Hughitt FamilyABAA
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191049372n.p. n.d. 1910. The 14 photographs in this album were undoubtedly produced by a professional photographer using a large format camera. The pictures are well composed sharply focused and unusual in their scale. They picture a family in leisure-time activities such as hunting gathering leaves and observing caged rabbits. Especially noteworthy is their time at a lake cabin and visiting Twin Cities sites. The cabin is a fine Victorian piece of gingerbread with a wrap-around porch ideal for napping and reading. The wife/mother is seen holding a copy of the periodical American Motherhood which was published 1903-1919 making it possible to date these images around 1910. The family includes twin boys one of whom is seen in the same picture reading a copy of the children's magazine Buster Brown. What appears to be a stuffed squirrel appears in three of the images. The album contains 14 beautifully toned photographs including one in which the oldest child assists a workman possibly making maple syrup. Seven loose prints accompany the album one duplicate. Among these are three pictures made at Fort Snelling and Minnehaha Falls suggesting that the family either lived in the Twin Cities or visited there. While the identity of the photographer is unknown there is a clue to the heritage of the subjects. Laid into the album is a newspaper clipping about one Marvin Hughitt 1837-1928 upon his retirement from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in 1925. It is possible that the family in these photographs were descendants of Mr. Hughitt with the mother or father a likely grandchild. This is an unusually nice album of family photographs. <br/><br/> unknown books
1926m2304N.l.: Olmsted Family Association 1926. Octavo stiff printed wrappers stapled 27 pp. Frontis. photo. Very Good; some pencilled notes. Olmsted Family Association, 1926. unknown books
199450547St. Paul: Padelford Packet Boat Co 1994. Oblong 8vo pp. 8 80; 2 full-page maps text illustrations photographs; brown cloth over boards printed paper onlay on upper cover fine. A collection of memoirs from two generations of the Flatten family. Not in OCLC as of 6/17. <br/><br/> Padelford Packet Boat Co hardcover books
73838An archive of manuscript documents letters and indentures dating between 1735 and 1829 from the Alden family descendants of a Mayflower passenger the Hon. John Alden who was the seventh signer of the Mayflower compact and arrived with the Pilgrims in 1620 serving as one of the Governor's assistants. He settled in Duxbury and was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater Massachusetts a town 20 miles from Plymouth and 26 miles from Boston where his descendants settled as farmers and leaders in the community.<br/><br/>The collection contains a total of 48 documents relating to a variety of members of the Alden family. Among the earliest documents are four legal documents dated between 1735 and 1737 concerning the sale of land by Daniel Alden 1691-1767 to his brother Seth 1710-84. Their great grandfather was Mayflower passenger John Alden. Seth lived all his life in Bridgewater while his brother became a magistrate and moved to Connecticut. An additional five documents in the collection record the purchase of property in Bridgewater by Seth Alden from other family members.<br/><br/>Other documents show that members of the Alden family were involved in military activities before and after the American Revolution. The collection contains a contemporary copy of a letter addressed to Captain Seth Alden and dated February 27 1756 ordering him to make a list of "the several persons in the regiment under your command that have been employed in his Majesty's service within the two years last past." A second document dated September 25 1755 includes a list of names with the heading: "Capt. Seth Alden having drafted those that are here after." Two additional documents one dated 1790 are related to Captain Joseph Alden likely Seth's son and provide names of the whole "train-band" in his company. An additional 11 undated documents list soldiers by name and their return of arms and ammunition while three more documents consist of lists of names one which is labeled "A list of the 2nd Company 3rd Regiment."<br/><br/>Another small segment of this collection contains four documents two which are printed with holographic annotations concerning the collection of taxes between 1818 and 1829 for repairing and amending Bridgewater highways. Thomas Alden was listed as the surveyor of highways in Bridgewater and it appears he compiled these lists showing the amount of the assessment for each resident. There are also two letters to Thomas from Cyrus Alden then living in Boston. Cyrus complains about the condition of a horse he left with Thomas and in the other letter attempts to convince Thomas to set up a store in Bridgewater which he is willing to fund.<br/><br/>The documents are toned with general wear to some and creasing from prior folds. All are legible and together represent a rich resource of local history and genealogy concerning an American founding family. unknown books
192038961Various places 1920. Two oblong albums or portions of albums with many detached images. In all approx. 300 photographs. Many trimmed and mounted mostly 2x3 inches or smaller. A fascinating archive of photographs relating to the famous family of Cooke's Royal Circus.<br/> <br/>The Cooke family was one of several notable families during their time of circus performers and owners that spanned several generations. In circus families family members were taught and trained in the necessary skills of various acts in the circus from a young age and then integrated into the family business. Cooke's Royal Circus was started by Thomas Cooke in Scotland around 1780 after which he and his extended family members traveled around Scotland and England doing performances. They were especially noted for their equestrian acts and continued to gain in popularity and grow to around forty participating family members by the 1830s. In 1836 Thomas Cooke's son brought the show to America where they performed in cities including New York Boston and Philadelphia before returning to Britain following a mixed reception. They continued to perform throughout the rest of the 19th century and the 20th century in both travelling shows and various "permanent" locations. Images include animal acts with elephants and horses as well as clowns stunts and other acts. Many images are captioned detailing locations including Great Britain including performances at Wembley Stadium France Italy and India. Although mostly from the 1920s the album includes a loose carte-de-visite of John Henry Cooke autographed by him on verso and dated 1874. unknown books
1998104167NY: Simon & Schuster 1998. First edition first prnt. Color and black and white photographs. Signed by Clinton on the front free endpage not a tipped-in leaf. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
2009155946San Francisco: Museo Italo Americano 2009. 16p including covers 8.5x11 inches color plates very good exhibition catalogue in stiff pictorial stapled wraps. Museo Italo Americano unknown books
1848780521848. O'HARA FAMILY. CROHOORE OF THE BILL-HOOK AND THE FETCHES. London: Simms and McIntyre 1848. Later printing. 12mo. quarter red morocco over marbled paper boards all edges marbled. Bookseller stamp to ffep. Some rubbing and edgewear to spine and boards. Rear hinge is weakening else generally clean within. About very good. unknown books
18712437Charterhouse School 1871. Hardcover. Very good. Dates: 1871-1877 and 1910. Small 4to. 37 ff. mostly with newspaper clippings neatly pasted in on both sides 4 ff. in manuscript "Summary of Scores" from 1871-1877 and 1910. Several leaves excised; it is possible that the present album had been re-purposed. On a few of the stubs appear fragmentary MS notations suggesting that the notebook may have once been divided alphabetically. We find on certain stubs "Ai" followed immediately by "Ao" and then several leaves later: "Her. - Hes" followed by "Io." Binding rebacked with smooth calf. In very good condition. Highly interesting homemade album of Cricket Scores available nowhere else specifically documenting the triumphs of three young members of the Blomfield family namely: E.G. Edward George C.J. Charles James and R.T. Reginald Theodore. One wonders if the present album was created in order to promote friendly competition between the brothers two of whom went to Haileybury School and one went to Charterhouse; all three went up to Oxford. There are scores and game synopsis of matches were between Haileybury Charterhouse Marylebone Cricket Club MCC Westminster Trinity College Oxon. Exeter Oxon. and more. One of the more interesting features about the album is that it provides a fascinating record of one family's love of the game:<br/><br/>¶ Edward George 1853-1885 entered Charterhouse School London in 1865 and transfer upon the School's removal to Godalming in 1872; in 1873 he went to Trinity College Oxon. where he earned a B.A. in 1877 and M.A. in 1879; thereafter he served as Curate of St. Mary's Portsea until 1883 and then Vicar of St. Mark's Woolston until his death in London in 1885.<br/><br/>¶ Charles James 1855-1928 went to Haileybury School; he underwent military training at Sandhurst and served as an army officer in India Sudan and Natal. He attained the rank of Major General before his retirement in 1917. NB: this individual is not to be confused with a noted architect of the same name b. 1862 d. 1932. <br/><br/>¶ Reginald Theodore 1856-1942 also went to Haileybury School; he earned his B.A. from Exeter Oxon. in 1880 and M.A. in 1884. He became an architect and was knighted in 1919. He is remembered mainly for his work designing British war memorials. <br/><br/>¶ The parents of the three young men were Rev. George John and his first cousin Isabella Blomfield of Bow Devonshire whose own father Charles James Blomfield was Bishop of London. <br/><br/>¶ At the end is a "Summary of Scores" for the years 1871-1877. Following this in a different hand is the year 1910; although the initial of the last name "Blomfield" remains the same the other initials belong to Reginald Thomas and his two sons Henry George and Austin. <br/><br/>¶ See Stedman Charterhouse Register 1872-1900 passim. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We are grateful to Catherine Smith Archivist of Charterhouse School for much useful information concerning the Blomfield Family. hardcover books
198027580New York: G. Putnam's Sons 1980. First American edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Thick clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 476 well-researched pages on the artistry of the Cranach clan. Translated into English by Helen Sebba. Illustrated in both color and black and white. A very good copy in clipped but otherwise quite attractive dustwrapper. Please note that this is a very large and heavy volume. Additional shipping charges may apply. G. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1928D6989New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine; 8vo; pp. 266. Boards lightly rubbed; spine tips and corners gently bumped. A nice copy with an interesting provenance -- bookplate of Jasper and Ursula Jepson on front paste-down. Ursula was Ernest Hemingway's younger sister. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
30844<p>Large archive of 1507 letters 6631 manuscript pp. dated 31 October 1884 to 19 May 1964; plus over 300 pieces of ephemera related to the Babb and Conant families.</p><p>Note: A complete inventory of the collection and biographical sketches of its main correspondents can be emailed upon request.</p><p><b>Persis Loring Conant 1887-1964 and Hugh Webster Babb 1887-1971</b></p><p>Persis Loring Conant was born on 29 May 1887. She was the daughter of merchant Frederick "Pardi" Odell Conant 1857-1928 and his wife Eva "Mardi" Merrill 1852-1936of Portland Maine. Persis' father prepared for college in the public schools of Portland and under private instructors and entered Bowdoin College where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1880 and Master of Arts in 1883. A distant cousin of the Conant family was James Bryant Conant 1893-1978 an American chemist a transformative President of Harvard University and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.</p><p>Earlier in 1874 Frederick went to California by way of Panama stopping in Kingston Jamaica and various Mexican and Central American ports and returning overland from San Francisco. In 1879 he went to Cuba visited the important cities and returned home by way of Key West Cedar Keys Jacksonville Florida Savannah Georgia Charleston South Carolina and Washington D.C.</p><p>In 1880 Frederick entered his father's store as a clerk and engaged in business in his native city; and became a partner in 1882. He became president of the wholesale portion their grocery firm of Conant Patrick & Company as well as the president of the Conant Corporation the Atlantic Shore Railroad York Utilities Company vice president of the Fidelity Trust Company and a director of the Bath & Brunswick Light & Power Company. Mr. Conant had been a member of the Portland Common Council and Board of Aldermen and was also a director of the Maine General Hospital and a trustee of the Portland Public Library and the North Yarmouth Me. Academy; he also served as a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College from 1909 to 1928.</p><p>Persis' paternal grandparents were merchant Richard Odell Conant 1828-1894 and Emma Loring 1829-1904 of Portland Maine her maternal grandparents were Capt. Reuben Merrill 1818-1875 and Hannah Elizabeth Blanchard 1822-1876 of Yarmouth Maine.</p><p>Persis was one of at least four children the others were: Elizabeth "Bess" Merrill Conant 1886-1973; Richard Odell Conant 1888-1950 a graduate of Bowdoin College 1912; and Reginald Odell Conant 1889-1965 who married Marion Drew. </p><p>Persis and her elder sister Elizbeth attended Wellesley College. Elizabeth attended from 1905-1909 graduating with a B.A. and was the president 1915-1917 of the Western Maine Wellesley Club. Persis attended Wellesley from 1906-1910 and graduated with a B.A. A roommate of Persis at Wellesley and a correspondent in this collection was Eva Marguerite Miller of Scranton Pennsylvania. Miller attended Wellesley from 1906 to 1910 graduating with a B.A. She was a member of the Scranton College Club.</p><p>Before Persis married she vacationed at Cumberland Maine in the summer when not at school. Her family lived in Portland. </p><p>Persis married Hugh W. Babb on 19 June 1915 in Bridgeport Connecticut. Persis' correspondence with Babb begins in the summer of 1912. Hugh Webster Babb was born on 3 March 1887 in Yarmouth Maine the son of Howard Seldon Babb 1849-1909 and his wife Margaret Loring 1852-1932 of Westbrook Cumberland County Maine. A second son Paul died as an infant. Hugh's father was a farmer and also worked at a paper mill and later insurance agent. Hugh's mother was born in Yarmouth Maine. She and her elder sister were both employed in the paper mill of S.D. Warren father of the famed art collector James P. Warren.