Famille

Colonial American Documents; including The Declaration of Independence

1982292159New York: Christie's 1982. hardcover. very good-. From the Chew Family Papers. Facsmiles. 54pp. 4to blue boards top margins throughout are wrinkled from exposure to dampness but not dampstained. New York: Christie 1982. Christie's unknown books

Argosy Book Store · États-Unis13,13 $US≈ 11,11 €

Choisy Albert. Mallet familyABAA

Notice Genealogique et Historique sur la Famille Mallet de Geneve; Originaire de Rouen

1930253720Geneva: imprimerie Atar 1930. xi 163p. contents errata leaf illustrated with genealogical material listed every entry with a long folded chart at terminus. Find a single color-lithographed armorial numerous portraits on inserted coated stock a facsimile map and many facsimile signatures. The original issue was evidently much-thumbed and resorted-to and was rebound in morocco its present condition t.e.g. its rubricated cover-wrapper bound in this badly chipped along bottom edge with left-margin adhesive-tape remnants or scars smudging and dust-soil. Rear cover-wrap missing. Content otherwise clean and sound with one pencilled autograph on ffep of a Mallet Percy S. who moved to Garden City NY datelining 1930 the publication year. The 3/4 leather job was also much-consulted and it too has suffered: front cover joint has split although hinge is holding and all extremities show abrasion. As is aesthetically but remains useful malletically. A couple of Mallets migrated to Britain and were knighted. Curiously all Mallets mentioned are males spontaneous generation may be behind their famousness. imprimerie Atar unknown books

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CIRCUS Cooke FamilyABAA

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

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

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Clark FamilyABAA

A Collection of Ephemera Relating to the Clark Family of Amity CT

177820000275Amity & Woodbridge CT 1778-1848. General wear. Letter folds some separation at folds. . A collection of approximately thirty-eight 38 pieces of ephemera relating to the Clark family of Amity CT. The the bulk of materials dating from the 1790s to the 1810s. The majority of the collection focuses on the patriarch of the family Lazarus Clark 1795-1818 following his death the remaining materials relate to his sons Jeremiah Andrew and William or one of his grandsons Alinzaor Jeremiah's son.The collection mostly consists of Receipts and payment intent - fourteen 14 in number which were short financial agreements between Lazarus and other gentlemen in which he agreed to pay with ""lawful money"" the debt he owed. Several make reference to a time frame in which he had to pay back the debt such as sixty days or one year at which times there is also reference to paying an interest on the debt. It appears as though once Lazarus would pay of the amount owed he would either rip off or cut out his name from the note so that the note was no longer valid. There are a few notes of this nature between his sons and/or grandsons and their debtors. Measures 6 1/2"" x 3 3/4"" sample. Itemized Invoices for goods and servic -There are approximately a dozen detailed bills belonging to Lazarus in which individual items itemized out varying in length from a few items to to the majority with full page itemizations over 40 itemes Some examples of the items and amounts purchased are: quart lisbon wine silk & thread for Patty Lazarus' daughter 5 yards linen and half a pound of sushen tea. There are some indications in the Woodbridge town history that Lazarus' house was a tavern at on. Woodbridge Citizen Ledger- 42 page booklet bound by thread which appears to be missing its wrappers if not a page or two. Names of Woodbridge's citizens listed alphabetically with some sort of unidentified adjacent checkmarks. It appears that it might have something to do with the town's taxes as on the back of the book is written ""It was voted by the inhabitants of the town of Woodbridge at their meeting in December 18 1786 and for a period thereafter rate to be paid the First of April next."" There are short notes beside some of the names indicating if the amount was paid though sometimes these notes state that it was paid by a different individual than the one named. Measures 6 1/4"" x 3 1/4"". There several loose papers filled out in a similar manner one of the smallest of which does say ""Amity Bill 1795"". On one of these pieces it appears as though the amount owed was divided up between ten men. Their names amount owed and the calculations done in order to figure out the amount owed by each individual are recorded. Another item is a letter dated August 19th 1805 from David Brown of Derby. The letter concerns a tippet that Mrs. Hotchkiss took and destroyed and Brown appears to have been writing Lazarus in the hopes that he would help to resolve the matter before Brown would be forced to ""putting of it in suit without any further delay."" This letter supports along with the possible tax records that Lazarus held some sort of important position within the town however the exact position is never specified either within the items in collection or the research done on Lazarus himself. The collection also contains a second booklet with four pages of content including a similar list of names plus six pges of genealogical records such as marriage birth and death dates. The remainder is blank.The last three pieces of ephemera in the collection are relating to the sale or transfer of land in the area however only one of which names a Clark within the text. In that document it relates the sale of Dible Farm to a William Clark in 1828. Of the two land agreements not naming a Clark one is the deed to the piece of property called Green Farms in Fairfield CT and the other is a copy of the land deed for a property belonging to a Joseph Syler. There is even a short note on the back of this copy which states ""Fees for Searching records & Copy $ 0=25 sic"". Measures 12"" x 7 3/4"" sample. One piece has a small note on the back along with these practice signatures which has the appearance of a short diary entry discussing the day's weather before it ends abruptly. To view the collection please click on the following link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2FDfC2yTTX6c2Fyd8 Lazarus Clark was among one of the first settlers of the town of Amity in Connecticut and he even swore an oath of fidelity to this end in 1784 along with all the other citizens of the town. The town of Amity is no longer in existence today however it was located in what is now part of Bethany Orange and New Haven with the majority of it located in Woodbridge CT. In fact the house Lazarus Clark built for his family in 1795 which still stands today is in Woodbridge CT. Due to Lazarus' being a part of the founding settlers of the town he was one of its prominent citizens and there are indications in the town records that he was a Deacon at the local parish. Lazarus Clark was born on December 23 1745 in Milford CT to David Clark 1713-1800 and Hannah Peck 1716-1815. He married Dennis/Denise Bradley 1753-1802 in 1771. They had seven children: Lazarus Clark Jr. 1773-1806 Dr. Jeremiah C. Clark Dennis Clark Carrington 1780-1847 Oliver R. Clark 1780-1847 Patty Clark Riggs 1785- Andrew Clark 1789-1865 William Clark 1895-1862 and David William Clark 1829-1889. Lazarus and his family were some of the first official settlers of the town of Amity later Woodbridge CT. After his first wife died he married Hannah Baldwin Clark 1747-1823. He died on August 19 1818 at the age of 72 in Woodbridge CT. unknown books

