of kitchen and brick oven on verso old repair to 1 broken corner w/ tape minor scuffing edgewear slight overexposure still VG set of images from the library of Anna Alatalo Huntus 1901-1978 Finnish-American whose family emigrated into Boston from Finland in 1905 then to Michigan Washington and Oregon. These four outstanding images offer an excellent view of Finnish-Americans logging along the Columbia River in the decade preceding World War I. These images capture the massive logs being prepared for the sawmill in operation atop a massive wooden platform; a steam donkey in operation hauling the log apparently rolling in motion while logger in caulked boots spot it. This was possibly one of the R.C. Bell who owned a number of small logging operations in Washington and Oregon along the Columbia River including the Campbell Lumber company the Columbia Logging Company the Kalama Lumber Company North Bank Logging Company Grungstad Lumber Company and the Chinook Lumber Company. H.B.A. Logging Company boomed during demand for timber during World War I but after a fire in 1919 caused the company to shut down for a few months it incurred massive debts which eventually forced Bell and the company into Court after Bell retired in 1920. Knappton Cove WA was the site of the historic Columbia River Quarantine Station which after completion in 1900 provided disinfection facilities for incoming ships and an isolation hospital for passengers suffering from infectious diseases. All vessels arriving from foreign ports were required to pass through quarantine before unloading or loading cargo and/or proceeding up the Columbia River to Portland. Alatalo 1882-1947 had emigrated on the SS Saxonia into Boston from Uleaborg Finland by 1905 worked as miner and logger in Hancock Michigan then moved his family to the thriving Finnish-American community along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest after 1910. Ford 1862-1914 was an avid professional photographer and evangelist who became a pastor in the Pacific Northwest conducting revivals in Ilwaco WA in the early 1890s. His photographs documenting logging operations practices and scenic views along the Columbia River embraced nearly every camp and fishing district along the river. He also operated a studio in Portland from 1900 to 1908. These images are amongst those taken in the last couple years before his death. J.F. Ford, Photographer, hardcover
30397<p>863 letters 2569 manuscript pp. dated 1910-1959 with 317 pieces of ephemera including postcards telegrams calling cards invitations printed material documents manuscript notes newspaper clippings greeting cards used envelopes etc.</p><p> The correspondence in this collection includes but is not limited to the following: 223 incoming letters to Lieut. Alexander Dennett father of Lieut. Comdr. Ralph E. Dennett many from his son Ralph; 40 outgoing letters of Elizabeth Dennett wife of Ralph E. Dennett to her father-in-law Alexander Dennett; 235 outgoing letters of Ralph E. Dennett mostly to his father or sons and 307 incoming letters to him; Lieut. Armistead Dennett son of Ralph E. Dennett 45 outgoing letters and 8 incoming letters mostly to his father or brother; William Dennett brother of Ralph E. Dennett 12 outgoing letters to their father Alexander Dennett; and Midshipman William A. Dennett son of Ralph E. Dennett 32 outgoing letters and 284 incoming letters many from his father and brother as well as friends and associates. </p><p> The remaining letters and many of the incoming letters to the Dennett's are written to and from family members friends or associates of the Dennett family including Louise Howard Dennett wife of Armistead Dennett and her mother Jill Noble Howard of Round Bay Maryland; "Bunny" Daigle Dennett wife of William A. Dennett and her mother Mrs. L. Daigle of Portsmouth New Hampshire; Dr. John Dennett of Phoenix Arizona an uncle; as well as friends of William A. Dennett: Edmond C. Tarbold Lydia Sawyer Florence A. Paul and Lois S. Gimmi; and friends of Ralph E. Dennett: Alberta Carolyn and Charlie.</p><p><b>Dennett Family of Kittery York County Maine</b></p><p> Alexander Dennett was born 10 November 1811 at Kittery Maine and died 6 May 1889 in Kittery. He was a farmer and was educated in the common schools. At the age of 19 he moved to York Maine where he eventually conducted a general store and owned coasting vessels. He moved back to Kittery and lived on the ancestral homestead until his death. During the Civil War he was appointed inspector of timber at the navy yard. Politically he was a Whig in early life a Republican afterward. He was a trial justice for many years; represented his district in the legislature in 1849-50-51; and was a delegate to the convention when the Free Soil and Whig Parties fused when the Republican Party was organized. Alexander was frequently moderator of town meetings and selectman of the town. He was active in good works and interested in the great questions of the day and an enthusiastic supporter the anti-slavery and temperance movements. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance and was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church being a charter member of the Second Methodist Episcopal church of Kittery. He married Mary Kingsbury Remick 1819-1878 and together they had at least six children: Ellen Miriam Elizabeth John Sarah Mary Alice and Alexander who was the father of Ralph Earle Dennett.