</p><p>Babb attended Westbrook Maine public schools until his last two years of high school when he transferred to Highgate School in England. It was the support of Edward Perry Warren that allowed Babb to study and live in England. While in England he appears to have been baptized at the Parish of St. Thomas Oxford in 1906. While in England Babb's father died. His mother had been living in England with Babb. After earning a B.A. degree at Oxford in 1911 he spent two years at Cambridge and later took law degrees from Cambridge and Harvard 1916. He joined the firm of Brandeis Dunbar and Nutter for two years. This firm was founded by Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and his partner Samuel D. Warren in 1879. Brandeis left the firm then known as Brandeis Dunbar & Nutter to take his seat on the United States Supreme Court in 1916 just before Babb joined the firm or perhaps the reason the firm took on Babb due to Brandeis' departure. On his 1917 WWI registration card he was listed as an attorney living at Boston and working for Dunbar Nutter & McClennen. Paving the way for equality and diversity in the industry the firm welcomes its first three women attorneys to practice law in 1918. After a couple of years with Brandeis Dunbar and Nutter Babb became a partner in Perrin Babb and Heavens. </p><p>In 1920 Babb joined the faculty of Boston University he taught law at Boston University for 37. He became the chairman of the law department of its College of Business Administration. He left the university in 1958 and taught for five years at the University of Maine law school.</p><p>Fluent in Russian Babb translated both "The Law of the Soviet State" Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky and "Soviet Legal Philosophy" V.I. Lenin & others. He also authored five commercial law textbooks.</p><p>Persis died on 19 April 1964. Prof. Hugh W. Babb died on 1 January 1971 at Portland Maine. He was 83 years old and was buried with his wife at the Riverside Cemetery Yarmouth Cumberland County Maine.</p><p> Persis and her husband had four sons: </p><p>Richard "Dicko" Conant Babb 1918-1943 attended Harvard University where he had plans to become a writer. He was active in track and cross country. On the outbreak of World War Two he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He died in flying accident in England while serving as a flight sergeant pilot. One of Dicko's letters mention that he was waiting in England to be transferred to the U.S. Air Force. While in England Dicko met a British woman by the name of Priscilla Barrett. They became close. After Richard's death and after the war Pricilla wrote to Richard's mother. These letters are included in the collection.</p><p>Prof. Warren Babb 1916-1987 of the School of Music University of Seattle Washington; he was involved in the founding of the International Webern Society of which he served as treasurer in its early years. The society promoted the study of Anton Webern 1883-1945. The International Webern Society was founded in 1962. The purpose of the organization was to encourage study and performance of the music of Anton Webern an Austrian composer and conductor. Along with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg and his colleague Alban Berg Webern was in the core of those in the circle of the Second Viennese School including Ernst Krenek and Theodor W. Adorno. Webern's music was among the most radical of its milieu both in its concision and in its rigorous and resolute apprehension of twelve-tone technique. He is likely named for Edward Perry Warren a family friend see below.</p><p>Hugh W. Babb Jr. 1919-1988 of Cumberland Maine. He attended the College of Business Administration at Boston University where he was active in crew and tennis. He graduated in 1941 in Business Management. He married Janet Bornhofft and raised a family in Cumberland.</p><p>Prof. Howard Babb 1924-1978. He was Professor of English of the University of California at Irvine chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature and charter member of the UCI faculty. One of the generation whose education was interrupted by the second World War Howard attended Bard College and Cornell University in the V-12 Program before going on active service as a naval officer. He took his B.A. at Kenyon College in 1948 and earned his M.A. 1949 and Ph.D. 1955 at Harvard University. Before coming to UCI he taught at Kenyon and The Ohio State University where he progressed from assistant instructor to associate professor and vice-chair of the English department. He published articles on such different figures as Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sherwood Anderson. However his main concern was with the novel and especially with style in the novel a topic he also published on.</p><p>One of the collection's notable correspondents is:</p><p><b>Edward Perry Warren</b> 1860-1928 known as Ned Warren was an American art collector and the author of works proposing an idealized view of homosexual relationships. He wrote 9 letters in this collection 5 to Hugh W. Babb and 4 to Babb's mother. The letters to Mrs. Babb concern an illness Hugh was suffering from when he was attending Oxford Warren was caring for him. The letters Warren wrote to Hugh concern the state of the Classics at Oxford and proposals to change them being mandatory. Warren is now best known as the former owner of the "Warren Cup" in the British Museum. Warren was born in Waltham Massachusetts one of five children born into a wealthy Boston Massachusetts family. He was the son of Samuel Denis Warren 1817-1888 who founded the Cumberland Paper Mills in Maine and Susan Cornelia Clarke 1825-1901 the daughter of Dorus Clarke. He had four siblings: Samuel Dennis Warren II 1852-1910 lawyer and businessman; Henry Clarke Warren 1854-1899 scholar of Sanskrit and Pali; Cornelia Lyman Warren 1857-1921 philanthropist; Fredrick Fiske Warren 1862-1938 political radical and utopist. Warren graduated Harvard with a B.A. in 1883. At Oxford he met archeologist John Marshall 1860–1928 with whom he formed a close and long-lasting relationship though Marshall married in 1907 much to Warren's dismay. Beginning in 1888 Warren made England his primary home. He and Marshall lived together at Lewes House a large residence in Lewes East Sussex where they became the center of a circle of like-minded men interested in art and antiquities who ate together in a dining room overlooked by Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve—a gift of Harold W. Parsons – now in the Courtauld Institute of Art. One account said that "Warren's attempts to produce a supposedly Greek and virile way of living into his Sussex home" produced "a comic mixture of apparently monastic severity no tea or soft chairs allowed and lavish living. Warren spent much of his time in Continental Europe collecting art works many of which he donated to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston assembling for that institution the "largest collection of erotic Greek vase paintings "in the U.S. He has been described as having "a taste for pornography" and was a "pioneer" in collecting it. His published works include <i>A Defence of Uranian Love</i> in three volumes which proposes a type of same-sex relationship similar to that prevalent in Classical Greece in which an older man would act as guide and lover to a younger man. Warren's oldest brother Samuel D. Warren had left law to work managing the family's paper mills. He managed the family trust established in May 1889 with the legal assistance of Louis D. Brandeis to benefit his father's widow and five children. Edward Warren challenged the family trust in 1906 claiming that Brandeis had structured it to benefit his law partner Samuel to the detriment of the other family members. The dispute ended with Samuel's suicide in 1910. The Warren Trust case became a point of contention during the 1916 Senate hearings on the confirmation of Brandeis to the Supreme Court and it remains important for its explication of legal ethics and professional responsibility. In a printed piece of ephemera published at the death of Margaret Loring Babb Hugh W. Babb's mother she is shown working at the Warren Paper Mill with her sister. It's probable that Hugh's father also worked there as well census records state he worked in a paper mill. This same piece of ephemera states that Hugh W. Babb was able to attend school in England due to the benefit of Edward Perry Warren.</p><p>Warren's family business was the S.D. Warren Paper Mill Cumberland Paper Mills a paper mill on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook Maine. It is now owned by SAPPI Limited a South African paper concern. It is one of Westbrook's major employers. A paper mill was established on this site in the 1730s when it was a rural and fairly unpopulated area. In 1854 that small paper mill in the soon-to-be established town of Westbrook was purchased for $28000 by Samuel Dennis Warren known as S.D. Warren. The mill was named Grant Warren and Company. In that year the mill was only running two paper machines and had a production output of about 3000 pounds of paper per day. Nine years later in 1863 an additional machine was added to the mill and the production increased to 11000 pounds per day. In 1854 paper was made by beating down rags and using the pulp from the rags. In 1867 after the mill changed its name to S.D. Warren Paper Mill Company Warren decided to add wood fibers with rags fibers for paper. It was the first mill in the United States to do so. The mill became the largest in the world. By 1880 the mill produced 35000 pounds of paper per day. Warren died in 1888 and was succeeded by his son also Samuel Dennis Warren who managed the business until his death in 1910. The mill continued to grow through the 20th century employing close to 3000 Westbrook residents.</p><p> The majority of the correspondence in this collection is either written by or to Persis Loring Conant Babb her husband Hugh Webster Babb Persis' parents Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Odell Conant Persis' sister Elizabeth "Bess" Conant as well as Persis and Hugh's children Howard Hugh Jr. Richard & Warren and Hugh W. Babb's parents Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Babb. </p><p> There are also letters by friends of Persis including her college roommate Eva M. Miller a friend Ethelynde Sylvester Smith the well-known singer other friends and relatives. There are many letters during the time when Persis and her sister and girlfriends were all attending Wellesley College and soon after graduating. There are letters of Hugh W. Babb when he was in college And letters by Robert Hale another suitor of Persis when he was in college. There are also letters of Hugh and Persis' son Richard written when he was serving in the Canadian Air Force during World War Two.</p><p><b>Sample Quotations:</b></p><p><i>"Sunday Oct 1 '05</i></p><p><i>My dear Persis</i></p><p><i>'Sadie' Sally we are going to call her is in here writing on our one table so I am sitting on my couch.</i></p><p><i>Hattie went off to call with her mother on some one in Cambridge right after chapel this morning so I have been alone…</i></p><p><i>I went to chapel this morning or rather the regular Sunday Service with two girls at our table. One is from Somerville Mass. another 120 miles west of Chicago. The choir composed of about 30 girls marched in the first thing singing sort of Episcopal like just like choir boys and marched out after it. A Mr. hall preached the sermon 'God is Love.' Today is Flower Sunday. Always the 1st Sun is…</i></p><p><i>The chapel was jammed all the college girls and some Dana hall and parents. I saw Jennie Milliken when I was coming out of church. She is in Dana Hall.</i></p><p><i>Last night was Christian Association reception and of course we all went. Mabel Waldron took me. Hattie Louise & myself went up to Stone for our girls. I met Mabel's roommate Clara Williams the leader of the Glee Club…</i></p><p><i>…Then I was introduced to Gertrude Owen and I think she is about the most beautiful girl I ever saw. I noticed it at once and afterwards Hattie said she was considered the prettiest girl in college. She is in the choir walks with Miss Williams…</i></p><p><i>After we had been introduced to about a thousand people I was introduced to Pres. Hazard and she asked if I was any relation of Miss Conant at Walnut Hill School. I said I supposed we were descended from the same ancestor and then she said she was much loved here. I also met three people in the Christian Ass. Or something secretary & pres. Or somebody like that who were standing in line with her. Then we had punch and then Pres. Hazard addressed everybody from the stairs in the hall then the man who preached today most of the girls though he made them feel homesick. Then the Pres. Of Christian Ass. & Pres of student government and then the girls sang and gave the Wellesley cheer and cheered the Pres. And all those who spoke. It sounded great. They did it all together so well. The singing of 'Where oh where are the grand old seniors' etc. in a slow sort of way made me feel sort of weepy in fact all the singing but I didn't. Hat wept a few tears after she got home and her mother was here too. Then we came home…</i></p><p><i>Well I must say good night…Love to all of you…Bess"</i></p><p><i>"2 Oct 1905 629 Washington St. Sunday</i></p><p><i>My dearest Schwester</i></p><p><i>I thought I would write you today and tell you my doings the past week or what I didn't tell in my last letter.</i></p><p><i>Thursday Friday and Sat. morning there was cheering in College Hall after chapel. We all hustled up to the third floor as fast as we could go and waited our turn to cheer. Thurs. it was the Senior Officers Fri the Junior Officers and Sat. Sophomore Officers which had been elected the afternoon before. Gladys Doton is Vice Pres of the Junior Class. Isn't that fine Each class gives its own cheer and then says what they are cheering for 3 times as 'Senior Class Officers' or the girl's name.</i></p><p><i>Friday afternoon Miss Hill gave all the Freshmen a talk in the barn on the gymnastics and sports. It was great fun to hear her talk. There are so many things I want to do and you can only do one.</i></p><p><i>Yesterday was a pretty busy day. I went to chapel at 8:30 A.M. and then hustled up to College Hall and up on the 3rd floor and cheered. At nine o'clock I had a recitation in Math on the 3rd floor. Then my class work was done for the morning. I came home with Hattie made my bed and fixed up my things and then plugged German out of Sarah's book. Lunch was at 12:30 then I hustled back with Alice Gager who had a class at 1:30 and I bought a German book or rather 3 two for myself and one for Hattie. It was the last time the place was to be open from 1 – 1:30 so we could buy books. I had to climb to the 4th floor to go to the German Office. I went over to Katherine's room & asked them to supper. Then I went out under the trees facing the lake and sat on a bench and studied my German some more till 2:15 and then I went back and went to my German class up one flight. Then Hattie & I went down to the bookstore just below the German room and I bought a little blue note book…</i></p><p><i>…Mae Lowdon and myself went back up to College Hall to an 'At Home" to meet Miss Dudley who was something to do with the College Settlement Work in Boston. It was from 4 to 6 but we didn't get there till 4:30 probably…</i></p><p><i>Just as the bell rang for dinner Katherine and Fuzzy came and we hustled over to dinner. They had been to a tea and so couldn't get here any sooner. They and Hattie sat at my table. One of the girls there Julia Pease also had an upper-class girl so it was quite jolly. Betsy Eskay had her Senior to supper also a Miss Frickel who seemed very nice. I met her after supper. She did not sit at my table.