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Correspondence of Wellesley College graduate Persis Loring Conant of Portland Maine and her fiancÃ© later husband Law Professor Hugh Webster Babb of Boston University along with letters of their parents siblings children Wellesley College friends and associates including art collector Edward Perry â€œNedâ€ Warren author of â€œA Defence of Uranian Loveâ€ 1884-1964

30844Large archive of 1507 letters 6631 manuscript pp. dated 31 October 1884 to 19 May 1964; plus over 300 pieces of ephemera related to the Babb and Conant families.Note: A complete inventory of the collection and biographical sketches of its main correspondents can be emailed upon request.Persis Loring Conant 1887-1964 and Hugh Webster Babb 1887-1971Persis Loring Conant was born on 29 May 1887. She was the daughter of merchant Frederick "Pardi" Odell Conant 1857-1928 and his wife Eva "Mardi" Merrill 1852-1936of Portland Maine. Persis' father prepared for college in the public schools of Portland and under private instructors and entered Bowdoin College where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1880 and Master of Arts in 1883. A distant cousin of the Conant family was James Bryant Conant 1893-1978 an American chemist a transformative President of Harvard University and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.Earlier in 1874 Frederick went to California by way of Panama stopping in Kingston Jamaica and various Mexican and Central American ports and returning overland from San Francisco. In 1879 he went to Cuba visited the important cities and returned home by way of Key West Cedar Keys Jacksonville Florida Savannah Georgia Charleston South Carolina and Washington D.C.In 1880 Frederick entered his father's store as a clerk and engaged in business in his native city; and became a partner in 1882. He became president of the wholesale portion their grocery firm of Conant Patrick & Company as well as the president of the Conant Corporation the Atlantic Shore Railroad York Utilities Company vice president of the Fidelity Trust Company and a director of the Bath & Brunswick Light & Power Company. Mr. Conant had been a member of the Portland Common Council and Board of Aldermen and was also a director of the Maine General Hospital and a trustee of the Portland Public Library and the North Yarmouth Me. Academy; he also served as a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College from 1909 to 1928.Persis' paternal grandparents were merchant Richard Odell Conant 1828-1894 and Emma Loring 1829-1904 of Portland Maine her maternal grandparents were Capt. Reuben Merrill 1818-1875 and Hannah Elizabeth Blanchard 1822-1876 of Yarmouth Maine.Persis was one of at least four children the others were: Elizabeth "Bess" Merrill Conant 1886-1973; Richard Odell Conant 1888-1950 a graduate of Bowdoin College 1912; and Reginald Odell Conant 1889-1965 who married Marion Drew. Persis and her elder sister Elizbeth attended Wellesley College. Elizabeth attended from 1905-1909 graduating with a B.A. and was the president 1915-1917 of the Western Maine Wellesley Club. Persis attended Wellesley from 1906-1910 and graduated with a B.A. A roommate of Persis at Wellesley and a correspondent in this collection was Eva Marguerite Miller of Scranton Pennsylvania. Miller attended Wellesley from 1906 to 1910 graduating with a B.A. She was a member of the Scranton College Club.Before Persis married she vacationed at Cumberland Maine in the summer when not at school. Her family lived in Portland. Persis married Hugh W. Babb on 19 June 1915 in Bridgeport Connecticut. Persis' correspondence with Babb begins in the summer of 1912. Hugh Webster Babb was born on 3 March 1887 in Yarmouth Maine the son of Howard Seldon Babb 1849-1909 and his wife Margaret Loring 1852-1932 of Westbrook Cumberland County Maine. A second son Paul died as an infant. Hugh's father was a farmer and also worked at a paper mill and later insurance agent. Hugh's mother was born in Yarmouth Maine. She and her elder sister were both employed in the paper mill of S.D. Warren father of the famed art collector James P. Warren.Babb attended Westbrook Maine public schools until his last two years of high school when he transferred to Highgate School in England. It was the support of Edward Perry Warren that allowed Babb to study and live in England. While in England he appears to have been baptized at the Parish of St. Thomas Oxford in 1906. While in England Babb's father died. His mother had been living in England with Babb. After earning a B.A. degree at Oxford in 1911 he spent two years at Cambridge and later took law degrees from Cambridge and Harvard 1916. He joined the firm of Brandeis Dunbar and Nutter for two years. This firm was founded by Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and his partner Samuel D. Warren in 1879. Brandeis left the firm then known as Brandeis Dunbar & Nutter to take his seat on the United States Supreme Court in 1916 just before Babb joined the firm or perhaps the reason the firm took on Babb due to Brandeis' departure. On his 1917 WWI registration card he was listed as an attorney living at Boston and working for Dunbar Nutter & McClennen. Paving the way for equality and diversity in the industry the firm welcomes its first three women attorneys to practice law in 1918. After a couple of years with Brandeis Dunbar and Nutter Babb became a partner in Perrin Babb and Heavens. In 1920 Babb joined the faculty of Boston University he taught law at Boston University for 37. He became the chairman of the law department of its College of Business Administration. He left the university in 1958 and taught for five years at the University of Maine law school.Fluent in Russian Babb translated both "The Law of the Soviet State" Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky and "Soviet Legal Philosophy" V.I. Lenin & others. He also authored five commercial law textbooks.Persis died on 19 April 1964. Prof. Hugh W. Babb died on 1 January 1971 at Portland Maine. He was 83 years old and was buried with his wife at the Riverside Cemetery Yarmouth Cumberland County Maine. Persis and her husband had four sons: Richard "Dicko" Conant Babb 1918-1943 attended Harvard University where he had plans to become a writer. He was active in track and cross country. On the outbreak of World War Two he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He died in flying accident in England while serving as a flight sergeant pilot. One of Dicko's letters mention that he was waiting in England to be transferred to the U.S. Air Force. While in England Dicko met a British woman by the name of Priscilla Barrett. They became close. After Richard's death and after the war Pricilla wrote to Richard's mother. These letters are included in the collection.Prof. Warren Babb 1916-1987 of the School of Music University of Seattle Washington; he was involved in the founding of the International Webern Society of which he served as treasurer in its early years. The society promoted the study of Anton Webern 1883-1945. The International Webern Society was founded in 1962. The purpose of the organization was to encourage study and performance of the music of Anton Webern an Austrian composer and conductor. Along with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg and his colleague Alban Berg Webern was in the core of those in the circle of the Second Viennese School including Ernst Krenek and Theodor W. Adorno. Webern's music was among the most radical of its milieu both in its concision and in its rigorous and resolute apprehension of twelve-tone technique. He is likely named for Edward Perry Warren a family friend see below.Hugh W. Babb Jr. 1919-1988 of Cumberland Maine. He attended the College of Business Administration at Boston University where he was active in crew and tennis. He graduated in 1941 in Business Management. He married Janet Bornhofft and raised a family in Cumberland.Prof. Howard Babb 1924-1978. He was Professor of English of the University of California at Irvine chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature and charter member of the UCI faculty. One of the generation whose education was interrupted by the second World War Howard attended Bard College and Cornell University in the V-12 Program before going on active service as a naval officer. He took his B.A. at Kenyon College in 1948 and earned his M.A. 1949 and Ph.D. 1955 at Harvard University. Before coming to UCI he taught at Kenyon and The Ohio State University where he progressed from assistant instructor to associate professor and vice-chair of the English department. He published articles on such different figures as Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sherwood Anderson. However his main concern was with the novel and especially with style in the novel a topic he also published on.One of the collection's notable correspondents is:Edward Perry Warren 1860-1928 known as Ned Warren was an American art collector and the author of works proposing an idealized view of homosexual relationships. He wrote 9 letters in this collection 5 to Hugh W. Babb and 4 to Babb's mother. The letters to Mrs. Babb concern an illness Hugh was suffering from when he was attending Oxford Warren was caring for him. The letters Warren wrote to Hugh concern the state of the Classics at Oxford and proposals to change them being mandatory. Warren is now best known as the former owner of the "Warren Cup" in the British Museum. Warren was born in Waltham Massachusetts one of five children born into a wealthy Boston Massachusetts family. He was the son of Samuel Denis Warren 1817-1888 who founded the Cumberland Paper Mills in Maine and Susan Cornelia Clarke 1825-1901 the daughter of Dorus Clarke. He had four siblings: Samuel Dennis Warren II 1852-1910 lawyer and businessman; Henry Clarke Warren 1854-1899 scholar of Sanskrit and Pali; Cornelia Lyman Warren 1857-1921 philanthropist; Fredrick Fiske Warren 1862-1938 political radical and utopist. Warren graduated Harvard with a B.A. in 1883. At Oxford he met archeologist John Marshall 1860–1928 with whom he formed a close and long-lasting relationship though Marshall married in 1907 much to Warren's dismay. Beginning in 1888 Warren made England his primary home. He and Marshall lived together at Lewes House a large residence in Lewes East Sussex where they became the center of a circle of like-minded men interested in art and antiquities who ate together in a dining room overlooked by Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve—a gift of Harold W. Parsons – now in the Courtauld Institute of Art. One account said that "Warren's attempts to produce a supposedly Greek and virile way of living into his Sussex home" produced "a comic mixture of apparently monastic severity no tea or soft chairs allowed and lavish living. Warren spent much of his time in Continental Europe collecting art works many of which he donated to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston assembling for that institution the "largest collection of erotic Greek vase paintings "in the U.S. He has been described as having "a taste for pornography" and was a "pioneer" in collecting it. His published works include A Defence of Uranian Love in three volumes which proposes a type of same-sex relationship similar to that prevalent in Classical Greece in which an older man would act as guide and lover to a younger man. Warren's oldest brother Samuel D. Warren had left law to work managing the family's paper mills. He managed the family trust established in May 1889 with the legal assistance of Louis D. Brandeis to benefit his father's widow and five children. Edward Warren challenged the family trust in 1906 claiming that Brandeis had structured it to benefit his law partner Samuel to the detriment of the other family members. The dispute ended with Samuel's suicide in 1910. The Warren Trust case became a point of contention during the 1916 Senate hearings on the confirmation of Brandeis to the Supreme Court and it remains important for its explication of legal ethics and professional responsibility. In a printed piece of ephemera published at the death of Margaret Loring Babb Hugh W. Babb's mother she is shown working at the Warren Paper Mill with her sister. It's probable that Hugh's father also worked there as well census records state he worked in a paper mill. This same piece of ephemera states that Hugh W. Babb was able to attend school in England due to the benefit of Edward Perry Warren.Warren's family business was the S.D. Warren Paper Mill Cumberland Paper Mills a paper mill on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook Maine. It is now owned by SAPPI Limited a South African paper concern. It is one of Westbrook's major employers. A paper mill was established on this site in the 1730s when it was a rural and fairly unpopulated area. In 1854 that small paper mill in the soon-to-be established town of Westbrook was purchased for $28000 by Samuel Dennis Warren known as S.D. Warren. The mill was named Grant Warren and Company. In that year the mill was only running two paper machines and had a production output of about 3000 pounds of paper per day. Nine years later in 1863 an additional machine was added to