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1826309183U.S. Frigate Brandywine 1826. 3 pp. 4to. Bifolium. Old folds. 3 pp. 4to. A letter from one of Washington Irving's nephews--William Iriving--to another his brother Washington named for his famous uncle. The men were sons of Irving's brother John Treat Irving. William a navy man urges his younger brother "Wash" to stay in school as a cadet. unknown
1823620465Brattleborough VT: Holbrook & Fessenden 1823. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick quarto. 683 4 family record 160 687-930pp 2. Old and New Testament each with its own title page. Full contemporary calf the spine with raised bands bordered in gilt creating six compartments the second compartment from the top with a red leather label with gilt bands along the top and bottom and "Holy Bible" in gilt at the center. Boards and spine worn front hinge cracked and separating along the bottom but remains largely sound owner name on the front pastedown small dampstain at the bottom of the tile page two holes in the fore edge of the title page rear free endpaper detached and laid in with some staining and scattered foxing throughout still overall a sound and very good copy. Contains the Apocrypha an index a table of names and "an account of the lives and martyrdom of the apostles and evangelists." Also contains the family record of the Goddard family though the name on the front pastedown is Harvey Jewell. Holbrook & Fessenden hardcover
a62302Meriden 1885first edition. Republican Steam Print. Octavo 116pp. frontis foldout map numerous familty portraits original green cloth hardcover with gilt emblem on front. VG Plus light foxing. no owner marks. Attractive book. Original printing. . hardcover
2009122249Mackay: Mackay Family History Society 2009. 1st edition. As New. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket xvii 526pp. b/w pls. maps index Superb production with many original photos detailing the early settler families of Mackay Mackay Family History Society hardcover
31003<p>46 letters 100 pages some splits and tears along folds some toning and damp staining else in good clean and legible condition.</p><p> The letters offer a view of one 19th century Massachusetts family and their lives in the state. The Welch's must have been a family of some prominence and privilege at least for a time. John N Welch ran the customs house in Boston and two letters show him being relieved of his position in 1814 and 1829. His sons went to sea and plied the waters of the world with varying degrees of success.</p><p> Sample quotes:</p><p> "Lynn July 28th 1816 James Johnson to Lydia H. Welch Boston</p><p> My dear Sister</p><p> … My ride here was not very pleasant; it was very dusty & we were obliged to keep the windows shut which produced very disagreeable sensations in your friend. I never spoke a word till we were within half mile of Lynn. No one interrupted the silence; except a gentleman whose frequent sighs proclaimed him over head & ears in love to look at him was enough to make one sentimental why he sighed so deep sometimes he actually made us start & when he found we observed him he made such horrid grimaces that if there had been any one in stage that I had been the least acquainted with I fear I should not have been able to conceal my laughter. I wish you had been with me to witness his agitation which I believe he affected for oddity's sake why he would have made</p><p>"even thick lipp'd musing Melancholy to gather up her face into a smile before she was aware"</p><p> I was obliged to interrupt their cogitations by asking for a glass of water. The lovesick swain turned his dove like eyes on me & looked as if he had rather I had been in the Red Sea than broken the silence my request was complied with in defiance of his <u>looks</u>& he condescended to ask if I felt better. I dared not answer in the negative for I really believe he would have advised the stage man to leave me he was quite handsome but appeared like one of Lord Byron's characters</p><p>"With pleasure drugg'd he almost longed for woe </p><p>And even for change of scene would seek the shades below"</p><p> … Do you think if one of my "mortal supporters" should fail me or I should say it did which is the same thing that a certain Gentleman whose name I would not mention on any account but who appears to exert himself to relieve suffering humanity & to lighten the afflictions of his kindred as much as possible by contributing books &c to amuse them & as I am a kind of a cousin I think I have a claim would extend his charity to me if there is a chance that he would pray let me know he is a good fellow …James Johnson" </p><p>"New York Nov. 15th 1824 James Johnson to Mr. & Mrs. John N. Welch</p><p> Dear Friends</p><p> The Stage called for me on Saturday morning at half past seven o'clock and I was backed a bout Town for nearly an hour … but I was tied as fast from the fear of being left as the Horses in the harness - we however at length collected our passengers and proceeded on our journey – we arrived in Providence at 2 o'clock – and at 4 took passage in the Steam Boat for N. York – we had a very pleasant time down the sound and arrived here at half past six o'clock on Sunday evening. </p><p> Capt Mackey engaged my passage on Board the Packet ship Canada Cap Rogers and I expect to embark on board tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for Liverpool … </p><p> I was in hope to have recd a line from your advising me of news from Boston and I still hope that pleasure by tomorrows mail which will arrive before we sail – you must write me in the course of a week or two the Packet ships sail every week from here to Liverpool and a letter bag is always to be found at the reading room in Boston or left at our store Mr. Sewall will forward any letters to my address – I again hope to have this pleasure soon after I arrive in Liverpool …" </p><p> I took lodgings at Bunkers in Broadway where I found several acquaintance among whom was our old friend Marsh – it is seven years since I saw him till now but I do not see that time has made any alteration in him. …"</p><p>"Boston March 8th 1825 James Johnson to John N. Welch</p><p> Dear friends</p><p> … I am about migrating – that is in 3 or 4 days – and I am quite busy in the morning my letters must go to Liverpool… All the public places of amusement I have been to is to see Matthews in his trip to America and an Oratorio – indeed there are no public amusements here – we have been cultivating the fine arts – Painting – but not in the school of West or Sir Joshua Reynolds or Sir Thomas Lawrence but painting on Rugs which we have sipped in great abundance – and if the cols do desert too soon I have no doubt will be much admired. I have visited very pleasantly in several families some of them you know or have heard of Saml Goddard & James Grovener are from Boston and Mr Truman and American artist all have American wives are no bad sample of our fair country women … James Johnson"</p><p>"Gloucester April 15th 1825 Susan to Lydia Welch Boston</p><p> My much beloved friend</p><p> … The late calamity by fire in the City has given a powerful impulse to my feelings and induce me to inquire of you for information. I was about to start off for Boston but Mary did not like I should leave her with the school… The Sabbath after I left B. I received letters Mary wishing me to come immediately to Gloucester and take the school vacated by the marriage of Miss M. E. Hayes who has gone to the Michigan Territory. Accordingly the Thursday following I came down and on making some enquiries found the prospect very flattering. Uncle D. thought the encouragement sufficient to commence and the next week sister M and myself jointly took upon ourselves the care of a school consisting at present of 30 scholars we have received application for a number more. Some are young ladies considerably advanced in their studies others who require the first rudiments of education they are generally interesting. We have no reason to doubt but our patronage will be sufficient to continue here through this summer. We board with Aunt Dale our school room is in the next building which makes it very pleasant and convenient. Mary is writing to uncle James telling him of our new situation I hope it will meet his approbation which I appreciate very highly… </p><p> Now I must say something about the fire which has caused us much anxiety when we first heard of it we were led to fear that Uncle James' store was among the number destroyed still we hoped it might not be till a letter from Capt. G. Whittemore convinced us the truth of it. He says he knew that his friends would feel anxious and that we might not be more alarmed than necessary by exaggerated stories which are always in circulation at such times he could tell us that all his goods were saved and conveyed to the houses of his friends and that his loss would be trivial in comparison with that of his neighbors. … Though the deprivation of property is trifling in comparison with that of friends still when I consider how much he has and now is toiling not only for his own happiness but that of his friends also I feel grieved that his prosperity should in the least be impeded…"</p><p>'Gloucester June 41825 Susan to Lydia Welch Boston</p><p> Dear good Aunt</p><p> Do not call us "lazy girls" If you were here and knew how much we had to accomplish … Our school is large and requires all our time we are confined in the room eight hours every day excepting the Sabbath and when not have either work to fit or writing to do for our scholars which prevents us devoting so much time as we wish to our own exercise or the society of our friends. I was indeed much disappointed that none of us did not write a line by Mr. Pearce but we were not apprised of his intention of leaving us more than ten minutes before his departure we were very much surprised for we had no idea but he would pass the Sabbath with us… What do you think as become of Aunt S. the last time we heard from her she was as usual on the wing to Fryburg where she expected to be at the hundredth anniversary of Lovell's fight; in what course she next directed her flight we have not heard. Last week the Steam boat came in here we anxiously watched expecting that she was on board we anxiously watched expecting that she was on board but was disappointed. Sister M and myself accepted an invitation to take a sail in her went out as far as the Island we enjoyed it much it was quite a novelty being the first steam boat I ever saw. …" </p><p>"Manchester England June 10 1825 James Johnson to Lydia Welch incomplete letter</p><p> … we took up our quarters at the Hotel Montmorency Rue St Marc – I had not been many days in Paris before I forgot the narrow dirty streets in the enchantments of the promenades the beauty of the public gardens and the number and magnificence of the Public Buildings… I can not but think that the French feel humbled since the allies occupied Paris – the soldiers look disconsolate and that enthusiasm has fled which animated them under Buonaparte – you meet in every direction memorials of his deeds Triumphal Arches Columns Public Fountains and Palaces were with him every day things – many of great extent which he began remain unfinished and probably will till time shall moulder them or another revolution takes place as it it is not likely that the Burbons will finish what Buonaparte began – we remained in Paris about 3 Weeks and then retraced our steps as business required our presence in Manchester… </p><p> Friend Welch what is now the topic of conversation with you the presidential election is over and I assure you I am quite satisfied with the result. I am confident we have lost nothing in the opinion of Europe by the choice we have made – for my self I should have been mortified if Jackson had been successful to me he was the most objectionable candidate of all …" </p><p>"New York July 21 1825 Lydia Welch to her husband John Boston</p><p> My dear husband</p><p> … Mr. Marsh said he wou'd write you a few lines… yesterday <u>he</u> came up in a carriage and took <u>us</u> down to see the City Hall and Museum which I was much delighted with – you wou'd be astonished to see the immence growth of this since you were here it is wonderful. Marsh shew me where the last dwelling house was – when he first settled here it seemed as if I cou'd hardly credit him in fact it is becoming over grown. I expect this week to go to the steping mill – I don't expect to derive much pleasure from that view … It seems that Boston heat has exceeded N. Y. heat thus far Marsh says that's the way always with Bostonians they will try to exceed the New Yorkers in everything …"</p><p>"Cap-Sing-Moon China April 4th 1826 Benjamin Welch to his parents Boston</p><p> Dear Parents </p><p> According to promise I made when I left Home to write every chance that offer'd I have to acknowledge the receipt of the letters sent by the Champion. I have seen to Nickels. He is as hearty as a Buck likes the Sea he says and as I was told by Henry Sturgis has proved himself the smartest boy in the Ship. He is taller than he was when I left America & withal thinner. I sincerely think that he will do better in the profession he has chosen than that of a Counter Jumper! hold your tongue John. I mean no insinuations. As for myself I am pretty nearly in the same state of health that I was when I left Home which I suppose you will say was a very consumptive state at least I used to think so sometime after dinner. Capt. Edes and I argue very well and from what I inadvertently heard he gives me a very good name to those who visit on board. Mr. Sever & I also argue much better than we did. He finds I am not to be fooled. & begins to think as best to let me alone; at any rate there is more cordiality than formerly. </p><p> Dear Mother the wish expressed in your letter that I would keep in with the officers of the Brig Mr. Tra. and I were like dog & cat together. He was such a drunken contemptible puppy that I did not hesitate to show my opinion of him upon every occasion as also B. Tufts; in fact he had not one friend in the Brig. I really believe if I had gone home with him I should done my best to flog him before he left the wharf. Yea! even before I had eaten any of those good pies & puddings etc. of yours. - Dear Mother you need feel no anxiety on my account with regard to that detested practice of drinking. I have forsworn it long ago in total. My abhorrence of its effects is as strong as ever the feelings of self respect which I entertain the good opinion of my friends and relations which I esteem more than any thing else the regard which I feel for that of the world in general are strong inducements to a strict forbearance from all spirituous liquors. I am hot enough without the use of stimulatives. I am glad to hear that John is getting on so fast as a ladies man. He is well calculated for it and as his Brother Ben is so far from Home and altogether out of the sphere of action with regard to love affairs he will have fair play & plenty of it. I am certain I should supersede him if I was at Home so I think he had better Chop-Chop as the Chinaman says or else I shall make my appearance as I have a peculiar faculty that way. He will have to keep a bright look out ahead for fear of being run down; however 'self praise goes a little ways' so I think it best to stop here. As for his letter I shall keep that a secret he has reposed his confidence in me & I never will betray him till I receive his permission. I shall only say that I do not wish him a better choice than the one he has made; she is just the one I should wish for myself if I was about to enter into a matrimonial noose. I am getting confounded sleepy so I must perforce close this epistle. </p><p> Remember me kindly to all friends to Aunt Johnson's folks to Cousin Rebecca & Husband to Aunt & Uncle Welch to all my cousins to Frank Welch give a cousin & a Brother Tar's affectionate remembrance to the Howes give an adopted brother's love & to William if at home to Uncle Hovey & partner to E. Jenkins to the Susans & also to Dumpty Diddleday you know who I mean and to her Sisters Mary & Sarah & all the good folks in Harmony Square give my kindest remembrance & regard tell the Pierces their Brothers are still at the Islands and will not be here these 3 years – they are well according to the last accounts – for yourselves Dear Parents accept my best wishes for your health & happiness & believe me when I subscribe myself</p><p>Your affectionate Son </p><p>B.R. Welch" </p><p>Boston Jany. 2nd 1832 Benjamin Welch to his father Billerica Massachusetts</p><p> Dear Father</p><p> I sail tomorrow for Smyrna in the good Brig Mermaid belonging to your old Friend Robert Edes & my old master & have just time to write you a few lines – Augusta goes with me as Capt Edes has politely offer'd to let her accompany – there is everything to make her comfortable & I anticipate a great deal of pleasure …" </p><p> "Smyrna May 3d 1834 Augusta Welch to her father-in-law John Welch Billerica</p><p> My dear Father</p><p> As Ben is full of business he has commissioned me to write and I consider it a <u>pleasant</u> duty I am going to fulfill it forthwith. He expects to sail either to-night or in the morning for Hivoli a small port about a day's sail from here to be gone three or four weeks taking in oil for a part of the Mermaid's cargo & then to return here for the rest myself the most valuable part the specie. We had 58 days out and I was not sea sick at all I think I am getting to be quite a sailor. Yesterday we had a fine donkey ride about 16 miles to a hot-spring which is quite a curiosity here & considered quite medicinal – But <u>such</u> roads never were seen – Some part of the way it is scarcely wide enough for the animal to walk ion & up hill & down precipices the olive groves & between mountains enough to shake the breath of life out of you – However it was a <u>ludicrous scrape</u> & I enjoyed it <u>mightily</u> – We shall not get away under six weeks & it will be quite August before we get home … Gus" </p><p>"Havanna Cuba Decr 23d 1834 Henry Welch to his father Boston</p><p> Dear Father</p><p> I arrd here about a week or little over ago in good health… we shall leave here in about 3 weeks for Matanzas & New York I expect … who will write me in N Yk if I <u>arrive there</u> for we are going to <u>war</u> with France & I may be captured before I arrive. We have all been busy here talking about the Message & we have whipped France nicely two or three times over …"</p><p>"Hallowell Maine February 25th 1836 Henry Blanchard to John Welch Billerica</p><p> My Dear Sir</p><p> … Mr. Welch were you ever down this way If not I advise you to – never come. The whole country here seems to be characterized by its very rugged un-broken surface – the severity of its climate - & the miserly & selfish disposition of its inhabitants. You may judge if I enjoy myself much here. I of course make some exceptions to my description of the people – I speak of them in general - & certainly they are misers & speculators for the most part whose whole object of worship is money. Society with some few exceptions in this town is very bad. There is here a good deal of wealth & of course there will be pretensions to refinement & good manners. But through it all there shows prominently an extreme degree of coarseness & vulgarity. The men are by far the better part of the society than the women' for if they are unlettered & rather rough in their exterior they have generally much shrewdness & some knowledge of the world. They show their shrewdness best perhaps in a bargain; & in your dealings with them you would be rather likely to come off second best. A bad place this for parsons – a strictly honest man here would not probably be long in starving to death.</p><p> The Capitol of the state is close by me & the Legislature is now in session. I have been to look at the members once – They are as a whole I think rather a more decent looking mess than I have been in the habit of seeing in the Massachusetts Legislature. Of course its political complexion is Jackson – though its most eminent members are Whigs. Among these we see old Mr. Holmes – the greatest man probably the state has ever produced.</p><p> Augusta – the capitol – is one of the most thrifty towns in appearance I have ever seen. It is I think remarkable for its well built dwelling houses. You will not see a house in the whole village that seems at all the abode of poverty. On the contrary the inhabitants seemed to have vied with each other in erecting elegant edifices. It is very easy to find however that the elegance is mostly outside – very little inside. …"</p><p>"Boston May 30 1837 John Welch to his father Billerica</p><p> Dear Father</p><p> … The business community are in a bad state and a great many people are out of business owing to this state of things five of the clerks in our store have been discharged & more are to follow perhaps myself for one. … Henry is nearly loaded for St. Petersburg & I presume will sail tomorrow or next day. Benj. Is daily expected at Darien Georgia – his wife gas got a daughter …" </p><p>Charlestown Dec. 21 1838 John Welch to his father Billerica</p><p> Dear Father</p><p> I have intended to have been up to Billerica to have seen you before I leave for New Orleans. I am going to that place to establish myself in business if possible as I find it impossible to remain here & lay up any money. I have been so much pressed with business for some time that I hardly know which way to turn. I should have been up to see you last month but I have been bothered with Edward Stetson who is a very wild boy …" </p><p>"New York July 17th 1840 George E. Welch to his father Billerica</p><p> Dear Father</p><p> I am aware that you may think strange that I should write to you after so long a silence the reason for that silence is not because I had forgotten you but merely because I thought it would afford you more pain than pleasure to read a doleful account of my miseries misfortunes and mishaps. Father my course through life has been an eventful one and I doubt much if there are many of my age who have seen more trouble more sickness or more cruel unrelenting persecution since I have been going to sea I have had eight attacks of fever of all the different kinds and those attacks of the most malignant nature I have had also seven attacks of cramp the last of which deprived me of my intellect for some time after it had passed away I have been laying on my back with bleeding of the lungs and cough in fact for seven years I have not been to sea without being laid on my beam ends and what is worse midst the burning horrors of those fevers I have heard the cry of persecution midst the racking agonies of the cramp I have heard the most cruel taunts coming from the mouths of my nearest and dearest kin and while laying almost at death door I have awakened to the sheriff setting by my side impatiently waiting for my recovery and then do you think it tended to my recovery to hear that man affirm that he was acting as the agent of my brother and then when the glow of health had scarce begun to tinge my cheek to be dragged to prison and from the windows of a felons dungeon to look upon the very house where I had in common with my brothers received my mother's parting blessing. And father did it become those whose duty it was as Christians relative and as men look passively on and see the wreck of your once noble and high spirited boy if I had done wrong was that the way to reform My is it not strange that mid this wilderness of wo the intoxicating cup has never been raised to my lips and dissipation and pleasure have not been the god of my idolatry… I am now recovering from a severe attack of the Yellow fever it was intimated to me that my life was but short and the chaplain on his own responsibility wrote to Gardner to inform of my situation subsequently when letters were written by Y N Reynolds and Albert Cutler and as yet no answer has been returned since I arrived in the city fever sores have broken out on my body and made a perfect scab of me so much so as so as to make me an object of disgust to myself and of pity to those around while at the Hospital my vessel loaded and sailed without leaving me any order for my wages and for the present I must go without them by the kindness of Albert Cutter Y N Reynolds Esq and the Charterers I have had the means of paying my board that is now expended and God only knows where I shall lay my poor aching head. I can not apply to them when I see no means of repaying them but my cup of misery has long been full and I must put my trust in that God whose inscrutable ways … George E. Allen" </p>