</p><p> Lieut. Alexander Dennett of the U.S. Coast Guard was born 13 April 1853 at York Village York Maine and died 24 December 1934 at Kittery Maine. His son Ralph was the only heir and executor. Alexander was educated in the public schools Eliot Academy and various private schools. In 1878 he entered the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service as second assistant engineer and was stationed in New York at the office of Consulting Engineer Charles E. Emery. He and his wife resided at a number of locations during his naval career lived in Boston Portland Bucksport Bath Castine Eastport Mobile Baltimore and Somerville while Dennett was attached to vessels <i>William H. Crawford</i> <i>John A. Dix</i> <i>Thomas Ewing</i> <i>Albert Gallatin</i> <i>Woodbury</i> with headquarters at or near these places. He later made first assistant engineer in 1890 and served on the <i>Hannibal Hamlin</i> in 1893. He continued on this ship with the Coast Guard until 1895 when he retired from active labor making his home at Kittery and Thomasville Georgia.</p><p> He was a Republican in politics and had been a member of the school committee for a number of years and superintendent of schools. He was a prominent member of the Second Christian church. He married first in 1883 to Sarah Eva Paul 1856-1899 daughter of Warrington and Sarah A.E. Paul. Together Lieut. Alexander and his wife Sarah had at least three children William A. Dennett 1886- Ralph Earle Dennett 1891- and Mary Elizabeth Dennett 1894- </p><p> Sara Eva Paul Dennett died on 9 June 1899. After the death of his first wife he was married a second time to Josephine E. Cox only daughter of Carpenter Joseph Cox U.S.N. retired. Josephine died in 1917 Alexander outlived both his wives. He died in 1934.</p><p> William A. Dennett 1885-1911 Alexander Dennett's oldest son graduated Cornell University in 1907 in the mechanical engineering course and died at Kittery MEof typhoid fever. He worked at Holyoke and New York City for the Santa Fe Sugar Plantation San Pedro de Maconic San Domingo. </p><p> Alexander's fourth child Mary Elizabeth Dennett 1893-1895 died young of congestion of the lungs.</p><p> Lieut. Alexander Dennett's third child was Lt. Comdr. Ralph Earle Dennett USN. He was born 30 July 1890 at Kittery York County Maine and died in February 1986. Prior to entering the Naval Academy he attended Kittery High School and the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter New Hampshire. He attended the Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland. He lived at Upper Darby Pennsylvania at the time of the 1930 Census. When his wife Elizabeth died in 1943 he was stationed at the Portsmouth Navy Yard a position he had held since 1939.</p><p> Ralph Earle Dennett married Elizabeth Armistead. She was born 3 September 1889 in Virginia. The couple married 4 December 1920 at Washington D.C. Elizabeth died 16 May 1943. Together Ralph and his wife Elizabeth had at least two children: Armistead Dennett and William A. Dennett. After the death of his wife Ralph married a second time to Josephine Cox daughter of Joseph Cox and Joanna Hurd. They married 28 August 1901 at Kittery Maine.</p><p> Ralph Dennett's oldest son was Lieut. Comdr. Armistead Dennett. He was born about 1922; attended Kittery Schools and Portsmouth High School; and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland in 1941 where he took postgraduate course in ordnance. He served aboard the <i>USS Benson </i>two years in the Mediterranean on destroyers and was a veteran WWII serving in the Pacific theater on a destroyer that was hit by a kamikaze. He later became Commander on several ships including the <i>USS Wallace L. Lind</i> DD-703 1958-1960.</p><p> Armistead Dennett married Louise Howard. Armistead and his wife had at least one child a daughter Sarah Dennett who was born in May 1948.</p><p> Ralph Dennett's second son was William A. Dennett. He was born in 1928 and died on 5 January 2013. Like most of the men in his family he joined the Navy and reached the rank of midshipman 4th class. He graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1944 and attended the University of New Hampshire prior to entering the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis Class of 1949. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in 1951 with degrees in both naval architecture and marine engineering. After graduation he was employed by Newport News Shipbuilding and later retired from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1987 after 37 years of government service. He was a member of the Kittery Point Yacht Club the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and several other professional organizations. He enjoyed sailing locally as well as having substantial blue water experience participating in both the Monhegan and Bermuda races. He was an expert navigator well skilled in celestial navigation. </p><p> William A. Dennett married Mary Irene "Bunny" Daigle of Portsmouth New Hampshire on 9 September 1950 in Maine. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard C. Daigle. Bunny attended the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. Together they had at least one son John A. Dennett.