</i></p><p><i>We sat over there in the parlors for a while and talked and then I had to come home and get dressed. At eight we went down to the Wellesley Inn. Some of the girls live there and they had asked all the Freshmen from A to M to a dance from 8 to 9:30. We had a great time. The Inn dinning room and waiting room are finished off very prettily. The tables were cleared away and we dance in there…I met the girl Amy Brown who Mrs. Smith wanted me to meet this summer…I had a dance with Miss Finlay a girl at my table and she took me up and introduced me to her. She seems real nice…</i></p><p><i>You know one of the girls here in the house is from Louisville Kentucky. Do you remember the name of that girl on the steamer who was from Louisville the real pretty girl who wore her hair parted and rolled at the sides and looked so very pretty I wanted to tell Aph her name and see if she knew her. Aph is the dearest thing. She isn't at all pretty but so nice and warm hearted. She said the people at first seemed dreadful to her we are so cold and abrupt in our manners I suppose to her but now she liked them. This morning at breakfast she was the last one to finish and we waited for her and she said in time she would make us all true Southerners. Sunday morning breakfast and noons other days we can sit any where we like that is we fill up the tables as we come in. A dear friend of Aph's Martha Cecil from Louisville also is a perfect dear. She is very pretty and attractive and has lots of life. I think I'd fall in love with her if I was a boy. I have met her but I don't know her well at all yet. Aph has an awfully dear room at least she has everything to fix it up0. Probably she is rich…</i></p><p><i>With much love Bessie"</i></p><p><i>"629 Washington Street Wellesley Mass. Dec 10 1905</i></p><p><i>Dearest sister</i></p><p><i>Guess it is time for me to be answering my own sister's letter don't you I was just reading over yours and your account of the A.D.S. dance. In it you call him Bobby of course Mr. Hale. Is that what you call him It sounded funny someway. You also said Dr. Bolton had gone. Guess I will go to Dr. Race now as long as I know him and I would like him to have the trade.</i></p><p><i>Mardi said you were having a red voile dress made. I am glad of it. You will need all the dresses you can get up here next year. Dresses to wear over to dinner medium dresses like my violet muslin and pongee are what you need the most. You will have your white silk and your graduating dresses for best and that white dotted muslin and your others for second best. Another thing if you buy any white waists get pretty thin ones embroidered or with lace insertion and have white slips to wear underneath. A pretty white waist and skirt looks dressed up and if you have a slip you can wear thin ones and be warm enough and also cover up your under flannels. We might embroider a waist for ourselves next summer. Slips are much worn by the girls red green pink blue yellow and every color. I like white ones as well as any for myself…</i></p><p><i>I thought of trying for Tree Day Dancing when I heard they needed more girls but I asked my gym teacher about it and she said that and corrective gym were too much. It wasn't wise to do both so I shall not try for it. I like Miss Louis ever so much. The things we have to do are good for us. I shall show them to you when I get home. They are hard work all right. I am so tired when I come out from the class I can hardly walk home. It tires your muscles at least if you do it right it does. I guess I do it right for my muscles are surely tired enough.</i></p><p><i>Last night we all went to the Vaudeville Performance at the barn. It was great fun and well done by the girls. Nina and Fuzzy were in one of the numbers. Nina was the animal trainer had a fierce black mustache white jacket and white baggy trousers with black shiny gaiters and she carried a black whip like the circus ring masters. There were three elephants and two monkeys. Fuzzy was one of the monkeys. She had on a red jacket and pants and little cap and the other girl had on green just like the suits the monkeys have on that the hand organ men carry around. They hopped around and danced together and then climbed up on stools and sat during the rest of the performance…</i></p><p><i>Lyman Abbott spoke at church this morning but I didn't go. I decided to stay home…</i></p><p><i>I must close…With heaps of love to you all Bess"</i></p><p><i>"6 Nov 1906</i></p><p><i>Dear Teddy</i></p><p><i>Your long looked for letter came this morning. I knew you were with Mrs. Curtis so supposed that was why you did not write.</i></p><p><i>You asked about foot-ball. There haven't been but 3 games I think and something has happened every time so I couldn't go but I did want to go when Malden came…</i></p><p><i>Last Thursday at 4 P.M. was the first 'Rossini Club' program. It was splendid. Miss Hawes sang beautifully.</i></p><p><i>…Last night Dad and I went to hear Ossip Gabrilowitsch the greatest Russian pianist at City Hall. I never heard anything like it not even Paderewski. I never dreamt that such music could be brought from a piano. He was a whole orchestra in himself. Such different shades of color nimbleness of fingers and marvelous technique! A musical friend of ours who has heard all the greatest pianists including Rubenstein says none of them can equal Gabrilowitsch. He is to be in Boston on Sat Nov 17th. Do go if possibly can. You will always be glad you had heard him for he has a great reputation already and can't possibly be over 25 yrs. Old. He played 'Theme and Variations' one of his own compositions for the first time in America. It is wonderful and certainly ranked well up with the Bach Chopin etc. that he performed. When I say that the audience recalled him five times for an encore and got it and at the end of 1 ¾ hours of playing they recalled him twice and insisted on an encore at the end of the program you may know that calm Portland went fairly crazy over him for they generally cannot get on their hats and out of the door quickly enough after a concert. Do go and hear him. Then the French Saint-Saens the greatest living composer is to be in Boston soon also…</i></p><p><i>Mama sends her love…Yours lovingly Ethelynde"</i></p><p><i>"14 Dec 1906 Thursday night</i></p><p><i>Dearest Teddy</i></p><p><i>I was awfully glad to hear that you are int eh Mandolin Club. Congratulations!</i></p><p><i>Last Friday I took my last German lesson until after the holidays. I simply could not keep up on it with all my extra work. I've been doing quite a little Christmas shopping for you see I won't have those last few days before Xmas in which to shop…</i></p><p><i>This afternoon I went to the Rossini Club. It was the best program yet. Mrs. Whitchouse was the only one I didn't care for. The quality of her voice was different on about every note she sang and she slid around from one note to another terribly instead of hitting them fairly and squarely.</i></p><p><i>Tuesday noon we entertained Gypsy Smith the evangelist his wife and daughter Zillah 22 yrs. Old at lunch. They are all charming to know. His daughter is as handsome as a picture looks very much like a gypsy. She has black hair and eyes beautiful teeth and does her hair in a coronation braid. Her mother is very English but lovely and I never met such a lovable man as Mr. Smith. They are all very highly culture. To say that of him would seem impossible when I tell you that he didn't know one letter from another until he was 17 yrs. Old and is now but 46. They have one son married and another in Cambridge University England. Never heard anybody like him in the pulpit. The hall is packed jam full every night and Sunday night there were 2700 people there the biggest crowd that ever came inside the doors…</i></p><p><i>Lovingly Ethelynde"</i></p><p><i>"Psi Upsilon Brunswick May 9 1907</i></p><p><i>Dear Persis</i></p><p><i>The spring fever possesses every one up here. Tennis baseball track work and long walks into the country consume the time and even my athletic ability is great enough for the last. The country here abouts is wild and heavily wooded with great old pine trees and though the flat plains extend for many miles on all sides the scenery is to me fascinating.</i></p><p><i>The air now begins to be fragrant with spring odors and when the wind blows from off the sea down through the plains and the pine trees it has a wonderful quality stimulating and at the same time restful. So you can hardly wonder that our daily walks mean much and that disinclination to study affects us all alike.</i></p><p><i>Lately too I have been trying to learn to play tennis but I do not know enough about the game to enjoy it as yet.</i></p><p><i>Last night we celebrated in a wild sort of a way the victory over Colby. We found some old fireworks and ransacked the neighborhood for fences and wood piles. Being fairly successful we soon had a good fire going in front of the chapel. As the clapper had fallen out of the bell Paul Blanchard one of our seniors and Rodney Ross in my delegation went hand over hand up the bell rope a hundred feet got through the trap door at the top and finally put it in again. After the returning victors were escorted from the train to the campus excitement subsided. Saturday we play Maine and we will & hope beat them…</i></p><p><i>I feel sorry that you cannot come here for the Psi Upsilon house party and the Ivy Day celebration. Ivy Day is the great day of the year here & certainly hope that in you Sophomore year you will attain to such perfect independence that you can come.</i></p><p><i>How did your friend enjoy her visit to Portland I wish that you could have stayed longer and that my new sailing machine had been in use. Had such been the case I believe that even the delights of study here would not have kept me away from my native town. But still study here is a necessity even it if is what old Horace calls a 'dirus necessitas' … Sincerely yours Robert Hale"</i></p><p><i>"Monday March 9 1908</i></p><p><i>Oxburgh Rectory</i></p><p><i>Stoke Ferry</i></p><p><i>Norfolk</i></p><p><i><br />My dear Mrs. Babb</i></p><p><i>After all I did get as far as London on the day when I wrote to you and it turned out that nothing had been lost by my delay such as it was. On Sunday morning I hauled a specialist out of bed and arranged with him to come to Stoke Ferry with me in the afternoon. We got here about even. There was a consultation with the local doctor and all was so clear that the London doctor left at ten P.M. I am staying merely because Hugh will be ready by Thursday or so to come with me to Lewes and it is not worth while to go there and back in the meantime.</i></p><p><i>Mr. Coombe in my opinion should have written you and should not have wired. He would not if he had known my address but would have left the question of wiring to me. He could have got my address from Lewes.</i></p><p><i>I mention this not for the sake of criticizing him but that you may clearly understand all sides of the case.</i></p><p><i>Hugh had been worrying himself about his examinations had been working too hard and had been sleepless in spite of some sleeping doses. The doctor at Oxford advised him to go away. He did not like to write to Lewes wherein he was wrong and he came here without getting much good. He had fainted at Oxford; and when he got to the Stoke Ferry Station to go up for his examinations he fainted again and struck his head. He had to be brought back to Mr. Coombes was put to bed wandering in mind. His fall was on Wednesday. I got the news Saturday morning and am writing on Monday. He is to all appearance perfectly well. He is dressed and has been downstairs to play on the piano and remarked 'Fancy my being thought ill.' The appearance will not be deceitful for the London doctor assured me that in such cases recovery is speedy and complete. It wasn't indeed necessary for me to come or to bring a physician. But I couldn't divine from Mr. Coombe's letters which were not supplemented by a letter form the doctor what was the matter. I had to provide against the unknown. The only result of my doings is that Hugh is got out of bed at once and given as much to eat as he wants. The only result at Oxford is that he misses honour mods which loss as I have written to you. Does not preclude his final success. My idea that he would come home with out returning to Oxford for the summer term is subject to revision. It may be better in every way for him to go back to Oxford. We will see how he gets on at Lewes during the vacation which begins almost on the day when he reaches Lewes. He is allowed to ride and to lay games – indeed 'that would be the best thing for him.' He may read but is not to take up hard reading at once. He shows no sign whatever of depression. It is all over.</i></p><p><i>If you have a clever son he will lead you a dance and you must pay the piper. Yours faithfully E.P. Warren"</i></p><p><i>"27 Feb 1917</i></p><p><i>Royal Societies Club</i></p><p><i>St. James's Street S.W.</i></p><p><i>My dear Hugh</i></p><p><i>You have been good not to remind me – too good: it would have been better to remind me. I did not put the pipes down on my list the list of things to do which I keep to as not to trust to memory but so I have fallen into the mistake of trusting to the list. I remembered this morning but had not your letter. You may have said something about shapes. I bought those which seemed to suit your size or age but not with the biggest bowls such as my brother used to like. I had to hunt for bowls for him. Either I know nothing of wood or else it is 'topping' & the price also. There is no amber: I conjectured pocket use. So these things are to go though books may not. There seems to be an article in the Round Table on Education I will get it & tear it out for you. The notion I believe is: for the pass schools English history & literature one other language ancient or modern science or mathematics and civics =political philosophy. I do not understand that Oxford is to change its name.</i></p><p><i><br />I am here & Marshall is to be here for the Deepdene sale three or four good statues which I have seen and vases which I have not seen. I wanted to buy a statue fairly complete for Boston when my brother & I were in Rome. It was cheap; but the museum wasn't buying and we couldn't. At present the museum is not buying; and the second statue which I could recommend turns up. I shall try to waken the body; and may succeed; but here is the case in general. Lane saw the futility of a certain policy. I was to come home; and he and I were to start another policy; but he died. I enquired what the post Lane policy was to be and found that it was to be the old futile policy. The great thing my dear is to be respectable and not believe in anything but business and of course women. They should say what is to be done & we should do it.