the mill and the production increased to 11000 pounds per day. In 1854 paper was made by beating down rags and using the pulp from the rags. In 1867 after the mill changed its name to S.D. Warren Paper Mill Company Warren decided to add wood fibers with rags fibers for paper. It was the first mill in the United States to do so. The mill became the largest in the world. By 1880 the mill produced 35000 pounds of paper per day. Warren died in 1888 and was succeeded by his son also Samuel Dennis Warren who managed the business until his death in 1910. The mill continued to grow through the 20th century employing close to 3000 Westbrook residents. The majority of the correspondence in this collection is either written by or to Persis Loring Conant Babb her husband Hugh Webster Babb Persis' parents Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Odell Conant Persis' sister Elizabeth "Bess" Conant as well as Persis and Hugh's children Howard Hugh Jr. Richard & Warren and Hugh W. Babb's parents Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Babb. There are also letters by friends of Persis including her college roommate Eva M. Miller a friend Ethelynde Sylvester Smith the well-known singer other friends and relatives. There are many letters during the time when Persis and her sister and girlfriends were all attending Wellesley College and soon after graduating. There are letters of Hugh W. Babb when he was in college And letters by Robert Hale another suitor of Persis when he was in college. There are also letters of Hugh and Persis' son Richard written when he was serving in the Canadian Air Force during World War Two.Sample Quotations:"Sunday Oct 1 '05My dear Persis'Sadie' Sally we are going to call her is in here writing on our one table so I am sitting on my couch.Hattie went off to call with her mother on some one in Cambridge right after chapel this morning so I have been alone…I went to chapel this morning or rather the regular Sunday Service with two girls at our table. One is from Somerville Mass. another 120 miles west of Chicago. The choir composed of about 30 girls marched in the first thing singing sort of Episcopal like just like choir boys and marched out after it. A Mr. hall preached the sermon 'God is Love.' Today is Flower Sunday. Always the 1st Sun is…The chapel was jammed all the college girls and some Dana hall and parents. I saw Jennie Milliken when I was coming out of church. She is in Dana Hall.Last night was Christian Association reception and of course we all went. Mabel Waldron took me. Hattie Louise & myself went up to Stone for our girls. I met Mabel's roommate Clara Williams the leader of the Glee Club……Then I was introduced to Gertrude Owen and I think she is about the most beautiful girl I ever saw. I noticed it at once and afterwards Hattie said she was considered the prettiest girl in college. She is in the choir walks with Miss Williams…After we had been introduced to about a thousand people I was introduced to Pres. Hazard and she asked if I was any relation of Miss Conant at Walnut Hill School. I said I supposed we were descended from the same ancestor and then she said she was much loved here. I also met three people in the Christian Ass. Or something secretary & pres. Or somebody like that who were standing in line with her. Then we had punch and then Pres. Hazard addressed everybody from the stairs in the hall then the man who preached today most of the girls though he made them feel homesick. Then the Pres. Of Christian Ass. & Pres of student government and then the girls sang and gave the Wellesley cheer and cheered the Pres. And all those who spoke. It sounded great. They did it all together so well. The singing of 'Where oh where are the grand old seniors' etc. in a slow sort of way made me feel sort of weepy in fact all the singing but I didn't. Hat wept a few tears after she got home and her mother was here too. Then we came home…Well I must say good night…Love to all of you…Bess""2 Oct 1905 629 Washington St. SundayMy dearest SchwesterI thought I would write you today and tell you my doings the past week or what I didn't tell in my last letter.Thursday Friday and Sat. morning there was cheering in College Hall after chapel. We all hustled up to the third floor as fast as we could go and waited our turn to cheer. Thurs. it was the Senior Officers Fri the Junior Officers and Sat. Sophomore Officers which had been elected the afternoon before. Gladys Doton is Vice Pres of the Junior Class. Isn't that fine Each class gives its own cheer and then says what they are cheering for 3 times as 'Senior Class Officers' or the girl's name.Friday afternoon Miss Hill gave all the Freshmen a talk in the barn on the gymnastics and sports. It was great fun to hear her talk. There are so many things I want to do and you can only do one.Yesterday was a pretty busy day. I went to chapel at 8:30 A.M. and then hustled up to College Hall and up on the 3rd floor and cheered. At nine o'clock I had a recitation in Math on the 3rd floor. Then my class work was done for the morning. I came home with Hattie made my bed and fixed up my things and then plugged German out of Sarah's book. Lunch was at 12:30 then I hustled back with Alice Gager who had a class at 1:30 and I bought a German book or rather 3 two for myself and one for Hattie. It was the last time the place was to be open from 1 – 1:30 so we could buy books. I had to climb to the 4th floor to go to the German Office. I went over to Katherine's room & asked them to supper. Then I went out under the trees facing the lake and sat on a bench and studied my German some more till 2:15 and then I went back and went to my German class up one flight. Then Hattie & I went down to the bookstore just below the German room and I bought a little blue note book……Mae Lowdon and myself went back up to College Hall to an 'At Home" to meet Miss Dudley who was something to do with the College Settlement Work in Boston. It was from 4 to 6 but we didn't get there till 4:30 probably…Just as the bell rang for dinner Katherine and Fuzzy came and we hustled over to dinner. They had been to a tea and so couldn't get here any sooner. They and Hattie sat at my table. One of the girls there Julia Pease also had an upper-class girl so it was quite jolly. Betsy Eskay had her Senior to supper also a Miss Frickel who seemed very nice. I met her after supper. She did not sit at my table.We sat over there in the parlors for a while and talked and then I had to come home and get dressed. At eight we went down to the Wellesley Inn. Some of the girls live there and they had asked all the Freshmen from A to M to a dance from 8 to 9:30. We had a great time. The Inn dinning room and waiting room are finished off very prettily. The tables were cleared away and we dance in there…I met the girl Amy Brown who Mrs. Smith wanted me to meet this summer…I had a dance with Miss Finlay a girl at my table and she took me up and introduced me to her. She seems real nice…You know one of the girls here in the house is from Louisville Kentucky. Do you remember the name of that girl on the steamer who was from Louisville the real pretty girl who wore her hair parted and rolled at the sides and looked so very pretty I wanted to tell Aph her name and see if she knew her. Aph is the dearest thing. She isn't at all pretty but so nice and warm hearted. She said the people at first seemed dreadful to her we are so cold and abrupt in our manners I suppose to her but now she liked them. This morning at breakfast she was the last one to finish and we waited for her and she said in time she would make us all true Southerners. Sunday morning breakfast and noons other days we can sit any where we like that is we fill up the tables as we come in. A dear friend of Aph's Martha Cecil from Louisville also is a perfect dear. She is very pretty and attractive and has lots of life. I think I'd fall in love with her if I was a boy. I have met her but I don't know her well at all yet. Aph has an awfully dear room at least she has everything to fix it up0. Probably she is rich…With much love Bessie""629 Washington Street Wellesley Mass. Dec 10 1905Dearest sisterGuess it is time for me to be answering my own sister's letter don't you I was just reading over yours and your account of the A.D.S. dance. In it you call him Bobby of course Mr. Hale. Is that what you call him It sounded funny someway. You also said Dr. Bolton had gone. Guess I will go to Dr. Race now as long as I know him and I would like him to have the trade.Mardi said you were having a red voile dress made. I am glad of it. You will need all the dresses you can get up here next year. Dresses to wear over to dinner medium dresses like my violet muslin and pongee are what you need the most. You will have your white silk and your graduating dresses for best and that white dotted muslin and your others for second best. Another thing if you buy any white waists get pretty thin ones embroidered or with lace insertion and have white slips to wear underneath. A pretty white waist and skirt looks dressed up and if you have a slip you can wear thin ones and be warm enough and also cover up your under flannels. We might embroider a waist for ourselves next summer. Slips are much worn by the girls red green pink blue yellow and every color. I like white ones as well as any for myself…I thought of trying for Tree Day Dancing when I heard they needed more girls but I asked my gym teacher about it and she said that and corrective gym were too much. It wasn't wise to do both so I shall not try for it. I like Miss Louis ever so much. The things we have to do are good for us. I shall show them to you when I get home. They are hard work all right. I am so tired when I come out from the class I can hardly walk home. It tires your muscles at least if you do it right it does. I guess I do it right for my muscles are surely tired enough.Last night we all went to the Vaudeville Performance at the barn. It was great fun and well done by the girls. Nina and Fuzzy were in one of the numbers. Nina was the animal trainer had a fierce black mustache white jacket and white baggy trousers with black shiny gaiters and she carried a black whip like the circus ring masters. There were three elephants and two monkeys. Fuzzy was one of the monkeys. She had on a red jacket and pants and little cap and the other girl had on green just like the suits the monkeys have on that the hand organ men carry around. They hopped around and danced together and then climbed up on stools and sat during the rest of the performance…Lyman Abbott spoke at church this morning but I didn't go. I decided to stay home…I must close…With heaps of love to you all Bess""6 Nov 1906Dear TeddyYour long looked for letter came this morning. I knew you were with Mrs. Curtis so supposed that was why you did not write.You asked about foot-ball. There haven't been but 3 games I think and something has happened every time so I couldn't go but I did want to go when Malden came…Last Thursday at 4 P.M. was the first 'Rossini Club' program. It was splendid. Miss Hawes sang beautifully.…Last night Dad and I went to hear Ossip Gabrilowitsch the greatest Russian pianist at City Hall. I never heard anything like it not even Paderewski. I never dreamt that such music could be brought from a piano. He was a whole orchestra in himself. Such different shades of color nimbleness of fingers and marvelous technique! A musical friend of ours who has heard all the greatest pianists including Rubenstein says none of them can equal Gabrilowitsch. He is to be in Boston on Sat Nov 17th. Do go if possibly can. You will always be glad you had heard him for he has a great reputation already and can't possibly be over 25 yrs. Old. He played 'Theme and Variations' one of his own compositions for the first time in America. It is wonderful and certainly ranked well up with the Bach Chopin etc. that he performed. When I say that the audience recalled him five times for an encore and got it and at the end of 1 ¾ hours of playing they recalled him twice and insisted on an encore at the end of the program you may know that calm Portland went fairly crazy over him for they generally cannot get on their hats and out of the door quickly enough after a concert. Do go and hear him. Then the French Saint-Saens the greatest living composer is to be in Boston soon also…Mama sends her love…Yours lovingly Ethelynde""14 Dec 1906 Thursday nightDearest TeddyI was awfully glad to hear that you are int eh Mandolin Club. Congratulations!Last Friday I took my last German lesson until after the holidays. I simply could not keep up on it with all my extra work. I've been doing quite a little Christmas shopping for you see I won't have those last few days before Xmas in which to shop…This afternoon I went to the Rossini Club. It was the best program yet. Mrs. Whitchouse was the only one I didn't care for. The quality of her voice was different on about every note she sang and she slid around from one note to another terribly instead of hitting them fairly and squarely.Tuesday noon we entertained Gypsy Smith the evangelist his wife and daughter Zillah 22 yrs. Old at lunch. They are all charming to know. His daughter is as handsome as a picture looks very much like a gypsy. She