</p><p> Another Dennett family member who wrote some of the letters in this collection is Dr. John Dennett. He was born in 1869 in Maine. He was a first cousin of Ralph E. Dennett son of his father's brother Capt. John Dennett U.S.C.G. He attended Harvard University and Harvard Medical College. After medical training he worked at Boston General Hospital until developing tuberculosis. In an attempt to regain his health he first moved to Santa Fe then arrived in Phoenix in 1895. Finding initial work as doctor at the Congress Mine he remained there until 1905 when it closed. On August 20 1902 he married Louise Gage niece of the owner of the Congress Mine. After work with the Congress Mine Dennett moved to the Silverbell Mine west of Tucson where he worked until 1910 when the family moved to Phoenix. After the move to Phoenix Dr. Dennett stopped practicing medicine and entered business. He became the manager for a creamery Hassayampa Creamery located at 5th Ave and Jackson St. and later became involved in the manufacturing of evaporated milk. Between 1911 and 1923 both Dr. and Mrs. Dennett were active in business and social activities in Phoenix. Dr. Dennett was president of the Rotary Club active with the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and local Republican Party politics. He died in San Diego California on October 17 1957 at the age of 88.</p><p><b>Sample Letters:</b></p><p> Ralph Earle Dennett wrote his father Alexander Dennett 162 letters between the years 1909 and 1931. The early letters show Ralph attending school at the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland and received his first command during WWI. He writes his father about the academy and life at the academy and his activities there when he goes out on ships for exercises. He also writes about his various ports of call and the various ships he is assigned to and what he is allowed to tell that the censors won't scrub:</p><p>"USS Washington Hampton Rds. January 2 1912</p><p>Dear Mother and Dad -</p><p> Tomorrow at ten we clear the harbor for another sea trip of uncertain duration they don't have mail boxes at sea the'fore I write while I may. The Admiral expects to take the rest of the little flock with him and join the fleet 400 miles at sea or thereabouts and then we're all going to play horse for little while with the Red Fleet and the Blue Fleet - really a very interesting thing if you can get inside dope on what's going on the only one I really even savvied was the one we were working on when we left Newport last and bad weather bused that up. Later on in the month about 21 the gallant Fifth Seems I never get away from 5th 5th Company 5th Division etc is to go to Key West for the celebration. What celebration I know not just a celebration that's all. I haven't seen an up to date paper since we left the Navy Yard four days ago Old Point is a tiresome sort of a joint at this time of year you can't get your finger on the pulse of affairs down here it doesn't belong the main arterial system of the country. There's life in it still but it's all fungus growth - rooky army lieutenants coast artillery school or "incubators" and their would be or is sweet hearts. Besides Hampton Rds is such a dreary windy place to anchor it hasn't the slightest suggestion of coziness about it but instead the old ship is yawed about in the tide the shore in the dim distance all around the horizon. If you ever sat in a big draughty desolate unfurnished room you can get an idea of Hampton Rds at this time of year. All the time you have the feeling of being somewhere and yet no where.</p><p> Today has been a very enjoyable day for all; we started coaling at day break and finished about 4 p.m. with intermissions for breakfast and lunch having increased our coal supply by 1600 tons. There's a certain exhilaration that the crew takes on when performing useful work that makes everybody happy. I imagine the novelty would soon wear off if we had to do it every day tho.</p><p> After leaving Key West the Fifth is expected to arrive sooner or later at Havana to aid in disposing of the wreck of the Maine if she is then ready. Altogether we have a very pleasant outlook for the coming routes and if our plans are not changed we may have a chance to laugh up our sleeves at the boys who have to spend their time at Guantanamo.</p><p> "Fat" Hicks has fully clinched his job in the Army but he missed connection in getting his orders probably much to Fats disgust. He wanted to be detailed to Fort Riley and run down to Kansas City occasionally to see the girls and perhaps "land" a good one among the latter who had plenty of cash in her jeans but he got a jack-ass mountain paltry out in Fort Russell Wyo.</p><p>Hoping this will find you well I am your affectionate son Ralph Dennett"</p><p>"March 8 1918 New York NY</p><p>My dear Dad</p><p> My attention has been temporarily turned away from the complication of affairs at home by the passing demand which have been made on my time and thought and shoe leather since I arrived in New York but I have during the lapses of evening after all the various naval Hqtrs have done up their business had some chance to think things over I'll come back to that later.</p><p> The change in my own affairs have reached the advanced stage of completion where I am now after two days of toilsome "reporting" back and forth between 280 Broadway and City Park Bklyn sometimes alone and most of the time with my predecessor finally installed aboard the "New York" as the com'dg officer of her Armed Guard detachment. From the face of it it looks like a most excellent billet. Tho I have been aboard the ship only once for a few minutes she looks like a very fine lady to me and I'm glad I got the job. "Stitchy" Paine my pred. was loathe to give it up. Said he'd like to stay aboard for the period of the war. Can't find out why they relieved him. Probably too much rank. He was 1908. Tomorrow I shall take a small share of my household goods aboard for the trip and the rest I shall probably store here in New York somewhere. With all the truck you have to handle just now I shall not send it home besides I might need some of the stuff when I get back.