1925317441Pittsburgh 1925. Date and negative number in negative. Mounted on loose linen album leaves. Date and negative number in negative. From a contemporary press account of the party in the Pittsburgh Index: "Tuesday night Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beatty Mellon Miss Sarah Cordelia Mellon and Mr. Richard King Mellon entertained more than six hundred guests at an out door dance at their home in Fifth Avenue. An enormous marquee constructed in the terraced flower gardens formed the setting for the dancing floor and the supper-room. The marquee ceiling was draped with sheer white fabric painted in an Oriental design with old gold and blue as the predominating color scheme. Below the ceiling was draped a gold border and the drop back of the recess in which the orchestra was placed represented a woodland scene. In the supper-room a specially constructed fountain played over rocks and forming a background were bay trees pandanus bamboo and palms.The whole idea was suggested to Mrs. Mellon by a garden in the Champs Elysses and the work was carried out under her direction" Provenance: estate of Richard Mellon Scaife unknown
1925317486Pittsburgh: Trinity Court Studios 1925. Vintage sepia-toned silver print. 10-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches. Fine. Vintage sepia-toned silver print. 10-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches. Children Sarah Mellon and Richard King Mellon are seated at the table next to their father. Trinity Court Studios unknown
1922H37465Pittsburgh: Shadyside Academy 1922. Hardcover. Very good. 10 x 8 inches oblong hardcover very good light dustiness signed "Ned Mellon" in pencil on flyleaf Edward Purcell Mellon II 1908-1986; he has also annotated some of the football statistics given and he is listed as belonging to the class of 1927. Mellon son of Thomas Alexander Mellon II was the president of Mellon-Stuart Company. Shadyside Academy hardcover
0329A892512Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Norwood MA: Privately Printed Plimpton Press 1932. Hardcover no dust jacket as issued A family history illustrated with photographs drawings and various maps etc. RARE. Very good overall condition with minor toning. No markings etc. NOT EX-LIBRARY. B hardcover
30571<p>Collection of 123 letters 437 manuscript and typed pages 95 retained mailing envelopes dated 1881-1980 the bulk dating from 1920-1949; also includes over 100 pieces of related ephemera pertaining to the family including photographs postcards telegrams family genealogy vital records greeting cards etc.</p><p><b> Maud Bauer Miller 1863-1942 and Family</b></p><p>Maud M. Bauer was born on 15 September 1863 in Alfred Center New York. She was the daughter of Thomas Dodson Bauer and his wife Hannah S. Sherman. Bauer and his wife were professors at Alfred University at the time of their daughter Maud's birth. Maud's mother Hannah was born 9 December 1828 and married Maud's father on 25 December 1860 in New Albany Indiana. Hannah died 17 June 1910 in Somerville Massachusetts. She had been a teacher and knew seven languages. Hannah was the daughter of Samuel Sherman and Malinda Stanton; Samuel Sherman was the son of Peleg Sherman and Hannah Willett; Hannah Willett was the daughter of Samuel Willett 1751-1843 and Elizabeth Andreas; Samuel Willett served in the American Revolution as a private in Capt. Jone's Company Col. Taylor's Regiment. Documents in this collection show Maud and others in the Miller family sought induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution or other lineage societies.</p><p>Maud M. Bauer moved with her parents to Newark Ohio where she attended the Old Central High School from which she graduated in 1879. She taught her first school at Loyd's on the Jacksontown Pike and later was a teacher at the Perryton School Ohio here she met her future husband Lebbeus D. Miller they were married on 23 March 1882 at the Pilgrim Congregational Church Newark Ohio by the Rev. E.J. Jones. </p><p>Maud worked as a stenographer at a utility company. She was also active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and took her oath from temperance reformer and women's suffragist Francis Willard 1839-1898 the national president of the WCTU and its founder.</p><p>Lebbeus Dunn Miller was born 11 May 1858 in Perryton Ohio. He was the youngest son of Joseph Miller and Elizabeth Custer 1812-1888. His grandfather was supposed to have been one Robert Miller of Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. The Oakland artist-poet Joaquin Miller also claimed to have a grandfather named Robert Miller from Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. Maud's family believed they may have been related to Joaquin Miller but it has not been proven. A pamphlet in the collection about Joaquin Miller's estate "The Heights" in Oakland has manuscript annotations and notes by Maud Bauer Miller detailing the estates history and Joaquin Miller's life. The pamphlet was given to Maud by Juanita Miller Joaquin Miller's daughter. Lebbeus Miller Maud's husband was the great-great grandson of Sarah Ball Custer the sister of President George Washington's wife Martha Ball Washington. There is only one letter in this collection by Lebbeus Miller. The collection mainly revolves around Maud Bauer Miller and her children and their correspondence with each other.</p><p>Maud and Lebbeus Miller had at least nine children: Walter Miller 1883- died young; Frank Stanton Miller 1884-1935; Amie Glen Miller 1886-1958 who married a Mr. Phillips; Sherman Miller died in infancy; Floyd Rudolph Miller 1889-1940 there are a couple of photos of him in the collection; Lorena Eleanor Miller 1893-1960 resided at St. Louisville Ohio she married a Mr. Tiebout; Carl Frederick Miller 1896-1967 resided at Frazeysburg Ohio and married a woman named Agnes and they had a daughter Kathleen. There are a number of letters in this collection by Carl Frederick Miller and his wife Agnes as well as letters of Lorena Miller and Frank Stanton Miller.</p><p>Another of Lebbeus and Maud's daughters was Cecelia Esther Miller 1899-1978 she was born in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio. She attended Perry Township High School graduating in 1916 and moved to Oakland California with her mother in 1921 where she met and married Jesse "Jack" Howard Cole. Cole was born 9 March 1900 in Buncombe Co. North Carolina and married Cecelia in Oakland on 8 November 1926. Jack Cole died on 5 January 1961 in Oakland. He served in WWI enlisting in 1916 and was discharged in 1919 as a corporal with the 115th Machine Gun Battalion. He saw action in WWI with the AEF in occupation Ypres Salient Belgium Veormeze Le-Mont Kemmel engagement; Bellicourt-Nauroy; Premont-Vasch Andigny Engagement; Selfe River; and remained in Germany for occupation purposes. There are a number of letters in this collection by and to Cecelia Miller and her husband Jack Cole.</p><p>Maud and Lebbeus' youngest daughter was Evelyn Elizabeth Miller. She was born 2 February 1905 in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio and died in 1974. She also moved to Oakland California with her mother Maud and sister Cecelia. Evelyn graduated from the Oakland Technical High School in June 1923 and went to work for Western Power Company in Oakland California as a stenographer and later was promoted secretary to the Division Electric Superintendent. She was married at the age of 22 in Oakland on 31 November 1927 to Justin Francis Greene. He was born 30 Oct 1900 Johnson Co. Texas and died 10 August 1961 in San Francisco. He was the son of Arthur Percival Greene born Texas and Laura Richardson born Oklahoma of Johnson Co. Texas. Greene later moved to Oakland California. Greene was a veteran of WWI and WWII. He enlisted in U.S. Navy for WWI 1918-1921 and Marine Crops in WWII 1942-1946 and wound up in the Quartermaster's Department in San Diego California. After the war he worked for the accounting department of P.G. & E. Pacific Gas & Electric he had previously worked for Western Power Company which is where he met his wife Evelyn Miller. Great Western Power merged with P.G. & E. There are a good many letters in this collection by and to Evelyn Miller and her husband Justin Greene.</p><p>Maud Bauer Miller had a brother Ralph Sherman Bauer 1867-1941. He was the proprietor of "The R.S. Bauer Company: Stationers Engravers & Printers" of Lynn Massachusetts. He later became mayor of Lynn. He married Fannie Miller daughter of John Miller shipbuilder of Chicago Illinois. They had one son Paul Sherman Bauer who married Kathrine Williams daughter of Judge Guy R. Williams of Havana Illinois. Paul Sherman Bauer attended Phillips Andover then Harvard Engineering School. There are letters in this collection by Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 and his son Paul S. Bauer 1.</p><p>Maud also had a sister Hulda Sherman Bauer 1870- who married a Mr.Emmel/Emmal of Glenwood New Jersey and a second sister Marie Sherman Bauer 1873-1948 who married Francis A. Neff Jr. of Salem Massachusetts. There is one letter in this collection by Hulda Sherman Bauer.</p><p>Lebbeus Miller died 24 September 1913 and after some time Maud moved to Oakland California in 1921 where she died 11 June 1942.</p><p><b>Description and Inventory of Collection:</b></p><p> <b>Correspondence: </b></p><p>The letters in this collection are written by and to various members of Maud Bauer Miller's family including Maud Bauer Miller her husband Lebbeus Miller and their children and children's spouses as well as her grandchildren including: </p><p>Evelyn Miller and Justin Greene her husband; Cecelia Miller and her husband Jesse Jack Cole; Carl Miller and his wife Agnes Lorena Miller as well as Maud Bauer Miller's brother Rudolph Ralph Sherman Bauer and her sister Hulda Bauer. Other relatives are Paul S. Bauer Fred Emma Sherman and Maud's grandchildren Dorothy and Frances Miller.</p><p>The bulk of the letters were written by Cecelia Miller Cole 23 and Carl Miller and his wife Agnes 30 and Evelyne Miller Greene and her husband Justin 17 the bulk of these letters were written to Maud Bauer Miller 56. The collection includes letters by Evelyn Miller Greene and her husband Justin 49 as well as Cecelia Miller Cole and her husband 7. There are also letters written by Maud Bauer Miller 8 Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 Frank Miller 3 Dorothy and Frances Miller 2 Paul S. Bauer 1 and other relatives friends business associates; as well as other letters received by Ralph S. Bauer Hannah Sherman Bauer Lebbeus Miller Esther Miller Lorena Miller etc.</p><p>An inventory of the letters and the years they were written follows: </p><p>7 letters 33 manuscript pp. dated from 1881-1918 of these 7 early letters 5 were written by Maud Bauer Miller to her brother Ralph S. Bauer 2 her husband Lebbeus Miller 2 and her mother Hannah Sherman Bauer 1.</p><p>There are 36 letters 134 manuscript and typed pages dated 1920-1929 9 of which are typed. There are 39 letters 119 manuscript and typed pages dated 1931-1939 18 letters are typed. The 75 letters in these two groups contain letters between the Miller family members and represent a good bulk of the collection. The letters written in the 1930s provide a look at conditions in the Great Depression with people out of work work hard to find and the struggles of people to survive even when employed.</p><p>The collection includes 19 letters 82 manuscript and typed pages dated 1941-1949 2 letters are typed. These letters from the 1940s contain letters by Justin Greene husband of Evelyn Miller Maud's daughter when he was in military service during World War II. There is also much correspondence during this period between Maud's daughters' families the Greene and Cole families who were living in Newark Ohio Cole family and Oakland California Greene family and includes descriptions of travel vacation etc. and correspondence between the family members spouses etc.</p><p>The 1960s are represented by 13 letters 39 manuscript and typed pages dated 1960-1967 and finally there are 9 letters 30 manuscript pages dated from 1974-1980 with all of which are hand written. The 1960s features correspondence between the family of Carl and Agnes Miller and Evelyne and Justin Greene.</p><p><b>Ephemera:</b></p><p>15 miscellaneous pieces of ephemera includes receipts typed and manuscript verse military papers pamphlets including: "<i>White's Biography Brochures: Ralph Sherman Bauer</i>" 1927 and "<i>About 'The Heights' at Oakland California</i>" by Juanita Miller given by Juanita Miller to Maud Bauer Miller 1921 it is annotated with manuscript notes by Maud to her children concerning Joaquin Miller the western artist and poet with whom they may have been related to however given the vagaries of Joaquin Miller's life and genealogy it is unclear.</p><p>58 typed pp. of genealogical notes on the Miller/Bauer/Sherman families some copies of others.</p><p>17 newspaper clippings mostly dealing with family such as death notices news etc.</p><p>19 various vital records births deaths marriages etc. for Miller/Bauer/Sherman families various dates.</p><p>2 telegrams dated 1949 </p><p>4 black and white photographs 3 dated 1921-1922 one not dated various sizes 3 photos labeled other not 2 photos of Floyd R. Miller 1 of Evelyn Anna and their mother in San Francisco California.</p><p>3 postcards dated 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Justin Greene from Agnes other.</p><p>4 invitations/cards date c1892-1926</p><p>58 greeting cards to and from Bauer/Sherman/Miller families mostly not dated.</p><p>13 used envelopes likely could be matched to letters in collection.</p><p><b>Examples of Correspondence:</b></p><p><i>"Perryton Ohio Sept 29th 1884</i></p><p><i>Dear Rudolph</i></p><p><i>I rec'd your postal in due time and hasten to reply to it. You must excuse my silence I have hardly found time to sleep this summer. On the 19th of this month we had a hard earthquake shock it shook our house badly knocking down pictures it was accompanied by a loud rumbling report. On last Saturday the 27th inst. we were visited by a terrific cyclone it lasted not over five minutes that is the worst of it; but during that time it did a great deal of damage. I had noticed in the afternoon that a storm was gathering and about half past five I went to the other end of town on an errand thinking that I could return before the rain. I did not stay much over a minute at the house and when I came out I noticed a strange cloud in the north west it had grown very dark the sky seemed almost black save this one cloud which was of a luminous gray color. It was cone shaped like this drawing of a cyclone shape and was moving at a fearful rate not more than 15 feet above the ground that is its lower edge it came rolling and tumbling sweeping everything before it. I ran for dear life to get home for I thought that we were all to be killed and I wanted to be with Leb and Baby but I could not outrun the storm it was on me before I knew it. The street was thickly lined with shade trees all the way until within a short distance from our house; when I reached this cleared space I could hear the trees crashing behind me; and a gust from another direction was blowing against me. My breath gave out before I reached home and I had to turn in at Mr. Beabout's next door. I got inside the gate just as Mr. Berry's house across the street went crashing down. Our barn and Mrs. Bland's stable are flat on the ground. Mr. Berry's house is demolished a dozen or more barns sheep houses houses &c. are ruined right in town; the Disciple Church is pronounced unsafe in an apple orchard back of us but 2 or 3 trees are left. Our old shop had a large portion of its roof rafters and all taken. Some of the weatherboarding is blown off of our house. But I don't think of that I am glad that none of us were killed…We send love to all. Write soon Maud"</i></p><p><i>"Perryton Ohio Sept 2 1900</i></p><p><i>Dear Mamma</i></p><p><i>I received your very welcome letter as I would have rec'd one from the dead. I have written to all of the folks in rotation and have heard from not one letter until receiving your postal. How is Hulda's health this summer I did hope that I would be able to come "East." This summer but that ever-ready question of finance bobbed up and stopped me. I hope that I will be able to come home before I get so old that I can't travel. We are straining every nerve to get a good stock of goods in our store; we have 5 times as much as when you were here. Frank goes to Newark tomorrow to work in the glass-house if he likes it he will stay about 3 mos. and then go to school. We could not spare Floyd for this reason and then I do not think that you ought to keep house. You would have to have some one to prepare and make you eat your meals at the proper time; you cannot stand the same system of recuperation that you did twenty years ago. Floyd is only a child and has a healthy boy's appetite I doubt if you could cook enough in one day to last him a day.</i></p><p><i>We do not intend to stay here all our lives when we have a good chance to sell out we will do so. Now Mamma don't live by yourself. I expect that you have as nearly a perfect home with the girls as you will ever have on earth. "Such polite well-bred children no smoking no drinking no hard or sordid work." No tired out cross worked down women. I know of few such homes. I am always glad to have you with me why not come here To be sure there is nothing inviting in my surroundings but I would give you filial respect. I wish that you would send me one of your dictionaries the next time Rudo sends me anything. Do you think that Frank could find employment with his uncle He is a careful & trusty clerk; his whole trend is to become a businessman he does not care for the professions. I think that Floyd will make a professional man he is just about lazy enough…</i></p><p><i>We have a large filtered cistern just adjoining the back porch and a double floored porch over it 12 x 14 ft. I have had a great quantity of water all summer enough for every purpose & for Mrs. McCann's use to as long as she lived there. The old Dr. died the last of July and she broke up housekeeping right away. She is going to New York about the first of Oct. to spend the winter with her daughter Addie a Bellevue nurse. Dr. Cullison has been on a 'tear' nearly all summer. He uses opium & drinks hard with it and every so often he goes 'stark staring mad.' Drunk I call it for that is what it is.</i></p><p><i>Mr. Blount's son Scott who left his wife & ran off with $200 of his firm's money has married again down in Tenn. His wife got a divorce…We all send love & kisses to you all…Lovingly Maud"</i></p><p><i>"170 St. Botolph St. Boston Mass.</i></p><p><i>My dear Sister & Brother</i></p><p><i>I received your welcomed letter at the hospital sometime ago and was so glad to hear from you personally although I hear indirectly thru Mamma about you & Jack and I am glad to hear that you are both well and seem to be so happy.</i></p><p><i>I am out of the hospital but unable to go to work at present but I will have to do something as soon as I can get hold of a line which is very hard right now and get to work or go on the street as I am only getting $5 a week from the Welfare and I can't eat and pay room rent on that so you see how I am situated so that's the reason.</i></p><p><i>I expect you will think I have one hell of a nerve but dear sister I am going to ask you to advance the money and pay this quarterly ins premium again for me which I shall absolutely refund you in six or eight weeks unless something drastic happens to me and unless this is paid at once I will hose it altogether which I do not want to unless absolutely have to. I know there is not much left of it but there is enough to bury me with should any thing happen and at present that is all I have left to do this job should I pass out.</i></p><p><i>I have borrowed on it now all that it is possible for me to borrow but as I say it will leave me enough for a half decent burial in case anything should happen. Hoping you will attend to his at once for me and I will surely repay you thanking you both and hoping this will find you both in best of health love & best wishes to you both your loving brother Frank"</i></p><p><i>"R.S. Bauer Company Lynn Massachusetts Stationers Engravers Printers August 17 1923</i></p><p><i><br /> Dear Sister:</i></p><p><i>I was very glad indeed to hear from you under date of August 10th and to know that your family were getting along so splendidly. The thing now for you to do is to show a little mercy to yourself. The children have all now received from you everything that a Mother could give and many things more than a Mother generally gives and it seems to me that what little time is allotted to you should be taken in as much comfort as possible. Both you and I are growing old this earth and with that in sight I think it is the duty of both of us to let up on ourselves and serve the rest of our time as easily as possible.