has black hair and eyes beautiful teeth and does her hair in a coronation braid. Her mother is very English but lovely and I never met such a lovable man as Mr. Smith. They are all very highly culture. To say that of him would seem impossible when I tell you that he didn't know one letter from another until he was 17 yrs. Old and is now but 46. They have one son married and another in Cambridge University England. Never heard anybody like him in the pulpit. The hall is packed jam full every night and Sunday night there were 2700 people there the biggest crowd that ever came inside the doors…Lovingly Ethelynde""Psi Upsilon Brunswick May 9 1907Dear PersisThe spring fever possesses every one up here. Tennis baseball track work and long walks into the country consume the time and even my athletic ability is great enough for the last. The country here abouts is wild and heavily wooded with great old pine trees and though the flat plains extend for many miles on all sides the scenery is to me fascinating.The air now begins to be fragrant with spring odors and when the wind blows from off the sea down through the plains and the pine trees it has a wonderful quality stimulating and at the same time restful. So you can hardly wonder that our daily walks mean much and that disinclination to study affects us all alike.Lately too I have been trying to learn to play tennis but I do not know enough about the game to enjoy it as yet.Last night we celebrated in a wild sort of a way the victory over Colby. We found some old fireworks and ransacked the neighborhood for fences and wood piles. Being fairly successful we soon had a good fire going in front of the chapel. As the clapper had fallen out of the bell Paul Blanchard one of our seniors and Rodney Ross in my delegation went hand over hand up the bell rope a hundred feet got through the trap door at the top and finally put it in again. After the returning victors were escorted from the train to the campus excitement subsided. Saturday we play Maine and we will & hope beat them…I feel sorry that you cannot come here for the Psi Upsilon house party and the Ivy Day celebration. Ivy Day is the great day of the year here & certainly hope that in you Sophomore year you will attain to such perfect independence that you can come.How did your friend enjoy her visit to Portland I wish that you could have stayed longer and that my new sailing machine had been in use. Had such been the case I believe that even the delights of study here would not have kept me away from my native town. But still study here is a necessity even it if is what old Horace calls a 'dirus necessitas' … Sincerely yours Robert Hale""Monday March 9 1908Oxburgh RectoryStoke FerryNorfolk My dear Mrs. BabbAfter all I did get as far as London on the day when I wrote to you and it turned out that nothing had been lost by my delay such as it was. On Sunday morning I hauled a specialist out of bed and arranged with him to come to Stoke Ferry with me in the afternoon. We got here about even. There was a consultation with the local doctor and all was so clear that the London doctor left at ten P.M. I am staying merely because Hugh will be ready by Thursday or so to come with me to Lewes and it is not worth while to go there and back in the meantime.Mr. Coombe in my opinion should have written you and should not have wired. He would not if he had known my address but would have left the question of wiring to me. He could have got my address from Lewes.I mention this not for the sake of criticizing him but that you may clearly understand all sides of the case.Hugh had been worrying himself about his examinations had been working too hard and had been sleepless in spite of some sleeping doses. The doctor at Oxford advised him to go away. He did not like to write to Lewes wherein he was wrong and he came here without getting much good. He had fainted at Oxford; and when he got to the Stoke Ferry Station to go up for his examinations he fainted again and struck his head. He had to be brought back to Mr. Coombes was put to bed wandering in mind. His fall was on Wednesday. I got the news Saturday morning and am writing on Monday. He is to all appearance perfectly well. He is dressed and has been downstairs to play on the piano and remarked 'Fancy my being thought ill.' The appearance will not be deceitful for the London doctor assured me that in such cases recovery is speedy and complete. It wasn't indeed necessary for me to come or to bring a physician. But I couldn't divine from Mr. Coombe's letters which were not supplemented by a letter form the doctor what was the matter. I had to provide against the unknown. The only result of my doings is that Hugh is got out of bed at once and given as much to eat as he wants. The only result at Oxford is that he misses honour mods which loss as I have written to you. Does not preclude his final success. My idea that he would come home with out returning to Oxford for the summer term is subject to revision. It may be better in every way for him to go back to Oxford. We will see how he gets on at Lewes during the vacation which begins almost on the day when he reaches Lewes. He is allowed to ride and to lay games – indeed 'that would be the best thing for him.' He may read but is not to take up hard reading at once. He shows no sign whatever of depression. It is all over.If you have a clever son he will lead you a dance and you must pay the piper. Yours faithfully E.P. Warren""27 Feb 1917Royal Societies ClubSt. James's Street S.W.My dear HughYou have been good not to remind me – too good: it would have been better to remind me. I did not put the pipes down on my list the list of things to do which I keep to as not to trust to memory but so I have fallen into the mistake of trusting to the list. I remembered this morning but had not your letter. You may have said something about shapes. I bought those which seemed to suit your size or age but not with the biggest bowls such as my brother used to like. I had to hunt for bowls for him. Either I know nothing of wood or else it is 'topping' & the price also. There is no amber: I conjectured pocket use. So these things are to go though books may not. There seems to be an article in the Round Table on Education I will get it & tear it out for you. The notion I believe is: for the pass schools English history & literature one other language ancient or modern science or mathematics and civics =political philosophy. I do not understand that Oxford is to change its name. I am here & Marshall is to be here for the Deepdene sale three or four good statues which I have seen and vases which I have not seen. I wanted to buy a statue fairly complete for Boston when my brother & I were in Rome. It was cheap; but the museum wasn't buying and we couldn't. At present the museum is not buying; and the second statue which I could recommend turns up. I shall try to waken the body; and may succeed; but here is the case in general. Lane saw the futility of a certain policy. I was to come home; and he and I were to start another policy; but he died. I enquired what the post Lane policy was to be and found that it was to be the old futile policy. The great thing my dear is to be respectable and not believe in anything but business and of course women. They should say what is to be done & we should do it.Yours E.P. WarrenJuly 17 1917I have examined the Deepden statues since I wrote and find that there is not one which I wish the Museum to try to buy.""1663 Fourth StreetSan Diego CaliforniaJuly 21 1910Dear Old PersisHome two days and not a letter off to you. If I were not so busy visiting with mother I should accuse myself of being very neglectful of you but you will understand Persis dear and forgive me won't you…By the way speaking of college did you hear that Pres. Hazard has resigned I wonder who will be president of Wellesley. I certainly hope Dean Pendleton will not. Isn't it too bad for Pres. Hazard – ill health was the cause. I think myself that it will be many a day before they get a woman for the head of the college that will come up to our President.California is wonderfully cool – ideally so but dreadfully dusty and dirty. The trees are all gray with the sand and the hills are sore and brown – anything but an attractive place now. I am afraid that I have lived too long in the east to ever be very contended with San Diego. It is so stupid and dead here that I almost go to sleep on a street corner when I walk down to do a little shopping. I expect to sit home on the porch and do a little reading and little sewing. Mother says it is the greatest relief of her life not to have to get us ready to start back to college again…I hear Marie Biddle is getting a divorce. Is that true and what is the difficultyHave your books etc. arrived some yet I want mine so badly for without my Cambridge I really feel lost. You have gotten far ahead of me in reading…I have so many books to read…Write me soon…As always Bernice""23 July 19101663 Fourth StreetSan Diego California My dear dear PersisThe postman has just come with your adorable pictures. I love them so and shall always be so glad that I have them…I just received a letter from Katherine with on from Miss Fisher. She said they had been making many new plans for the Geology Department among which was converting the Fifth floor Library into a geology laboratory and work room and the old gym into a geology lecture room. You see already they are beginning to change the old place and I dare say that in a year's time we shall find the place much altered. Miss Fisher has been ill with the heat and the work which she has had to do and so has given up all plans for her summer work at College and has gone to the mountains. So she really must be a very delicate little woman – hardly able to stand I should think the strenuous work of a Wellesley professorship.There is absolutely nothing to write you of here – San Diego is deader than it ever was and I hate the place more every day. Please write me soon. Give my love to your family but keep most of it for yourself…Lovingly Bernice""Ansbach EES DepotAPO 231C/O U.S. Army9.8.47Dear Mrs. BabbI was delighted to get your letter this morning and was very interested to hear all the news. I too have been very lax about writing to you I enjoy it so much too but Ansbach seems to have had a dulling effect on both my physical and mental processes…I am very sorry to hear that you have to move again. I know what an ordeal it is Mother has done it so many times and now she tells me she has sold the farm & is going to live in 'Oakthorpe' a house we have near Newbury. In sheer desperation she sold hundreds of my books. They are so heavy to pack and carry. I know when I get back there is going to be much weeping & wailing on my behalf when I suddenly want something I haven't needed for years – that has just been sold. Luckily since I've been over here I have almost lost the terrible habit I had of hoarding. So many things of value have been stolen & it is so difficult to be constantly packing up what most people would consider rubbish that I just do not worry any more.I hope there will only be a few more letters and then I will be with you. I'm getting to be an old lady and have been out here long enough. I want more to think about. I realize the average girl of my age is busy with husband and children and I'm not stupid in that I carry a torch for Richard I've tried with other people but I'm just not interested. I think Richard had everything I wanted when I look back and remember those completely happy evenings when all he and I had for entertainment was a long walk over the hills or a still longer bicycle ride to the movies I wonder why I've never met anyone since that could be happy with so little. Over here it is not considered having a good time unless one gets drunk or has hectic entertainment all the time. So down here I've had a lonely but quite pleasant time all on my own. My boss wanted me to renew my contract and offered me a very tempting raise in grade & pay but I turned it down and am definitely going home in September. Ansbach is beautiful rolling hills and miles of pine forests all the boys on the depot are staying over for one thing – fräulein. The place is full of them. Florence an American girl & myself are the only two allied women here and perhaps you can get a rough idea of the situation when I tell you that neither of us have had a date for three months. Luckily I am used to the country and am becoming an ardent photographer with terrible results but Florence hails from New York and is beginning to get a violent inferiority complex. She amuses me greatly. She's really funny gazes at herself in the evenings sends for new revolutionary make-ups and all to no avail. She can't understand what she lacks that the fräuleins have but from what I can make out the fundamental reason is that there are a great many obstacles to overcome before marrying a fräulein – dozens of papers to fill in etc. and I suppose the boys feel that what is difficult to obtain will be more worthwhile. I think I am right don't you…The sun is shining and I feel very happy. I am working with nice people & the Germans are very fond of me. I shall be sorry to leave them. My love and best wishes to you Pricilla."