</p><p> My ship sails Tuesday carrying passengers mail and cargo. She is fast and therefore safe. I don't think you need give yourself any worry about me at all Quarters are comfortable and Paine tells me that the officers are congenial. I have a good titled second a lieutenant and 44 men. During the past two days I have worn out my feet and my change pocket hiking and subbing around between different offices of which there are three besides the ship. All in different parts of the city.</p><p> My voyage will last about three weeks if you have need of any of that money of mine in the York Bank and can get it out in my name you are at liberty to do so.</p><p>With much love Ralph"</p><p>"New York June 11 1918</p><p>My dear Dad</p><p> I have not mentioned the name of the ship here because I would be afraid that the censor if there is one would hold up the letter. I am therefore writing in a deuce of a hurry because there is very little time left you may understand why the feverish remodeling of the ship has been finished as far as possible we are still in very much of an uproar. For myself I have been trying very hard to keep a reasonable hold on what would be ordinarily three different jobs. There are only three regular offices on the ship including the Captain this makes it rather difficult since the remaining number are stripers of only a few weeks experience and are still in the process of training sometimes with only an indifferent amount of progress in their new job day by day.</p><p> Boucher and myself have had to share between us nearly all the work of organizing and quartering the new crew and it has been some husky. Both of us have stuck pretty close to the job. Not since I have been in the Navy have I been pushed with so much different kinds of urgent work at one time.</p><p> Leave for me or anybody else connected with the ship was absolutely impossible. I should have liked very much as you must know to come home to see you and the letter you wrote me recently made me home sick but she could not be done this time.</p><p> Probably my lack of time is due more to mismanagement or shortage of grey matter than anything else. But I can say this: that I have this conciliation I have pushed the job and the job has not pushed me which was what I was fighting for. In case it had been the other way around it would have been a case of being invalidated out of the transport service instead of leave of absence.</p><p>Give my love to all the folks at home.Ralph"</p><p>"October 12 1918</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Have arrived on my new station. Give you my word this is awful. After a year or so of real activity it's like being buried alive or a spirit flight to the moon. The only thing missing is the funeral service. Here in front of the casket containing the remains of many a live man's lost hopes they are holding a solemn requiem day by day over embalmed doctrines of naval efficiency while the current of modern sea life sweeps swiftly past the door and on into the joyous vigorous future. It's a sickening decline from the land of Doing to the land of Being.</p><p> The Bones of this old packet should have been and were laid to rest years ago and there she ought to lie and not rack her poor old frame with the nervous excitement of this day and generation. Nature seems to want to scrap fighting men and fighting machines when they got too large and intricate and unwieldy. She prefers new and growing stock I guess and nothing too good anymore than anything too bad. So it is I see highly trained sailor men in comparative idleness here and amateurs struggling with greater slathers of work elsewhere.</p><p>Hope you in your lack of companionship and help at home do not find it wholly unbearable. It must be difficult and I realize it now more since seeing you last and remaining in close touch. Better times are probably coming for us all tho let's hope so your affectionate son Ralph.Illinois care P.M. NYC"</p><p> The collection also contains letters of both of Ralph's sons when they were students at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. There are 36 letters to Ralph E. Dennett from his son Armistead "Army" Dennett. Twelve of these letters are written by "Army" when he was attending the Naval Academy in 1940. His class graduated early due to the outbreak of WWII. There is much in these letters about sailing for the Annapolis sailing team against other schools Harvard MIT Brown etc the types of boats they use and his studies at the academy as well when he goes out to sea on exercises. The other letters are from 1944-1959 when he was serving in the U.S. Navy on the USS <i>Hansworth</i> 1944 or when he was attending Naval Post Graduate School at Annapolis 1945-1946 and later while serving on the USS <i>Juneau</i> 1949-1951.</p><p>"15 March 1940 Annapolis MD</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Still sailing down here. Had a meet Saturday with Brown and Sunday with Haverford. Both were fairly easy but this week we sail with Princeton who beat us last fall by about two points. I think we have to keep hot this spring to make a little reputation for the new team. So far we've sailed seven teams. MIT beat us because as usual we sank more boats.