</i></p><p><i>You know I am not much of a letter writer. I don't believe Fannie ever got six letters from me in the thirty years we have been married but that should not make any difference between us.</i></p><p><i>I do not know anything about the Neff family except that I suppose they are alive and well as they never visit us. The only time I ever see them is when I go over to Salem and force myself into their presence.</i></p><p><i>Huldah is not very well although she keeps happy and busy with her grandchildren. We expect her to spend Sunday after next with us at the little farm we own in Amesbury where we spend the summer time. It is a twenty-one-acre place on the border of a Lake. We have six acres in garden and raise almost everything the household needs up there including a little 'hell.'</i></p><p><i>It seems to me that Warren Harding died in order to tie the American people closer together and bring out the universal spirit of reverence for men who have served the Nation which spirit was rapidly disappearing in all directions. You probably know that all progress the World has ever made has been the result of some shock. It seems that people no matter how civilized or well educated or Christianized they may be respond always nobly to the 'gospel of the shock' and are not so early in responding to any other gospel.</i></p><p><i>Calvin Coolidge has visited us at our summer home with his wife and two children and I have a personal acquaintance with him. He will make a great President. There is no doubt about it as he has all the qualities of World Leadership without any of the personal magnetism or 'bull' that men in public life general possess. His heart and head are 100% all right and his capacity is marvelous.</i></p><p><i><br />With best wishes to you and the children from all of us Rudo"</i></p><p><i>"Frazeysburg Ohio Nov 4th 1923</i></p><p><i>Dear Mothers & Slats</i></p><p><i>You want to call in the neighbors doctors & friends as your son has a pen in his hand…</i></p><p><i>I have been busy this summer and fall lots of work. I have been away from home most of the summer started in the first of April and came home to stay two wks ago and have been gone five days of that time. I had to cut the gang that I have been working all summer back to fifteen men was working between 34 & 40. The oil business sure is on the bum here. I wish you would have them to strike dry holes out there as the Cal. oil can be sent to the eastern refineries for less money than the oil here. We have lots of work but are doing just what we can with the men we have…</i></p><p><i>Mother you were asking about the house & Keylor's. Kelyor's moved out the first of Oct. and I haven't any renter now. I have the house up for sale and I think mother that the way things are and the location that if you can get $600.00 out of your home you had better let it go and I will say if the house belonged to me that if I could get $500 I would sell because the house will have to be painted in the Spring & I am afraid it will have to be roofed. If you will leave it to me to make the deal and use my own judgement I may be able to sell. I told you what I would take if it were mine. If you think this not enough let me know. Houses are renting in Perrytown for $3.50 & $4.00 per month so you will have an idea what things are like over there. I don't know whether Agnes told you that I lowered the rent in Apr. for Kelyor I cut it back to $6.00 and that was about a $1.50 more than any other house was renting for and this is not hearsay but personal inquiry. Please consider these things and let me know where I stand…</i></p><p><i>How is the K.K.K. in Cal It is getting to be pretty strong around here. They held a big conclave at Zanesville last night I went down to get me some new harness and saw the parade…</i></p><p><i><br />I will close with lots of love…Carl Agnes & Kathleen…"</i></p><p><i>"Kansas City Mo. June 6 1927</i></p><p><i>Dear Mama & Evelyn:</i></p><p><i>I never have heard from you since you went to Russian River therefore I am wondering how your trip panned out.</i></p><p><i>I didn't write you the day I should because I did some very special work for two attorneys from Washington D.C. three & a half days last week & as it was rush work I was kept on the jump. They have a big case to try in Federal Court today & for two or three days so my work is thru. However in those 3 ½ days I made $25.00 but had to rent a typewriter to take home to do the work on so I got it for a month & it was $4.00 but yet that was pretty good pay I'll say and they were so pleased & appreciative of my work.</i></p><p><i>I do hope I get steady work soon but the weather is so bad – it is raining today again and these Missourians are sure afraid to start anything in the rain. Also the flood has caused a great depression in work. However we will persevere I guess and we will get settled someday…</i></p><p><i>Let us hear from you soon just a note…We both are fine. Jack's Colonel had to take an 18-day sick leave due to the accident he had three weeks ago so Jack is left alone with all the medical units to care for so I fear he is going to be very busy. Lots of love to you both Cecelia & Jack…"</i></p><p><i>"9 Sunnyside St. Jamaica Plain Oct 23 1931</i></p><p><i>Dear Grandma</i></p><p><i>We received your letter and was glad to hear from you. We are glad to hear that you have been able to take a vacation. Yes I am working in the same place and Frances is working for the Fire Underwriters. She works in the office. We are sorry that our father has had such bad luck but it seems that every time he goes to the Hospital that his women always leave him because he doesn't have any money to give them. If he had been living a good Christian life he wouldn't have all this trouble now.</i></p><p><i><br />Naturally we should be loyal to our Mother for all the care she gave us when my father was so mean to her. She brought us up to be what we are now and we should really be a credit to her. We are sorry to hear that Uncle Floyd is having a hard time with his business. It is terrible here in Boston. So many are out of work. Most of us are just lucky enough to keep our jobs. I hope that things will be easier for everybody soon. We are having such changeable weather lately. So many people have got colds. Well we hope you are in the best of health and wish the others the same with love and regards to the rest your granddaughters Dorothy & Frances."</i></p><p><i>"</i><i>Frazeysburg – O 4/10 1932</i></p><p><i>Dear Mother & All</i></p><p><i>…I have been very busy for the past three weeks and have quite a bit of work a head of me. How is business out there Things are getting worse here every day. I am still holding my job but don't know for how long. I have orders to cut off four of my men the 15th of April. The oil business in Ohio is shot for a long while cannot compete with the Western fields. I hope that Evelyn & Justin can still keep their positions. Tiebout has been working most of the time since the first of the year. So we have not seen or heard much of them. We have had sickness most of the winter. I started the ball rolling when I had the flu. I lost 4 days work the first time I have been off for six years of course I was paid but I hate to have my record broken…</i></p><p><i>Our company has been taking over some production that the Lenard Oil & Gas Co has had connected and has made a lot of extra work for me. I just finished a new gathering system & built a pumping station over back of Staddens Bridge. I am just starting a new gathering system u at Perryton my old home town on brother Joseph Chaney farm. So you see with having to entertain Joseph & look after my work I will be very busy. I hope that Floyd & Anna can come out of this slump with flying colors. Tell them just to take it easy and just make a living and be satisfied there isn't any use of them trying to build up a big fortune just for their kids to fight over. If they can't make anything they needn't to worry for they have lots of company. I have the same size pay check coming in every 2 wks and haven't saved anything for 2 yrs but greens are coming on now so I guess we will have something to eat.</i></p><p><i>…With lots of love from the whole family to Mother Slats & Justin Your scribbling son & all Carl Agnes Kathleen & Pee Wee"</i></p><p><i>"March 10 1933</i></p><p><i>My dear folks all:</i></p><p><i>I received your nice letter the other day and one hasn't much to write about or think of now except the national situation but somehow and someway I am sure that none of us will go hungry. Don't you worry about us back here and we are not going to worry about you folks but just rust in things coming back within a short time. Rome wasn't built in a day and the President has to have time to put into effect a new <u>deal </u>and a new policy. Now don't laugh for it is really a serious situation. But let's give him a chance to do right and perhaps if they make him a King or Mussolini or something he can do something and the Lord above knows that our Congress will never get us anywhere so give the President free reins and his chance to do something. I am for you Franklin if you make a go of it and will even vote for your reelection if you bring this country out of it but I fear he cannot stand the strain and will not be with us that many years longer.</i></p><p><i>Poor Jack is dumbfounded being a Southerner by birth and just having recently returned from the South where his folks sort of rechristened him a Democrat and made him believe that Roosevelt was our Savior etc. all this after I had Jack made a pretty good Republican for the past six years all my work wasted in vain after his Mother and Sisters etc. told him Roosevelt was great. He doesn't know what to think and of course cannot get to me to talk personally but just has to write his ideas etc. after the banks closed but he is trying to cheer me up and yet deep down in his heart he says that what I told him last summer would happen if Hoover was not re-elected if just about all coming true right the first ten days of the Democratic administration. However Jacks says he is a good sport and if Roosevelt saves the country and brings us out of this without suffering too much and makes things better I must become a Democrat but if Roosevelt fails and has to call on Republicans etc. to help him out of this crisis then Jack is never to speak to another Democrat ha!</i></p><p><i>Anyways folks here is what all of us connected with our organization have figured out. If you are paid 20% cash and rest checks do not spend on cent of the cash but hide it some safe place and pass every payroll check immediately on to the grocer baker candlestick maker etc. Don't hold a check a minute. Now Evelyn and Justin I am not sure whether our mortgage read that you had to pay gold tender or not but be most certain that you get a separate receipt for every cent you pay on your mortgage and hold on to those receipts. Don't let any ifs or ands get into the receipt either. Either they take your checks or they don't and get your receipt to these checks. If you get paid in small denomination checks buy so you may get back a little silver and then use another check for the next purchase etc. until you get every check out of your hands. Even buy your next winter coats underwear shoes new tires and everything possible that you can get them to take the checks that is payroll checks for and get yourself all fixed up. Buy all the groceries possible with such checks and store them away. Things in cans and that will keep. The theory is if worse comes to worse have some things on hand to eat and have those checks in some other fellows' hand and then your employer is responsible for the payroll checks or Roosevelt is or anyone but you.</i></p><p><i>Do the same way with the new money they issue and don't hold on to it but buy with it for all you can and pay on your mortgage with it if they will take it pay your insurance taxes etc. but do not hoard it for when the new money is finally called in unless a precedent is set it will be discounted and the ones holding it will get about 35 c on the dollar for all they have in their possession. However some new laws or other may off set these prophesies but pay for everything with those checks and save every cent of currency you get quarters halves etc. And don't keep from buying things you need because next year things will be so high you will not be able to buy them so fix up the car the house lay in grocers and get yourselves underwear coats suits dresses etc. to do for another year if you can possible do so with this new money you might be paid with.</i></p><p><i>However it usually takes all we make to live on as a rule but at that we are passing it on and will not be caught with it on hand. Mother has a hobby about holding onto checks and that is why I warned you about returning my little Kansas City checks immediately and not hold on to them for I was afraid this would be coming. I had no idea that Mother was holding onto any other checks or would have warned her also. We weren't the only ones; millions and millions are in the same boat and if only we all eat that is the main thing.</i></p><p><i>Now don't worry about us back here because we aren't going to worry about you. We know we all are pulling together and don't' knock the President for heaven's sake. That will ruin the country if we do and don't help him during this crisis now that it is on.</i></p><p><i>Do you all notice that Herbert Hoover is remaining in the East Wonder who is insisting that he remain there There is much hopes here that he is being asked by Wall Street or other financiers to remain near until this passes over and that is why he did not go on to California with Mrs. Hoover. He may have to save us yet.</i></p><p><i>All love to each of you and the best of luck Your devoted children Cecelia & Jack…"</i></p><p><i>"December 9 1933 321 West 29th Street New York City N.Y.</i></p><p><i>Dear Maud:</i></p><p><i>Isn't it about time I answered your letter of November sixteenth I think so – we were glad to hear from you and to receive your tin-type. There is not the faintest doubt that 'Tommie' was your Father is there You look just like the photo that his final widow sent us you also look well and very alert don't' look seventy.</i></p><p><i>I am glad that you can get a 'kick' out of prohibition and attending conventions yes I remember your snatching the man's whiskey bottle and how gentlemanly he offered you a drink.</i></p><p><i>I am glad that you are able to help the ministers even if it was only six cents rather a low price for a poem and music too. I do believe in helping others; even ministers they are the poorest paid swindlers there are and lots of them are self-hypnotized and believe their own patter. I am glad that you are feeling better in your ribs and should now if you could only use Christian Science you would know that you were not hurt and were in error when you thought you were. Sounds 'dippy' but there are lots of lunatics at large…</i></p><p><i>Will finally returned John's capital but the hard times set in before he was able to make any interest for them and I guess now we are going to arrive in H--- poor we will not be camels…</i></p><p><i>Will walks the streets and avenues continuously looking for a job but so far all that he has accomplished is leaving his name and address at various shops and factories this certainly is 'The Land of the Spree and the Home of the Knaves.' One has to be a bootlegger kidnapper or some other kind of crook to make money these times; and we are too old to learn crook ways…</i></p><p><i>Rude writes he is having his troubles trying to get any work out of the negroes and he says the English bosses are about as lazy as the coons. He seems to find the climate all right so far but the place is called 'the white man's grave yard.'</i></p><p><i>Glad that Frank still has a little work Victor is still looking for a job our kind of work seems to be like 'the dodo' – extinct.</i></p><p><i><br />Rude's address is Tarkwa Gold Coast Colony West Africa. Elsie just arrived there when he sent his last letter she said she had a wonderful trip ever since she left Peru enjoyed every minute of it. She had three days in London and flew over the city for a half hour to see it all at once…</i></p><p><i>It is mean of you to remind me that Christmas is nearly here. Christmas without money is fake. You know that Hannah always said 'it was a Catholic celebration gotten up by the priests to get the harvest money away from the people that Christ was born in July.' You can't prove it by me I wasn't present at the Virgin's lying-in.</i></p><p><i><br />Give our love to all of your family and don't forget yourself….yours Hulda"</i></p>
H1079Paperback. Good. Snap shots on 20pp recording the trip from NY to Colon and Cristobal in Panama in 1910 measures approximately 8 x 5 inches ca. 40 photographs well labeled with white ink. Purchased from the daughter of Kenneth Mills who is pictured as a young lad perhaps 11 years old who told his daughter that seeing the work done on the Panama Canal during this trip inspired him to be a civil engineer. Record of life aboard the boat and once in Colon views of the rectory and of Christ Church and of the sexton and cook for that church. paperback
1834017780Philadelphia and Baltimore: E.L. Carey and A. Hart and Carey Hart & Co 1834. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. A Fair copy in scuffed and worn original paper-covered boards and cloth spine lacking the spine label. Edge-wear to the spine cloth particularly at the rear fold. The paper quality varies: some pages fairly bright some lightly foxed some quite tanned but all legible. The text block binding is sound. A two-volumes-in-one printing with separate title pages and pagination at 216 and 222 pages with the publisher's catalogue bound in at the rear. A worn copy of a scarce book. <br/> <br/> E.L. Carey and A. Hart (and) Carey, Hart & Co hardcover
31319<p>The collection contains 126 letters 377 manuscript pages 7 manuscript essays 19 pages and one Christmas card sent to his Westall cousins by Thomas Wolfe manuscript sentiment in his hand. The collection also includes over 165 Westall – Justice family photographs from the 1880's – 1940s including carte-de-visite cabinet cards boudoir cards snapshots large format studio portraits as well as press photographs. The bulk of the images have been identified by a Westall family member in ink on the verso of the images identifying the sitters. The collection includes 60 related ephemeral items.</p><p>The correspondence comprises the courtship letters of William Harrison Westall and Emily I. "Pink" Justice. The collection also includes letters to Emily from family members and other suitors. Westall and Justice were both born in Swannanoa North Carolina but at the time of their courtship were both living in Asheville. Westall was working and Justice was a student at Asheville Female College. Westall would become the maternal uncle of the novelist Thomas Wolfe and like his older sister Julia Wolfe's mother displayed similar traits of character. He was confident assertive determined persistent and a bit obsessive. Westall faced opposition from Emily's parents in his courtship in part due to some of these traits. Emily's parents at one point sent her away to visit relatives in Tennessee and effectively banned Westall from their home shortly before their marriage. All of this only served to increase Westall's determination to succeed in his suit. Another source of friction between the young couple was the number of additional "sweethearts" and suitors interested in Emily's attentions.</p><p>William Harrison Westall was born May 16 1863 in Swannanoa Buncombe County North Carolina. He was the sixth of eleven children Henry Addison Sam Sally Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe1 – the mother of Thomas Wolfe American author William Harrison Lee Mary Crockett Elmer and Greely born to Martha Anne Penland and Thomas Casey Westall a farmer and builder. On both sides he was descended from pioneer families of western North Carolina. He married Emily I. Justice 1863-1942 of Buncombe County North Carolina. The couple had at least two sons. William Harrison Westall ran a successful building supply and lumber company and helped supply the raw materials during Asheville North Carolina's growth from the early 1880's through the early 20th century after the arrival of the Western North Carolina Railroad. William H. Westall even supplied materials to Biltmore in Asheville. Westall's older brother James Manassas Westall 1861-1943 was a prominent building contractor in Asheville during this period.</p><p>1. Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe 1860-1945 the mother of Thomas Wolfe was born on a farm in Swannanoa nine miles east of Asheville. The fourth of eleven children of Martha Anne Penland and Thomas Casey Westall a farmer and builder. She was educated at Judson College in Hendersonville she taught school for a time but stopped when she married William Oliver Wolfe on January 14 1885.</p><p>The couple resided in Asheville where their eight children were born: Leslie 1885-86; Effie Nelson Gambrell 1887-1950; Frank C. 188-1956; Mabel Wheaton 1890-1958; twins Grover Cleveland 1892-1904 and Benjamin Cleveland 1892 -1918; Frederick William 1894-1980; and Thomas Clayton 1900-1938.</p><p>In 1906 Mrs. Wolfe bought for $ 6500 a boardinghouse at 48 Spruce Street which she operated until her death. The house was called the Old Kentucky Home by its former owner it was the Dixieland of <em>Look Homeward Angel</em> and <em>Of Time and the River</em>. The house was purchased by the State of North Carolina in 1975 as a historic site it was then opened to the public as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial.</p><p>In his novels Wolfe provided a largely autobiographical account of his family's life from the turn of the century on. Julia Wolfe became the fictional Eliza Gant a small compact and persevering woman determined to keep her family together and manage fer boarding house in spite of marital discord and tragedies such as the deaths of her sons Grover and Ben. An able talker with a remarkable memory she provided her son with much raw material for his novels and short stories Her talents in business not only in running the boardinghouse but also in real estate purchases and sales eld to the family's relative affluence; thus Thomas was able to attend a private preparatory school and the University of North Carolina.</p><p>After her husband's death Mrs. Wolfe continued her business interests and was able to provide financial aid for her son then teaching at New York University and traveling in Europe. When she lost much of her capital in the Florida real estate crash of the 1920s which was followed by the great depression in Asheville she had to depend mainly on her boardinghouse for income. As he son's books became famous she in turn became noted as the real-life matriarch of the fictional Gants. From the early 1930s onward her boardinghouse drew literary pilgrims to Asheville.