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(Beard Family) Beard, Frank & HarryBiblio.com

2 Autograph Letters one by Harry one by Frank signed with one signed sketch by Frank with autograph sentiment

188643657New York 1886. Each one page. 1 vols. 4to letter from Harry on his Studio stationery; 8vo 12mo. Tipped and mounted to larger sheet of stiff blue paper. Each one page. 1 vols. 4to letter from Harry on his Studio stationery; 8vo 12mo. A very interesting letter from Harry Beard regarding his distinguished family of artists and illustrators in response to his election as honorary member of the Northwestern Literary & Historical Society: " . There are so many of our family all artists in New York some of whom devote their talents almost exclusively to Natural History Subjects. James H. - my father an animal painter James C. and Daniel C. my brothers the former has illustrated several articles on natural history in the Harpers and Century Magazines and the latter both writes and illustrates the same subjects that I really hesitate in taking to myself the great honor you would confer for fear of appropriating what may have been intended for another . " A brief letter to "Dear Bro Shermain " inviting him to a meeting of the "S.S. Teachers of Williamsburg;" finally there is a charming signed sketch by Frank Beard of a boy and a girl smiling cheek to cheek with the autograph sentiment penned below by Beard: "If we were all innocent all would be glad - Frank Beard. unknown

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(Benton Family Letters)Biblio.com

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

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

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(Bradford Family)Biblio.com

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

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

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(Cartagena Family; Maria de Sarabia)Biblio.com

Escritura de renuncia de su legitima ortorgada por Da. Maria de Sarabia Deed of Renunciation of Inheritance Rights by Doña Maria de Sarabia

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. 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. 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. 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

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(Casey and Norton Family Correspondence)Biblio.com

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

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

Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €

(Chang family)Biblio.com

Chang's Family Genealogy in I-Lan

1982WorldHistory0002174Tamking University 1982. First Edition. Very Good. 3 4to vols. in wraps enclosed in a handsome folding case with 2 possible ivory clips inserted in leatherette ties. Tamking University paperback

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(CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY - ENGELMANN FAMILY ARCHIVES) (CALENDARS).Biblio.com

A collection of nine calendars in from the early period of chromolithography dating between 1839 and 1848.

1839101827Different papers different sizes but all from the Engelmann family archives.Includes:1839. One plate for the year sheet size 31 x 24 cm.1840. One plate for the year sheet size 555 x 36 cm.1841. Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 32 x 49 cm.1842. One plate for the year sheet size 49 x 325 cm.1842. a different calendar Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 32 x 49 cm.1843. Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 575 x 215 cm.1844. Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 275 x 41 cm.1844. a different calendar Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 32 x 485 cm.1848. Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 47 x 17 cm.Fine examples of early chromolithography a technique invented in France by Godefroy Engelmann who received his patent in 1837 only three years before the present calendar was printed. The patent was given to him for printing colour lithographs from four stones using just black blue yellow and red in a version of the technique perfected by French intaglio colour printers in the eighteenth century. Engelmann who had been a leading pioneer of monochrome lithography in France was now poised for showing the way forward for commercial colour printing. The success of chromolithography depends on the immensely skilful process of separating each image into its four constituent colours. These calendars clearly show the style of this new technique.

Knuf Rare Books · France3 000,00 €

(Clark Family Letters)Biblio.com

Clark Family Archive - Raymond G. Clark engineer and Mrs. Phyllis Hart Clark citizen extraordinaire president of the Glastonbury Women's Club and their son Philip Hart Clark life-long bachelor glee club singer regional planner of Glastonbury Connecticut and Fairfax Virginia including WWII letters of Army Nurse Esther B. Hart Air Force pilot Lt. Donald R. Clark and Infantryman Harold Clark 1898-1990

030029No Binding. Very Good. Large archival collection consisting of: 2273 letters 5636 pages plus 16 diaries and 9 banker's boxes approximately 11 linear feet of ephemeral materials all dated 1898-1990 the bulk from 1920s-1960s. The correspondence centers on Phyllis Hart Clark and her family. There are 623 letters written by Phyllis mostly retained copies and 647 incoming letters. Her husband Raymond G. Clark writes and receives 201 letters. As a couple Phyllis and Raymond receive 450 letters and their son Philip writes and receives 293 letters. The ephemera includes several thousand pieces including folders of typed and manuscript notes brochures circulars handouts pamphlets postcards telegrams etc. all dated 1930s to 1980s for further description see below. unknown

Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis5 000,00 $US≈ 4 230,50 €

(Connecticut – Hale Family Letters)Biblio.com

Collection of 29 manuscript Letters primarily incoming correspondence to George Hale of Glastonbury and briefly Providence Rhode Island from family members and Yale classmates dated 1783-1791