</i></p><p><i>Yours E.P. Warren</i></p><p><i>July 17 1917</i></p><p><i>I have examined the Deepden statues since I wrote and find that there is not one which I wish the Museum to try to buy."</i></p><p><i>"1663 Fourth Street</i></p><p><i>San Diego California</i></p><p><i>July 21 1910</i></p><p><i>Dear Old Persis</i></p><p><i>Home two days and not a letter off to you. If I were not so busy visiting with mother I should accuse myself of being very neglectful of you but you will understand Persis dear and forgive me won't you</i></p><p><i>…By the way speaking of college did you hear that Pres. Hazard has resigned I wonder who will be president of Wellesley. I certainly hope Dean Pendleton will not. Isn't it too bad for Pres. Hazard – ill health was the cause. I think myself that it will be many a day before they get a woman for the head of the college that will come up to our President.</i></p><p><i>California is wonderfully cool – ideally so but dreadfully dusty and dirty. The trees are all gray with the sand and the hills are sore and brown – anything but an attractive place now. I am afraid that I have lived too long in the east to ever be very contended with San Diego. It is so stupid and dead here that I almost go to sleep on a street corner when I walk down to do a little shopping. I expect to sit home on the porch and do a little reading and little sewing. Mother says it is the greatest relief of her life not to have to get us ready to start back to college again…</i></p><p><i>I hear Marie Biddle is getting a divorce. Is that true and what is the difficulty</i></p><p><i>Have your books etc. arrived some yet I want mine so badly for without my Cambridge I really feel lost. You have gotten far ahead of me in reading…I have so many books to read…</i></p><p><i>Write me soon…As always Bernice"</i></p><p><i>"23 July 1910</i></p><p><i>1663 Fourth Street</i></p><p><i>San Diego California</i></p><p><i><br />My dear dear Persis</i></p><p><i>The postman has just come with your adorable pictures. I love them so and shall always be so glad that I have them…</i></p><p><i>I just received a letter from Katherine with on from Miss Fisher. She said they had been making many new plans for the Geology Department among which was converting the Fifth floor Library into a geology laboratory and work room and the old gym into a geology lecture room. You see already they are beginning to change the old place and I dare say that in a year's time we shall find the place much altered. Miss Fisher has been ill with the heat and the work which she has had to do and so has given up all plans for her summer work at College and has gone to the mountains. So she really must be a very delicate little woman – hardly able to stand I should think the strenuous work of a Wellesley professorship.</i></p><p><i>There is absolutely nothing to write you of here – San Diego is deader than it ever was and I hate the place more every day. Please write me soon. Give my love to your family but keep most of it for yourself…Lovingly Bernice"</i></p><p><i>"Ansbach EES Depot</i></p><p><i>APO 231</i></p><p><i>C/O U.S. Army</i></p><p><i>9.8.47</i></p><p><i>Dear Mrs. Babb</i></p><p><i>I was delighted to get your letter this morning and was very interested to hear all the news. I too have been very lax about writing to you I enjoy it so much too but Ansbach seems to have had a dulling effect on both my physical and mental processes…</i></p><p><i>I am very sorry to hear that you have to move again. I know what an ordeal it is Mother has done it so many times and now she tells me she has sold the farm & is going to live in 'Oakthorpe' a house we have near Newbury. In sheer desperation she sold hundreds of my books. They are so heavy to pack and carry. I know when I get back there is going to be much weeping & wailing on my behalf when I suddenly want something I haven't needed for years – that has just been sold. Luckily since I've been over here I have almost lost the terrible habit I had of hoarding. So many things of value have been stolen & it is so difficult to be constantly packing up what most people would consider rubbish that I just do not worry any more.</i></p><p><i>I hope there will only be a few more letters and then I will be with you. I'm getting to be an old lady and have been out here long enough. I want more to think about. I realize the average girl of my age is busy with husband and children and I'm not stupid in that I carry a torch for Richard I've tried with other people but I'm just not interested. I think Richard had everything I wanted when I look back and remember those completely happy evenings when all he and I had for entertainment was a long walk over the hills or a still longer bicycle ride to the movies I wonder why I've never met anyone since that could be happy with so little. Over here it is not considered having a good time unless one gets drunk or has hectic entertainment all the time. So down here I've had a lonely but quite pleasant time all on my own. My boss wanted me to renew my contract and offered me a very tempting raise in grade & pay but I turned it down and am definitely going home in September. Ansbach is beautiful rolling hills and miles of pine forests all the boys on the depot are staying over for one thing – fräulein. The place is full of them. Florence an American girl & myself are the only two allied women here and perhaps you can get a rough idea of the situation when I tell you that neither of us have had a date for three months. Luckily I am used to the country and am becoming an ardent photographer with terrible results but Florence hails from New York and is beginning to get a violent inferiority complex. She amuses me greatly. She's really funny gazes at herself in the evenings sends for new revolutionary make-ups and all to no avail. She can't understand what she lacks that the fräuleins have but from what I can make out the fundamental reason is that there are a great many obstacles to overcome before marrying a fräulein – dozens of papers to fill in etc. and I suppose the boys feel that what is difficult to obtain will be more worthwhile. I think I am right don't you…</i></p><p><i>The sun is shining and I feel very happy. I am working with nice people & the Germans are very fond of me. I shall be sorry to leave them. My love and best wishes to you Pricilla."</i></p> books
30799<p>23 letters 69 manuscript pp. dated 25 June 1824 to 12 July 1866; also includes 2 poems 4 manuscript pages; 1 list of flowers and their meaning 2 manuscript pp. and 1 note 1 mss pp. of the <i>"subscribers inspectors of common schools for the town of Columbia & County of Herkimer"</i> certifying Miss Elizabeth Tillson to able to teach dated 20 May 1837. Of the two poems in this collection one is titled <i>"Lines composed by Mrs. A. Tillson on the death of her son Lewis" </i>which memorializes the execution of her imprisoned son by order of Santa Anna during the Texas Revolution which came to be known as the Massacre of Goliad on March 27th 1836.</p><p>Of the 23 letters 17 are incoming letters to Azuba Tillson the mother of Lewis Tillson who was killed at Goliad Texas. She is mostly located at Peru Huron Co. Ohio. There are 5 letters written by Azuba's son Harvey Tillson who wrote from several places in Illinois Lockport and Algonquin where he had moved and became a large land owner; 4 letters are written by Azuba's daughter Florinda Tillson from Peru Ohio and Richfield New York; there are 5 letters written by Azuba's niece Polly N. McCollom from Richfield New York; and other letters written either to or by family and friends including: Azuba's husband Stephen Tillson Winfield New York; her daughter Caroline Tillson Richfield New York; her son Philo Tillson; grandchildren of Azuba and Stephen Tillson Alice M. Howe Algonquin Illinois and Civil War solider Jesper L. Ruggles of Co. E. 64th Regt Ohio Vols who was camped near Bardstown; and there are also a couple of letters which appear to be written by friends and family: Doreas of Richfield New York; S. Bigelow; and a niece Clara Dow.</p><p>The correspondence details the daily lives and domestic activities of the extended family as they move away from their home in Herkimer County New York to the emerging west of Ohio Illinois and Michigan seeking better lives farms and economic prospects. The letters inform us of various deaths and sicknesses in the family and in the case of Caroline Tillson a rather detailed account of her sickness and death. The letters also describe the emerging towns and districts as several sons of the Tillson family moved west and become pioneers in those areas.</p><p><b>Stephen Tillson 1773-1827 and Azuba Noyes 1785-1869</b></p><p>Stephen Tillson 1773-1827 was born on 15 October 1773 at Greenwich Worcester Co. Massachusetts. He was the son of Stephen Tillson 1747-1814 and Hopestill Shaw 1769-1814. Both of Stephen's parents were originally from Plymouth County Massachusetts but had moved to Greenwich in the early 1770s. </p><p>Stephen Tillson married Azuba Noyes 1785-1869 in 1802. She was born at Richfield Otsego County New York. The couple became the parents of nine children; all of whom were born at Winfield Herkimer County New York where Stephen and Azuba had moved and made their home. </p><p>After the death of her husband Stephen in 1827 Azuba appears to have lived for a while at Winfield before moving to Peru Huron Co. Ohio about Sept 1839 where she was recorded with her son Alonzo in the 1850 Census. Alonzo appears to have been the first to move to Peru and then his sister Florinda joined him followed by their mother and siblings: Isaac Lucinda and Elizabeth. An aunt and uncle had lived at Peru first which would appear to be the reason Alonzo went there. Harvey another brother had moved to Michigan leaving only Caroline in New York as Philo another brother had also moved to Michigan.</p><p>Azuba's son Isaac Tillson and daughter Elizabeth Tillson Perry and her family were Alonzo's neighbors according to the 1850 Census. Another daughter Florinda married and lived next to them at Peru as well. </p><p> Stephen Tillson and Azuba Noyes' nine children were:</p><p>1. Harvey Tillson 1804-1862 he died at Peru Huron Co. Ohio he appears to have not married. He moved to Algonquin McHenry Co. Illinois</p><p>2. Lewis Tillson 1806-1835 he died at the Massacre of Goliad Texas 27 March 1835. He married Betsey Dodge in 1834. She was born at Winfield New York.</p><p>3. Alonzo Tillson 1808-1893 he died at Charlotte Eaton Co Michigan; he married Almira Ruggles in 1846. She was the widow of Sumner Ruggles of Peru Ohio. Jesper L. Ruggles served in the Civil War and wrote a letter included in this collection was the son of Almira and her first husband. When the 1860 Census was taken for Peru Alonzo and his family were next door neighbors to Alonzo's sister Florinda who married Henry Ruggles presumably a brother to the deceased Sumner Ruggles. They were both farmers.</p><p>4. Philo Tillson 1810-1882 he died at Romeo Macomb Co. Michigan; he married Maria Bula Walter on 29 May 1835 at Nunda Livingston Co. New York; she was born at Nunda; in 1833 he moved to Mt. Clemons Macomb County and then removed to Romeo where he practiced as a physician he was elected a representative for the county in1844.</p><p>5. Isaac N. Tillson 1812-1890 he married Mary J. Morgan 1813-1891 about 1834 at Herkimer Co. New York; Mary was born at Winfield. He lived at Peru Huron Co. Ohio at the time the 1850 Census was taken.</p><p> 6. Lucinda Tillson 1814-1845 she died at Peru Huron Co. Ohio</p><p>7. Florinda Tillson 1816-1897 she married her cousin Henry Ruggles about 1843 at Peru Huron Co. Ohio. Ruggles was born about 1818 in Peru. Henry Ruggles was a Whig up to 1856 when he united with the new Republican Party. He held various Peru Township offices. He was a farmer and stock grower. Ruggles' mother was Hannah Tillson the sister of his wife's father. Ruggles' father Joseph was a pioneer in Ohio arriving at Peru in 1818. One of her letters to her mother gives a very detailed account of the last days of her sister Carolina. Another of her letters to her brother Harvey tells of the family moving to Peru Ohio yet another of the sickness of her sister Lucinda.</p><p>8. Caroline Tillson 1818-1842 died at Richfield Otsego Co. New York. A letter in this collection written by Caroline in 1841 to her mother relates Caroline's sickness and her doubts that she will live to see another year. Unfortunately she was prophetic. She died on 20 January 1842.</p><p>9. Elizabeth Tillson 1820-1886 she died at Hillsdale Hillsdale Co. Michigan. She married Daniel S. Perry in 1840. He was born in Peru Huron Co. Ohio.</p><p>George Tillson 1782-1864 Stephen Tillson's brother was a founder of Tillsonburgh Ontario Canada. He went to Canada and established himself as an early iron monger becoming pioneer industrialist entrepreneur and community planner in the area. His name "Uncle George" and his partners Joseph Van Norman and Hiram Capron show up in some of the letters. Tillson operated the Normandale Iron Foundry in Norfolk County before moving to Oxford County in 1825. The sawmill and forge that he established in partnership with Benjamin Van Norman formed the nucleus of the future village of Tillsonburgh.</p><p><b>Sample Quotes from the Letters:</b></p><p><i>"Erie Furnace June 25th 1824</i></p><p><i>Dear Father</i></p><p><i>I now take my pen in haste to send you a few lines respecting my health. Since I left home I have had my health very well except one or two days before I got to Buffalo. I am now doing business as clerk for the furnace which has been in blast only about a week on account of the founder burning himself in a colpit. They make ware very fast at present and have a very good set of moulders. They make as good ware here as they do to the Easterd. I expect Mr. VanNorman will start this night with a load for Buffalo in a boat. And now I will give you a few sketches respecting my journey. I went on board a boat the same night I left home the fare to Rochester was $4.80 and found myself which is 160 miles. I arrived at Rochester a Thursday morning and got to Brockport the head of navigation the same day 20 miles from Rochester. On Friday went to LeRoy 18 miles distance from Brockport. And here I tarried with Miss Noyes till Monday morning. I found them all in tolerable good health. Henry & Charlie are not very rugged at present. Henry was making his calculation that week to start for Vermont and live with a 2d cousin who has a store. On Monday evening I arrived at Buffalo and from here to Long Point I had very hard getting along as there was no vessels going immediately to the furnace. I travelled up the beach of the Lake a foot which I found to be very hard traveling on account of its being sandy and gravely. The best road which is about 20 miles further goes by the way of Lancaster. I crossed the river at Black Rock and started from Fort Erie in the afternoon and got to the furnace Friday evening 3 ½ days traveling 90 miles. I stool the journey much better than I expected to have done although it tired me very much and my feet got very sore. I found the inhabitants very thinly settled from 4 8 12 miles distant and 2 days I went without dinner till 4 o'clock. I found Uncle George's family all well and all the company except Mr. Capron the agent who had the ague or fever. I have not made any particular bargain with them yet as to my wages.