</p><p>A close bond existed between Julia Wolfe and her son Thomas from childhood until his death and some commentators have traced similar traits of character such as a prodigious memory ambition verbal power and determination. Their correspondence which spanned thirty years illumines one of the most moving mother-son relationships in American literary history. Always a champion of her son's writing Mrs. Wolfe became ever more so after his death. She often traveled to various parts of the country giving informal talks on his early life and influences. She was buried in the family plot at Asheville's Riverside Cemetery.</p><p>https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/wolfe-julia-elizabeth</p><p>Sample Quotes:</p><p>"Swannanoa N.C. Aug. 9th 1881 to Emily I. Justice Asheville NC</p><p>"Miss Pink</p><p>… I thought I would write you a few lines this morning … Miss Adina has been up for a week she is going home in the morning we had preaching last night at the Depot I would like to know if you ar still in the notion of going to Flatcreek campmeeting. There were a party talking of going to Black mountain this week but they gave out the idea we will all go in September I want you to go I enjoyed the picnic very much I think that I will come to Beaver dam church before very long I want you to let me know when there will be preaching Herre … T.E.W."</p><p>"Oct. 12th 1882 Asheville</p><p>Dearest Emily</p><p>It is with feelings of real pleasure that I take up my pen to write you a few lines. It is a privilege for which I feel very much under obligations to you for being so kind as to grant me. I shall take much pleasure in being able to communicate to you my secret thoughts & desires hopes & joys pleasures & expectations and in short I shall burden you with all that I could wish a <u>very dear friend</u> to know. I anticipate much pleasure from our correspondence & shall do my best to make it agreeable to you. I have long felt a deeper interest in you than you have any idea of. I anticipate with pleasure the day when I can feel assured that you <u>do</u> hold an interest in my future welfare & happiness. How much regard I have for you you do not know. It is not in my nature to express much of my real feelings. I may entertain a <u>very</u> high opinion of an individual but I am not the one to express it unequivocally. It is contrary to my nature temperament and disposition and I can no more rebel against these than swim against the cataract of Niagara. Emily you and I have long been friends in the common acceptance of the term "friend" but may I express the fond hope that our friendship may be placed on a higher nobler plane than it ever was before. May I always hope <u>we</u> may be friends in the most aesthetic sense of the term and not simply what the vulgar unthinking world terms friends. <u>We</u> will know each other; <u>We</u> will understand each other even if the outside world considers us as merely acquaintances. I have my faith in life to carve out myself' I have to attain success by my own efforts; My bark drifts lonely on the the turbid waters of life's rapid deeprolling currents with only me to send up heartfelt wishes for its success in the perilous voyage of life with only me to shed a silent heart rendering tear should it meet its destruction amidst the shoals & breakers which ever surround weak mortals in this voyage. I say "only me" because in the seeming friends of earth can be placed but little reliance. May I hope that in this ocean of life I may have one in whom I can place the utmost confidence in whose faith I can have the most unbounded reliance to whom I can turn when clouds overcast my path & all seems dark & dreary when the world casts a frowning glance upon me and hear her sympathizing voice in accents gentle and sweet bid me look upward and onward … Darling I love you! Why need I seek to hide it longer … Remember our promise to each other not to show our letters to any one. Be sure & keep it I will. . H"</p><p>"Bakersville N.C. Dec. 27th 82</p><p>Dearest Pink</p><p>I don't know that you care much about hearing from me but I want to hear from you and although I may be in Asheville before very long don't want you to forget me entirely while I am away… I left A Thursday morning took dinner with my sister in Marion and started home that afternoon. Something was going on nearly every night – when I was here before but have not enjoyed it much this time. Skated a little one or two days ago and went to a party last night and had the exquisite pleasure once more of running against a sewing machine agent – "It was said" as the legends go that those awful fellows were so thick here once that a tree fell on a windy day and killed <u>fourteen</u>. That thinned them out a good deal but enough are left to be in the way of <u>organ agents</u>. I sold one organ the day before leaving Asheville and Prof Folk who is working with me sold one …</p><p>Father is going to build a printing office soon and has made arrangements to publish a Free Will Baptist paper for the Free Will Baptist association in connection with the one he already publishes … Bradley S. Worthen"</p><p>'Asheville N.C. March 16thm 1883</p><p>Miss Pink</p><p>There will be an entertainment or a show in the Opera Hall at the Court House to night and if the weather is favorably sic and you would like to go; I would be pleased to accompany you there. And if you can go I will call by for you at seven o'clock … Wm. H. Westall"</p><p>"Asheville N.C. Aug. 1st 1883</p><p>Miss Pink</p><p>Dearest One you may be <u>greatly</u> surprised by getting this letter and it <u>will not</u> be anything <u>very</u> strange if you <u>should</u> be surprised. Your refusing to kiss me good night has <u>caused me</u> to <u>suffer greatly</u>.</p><p>Oh! I am feeling so <u>badly</u> I <u>can not</u> sleep a <u>wink</u> to night and as the clock strikes one my mind is like a ship on a stormy sea tossing reeling and blown about by a wind of disappointment; I <u>say</u> disappointment because it was a <u>great</u> disappointment to me in bidding you good-night <u>without</u> <u>a kiss</u> as I have had a kiss nearly <u>every time</u> of late when parting with Miss Pink.</p><p>I am one <u>who honestly truthfully</u> and <u>candidly</u> love you and you have said that you <u>loved me</u>; told me <u>not once nor twice but a great many times</u> that you<u> surely</u> loved me and <u>no one else</u> and that I was the <u>only</u> one that you <u>ever did</u> love well I believed that you did think and do think yet a great deal of me and perhaps did about <u>half-way</u> love me but <u>refusing</u> to <u>kiss me</u> when there was no excuse at all: twelve o'clock at night; when there was no one about; is very plain proof <u>that you do not think so much of me</u>.</p><p>I do not know why it is that I have fallen so <u>deeply</u> in love with you when you as it seems to me <u>can not</u> love me. You are waring a ring as an "engagement ring" and <u>then</u> you refuse to kiss me; one who you claim to be engaged to and one who you say that you love <u>what is the matter</u></p><p>Now Miss Pink: I <u>truly</u> and <u>honestly</u> love you God being my judge and it makes me feel very bad to think that you do not care so much for me.</p><p>May you prove to me that you do think a great-deal of me and I hope you will <u>never</u> refuse to kiss me again on an occasion like tonight when there was no excuse <u>only that you did not want to</u>. Wy did you <u>ever </u>kiss me Was it because I <u>asked</u> and <u>insisted</u> on it Or was it because you was kissing one who you loved</p><p>People sometimes kiss others who they <u>do not love</u> but I do not believe that <u>any</u> young lady ought <u>ever</u> to kiss a young man who she <u>does not love</u> but a young lady kissing a young man who she <u>truly loves</u> I don't think there is <u>anything</u> wrong in it.</p><p>I never heard of a young lady <u>refusing</u> to kiss one she loves when there was no excuse for not doing so and you refusing to kiss me under the circumstances tonight <u>puzzles</u> me <u>very much</u> and I would like to have the <u>puzzle</u> unraveled.</p><p>I am sure there would not be any<u> harm</u> in you kissing me; even if you <u>do not</u> love me for I can assure you that <u>no one</u> will ever know it by me telling them and as far as <u>anything</u> else is concerned you need <u>never </u>have any fear if I <u>know</u> myself.</p><p>I of course will come again tomorrow night as I agreed and if you should not get this letter before then perhaps I will not mention this subject or anything in regard to you refusing to kiss me but whenever you do get this letter answer me either by letter or personal conversation. For I want a reconing sic soon in regard to your manners towards me for the last two or three weeks you <u>never</u> refused to kiss me since you first kiss me until of late so there seems to be <u>something</u> rong sic <u>somewhere</u> and I would like to <u>know</u> where it is and <u>what it is</u>.</p><p>Please excuse this letter for I am feeling so very badly that it is <u>nearly utterly</u> impossible for me to write anything in a systematic or in a grammatical style.</p><p>I will still add a few more lines; saying I <u>can not</u> believe that you know how <u>much</u> I <u>love you</u> or you would not treat me as you have. If it was possible for me to <u>express</u> <u>by words</u> <u>how much</u> I love you I would <u>gladly</u> do so but there is not <u>words in the</u> English language by which I could express my love for you.</p><p>Ever since I had the <u>pleasure</u> of meeting you there has been a <u>fire</u> of <u>love</u> kindled in my <u>heart</u> and it has been burning <u>slowly continuously</u> and <u>warmly</u> <u>ever</u> since and all that is lacking to make it an <u>unceasing</u> and <u>everlasting</u> <u>flame</u> to burn <u>forever</u> is a little breeze of love from your heart; and may you <u>soon</u> send<u> that</u> breeze of <u>true love</u> so that it may ease my <u>aching heart</u>.</p><p>Hoping that you may explain how you feel in regard to what I have said I will close by saying be careful to never let any one get their fingers on this letter. The clock has struck two in the morning and I to bed must go. … W. H. Westall"</p><p>"Asheville N.C. Sept. 29th 1883</p><p><u>Dearest One </u>-</p><p>I thought I would write you a few lines as I am going to Morganton this evening and perhaps will not get back until Tuesday next. I would so much like to have you go with me but I suppose you would not like to go so far alone with me; as you are so much afraid of people talking about you going trips with me alone; and as we would be gone three or four days. But I <u>certainly</u> would like to have you go with me as I shall not enjoy the trip without your company.</p><p>I hope you will enjoy yourself Sunday if I am so far away from you.</p><p>It is like pulling eye teeth to me to be absent from you <u>just one</u> Sunday if I am with you <u>so much</u> during the week.</p><p>I don't wish you any harm but I do wish it would go as hard with you to spend one Sunday without being with me. as it <u>dose</u> sic go hard with me; In other words I wish you <u>loved</u> me as I do you and then you would take it very hard to spend one Sunday without being with me.</p><p>You may think you do love me as much or more than I do you but I think you are mistaken though it may be so but I think it hardly possible. If I should not get back Tuesday I will write you and let you know about it … W. H.W."</p><p>"Asheville N.C. January 3d 1884</p><p><u>Loved One</u>:-</p><p>May I ask you to neither get offended nor vexed at the insanity shown in my frequent letters. I have a <u>reason</u> for writing <u>this</u> one as well as for <u>all </u>I have written you.</p><p>The object of this letter is to tell you my dream of last night. It was about you of course; and as all of my daily thoughts are of you so are my dreams. I will just state the particulars of the dream for if I should try to teel it all it would take a great deal of paper and sometime to tell it …</p><p>First; I thought you came to see me purposely to explain to me for the way you had treated me while I was sick; I thought you explained everything satisfactory; but I told you that in all our court-ship I never had been led to believe you truly loved me I doubted your sincerity; I thought you then looked me in the face tears came into your eyes rolled down your sweet cheeks and that you throwed your arms around my neck kissed me and said: "God being my judge I love you truly and I am yours until death shall part us; love me else I die."</p><p>O! darling; though it was a dream you cannot imagine the inexpressible ease of mind and of heart there was when in that dream I saw the tears gushing from your eyes something I never saw since I have known you and when I thought you whispered in my ear "I love thee truly; love me else I die. O Dear; I can see your lovely form in my imagination before me now just as I saw you in the dream. The sadest thing of the dream is it has added greatly to my misery and suffering; The dream was to me: "Misery of Hell changed to the Happiness of Heaven" When I woke and found it all a dream the happiness of the moment vanished.</p><p>O if I could only be convinced in reality that you loved me in truth as strongly as I was in the dream then I would be more satisfied than I am.</p><p>I am always saying that I am rendered so unhappy by my unbelief of your love. You say you love me and I believe you do but what I am crying about is you do not love me as I do you; your love affections for me is not strong enough. I have no doubt but what you think you could not love me more; you have said so any way; I think you are just mistaken. You know people sometimes are mistaken in some things. I hope I am in thinking that you do not love me as you ought to.</p><p>Dear! It has been nearly a long week since I saw you you think if I care any thing at all for you I would come to see you at any time I want to without an invitation that is a mistake I have two or three reasons for demanding an invitation; I have already given you my reasons for not "calling" in so long a time – you are going to school; you say you have to study your lessons; how do I know whether you have any time apart from your books I am not much to impose on any one if I know it and especially on the one I love.</p><p>Darling we have been engaged for some time and there should not be any doubts in either of us of our love and sincerity if we ever expect to march up to the matrimonial altar together. … Wm. H. W."</p><p>"Asheville N. C. February 29th 1884</p><p>Miss Pink Dear:</p><p>I am not dead but liveth and don't expect to die while I see others living. I imagine I see you to night mourning and weeping because I am not by your side; Then again I imagine I see you sitting around the fireside in the family room or upstairs singing songs of praises enjoying yourself just as well or better than if I were with thee. You asked me the other night "if I would come again Friday night" and I answered "I would"; this is Friday night and I have just returned from your house did not get disappointed seeing you but I imagine you are ready to dispute me when I say I have seen you tonight nevertheless it is so I did not get disappointed in seeing you I saw you at a short distance in a lighted room in the second story of a house' now the reason why I had the great pleasure of seeing you and you not me was there was no light in the window for me.</p><p>You remember I have said to you that when you were expecting me at any rate when I thought you were if there should be no light in the window for me if when I get in sight of your house and do not see a light in the south window I then suppose you are either not expecting me or you don't care whether I come or not it always makes me feel as if my presents are not desirous on your part: can you blame me I guess you do but Oh Dear do not if you please. You know my nature very well and instead of blaming me for my faults you should try to improve them that is if you truly love me and expect to some day be joined in matrimony with me. You of course did not expect me to night or you would have had a "light in the window" or you did not want me; you know it is very hard for me to think you don't enjoy my company but still I am forced to think some thing what do you suppose it is It is this I have been going to see you too often; staying too long when I do go; nearly every time I have been at your house at night you have at a very late hour begged me to go home as you are not allowed to stay up very late bed time.</p><p>I hope you will excuse one who loves you dearly and I will try to do better in the future. I cannot blame you for telling me your bed time I cannot blame you for asking me to go home when I am imposing on you when you are wanting to close your eyes in sleep. Why I did not come tonight was I did not think you were expecting me; and I do not want to go any where not being expected; though I can not see why you did not expect me … Wm. H. Westall …"</p><p>"Asheville N.C. March 26th 1884</p><p>Dear Pink</p><p>I feel tonight as if I could write you a long letter and it is my duty to do so yet I can not write very much <u>not in the right mood</u>.</p><p>I feel very mean for acting as I did last night <u>being so provoking</u> as I was you said you hoped I would not always be so I hope so too and I promis you <u>now</u> that I will never do anything in the future which would cause you any unpleasant feelings.</p><p>I fear you are feeling badly over the way I acted and treated you last night so I write these few lines to let you know that I have repented making a resolution to <u>never</u> do so again; never to do say or act in any way which would not please you.</p><p>I know I am a perfect fool some times and you must not get any ways offended at me I would feel a great deal better to night if I thought everything was right.</p><p>Some day I hope you will understand me <u>to know my heart</u> then I know you will love me as I do you. Fearing that I left you last night feeling very unpleasant I make the promis never to do so again knowing that I am a sinful wretch I will close. … W. H. Westall …"</p><p>"Grafton N.M. 6/7 1884</p><p>Miss Justice</p><p>… As you say fishing and hunting are very pleasant but I prefer to take mine with out the broken arm… If you could have seen me coming into town. I fear you would not have felt proud of your correspondent. I had a young deer tied behind my saddle and two big turkeys in front of me my clothing was considerably the worse for acquaintance with rocks and bushes blood and deer hair. A very dusty face covered with a months growth of beard was shaded by a wide slouch hat. I carried a ten pound repeating rifle large six shooters and butcher knife and wore two cartridge belts one for the rifle the other for the revolvers. In fact I presented so disreputable an appearance that when I caught the first glimpse of myself in a mirror I instinctively reached for my revolver to defend myself.</p><p>We planted our first man in Grafton today a cowboy who undertook to <u>lay out</u> one of our Grafton boys who is only about 20 years old and got left. The fight occurred in a horse corral after dark so the shooting was all guess work both emptied their six shooters one bullet grazed Charlie's temple and another passed through his shirt burning the skin a little. Mr. Cowboy got two through the body and one horse was killed. The fellow said before he died that Charlie was a "<u>good one</u>" and not at all to blame. Charlie has not been arrested and I don't suppose he will be he is known to be quiet and peaceable while the other fellow styled himself a <u>bad man</u> from Texas and refused to give his name even after he knew he was dying. The men he was with called him <u>yaller</u> because he had very light hair and rode a yellow horse. They went off and left him for the boys in town to care for and when told he was dead sent back word to bury him in a blanket. We buried him without ceremony in a rough pine box but I suppose he will sleep as soundly as if laid in a silver mounted casket and a two hours sermon preached over him he was well cared for while he lived but Charlie who followed him to the grave wore the only solemn face I saw there… Jas B. Taylor"</p><p>Asheville N.C. Sept. 27 1884</p><p>"Miss Pink</p><p>I am compelled to go this evening to the city of Hickory N.C. will start in about an hour; Will return next Monday or Tuesday Very sorry to go and be absent from you even so short a time. Would be glad to have you go with me but circumstances won't allow it this time. Please don't forget me until I return and thine shall be the prases world without end. William Harrison W"</p><p>Asheville N.C. March 18th 1885</p><p>Miss Pink Justice Dear Friend</p><p>Your long looked for letter just to hand; I had just about come to the conclusion that you did not care enough to write to me I have been <u>weeping</u> <u>wailing</u> and <u>pawing</u> the earth since you left after hearing what I have of your departure from the Asheville Depot; I have been made to understand that you caught a <u>beau</u> the morning you left A – and that your <u>beau</u> laughed at you being so badly struck with him. The beau was a Mr. Tom Ray whom you met at the Depot introduced to you by your brother It was said that before the train left Mr. Ray had forgotten your name and spoke of you as "<u>that fast girl</u>" he told a friend of his that you had told your brother to ask him to sit with you in the train to Parrottsville said you was badly <u>mashed</u>; I think if all this is so you were badly <u>mashed</u>; it seems very strange that as soon as you get out of my eyesight you will act in any such manner. I can hardly believe this; still at some times I cannot help from thinking but what it must be so I am feeling very badly over it still I am not going to die and you must not think so I am compelled to believe you love me a little if you give me entirely up. I am both sorry and glad that you are not contented with your new home and if you want to come back I will come after you ar any time you will meet me at Parrottsville; could I come down some Sunday leaving Asheville Sunday morning and come backwith you in the evening the same day if so I would rather do that than visiting your Aunts as it is so far from the Depot If I could go and return the same day it would be much better then I would not loose any time please let me know how it is; I will be so glad to see you back in Asheville once again if you don't think so very much of me I have not been contented at any time since you left I walked all over Asheville Sunday had no where to go no place to lay my head I was a miserable boy; I would not spend another such Sunday for the whole world. I wish you could love me so that you would be perfectly contented with me so that you would be perfectly contented with me so that you would never think of traying to catch another beau it seems as though you wanted to travel the world over to see if you could find some one who is better handsomer and more of a "big bug" than I it may be when you travel over the world more you will come to the conclusion that I am about as good a boy as you could ever find. I have become a little wreckless since you left me still I will never cease to love you it matters not where you go or how long you stay. Suppose I should go away for my health to be gone six months and should ask a young lady to sit with me in the train and make her think I was badly mashed on her how would you like it I don't get guess you would like it very much so it is with me but I can't help myself; I have had two teeth filled and I still love you. … Wm. H. Westall …"</p><p>"Asheville N.C. March 26th 1885</p><p>Miss Pink Justice My Dearest One</p><p>Yours just to hand conveying to me the sad and shiking sic fact that you had not as yet received a line from me since you left Asheville. Dear after waiting a long weary and toilsome week I received a long and interesting letter from you which I answered by return mail. I have now been looking for an answer and instead I get a letter giving me a raking for not writing to you… I cannot blame you for feeling sad and lonesome if you think very much of me but I am surprised at you not coming home if you are so lonesome and sad.