Eclectibles · États-Unis400,00 $US≈ 338,44 €

Clark Family LettersABAA

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 books

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

Clinton Hillary RodhamABAA

DEAR SOCKS DEAR BUDDY. KID'S LETTERS TO THE FIRST PETS

1998104167NY: Simon & Schuster 1998. First edition first prnt. Color and black and white photographs. Signed by Clinton on the front free endpage not a tipped-in leaf. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books

Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 296,14 €

Colgate a Colby Family LettersABAA

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

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

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

Connett FamilyABAA

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

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

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

Cooke Donald E. Richard Nixon FamilyABAA

Atlas of the Presidents; Illustrated maps by Dwight Dobbins

19672659Maplewood NJ: Hammond Inc 1967. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Atlas of the Presidents signed by President Richard Nixon First Lady Pat Nixon Julie Eisenhower and Edward F. Cox. Octavo 86pp 8. Blue hardcover title printed on spine illustration on front cover. Shelf wear at edges. Stated "Revised Edition 1967" on copyright page. In publishers dust jacket $3.50 on front flap shelf wear and some toning to spine. Signed by members of the Nixon family on the front free endpaper. A unique item with Pat Nixon signing very few books during her lifetime. Atlas of the Presidents by Donald Cooke details presidential travel the addition of new states changing maps during wartime and voting results in each election. It covers every president through Lyndon Johnson. Hammond, Inc hardcover books

The First Edition Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis475,00 $US≈ 401,90 €

Counterculture Williams Paul & FamilyABAA

Time Between Signed

197217049New York: Entwhistle Books 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edtion of this facsimile of the original manuscript written by Paul Williams founder of Crawdaddy Magazine the first journal to seriously critique the rock and roll scene. 186 pp. A collection of autobiographical essays poems and other writings by Williams. Published in an edition of five hundered hand-numbered and SIGNED copies. This is number 50. Covers dusty with age but a generally clean and sound very good copy in black boards printed in gold. Entwhistle Books hardcover books

Derringer Books · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

Cricket. Blomfield Family. Charterhouse School. Haileybury SchoolABAA

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

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

Michael Laird Rare Books LLC · États-Unis720,00 $US≈ 609,19 €

Cuneo Family Cyrus Cuneo Rinaldo Cuneo Egisto CuneoABAA

Cuneo: a family of early California Artists; July 16 - September 27 2009 presented by the Museo Italo Americano

2009155946San Francisco: Museo Italo Americano 2009. 16p including covers 8.5x11 inches color plates very good exhibition catalogue in stiff pictorial stapled wraps. Museo Italo Americano unknown books

Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis18,00 $US≈ 15,23 €

CURTIS Jamie LeeABAA

When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth

199324744NY: HarperCollins. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0060210788 . Illustrated by Laura Cornell. A later printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . HarperCollins hardcover books

Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis14,00 $US≈ 11,85 €

David Rockefeller FamilyABAA

A Book of Memories. Peggy McGrath Rockefeller. 1915-1995

199628422New York: David Rockefeller Family 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Gift note in separate card from David Rockefeller to original recipient laid in. 165 pp. 4to. Light scuffing to dust jacket now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards. Clean and crisp within. David Rockefeller Family hardcover books

Artisan Books & Bindery ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis60,00 $US≈ 50,77 €

Del Monte Domingo. Delmonte family. George A. Leavitt & CoABAA

Catalogue of the third part of the remarkable library collected in Spain Cuba and the United States by the family of Del Monte Cover title: Biblioteca Hispano-Americana et Miscellanea

188835763New York: Geo. A. Leavitt 1888. First edition. Cloth. Very good original wrappers chipped and repaired last leaf detached occasional pencil check mark. 164 pp. 8vo. Auction on June 21 and 22 1888 of 645 outstanding rarities chiefly with extensive notes. Provenance: From the library of Alberto ParreÃ±o with his bookplate on front pastedown. Uncommon. Geo. A. Leavitt hardcover books

Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €

Dennett Family LettersABAA

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

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

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Domestic Economy. 'By the "Author of the Family Book"'ABAA

The WORKING MAN'S WIFE

34785London: The Religious Tract Society n. d. Circa mid-1800s. Not in Attar's HOUSEHOLD BOOKS and OCLC records just 6 institutional holdings. Green fine-weave flexible cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front cover. Pale yellow eps. Gilt bright. A VG copy. iv 176 pp including Index. 16mo. 5-11/16" x 3-1/2" A 'how-to' with such chapters as Duty Domestic Management & Useful Recipes. This latter tells us "How to make a joint serve a week." Can you say 'frugal' The Religious Tract Society hardcover books

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Dubuisson family.ABAA

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

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

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Eden Ross LipsonABAA

The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books For Children

1988003205Times Books 1988 1988. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket. Great reference work. Times Books, 1988 Hardcover books

Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis20,00 $US≈ 16,92 €

Edgeworth FamilyABAA

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

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

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Ellen Handler SpitzABAA

Inside Picture Books

1999005612Yale 1999. Book. As New. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yale Hardcover books