30944Collection of 29 manuscript letters totaling 39 pages address panels mostly folio and quarto dating 1783-1791 to George Hale b. 1759 d. 1803 of Glastonbury Connecticut from various correspondents including Yale classmates writing to him at Glastonbury and for awhile Providence RI. Correspondents include: Jabez Peck Isaac Welles Roswell Welles "John Hiwill" Ashbell Welles his older brother Elisha Hale Nabby Kimball Zebediah Tracy Abner Moseley Nathaniel Tallcott Jr. and Elijah Killack. Together with: 7 chit receipts contemporary with these letters and later; a very worn BOSTON EVENING-POST Numb. 1567 Sept. 23 1765; and three other family items. Condition: clean but worn and torn with occasional textual loss consequent to original opening of wax seals. George Hale was descended from Samuel Hale who landed at Watertown west of Boston in 1634 who settled in Wethersfield Connecticut in 1635 until in 1690 Glastonbury was set off as a separate parish. George's father Captain Jonathan Hale born 1718 died March 7 1776 at Jamaica Plain near Boston fought in the Revolution with the American forces. He married Elizabeth daughter of Hon. Thomas Welles and Martha Pitkin. The coupled had fourteen children of which George born July 24 159 was the ninth. He attended Yale and worked as a merchant in Providence employed in the store of Messrs. Brown & Benson. The letters concern business domestic and social affairs and courtship. "Glastenbury May 30th 1784 Dear Brother I have not heard a syllable from you since you went from home except by Mr. Robbins which says you have got Quarters in Commons I am very glad… I hope you will pay a strickt attention to your Business & not spend your time in Pleasure or a Great deal of Company except so much as will be advantageous to your Business you will remember Providence is a very loose place that ill habits are very catching unless a person keeps a strickt watch over themselves. I understood after you went from home that you had absented yourself from the Red House which I'm not a little surpriz'd at & that a great Independency appear'd in your Behaviour – a great contrast indeed in the space of six weeks … I'm very sorry to hear of it – I assure you you had no business to frequent that House so much as you have without the approbabtion of her parents but especially in absenting yourself in such a manner it is a very ungentleman like action I think it is what I never did I hope never to see it in my Brother… I don't mean to control but I think it my Indispensible dutry to advise to Gentlemanlike Behaviour. The Sloop sails on the last day of April with 15 oxen & 20 Horses for Cargo I gave her verbal order to lay off & on Antigua & go with the Boat shore see wether a could trade or wither the English ports were open if they was to lay their course to Granada unless they was offer'd a great price there if they could not trade in the English port by all means to procure some casks of English rum att all adventure we shall look for her in about four weeks… you will write me the price current of West India goods in your first… Elisha Hale" "Windam March 13 1785 Dear Sir Agreeable to your request I return an answer to your letter which I received a few days since was very happy to receive an Epistle from a Gentleman of your abilities as you wrote you stiled it great happiness to add to the number of your sisters gives me reason to think you prize them as you ought. I am sure there is no greater happiness than a harmony with our friends & Acquaintance. I think your sentiments upon my friend are very just & I dare presume if you should enlarge acquaintance with her you will never regret it as she is a Lady that possesses a generous disposition you would esteem her a person of worth as to giving advice upon Love subjects I am sensible I am not capable in the Least yet I hope you will be so much master of yourself as to retain your Senses. Nancy has concluded to write you since you stile yourself a friend… Nabby Kimball"

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(Connett Family)Biblio.com

Copper plate: William Connett Hat Manufacturer Rahway New Jersey 1815 Warranted Water Proof

242581New York or New Jersey 19th century. Engraved by P.E. Hamm Phila. 3-7/8 x 4-3/8 inches. Used. Engraved by P.E. Hamm Phila. 3-7/8 x 4-3/8 inches. Eugene V. Connett 3rd was born into a family of hatmakers founded by his great-great grandfather. After graduating from Princeton with the Class of 1912 he went into the family business. After service as an officer and wartime production manager in the first world war he returned to the hat business and managed the firm until he sold it in 1925. His next career was closer to his heart as a sportman: in 1927 he established the Derrydale Press which published more than 150 titles over the next decade and a half until wartime paper shortages prompted Connett to close down the firm. An attractive vignette displaying a buxom Columbia the American Eagle flags and horn clipper ship cornucopia sword and plough and a pair of beavers. With smaller electroplate of same image mounted type high. Provenance: from the family of Eugene V. Connett 3rd and by descent unknown

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

(De la Barra Family)Biblio.com

Eighteeth-Century Spanish Nobility Patent for the De la Barra Family FINELY ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT

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. 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. 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. 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

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(Document) Association universelle des Famille (Cardinal VANNUTELLI) (Lyon)Biblio.com

Indulgences et autres faveurs accordées aux Familles associées et aux Directeurs de cette Oeuvre dans toutes les paroisses où elle est publiquement établie

18064Lyon Waltener et cie 1892. Affiche 58 x 45 cm. Manques de papier aux angles inférieurs ainsi que sur le bord gauche de l'affiche ; diverses pliures et déchirures document renforcé au verso. unknown

Librairie · France45,00 €

(Edgeworth Family)Biblio.com

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

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

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis1 200,00 $US≈ 1 015,32 €

(Family of Kurt Volk)Biblio.com

KURT HANS VOLK 1883-1962

1962011123NY: Family of Kurt Volk 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Privately published memorial album unknown limited edition distributed as keepsake to family and friends. Large 4to rough cream-colored cloth gilt cover titles sides untrimmed w/ full page mounted b&w photo of typographer and publisher Volk 18pp. Internals as new cloth tad foxed at spine. In printed box which is a tad sunned few surface abrasions. Family of Kurt Volk hardcover

Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB · États-Unis95,00 $US≈ 80,38 €

(Forster Family Letters)Biblio.com

Group of Five Letters written by Members of the Forster Family written from Kaskaskia Illinois Pittsburg Nippinose Bottom and Meadville Pennsylvania and Natchez Mississippi Territory 1806-1817

31256five letters quarto and folio 11 manuscript pages some wear and staining few holes at fold intersections otherwise in very good clean and legible condition.These letters chronicle the Forster family's movements from frontier settlements in Pennsylvania to those further west in Illinois and Indiana and as far south as Natchez Mississippi Territory seeking better economic conditions. Stephen Forster emigrates to the river town of Kaskaskia in Illinois in 1806 where he is engaged in trade and as a wheelwright. By 1810 he is Natchez Mississippi and Louisiana and is working as builder and wheelwright with a number of employees including African American slaves. He constructs buildings cotton gins sugar mills and other machinery.Sample Quotes:Kaskaskia September 28 1806 Stepehen Forster to his brother Chambers Forster Pittsburg Pennsylvania"Dear BrotherI recivd your letter dated the 12 of August I am glad to hear you are well but the Remarks of Mr Foulkes Leter is not just to say that all new Countrys are disadvantages as a man Has never been out of the State of Pennsyl never seen a country that is fit for a Planter to live in they are Eternally a Slave to themselves and Stock hear we have men that has upwards of a hundred horses that never tastes corn nor hay unless the are using them however it is not worth saying much on that subject as you have your mind seteld on Sinsinnata Thomas will meet you at Cincinnati But as for my part I have no desire to Come as I can make Eighty dolrs a month hear in trade and some mony as I am nearly first hear now and it wont answer for us to lose all our trouble and Expence hear and More than that I expect to Mary Shortly to a French girl that don't Speake a word of English Shee is not welthy She is Reasonably handsom Her Caructor is preferable to any in The place very industrious and most agreable company Palizah Fortune When you wrote to me that you was going to get married you did not even write me her name –The Receipt you set me for painting is of no account I want you to Send me eight or ten dozin of wheel irons and I will convey the mony to you as soon as possible I would not trouble you with the task But they are Not to be got hear with out more trouble than they are worth I have to pay half a dollar a set for Forging them If James Foulke gets well I want him to come to this country I have made a discovery of a silver mine and many lead mines may be found there is a cowhokia Indian to go this fall and show me one that is close to the top of the Ground if he don't come try and het him to larn you how to extrat silver from lead write what time you will be at Cincinnati … Stephen Forster"Nippenose Bottom Septr 26th 1806 Alexander Stewart to his cousin Chambers Forster Pittsburgh"Dear CousinI have returned home Like many other Prodigals And I am but poor but I think I have learned at Meadville School a Nuff to make us take care of our Money here after during Our life time. Brother Charles and My Self is farming my fathers upper Place and have Raised a very fine Crops this Summer I left Meadville Very Poor and Continue so but I still live in hope of Being Better. Charles was married last winter to Miss Lilly Crane the Daughter of George Crane Esquire. Sister Kitty was married last winter a year to John Knox and is a dowing well the Rest of the family continues in the same way they were when you left them. The Rest of the family are doing well Joseph Foulke is a Justice of the Piece & Clerk to Commiss. Of Lycoming County & making money his sister Polly lives with him William Foulke has been a Surveying out in the Jersies this four or five Years and has made money. The times were hard when I left Meadville last Spring it will take all the Property I have to bring me and my Bail out Clear the Sued me and Wraked out all the Vengeance that Ware in ther Power against we me when I was coming out of Office Whilst in Office I thought my Lot hard but Knew but little about it at that time I have been informed by Mr. Saml Torbett of Meadville who Arrived here a few days a gow that you are married to Miss Gouday a Daughter of James Gouday. … let me heare Whether you intend Gowing down the Ohio or Continue in Pittsburgh You my Dear friend I have always thought If you couldGet a good chance would do Something … I have Confined myself to privit Conserns of a Farm and have more Pleasure looking at my horses cows hoggs & Poultry feeding a Round me Then I had when I was the Publicks Servant the Sheriff of Crawford County & from all that I can learn my Successor James Quigley will have as much trouble as I had in coming out of his Office to this I add no more but I subscribe my self your zealous friend … Alexr Stewart""Natchez Mississpi Terr. Nov 14 1810 Stephen Forster to his brothers Chambers and Thomas Lawrenceburgh IndianaDear BrothersI write wonst more to let you know that I am alive I have wrote Respectively to you but never received an answer I have heard by chance by some boat man that you wear well and still lived in lawrenceburgh and particularly by Barnet Moore who informed me that you wear doing good business which I was very happy to hear as to Thomas I could get no information of by any. Mrs. Priestley also wrote to you and wisht to know whether her brother James was with you and whether he would not come hear if you pleas can let me know I did expect to start by the first of March to old Mexico for which place iad all my letters and pas from the Spanish consol at orlians but since this late disturbance it is unsafe to go my business hear is very extensive I have the greatest carecter in macinisim of any man on this cost I have bisness steady sufficient to employ from twenty to thirty hands but it is impossible to get sober men hear and the French people wont imploy Men of disapated caracters by which means I cant make so much as I should if the would suffer them in their familys and the furnish me with black workmen I have now on hand three large dwellings two Cotton gins and one Sugar mill and after I finish them I intend to build a saw mill for myself and when I get that completed if god spares me life and health I will come and see you the business of making wheels hear is very good I could have steady imployment for two or three hands at eight dollars a peace winsor chairs is not so good I expect to make two thousand dollars this year if I keep my health and I hope this will find you all in good health and prosperity I have no news but one thing that you will be surprsid to hear that is I have left of all kinds of debautcherys I have it in my power now to mary to great advantage I have several French ladys at my command.I have acquired the French language … Stephen ForsterDirect your letter to the care of James godberry County of Acadia twenty leagues above orlians … Parish of St James"Meadville January the 6 1817 Chambers Forster to his wife Mary Forster Lawrenceburgh Indiana"Dear wife I expect that you will think Long to hear from me and I hope and trust in god that these few lines will find you and the children in a better state of health than you was when I left you I have had a very disagreeable journey so far I roade before I got to Pitt one hundred miles out of my roade to see one man that had taken a list of your fathers Property and when I got thare he was dead which cept me five days Longer than I would have been gitting to Pittsburgh and when I got thare I had but one half dollar and nither Shroads nor either of the boys was at home and I could not git one cent in the place and there I was obliged to stay one hole weeak and at last met with one of my old friends from this place and I got as much from him as bore my expenses hear and I have got money hear to go on with from hear and tomorrow morning I start to harrisburgh I will right to you again I have thought the time very Long since I left home but I shall push on as fast as possible from hear until I git to my journeys end and then from that home. John and Catherine Mead sends there love and compliments to you. … Chambers Forster"