</p><p> I sent you a letter received this morning. It came in a blank envelope and I almost threw it away as propaganda when I saw it was addressed to "Memphis Maryland."</p><p> Mrs. Ferrell was here Sunday with no previous word to me. I was out sailing in the races until late and hardly got to see them. She seems to be enjoying herself as usual and hopes you are taking good care of her house.</p><p> Incidentally Danny says in a terse letter that he wants to buy my boat. If you see Danny please discourage that. What is there to sail with the Caribou gone It's so hard to find a sailboat. I want to keep that one even if she is a pee wee. I think she might plane like a 14 with encouragement. </p><p>I got to study bull. I got a 2.2 last week on the Dutch wars. </p><p>Love your son Army."</p><p>"31 March 1940 Annapolis MD</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> We sailed Boston and St. John's yesterday in a fog. We won 61 ½ to 51 ¼ to 23. We go to Boston April sixth to race MIT Boston and Harvard. I have my doubts about being with the team. They say maybe if the team gets hot the NAA might think about a boat house on the America dock new sails more boats bigger squad and so on.</p><p> Be sure if you get a little boat to get one that you can race. Then get Bill to studying Curry and he can really have some fun. He can sail a Dyer by himself if he wants to. The Band X classes are good too. The Tech classes are like the B's loose footed main roomy and don't sink when they roll over. Our 14's are expensive and big and take two men to sail right. So I think either a Dyer or a B would be best. They still cost about $250 and should be hauled up on a float. For pete's sake get a real Dyer. We've got one built by the Annapolis Yacht Yard "exactly like." We can't find any difference in the lines or weight or sail but the thing only sails half as fast as our one good Dyer.</p><p> Well I hope the Caribou has a good owner. She was like a member of the family. Our back yard won't look the same at all without her masts.</p><p> My standings are up a little. I don't know why. I think I study less when we sail because every night I'm too tired to bone. Still my math came up. Think I'll go to the chapel.</p><p>Your son Army"</p><p>"5 April 1940 Annapolis MD</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Your devoted son didn't make the squad of nine that goes to MIT. I was in the top six for last week's race with Boston here but I dropped to eleventh by Thursday when they made out the list.</p><p> Maybe I can make the next trip in May. Lately I've been averaging about fifth in our ten boats which doesn't mean much. All last fall it was 3.5. Top man has about 2.7 and low man has about 8.5. </p><p> Still I'd like to know where we are going this summer for our destroyer cruise.</p><p> Think I'll go to the formation.</p><p>Love your son Army"</p><p>"17 June 1940 Annapolis MD</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Here I am back with my sad story about being broke again. Mary came down for June Week and stayed through six days and four hops. That and keeping an apartment stocked with everything for a week just ruined me. Now we are going up to Barnegat Bay for a five day race week in scows and I don't own a quarter.</p><p> We are probably going to be graduated early in three and a half years. They are even making out a new summer schedule and shortening the cruises effective Thursday. Leave and academic year will start early and we will be graduated in February so the officers predict.</p><p>I have been sailing one of our racing stars at Gibson Island each weekend in a star series there. She is a good boat but I'm not used to her yet and haven't been doing well at all. We tow three boats up behind one of the diesel motor-sailer ketches Saturday go ashore race Sunday come back for supper.</p><p> The candidates '44 bless 'em are being seen around the yard. Did Dick Underwood ever make it The poor guys look as bewildered as I felt two years ago.</p><p> Have you got any boat yet Too bad you aren't near one of the real good racing classes. These innocent looking yacht clubs put out some stiff competitors.</p><p>Your son Army"</p><p>Ralph E. Dennett's second son William A. Dennett also attended the Naval Academy at Annapolis. William wrote a total of 32 letters to his father. During the years 1945 - 1946 William is at the Naval Academy. There are also letters on the different cruises he takes during his training to Cuba Panama etc.:</p><p>"Unites States Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland Room 5305 Bancroft Hall 6 July 1945</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Don't think that I haven't been thinking of home most of the time. This place at times has been almost enough to get me down. </p><p> I felt very much elated at having passed the physical. That was last Wednesday 27 June. Tuesday night 26 June I left and by the next day at 1400 I knew that I had passed. That night 27th I tried to call you with no success. From then on my time was all spent indoctrinating myself. On the 29th I was sworn in. Days 29th 30th June 1 July 2 3 July I was wishing that I had never come to this place.</p><p> That feeling has worn off now after having settled down to a routine. Now that I am resigned to my fate I am content to wait patiently for Christmas leave and want very much to hear from home. Your telegram was a moral inoculation. I need letters now very much.