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Emerson FamilyABAA

A Collection of Letters to the Emerson Family

184720000175Ireland Depot Holyoke MA 1847-1857. General wear. . A collection of eleven 11 letters belonging to the Emerson Family of Holyoke MA. The majority of the letters are send to Ireland Depot which was the name of the town's post office from the mid 1840s to mid 1850s. The letters date from 1847 to 1857 with the bulk of the correspondence between 1848 to 1850 and between Lovina H. Fay Emerson 1822-1897 and her friend Catherine A. George Bates 1826-1879. Eight of the letters are folded stampless posts the other three have their corresponding envelopes. The six letters written by Catherine A. George Bates to Lovina which start in 1847 congratulating Lovina on her recent marriage to William. The letters discuss a variety of topics but the main thread is Catherine's conversion to Christianity her conversion in 1848 along with Catherine's friend Susan Pond local events updates on sickness in the area highlights being the death of Catherine's nephew due to dysentery her father's bout with typhoid fever and her own bout with the mumps and Catherine's rather unsuccessful attempt to comfort Lovina on the upcoming birth of her first child by telling her of the death of Susan Pond's newborn twin boys. There are three letters from Paesiello Emerson 1832-1927 to his sister Mary Frances Emerson 1833-1853 who are William's children from his first marriage. Paesiello had moved from the family homestead to Ashland MA for work while Mary was still living with their father and his new wife Lovina in Holyoke MA. Paesiello writes updating his sister on his life such as sleigh rides and his new membership in the local division of the Sons of Temperance while also poetically waxing about nature and the changing of seasons. The last two letters in the collection are one-offs. The first is to William Emerson the patriarch of the family about a shipment of lumber being send to him and the request for payment. Depending on the census record William is either a carpenter or farmer. The last letter is from a C. B. Angier a distant relative of Lovina her mother's maiden name is Angier and provides a short update on their life. Below are excerpts from the letters: "I think I felt the importance of religion I saw myself to be a great sinner but I did not want you to know it. I remember well one Sunday evening there was quite a number went forward for prayer. I felt as if I must go I tried to stand but Satan whispered in my ear that if I went no one would believe that I was in earnest that I could do it better where I was & I listened to him and sat still. I think now if I had broken away from him then I might have found peace. You thought I was indifferent I was miserable for I was trying to be a Christian and have no one know it." - Catherine A. George Bates to her friend Lovina H. Fay Emerson June 22 1848 "It has been quite sickly about us one little child buried today. One case in particular I must tell you a lady 35 years old on who belonged in this neighborhood & always lived with her parents who are quite aged was married & went to her home with every prospect of happiness before she had scarcely begun to enjoy it was called to die just 4 weeks from the day she was married she was buried at the same place where she stood a bride she lay a corpse." - Catherine A. George Bates to her friend Lovina H. Fay Emerson September 21 1848 "I have just finished loading the lumber for you. A part of the boards are not such as I stands sp have had you but they are at the depot. I though I would send them there are 2330 fit sic I also send more of the short timbers which you will please see that it is unloaded & kept safety. What you can not sell please send me the money for the lumber as fast as possibly convenient and greatly oblige." - H. Williams to William Emerson May 1 1849 ". I came home I found little Frank that is Brother Hiram's youngest child very sick with Dysentery. He had not been well for a week or two before he had 10 teeth besides there were his stomach teeth & two others were swollen very hard which caused his sickness. The Doctor said it was a very doubtful case. Mother & others that saw him said he could not get well. I thought perhaps he might altho I knew he was very sick. Wednesday he seemed considerably better. Thursday he was very restless. Friday everything he took he vomited. The disease had gone to his head he would throw it from one side to the other in dreadful distress through the day. Saturday his hands & feet were very cold could not warm them thought he could no live the night out but by rubbing he seemed to get a little rest. He was so thirsty could raise himself & grasp the tumbler & look so wistful as if he thought we could help him the Dr. told us he thought he would have spasms but he did not he grew weaker and weaker until about 6 o'clock Sunday night. Mother was over him & noticed a change & called to us it was but to see him gasp his last breath. He had turned his eyes towards the window and thus without a groan or struggle he fell asleep in the arms of his savior just like the going down of the sun altho set forever to this world it shall dawn in a bright & better world as I gaxed sic upon him now still in death & kissed his cold lips I said is this death As this was the first I ever witnessed. The impression I received is pleasant Oh! that I may so live that when I die it may be as well with me as I believe it is with him. the mother appears calm & resigned to this event as well as looking forward to a time not far distant when another treasure may be sent to her I shall feel very anxious to hear from you after you receive this as the critical time of which spoke is near at hand. You must keep could courage Lovina is pregnant with her first child will be born in October 1849. Friend Susan was very sick when her children were born only think she had two sons one weighted 3 1/2 the other 7 pounds. The latter was dead the little one lived two days. She was so disappointed when it died she got a long remarkably well herself & has been very well during the summer. I wish you could see her it would do you good she wished me to give you her love and good wishes. I think I have not written you since the California fever has done such destructive work carrying off its hundreds and thousands from their homes and the enjoyments of life where and for what do they thus sacrifice their lives For gold that shall perish it appears strange to me that so many are ready to leave all & go. I am thankful there has none of my relations gone as yet but numbers of friends & acquaintances have gone. Some have arrived there & others that have not been heard from. " - Catherine A. George Bates to her friend Lovina H. Fay Emerson September 23 1849 "I haven't anything to do and have not had much for two months past I have carved my earned my board and that is about all. If I don't have something to do before long I shall be sick or crazy or something else. But there are signs of business being better before a great while. I still board at Mr. Montague and I think I shall as long as they will keep me. Last Friday I took a sleigh ride about five miles with another person who I shall not name here. It being a pleasant afternoon we had a first rate time and got home at last safe and sound." - George P. Emerson to Miss Mary Emerson January 4 1850 "But spring has come and with it pretty blue birds how pretty they sing in the morning. Winter has gone and with it the cold blistering days and nights with its long evenings and cold snows. Summer will soon be here with its long hot sultry days and soon will be the days when we shall hear the distant muttering thunder and see the dark black clouds with its forked lighting. I joined the Division of Sons of Temperance four weeks ago last night and I like them very much." - George P. Emerson to Miss Mary Emerson April 2 1850 "Your letter came to hand soon after date it found me watching by the sick bed of my dear Father he was taken sick the week after I came home with Typhoid fever. he complained of his dead did not seem to know or remember anything said it did not seem like his own head. the Dr. came but not do anything for him we dismissed him & called another & one to consult & before night they bled & blistered him & give him medicine which roused him he would talk one day about everything did not know us at all the next would sleep all day so sound that we could not wake him. my health has been good except about 3 weeks I had the mumps they went to my head & I had sores in my ears it was bad but I felt so anxious about Father that I did not mind it." - - Catherine A. George Bates to her friend Lovina H. Fay Emerson July 21 1857 For the entirety of her letters in these collection Catherine sometimes spelled Catarina in census records signs her name C. A. George as she does not marry a man named Lafayette Bates until 1862. William Goddard Emerson was born on January 21 1806 to Reuben Babcock 1755-1844 and Hannah Goddard 1761-1857 in Northborough MA. As William does not have the same last name as his parents he might have been adopted or for some reason changed his name later in life. William had twelve siblings. He married Susan Perkins 1804-1843 on October 13 1831 and had five children: George Paesiello Emerson 1832-1927 Mary Frances Emerson 1833-1853 Ginevra Emerson 1836-1838 Arthur Emerson 1838-1841 and Marcellus Emerson 1843-1878. After Susan died in 1843 he remarried on August 8 1847 to Lovina H. Fay 1822-1897. With his second wife Lovina he had four children: William Francis Emerson 1849-1931 Annie Elizabeth Emerson 1859-1941 Mary G. Emerson 1861-1863 and Henry Howard Emerson 1865-1943. He died on April 19 1887 of old age. hardcover books