</p><p>I wrote you in my other letter that if you were not pleased and home sick and wished to return home I would come after you anytime. It hurts me to think you are not enjoying yourself… I will not advise you to come home if you don't want to; as badly as I want to see you for if you could gain your health as you once had it it would be the best thing you could do and you and I would be the more happier. If the place is such as you describe I don't think you will improve very much … William H. Westall"</p><p>"Asheville N.C. April 3d 1885</p><p>Dear Pink</p><p>Yours just to hand and I cannot tell you how very glad I am to hear from you after waiting so long for a letter I had just about come to the conclusion that you had met with someone who you could think more of than I and had given up the idea of writing again.</p><p>I was very much surprised at you putting off coming home so long; as you seemed to be so anxious and home sick; I expected that you would write me to come at once for you instead of putting it off three long weeks but I suppose you are very well contented now; judging from the way you write; you say for me not to tell your people about you coming home that they don't want you to come; and that you are not pleasing them now that it is I that you are trying to please; well; I am very glad to hear you say that; but I have one thing to say it is this; If you are contented in Tenn and you think by you staying there is summer it will be the meanes of you regaining your health I would advise you to stay Don't come back to A – just to please me I would rather you would stay if it is your pleasure to do so and you get well by so doing still I will be glad when you by so doing; still I will be glad when you are in A again where I can see you when ever I want to you did not say whether or not you were or not you were getting better; I suppose you are or you would have been complaining. I don't want you to come back and then say it was I that brought you otherwise you would have remained in Tenn and improved your health. If you think it best for you to stay I would advise you to stay. I have stood your absence one long month and have to stand it three week longer …</p><p>I have gotten so I can view every thing in a reasonable manner and I don't my feelings to cause me to advise you any other way than what would be best for you. … It occurred to me that I would not like to spend any time in Tenn if it is such a lonesome place as you say it is; therefore I thought when you got ready to come home. I would arrange it so that I could start on the train here in the morning and return with you in the afternoon the same day getting to Asheville at sun down; so I selected Sunday for the day so it would not interfere with my business. I suppose I can go to Bridge Port and back in the same day making the connections with trains you know more about that than I as you have gone over it.</p><p>You seem to think that I surely have by this time caught another sweet heart … it seems to me if you cared very much for me and thought I would likely get another sweet heart after you left A you would not have gone and after having gone it seems to me as though you would not put off coming home but would take up the cross and come at once. … W. H. W."</p><p>"Asheville N.C. July 21st 1885</p><p>Miss Pink Justice Dear Friend</p><p>I have just returned home from the Div. room and read your letter of inquiry. I am surprised at you not knowing why I have not been down.</p><p>As you know last Wednesday night when I was at your house your Mother ordered you to bed at half past nine o'clock which was only to let me understand that I was not welcome there; <u>so where I am not welcome I shall not go</u>.</p><p>I suppose your mother is mad with me on account of me telling what I did about your uncle; If I should have<u> made</u> and told what I did and could not prove it there would be some reason in her getting mad but all of what I told came from a <u>true source</u> and can be proved besides other smutty things.</p><p>If your Mother or any one else gets mad with me for telling what I have told will just have to get mad I can not help it and I don't care while I can not blame you with anything I can and will say that I have been at your present home for the last time unless it be under circumstances which I don't expect to look for now.</p><p>I am grieved to think of how things terminated and am very sorry but it can not be helped now.</p><p>I would be very glad to see you and have a long talk with you but if I can not see you without coming to your present home I will never see you; while now tears flow down my cheeks I have made up my mind not to place my self in a position where I would likely be insulted.</p><p>I can not find fault with you you can not help your surroundings or responsible for what your kind people do I once enjoyed life but I can not say that I do now for about two months I have not been satisfied with things in general there will have to be a great change.</p><p>If you can not meet me somewhere else than at your present home I don't know when you will get to see me surrounding circumstances are such.</p><p>I heard of your thinking of going off and am glad you did not go; There are a great many things I want to ask you but I will wait until I see you … Wm. H. W. …"</p><p>"Asheville N.C. November 18th 1885</p><p>Miss Pink Dearest One</p><p>I write you a few lines to night but have nothing strange or special to say only that I am feeling so blue and lonesome that I can not content myself anywhere or at anything. I have tried to read but am so blue I can not interest myself reading any thing; so I concluded I would spend a few minutes writing you a short letter.</p><p>You have of late several times complained of me not writing "good" letters as I once did. <u>Now</u>: if I could always feel as I do to night when writing to you you never again would complain of me not writing you "good" letters for if I should be lost to final words with which to do it. If I were now by your side I could show you better than I could tell you any way.</p><p>I have been as you know very unsettled in my mind and feelings for some little time but to night I feel as though "<u>all is well</u>" and settled as <u>far as I know or am concerned</u>.</p><p>For the last year we have had troubles and differences of many kinds: my hopes tonight are that all <u>such</u> is past and gone to come no more and for the future I hope that our troubles if any will be "<u>little ones</u>"</p><p>It has not been very long ago since when troubled I looked forward and hoped for the day to arrive when I would have forgotten you: when all feelings of love would have gone and vanquished my troubled and unsettled mind <u>but O now</u> <u>what a wide difference what a almost sudden change has come</u> I now look forward to the day when we will be happy with each other I hope you and I will never again do anything or act so as to offend the other.</p><p>I wish I could have seen you to night I would not be feeling so <u>blue</u> I am going the "<u>appointed time sure</u>" sure <u>Friday night</u> look for me and try to be glad to see the one you <u>so much</u> -------- </p><p>Don't <u>mourn</u> or <u>grieve</u> but be <u>merry over all things smile brightly</u> smile on me as you never did before and the praises shall be yours forever.</p><p>I would write more but for the lack of time will have to close <u>excuse pencil writing</u> and believe me I beg you to be the same <u>True Will</u>"</p><p>'Asheville N.C. January 15th 1886</p><p>Darling Pink</p><p>In obedience to your command and my desire I write you a few lines. While I write the south wind is<u> hissing</u> and <u>howling furiously</u> and threatening stormy weather; I am afraid we will have very disagreeable weather for quite a while yet. I will not be very surprised to see a deep snow on the ground tomorrow morning when I awake from my slumbering.</p><p>I had quite a nice time last evening at the party I enjoyed myself as much as I could have<u> you not being there with me</u>. I am very sorry circumstances were such that you could not go for I am sure you too would have had a good time. If you did miss this time you shall not miss all we will have a "<u>good time</u>" "one of these days" if nothing happens and you don't lose all hopes and confidence in me. While we have had so many "<u>ups</u>" and "<u>downs</u>" I can not help but think that things will be adjusted some day soon and all then will be peace and happiness <u>I hope so any way.</u></p><p>While I know you are talked to by your parents about me which tends to make you mistrust me and after <u>so long a time</u> try to separate us I can not help but think it will take more than <u>human influence</u> to part us Those who have tried to separate us <u>shall repent</u>. I can not help but believe you have a feeling t''ward me that will <u>never never die</u>. Our <u>court-ship</u> has been quite a long one. We have had a hard time we have a great many times come near unto separating but now I don't believe there is anything that will separate us but death.</p><p>The best we make of this life it is a hard one let us try and do better in the future – trying to make each other more happier and then we will be as inseparable as the <u>Trinity</u>. I will not get to see you before Sunday after noon at which time I am going to see you if I am run out of Doubleday Town … W. H. Westall"</p><p>'Asheville N.C. January 26th 1886</p><p>Darling Pink</p><p>… I am nearly <u>dead</u> to see you and it is nearly death to me to wait until Sunday next before seeing you again. One week from you seems as a year to me. I heard that one of your old <u>sweet-hearts"</u> has been down to see you but hope there is no truth in the report still I can not help being a little uneasy.</p><p>Can't you come up town one evening this week so that I may get one "<u>peep</u>" at you before Sunday</p><p>Do come and come around to see me I will be <u>more</u> than glad to see you. Dear Do try and make me think that you Love me; if you do don't be afraid to let people know it. Don't you think I am crazy If you do you are not much mistaken. I am so busy this evening and so tired that I can not think of any thing to write. … W.H.W."</p><p>"Asheville N.C. Jan. 30th 1886</p><p>Dear Pink</p><p>Your letter received this morning was very glad to hear from you but very sorry to have you accuse me of Lieing sic you may get mad with me and abuse me in any way you can but to accuse me of "<u>bare face</u>" <u>Lieing</u> sic is a death blow to me; I would rather have you accuse me of anything else than <u>Lieing </u>sic I wrote you that I had heard that one of your old <u>Sweet-hearts</u> had been down to see you; I <u>did hear it</u> and I told you nothing else but the truth when I told you about but had I known that you would "<u>give me the Lie</u>" about it I would not have mentioned it at all I don't believe I ever wrote you a letter without having something to quarrel about and should I live one hundred years I don't think it would be any better; you or I one always mad; <u>Hell on earth and Hell hereafter.</u> I would have come down last night but did not get your letter until this morning. I am feeling very badly this morning but can not help iyt. I will go down tomorrow after non and we will fight it out satisfactory no doubt.</p><p>I did not go to see Rush last night or any one else I am not "bad off" enough to go to see any one. Your abused Darling W.H.W."</p>
187012808New York: Matthews 1870. Unique. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong duodecimo embossed brown cloth gilt. Unpaginated. Professionally rebacked;. Commercially produced album to be sold to individuals to house a collection. Minnie O'Shea Fortescue was the mistress of Robert B. Roosevelt TR's notorious uncle. He later married her. Minnie has collected approx. 350 monograms from family members government officials other dignitaries and friends. TR is of course represented. Minnie's B. Roosevelt's ownership signature in ink is on the front free fly leaf. Matthews hardcover
1902232993Hartford: J.B. Burr & Co 1902. First Edition. 121 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Crimson cloth. Very Good spotting on front cover. First Edition. 121 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> J.B. Burr & Co hardcover
1820305224Edo 1820. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. blue paper wrappers worn stitched. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. Japanese woodcut book on the crests and symbols of the Samurai families.<br /> <br /> WITH: <br /> A series of 99 small manuscript information cards on for ceremonial use for Samurai families denoting their crests and banners pen ink and colors. First half of 19th century each card 70 x 55 mm some affected by worm tracks. unknown
6344SCHOONMAKER FAMILY ARCHIVE. The Schoonmakers were a multi-generational Dutch family who lived in Ulster County New York mostly around Kingston. The first family arrived in New York in the mid-1600s and settled up the Hudson River around Kingston.Archive. 60 manuscripts. Dates range from 1712 to 1836. Places are generally in and around Ulster County New York. This Schoonmaker family archive consists of approximately sixty documents related to several generations of the clan of the Kingston Ulster County region of New York. Some of the highlights include an estate document about a Negro boy meaning the family-owned slaves legal documents signed by women unusual for the time a couple of documents in Dutch etc. There are signatures of many early settlers with Dutch names such as Oosterhout Heermans Van Gaasbeck Tremper Yeoman Van Vliet and Hooghteeling.Some of the highlights include:A four-page document dated April 12 1712 for the estate of Hendrick Schoonmaker. The most interesting line is the mention of a Negro Boy bequeathed.An oversized document dated June 28 1721 related to the DeMayer family. It is signed by Nicholas & Elsie DeMayer as well as Hendrik Oosterhout.An oversized document dated February 18 1729 related to real estate and signed by Johannis Schoonmaker.An oversized document dated May 25 1730 related to property for the estate of Hendrick Schoonmaker. It is signed by Cornelius & Sarah MacLeen and Andries Heermans.A document dated September 11 1733 for real estate. It is signed by Abraham Person & Hendrik Oosterhout; there is a Persen House museum in Kingston.A document dated February 19 1770 signed by numerous figures including Trintje Schoonmaker Ezekiel Masten Abraham Masten and Cornelius Beekman.A letter dated December 9 1811 about Reverend Ostrander performing services in the Dutch language & a call for a Dutch minister.A document dated June 7 1814 about a Kingston church & William Osterhoudt.A receipt dated August 20 1817 for the Columbian newspaper subscription to Henry Schoonmaker.A document dated July 28 1816 signed by Cornelius Tappan to Schoonmaker regarding military regiments.A printed broadside dated October 22 1826 regarding political support for Governor DeWitt Clinton. unknown
183097163New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830 / New York: New-York Protestant Episcopal Press 1831. 1830 & 1831. 1830 & 1831. Good. - 32mo 5-3/4 inches high by 3-5/8 inches wide. Burgundy calf backed marbled boards with calf corners titled and ruled in gilt on the spine. The covers are scuffed and stained with wear to the joints and head and tail of the spine. 224 pages in all illustrated with a pictorial vignette title page and 3 full-page frontispiece engravings preceding the subsequent title pages. There is evidence of early worming along the front hinge. An early owner's inscription dated 1833 is penned on the front endpaper. There is some minor foxing and soiling throughout with a tiny piece out from the bottom corner of one of the title pages. Good. <p>The four books consist of:<p>1. "The M'Ellen Family: A History. In Four Letters From a Missionary. Fourth Edition. Stereotyped by Jas. Conner New York". New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830. 36 pages with a title vignette.<p>2. "Memory's Tribute or Things Profitable For Reflection. First Series. The Baptism. By the author of 'The M'Ellen Family'." New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830. Pages 1-36 illustrated with a full-page frontispiece included in the pagination.<p>3. "Memory's Tribute or Things Profitable For Reflection. First Series. A Family in Eternity. By the author of 'The M'Ellen Family'." New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830. Pages 37-84 illustrated with a full-page frontispiece included in the pagination.<p>4. "The Meeting of the Travellers. By the author of 'The M'Ellen Family'." New York: New-York Protestant Episcopal Press 1831. Pages 1-104 illustrated with a full-page frontispiece included in the pagination.<p>RARE. New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1830 / New York: New-York Protestant Episcopal Press, 1831. 1830 &am hardcover
30775<p>293 letters 573 pp 76 retained mailing envelopes dated 4 May 1848 to 27 December 1954; bulk of letters date from 1910s to 1950s; with 3 manuscript journals 1904; 1909-1911; and 1943 a newspaper clipping scrapbook an estate ledger and a pedigree register; plus 44 photographs and approximately 130 pieces of related printed and manuscript ephemera. Interesting collection of letters many from the turbulent economic times of the 1930s.</p><p><b>The Family of Eliot Tuckerman Esq. 1872-1959</b></p><p> Eliot Tuckerman was born in New York City on March 12 1872 the son of Gustavus Tuckerman Jr. 1824-1897 and Emily Goddard Lamb 1829-1894 eldest daughter of Thomas Lamb 1796-1887 and Hannah Dawes Eliot 1809-1879. Gustavus Tuckerman Jr. was a Boston Massachusetts merchant who was involved in the China India trade during the mid-19th century. Tuckerman was born on May 15 1824 at his grandfather's house in Edgbaston England the second son of Gustavus Sr. and Jane Francis Tuckerman. As a boy he was tutored by A. Bronson Alcott and Mr. George Ripley and attended the Boston Latin School. Upon completing his early education Tuckerman was expected to attend Harvard College following his brother John Francis Tuckerman Class of 1837. Instead he joined the Boston merchant shipping firm of Curtis & Greenough. In 1847 he was sent to Palermo Sicily to represent the firm in purchasing and shipping cargoes of goods to America including fruit wine linseed licorice cream of tartar and other provisions. Two years later he made a second journey to Sicily to represent the firm. Upon his return to Boston in 1849 he was made partner in Curtis & Greenough. He continued as a partner in Curtis & Greenough and also established business relations for Tuckerman Townsend & Co. in Sicily. Tuckerman Townsend & Co. was a partnership with Thomas Davis Townsend also an employee of Curtis & Greenough. Located at 48 Central Wharf in Boston Tuckerman Townsend & Co. was heavily involved in the import trade with the Mediterranean China and India especially the ports of Palermo in Sicily Singapore and Penang in Malaysia and Calcutta India. Tuckerman acted as the local roving agent for the firm from 1853 to 1859. He purchased goods and coordinated shipments back to Boston. In 1859 Tuckerman Townsend & Co. took heavy financial losses and Tuckerman decided to dissolve the firm rather than continue with business on credit. He moved his family from Boston to New York City and took a job as the treasurer of the Hazard Powder Company a gunpowder company that thrived during the Civil War. Tuckerman died on 11 February 1897 at his West 54th Street home in New York City. </p><p> Gustavus Jr. & his wife had at least four other children besides Eliot: Jane Frances Tuckerman 1852-1947; Hannah Elliot Tuckerman 1855-1860; Emily Lamb Tuckerman 1858-1943; and Margaret Eliot Tuckerman 1860-1948. </p><p> Eliot Tuckerman's aunt was Jane Francis Tuckerman 1818-1856. She was good friends with Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 and the two women were known correspondents. Fuller was an American journalist editor critic and women's rights advocate and associated with the American transcendentalist movement. She wrote many letters to Fuller and was one of Fuller's private pupils and later her assistant on the <i>Dial </i>the chief publication for the Transcendentalists. Jane married John Gallison King 1819-1888 a Boston lawyer from a Salem family however the marriage did not work out. King was part of the circle of friends with Emerson Elizabeth Hoar Cary Sturgis etc. Jane was said to be good friends with Elizabeth Hoar 1811-1878 a classmate of Henry David Thoreau. Hoar was to wed Charles Emerson brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson but Charles died before they married. Emerson treated her as a sister. There are a couple of letters in this collection written to and by this Jane Francis Tuckerman as they are dated too early for Eliot Tuckerman's sister of the same name.