</p><p> I can use up to five of Army's white work uniforms. Tell Clodia to start sending the cookies and other food now.</p><p> Everyone that goes to the NA now is 19 and up has spent much time in the navy or three years at college or both. My plebe summer roommate is Wm. M. Shanhouse of Rockford Ill. I am trying to arrange rooming with a boy I met as a candidate Bill Hall from Ohio. I like him very much. He will take Spanish as a language so that may separate us unless I take Spanish.</p><p> I was required to send all non-reg clothing home. Did you get the laundry bag of clothes Monday I have the watch. Saturday tomorrow we take inoculations and such stuff. There were 600 of the 4th Class here when I came and 600 were to come after 1200 in the class of '49.</p><p> The life here is difficult for me at first. Much harder than when I was helper to the plasterer.</p><p> Where is Army I wish I could have been home when he was. I will be glad to see him when he comes. Be sure and come to see me if you get the chance. I am moderately homesick moderately to lightly.</p><p>Tell me how the farm is working out and what goes on Your loving son Bill"</p><p>"United States Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland Room 5305 Bancroft Hall 5 September 1945</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Don't let the bill worry you. It is for the coming college year and I won't be able to attend. I wrote the Registrar and told him to withdraw me from the student body. The letter was mailed 26 August so it should have gotten there by the time they sent out that bill but it is known how slow UNH is on such matters - see my college certificate of late.</p><p> There was liberty on Labor Day and rare dining out privilege was granted to plebe summer plebs. Nancy Leeds Army and I had dinner at Carvel Hale.</p><p> Last Saturday and Sunday I sailed on the Vamarie for an over night race. The weather was rough and all save few were sick. Never let it be said that I was seasick on Chesapeake Bay though - I wasn't.</p><p> Too many headsails rigged so the Vamarie spent the night thrashing around mostly and placed next to last. That's what poor handling does to the Queen of Ocean Racing.</p><p> Marched in a P-rade yesterday in Annapolis. Understand we get more Christmas leave - maybe 10 days. Your loving son Bill"</p><p>"United States Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland Room 6313 Bancroft Hall 10 October 1945</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> The word has it that we have town liberty tomorrow afternoon. so I shall follow the trail to Army's apt. and maybe later go to the movie.</p><p> The big celebration this week is the USNA's 100th Anniversary but the Navy Public Relations or what ever it is has probably been hard at work on the story so that I don't need to tell you.</p><p> Last night some engraved announcements of the Centennial to those midshipmen desiring to send them to their home town newspaper providing they came from a town of less than 5000 population. Just the thing to send to Aunt Florence.</p><p> The biggest flop of Centennial Week so far has been Educator's Day. College Presidents from NROTC Colleges about 55 were invited to explore the NA and express their opinions. About ten presidents showed up from places like Case Inst. Tech and Villanova. NA seems to come in for much criticism these days concerning policy toward expansion to include St. Johns and method of teaching. Having just come from college I notice a big difference in the method. I am afraid that the college student has the greater chance for individual thought whereas the midshipman learns mostly to follow orders or a gauge.</p><p> I like the idea of midshipmen being trained in civilian colleges first and finishing off at this place.</p><p>Kay Kyser is playing tonight for the Centennial Ball.</p><p> The P-rade looked well today - 24 companies - it takes 20 minutes for our brigade to pass in review. There were only 16 companies here when Army was a Mid'n. He was amazed when I told him I was in the 23rd Company.</p><p> Army and his roommate seem to drag a different set of girls each week. I'm going to arrange dining out with Army on a Sunday. That way I can see him and go into town at the same time because we can't have liberty on Sunday unless dining out.</p><p> I'm having a little trouble with Bull and Skinny but a little application will make everything rosy.</p><p>I still need to know about insurance - should I pay for it from personal funds which is the only way or ignore it until I graduate. I'll see the financial adviser and ask Army when I can.Love Bill"</p><p> After his time at the Naval Academy William A. Dennett was honorably discharged due to an illness. After recovering he studied naval architecture and marine engineering at M.I.T. then went to work for Newport News Shipyard. Letters from his wife "Bunny" to her father-in-law Ralph give insight into that chapter of their lives:</p><p>"May 5 1951Cambridge MA</p><p>Dearest Dad</p><p> Since Bill and I have been quite busy tying up little ends we've not had the time that we would have liked to have had to spend on a visit with you. We shall be seeing you very soon though and in the meantime I have lots to tell you.