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(Foundation) Reizei family Shiguretei library, NHK editionBiblio.com

The Reizei Family's Treasure Exhibition: The Heart of Kyoto's Elegant Waka Poetry

19972080202105200628Not Available 1997. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 225 2 6 Not Available paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €

(Hall Family)Biblio.com

The New World of Halls

0008450Halbert's Family Heritage no date. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 3 substanial vols. - over 1200 pages. Large quarto vols. Halbert's Family Heritage paperback

JAMES CUMMINGS BOOKSELLER · États-Unis55,00 $US≈ 46,54 €

(Hunter Family)Biblio.com

COLLECTION OF 15 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUNTER FAMILY OF NEW YORK c. 1907

a62554All photos printed on postcard stock 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Non-professional quality. Two photos in the lot have identification written in pencil on verso: Jane Dunlop Hunter c. 1907 ; Mabel Hunter in background. All photos appear to have been taken by same camera and about the same time. Pictures of outside of homes appears to be New York City old man with very long beard a baby old couple young woman group of men etc. VG a bit curled. unknown

Xerxesbooks · États-Unis100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €

(Hyde Family)Biblio.com

Manuscript Travel Diaries of Dr. Frederick E. Hyde 1887-1932 widower of Babbitt Soap heiress Ida J. Babbitt Hayes; with Diaries of his daughter Elizabeth â€œLizzieâ€ Alvina Hyde 1911-1912