</p><p> Eliot Tuckerman received his A.B. cum laude from Harvard College in 1894 and his LL. B cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1897. He was accepted into the bar in 1898 and by 1899 Tuckerman was working with the firm of Evarts Choate & Beaman in New York City. In 1895 Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Eliot Tuckerman founded the Stockbridge Golf Club making it one of the first 100 golf clubs in the U.S. In 1918 Tuckerman was elected as a New York Republican Assemblyman for the Tenth District. There are a couple of pieces of ephemera in this collection for the Republican Assembly Tenth District. </p><p> Tuckerman married Mary Ludlow Powell Fowler 1879-1955 in New York City in April 1915. She was the daughter of lawyer author and Surrogate of New York Robert L. Fowler 1849-1936 of New York City and his wife Julia Groesbeck 1854-1919. Mary had various interests. She was the president of the International Garden Club and a former vice president of the Humane Society of New York. She was the first person to win the annual award of New York City's Park Association for the restoration of the Bartow Mansion in the Bronx and her aid in securing its conversion to a public museum. Mrs. Tuckerman was also active with the Bide-A-Wee home for animals in New York and a World War II president of Bundles for Britain. She also took an active interest in the Colony Club of New York and the Daughters of Holland Dames and the National Society of the Colonial Dames. She was related to the Groesbecks of Cincinnati. Her mother's father was U.S. Senator of Ohio William Slocum Groesbeck 1815-1897 and her aunt was Olivia Augusta Groesbeck Hooker wife of Union Civil War Major General Joseph Hooker.</p><p> Eliot Tuckerman and his wife had one daughter Emily Lamb Tuckerman 1917-2000. Emily married Henry Freeman Allen and had at least three children.</p><p> By 1947 Tuckerman had succeeded Clifford A. Hand's New York law firm and Hand's firm had become Jones Bleeker & Tuckerman. He retired about three years before his death. He had for many years lived at 1209 Park Avenue in New York City before moving to Boston in 1952.</p><p> Tuckerman was an expert on Constitutional Law and in 1927 he sought to have the 18th Amendment dry law declared illegal. There is an essay on Constitutional Law of his in this collection. Tuckerman was also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and of the University Century Harvard Down Town and New York Yacht Clubs fleet captain of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and a governor of the Squadron A Club. He was a trustee of the Morristown School a member of the Pilgrims the Society of the Cincinnati and other societies.</p><p> Eliot Tuckerman died on 29 October 1959 at the age of 87 in Boston and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts.</p><p> Eliot Tuckerman was the cousin of poet T.S. Eliot 1888-1965. His mother and T.S. Eliot's grandfather were first cousins. There are two letters and one card in this collection which were written to his sister Jane Frances Tuckerman 1852-1947. T.S. Eliot calls her his "cousin" as he does their sister Emily. The two letters are typed and signed by Eliot. One of the letters he signs it "Tom St. Eliot" the other "T.S. Eliot." The card is written to both Jane and her sister Emily and is addressed to the Misses Tuckerman. It is a printed card with his "T.S. Eliot" signature.</p><p><b>Some of the Correspondents in the collection are:</b></p><p><b>Emily Tuckerman 1858-1943. </b>Eliot Tuckerman's sister born 22 May 1858 in Boston Massachusetts. When she was three years old she was brought to New York by her parents. Emily went to Mrs. Griffith's School in New York and was a member of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr's little dancing class. She often visited her most intimate friend Jane Minot Sedgewick in Stockbridge Massachusetts in winter as well as summer. She was fond of housekeeping and the greatest help in our home took diplomas in "invalid cooking" and "first aid to the Injured." She travelled in England and Alaska with her friend Ann Mugar Leight. She was the Vice President of Mrs. Parson's Children's School Farm for 21 years. After the death of her parents she traveled extensively with her sister Jane. She met with a motor accident on the Isle of Wight and was sent to Egypt by advice of Sir Victor Moreley of London. After the marriage of their brother Eliot Jane F. and Emily L. made their home together.</p><p><b>Jane Frances Tuckerman 1852-1947. </b> Eliot and Emily Tuckerman's sister Jane Francis Tuckerman was one of the founders of the Friendly Aid Society and the New York County chapter of the Red Cross. She lived at 1201 Park Avenue. A close friend of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt parents of President Theodore Roosevelt she gave her services for many years as secretary of the Orthopedic Hospital of which Mr. Roosevelt was then president. She was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames and had been secretary for twenty-five years of the Causeries du Lundi.</p><p><b>Thomas Stearns Eliot OM 1888-1965 </b>"one of the twentieth century's major poets" was also an essayist publisher playwright and literary and social critic. His grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot 1811-1887 was first cousin to Emily Goddard Lamb Tuckerman the mother of Eliot Tuckerman and his sisters Emily and Jane.</p><p><b>Robert Bowman Dodson 1849-1938 </b>Robert B. Dodson was one of the trustees of the James A. Garland Estate along with Eliot Tuckerman and Maj. Robert Emmet. Dodson was a banker and broker. He married Mary Wells. Dodson was born in Geneva Illinois in 1849 the son of Christian B. Dodson and his wife Harriet Warren. Dodson became associated with John J. Cisco & Co then National City Bank and later a partner in Fahnestock & Company. Harris Charles Fahnestock 1835-1914 was an American investment banker. He was a successful investment banker and was financial advisor to President Abraham Lincoln. He co-founded First Nation Bank of New York a predecessor to Citigroup. In 1881 Harris' son William formed his own investment bank at Two Wall Street Fahnestock & Co. which expanded through the decades and eventually led to the creation of Oppenheimer & Co. in 1950. Dodson was also a trustee of the Bankers' Safe Deposit Co. of 4 Wall Street NYC. Dodson died at his country home at West Islip Long Island on 21 August 1938 at the age of 89.</p><p><b>Major Robert Emmet DSO 1871-1955 </b>was born in Charlottesville Virginia on 23 October 1871. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet 1826-1919 a distinguished physician and medical writer and the great grandson of the Honorable Thomas Addis Emmet who served as Attorney General of New York State and was an Irish patriot and rebel who came to the United States in 1804 after the failed 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion. The Honorable Emmet's brother Robert Emmet was hanged in 1803 for his part in the rebellion. </p><p>Major Emmet was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1892. Be began the study of medicine and graduated the College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University New York in 1896. In May 1898 he became a Sergeant of Squadron A N.G.S.N.Y. and was mustered into active service of the United States as a trooper of New York Volunteers and was ordered to Puerto Rico. He received the D.S.O. Distinguished Service Order -WWI Great Britain and was a Major of the Warwickshire Yeomanry British Expeditionary Force 1914-1918. </p><p>Emmet was married on 25 November 1896 to Louise Garland daughter of James A. Garland and Anna Louise Tuller of New York. After the death of his wife's father Emmet became one of the trustees of the James A. Garland Estate along with Robert B. Dodson and Eliot Tuckerman. </p><p>Louise Garland Emmet's father James A. Garland 1840-1902 was a prominent New Yorker the Vice-President of the First National Bank of New York and a junior partner in the organizing and building of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He came into the orbit of Jay Cooke when Cooke's son was one of his students and was known as an "excellent broker." Garland was a client of Duveen Brothers and a serious collector of tapestries oriental jades and especially Chinese porcelain. The James A. Garland collection of Chinese porcelain was one of the largest and comprehensive in the United States and one of the finest in the world. It comprised over a thousand Kangxi 1662-1722 period blue and white and colored porcelains amongst other items. The collection was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum until his death in 1902 when it was sold to the Duveen brothers for $500000 who then sold it to J.P. Morgan within hours of who allowed most of the collection to remain at the Metropolitan Museum.</p><p>Emmet and his wife had at least three children: Thomas Addis Emmet 1900-1934 who married Evelyn Violet Elizabeth suo jure Baroness Emmet of Amberley 1899-1980 a British Conservative Party politician; Capt. James Albert Garland Emmet; and Aileen "Muffie" Emmet.</p><p><b>William Gardner Choate 1830-1920 </b>was a United States federal judge. Choate was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York serving on the court for only three years resigning on June 1 1881. He resumed his private practice in New York City from 1881 to 1920. He founded the Choate School later Choate Rosemary Hall in 1896 and from 1902 to 1903 he served as president of the New York City Bar Association.</p><p><b>Joseph Hodges Choate 1832-1917</b> brother of William Gardner Choate. was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was associated with many of the most famous litigations in American legal history including the Kansas prohibition cases the Chinese exclusion cases the Isaac H. Maynard election returns case the Income Tax Suit and the Samuel J. Tilden Jane Stanford and Alexander Turney Stewart will cases. In the public sphere he was influential in the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</p><p><b>Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</b> <b>1861-1933</b> an American poet writer and lecturer. She was the younger sister of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. She married Douglas Robinson Jr. 1855–1918. Robinson's maternal grandfather James Monroe 1799–1870 a member of the House of Representatives was a nephew of U.S. President James Monroe 1758–1831.</p><p><b>Sample Quotes:</b></p><p><i>"May 7 1925</i></p><p><i>D.S. Garland Esq. President</i></p><p><i>New York Law Review Corporation</i></p><p><i>280 Broadway New York</i></p><p><i>Dear Sir</i></p><p><i>The Constitution as originally made was simply intended to guarantee to the individual citizen a government which would protect his life his liberty and his right to pursue happiness.</i></p><p><i>That original Constitution which contained few controversial matters was not intended to be flexible and its amendment was not meant to be easy.</i></p><p><i>Since the intrusion into the Constitution of the various Amendments which have been ever increasingly controversial in nature there are every increasing numbers of people who are discontented in one way or another with the Constitution as amended.</i></p><p><i>This discontent leads to increasing demands for further amendments.</i></p><p><i>The Supreme Court which as Mr. Dooley says 'follows the Election returns' now says that it is only necessary to have the votes of two-thirds of a quorum in each house to propose Amendments to the organic law. That is not what the Constitution itself says but it is 'an interpretation' in the direction of flexibility which the amendments to the Constitution have made more popular.</i></p><p><i>In my opinion the acquiescence by the Court in the Congressional interpretation of the Amendment clause of the Constitution is more dangerous for the country than the passage of a law by Congress over the decision of the Court would be.</i></p><p><i>Another Congress can reverse the policy of its predecessor but the Constitution once changed stays.</i></p><p><i>Where it will end we cannot tell but each controversial amendment hastens the end.</i></p><p><i>Yours very truly Eliot Tuckerman</i></p><p><i>ET/M."</i></p><p><i>"T.S. Eliot</i></p><p><i>B -11 Eliot House</i></p><p><i>Cambridge</i></p><p><i>11 April 1933</i></p><p><i>My dear Cousin Jane</i></p><p><i>I shall certainly hope to see you and Cousin Emily in New York; but unfortunately I am not going to be there all that week – it is two separate visits. I shall be there from the 20th to the 22nd; and again on the 27th; and I hope to spend several days in New York in May without any speaking engagements. But I shall try to come on the first occasion; and will telephone.</i></p><p><i>With many thanks</i></p><p><i>Cordially your cousin</i></p><p><i>Tom St. Eliot"</i></p><p><i>"Henry D. Tudor</i></p><p><i>Counsellor at Law</i></p><p><i>35 Congress Street</i></p><p><i>Boston Mass.</i></p><p><i>January 23 1934</i></p><p><i>Dear Mr. Dodson</i></p><p><i>We have been searching for the portrait of James A. Garland by Ooliss. Hope Garland Ingersoll his granddaughter is supposed to have this portrait but we have not been able to locate it.</i></p><p><i>I wonder if you have any recollection in the handling of the estate of James A. Garland Sr. what became of this portrait. It was supposed to go to Bert Garland and hung in his house at Hamilton Mass. I do not know that the estate ever had anything to do with it but on the chance that it did I am writing to know if you have any recollection about it.</i></p><p><i>Sincerely yours</i></p><p><i>Henry D. Tudor"</i></p><p><i>"Baden-Baden May 8th '34</i></p><p><i>Dear Eliot</i></p><p><i>I apologize for not acknowledging receipt of your cable of April 3rd as I was reasonably sure Mrs. Emmet would not do so but I some how forgot it till I got your letter…</i></p><p><i>I wrote him Dodson some time back asking what you & he thought about distributing the final dissolution payment of the 1st Security Co. in the next quarterly distribution as I do not see how we can do otherwise in view of our paying income tax on it as income. Apparently the liquidating dividend received last year of the Passaic water Co. is in the same a similar category & should be distributed as income…</i></p><p><i>I hope everything goes well with you & Dodson. I wish they would treat the gangsters with the same merciful ruthlessness they use in similar miscreants here & I Italy. They tell me on all sides there is no need of locking your front door now in Germany & many of the people in the north do not do so. Visitors tell me they never lock their hotel doors now in Germany & never lose anything. The streets too are perfectly safe at any hour of the night. I wonder which is freedom – here or the terror in the New York where a mutual friend of ours trembles every time her front doorbell rings after 9 P.M.</i></p><p><i>I wish Roosevelt would make the States attack crime ruthlessly. I believe a marked subsidence of crime would bring a return of confidence & a business revival. It sounds fanciful but I believe it is NOT. Yours R. Emmet"</i></p><p><i>"Sept 27 '34</i></p><p><i>Dear Eliot</i></p><p><i>I have just arrived here Paris for a week on our way to London…</i></p><p><i>I am greatly disappointed not to have seen you when over here but delighted to hear you enjoyed it all so well. I think few people realize the romance of Scotland. Motoring there is far more fascinating I think than anywhere on the continent…</i></p><p><i>We are just from Montreux in Lk. Geneva via Basle. My wife ran into Germany to see the Dr. for the day but was too shy to spend any longer there than necessary. Charming people though these southern Germans are. The air there was charged with anxiety I thought and with espionage & spying with severest reprisals for disloyalty I have been told. Every one was so guarded in speech & so anxious lest they be overhead & misrepresented at least the few I got to know…</i></p><p><i>Best luck yours R. Emmet"</i></p><p><i>"</i><i>Sheppard Jones & Seipp</i></p><p><i>Attorneys & Counsellors</i></p><p><i>New York</i></p><p><i>April 26th 1935</i></p><p><i>Re – Emmet - General</i></p><p><i>Trust for Mrs. Emmet – Garland Estate;</i></p><p><i>Possible sale of First National Bank Stock</i></p><p><i>My dear 'Rob' and 'Tuck':</i></p><p><i>After our telephone conversations of this morning there came in the following brief note from 'Bob' Emmet dated the 17th:</i></p><p><i>'Dear Jack: My wife insists I maligned her by writing you she had threated to sue the trustees if they sold any of the Bank Stock so I thought you better know though she is as determined as every to hold on to the stock if she can influence matters.'</i></p><p><i>It seems to me that this demonstrates conclusively what I have told you both namely that 'Bob' had no animus against either of you in writing what I quoted in my letter to you of April 24th.</i></p><p><i>Faithfully yours John S. Sheppard</i></p><p><i>JSS:D</i></p><p><i>Robert B. Dobson Esq.</i></p><p><i>960 Park Avenue New York City</i></p><p><i>Eliot Tuckerman Esq.</i></p><p><i>49 Wall Street New York City"</i></p><p><i>"Robert Dodson</i></p><p><i>Robert Emmet</i></p><p><i>Eliot Tuckerman</i></p><p><i>Trustees for Louise G. Emmet</i></p><p><i>Under the will of James A. Garland</i></p><p><i>2 Wall Street</i></p><p><i>New York</i></p><p><i>September 19 1935</i></p><p><i>First National Bank</i></p><p><i>2 Wall Street</i></p><p><i>New York</i></p><p><i>Gentlemen:</i></p><p><i>Will you kindly purchase without haste for our account as Trustees as above stated the following mentioned bonds and stocks:</i></p><p><i>$30000 New York City 4% bonds due 1980.</i></p><p><i>$20000 Commonwealth Edison 3 ¾% bonds due 1965.</i></p><p><i>$5000 San Diego Consolidated Gas & Electric First 4% bonds due 1965.</i></p><p><i>$9000 American Gas & Electric 5% bonds due 2028.</i></p><p><i>$8000 North American Co. 5% bonds due 1961.</i></p><p><i>And</i></p><p><i>50 shares American Tobacco Co. B Stock</i></p><p><i>Please charge the same to our account with advice to us at the above address.</i></p><p><i>Yours truly</i></p><p><i>Robert B. Dodson Trustee</i></p><p><i>Eliot Tuckerman Trustee"</i></p><p><i>"Oct 3rd '35</i></p><p><i>Baden-Baden</i></p><p><i>Dear Eliot</i></p><p><i>Many thanks for yours of Sept 24th giving the prices at which the new purchases were made through the First National Bank…</i></p><p><i>We expect to be here or in Freiburg Germany till Oct 18th then after a short stay in Paris off to England for a couple of months Nov & Dec with the family. Great fluttering in the dive cots for several more are going to school this term having only the youngest at home in Tanney's family & two in each of the other two.</i></p><p><i>The thought that they may be training & fattening up to kill & be killed in a quite unnecessary war seems an incredibly revolting thought when one realizes that all wars are begun for Loot Gain or Revenge. I am barbarian enough to have really enjoyed my war experience but am thoroughly ashamed of the remains of Fallen Nature still uneradicated in me that permitted me to enjoy what I know was opposed to Christian principles. I have always enjoyed a gamble of a game of wits & chance & believe that must be the foundation of the situation. I certainly had no hard feeling or hatred for the enemy at any time any more than during a game of polo or steeplechase….</i></p><p><i>Yours R. Emmet"</i></p><p><i>"January 11 1937</i></p><p><i>Dear Dodson</i></p><p><i>I attended the annual meeting of the stockholders of the bank this morning and at the request of Mr. Fraser and Mr. Welldon called the meeting to order and nominated them to act as chairman and secretary of the meeting.</i></p><p><i>Mr. Fraser took up the enclosed statement item by item and explained the differences as compared with the previous year's report. The number of stockholders has increased from 4708 to 5102. The government has ruled that the bank may make announcement of the dividend to be paid four times each year instead of twice as has been done for the past year. This will be done.</i></p><p><i>The decrease of deposits was mainly due to the government requiring increased reserves in the banks. Many banks carry balances with the First National which reduced their deposits. Also some of the corporate balances were smaller than formerly. Of the Government Bonds owned by the Bank 40% are due in 5 years or less and 51% are callable in 10 years. The profits are less this year as many of the bonds held by the bank were refunded in 1936 which resulted in profits in 1936 not recurring in 1937. Also the income was reduced by the fact that the refunding bonds carried coupons at a lower rate of interest.</i></p><p><i>There were 282 shares present in person at the meeting and 72205 shares among them ours represented by proxies.</i></p><p><i>There were gains in miscellaneous income from the fact that commissions were received in some of the Estates held in the trust department and the rents of the building now 74% rented increased.</i></p><p><i>That's about all I learned from Mr. Fraser.</i></p><p><i>After the meeting I stopped to speak with Searles the first assistant cahier. I mentioned to him that I had noticed that Mrs. Loew's Estate held no bank stock. He suggested that perhaps she had put that in trust for her children during her life. Maybe so.</i></p><p><i>I have put the various receipts int eh file and have nothing further in the way of business to report.</i></p><p><i>I hope Mrs. Dodson and you are well and happy. I stopped in to see Jack Morgan for a minute and he said it was a good time to be philosophical and I try to be but for me it is not easy.</i></p><p><i>With best wishes</i></p><p><i>Yours Sincerely</i></p><p><i>Eliot Tuckerman</i></p><p><i>Robert B. Dodson Esq.</i></p><p><i>ET: JB"</i></p><p><i>"</i><i>The Vestry</i></p><p><i>St. Stephen's Church</i></p><p><i>Gloucester Road S.W.7</i></p><p><i>12 January 1939</i></p><p><i>Dear Cousin Jenny</i></p><p><i>Thank you very much for your kind and welcome letter. I am sorry that I unintentionally deceived you concerning my whereabouts; it was simply that I could not find your address and enclosed the card and envelope to Henry to forward to you. Nevertheless I shall hope to see you and Cousin Emily at some time during this year if no war intervenes to prevent. I had hoped to come in the autumn but both politics and some uncompleted work prevented me.</i></p><p><i>With best wishes for 1939</i></p><p><i>Affectionately your cousin</i></p><p><i>T.S. Eliot"</i></p><p><b>Examples from the 1943 Journal:</b></p><p><i>"August 10 Thursday…45 subtracted from 1943 brings us back to 1898 and the glorious days of San Juan Hill and the first Roosevelt now rather eclipsed; but perhaps history will refocus attention on his name. And here we have a lot of Spanish War vets convening in Boston with their wives in attendance. 