</p><p> Bill has had a number of splendid offers of employment from some of the very best yards and firms. He has considered them all very carefully and has decided that the Newport News Ship Yard holds the most future for a young and inexperienced engineer. The salary is of course not particularly spectacular but it is ample enough to allow us to manage without my having to contribute.</p><p> It has been very difficult for me to get used to the idea of living so very far from home but I have tried not to sway him on that account. I would feel very badly if Bill made a wrong choice because of me because it does seem that it is important to work in the place where one feels most content. We are in any case both looking forward to this summer because it will be marvelous to have a real income and time to enjoy each other.</p><p> Our last weeks here and there are only thee you know will be filled with activity. Bill has to complete his thesis prepare for exams and pass in lots of last papers in each class. His marks are very good and he has been a credit to both of us. You have good reason to be proud of him as I am. Although he has had just mountains of work he has attacked it all with admirable gusto.</p><p>.Bill and I both miss you and look forward to seeing you soon All our love Bunny & Bill"</p> books
19612080502106601887Agricultural Research Institute 1961. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 8 books Agricultural Research Institute paperback
CW-2NA2-CLHJNew. unknown
1928WRCAM55666Various locations in South Dakota including Pierre and Oahe 1928. 230 photographs mounted on album leaves captioned in white or red ink throughout. Images range from 2 1/2 x 2 inches to 3 1/2 x 5 inches. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black leatherette photograph album string-tied. Minor edge wear. Several leaves detached some photographs wholly or partially removed most in nice condition. Overall good condition. An interesting annotated vernacular photograph album featuring a South Dakota family in the first quarter of the 20th century. Members of the family are variously identified as Anna Beulah and Dwight Huffman aided by a few pages of typed family notes that accompany the album. The album was kept by an unidentified member of the Huffman family who refers to herself in the first person in a few photographs including a group shot of school girls captioned "Domestic Science Class when I was a 'Frosh.'" Comparisons of photographs indicate the author of the captions is probably Anna Huffman. <br> <br> Most of the photographs feature people from multiple generations of the Huffman family in South Dakota including Grandma Benjamin. These men women and children pose in front of houses and on farms on the South Dakota prairie and at various spots in the capital city of Pierre. The family members are captured in a variety of activities common to rural life: feeding livestock killing and cleaning chickens gardening stacking hay camping cutting their own hair extracting a cow from a muddy lake tilling farmland with early motorized tractors and fishing in Lake Oahe. <br> <br> Two photographs feature Robert Benjamin Huffman - one of him while at Illinois State Normal University now Illinois State and one showing him in his World War I uniform. According to the family notes accompanying the album Robert was killed in France on October 1 1918. Several more lighthearted photographs in the album show women laughing and clowning for the camera; one photograph shows a female family member dressed as "the Hawaiian in the school parade." <br> <br> Particularly interesting are the three photographs featuring Native Americans two of them identifying the subjects. The first of these features Mr. and Mrs. Spotted Bear in Oahe S.D. The second shows Mr. and Mrs. Spotted Bear standing with Mr. and Mrs. Tall White Man. The third photograph captures a large group of Native Americans sitting in a wide circle with the caption reading "An Indian Conference Pierre So. Dak." <br> <br> Other landmarks captured here include "The old school house" the "M.E. Church at Pierre So. Dak." the "Old Missouri" River the Red Wing Seminary the "Sorensen Home Oahe So Dak." and the South Dakota State Capitol building. As with other family albums there are also numerous vacation shots with various family members in New York Virginia and Illinois; at some point Beulah and Anna drove from South Dakota to New York for vacation. <br> <br> An interesting collection of annotated vernacular family photographs from the rural American West. hardcover books
1972365898New York: Entwhistle Books 1972. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. Fine issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 144 of 500 copies Signed by Williams. The much later paperback edition is subtitled: "A Hippie Journal in the Commune & on the Road December 1969-February 1970." By the founder and publisher of Crawdaddy Magazine. Very scarce. Entwhistle Books hardcover
18700MV207Ohio Iowa 1870. CULLER FAMILY - 7 letters on life in Ohio and Iowa in the 1870s. As with many family letters they usually cover a great deal of ground and this grouping is particularly rich detailing life in pioneer times. Each with stamped cover. Overall VG. Autograph. Manuscript. Very Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Paperback