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Fagg and Szarvas Family PapersABAA

Manuscript Archive of the interrelated Fagg and Szarvas Families including: Correspondence of Kenneth Stanley Fagg commercial and advertising artist while a student at University of Wisconsin and later in New York as an art student and while working as an illustrator and his student fiancÃ© and later wife school teacher Marion Rebuschatis of Washington D.C. and related correspondence of the family of Theodore "Theodore of the Ritz" Szarvas maÃ®tre d' hotel of the Ritz Carleton whose daughter Janet married the noted IBM Computer Engineer Peter Fagg son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg. The Archive includes diaries photographs manuscript and printed paper ephemera all dated 1896-1983.

30907Large Archive includes 2191 letters comprising 6737 manuscript and typed pages plus over 1000 pieces of paper and printed ephemera. Of the 2191 letters 1626 letters 4793 pages dated 1920-1983 are from the family of Kenneth S. Fagg and Marion Rebuschatis and their children with the remaining 565 letters 1944 pages dated 1896-1960 that of the family of Theodore Szarvas and his wife Vivian Florence Fraser and their children. Description of the Fagg family section of archive:1626 letters comprising 4793 manuscript and typed pages broken down as follows:1920s: 1920: 1 letter 7 pages; 1921: 169 letters 444 pages; 1922: 154 letters 508 pages;1923: 62 letters 186 pages;1924: 153 letters 465 pages;1925: 117 letters 387 pages;1926: 135 letters 370 pages;1927: 78 letters 201 pages;1928: 8 letters 17 pages. This part of the collection is mainly correspondence between Kenneth S. Fagg and Marion Rebuschatis both before and after they were married while they were both attending college at the University of Wisconsin and when Kenneth was attending art school in New York City and beginning his career as an artist and illustrator.1930s-1980s: 155 letters 448 pages. This section of the archive includes 52 letters written by Marion Fagg in 1938 to her Aunt Emma Noud her mother's sister. At this time the Faggs were living at Sunnyside Gardens L.I and Aunt Emma at Washington D.C. The correspondence seems to have been started with a hospital stay for a broken hip by Aunt Emma. Also included in this section of the correspondence collection are 43 letters written to Donald Fagg the son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg. Donald's brother Peter Fagg the noted IBM computer engineer wrote 24 of these letters between 1950-1952 with Donald's father writing 37 letters to him between 1947-1952 and his mother Marion 3 letters and his sister-in-law Janet Szarvas Fagg 1 letter also writing to him. Additionally there are other letters to Donald Fagg from Harvard University Boston University Ohio Wesleyan University the New York Psychiatric Institute and the Selective Service System. Donald Fagg committed suicide in 1957 and these letters written to him were apparently retained by the family after his death. In this section are also 4 letters written by Donald Fagg written to his two Aunts Margaret and Emma when he was a child. Peter Fagg also writes a letter to his parents and receives a letter from the Chappaqua Historical Society concerning the possible donation of paintings. There are also letters written to Ken and Marion from friends or family dating from the1960s-1970s.Undated Letters: 594 letters 1760 pages. Most of these undated letters do not have their mailing envelopes attached to them. There are over 500 envelopes in this collection that are not with their letters undoubtedly a good many of these letters belong to these envelopes. Kenneth S. Fagg never wrote the date on his letters until later in life thus most of these undated letters approximately 512 are written by Kenneth S. Fagg in the 1920s. The envelopes in this collection are important for helping to date the correspondence. Of course the type of stationary and the contents of the letters also help to date the letters. About 18 undated letters are written by Marion the rest of them by other correspondents.Summary: The bulk of the correspondence in this archive is mainly between Kenneth and Marion. The couple writes to each other and with occasional letters by family friends or fellow students and or business associates. Of the letters in the archive 1169 letters were written by Kenneth S. Fagg Marion wrote 262. The remaining letters were written by family friends or others. As might be expected the correspondence was heavy during the years the couple was courting engaged and the year they married. After they married in 1927 most correspondence was written by Kenneth while he was travelling or working out of town while Marion was still in either Washington D.C. or away at university occasionally there are letters between the parents and their children. Of the letters written by Kenneth S. Fagg a number of them 38 are illustrated with drawings sketches portraits cartoons of considerable interest and demonstrate Fagg's skill and talents as a graphic artist and designer etc. The letters give some interesting insight into the life of an artist and illustrator in New York City in the 1920s attending many art exhibitions at galleries theatrical performances plays or concerts while he was an art student.Description of Szarvas section of Archive:The second section of this archival collection is comprised of the correspondence of the Szarvas family Theodore "Theodore of the Ritz" Szarvas his wife Vivian Florence Fraser and their four children Theodore Jr. James H. Robert and Janet. Janet Szarvas married Peter Fagg the son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg mentioned above. It is from Janet and Peter Fagg's family that the two sections of the archive are connected and descended. This section of the archive consists of 565 letters 1944 pages dated 1896-1960.Theodore Szarvas Sr.: 69 letters 269 pages dated 1907-1952 written mainly to his wife with most being on the letterhead of the various hotels at which he was employed including: the Ritz Hotel Piccadilly London England 1909-1912 1914; Grand Hotel Royal Nagyszalloda Budapest Hungary 1913; Ritz-Carlton Hotel New York NY 1916-1917 1923 1927. 