30590Collection of 28 diaries comprising approximately 5362 manuscript pages of entries 389 manuscript pp. of memorandum notes cash accounts etc. dated 1887-1932; with 5 miscellaneous account memorandum and address books totaling 184 manuscript pp. plus 14 photographs as follows:Diaries:26 diaries approximately 5154 manuscript pp. of diary entries plus 365 manuscript pp. of memorandum notes cash accounts etc. written by Dr. Frederick E. Hyde dated 1887 1896 -1897 1900 1903-1904 1907-1909 1911-1912 1914-1919 1921-1925 1927-1929 and 1932; one day entry per page format; cheap limp leather bindings volumes measure 3" x 5 ¾" each; 12 diaries lacking spines the spines of 3 diaries are badly chipped 1 diary's front cover loose a number of the bindings are worn with chipping to covers spines otherwise interiors are good; text written mainly in ink first four volumes in pencil in a legible hand.2 diaries 208 manuscript pp. plus 24 pp. of memorandum notes cash accounts etc. written by Elizabeth "Lizzie" Alvina Hyde dated 1911 and 1912. The 1911 diary bound in stiff red cloth the 1912 diary is bound in limp red leather; both volumes measure 2 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches; in a 3 to 4 days entries per page format with most days entries completed; entries written in both ink and pencil in a crowded but legible hand; although the volumes are not identified cross-referencing with her father's diaries from the same years show that these two diaries were written by Lizzie Hyde.Miscellaneous Account Memorandum and Address Books:1 account book for expenses for "Westover Repairs" 46 manuscript pp. dated 5 February 1909 to 5 June 1923 measures 3 ½" x 6" bound in limp leather good. Appears to have been written by Dr. Hyde and to be expenses for maintenance of a country home named "Westover" in Lawrence Long Island.1 miscellaneous memorandum book 27 manuscript pp.; measures 3" x 5 ¼" bound in cloth binding written by Dr. Hyde and includes lists of books that he either read or wanted to read or add to his library plus notes on the presidential elections of 1884 and 1889 and other political notes statistics etc.1 address book 16 pp. measures 3 ½" x 4 ¼" leather includes names and addresses one to three or so entries per page not dated no signature likely kept Dr. Hyde.1 address book 63 manuscript pp. measures 3 ½" x 5 ¾" not dated bound in limp leather binding chipped includes names and addresses likely written by Dr. Hyde. This volume appears to be older than the one above.1 address book letters and telegrams notes 32 manuscript pp. measures 3 ¼" x 4 ½" bound in limp leather includes names and dates of letters and telegrams sent likely kept by Dr. Hyde.Photographs:10 carte-de visite photographs of Hyde family members including: 1 of Dr. Frederick E. Hyde taken in Paris France c.1870s; 1 of Elizabeth Alvina Hyde as a young woman dated 1890 taken by a Utica New York photographer W.C. North; 1 of Ida Josephine Babbitt as a young woman before she was married taken in a NYC studio; and the daughters of Ralph and Mary Hyde: 1 of Florence Emily Hyde; 1 of Alice Mary Hyde; 1 of Isabel Campbell Hyde; 1 of Ethel Hyde; 1 of Loina Brooks Hyde; as well as 2 unlabeled. 1 cabinet card black and white photograph of Ralph Underhill Hyde dated August 1896. 1 black and white matted portrait of Dr. Frederick E. Hyde dated c. 1897. 1 tintype photograph of Ida Josephine Babbitt as a young woman not dated.1 black and white photograph measures 3" x 5 ½" of a group of men and women labeled: "At Mr. and Mrs. Warner M. Leed's residence Santa Barbara Cal. June 20 1919 Mr. Herbert M. Hyde at left."Description of Diaries:The 26 diaries kept by Dr. Hyde record the events of his many trips around the world. The wealthy widower of Babbitt Soap heiress Ida J. Babbitt Hayes Dr. Hyde traveled extensively after the death of his wife and was often accompanied by his second wife Katherine and/or his children and other family members. Hyde enjoyed first class travel on notable ships took many voyages to Europe and many other destinations stayed at the finest hotels; took a few train trips to the West Coast with nice accommodations on the Overland Limited; took a train trip to the 1915 San Francisco Panama Exposition plus regular trips to Pocono Manor Inn in Pennsylvania; York Cliffs in Maine; Ridgefield Connecticut and Atlantic City New Jersey. He also visited Canada and New Hampshire's White Mountains. The diaries were kept while traveling as follows:1887 – Steamer Germanic for England Italy etc.; 96 pp. 22 pp.1896 – France and Middle East; ship passage from France through Port Said via Gulf of Suez Bombay India etc. diary is for month of December only 31 pp.1897 - India Italy France and England – trip to India November 1896 to 13 August 1897 included Dr. Hyde Elizabeth Josephine Mabel a maid and a courier; 200 pp. 21pp.1900 - Egypt – Nile River trip Pyramids Cairo Luxor and Europe: Turkey Greece Italy Austria France England etc. included Dr. Hyde Isabel C. Hyde Ida Josephine Hyde; 149 pp. 11 pp.1903 – England - 25 July to 24 Oct included Elizabeth Mabel Talbot Dr. Hyde to England down the Wye Paris – Tours Chateaux; 102 pp. 30 pp.1904 - France – automobile tour in Chateau Country– 22 April to 16 July party includes Wm. Lord Sexton Mrs. Sexton Dr. Hyde's daughter Dr. Hyde; White Star Line "Canopia"to Azores Gibraltar Marseilles & Genoa; White Star Line "Cedric" Liverpool to NYC; 99 pp. 21 pp.1907 - Ship France to Paris France Palermo – Sicily and Europe– Dr. and Mrs. Hyde to Italy Sicily Capri Sorrento Amalfi Ravello La Cava Naples etc. left 20 April on the Str Republic and arrived home 5 September on the Str. Romanic went to Camden Maine in September; 164 pp. 33 pp.1908 - Steamer Majestic Paris Tours Verona train trip Geneva London; Dr. and Mrs. Hyde sailed from NYC 29 April Str. Majestic for Cherbourg arriving 6 May; arrive Paris following day; visit Paris Tours Cortina Verona Bellagio Zermatt Geneva London leave England on 22 Oct on the Str. Cedric Liverpool to New York arrive 30 October; 240 pp. 27 pp.1909 – Lawrence L.I. New York; Pocono Manor Inn Pennsylvania; and Ridgefield Connecticut; 118 pp. 3 pp.1911 - Trip Islesboro Isle au Hart sailing trip Ridgefield Connecticut; 220 pp. 2 pp.1912 - Steamer Lapland New York to Antwerp Montreux Lucerne comments on Titanic disaster– left New York 18 May arrived home in New York 29 September; visited Paris Montreux Rossinière Oberhofen Lake Thun Lucerne Interlaken; 268 pp. 27 pp.1914 - Trip to Bermuda plus Pocono Manor Inn Pennsylvania; York Cliffs Maine; Walpole New Hampshire; 188 pp. 15 pp.1915 - Train Overland Limited to San Fran Panama Expo stays Fairmont Hotel muscles sore walking on the hills to Sausalito Presidio San Francisco – "numerous guns & mortars" trip to Santa Barbara; other trips to Washington D.C.; Greenwich New York; Magnolia Massachusetts; Walpole New Hampshire; Buffalo New York; the Dr. traveled mainly with his wife in 1915; 207 pp. 12 pp.1916 - Pocono Manor Inn Pennsylvania and York Cliffs Maine trip to U.S. Military Reservation – the Dr. traveled with his wife also went to New York City Philadelphia White Mountains etc.; 134 pp. 5 pp.1917 - Pocono Manor Inn and Atlantic City train trip to California – Pasadena Riverside votes "no" on Women's Suffrage Nov 6 election; 239 pp. 4 pp.1918 – Pasadena Del Norte Santa Barbara Los Angeles San Francisco CA; York Cliffs Maine; Pocono Manor Pennsylvania; 231 pp 12 pp.1919 – Atlantic City New Jersey; Pocono Manor Pennsylvania; and York Cliffs Maine; 211 pp. 1921 – SS Olympicto Paris Tours– the Dr. traveled with his wife; left New York on White Star S.S. Olympic 15 Oct; arrived Cherbourg 22 Oct visited Paris and Tours still in Paris when year ended; 188 pp. 26 pp.1922 – SS OlympicParis to NY Cannes Ridgefield Connecticut – diary begins in Paris visits Cannes before going home to New York in April; makes trip to York Cliffs Maine and later in year as well; 322 pp. 29 pp.1923 – Quebec Canada; Wash. D.C.; Burlington Vermont; Pocono Manor Inn; 184 pp. 11 pp.1924 – To London and elsewhere in England; 259 pp. 20 pp.1925– SS France to Paris stays Villa Serbelloni Lake Como Switzerland; Atlantic City351 pp. 25 pp.1927– Atlantic City New Jersey; and various U.S. locales; 325 pp. 2 pp.1928 – To Europe U.S.; 298 pp. 4 pp.1929 – Home New York; 257 pp. 3 pp.1932 – Appears to be home; 54 pp. The two diaries kept by Elizabeth Alvina Hyde are crammed with entries on many events family gatherings club work and some U.S. travel. She leases a place on Park Avenue in New York City. Of particular interest are entries from April 1912 which comment on the Titanic disaster. The rear of the 1912 diary has ten pages of interesting entries in the memorandum section pertaining to parish work helping young girls make flowers and cross-stiches for sale etc."April 16 1912. White Star new boat Titanic was sunk after striking iceberg off Newfoundland early morning of 15th April 1000 lives lost. Survivors coming here on Carpathia."April 19 1912. Carpathia in last night with less than 800 survivors. Senate Investigation Committee begins probe into cause of accident. Sinking of Titanic greatest disaster of modern times…" Babbitt and Hyde Families Benjamin Talbot Babbitt 1809-1889 was a self-made American businessman and inventor who amassed a fortune in the soap industry manufacturing Babbitt's Best Soap. He was born in 1809 in Westmoreland Oneida Co. New York the son of blacksmith Nathaniel Babbitt 1769-1855 and Betsey Holman 1768-. In 1851 he became the first to manufacture and market soap in individual bars which he packaged attractively and added a claim of quality. He took the ordinary and proved it could be turned into a marketable product. Babbitt invented most of the machinery he used in his production plants. He owned extensive ironworks and machine shops in Whitesboro New York. He held more than 100 patents. Babbitt became known as a genius of advertising. He rivaled his friend P. T. Barnum in originality and success becoming a household name throughout the U.S. His soap was one of the first nationally advertised products. The soap was sold from brightly painted street cars with musicians which helped lead to the iconic phrase: "get on the bandwagon." Babbitt was the first manufacturer to offer tours of his factories and one of the first to give away free samples.Babbitt died October 20 1889 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery Bronx New York. He was survived by his wife Rebecca McDuffie Babbitt 1820 - 1894 and his two daughters Ida Babbitt Hyde 1845-1896 and Lillia Babbitt Hyde 1856–1939 to whom he left one half of his $5000000 estate as well as the controlling interest in his company. Lillia Babbitt Hyde established The Lillia Babbitt Hyde Foundation in 1924 and served as its president until her death in 1939. The bulk of her estate was left to the Foundation raising the value of its assets as of June 1941 to approximately $3200000. Lillia Babbitt Hyde married Clarence Melville Hyde 1846-1908 the brother of Dr. Frederick E. Hyde who married Lillia's sister Ida Josephine Babbitt Hyde.Ida Josephine Babbitt Hyde married Dr. Frederick E. Hyde on 27 March 1869. The Hyde brothers were the sons of Edwin Hyde of Groton Connecticut and Elizabeth Alvina Mead. The Hyde family was the direct descendant of Sgt. James Hyde Jr. 1753-1809 of Norwich Connecticut who served with the 4th Regt. Connecticut Line in the American Revolution and was at Germantown Valley Forge Monmouth Stony Point and Yorktown. Dr. Hyde was born in New York City on 25 February 1844.Together Ida and her husband Frederick had at least four children: Elizabeth Alvina Hyde 1870-; Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde 1872-1933 who married Edith Moore daughter of James Moore of New York City in 1910; Frederick Hyde Jr. 1874-; and Ida Josephine Hyde 1877- who married William Lord Sexton; and Mabel Hyde 1882-. The Hyde's educated their sons at St. Paul's Military School on Long Island. When the Hyde's were first married the couple set up home in Ida Babbitt's parent's house on 36th Street in Manhattan in a fashionable neighborhood and Hyde at the insistence of Mrs. Babbitt had a medical practice for only the "best families" in New York City. The Hyde family also kept a country place "Quaker Ridge Farm" in North Greenwich Connecticut. By 1900 the Hyde's moved uptown to West 69th Street where they kept a large house with nine servants housekeeper cook maid parlor maid chamber maid waitress laundress lady's maid and a general servant.In 1889 Benjamin Babbitt died leaving a great inheritance that was split between his wife and two daughters. However his daughter Ida died six months later and her share of his estate in the millions went to her husband and two sons. After the death of his wife Ida Dr. Frederick E. Hyde retired from practicing medicine and spent a good deal of time traveling and pursuing his hobbies and philanthropic pursuits. There is a fjord in Greenland named Frederick E. Hyde Fjord. The fjord is located on a