</i></p><p><i>Lamond makes good wages burning coal. He is in good health he thinks that Reach might do well here burning coal. I think Prentice would do well to come out here next spring. Plough business is good business here at present and if he could work 1 month with a workman he would make as good work as they do here. I think a good shoemaker would do well here as there is none very near. They have had no school here this season but Harriet is a going to try it in a few days. They want a well improved school teacher very much next winter and they would give good wages. They paid ½ dollar a cord for chopping wood last winter in trade they are wanting a great number of common laborers at present. Provisions here are very scarce this season they have to go to Buffalo for pork. They have catfish a plenty here. They caught a sturgeon that weighed 100 lb. he was above 6 feet long.</i></p><p><i>Uncle George keeps the boarding house yet but he is a going to quit as soon as he can get a new house. The furnace seat is a very pleasant place.</i></p><p><i>Yours &c. Harvey Tillson"</i></p><p><i>"Peru Oct 1st 1839</i></p><p><i>Dear Brother</i></p><p><i>As I now have a convenient time for writing I will embrace it. I suppose you think by this time you are friendless & relation-less. Doubtless you are unacquainted with the place of residence of Mother's family & like most of sons or brothers anxious to hear how & where they are. I have been in Ohio a year. I came in company with Aunt Martha T. on her return from the east last Sept. Alonzo came in March. Mother Lucinda Elizabeth & Isaac & family came 4 weeks yesterday. We all live on A's farm in one house but separate families. Both families are well with the exception of Lucinda. She has been sick most of the time for a year. She was very low with the lung complaint when she started from Winfield but the tour proved beneficial to her. She had every appearance of a return of health till last Thursday night. She was taken very sick had a very high fever and has been failing ever since. Doc't Saunders from Maxville is the attending physician. He is an old practitioner and considered skillful in most instances. Sis's lungs have been very much affected but her cough is less & her fever higher. The Doct today thought perhaps he was inkling to the bilious fever but we think it doubtful about her recovery if she has a hard run of the fever. She is in such a low state of health but still there is a possibility of convalescence. Mother's health is better than it has been for a year past. I think a change of climate will have a desirable affect on her. </i></p><p><i>Uncle Ruggles received a letter from you in June I think stating that you had written to Mother & all of your brothers & had rec'd no answers but the fault I guess is more in you than them. You don't remain stationary long enough I think for them to know where you are or else letters are miscarried. Alonzo wrote to you in May & has had no answer. Lucinda answered your letter immediately & likewise sent a paper with writing on it & Isaac I believe has written notwithstanding all your meanderings we will excuse you if you receive this epistle & will only answer by way of epistolary correspondence or verbal. We are not particular either will answer although the latter would be both pleasant and agreeable. I assure you although you are a stranger to me in person I think I have a brotherly affection for you in consequence of the tie of nature which ought to bind us the silken cord can't be broken. I have a very faint recollection of your physiognomy and that is all. Do come and see us this winter. Our dear Mother with her hair blanched with age would almost renew her age if she could once more behold you with her natural eye. But alas she almost despairs of ever seeing you again but now we have got so far to the west I hope you will take the trouble to come & see us. Your traveling fees would not be much. Do come…</i></p><p><i>Yours &c. Florinda Tillson"</i></p><p><i>"Algonquin McHenry Co. 26th Feb 1850</i></p><p><i>Dear Mother</i></p><p><i>I received yours of the 12th inst this morning. It had been in the office about a week I was absent to Lockport. I made the trip principally to procure scions for grafting. I have not received yours of last fall. I suppose it has been over a year considerable since I heard from you before. Judging by the age of the long list of babies that I knew nothing of before it seems the country is very prolific. The deaths mentioned I had not been informed of before. Such information serves to remind us of the uncertainty of life and that we know not how soon the same may be said of us…'</i></p><p><i>Some of the farmers are now sowing wheat…My grinding shop was burnt down last fall so that my ground is now well cleared of for putting up new buildings to use the water. I think Isaac A might do well to go there and start business if the government would answer. A plank road is about being commenced leading from Oxford through Tillsonburgh to the Port. $37000 had been subscribed and plank hauling onto the route. Whiting VanNormon had moved there and was going to build a cupalo furnace on Stony Creek in co. with George B. I have an invitation to take an interest with them. B.V. N. & Uncle George are a going to build a double sawmill by the Dayton field as they call it. A very large tavern is commenced by some stranger. The town seems to be a growing. B.V.N. has sold of considerable of his farming land for a great price and is paying up some of his old debts. Lumber is in good demand there. A harbor is to be built this coming summer at Port Burwell so that the lumber business will continue to grow better and quick returns. I think Edwin D. is to take an interest in the double sawmill. The rail road is completed to Elgin and in operation being 10 miles below this place. It will be within 2 miles of this when it is continued westerly towards Galena. Our town now bids fair to grow and flourish. I hope we shall not have another so long an interval between communications whilst we enjoy the privilege of corresponding…</i></p><p><i> Yours &c. Harvey Tillson"</i></p><p><i>"Camp Morton Jan'y 9th '62</i></p><p><i>Respected Grandmother</i></p><p><i>As it is rainy so we do not drill. I embrace the opportunity to write to you to let you know that I am well and hearty. To be sure there is great difference between camp life and private life. I think I shall know how to appreciate home if I ever get back. We live on corn mush homing corn cake and now and fresh beef and pork. I assure you we get no dainties as we do at homer. The weather is very warm and rainy here. Very much different from the weather in Ohio. I have not seen a bit of snow since we left Mansfield O. We get but little news here so we do not know much what is going on outside of camp. There are about 15 thousand men within half a mile of us and they are about as thick all along as far as Bowling Green where Buckner is entrenched. In all probability he will be attacked before long but I don't think we will be in the battle. Buckner says he is between two trees and is afraid he will bump on both sides. I rather think he will back out yet if he does woe be to him. The health of the troops is good considering the number of them here. Alonzo Akers is in the hospital at Bardstown with the fever of some kind brought on I think my improper care of himself. If you are unable to write have Edwin answer. </i></p><p><i>Jesper L. Ruggles</i></p><p><i>Direct to Bardstown Ky Co E 64 Regt O.V."</i></p><p><b>The Goliad Massacre</b></p><p>The following are the first four stanzas of a nine stanza poem penned by Azuba Tillson the mother of Lewis Tillson killed at the Massacre at Goliad Texas on 27 March 1836 during the Texas Revolution:</p><p><i>"Lines composed by Mrs. A. Tillson on the death of her son Lewis</i></p><p><i>Oh cruel and most desperate Santa Anna</i></p><p><i>Has my Lewis fallen by your treacherous hand</i></p><p><i>from Texas bloody shore the dreadful news we heard</i></p><p><i>Tis where the blood red banner has been unfurled</i></p><p><i>Oh Santa Anna cruelty hath stained they heart and hand</i></p><p><i>How can you escape the avenging hand of man</i></p><p><i>Thou hast proudly boasted they scepter those wouldn't sway</i></p><p><i>They glittering sword was furnished for battle array</i></p><p><i>Oh cruel Santa Anna with all your savage bands</i></p><p><i>With crimson die hath stained that pleasant land</i></p><p><i>The heaps of mangled Soldiers that ground have lain</i></p><p><i>By that treacherous usurper have been slain …"</i></p><p>The Goliad massacre was an event of the Texas Revolution that occurred on March 27 1836. On March 19 Col. James W. Fannin led his men on a leisurely retreat from Goliad. Mexican troops surrounded the Texans later in the day before Fannin could reach the shelter of a grove of timber at Coleto Creek some 400 yards away. The Texans formed a square in the middle of the prairie and attempted to defend their position. Although Mexican troops launched three separate attacks against the square they could not penetrate the Texan position. As night fell Mexican sharpshooters were able to wound and kill more Texans. With little water to give to the wounded or to cool their artillery the Texans felt they were unable to withstand further fighting. On the morning of March 20 the Texans surrendered.</p><p>General José de Urrea attempted to secure honorable terms for his Texan prisoners. However Santa Anna had received authorization from the Mexican Congress to treat all captured Texan troops as pirates rather than prisoners-of-war. Against Urrea's pleadings all of the Texans were sentenced to death. </p><p>There were 425-445 prisoners of war from the Texian Army of the Republic of Texas that were killed by the Mexican Army in the town of Goliad Texas. Among those killed was commander Colonel James Fannin. The massacre was reluctantly carried out by Lt. Colonel José Nicolás de la Portilla.</p><p>Lewis Tillson Azuba Tillson's son served in Captain Duval's Company of the 1st Kentucky Regt. Vols from Bardstown Kentucky nicknamed the "Kentucky Mustangs." Tillson was executed after being taken prisoner along with others in his regiment.</p> books
30397<p>863 letters 2569 manuscript pp. dated 1910-1959 with 317 pieces of ephemera including postcards telegrams calling cards invitations printed material documents manuscript notes newspaper clippings greeting cards used envelopes etc.</p><p> The correspondence in this collection includes but is not limited to the following: 223 incoming letters to Lieut. Alexander Dennett father of Lieut. Comdr. Ralph E. Dennett many from his son Ralph; 40 outgoing letters of Elizabeth Dennett wife of Ralph E. Dennett to her father-in-law Alexander Dennett; 235 outgoing letters of Ralph E. Dennett mostly to his father or sons and 307 incoming letters to him; Lieut. Armistead Dennett son of Ralph E. Dennett 45 outgoing letters and 8 incoming letters mostly to his father or brother; William Dennett brother of Ralph E. Dennett 12 outgoing letters to their father Alexander Dennett; and Midshipman William A. Dennett son of Ralph E. Dennett 32 outgoing letters and 284 incoming letters many from his father and brother as well as friends and associates. </p><p> The remaining letters and many of the incoming letters to the Dennett's are written to and from family members friends or associates of the Dennett family including Louise Howard Dennett wife of Armistead Dennett and her mother Jill Noble Howard of Round Bay Maryland; "Bunny" Daigle Dennett wife of William A. Dennett and her mother Mrs. L. Daigle of Portsmouth New Hampshire; Dr. John Dennett of Phoenix Arizona an uncle; as well as friends of William A. Dennett: Edmond C. Tarbold Lydia Sawyer Florence A. Paul and Lois S. Gimmi; and friends of Ralph E. Dennett: Alberta Carolyn and Charlie.</p><p><b>Dennett Family of Kittery York County Maine</b></p><p> Alexander Dennett was born 10 November 1811 at Kittery Maine and died 6 May 1889 in Kittery. He was a farmer and was educated in the common schools. At the age of 19 he moved to York Maine where he eventually conducted a general store and owned coasting vessels. He moved back to Kittery and lived on the ancestral homestead until his death. During the Civil War he was appointed inspector of timber at the navy yard. Politically he was a Whig in early life a Republican afterward. He was a trial justice for many years; represented his district in the legislature in 1849-50-51; and was a delegate to the convention when the Free Soil and Whig Parties fused when the Republican Party was organized. Alexander was frequently moderator of town meetings and selectman of the town. He was active in good works and interested in the great questions of the day and an enthusiastic supporter the anti-slavery and temperance movements. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance and was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church being a charter member of the Second Methodist Episcopal church of Kittery. He married Mary Kingsbury Remick 1819-1878 and together they had at least six children: Ellen Miriam Elizabeth John Sarah Mary Alice and Alexander who was the father of Ralph Earle Dennett.</p><p> Lieut. Alexander Dennett of the U.S. Coast Guard was born 13 April 1853 at York Village York Maine and died 24 December 1934 at Kittery Maine. His son Ralph was the only heir and executor. Alexander was educated in the public schools Eliot Academy and various private schools. In 1878 he entered the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service as second assistant engineer and was stationed in New York at the office of Consulting Engineer Charles E. Emery. He and his wife resided at a number of locations during his naval career lived in Boston Portland Bucksport Bath Castine Eastport Mobile Baltimore and Somerville while Dennett was attached to vessels <i>William H. Crawford</i> <i>John A. Dix</i> <i>Thomas Ewing</i> <i>Albert Gallatin</i> <i>Woodbury</i> with headquarters at or near these places. He later made first assistant engineer in 1890 and served on the <i>Hannibal Hamlin</i> in 1893. He continued on this ship with the Coast Guard until 1895 when he retired from active labor making his home at Kittery and Thomasville Georgia.</p><p> He was a Republican in politics and had been a member of the school committee for a number of years and superintendent of schools. He was a prominent member of the Second Christian church. He married first in 1883 to Sarah Eva Paul 1856-1899 daughter of Warrington and Sarah A.E. Paul. Together Lieut. Alexander and his wife Sarah had at least three children William A. Dennett 1886- Ralph Earle Dennett 1891- and Mary Elizabeth Dennett 1894- </p><p> Sara Eva Paul Dennett died on 9 June 1899. After the death of his first wife he was married a second time to Josephine E. Cox only daughter of Carpenter Joseph Cox U.S.N. retired. Josephine died in 1917 Alexander outlived both his wives. He died in 1934.