1931 Ritz-Carlton Hotel Atlantic City New Jersey 1927; The Midnight Sun Swedegran Restaurants Inc. New York NY 1938; Hotel Pierre New York New York undated. The letters are interesting as they show the movements and progress of Theodore as he builds his career and establishes himself in upper echelons of haute cuisine and fine dining. He worked at the Ritz in London and other places then went to Budapest returned to London then on to New York City where he worked at the Ritz-Carlton and where his name became synonymous with fine dining. He writes love letters and poetry to his wife discusses his work at various hotel restaurants he describes the political situation in London at the beginning of WWI when he was forced to leave his position at the Ritz due to his Hungarian nationality. During the early years of their marriage 1911-1913 when they lived in London Vivian took trips back to New York while her husband Theodore remained abroad.Vivian Florence Fraser Szarvas: 72 letters 329 pages dated 1907-1957 includes correspondence from Vivian to Theodore Szarvas before they were married 32 letters dated 1907-1909 letters during their marriage when they lived in London and she visited America twice and after they moved to America permanently. The letters show the progress of their secret courtship while they lived in New York City and later when Theodore moved to London to work at the Ritz. A couple of the later letters are to her children or a friend however the bulk of the letters are written to her husband Theodore. Sixteen of these letters are undated.Millie Hartman: mother of Vivian Florence Fraser Szarvas 69 letters 367 pages dated 1901-1920 this part of the collection consists of letters written by Mrs. Hartman to her daughter Vivian when she took two extended trips without her daughter accompanying her. One trip was to Hot Springs Virginia in 1901 and another a trip to Europe France Germany Switzerland in 1902. Vivian appears to have stayed home with family. Vivian was then a child of 11 to 12 years old. Other letters 1910-1914 are written to Vivian by her mother when Vivian left home to join and marry Theodore Szarvas in London still others written to Vivian by Millie when Vivian was in Budapest with her husband 1913 and still other letters are written Vivian when she returned to America from London. Millie signs the letters often simply with "Mother" or sometimes "Grandma & Mother." The letters to Vivian written when she went to London show her mother's displeasure at her daughter's decision to go away and marry Theodore a much older man.James and Florence Szarvas: 63 letters 190 pages dated 1927-1954 writing to his parents and siblings Florence is James Szarvas' wife while traveling abroad 1927 and 1931 as a child and later while serving in the military in WWII 1943-1945 while at Camp Upton NY Quincy MA Fort Eustis VA with Battery A 5th Battalion and later at the Antiaircraft Artillery Training Center Camp Stewart Georgia and still later at Camp Gordon Georgia and further correspondence after the war when he returned to civilian life.Janet Szarvas Fagg: 124 letters 349 pages dated 1927-1960 of which most are written in the first half of the 1950s to her mother Vivian Szarvas signing her name and her husband Peter's name. Peter's correspondence to his parents and siblings is located within the Fagg section of this archive. Janet studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City winning a couple of awards while a student. She illustrates a couple of her letters.Robert Szarvas: 13 letters 37 pages dated 1949-1954 written to his parents and siblings while serving with the 601st A.C. & W. Sqd. of the Air Force at Rothwesten Germany and stateside at Moses Lake Washington.Theodore Szarvas Jr.: 56 letters 183 pages dated 1918-1953 written while studying at M.I.T 1928-1929 while serving in WWII 1943-1945 and after the war. Thirty-six of these letters are written while young Theodore is serving in the U.S. Army with the 99th Repair Squadron 59th ADG in Guam Pearl Harbor HI Oklahoma and Texas. His letters are mainly addressed to his parents and siblings.Other letters in this collection are written to Theodore 18 letters 27 pages and to his wife Vivian 81 letters 193 pages written by friends family or business associates. There are also 6 "certificates" or letters of recommendation for Theodore which document his rise in the restaurant world. Diaries6 diaries 532 pages dated 1916-1922 as follows:Diary of Marion Rebuschatis 120 pages dated 1916 pocket diary 2 entries per page bound in leather written in ink legible hand minor wear kept while in her junior year of high school in Washington D.C.Diary of Cora Noud Rebuschatis 187 pages dated 1916 pocket diary bound in limp leather worn written closely in ink but legible two days per page with a memorandum section at bottom of page a couple of pages of cash accounts kept in rear. Cora is the sister of Marion Rebuschatis.Unidentified diary likely one of the Rebuschatis sisters likely Cora Noud Rebuschatis 124 pages dated 1917 pocket diary bound in leather worn.Unidentified diary likely one of the Rebuschatis sisters not Marion 21 pages dated 1918 kept while at Camp Merritt.Unidentified diary likely one of the Rebuschatis sisters not Marion 92 pages dated 1918-1919 stiff limp wrappers written in ink legible hand. This diary was kept while stationed at Camp Merritt during World War One. There is much description of camp life and of the soldiers arriving at Camp Merritt from the battlefront.Diary of Emma Noud 81 pages dated 1922 stiff limp wrappers written in ink legible hand kept while on a tour of Europe during which she visited Scotland England Germany Switzerland Italy France amongst other places and writes informative entries on the cities she visits. Emma Noud is either the sister or aunt of Marion Rebuschatis. Over 1000 Pieces of Miscellaneous Paper Ephemera for the Fagg and Szarvas Families as follows:524 Envelopes separated from the undated letters in collection; 120 Miscellaneous Printed and Ms Paper scraps notes etc; 35 Greeting Cards; 210 Post Cards used; 41 Newspaper & Magazine clippings; 54 Family Related Paper Ephemera - U of Wisconsin related material medical bills utility bills old check stubs report cards Will of Theodore Szarvas cemetery plot papers Red Cross ID cards Foster Parent papers Unemployment Insurance papers Immigration Inspection Card for Theodore Szarvas etc.; 46 Cards wedding invitations sympathy cards calling and business cards; 12 Theater Programs; 7 Art Exhibit Catalogues; 33 Photographs; 4 Hand Drawn Illustrations by Kenneth S. Fagg. Biography of Kenneth Stanley Fagg and Marion RebuschatisKenneth Stanley Fagg was born May 29 1901 at Chicago Illinois and died 7 January 1980. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin and afterwards studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League in New York City and became a prolific advertising and magazine illustrator book artist painter and art director.Fagg was the son of Peter Albert Fagg 1874-1968 and Eva Maude Ross 1869-1941 and the nephew of the Rev. John Gerardus Fagg 1860-1917 a missionary to China and a long time minister at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City. Kenneth's parents Peter and Eva married in Chicago on 20 Dec 1895. In 1910 Ken's father was a clerk at a bank his mother a homemaker. Peter Fagg was originally born in Wisconsin of Dutch immigrant parents his wife in Canada of Scottish immigrants. By the time the 1920 Census was taken Peter had moved his family to Los Angeles where he worked as a banker. However Kenneth moved back to Wisconsin for college.Fagg was artist and editor-in-chief during high school for the New Trier Echoes a school publication. He was for a time a member of the National Guard's K Company 11th Infantry as well as a Cadet Lieut. at the Naval Training Corps in Evanston Illinois.In 1919 Kenneth began his four years at the University of Wisconsin where he quickly established himself with the school magazine turning out dozens if not hundreds of illustrations for the Wisconsin Octopus magazine and Daily Cardinal newspaper and The Commerce Magazine there. His college graduation year book picture of 1924 stated he lived at Alhambra California. He had a very active college career at the University of Wisconsin where besides being on the varsity ski jumping team he was also a member of Delta Upsilon and served on the staff of the three different college publications as assistant art editor and as art editor for the Badger the Octopus and the Commerce Magazine. He also was involved with the Arts and Crafts Club the Display Publicity Chairman the Edwin Booth club and other activities. His senior thesis was on the novels of Honore de Balzac. It was also at college that he met his future wife Marion Rebuschatis.Marion Rebuschatis was the daughter of Wilhelm Rebuschatis 1868- and Cora Ada Noud 1868-1918 of Washington D.C. Her father was a German Russian immigrant who found work first as a printer then as a proof reader for the Government Printing Office in D.C. Her mother was the daughter of a liquor dealer and Irish immigrant James Gray Noud and his Canadian wife Ermina Beatie. Marion took a tour of Europe in 1922 as evidenced by her passport application which shows her planning to visit England Belgium France Holland Switzerland Germany Austria and Italy. Several letters from this collection are from the time that Ken & Marion corresponded when she was in Europe. Marion eventually found work as a school teacher.Marion was married to Kenneth Stanley Fagg on June 29 1927 at Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Fagg returned to New York City where they lived at Queens then West Point then later at Chappaqua. Marion appears to have graduated Central High School in Washington D.C. in 1917 then went to the University of Wisconsin where she graduated in 1923. Kenneth studied art at the AIC and Art Students League in NYC and thereafter worked steadily as a freelancer for advertising books and magazines.During the 1930s he was a resident of Los Angeles and an art director for Fox Films. By the 1940s he had settled in Chappaqua New York where he remained for the rest of his life. His illustrations appeared in Holiday Life Saturday Evening Post and many other national magazines. He was co-creator of the world's largest geophysical relief globe hand-painted for the U.S. exhibition at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. Fagg and wife had twin sons Donald Fagg 1928-1957 who committed suicide in 1957 at age 29 and Peter Fagg III 1928-2009 who died at Poughkeepsie as well as 3 grandchildren. Kenneth S. Fagg died in Mt. Kisco NY on Jan. 11 1980. His wife died previously in August of 1978. One researcher of Fagg states that the family kept virtually all his original artwork and thus his work did not reach the auction houses for many years.Kenneth's son Donald Fagg's library was donated to Ohio Wesleyan Library as the "Fagg Collection." His parents donated the books after their son's death. Donald graduated from Ohio Wesleyan Union in 1949 where he was chief justice of the Campus Court and active in all three student publications and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternities. After graduating from OWU Donald Fagg was a graduate student at Harvard University. He did field work for two years in Borneo Indonesia and helped direct the Harvard Salzburg Summer Seminary two summers. He was on the faculty of Rutgers University when he died.Kenneth and Marion's son Peter was a fairly well-known in his field as well. Peter Fagg was born on September 26 1928 in Queens New York. He was a twin brother to Donald Fagg who was his closest friend. Peter was raised in Sunnyside Queens and Chappaqua New York and attended Horace Greeley High School. Mr. Fagg continued his education at Middlebury College M.I.T. Georgetown University and Syracuse University and earned two Master's Degrees in Engineering and Astronomy. He was also a veteran of the United States Army. Mr. Fagg married Janet M. Szarvas 1926-2010 the daughter of Theodore "Theodore of the Ritz" Szarvas and Vivian his wife. Together Peter and Janet had three children Christopher Vivian and Dawn. Peter Fagg worked his entire adult life for IBM. For a number of years Mr. Fagg was the Executive Director of Research