18302002210034Philadelphia : McCarty & Davis 1830. Hardcover. Acceptable. Signed. Howard / Carlile / Blunt / Bolton-Smith / Elliot Family Bible - Portsmouth NH - Memphis TN with continuous family ownership 1830-2001 Thick quarto; 28 cm. Bound in contemporary full leather. Gilt stamping. Leather worn with front board detached rear hinge cracked with board nearly detached. Staining spotting throughout. 1076 pages : plates and maps. Some tears to the first family record page. <br> This bible shows American migration from New England to the West in the early 19th century. The Howard family Bible first records the birth of Charles Howard in Conway Massachusetts 1802-1843. The family moved to Texas circa 1839 the Family Record page is meticulously detailed including the death of an infant 2 week old son in Matagorda TX. Charles died in New Orleans in 1843 from yellow fever. Another daughter Leonora Howard was born in 1840. At the front is a handsome presentation inscription to Ann W.B. Howard from her Aunt Sophia Watson Portsmouth NH dated 1832. Additional genealogical notes: Ann Howard was the mother of Louisa Howard whose family moved to Texas. Louisa married Francis Yates Carlile 1812–1866 of Providence RI in Tennessee. Later presentation inscriptions to Frank Howard Carlile from his mother Louisa Howard Carlile Memphis 1893 Anna Louise Howard Carlile 1829-1831 her cemetery stone is wrong her aunt says she was born in 1829–1911; Francis H. Carlile 1857–1928 lived at 259 Popular St Memphis TN and attended Cornell in 1870-2. Deathbed inscription from Frank Howard Carlile to his nephew Carlile Bolton-Smith Memphis 1911. Carlile Bolton-Smith 1902-2001 was born in Memphis and died in Georgetown D.C. Carlile served in various New Deal agencies in the Roosevelt administration in the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a lawyer in Georgetown for 42 years. Additional records for the related Blunt Bolton-Smith and Elliot families of New Hampshire Memphis Indiana etc. Additional genealogical handwritten page on the Carlile family of Rhode Island beginning with Thomas Carlile born 1754. <br> Full title: "The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments together with the Apocrypha: translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by the special command of His Majesty King James I of England. With marginal notes and references. To which are added an index ; an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments with their significations ; tables of Scripture weights measures and coins. Embellished with maps and historical engravings. Philadelphia : McCarty & Davis hardcover
12318Aubenas, Habauzit, 1941, 1943, 1946, Privas, imp. Volle, 1951, 1 Broché, couvertures illustrées de bois gravés de Claude madier et Nouma Peyrard. 4 forts grands in-8 de (4)-330-(2), (4)-282, (4)-360, et XVI-437 pp., 1 plan dépliant, dessins au trait et bois gravés de Claude Madier, cartes, 12 planches (3 dessins à la plume, 2 grands plans dépliants de Privas, 15 photos), tiré à 510 exemplaires pour les volumes 1 à 3 et à 600 exemplaires pour le dernier, envoi autographe, signé de l'auteur.
20012091202133208914Rinsen Bookstore 2001. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 4 books in total Rinsen Bookstore paperback
92920aafZürich, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Familienforschung, 1974 - 1995, 1934-42 in 3 Hlwd Bde; 1943 lose Bl.; 1944-1949 in 3 Ln. Bde ; 1950-1960 (je 5 Orig.-Heften); 1961-62 1 Bd. Ln.; 1963 5 Heften; 1964-1965 O.-Br.; 1966 - 1972 - 73 -1. Heft / 1974 jusqu’a 1995 + Inhaltsverz. 1934-1950 + 1951-73 Orig.-Br. Leinengebunden & Original-Broschüren.
8vo., First Edition, partially interleaved copy; blue-green cloth, decorative endpapers, upper board blocked in gilt, neatly rebacked with new endpapers to style, a very good, clean copy. With a nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Extensively and substantially enhanced by the addition of some twenty interleaves, heavily and neatly annotated in MS in a neat, scholarly and skilful hand, and including numerous full-page pedigrees, armorials and bearings, together with similarly extensive marginal and textual annotations of many printed pages. To the best of our knowledge there exists no dedicated published history of the Angier family. A UNIQUE RESOURCE AND A RARE SURVIVAL.
24831849-57. Ruled Notebook 28pp. heavily rubbed at extremities but sound and tight. Ownership inscription of James H. Midgley followed by statement "For Arthur Midgley" and "From dear Papa's Desk". With the ticket of 'WAREING WEBB BOOKSELLER & BINDER LIVERPOOL.' on the front pastedown. Painstaking tabulation of the figures for the cotton market in fourteen columns ruled with red lines and spread over two pages per year 1849-57 Column headings as follows: Date Uplands Mobile Alabama Orleans Louisiana Sales Imports Stocks With: Touching and detailed account 'at about 8.20 PM our little Darling was born - she soon told us she had a good pair of lungs' of the author's daughter's early years. The Midgley family were notable Lancastrian Quaker industrialists cf. the Midgley Reference Library in the John Rylands University Library Manchester. See Image. 1849-57 unknown
1820AQ15148London: Printed for Robinson and Sons 1820. iv 106pp. Contemporary straight-grained green morocco gilt recently rebacked with contemporary spine laid-down A.E.G. A trifle rubbed some marking. Recent endpapers internally clean and crisp. Ink gift inscription to verso of FFEP; 'Sarah Touchet / from Wm. Greg'. Poems for Youth collected and arranged by Mary Anne Roscoe later Jevons features the work of her sister Jane alongside their abolitionist father's best known and much imitated juvenile poem 'The Butterfly's Ball'. . First edition. 12mo. Printed for Robinson and Sons unknown