</p><p> William A. Dennett 1885-1911 Alexander Dennett's oldest son graduated Cornell University in 1907 in the mechanical engineering course and died at Kittery MEof typhoid fever. He worked at Holyoke and New York City for the Santa Fe Sugar Plantation San Pedro de Maconic San Domingo. </p><p> Alexander's fourth child Mary Elizabeth Dennett 1893-1895 died young of congestion of the lungs.</p><p> Lieut. Alexander Dennett's third child was Lt. Comdr. Ralph Earle Dennett USN. He was born 30 July 1890 at Kittery York County Maine and died in February 1986. Prior to entering the Naval Academy he attended Kittery High School and the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter New Hampshire. He attended the Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland. He lived at Upper Darby Pennsylvania at the time of the 1930 Census. When his wife Elizabeth died in 1943 he was stationed at the Portsmouth Navy Yard a position he had held since 1939.</p><p> Ralph Earle Dennett married Elizabeth Armistead. She was born 3 September 1889 in Virginia. The couple married 4 December 1920 at Washington D.C. Elizabeth died 16 May 1943. Together Ralph and his wife Elizabeth had at least two children: Armistead Dennett and William A. Dennett. After the death of his wife Ralph married a second time to Josephine Cox daughter of Joseph Cox and Joanna Hurd. They married 28 August 1901 at Kittery Maine.</p><p> Ralph Dennett's oldest son was Lieut. Comdr. Armistead Dennett. He was born about 1922; attended Kittery Schools and Portsmouth High School; and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland in 1941 where he took postgraduate course in ordnance. He served aboard the <i>USS Benson </i>two years in the Mediterranean on destroyers and was a veteran WWII serving in the Pacific theater on a destroyer that was hit by a kamikaze. He later became Commander on several ships including the <i>USS Wallace L. Lind</i> DD-703 1958-1960.</p><p> Armistead Dennett married Louise Howard. Armistead and his wife had at least one child a daughter Sarah Dennett who was born in May 1948.</p><p> Ralph Dennett's second son was William A. Dennett. He was born in 1928 and died on 5 January 2013. Like most of the men in his family he joined the Navy and reached the rank of midshipman 4th class. He graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1944 and attended the University of New Hampshire prior to entering the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis Class of 1949. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in 1951 with degrees in both naval architecture and marine engineering. After graduation he was employed by Newport News Shipbuilding and later retired from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1987 after 37 years of government service. He was a member of the Kittery Point Yacht Club the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and several other professional organizations. He enjoyed sailing locally as well as having substantial blue water experience participating in both the Monhegan and Bermuda races. He was an expert navigator well skilled in celestial navigation. </p><p> William A. Dennett married Mary Irene "Bunny" Daigle of Portsmouth New Hampshire on 9 September 1950 in Maine. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard C. Daigle. Bunny attended the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. Together they had at least one son John A. Dennett.</p><p> Another Dennett family member who wrote some of the letters in this collection is Dr. John Dennett. He was born in 1869 in Maine. He was a first cousin of Ralph E. Dennett son of his father's brother Capt. John Dennett U.S.C.G. He attended Harvard University and Harvard Medical College. After medical training he worked at Boston General Hospital until developing tuberculosis. In an attempt to regain his health he first moved to Santa Fe then arrived in Phoenix in 1895. Finding initial work as doctor at the Congress Mine he remained there until 1905 when it closed. On August 20 1902 he married Louise Gage niece of the owner of the Congress Mine. After work with the Congress Mine Dennett moved to the Silverbell Mine west of Tucson where he worked until 1910 when the family moved to Phoenix. After the move to Phoenix Dr. Dennett stopped practicing medicine and entered business. He became the manager for a creamery Hassayampa Creamery located at 5th Ave and Jackson St. and later became involved in the manufacturing of evaporated milk. Between 1911 and 1923 both Dr. and Mrs. Dennett were active in business and social activities in Phoenix. Dr. Dennett was president of the Rotary Club active with the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and local Republican Party politics. He died in San Diego California on October 17 1957 at the age of 88.</p><p><b>Sample Letters:</b></p><p> Ralph Earle Dennett wrote his father Alexander Dennett 162 letters between the years 1909 and 1931. The early letters show Ralph attending school at the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland and received his first command during WWI. He writes his father about the academy and life at the academy and his activities there when he goes out on ships for exercises. He also writes about his various ports of call and the various ships he is assigned to and what he is allowed to tell that the censors won't scrub:</p><p>"USS Washington Hampton Rds. January 2 1912</p><p>Dear Mother and Dad -</p><p> Tomorrow at ten we clear the harbor for another sea trip of uncertain duration they don't have mail boxes at sea the'fore I write while I may. The Admiral expects to take the rest of the little flock with him and join the fleet 400 miles at sea or thereabouts and then we're all going to play horse for little while with the Red Fleet and the Blue Fleet - really a very interesting thing if you can get inside dope on what's going on the only one I really even savvied was the one we were working on when we left Newport last and bad weather bused that up. Later on in the month about 21 the gallant Fifth Seems I never get away from 5th 5th Company 5th Division etc is to go to Key West for the celebration. What celebration I know not just a celebration that's all. I haven't seen an up to date paper since we left the Navy Yard four days ago Old Point is a tiresome sort of a joint at this time of year you can't get your finger on the pulse of affairs down here it doesn't belong the main arterial system of the country. There's life in it still but it's all fungus growth - rooky army lieutenants coast artillery school or "incubators" and their would be or is sweet hearts. Besides Hampton Rds is such a dreary windy place to anchor it hasn't the slightest suggestion of coziness about it but instead the old ship is yawed about in the tide the shore in the dim distance all around the horizon. If you ever sat in a big draughty desolate unfurnished room you can get an idea of Hampton Rds at this time of year. All the time you have the feeling of being somewhere and yet no where.</p><p> Today has been a very enjoyable day for all; we started coaling at day break and finished about 4 p.m. with intermissions for breakfast and lunch having increased our coal supply by 1600 tons. There's a certain exhilaration that the crew takes on when performing useful work that makes everybody happy. I imagine the novelty would soon wear off if we had to do it every day tho.</p><p> After leaving Key West the Fifth is expected to arrive sooner or later at Havana to aid in disposing of the wreck of the Maine if she is then ready. Altogether we have a very pleasant outlook for the coming routes and if our plans are not changed we may have a chance to laugh up our sleeves at the boys who have to spend their time at Guantanamo.</p><p> "Fat" Hicks has fully clinched his job in the Army but he missed connection in getting his orders probably much to Fats disgust. He wanted to be detailed to Fort Riley and run down to Kansas City occasionally to see the girls and perhaps "land" a good one among the latter who had plenty of cash in her jeans but he got a jack-ass mountain paltry out in Fort Russell Wyo.</p><p>Hoping this will find you well I am your affectionate son Ralph Dennett"</p><p>"March 8 1918 New York NY</p><p>My dear Dad</p><p> My attention has been temporarily turned away from the complication of affairs at home by the passing demand which have been made on my time and thought and shoe leather since I arrived in New York but I have during the lapses of evening after all the various naval Hqtrs have done up their business had some chance to think things over I'll come back to that later.</p><p> The change in my own affairs have reached the advanced stage of completion where I am now after two days of toilsome "reporting" back and forth between 280 Broadway and City Park Bklyn sometimes alone and most of the time with my predecessor finally installed aboard the "New York" as the com'dg officer of her Armed Guard detachment. From the face of it it looks like a most excellent billet. Tho I have been aboard the ship only once for a few minutes she looks like a very fine lady to me and I'm glad I got the job. "Stitchy" Paine my pred. was loathe to give it up. Said he'd like to stay aboard for the period of the war. Can't find out why they relieved him. Probably too much rank. He was 1908. Tomorrow I shall take a small share of my household goods aboard for the trip and the rest I shall probably store here in New York somewhere. With all the truck you have to handle just now I shall not send it home besides I might need some of the stuff when I get back.</p><p> My ship sails Tuesday carrying passengers mail and cargo. She is fast and therefore safe. I don't think you need give yourself any worry about me at all Quarters are comfortable and Paine tells me that the officers are congenial. I have a good titled second a lieutenant and 44 men. During the past two days I have worn out my feet and my change pocket hiking and subbing around between different offices of which there are three besides the ship. All in different parts of the city.</p><p> My voyage will last about three weeks if you have need of any of that money of mine in the York Bank and can get it out in my name you are at liberty to do so.</p><p>With much love Ralph"</p><p>"New York June 11 1918</p><p>My dear Dad</p><p> I have not mentioned the name of the ship here because I would be afraid that the censor if there is one would hold up the letter. I am therefore writing in a deuce of a hurry because there is very little time left you may understand why the feverish remodeling of the ship has been finished as far as possible we are still in very much of an uproar. For myself I have been trying very hard to keep a reasonable hold on what would be ordinarily three different jobs. There are only three regular offices on the ship including the Captain this makes it rather difficult since the remaining number are stripers of only a few weeks experience and are still in the process of training sometimes with only an indifferent amount of progress in their new job day by day.</p><p> Boucher and myself have had to share between us nearly all the work of organizing and quartering the new crew and it has been some husky. Both of us have stuck pretty close to the job. Not since I have been in the Navy have I been pushed with so much different kinds of urgent work at one time.</p><p> Leave for me or anybody else connected with the ship was absolutely impossible. I should have liked very much as you must know to come home to see you and the letter you wrote me recently made me home sick but she could not be done this time.</p><p> Probably my lack of time is due more to mismanagement or shortage of grey matter than anything else. But I can say this: that I have this conciliation I have pushed the job and the job has not pushed me which was what I was fighting for. In case it had been the other way around it would have been a case of being invalidated out of the transport service instead of leave of absence.</p><p>Give my love to all the folks at home.Ralph"</p><p>"October 12 1918</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Have arrived on my new station. Give you my word this is awful. After a year or so of real activity it's like being buried alive or a spirit flight to the moon. The only thing missing is the funeral service. Here in front of the casket containing the remains of many a live man's lost hopes they are holding a solemn requiem day by day over embalmed doctrines of naval efficiency while the current of modern sea life sweeps swiftly past the door and on into the joyous vigorous future. It's a sickening decline from the land of Doing to the land of Being.</p><p> The Bones of this old packet should have been and were laid to rest years ago and there she ought to lie and not rack her poor old frame with the nervous excitement of this day and generation. Nature seems to want to scrap fighting men and fighting machines when they got too large and intricate and unwieldy. She prefers new and growing stock I guess and nothing too good anymore than anything too bad. So it is I see highly trained sailor men in comparative idleness here and amateurs struggling with greater slathers of work elsewhere.</p><p>Hope you in your lack of companionship and help at home do not find it wholly unbearable. It must be difficult and I realize it now more since seeing you last and remaining in close touch. Better times are probably coming for us all tho let's hope so your affectionate son Ralph.Illinois care P.M. NYC"</p><p> The collection also contains letters of both of Ralph's sons when they were students at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. There are 36 letters to Ralph E. Dennett from his son Armistead "Army" Dennett. Twelve of these letters are written by "Army" when he was attending the Naval Academy in 1940. His class graduated early due to the outbreak of WWII. There is much in these letters about sailing for the Annapolis sailing team against other schools Harvard MIT Brown etc the types of boats they use and his studies at the academy as well when he goes out to sea on exercises. The other letters are from 1944-1959 when he was serving in the U.S. Navy on the USS <i>Hansworth</i> 1944 or when he was attending Naval Post Graduate School at Annapolis 1945-1946 and later while serving on the USS <i>Juneau</i> 1949-1951.</p><p>"15 March 1940 Annapolis MD</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Still sailing down here. Had a meet Saturday with Brown and Sunday with Haverford. Both were fairly easy but this week we sail with Princeton who beat us last fall by about two points. I think we have to keep hot this spring to make a little reputation for the new team. So far we've sailed seven teams. MIT beat us because as usual we sank more boats.</p><p> I sent you a letter received this morning. It came in a blank envelope and I almost threw it away as propaganda when I saw it was addressed to "Memphis Maryland."</p><p> Mrs. Ferrell was here Sunday with no previous word to me. I was out sailing in the races until late and hardly got to see them. She seems to be enjoying herself as usual and hopes you are taking good care of her house.