in Fishkill New York and he also managed sites in Germany England and Japan. He was integrally involved with the development of the IBM 360/370 the first supercomputer in existence. He also had a fascination with biology and chemistry which culminated in a paper he wrote on the storage of human memory which he believes is stored in the brain's DNA not in the synapses as is commonly thought. The name of the published paper is DNA as the Long Term Memory Storage Cell in the Human Brain.The Fagg family Kenneth Marion Donald Peter and Peter's wife Janet Szarvas is all buried at Washington D.C.'s Oak Hill Cemetery. Theodore "Theodore of the Ritz" Szarvas and Vivian Florence FraserTheodore Szarvas was born about 1874 in Budapest Hungary. He worked as the maitre d' or head waiter-manager at a number of the best hotel restaurants in the world including New York's Ritz-Carlton where he earned the sobriquet "Theodore of the Ritz" and which according to legend was synonymous with fine food.Correspondence in this archive shows that Theodore worked at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City from 1903 to 1906 and after that at the Hotel Astor in New York City in 1907 before moving to London England to work at the Ritz Hotel. A letter in the archive written by E. A. Pritchard of the Ritz Hotel states that Theodor Szarvas had been in the employ of the Ritz Hotel in London as head waiter in the restaurant from May 1st 1908 to October 25th 1912 then again from October 1st 1913 until October 17th 1914. The time between his two stays at the Ritz Hotel was spent at a fine hotel in Budapest which lured him away at 10000 Kr a year.Theodore's time at the Ritz Hotel in London was after Cesar Ritz retired and during the period that the famed French chef Auguste Escoffier was manager. Escoffier managed the hotel and oversaw the restaurant. Escoffier and Cesar Ritz had worked together running Richard D'Oyly Carte's Savoy Hotel the most famous in London at the time. Ritz and Escoffier left the Savoy to open the Paris Ritz and later the Ritz Carlton Hotel in London which soon drew high society away from the Savoy Hotel.After the outbreak of World War One and with England's declaration of war against the Austrian-Hungarian Empire Szarvas being Hungarian was reluctantly let go by the Ritz due to the pressure of public opinion. Pritchard's letter is apologetic and a letter of recommendation for Szarvas to be used by Szarvas in America which helped him find employment at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York City. The Ritz-Carlton had opened previously in 1911. An earlier letter in the collection 12 May 1908 written by Oscar Tschiersky manager of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City tells us that Theodore had previously worked at the Waldorf from October 15th 1903 to October 24th 1906. Letters in the archive show Theodore working at a hotel in Budapest in 1913. It would appear that after he married Vivian Florence Fraser in 1910 the couple stayed in England for three years then moved to America with Theodore working briefly in Budapest then London again before losing that position when WWI broke out forcing them to move to America permanently.Theodore Szarvas married his wife Vivian Florence Fraser 1890-1968 about the year 1910. At the time he was 35 years old his wife just 19 or 20. The couple had been secretly dating from at least October 1907 correspondence in this collection shows that Vivian at age 17 was secretly writing to Theodore a man almost twice her age. Letters in the collection demonstrate that she had a crush on him since she was 13 years old.Vivian at first kept her correspondence to Theodore secret from her mother Millie Hartman and stepfather Otto Hartman. Vivian first met Theodore when she was thirteen and her crush on him began the day he visited her house to visit her stepfather with whom Theodore worked. The correspondence chronicles Vivian's obsession with Theodore a rather strange courtship until she finally married him.Vivian corresponded secretly with Theodore from October 1907 until December 1909. She relates the utter horror that she feels betraying and being untruthful to her mother by sneaking around to see Theodore. Otto Hartman Vivian's stepfather appears to have been a co-worker with Theodore at the Astor Hotel and was very upset when he found out about the affair of his co-worker with his stepdaughter. Vivian's mother was also upset about the relationship and forbade her daughter to have any contact with Theodore but Vivian did not listen and kept up the relationship. However later on as it became apparent the two would marry her mother stated that she would leave her husband if he attempted to interfere with her daughter's relationship.Theodore left for London in the spring of 1908 letters in the collection from Vivian who was in New York document the long distance relationship of the couple. There was much confusion on Vivian's part as she was in love with Theodore but all of her family parents grandparents aunts were against the relationship because of the dramatic age difference. Vivian was forbidden to have contact with him and the family felt safe once Theodore left for London however Vivian continued corresponding and the secret affair which finally came to an end in December of 1909 when Vivian's mother found out. At this time Vivian wrote to Theodore to send her money for passage to London before she is put out of the house by her mother.Otto Hartman and his wife Millie Vivian's mother are enumerated in Manhattan on the 1900 Census and listed as being married for only three years. Vivian while given the name of Hartman was ten years old at this time. She later in life used her father's name Fraser. Her father was born in Germany Vivian in Illinois her elder sister Hope in Michigan and her oldest sister Gertrude in New York. The 1900 Census shows Vivian's mother as being born in Connecticut however other records state Canada. Otto Hartman in 1900 was listed as a German immigrant.Millie Hartman appears in the U.S. Census for 1910 at her 1800 Clinton Avenue address in the Bronx a place where she apparently lived for the rest of her life and where