45 years and caps and badges & wives don't add by and large any great dignity to the human body; rather humps & bumps and thick legs and horrid obesity all over in the most unexpected spots - and I dare say not infrequently to the brain; - which is indicated by the very fact of their foregathering and dressing up. In the last few days they have been passing resolutions; memorializing Congress and FDR in a number of ways on a number of subjects one of which which caught the reporters' eye was a stern recommendation to the federal authorities whoever might be the proper one to forbid any and all Orientals – Japs & Chinese from entering the U.S.A.: where upon the Civil Liberties League whooped & hollered and asked how this behavior fitted in with Mr. Wilkie's plan for one world." </i></p><p><i>"Aug 22 Sunday…We were very much intrigued to find that Nancy Oakes had been at their school in New York when she married Count de Marigny clandestinely and admitted it one afternoon after an examination on banking. Consternation! and inability to get Lady Oakes on the telephone before the Count came and claimed her & carried her off. A great to do but nothing much to do about it. Both Miss C. & Mlle. T foresaw unhappiness sizing up the Count as a scallywag who didn't care anything about Nancy but had an eye o her money. He had been divorced from his first wife Farnesworth and all the available records were dark. And now look what she is facing! Her husband accused of murdering & trying to burn the body of her father – in the Bahamas!."</i></p><p><i>"Aug 24 Tuesday…There are lots of WAVES at the Victoria lining up to go somewhere and I am much impressed with their style their carriage & their dress. Also recalling Bly's remarks about the uniform color of their stockings. I wonder if the U.S. Gov. issues them or commands them to use only one color of lip stick. I had a good opportunity to come to this conclusion…"</i></p><p><i>"Aug 25 Wednes…I was struck by the eventual usefulness of Copley Square. At last a valid solution of that much vexed triangle has been found; it has become a vegetable garden for the Copley Plaza Hotel surrounded by a low white picket fence covered with vines; a well-worn path around it. The garden itself is very professional set up in north-south rows of everything good to eat and thriving under the skill of a professional farmer; who picks your beans as you sit in the merry-go-round & has 'em cooked when you've finished your cocktail. The garden does not occupy the entire grassy terrain but leaves the corners free -and as might be expected they are dedicated by the completely unimaginative Mr. Long of the Park Dept. east to the exceedingly ugly raised garden a design in horrible stubby plants; a large V and north-south on Dartmouth St. of all things groups of spindly rabble trees! Doubtless it's Mr. Long's fond secret hope to do something about the tree shortage…"</i></p><p><i>"Aug 26 Thurs…A nice quiet day with little happening. I call on Ralph Gray in the early morning. He seems pretty perky and wants me to take on the job he is yielding of custodian with Howard Church of the B.A.C. funds. There being little or no funds that seems no arduous job for me and I gladly take it off Ralph's shoulders…Bly lunches with Mrs. Ellery Sedgewick at Emily Webbs who remarks on my North Haven Church and is joined by Tom Metcalfe from the adjacent Museum of Modern Arson as he likes to call it in memory of the Beacon Street episode…"</i></p><p><i>"Aug 31 Tues…I have taken Ralph's place as trustee of the B.A.C. educational funds. I could hardly do less though I'm heartily sick of trying to save that club house. And here are Stanley & I – Stanley for the most part – getting up a serious of lectures for next winter in the hope that we may gather in a few dollars - and persuade the tax assessors the Club is an educational institution & should not be taxed…"</i></p><p><i>"Sept 1 Wed…I get the Ms. Of our lecture courses to Ms. King of Todd and Walter Kilham & I enjoy a particularly pleasant luncheon at '270'…What a gay place 270 is at lunch time! Seemed full; even the cocktail lounge…M.F. chic & charming winked at me across the room Harriet Allen and her Roger Warner were near by & a perfectly lovely lady with large limpid eyes & vivacious mouth - & 2 friends sex female faced me at a near table Walter a little irritated that his back was to her. But I noticed he managed a number of good squints in her direction. We both would undoubtedly recognize her again – and may go back to do so…"</i></p><p><i>"Sept 11 Sat…And in the meantime it should be noted that Adolph Hitler has made a speech…a rather pitiful affair probably from Berchtesgaden over the radio justifying everything in Italy and on the Russian front. He is lost…and he knows it…probably now at the control of the army who are using him to bolster public moral as much as he can. Meantime they have taken over Rome put the Pope under protective custody which rather pleases me the Pope never to my mind took a strong position and now he is being used for what his prestige & that of the shrines of Rome can give the Nazis as protection…"</i></p><p><b>Collection Inventory:</b></p><p><b> Outgoing Correspondence of Eliot Tuckerman:</b></p><p>81 retained copies of letters 106 typescript pages mostly unsigned dated 7 May 1925 to 22 December 1950; written by Eliot Tuckerman to others; the bulk of letters date from the 1930s 1 letter from 1925 2 from 1940 and 1 from 1950; 48 of the letters were written by Tuckerman to Maj. Robert Emmet; 12 letters written to Robert B. Dodson; the remaining to various individuals; of these 79 letters 2 are handwritten copies. Tuckerman Emmet and Dodson were trustees of the James A. Garland Estate with Emmet's wife was one of the heirs. Emmet is mostly in Europe with Dodson and Tuckerman in New York City. Most of this correspondence is about the Garland Estate investing for the estate quarterly distributions stocks bonds cash on hand arguments with Mrs. Emmet over the handling of the estate worries about the economy worries over the political scene in Europe Germany etc.</p><p><b>Incoming Correspondence of Eliot Tuckerman:</b></p><p>78 letters 157 pp. mostly handwritten dated 11 December 1933 to 27 December 1954; written by Major Robert Emmet to Eliot Tuckerman. Emmet's wife Louise G. Emmet was an heir to the James A. Garland Estate of which Tuckerman was one of the Trustees handling the estate for Mrs. Emmet. Emmet and his wife appear to have gone to Europe for an extended stay lasting multiple years to seek treatment of his wife's ailments. Major Emmet and Robert B. Dodson were also Trustees of the Garland Estate. Emmet writes several letters discussing the changes going on in Nazi Germany. Much of the correspondence deals with the Garland Estate.</p><p>15 letters 16 manuscript pp. dated 20 June 1934 to 19 January 1938; written by Robert B. Dodson to Eliot Tuckerman; Dobson like Tuckerman was one of the Trustees handling the James A. Garland Estate for Mrs. Louise G. Emmet who was the heir and the wife of Major Robert Emmet also a Trustee. Much of the correspondence deals with the handling of the Garland Estate.</p><p>6 letters 20 pp. mostly handwritten dated 11 March 1919 to 12 March 1927 written to Eliot Tuckerman from family: his mother 1; Aunt Elizabeth 1; Jane and Emily Tuckerman 1; Jane F. Tuckerman 2; Emily Tuckerman 1. </p><p>4 letters 14 pp. handwritten dated 16 June 1901 to 10 March 1915; written by various members of the Choate family to Eliot Tuckerman: Mabel Choate of New York City; J. H. Choate Jr. writing from Munich Germany; Anne Hyde Choate of New York; and Wm. G. Choate of Rosemary Farm Wallingford Connecticut. Tuckerman worked for the Evarts Choate & Beaman law firm in New York City for a number of years.</p><p>4 letters 12 typescript pp. dated 15 and 30 October 1935; written by Herbert J. Bickford to Eliot Tuckerman these are two original letters plus copies of those letters; Bickford was a member of the firm of Evarts Choate Curtin and Leon Allen W. Evarts Joseph H. Choate Jr. John J. Curtin & Maurice Leon of New York City New York. Bickford helped on the Garland Estate.</p><p>3 letters 4 typed pp. dated 3 February 1919 to 2 August 1918; written by Henry Campbell Black to Eliot Tuckerman; Black was the editor of "The Constitutional Review" a publication that published an article by Tuckerman. There is an essay/article in the ephemera collection which would appear to be a copy of this article that Tuckerman wrote for this publication.</p><p>3 letters 4 typed pp. dated 24 April 1935 to 20 September 1938 written by John S. Sheppard to Eliot Tuckerman; Sheppard was an attorney with "Sheppard Jones & Seipp" of New York City New York John S. Sheppard Catesby L. Jones & Henry G. Seipp; Sheppard may have been working for the Emmet family on the Garland Estate or for the Emmet family individually from the estate.</p><p>35 letters 66 pp. mostly handwritten by various individuals to Eliot Tuckerman dated 15 March 1887 to 22 December 1950; of these letters 23 are dated from 1915 to 1917. In 1915 Tuckerman was engaged and married and in 1917 he and his wife had their first and only child. These letters from 1915 and 1917 discuss these two events in Tuckerman's life. The collection includes letters from: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE 1884-1970 American railroad executive a champion yachtsman an innovator and champion player of contract bridge and a member of the Vanderbilt family; Christine Griffen Keen sister of U.S. Senators John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean and wife of William Emlen Roosevelt 1857-1930 prominent New York City banker and cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt; presumably a Frances Tracy Morgan daughter of Jack Morgan American banker finance executive and philanthropist who inherited the family fortune and took over the business interests including J.P. Morgan & Co. after his father J. P. Morgan died.</p><p><b>Incoming Correspondence to Mary Fowler Tuckerman wife of Eliot Tuckerman:</b></p><p>12 letters 35 pp. mostly handwritten dated 29 September 1915 to 14 December 1932; written to Mary Fowler from family: her husband Eliot Tuckerman 5; her father Robert L. Fowler 5; Jeanie and Emily Tuckerman 1; and her brother 1.</p><p>21 letters 66 pp. mostly handwritten dated 8 March 1915 to 7 April 1948 written by various individuals to Mary Fowler Tuckerman wife of Eliot Tuckerman; 7 letters are not dated and are from the same time period; 9 letters are from 1915 and 1917 with the undated letters likely being from this time period as they pertain to Mary's marriage to Tuckerman 1915 and the birth of their daughter 1917. Some of the letter writers are from prominent New York City families: Rachel Lenox Porter Frances de Peyster Sarah D. Gardiner Alice Crary Sutcliffe Margaret E. Zimmerman etc.</p><p><b>Incoming Letters to Emily Lamb Tuckerman and her sister Jane F. Tuckerman sisters of Eliot Tuckerman:</b></p><p>10 letters 27 pp. handwritten dated 1 January 1854 to 26 June 1943; written to Emily Lamb Tuckerman by various individuals both family and friends including her sister Jane and her cousins. A couple of the letters congratulate Emily upon her engagement. One or two of these earlier letters appear to be for another Emily Tuckerman perhaps an aunt of Emily Lamb Tuckerman. One may have been written by Jane F. Tuckerman 1818-1856 as it was written in 1854 thus the Emily it is addressed to would have to be someone else.</p><p>9 letters 14 pp. dated 18 October 1872 to 12 January 1939 written to Jane F. Tuckerman; one letter is written Corine Roosevelt Robinson an American poet writer and lecturer and the younger sister of President Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. Another correspondent is the poet T. S. Eliot who writes two letters to Ms. Tuckerman both are typed and signed with envelopes dated 11 April 1933 and 12 January 1939. T.S. Eliot calls Ms. Tuckerman his cousin and mentions her sister "Cousin Emily" as well. T. S. Eliot also signs a Christmas card "T.S. Eliot." The envelope is addressed to "The Misses Tuckerman" in New York City in 1938. </p><p><b>Miscellaneous Letters to the Tuckerman Family:</b></p><p>12 letters 32 pp. handwritten dated 4 May 1848 to 11 May 1935; miscellaneous letters written amongst members of the Tuckerman family.</p><p><b>Journals Estate Ledger Pedigree Register Scrapbook </b></p><p>Journal of Eliot Tuckerman octavo 63 manuscript pp. plus blanks bound in limp leather boards worn at edges dated 3 August to 9 September 1904; inside front flyleaf reads <i>"Eliot Tuckerman / Personal Memoranda."</i> First page states: <i>"Tour of Duty with Troop A 1st New York Provisional Cavalry – at Manassas Va. September 1904" </i>followed by: <i>"Pursuant to the provisions of the "Dick Bill" the Army authorities called for troops from the eastern States to take part in maneuvers to be held on the ground where the battles of Bull Run were fought in the Civil War…" </i>This journal appears to be about this exercise that Tuckerman was a part of.</p><p>Journal of Eliot Tuckerman octavo 39 manuscript pp. plus blanks bound in limp leather boards worn at edges dated 1909-1911; written in ink in legible hand. The inside front flyleaf of the journal has inscribed: <i>"Eliot Tuckerman / Journal / Dec 25 1909 / from E.L.T." </i>The volume appears to have been given to Tuckerman for Christmas 1909 from his sister Emily Lamb Tuckerman." The first page is dated <i>"December 25 1909"</i>with the last entry dated <i>"1911 July 26."</i>The volume was only occasionally used by Tuckerman.</p><p>Journal of an unidentified woman octavo 198 manuscript pp. dated 13 August to 27 September 1943 written in ink in a legible hand; kept in a copybook. This journal was written by a single woman who works in an office in Boston possibly the architectural firm of Kilham & Hopkins formed in 1899 or 1900 by its founding members Walter Harrington Kilham 1868-1948 and James Cleveland Hopkins 1873-1938. The firm later became Kilham Hopkins & Greeley after William Roger Greeley 1881-1966 joined the firm in 1916 and Kilham Hopkins Greeley and Brodie after Walter S. Steve Brodie 1911-1985 joined the firm in 1945. The firm has been recognized for its contributions to early 20th century reform housing including its work at the Atlantic Heights Development in Portsmouth New Hampshire at the Woodbourne Historic District in the Forest Hills section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston and for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company in the Salem Point Neighborhood of Salem Massachusetts. A number of the firm's works including Blithewold and Hose House No. 2 have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The journal does have the writing making architectural comments design comments etc. and she may very well be an architect herself. She lives with a woman by the name of Bly. The journal recounts daily activities and life of a woman in the Boston area traveling to Milton New Bedford elsewhere mentions of the war efforts etc. She at one point takes over as custodian of the funds of the Boston Architectural Club from architect Ralph Gray.</p><p>Estate Ledger Book for <i>"Estate of Emily Lamb Tuckerman / Died July 8 1943"</i> & <i>"Estate of Jane Frances Tuckerman / Died October 18 1947"</i> small quarto 69 manuscript pp. bound in quarter leather cloth edges worn written in ink legible hand; both estates' accounts kept in the same ledger.</p><p>Register of Pedigree. Approved by The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 1915. Copyrighted 1895 by William Gordon Ver Planck. "The Pedigree of Jane F. Tuckerman" 33 pp. written in ink legible hand with blanks and with further handwritten material tucked in bound in oblong 4to measures 16" x 10" cloth boards wear to edges. A genealogy of the Tuckerman family compiled by Jane Frances Tuckerman.</p><p>Scrap Album of 59 newspaper articles clipped from New York City papers and laid into a quarto volume measures 10" x 14" boards detached dusty. The articles appear to be mostly written by or about Eliot Tuckerman and his fight to declare the 18th Amendment Prohibition wrongly enacted. </p><p>"Wedding Presents" ledger small oblong quarto 40 pp. with blanks written in pencil legible hand bound in boards with leather worn away; not dated but mentions Emily Tuckerman as giving a gift with the Fowler family as being the first listed possibly kept by Eliot Tuckerman's wife Mary Fowler and would date from 1915; occasionally in the "remarks" column it states "For Eliot" which would seem to indicate it was indeed kept by Eliot Tuckerman and his wife Mary Fowler; includes lists of names and gifts given sometimes other remarks such as where the gift was purchased the address of the person who gave the gift usually city etc.</p><p><b>Photographs:</b></p><p>44 photographs black and white various sizes from 2 ¾" x 4" to 8" x 10"; includes 3 cabinet cards 2 cyanotypes most of the photos are inscribed and labeled on rear many appear to be of Jane F. Tuckerman some of her sister Emily; 5 of the photos were taken at the Biddle home in Andalusia Bucks County Pennsylvania; others in Maine; not dated circa late 19th and early 20th century.</p><p><b>Ephemera:</b></p><p>Paper Ephemera: Approximately 130 pieces of both printed and manuscript paper ephemera including manuscript notes essays printed material used envelopes calling cards greeting cards estate papers written genealogy pages post cards telegrams newspaper clippings etc.</p>
19782090502113717339Not Available 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1847ALEX321Stereotyped by J. Fagan for Lindsay and Blakiston Philadelphia: . 1847 222 p. 8 full page plates. Bookplate of New Horizons a gift of Rosemary Hall School June 17 1863. Early manuscript inscription of Simeon Baldwin from his father Jan. 1 1848. Manuscript ownership of Roger Sherman Baldwin 1883. Simeon Baldwin 1761-1851 was son-in-law of Roger Sherman patriot of the Revolutionary and Constitutional era and father of Roger Sherman Baldwin 1793-1863 an American politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Connecticut from 1844 to 1846 and a United States Senator from 1847 to 1851. As a lawyer R.S. was most notable for his participation in the 1841 Amistad case. Plates beginning to brown. Front hinge cracked. 180 mm. Original green cloth binding embossed in blind. Front board decorated with a scene in gilt of two of Washington's soldiers crossing the Delaware. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Head and tail of spine worn with slight loss. Corners worn with loss. Hardbound. Very Good. PAIMP 24. Hardcover. Very Good. (Stereotyped by J. Fagan for) Lindsay and Blakiston, Philadelphia: . hardcover
30284<p>10 letters 31 pages neatly inscribed in ink several retain original mailing envelopes very good legible condition.</p><p>Group of letters pertaining to the Wheeler and Stanton families. Daniel N. Stanton one of the correspondents is a distant cousin of Henry Brewster Stanton of New York American social activist abolitionist and reformer. Henry Stanton's wife Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the pioneer advocate of woman's rights.</p><p>Daniel N. Stanton married Harriet C. Wheeler on May 2 1864. Harriet was born about 1839 she was the daughter of Samuel and Jane Wheeler of Newton Corner Massachusetts. She had two sisters: Mary C. and Elizabeth W. as well as a brother Albert who was serving with the 44th Massachusetts Regiment. There are a few letters from one of Harriet's friends "Katy." Mary Wheeler's letters indicate she was living in Northhampton Massachusetts under the care of a Dr. Edward Denniston. Denniston ran a home for invalids at Springdale Northampton Massachusetts called the "Springdale Water Cure" it was devoted to the relief and cure of chronic disorder and disease.</p><p>Boston January 26 1862 Daniel N. Stanton to Hattie Wheeler</p><p>"My dear Hattie</p><p>According to promise I take the most agreeable and pleasing opportunity to write the only one I <u>love</u>. It appears so very strange when I consider and carefully reflect on the past circumstances of our acquaintance that we should have been so mysteriously brought to believe that we could lose each other.</p><p>Often when engaged in my daily avocation have I thought of you then I would try and banish such thoughts forever from my mind but it certainly seems to have been a foregone conclusion that I should under any and all circumstances lose you.</p><p>There is one promise that I have been determined to keep and that was never to allow myself to use artificial influence to accomplish what I so much desired. I knew that such affection would never last if won fairly and <u>honorably</u> that however great might be our troubles and trials we could look back on the past and without a regret say that as we were true in the beginning we would hold out true to the end. Many are the vices and temptations which are hourly surrounding us in this unfriendly world. Such we must meet with defiance.</p><p>I have seen those who have started with all the bright hopes of a future before them in a short time sunk to the depth of degradation with all their imaginary hopes blasted forever. This I am sorry to say has often been caused by their own folly.</p><p>I could meet all other trials but if from any deception of mine I were called on to meet with disgrace with the one I had idolized it would be far preferable to me to seal up my earthly cares before I ever feel the pangs of such a curse…"</p><p>Sherborn August 7 1862 Katy to Elizabeth Wheeler</p><p>"Dear Lizzie</p><p>I received your letter late on the 8th and was very thankful to hear from you. I am very sorry you are so unwell and your father too. It seems as if all the afflictions come at once. You speak of going to the beach. Now Lizzie won't the sea breeze be too much for you. I think if you should go farther up in the country it would be more beneficial you would not be exposed so much to the East winds. …</p><p>You may laugh Lizzie but the inhabitants of Sherborn are very patriotic they have held three meetings to get fourteen volunteers. Wilson spoke one night. Charles Train the next I don't know the third one. They will hold one tonight believe it will take two to finish off what do you think of that. The ladies are pulling lint making shirts and shoes and every they can think of for their comfort…"</p><p>Howard Hotel New York October 8th 1862 Daniel N. Stanton to Hattie Wheeler</p><p>"Dearest Hattie</p><p>Another day has past and I am still in this city. I don't think I am any better prepared to say when I can leave than I was two days ago; something is always comeing up to prevent me from starting. I know you fully appreciate my condition and are willing to wait with patience I have been feeling lonely and at a loss to know what to do evenings since I got here being so long in the society of one who had a faculty of cheering me in my uncomfortable hours it comes hard to be parted from her. Last night I went over to Brooklyn to hear Cassius Clay & Henry B. Stanton speak. The Hall was crowded to overflowing and the people cheered them to the top of their voices…"</p><p>Newton November 9 1862 to Mary Wheeler from her father</p><p>"Dear Mary</p><p>The Storm continues & I have not been out today neither have any of us. Mr. Crane & Juliet Wheeler are here Sam is at home clearing up his attic room. I rec'd your letter of 6 & 7 inst yesterday morning same time I sent you a little letter from Hattie. Your letter was quite a relief to us as a few days before I learned from Mr. Dickenson that you was too sick for miss "Hattie" to leave you to go & here Mr. Goff lecture we presumed you had one of your sick turns but as you did not say anything about it we suppose it passed off without your being very sick. I notice what you say about removing you appear to be satisfied with your new "room" or <u>rooms</u> if it but one room the Doctr should not charge but for <u>one</u> & board for two - the 2 $ for fires is 2 $ pr week or that's what he has charged you for the past 5 weeks …on his bill which I got yesterday a pretty tall bill … it seems by the papers that the 44 Regt with others have captured 3000 Rebels at Plymouth NC we hope to have a letter from Albert giving particulars…"</p><p>Sherborn November 23 1862 Katy to Mary Wheeler Northampton</p><p>"Dear Mary</p><p>I was much pleased to have a paper from you I heard in particular where the 44th went in Battle was some afraid that Albert was either killed or wounded however I heard they had a hard time of it. These are sad times Mary I see no prospect when the end will come. I suppose you are aware that I have been to your house and staid three weeks. I did not calculate to stay more than a day or two of course. I did not take any clothes only what I had on except a common dress while there I helped Hattie clean up the house and we did clean in earnest. Cleaned out all the closets washed all the china. Hattie and the girl cleaned all the paint and windows. I put down all the chamber carpets washed all the muslin curtains and ironed them including yours. When I left everything looked as nice as wax. …"</p><p>Newton January 8 1863 Samuel Wheeler to his daughter Mary</p><p>"Dear Mary</p><p>I rec'd yours of yesterday this morning and was sorry to learn you have been sick again; it appears to me that those attacks come oftener than they did but are of shorter duration … I have just written Albert a long letter & we sent him a box of "fixins" yesterday you can keep his record of 12 pages till I come up as it will cost you 3 postage stamps…"</p><p>Northampton April 12 1864 Lizzie Wheeler to her father</p><p>"Dear Father</p><p>By this time you have rec'd a telegram from Mary saying that she will go home tomorrow with Dr. Huntington in the afternoon train which reaches N. C. about 11 p.m. Dr. H called on us quite unexpectedly yesterday & hearing that Mary intended going home soon offered very kindly to take charge of her if she would go Wednesday afternoon… For myself I stay a few weeks longer as we think best – Dr. Denniston will go to Springfield with Mary & see her safely in the cars – She is not very smart today tho' she thinks she shall be able to go. If not you must not be disappointed-…"</p>