</p><p> Incidentally Danny says in a terse letter that he wants to buy my boat. If you see Danny please discourage that. What is there to sail with the Caribou gone It's so hard to find a sailboat. I want to keep that one even if she is a pee wee. I think she might plane like a 14 with encouragement. </p><p>I got to study bull. I got a 2.2 last week on the Dutch wars. </p><p>Love your son Army."</p><p>"31 March 1940 Annapolis MD</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> We sailed Boston and St. John's yesterday in a fog. We won 61 ½ to 51 ¼ to 23. We go to Boston April sixth to race MIT Boston and Harvard. I have my doubts about being with the team. They say maybe if the team gets hot the NAA might think about a boat house on the America dock new sails more boats bigger squad and so on.</p><p> Be sure if you get a little boat to get one that you can race. Then get Bill to studying Curry and he can really have some fun. He can sail a Dyer by himself if he wants to. The Band X classes are good too. The Tech classes are like the B's loose footed main roomy and don't sink when they roll over. Our 14's are expensive and big and take two men to sail right. So I think either a Dyer or a B would be best. They still cost about $250 and should be hauled up on a float. For pete's sake get a real Dyer. We've got one built by the Annapolis Yacht Yard "exactly like." We can't find any difference in the lines or weight or sail but the thing only sails half as fast as our one good Dyer.</p><p> Well I hope the Caribou has a good owner. She was like a member of the family. Our back yard won't look the same at all without her masts.</p><p> My standings are up a little. I don't know why. I think I study less when we sail because every night I'm too tired to bone. Still my math came up. Think I'll go to the chapel.</p><p>Your son Army"</p><p>"5 April 1940 Annapolis MD</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Your devoted son didn't make the squad of nine that goes to MIT. I was in the top six for last week's race with Boston here but I dropped to eleventh by Thursday when they made out the list.</p><p> Maybe I can make the next trip in May. Lately I've been averaging about fifth in our ten boats which doesn't mean much. All last fall it was 3.5. Top man has about 2.7 and low man has about 8.5. </p><p> Still I'd like to know where we are going this summer for our destroyer cruise.</p><p> Think I'll go to the formation.</p><p>Love your son Army"</p><p>"17 June 1940 Annapolis MD</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Here I am back with my sad story about being broke again. Mary came down for June Week and stayed through six days and four hops. That and keeping an apartment stocked with everything for a week just ruined me. Now we are going up to Barnegat Bay for a five day race week in scows and I don't own a quarter.</p><p> We are probably going to be graduated early in three and a half years. They are even making out a new summer schedule and shortening the cruises effective Thursday. Leave and academic year will start early and we will be graduated in February so the officers predict.</p><p>I have been sailing one of our racing stars at Gibson Island each weekend in a star series there. She is a good boat but I'm not used to her yet and haven't been doing well at all. We tow three boats up behind one of the diesel motor-sailer ketches Saturday go ashore race Sunday come back for supper.</p><p> The candidates '44 bless 'em are being seen around the yard. Did Dick Underwood ever make it The poor guys look as bewildered as I felt two years ago.</p><p> Have you got any boat yet Too bad you aren't near one of the real good racing classes. These innocent looking yacht clubs put out some stiff competitors.</p><p>Your son Army"</p><p>Ralph E. Dennett's second son William A. Dennett also attended the Naval Academy at Annapolis. William wrote a total of 32 letters to his father. During the years 1945 - 1946 William is at the Naval Academy. There are also letters on the different cruises he takes during his training to Cuba Panama etc.:</p><p>"Unites States Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland Room 5305 Bancroft Hall 6 July 1945</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Don't think that I haven't been thinking of home most of the time. This place at times has been almost enough to get me down. </p><p> I felt very much elated at having passed the physical. That was last Wednesday 27 June. Tuesday night 26 June I left and by the next day at 1400 I knew that I had passed. That night 27th I tried to call you with no success. From then on my time was all spent indoctrinating myself. On the 29th I was sworn in. Days 29th 30th June 1 July 2 3 July I was wishing that I had never come to this place.</p><p> That feeling has worn off now after having settled down to a routine. Now that I am resigned to my fate I am content to wait patiently for Christmas leave and want very much to hear from home. Your telegram was a moral inoculation. I need letters now very much.</p><p> I can use up to five of Army's white work uniforms. Tell Clodia to start sending the cookies and other food now.</p><p> Everyone that goes to the NA now is 19 and up has spent much time in the navy or three years at college or both. My plebe summer roommate is Wm. M. Shanhouse of Rockford Ill. I am trying to arrange rooming with a boy I met as a candidate Bill Hall from Ohio. I like him very much. He will take Spanish as a language so that may separate us unless I take Spanish.</p><p> I was required to send all non-reg clothing home. Did you get the laundry bag of clothes Monday I have the watch. Saturday tomorrow we take inoculations and such stuff. There were 600 of the 4th Class here when I came and 600 were to come after 1200 in the class of '49.</p><p> The life here is difficult for me at first. Much harder than when I was helper to the plasterer.</p><p> Where is Army I wish I could have been home when he was. I will be glad to see him when he comes. Be sure and come to see me if you get the chance. I am moderately homesick moderately to lightly.</p><p>Tell me how the farm is working out and what goes on Your loving son Bill"</p><p>"United States Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland Room 5305 Bancroft Hall 5 September 1945</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> Don't let the bill worry you. It is for the coming college year and I won't be able to attend. I wrote the Registrar and told him to withdraw me from the student body. The letter was mailed 26 August so it should have gotten there by the time they sent out that bill but it is known how slow UNH is on such matters - see my college certificate of late.</p><p> There was liberty on Labor Day and rare dining out privilege was granted to plebe summer plebs. Nancy Leeds Army and I had dinner at Carvel Hale.</p><p> Last Saturday and Sunday I sailed on the Vamarie for an over night race. The weather was rough and all save few were sick. Never let it be said that I was seasick on Chesapeake Bay though - I wasn't.</p><p> Too many headsails rigged so the Vamarie spent the night thrashing around mostly and placed next to last. That's what poor handling does to the Queen of Ocean Racing.</p><p> Marched in a P-rade yesterday in Annapolis. Understand we get more Christmas leave - maybe 10 days. Your loving son Bill"</p><p>"United States Naval Academy Annapolis Maryland Room 6313 Bancroft Hall 10 October 1945</p><p>Dear Dad</p><p> The word has it that we have town liberty tomorrow afternoon. so I shall follow the trail to Army's apt. and maybe later go to the movie.</p><p> The big celebration this week is the USNA's 100th Anniversary but the Navy Public Relations or what ever it is has probably been hard at work on the story so that I don't need to tell you.</p><p> Last night some engraved announcements of the Centennial to those midshipmen desiring to send them to their home town newspaper providing they came from a town of less than 5000 population. Just the thing to send to Aunt Florence.</p><p> The biggest flop of Centennial Week so far has been Educator's Day. College Presidents from NROTC Colleges about 55 were invited to explore the NA and express their opinions. About ten presidents showed up from places like Case Inst. Tech and Villanova. NA seems to come in for much criticism these days concerning policy toward expansion to include St. Johns and method of teaching. Having just come from college I notice a big difference in the method. I am afraid that the college student has the greater chance for individual thought whereas the midshipman learns mostly to follow orders or a gauge.</p><p> I like the idea of midshipmen being trained in civilian colleges first and finishing off at this place.</p><p>Kay Kyser is playing tonight for the Centennial Ball.</p><p> The P-rade looked well today - 24 companies - it takes 20 minutes for our brigade to pass in review. There were only 16 companies here when Army was a Mid'n. He was amazed when I told him I was in the 23rd Company.</p><p> Army and his roommate seem to drag a different set of girls each week. I'm going to arrange dining out with Army on a Sunday. That way I can see him and go into town at the same time because we can't have liberty on Sunday unless dining out.</p><p> I'm having a little trouble with Bull and Skinny but a little application will make everything rosy.</p><p>I still need to know about insurance - should I pay for it from personal funds which is the only way or ignore it until I graduate. I'll see the financial adviser and ask Army when I can.Love Bill"</p><p> After his time at the Naval Academy William A. Dennett was honorably discharged due to an illness. After recovering he studied naval architecture and marine engineering at M.I.T. then went to work for Newport News Shipyard. Letters from his wife "Bunny" to her father-in-law Ralph give insight into that chapter of their lives:</p><p>"May 5 1951Cambridge MA</p><p>Dearest Dad</p><p> Since Bill and I have been quite busy tying up little ends we've not had the time that we would have liked to have had to spend on a visit with you. We shall be seeing you very soon though and in the meantime I have lots to tell you.</p><p> Bill has had a number of splendid offers of employment from some of the very best yards and firms. He has considered them all very carefully and has decided that the Newport News Ship Yard holds the most future for a young and inexperienced engineer. The salary is of course not particularly spectacular but it is ample enough to allow us to manage without my having to contribute.</p><p> It has been very difficult for me to get used to the idea of living so very far from home but I have tried not to sway him on that account. I would feel very badly if Bill made a wrong choice because of me because it does seem that it is important to work in the place where one feels most content. We are in any case both looking forward to this summer because it will be marvelous to have a real income and time to enjoy each other.</p><p> Our last weeks here and there are only thee you know will be filled with activity. Bill has to complete his thesis prepare for exams and pass in lots of last papers in each class. His marks are very good and he has been a credit to both of us. You have good reason to be proud of him as I am. Although he has had just mountains of work he has attacked it all with admirable gusto.</p><p>.Bill and I both miss you and look forward to seeing you soon All our love Bunny & Bill"</p> books
242581Engraved by P.E. Hamm Phila. 4-1/4 x 4 inches. Used. Engraved by P.E. Hamm Phila. 4-1/4 x 4 inches. with smaller electroplate of same image. unknown books
1982292159New York: Christie's 1982. hardcover. very good-. From the Chew Family Papers. Facsmiles. 54pp. 4to blue boards top margins throughout are wrinkled from exposure to dampness but not dampstained. New York: Christie 1982.<br/><br/> Christie's unknown books
19822630New York: Christie Manson & Woods International Inc. 1982. 4to. 54 pp. <br><br>The Declaration was estimated to bring between $150000 and $200000 and in the end fetched $285000. Other items in this 25-item sale included the original map of the Mason-Dixon survey and one of two-know copies of the manuscript charter for Pennsylvania. Publisher's cloth. Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. hardcover books
30555<p>Collection of 55 letters 148 pages plus several ephemeral items bills receipts postcard 1 photograph generally in very good clean condition.</p><p> Collection of incoming correspondence to the Hixon family of Newton Iowa the Hixon's appear to have emigrated west to Iowa from West Virginia and the letters are mainly from family members siblings and friends who emigrated even further west to Oregon California and even British Columbia. The letters describe events in their lives agricultural and business conditions family news and family squabbles.</p><p>San Francisco May 22 1869 Thaddeus to his sister's Sallie and Maggie Newton Iowa</p><p> "… I have not the time to write you separately so will write you together and inclose you the photog you desired me to send you they are poor owing to the bad weather now prevailing here & I have not the time to wait & get others. I will leave for the North in the morning. I was only 6 days from "Omaha" to this city came through without accident or delay passed over some very bad roads saw some very beautiful scenery & only wanted one thing to make it pleasant along the road & that was the society of some pleasant & highly imaginative companion for mwe have much beautiful scenery & that together with the exhilarating effects of rapid motion makes a pleasant trip at this scenery of the year. Cala looks as beautiful as ever … it cost 150$ from Omaha beside ones board.</p><p> Tell Miss Virginia that as soon as I get the time to look up a Chinaman's queue that I will get it & send to her but I want to get a good one for her one about 4 feet long so that instead of having no hair that she will have enough for a good "chignon".</p><p> I have no letters from Jennie … they say that the winter was a mere bagatelle & that all our stock is fat but business is terribly dull. this city is growing very fast & is thronged with a busy eager crowd & makes me feel more at home than I did anywhere back then. Tell Mr. Scott that if he moved anywhere that he had best go to Oregon to live that country has a good climate a good soil & men can make money as well as they can anywhere … If Mr. Scott should conclude to move to Oregon tell him not try to travel in on the Emigrant roads to Salt Lake but to take the RR to Ogden City to ship his wagon & harness & to buy Horses there or down at Salt Lake City & then travel down the Boise City road to Walla Walla in Washington Territory…"</p><p> Oskaloosa Iowa January 23 1874 Proudfit Robb & Co. to Jacob Hixon</p><p> "Dear Sir</p><p> We have a prospect of selling our building and grounds at this point and if we do so would move our machinery to some place west of here and believe if you and other influential men we have written to would take this matter in hand you could raise a moan or stock to the amount we need would have to sell on part time here but would not want a very large amt to get us started up there.