peninsula known as Peary Land. Frederick E. Hyde Fjord divides Peary Land into North Peary Land and South Peary Land. Robert E. Peary had been the first to reach the North Pole and the northernmost part of Greenland is called Peary Land. In a book written by Robert Peary entitled Nearest the Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt 1905 -1906 on page 329 we learn that Peary's Expedition of 1898-1902 was made under the auspices of and with funds furnished by the Peary Arctic Club of New York City of which Frederick E. Hyde was a member and supporter. The book includes a chapter on the Peary Arctic Club. Frederick E. Hyde was one of the founding members and was elected as its first vice president. Dr. Frederick Erastus Hyde and his sons Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde and Frederick Erastus Hyde Jr. were members of several scientific institutions. Dr. Hyde was member and benefactor of the Linnaean Society the American Museum of Natural History and the American Association for the Advancement of Science among others. Frederick Jr. and his brother Benjamin were also members of some of the same organizations as their father. They also financed explorations in the American Southwest between 1893 and 1907. Dr. Hyde's sons founded the Hyde Exploring Expedition which helped to fund the work of Richard Wetherill 1858–1910 from about 1893 to 1903. Wetherill was a member of a prominent Colorado ranching family and was an amateur explorer in the discovery research and excavation of sites associated with the Ancient Pueblo People. Wetherill is credited with the discovery of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde and was responsible for initially selecting the term Anasazi Navajo for ancient enemies as the name for these ancient people. He also discovered Kiet Seel ruin now included along with Betatakin ruin in Navajo National Monument in northeastern Arizona. "Slightly smaller than Cliff Palace Kiet Seel possesses qualities that in the eyes of some lend it greater charm and interest." Wetherill became fascinated by the ruins and artifacts and made a career as an explorer guide excavator and trading post operator.Predating this collection of diaries Dr. Hyde and his sons went on a world tour in 1892 and spent 70 days on horseback in Palestine and the Saini. Dr. Hyde died at the age of 92 on 16 September 1936 at his summer home in East Hampton L.I. Sample Quotes from the Diaries:"December 9 1896 …Arrival Port Said about 8 p.m. anchored in canal. Cable to CMH 25 words…Most of passengers went ashore. We remained onboard. Coaled 800 tons in 4 hrs 9 to 1 night. Coal carried in baskets on shoulders of natives up planks 18-inch-wide 2 lines natives each side of boat.""January 13 1897Leave 3:16 for Calcutta…Effect of Hindu worship as exhibited at Benares is disgusting & depressing.""January 14 1897Arrived at Howrah Station Calcutta 6:45 a.m. on time…atmosphere of hotel depressing. Small pox at Howrah Cholera at Columbo. Drove at 4 ½ p.m. Could not get livery carriage. A vice regal council being held. So took gharry skeletons of horses with strings of white beads around their necks." Howrah Junction also known as Howrah Station is the largest railway complex in India and it is a railway station which serves Kolkata and Howrah India"January 27 1900Left Abou Simbel at 8 a.m. warm day. Smooth water not a ripple. Am. Derr after tea dusty walk to temple through dirty village of mud huts. Temple not especially interesting.While visiting temple the Str. went across the river tied up at a sand flat. We were taken in yawl to east side of sand flat. The men were carried ashore & walked across flat to St. The ladies were rowed around in the boat. This shifting of the boat many considered entirely unnecessary. Derr temple not worth the annoyance. Tied up for the night at Magharah about 9:30 p.m." The Temple of Derr or el-Derr is a speos or rock-cut Egyptian temple in Lower Nubia. It was built during the 19th Dynasty by Pharaoh Ramesses II"February 13 1900Assonan. 8 a.m. clear cool west side of Cataract Hotel.Left hotel 9:45 a.m. rode donkey to Barrage. John Arid & Co. contractors Fitzmaurice engineer. Mr. Mikelitis took us over the work 5600 men now employed 4000 of whom Italian stonecutters 34 sluice gates. The cubic meter the basis of labor payments. Boxes holding just 1 cm take out all the stone. 2 coffer dams over the cataract build permanent damn between. Left 12:28 to return Cataract Hotel 1:10" The Assiut Barrage is a dam on the Nile River in the city of Assiut in Upper Egypt 250 miles to the south of Cairo. It was completed in 1903"March 23 1900Constantinople. Clear cool. 9:45 called at Am Legation & obtained formal permit to see the Salamlik procession from windows in ___ opposite the private mosque of the Sultan. Soldiers gathered for an hour before the Sultan appeared in a bret drawn by 2 white horses. Opp the Sultan sat the Minister of War. Entered the mosque at 12:30 & came out at 12:50. Appears to be about 60 yrs of age. Prince in a carriage about 6 years 2 male companions walking. Ladies in harem in 4 coupes eunuchs walking. Regimental music excellent. 2 crack regts browns & grays cavalry. Back to hotel for lunch 2 p.m…" Abdul Hamid II 1842-1918 was the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the last Sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state"January 12 1909Signed lease today for "Westover' Lawrence L.I. NY period of five years from May 1 1909.""January 23 191210:21 train in Lawrence to Flatbush Ave Subway to 42d St taxi to 42d & 5th Ave & Penn Station 12 noon train to Broad St. Phila met Talbot in train met Charles Schedell at Broad St talked about repairs & insurance to warehouse 9th & Jefferson Sts. Met D.E. Dallam at his office 514 Walnut St. talked about sale or lease of warehouse. Left Phila 4:00 p.m. in Penn Station NY 6 p.m. took 6;17 p.m. L.I. train arr. Lawrence 6:57 p.m""November 8 1912Lovely autumn day. Maurice Fitzgibbons left Egan's Stables 205 East 38th St at 11:30 a.m. with Mabel's horses Peter Pan and Lady Woodstock. Came via 34th St Ferry L.I. City & Jamaica arrived at Westover Lawrence at 3:30 p.m.""San Francisco TripMarch 24 1915Left Lawrence on 11:51 a.m. train for Penn Station NY arrived 12:41 checked ulster in pared room. Katherine & I then had lunch in Penn Restaurant. Afternoon rechecked trunk to San Francisco & took suit case in taxi to do some shopping…after further shopping arrived at Penn Station at 4:30 p.m. Elizabeth and Mabel arrived soon went aboard Overland Limited train leaving at 5:04 for Chicago. Katharine seeing us off. Dropped letter off for K at Harrisburg at 9:31 p.m. E & M had drawing room A in car 6 I h ad section 12 next to it.""NY to San FranciscoMarch 25 1915Passed Pittsburg 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time 2:30 Central Time. Changed here. Looking out my window as trains was leaving Pittsburg we were apparently passing through a brilliantly lighted subway. Archeo and Architectural lines with electric lights about two feet apart.Arrived in Chicago 2 p.m on time. As we were to leave here on the Chicago & Northwestern R.R. at 7:00 we had five hours so took rooms at Blackstone Hotel with baths refreshed ourselves with tubs & I with a shave & at 5:20 had a most satisfactory dinner. Left Chicago at 7 p.m. in car "Colorado" E & M in drawing room A & I in Section 8 same car. Mailed letter to K written on train also sent K night letter at 3 p.m. also mailed office key about 5 p.m.""NY to San FranciscoMarch 26 1915Arrived Omaha 7:30 a.m. mailed letter to K dressed & went out at the station to stretch my legs & get some fresh air. Weather cold. Station active engines moving about. Smoky atmosphere from much bituminous coal. Left Omaha at 8:00 a.m. light snowfall during the day. Patches of snow over the country apparently recent.Cold weather today temp. on floor of car platform at 11:40 a.m. 28˚ F in the car 67˚ F 4 p.m. on platform 30˚F. Some snow drifted in on the platforms of the train.Arrived North Platte at 2:40 p.m. Central Time 1:40 Mountain Time at 12:21 p.m. passed Kearney where in 1866 I crossed the Platte River in a box wagon drawn by four mules or horses each pair controlled by a man up to his shoulders in the water.""NY to San FranciscoMarch 27 1915Due to a delay of 52 minutes at Green River waiting for the mail train that followed us from Chicago we were 52 minutes late arriving at Ogden due at 10:40 A.M. The Overland Limited takes a mail car from the mail train to secure the right of way over other trains if there is a congestion of trains anywhere.At Ogden Mountain Time changes to Pacific Time so put my watch back an hour. Sent train letter & telegram to K from here.15 minutes stop here & while the car wheels were being tested with a hammer it was found that one of the wheels of our car "Colorado" was broken. We were transferred to other cars there being few passengers & plenty of room. E & M to the "Deartrail" DRD & I to the Jathneil Sec 3.""NY to San FranciscoYesterday the country was covered with snow no great depth today only the mountains down to a certain line. Passing the Humboldt Mts. In the afternoon winding through the passes of the foot hills of the Sierras.At daylight to my surprise I looked out upon trees in foliage bright green grass lilies in bloom out of doors.Yesterday snow after leaving Ogden we crossed Salt Lake in on an embankment of rocks part of the way & over a wooden pile bridge another part of the way. Distance of 53 miles altogether. The lake was perfectly calm the train running slowly.We arrived at Oakland & San F on time were soon at the Fairmont Hotel Rooms 448 & 450. Night letters to K…""San FranciscoMarch 29 1915We all went to the Panama Exposition this a.m. Cables Sacramento St transfer to Polk entering East end of grounds raining. Entrance fee 50c Must be exact amount to drop in the box at gate.The Joy Zone began at East Gate walked long distance to Fillmore St gate. Left the girls returned to hotel as an earlier walk to Union Ferry down the hills was very tiresome to muscles unused to the hills. E & M took moving platform seats and rode around rest of grounds.After lunch called in Mr. Edwin Parish of Niagara Fire Ins. Co. 334 Pine St Introduction from Mr. Harold Herrick referred us for Real Estate Agent to M.V.W. McAdam Co. 58 Sutter St.""San FranciscoMarch 30 1915Rain all day. Was called up by McAdam Co. their Mr. Fuller arranged to see them later. E & M went to fair all this p.m. I went to fair this a.m. rode about the streets for 25 minutes circumnavigating the place. Wrote J.T. Johnston of St. Barbara to see houses next Monday. This address from Mr. Parish immediately after lunch Mrs. Babcock of San Rafael called on Elizabeth very pleasant. Offered her motor car for use at San R invited us to tea afterward.Had arranged to go to San Rafael today but too rainy. Rain very welcome to this neighborhood & Sacramento Valley as weather had been dry for some weeks.""San Francisco & San RafaelMarch 31 1915Took 1:55 p.m. boat at Sausalito Ferry foot Market St. half town to Sausalito electric train to San Rafael arr. 2:55 p.m were met by Mrs. Babcock car & maid Mary McNally.Visited three houses Mrs. Martin's the Schonmein & Mrs. Nel's first & last were desirable places but as the valley much semi tropical foliage & masses of flowers but houses not on sufficient elevations.1st hour might have been taken if had been on elevation with view below but from all places had to look up for view.Took tea with Mr. & Mrs. Babcock at 4:30 to 5 They were very cordial. Have beautiful home. Garden with masses of flowers lilies blooming outdoors since last October.""San F to Sta BarbaraApril 3 1915Left San F on 7:45 a.m. train of Southern Pacific RR 3d & Townsend Sts. lovely morning. E & M took breakfast at the Fairmont Hotel. I took my breakfast on the train came via San Joe 47 miles. In 1867 this stretch of RR was the only RR in the state. The train follows valley floors & some elevations till we reach Sta Margarita where the rise is quite high & we pass through 6 tunnels. IN the gaps between tunnels we look down abruptly into deep valleys all green grass covered & with a wagons road winding up & down the steep sides of the valley. The original only means of the North & South communications previous to the RR & probably the road that I went over in a stage coach from Los Angeles to San Joe in 1867. From San Louis Obispo we run to the ocean side & follow close to the brink for several miles looking down on the waves rolling up the beaches. Arr Sta B 7:40 p.m. another bus took us…""Santa BarbaraApril 5 1915…Afternoon we took trolley to the old mission of Sta Barbara. Saw it in 1867 & in 1901. About 6 yrs ago old rotted floor & wainscoting were removed tile floor & painting make it look very clean but has lost the look of age.""Nov 6 1917Election Day for Mayor of Greater New York…Voted 'No' on Suffrage for Women 'Yes' on debt limitations for county town village."

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