200413629New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like new hardcover with dustjacket and ex cat June 10 - Sept. 12 2004 1 pp sponsors statement - The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation 1 pp sponsors statement The Bank of NY 1 pp director's foreword 1 pp ack 374 figure illus. mostly 4/C 244 6 pp chronology 31 pp list of exhibitions in his lifetime. . Like New. Hardcover. 2004. Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover
31294<p>31 Letters 80 manuscript pages three pages of manuscript poetry in very good clean and legible condition.</p><p>This group of correspondence was mainly written by members of the White Family Quakers from Wilmington and elsewhere in Delaware and Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The letters are mainly sisterly letters between the White sisters Ruth Ann Amelia Sarah Jane to each other and other sisters including one Deborah who emigrated to Illinois. The letters contain family news discussions of social and domestic life current events in Wilmington Philadelphia and Illinois amongst other topics.</p><p>The White family were Quakers and were engaged in farming manual labor storekeeping and school teaching in Wilmington and in Kent County Delaware and in Philadelphia. Deborah White Alphonso and later Amelia White later moved to Jacksonville Morgan County Illinois where they established a farm.</p><p>Sample Quotes:</p><p>Philadelphia 3d Mo. 15th 1842 to Amelia H. White Wilmington Del.</p><p>"My dear Sister</p><p>… you would oftener receive a letter from me but the same duties are gone through day after day but this is one of more interest because long anticipated Alphonso is once more a dweller under his mother's roof after dinner today he bid adieu to W. C. Betts and has launched upon the world I hope his may be a prosperous voyage that no adverse gale make shipwreck of his and our hopes and such will be my desires for thee if thy life should be prolonged until that day and I would like to impress upon thy mind my dear Sister that unless thee makes good resolutions and abides by them thee will instead of being lov'd by all thy friends and happy in thy own mind will be disliked by them and unhappy because the stings of a guilty conscience will be felt disobedience to the commands of those who have the care of thee will always be punish'd and that is one sting easily evaded if thee will only use a little exertion it is just as easy to obey as to disobey I expect thee will think my letter now it has come is not very palatable but oh my anxiety for thee increases for each day must I tell that I was disappointed when I was down I had anticipated seeing thee very much changed how sorry was I to perceive thee wasa the same and yet not exactly I thought I could trace some improvement and such might be the case in every instance if thee would exert thyself and that but little thy Heavenly Father has endors'd thee with gifts which if thee will take pains to cultivate will make thee a pleasure and a comfort I will here close with this subject although it is one I could wish to impress upon thy mind with an indelible hand let it sink deep into thgy heart and ever remember it is always open to the searching eye of him who never slumbers bring all thy thoughts and actions to this test and I will have no fears for thee…</p><p>I have received four more squares from Jersey they must like me better than my Wilmington friends do not forget to give my square to Bassetts and ask them each to make me one also Aunt Eliza Jane Eliza John Alphonso and James.</p><p>Now I will speak of our family concerns for I suppose they will have some interest Alphonso because the most recent comes first and I will say of him what I guess few sisters can that instead of going off on an excursion the day he was twenty one he went and commenced work for himself for my part I think it very much to his credit William had no work for him so he has commenced with his brother Richard. W – told Rebecca that if he had work he would have kept him for five years and that is recommendation enough Father has got work in W – we are very glad to hear it and hope it may continue all summer… Ruth Ann"</p><p>"Philadelphia 2nd Mo 21st 1843 Amelia H. White Wilmington Del.</p><p>My dear Sister</p><p>… I often think of you sometimes sadly and would that it were in my power to aid all hands in some way or other but I know not what to do however I hope you may succeed in getting a house and thee must do all in thy power to assist Aunt and thee can do a great deal without neglecting any of thy studies they are very essential for thy welfare for unless things take a sudden and mighty change thee will have to make thy own living as all thy family has and if thee continues to improve we may all sometime join and success I sometimes think of Esops fable of the bundle of sticks by which to represent a family united cannot be broken but once let a single stick be taken out it requires very little to snap it into pieces so let us be like the bundle…</p><p>Last sixth day I went to see the funeral of Commodore Hull it was a very solemn and imposing spectacle the tramp of soldiers the muffled drums and the tears of the sailors as they bore him to his lat narrow home was a most touching sight and now I must say adieu… Ruth Ann…"</p><p>1st mo 31st 1846 to Amelia H. White No 3 Crown Street Philadelphia</p><p>"My dear Sister</p><p>… I suppose you have not heard of a situation for me oh dear me that is a draw back to all my enjoyments I often wonder where my lot will be cast next and among what kind of people but away with this or my letter will be doleful I suppose thee would like to hear how I am passing my time at present I am at David Bassetts and have been since last fourth day there is not much outdoor enjoyment at present for the roads are in a most deplorable condition so that the society of our friends is the pleasure we now have last week we had some delightful sleighing the first evening we spent with a friend at Sharptown when we started for home they drove us around by Woodstown which lengthened our ride some for or five miles… the next day which was sixth day we started about 9 o'clock … for Samuel Allens at Mullica hill and a more delightful sight I never beheld every blade of grass or stubble glittered in the sun like so many diamonds for everything was covered with sleet … we reached our destination about 12 o'clock remained until about 4 when two other sleigh loads joined us as we went to a glass works we went a round about way and by that means had a long drive through the pines or rather at the side of them while we were riding there the sun set and it was truly a glorious sight … blowing glass was a curiosity to me and at the same time I could not help commiserating the poor fellows whose lot it was to stand before such a fire enough to burn them crisp I don't know how they stand it but use is indeed second nature they did not appear to mind it any more or indeed as much as we do baking by a hot fire the gentlemen of our party purchased glass horns singing glasses and several things for us but as is generally the case they got broken long before we got home we arrived at our starting place Elisha Bassetts at half past two oclock after riding more than 50 miles … Ruth Ann"</p><p>Wilmington 4th mo 26th 1846 to Amelia H. White No 3 Crown Street Philadelphia</p><p>"My dear Sister</p><p>… I think it is now probable I shall have to return on 7th day for E. W. will want to go up to the meeting and thee knows that is the day they always go as things have turned up for me the time is not as convenient as it would have been at any other season for my visit will have to be curtailed I regret it exceedingly for I should like to go to Meeting but I suppose what cant be cured must be endured tell Rebeca that I priced bonnets according to her wish they are the same prices here as there Thee says thee is thinking I am so well suited that I have given out the idea of a place of my own there thee is mistaken it is what I would most desire if I had the means or was well assured of my success but I reckon I need never expect to get the little spot I spoke of for Aunt R will hang on to it I expect well so be it perhaps there will some place turn up for us yet I should like us to be fixed together as we once were thee strive hard for what thee is after for I know not where thee would get a situation it appears to me times are exceedingly dull and I fear from what I can gather they will be worse before they are better Uncle told me that one of the houses or the house had passed a bill prohibiting specie payments and he very much feared it would the senate if so farewell to business in general today is coloured quarterly meeting so we could not expect anything else than rain while we ought indeed to be thankful for it was very much wanted I suppose… Ruth Ann"</p><p>Wilmington 6th mo 28th 1846 to Amelia H. White No 3 Crown St Philadelphia</p><p>"My Dear Sister</p><p>… I know not how it is but of all dull places W – goes ahead or rather the people the people. I expect if I was to stay here for twenty years to come not one of my friends or acquaintances would come and say lets take a walk if I go drum them up they go but of themselves they seem to take no interest in you I have never been up the Brandywine yet and no place do I want to go more As G was saying the other day she had never been up since we were all up there together the time that Jim and all hands were down from the city so we are going to make an attempt some of these times … I should be glad to see thee here but the civility must be returned and thee knows how it is at home thee will have to consult those who are better able to give advice than I feel in that case I am I know not what kind of a girl she is now but as a child I never thee well knows I approved of her for a very intimate acquaintance yet youth must have friendships and I am the last one to wish thee or anyone else to be debarred from forming suitable ones thee know what I wish thee to be and my earnest desire is that thy conduct thro life may be such as to insure they comfort and happiness here and thy eternal happiness in the land of spirits …"</p><p>"Wilmington 9th mo 27th 1846</p><p>My dear Sister</p><p>… I have fully made up my mind that as I have to be confined in a store and have the charge of other people I may as well enter into the whole business and reap whatever benefit there may be derived from it and that heaven may prosper my undertaking I most fervently desire I have said nothing to the folks here about it and I expect when I do it will be quite a surprise and indeed I know not what E – will do for between thee and me she does not spend half her time in the store leaves it all to those around her I hope she may always have honest folks about here or else she may be somewhat the poorer a many a dollar I could take and she be none the wiser if I was so disposed but I hope ever to be preserved from the temptation. I take the greater part through the day fix it at night and so on it is easy to be seen how any one disposed to do that that was many could succeed this in confidence. …Ruth Ann `</p><p>Mantua ville Philadelphia 11th mo 15th 1848 to Deborah White Jacksonville Illinois</p><p>"My own Dear Mother</p><p>… I do not suppose you had much to do with Politicks in your travils our bricklayers were minus a lime barrel and I suppose Old Zack is to fill the chair honourable at the White house may his presiding be of peace and happiness to himself the people and the Country and bring better times for they are hard just now. There has been some excitement in consequence of the baisin of the spring garden waterworks cracking and the water rushing out carrying every thing before it including some 50 feet on 2 sides of the wall of Girard Colledge so you may judge of the force of the water to carry away walls 3 ft thick and the people of spring Garden and the libertys were with out water till it was attached from the City a lucky chance the old pipes were not removed. … Time has seemed long since thee left us the house felt desolate enough and … they affectionate daughter Rebec"</p><p>"Prairie Cottage Illinois June 17th 1850</p><p>Dear Sarah</p><p>As I have just washed and curled my two children's heads and they are quietly amusing themselves by looking at the chickens and goslings I thought I would improve the time by writing a few lines to you I have looked in vain for a letter from the Eden of the world and begin to think that you have forgotten these western wilds & that we dwell there … it is dismal enough out here it rains about 5 days out of the week and then the ground is so saturated with water that the farmers cannot work the remainder many of them have had to replant several times and a number have not got all their ground broke up yet and that they have given up entirely our folks have ploughed one day this week and went to try again to day but had to give it up this being Friday too however Alphons is better of than most others in our neighborhood he had his corn planted very early and it had time to be up before the heavy rains came on and consequently had very little to replant considering his corn looks as well if not better than it has ever done before there was a great prospect of wheat but I have heard some say that it is getting spoiled and if the wet weather continues it will all be ruined down on the Illinois river and through the American and Magoupin Macoupin bottoms the wheat fields are 10 feet under water poor prospect that of good flour the water the last we heard was within a few feet of being as high as it was the last great freshet at St Louis they cannot approach the levee in the steam boats but have to go in small boats and flats. …</p><p>The cholera is approaching very near to us there has been several cases in Jacksonville and generally fatal we have not heard from there since last Saturday when it was on the increase then a lady in our neighbourhood was taken with it or something very near it was not expected to recover but I hear she is getting better she had just came home from a visit to Kentucky and suppose she contracted the disease on board of the boat her husbands uncle was travelling with her and he died the next day after he reached home from cholera it is the general opinion that we shall have a great deal of sickness this summer … the fruit in this country is all killed I do not think we have a dozen peaches or Apples in our orchard we shall miss them sadly but perhaps it is better as it is might have been worse for the Cholera had there been plenty of fruit. We had a terrible hurricane passed over here a short time ago which done a vast deal of damage blowing down houses and barns I think there was 8 houses that we heard of that was laid level with the earth but we did not hear of any person being killed we seen the hurricane but did not fel the effects of it it just passed us by there was large trees carried the distance of 2 and 3 mile and some persons have lost part of their furniture which they have not heard of yet I do not think I ever heard so much thunder and accompanied with such vivid lightning the storms this summer is truly awful and so many of them too I dread to see a cloud coming up for I think we are going to have a storm … Harvest commences next week when we expect to have our wheat cut by the machine I and Ferguson Tindall have purchased one and they are to cut ours … A L White"</p><p>"Wilmington August 23d 1851</p><p>My Dear Sister</p><p>… Mrs Sloan the two Masters Sloan and their respective Nurses are all at the Lawyers she has been in town a week and has never yet called on Aunt Ruth but it is just like her the nurses brought the children here yesterday a little while the oldest is quite a pretty child and the younger is the exact counterpart of its Mama so of its beauty I leave thee to judge it looks as though is might be Jane's own face put on it it seems like quite a good natured child… Joe A is also here from Indiana on a visit and Jim has got a situation as purser on board a steamship to sail between New York and England the salary is sixty dollars pr month …</p><p>Well I suppose the road down there is alive today with people going to Camp I do not wish myself among them for Camp meeting to me is a most detestable place; however every one to their liking I expect Janey was off among the first although she stood to it she did not expect to go. The Darkies have one today at Chester I think theirs must be very amusing.</p><p>Tell Mother her deeds and papers of the Orange Street property are all in safe keeping so she can give her mind repose on that subject give my love to her and tell her Janey Rice says she supposes she Mother has to remain during thy absence so keep Old Cadwallader in his right position. I suppose he and Friend John went to the Camp in company they ought to doubt Friend John as Minister… Amelia"</p><p>"Geo Town X Roads Jany 26 1855</p><p>Dear Amelia</p><p>As you seem to have concluded not to write any more I am just going to say to you that after this effort you need expect no more from us 'till you write again You have nothing that I can think of to prevent you from writing to us every week … but I suppose you are so happy now in the west and are so intent in the pursuit of pleasure that you do not like to bring your fancy back to the contemplation of the common place things and people of Kent Co … We are moved and have a large good and comfortable house 120 acres to till in corn 60 to put in oats and any quantity for pasture so you see we have room indoors and out… Lawrence</p><p>"Seconday 29th</p><p>My Dear Sister</p><p>I will endeavour to finish the letter although L has left very little for me to say … I have a nice large house with passage parlor sitting room and kitchen I have use for my stair carpet and I have all furnished except the Parlor it is full of emptiness I would like to quilt some tis such a nice room for such work there is a nice garret and seller a milk house with brick floor and a place to pump the watter around the pans a porch at the back part of the sitting room is an elegant place for styock we have about 30 head of hogs 14 head of cattle 15 of sheep tow nigger woman four nig children Henry Elias Goler and a boy named Martin Emaline calls hers Louin so thee sees we are well supllyd with two and four legged stock there is an apple orchard at Stullville so we will still have plenty … I bought a pare of mules yesterday price $ 200.30 so now I can get a Horse when I want one Randolph will be kept for carriage and saddle …"</p><p>"Near George Town X Roads 4th mo 1855</p><p>My Dear Sister</p><p>I am seated once more with the determination of answering thy letter little Alponah as he calls himself is asleep Miss Prissy has her tin plates filld with nutts on a chair playing George is in the kitchen with the Nigs L is in the Barn. Bis has a paper reading tis a dull whet Sabbath and I have a fire up in thy room where I now am… tell mother there is to be a great Circus next fifth day week to set all the niggers crazy and drain their pocketts… Sarah Jane"</p><p>"Wilmington 5th Month 2d 1858</p><p>Dear Sister</p><p>… Many of our store keepers experienced a trying time last fall and some even had to make assignments and G. Buzby who we used to think was so well off in the world settled with his creditors at 50 cents to the dollar I think that is paying debts easy some did not pay even that much Smith & Brother who I named when West as owing us 470 dollars has not yet made any payment to this day what part we are to get is unknown we fear it will not be much but Hillary and I still hold up and Joseph is with us as heretofore… Abraham Allardice"</p>
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