Vivian and Theodore lived briefly after they came back to America from England. Otto Hartman is no longer in the household; either having died or perhaps the marriage may have ended in divorce or separation. The correspondence showed that there was considerable friction in the marriage.Vivian and Theodore appear on the 1911 Census of England at 66A Hackford Road Lambeth London England. The couple's first child Theodore was born in England in 1910 however various records seem to indicate an earlier birth date perhaps as a way to disguise the fact that Vivian may have been pregnant when she married. The couple's second child James H. Szarvas was born 13 February 1915 and a third child Janet Szarvas was born much later in 1926. Both James and Janet were born in New York City. Later in life the Szarvas couple acted as foster parents for an Italian boy.While living in England Vivian and her son Theodore made two trips 1911 and 1912 to America to visit her mother before finally moving to America permanently about 1913. By 1915 the Szarvas family appears on the New York State Census living at the 1800 Clinton Avenue address in the Bronx. They are living with Vivian's mother Millie Hartman who was listed as being born in Canada. Also with the family is an Austrian waiter likely an employee of Theodore who is the head waiter at this time at the Ritz.In 1920 the Szarvas family was enumerated at New Castle Westchester County New York where Theodore was listed as a manager at a hotel. In 1921 we find Szarvas as the Maitre d' of the S.S. Flotilla a restaurant with a nautical theme in New York City at the corner of 56th Street and 6th Avenue a stone's throw from Broadway. The restaurant was hailed as a "most diverting development in the art of dining well."When the 1925 New York State Census was taken the family was still on King Street at New Castle. At this time they had a Japanese butler living with them. Theodore was listed simply as a "manager." Theodore became a citizen at White Plains NY in 1925 and in 1929 the family was living in Chappaqua New York which became the family home. Earlier in a 1925 newspaper article Theodore listed as the head waiter at the Ritz-Carlton was reported to be suing William H. Kiernan a broker as the result of tips totaling $11000 being lost in Wall Street investments having gone south.A book Recipes for Cooking Forty Fathom Fish: Prepared by Theodore Szarvas Maitre D'hÃ´tel and Louis Diat Chef de Cuisine of the Ritz-Carlton New York City was published by Bay State Fishing Company in 1927. About this time society columnists were writing that Theodore was considered one of the best dressed men in the "parade of Park Avenue." His friend E. Phillips Oppenheim modeled his "suave maÃ®tre d'hÃ´tel" character after him. He was a collector of books and paintings and a boyhood friend of Ferenc Molnar during his student days in Budapest. Another writer wrote "Theodor is a slender glossy-haired little man with the most beautiful clothes and manners imaginable. He prefers a pear-gray cutaway with a dark Ascot by day and an Oxford dinner jacket after dark and he knows who is who in New York's various social and financial upper brackets as well as a city editor or a bank teller". He acquired a not inconsiderable fortune in the 1920s and has a fine Westchester home with an important collection of English paintings. He later was at the Pierre. He was known as Theodore of the Ritz because of his long service as lord of the Ritz-Carlton dining rooms. It was said that he was "of a fast-vanishing school which believes that service can be a high art." His name was synonymous with "fine food" He put forth some of the most heroic adventures in cuisine in his day." Theodore worked 1936 after leaving the Ritz at the Stork Club in New York City owned by Sherman Billingsley. He was also at the Hotel Pierre where he acted as director of the restaurant.In 1930 Theodore's son also named Theodore was listed as a student at MIT. In 1935 he was living with his parents in Chappaqua but by the 1940 Census the younger Theodore was listed as living on 34th Street in NYC. He was listed as working as a salesman in advertising.Millie Hartman Vivian's mother is found living with Theodore and Vivian in 1940 with their children Janet Robert James and James' wife Florence. In 1940 their son Theodore Jr. was living in Manhattan on Park Avenue married and working in sales with an advertising firm.Theodore's son James Hurry Szarvas was born 13 February 1915 and died 19 February 1972. On 22 October 1943 he entered military service as a private and was released on 8 April 1946. Correspondence in the collection appears to show that James might have remained in the military serving in the Air Force as late as 1951. He had three years college and worked as a salesman. He was already married to Florence marrying her sometime before 4 June 1940 as they were listed as husband and wife on a ship manifest on a trip they took to Bermuda. They were living in Chappaqua Westchester Co. New York. She was listed as being born on 26 Nov 1914 at New York City. They were still living at Chappaqua in 1950 when they took another trip a flight to Bermuda. His brother Ted and Bob were also in the Air Force.Theodore's daughter Janet Szarvas married Peter Fagg the son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg. They were married for fifty-seven years. Peter worked his entire adult life for IBM. For a number of years he was the Executive Director of Research in Fishkill New York and he also managed sites in Germany England and Japan. He was integrally involved with the development of the IBM 360/370 the world's first supercomputer doing a phenomenal job of managing the interdivisional international development of the dozens of new input-output devices without line authority over any of those teams. The 360 was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications from small to large both commercial and scientific. Peter Fagg headed the development of the 7010/7040 under executive Bob O. Evans the computer pioneer who helped lead the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry. 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