</p><p> Please talk this up with your neighbors and if you think it can be done write to us for particulars… Proudfit Robb & Co. . Woolen Mills…" </p><p> Cosmopolitan Hotel San Francisco Hany 14/75 Thaddeus to cousin Virginia Hixon Newton Iowa</p><p> "My Dear Virginia</p><p> … I'm a bachelor yet but I am so busy and travel about so much that I do not feel the want of a wife and again I wished to close up business in B.C. as the country is too cold & inhospitable for me to like it. This is getting to be a great city & growing rapidly & I should like to come here to live yet if a man wants to live here & has a family it takes lots of money.</p><p> As to your Aunt Sallie I have not seen her since she came out here …" </p><p> Harpers Mills West Virginia March 6 1875 A. Harper to his cousin Jennie Hixon Newton Iowa</p><p> "Cousin Jennie</p><p> … I will come to your wedding if you write me in time if you are not married now I was in Indiana Missouri & Kansas last fall and did not get up to your house. I will be in grasshopper falls Jefferson Co. kan. In April next and may come up to your state. I think it is too cold yup there for meleave West va is a settled fact with me but where I will locate myself is unknown even to myself. Anyman that make a living in W Va can make it somewhere else. I have been selling goods the last year and that is a slow business. What is corn & wheat worth in Iowa. Kansas is about starved out from grasshoppers eating up crops but I suppose you had good crops & plenty to spare times are hard here & business of all kinds dull. Except cattle & they are very high & sell for cash that is the only business here worth paying attention to & then comes winter & spoils all for feed. I received a letter from Uncle E Harper yesterday He talks of going to California next spring…"</p><p> McMinnville Oregon May 5 1875 J. C. Scott to Jacob & Margaret Hixon</p><p> "Dear Bro & Sister</p><p> I rcd your letter yesterday evening and also a copy of the will of Adam Harper it is the first that I have seen but it is about as I heard it was. I did not act as executor therefore it did not require me to resign my reason for not acting was I thought there was to Administer upon and I don't think any different yet and if any person can find property to administer upon "Ill treat to the Oysters" … You ask us if we are willing to join in the expense of an investigation of validity of the will I will just say now and always and always that I am not willing… Jacob & Margaret I hold you in highest regard and would do anything to advance your welfare or your interest in this world but I cannot see that I would do you any good to join in this Law suit but rather an injury…" </p><p> Northfork May 20 1875 Bertha to sister Margaret Hixon</p><p> "Dear Sis</p><p> … I was in the Indianna las fall and went and was sick all the time and I want to come and see you next fall if I can and stay till you are tired of me. Thaddeus Harper says that he wants me and Sylvanus and you and Virginia to come out and winter next winter out there and go to Santabarbara and see Jerome Harper be interred to his final resting place. Miles is married and is living with us but wants to go west Harnese is gone west to hunt a situation for a stor Doc Shaun Melvins son in law wants him to come to the republican valley in Nebrask and I don't know whether he will com to see you or not and our youngest boy is in the state of Ind running his farm and store …" </p><p> Elkton Oregon June 21 1875 Wesley to his cousin Virginia Hixon Newton Iowa</p><p> "Miss Jennie</p><p> … I am at work for the Elkton Mill & mining Co & am first here & then there as they have Mills in several localities but a letter addressed to Susanville will always find me… I am leading a dreary lonely life here and Oh how I sigh for home. This is a mining country & the business I follow as you may know is Engineering wages fair & money plenty of it. …"</p><p> Granite Falls Minnesota June 22 1875 J.W. H. to sister Jennie Newton Iowa</p><p> "Sister Jennie & Bro Adam</p><p> … There are grasshoppers in part of 3 counties of this sate but it is now believed that we will not suffer any damage unless some of those from Kansas or Missouri should happen to fly this way. But they may go anywhere – they keep on the wing about a month before they settle down for good. If they should alight on you don't give up your crops all at once to them if they are thick as raindrops. By hauling old straw or manure on the windward side of a field and making a "smudge" as we term it or smoke all within 100 rods will instantly arise and fly off in a cloud. There have been numerous persons saved their crops here in that way last year. Granite is to have a new ferry soon it is not run where it was when Ad was here it was taken up above Hills mill dam… the pidgeons sic are nesting about 3 miles from here great numbers of them…" </p><p> Carthage Illinois Jan. 31 1890 Cora Harper to cousin Laura</p><p> "… Mother said the mush ice was floating down river when she crossed at Keokuk. And it was warm and bright here with no snow which she thought was quite a change from Newton. She said to tell Adam that he might talk of sugar making if it was as warm there as it is here… She wants to know how the boys prospered in their next wolf chased. If they catch any nice wolves this winter Mother would like to know what two skins would cost without scalps ready for lining…" </p><p> Lafayette Oregon Sept 27 1891 A. H Scott to Mrs. M. Hixson Newton Iowa</p><p> "dear Sister</p><p> … we had a fine horse & cart stolen last night & JC & George & F J Sutton our son in law are on the track of the thieves… it is 3 years since Adam was home & 8 months since I heard from him Jerome is in Montana had a letter from him the other day he is in the mines says he is doing fine…" </p> books
30794<p>Collection of 43 letters 184 manuscript pages dated 23 December 1864 to 10 June 1898; the bulk 33 of the letters date from 1864 to 1873.</p><p>The correspondence in this collection consists of four different groups of letters. The first group is from female friends and cousins writing to Kate E. Carr when she was a single woman Dec. 1864-Dec 1872. The second group was written to Kate when she was engaged to Dr. Carlton these letters being both before and after their wedding June 1870 to Sept. 1872. The third group consists of miscellaneous letters written back and forth between Kate her mother and brother William then a final and smaller fourth group of correspondence between Kate's brother Frank and his wife Nellie 1888-1890.</p><p> <b>Carr Family of Bradford New Hampshire</b></p><p>Daniel Carr was born in Newbury Massachusetts 2 August 1801. His father Moses Carr was born 10 October 1778 and died 10 February 1815 and his mother Abigail Noyes was born 11 February 1777 and died 20 July 1863. Sometime after 1801 Moses Carr removed from Newbury Massachusetts to Hopkinton New Hampshire where he purchased a large farm on Sugar Hill. There the rest of his children were born and there he died.</p><p>Daniel Carr tired of farming when he was about 14 and set out to seek his fortune. He sought and found employment as a clerk in the store of Lewis Bailey in South Sutton New Hampshire. There he remained until 1824 . when with the little patrimony received from his father's estate he purchased the store and merchandise of Mr. Bailey and commenced business on his own account.</p><p>On 20 February 1827 Daniel married Rhoda Bartlett 1800-1836 daughter of Joseph Bartlett of Warner New Hampshire. They had one son William A. Carr born 10 January 1828. William A. Carr appears to have married Harriet Martin 1832-1865 on 10 January 1856. They had several children: William M. Carr Mabel M. Carr Charles B. Carr Frank M. Carr. William M. Carr 1857- married on 22 February 1882 to Mary L. Hartshorn.</p><p>About 1834 Daniel Carr sold his store to his brother Moses Carr and moved to Concord New Hampshire. There he went into trade and remained until the death of his wife Rhoda on 29 November 1836. He then moved to Bradford New Hampshire buying out the store of John D. Wadleigh and there he remained in business until July 1854 when his son was admitted as a partner and the firm was re-named D. & W. A. Carr. This co-partnership continued until July 1875 when Daniel Carr retired. </p><p>Daniel Carr's son William A. Carr remained in trade until January 1887 when he turned over the business to his son William M. Carr. The family store William M. Carr & Company was a purveyor of general merchandise. William M. Carr & Co. touted a full line of "Dry and fancy goods groceries grain furniture carpets curtains crockery glass and silverware wallpaper boots shoes and general merchandise." The company supplied all manner of goods to south central New Hampshire for over one hundred years.</p><p>On 1 January 1839 Daniel Carr was married a second time to Caroline Lucinda Tappan 1819-1898 daughter of Weare Tappan 1790-1868 and Lucinda 1792-1866. Caroline's brother was Mason Weare Tappan 1817-1886 a New Hampshire state representative a U.S. Congressman from 1855 to 1861 a colonel during the American Civil War and the New Hampshire Attorney General. Daniel and his new wife had two children Frank Tappan Carr 1844-1919 and Kate E. Carr 1846-1942.</p><p>Daniel Carr died 17 August 1887 at age 86 and was buried at the family plot at Pleasant Hill Cemetery Bradford. Moses Carr who succeeded Daniel continued in trade at South Sutton for a time when he went to Sanbornton Bridge now Tilton. He died in Ohio 16 September 1876.</p><p>Daniel Carr's son with his second wife was Frank Tappan Carr. He was born 28 October 1844 in Bradford Merrimack Co. New Hampshire. He died on 27 May 1919 in Bradford and was buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Bradford. He married Helen Francis Collins 1850-1928 about 1872 Frank T. Carr appears to have worked as a clerk in the family store and by 1900 was listed as a "retired" merchant. He lived in Bradford his entire life.</p><p>Daniel Carr's daughter with his second wife was Kate Elizabeth Carr. She was born on 2 November 1846 in Bradford Merrimack Co. New Hampshire. She died on 4 April 1942 in Bradford and was buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Bradford. Kate E. Carr married Charles Augustus Carlton MD of Salem Massachusetts on 25 December 1872 in Bradford. Carlton was born 27 February 1841 at Orford New Hampshire the son of Rufus Carlton 1802-1882 and Irena Batchelder. He died 12 June 1935. Kate and Charles had at least one son Frank Carr Carlton. Kate and her husband made their home in Salem Massachusetts. </p><p><br /><b>Sample Quotes: </b></p><p><i>"Home Sunday Eve Nov 25 1866</i></p><p><i>My Darling friend Kate</i></p><p><i>I wanted to write you last Sunday all day and have every day since but I have not seen one unoccupied moment in the whole time. I guess you will ask what I have been doing well I have not done any thing that amounted to anything. I have had company almost every day and night.</i></p><p><i>I wanted to hear from you ever so much before I got you last dear welcome letter. I was afraid you were sick and thought I would write you just a word but must give the same reason as I give for not answering the letter viz/ want of time. I am so sorry you have been sick and all your friends too what a serious time you must have had. I hardly know how you managed to get along…</i></p><p><i>Last night my cousin came in and wanted I should go to prayer meeting with him and as I did not attend church I thought I would go just to keep my name up for attendance to all these things. Really I don't enjoy the prayer meetings as much as I did when I had you here to go with me and her Br. Atwood 'hold forth' Oh Katie! How much I did enjoy that term. I know I never can be as happy if I live a hundred years as I was while I went to school. I did not think when I bid you and all the girls 'good bye' that I should never go to school again but now I do not expect to. Think I shall take music lessons a few more quarters. I cannot give that up.</i></p><p><i>Have you any new music I presume you will practice ever so much this winter while I shall not at all. My school commences next Monday and I do dread it so much. I am afraid I shall not get along well. Don't expect to stay more than a week it is called a hard school but I did not know when I engaged…</i></p><p><i>With ever so much love for thee…Mary"</i></p><p><i>"Salem June 10 1870 Friday evening</i></p><p><i>Darling Katie</i></p><p><i>I saw the death of Mrs. Sanborn in the paper this morning and I have thought of you all day with your sad heart -my poor Katie and have longed so much to be with you. I have wanted to see you more than ever today. It seemed as if I could not be denied. My darling I have such a lonely feeling come over me every little while now that I am separated from you. It makes me irresolute – sometimes and I feel almost as if I would give up my prospects for success here and be content in a more humble situation in life if we could only be together. </i></p><p><i>I know darling that such feelings are wrong and that we could never have been as happy as I hope we shall be sometimes now. I hope you have been to Concord to see poor Sue and Mary; it would be such a comfort to them but what could you say to them</i></p><p><i>It seems too bad that it must be her that she must die now after all these long months of anxiety. I felt some disappointed not to get a letter today but I hardly expected it. I hope I shall tomorrow. </i></p><p><i>Oh Katie I am so disappointed that I could not have had the whole evening to write to you but I had a caller just as I began and he has but just gone and I have only a few minutes before the mail closes. I fear you would not be satisfied with these few words if I should send them but perhaps they will be better than nothing.</i></p><p><i>I am very much better today. I am nearly well again. I will send a paper with this that has got my card in it. I want you to write me a long loving letter Sunday. I cannot feel reconciled that I could not send you a good letter today. I am going out to mail this and then come back and write to you. I should not feel so bad about it if tomorrow was not Saturday and you would have to wait so long for word. Good night dear darling Katie and many many kisses from your own Chas."</i></p><p><i>"Salem June 20 1871 Tuesday evening</i></p><p><i>Dear darling Katie</i></p><p><i>…Dr. Pierson has just called to ask me to go to Danversport with him tomorrow to assist in a surgical operation. It is for 'hair lip'. I am glad to go to see the operation and I shall enjoy the side so much too. I helped Dr. Shreve set a broken arm this morning. I have been very busy all day. Kelly went around with me this afternoon to see a few patients. Yesterday I had a very good day's work. I charged ten dollars and collected four of it. Today I have not had quite as much private business it has amounted to fived dollars. Yes my business has been increasing ever since I was in Bradford the last time. Of course I cannot expect it to continue to be as good all of the time as it has been this month for I have had so many cases I should be happy enough if I could do as much all of the time but we have every thing to encourage us darling and I know we shall have a nice home together sometime.</i></p><p><i>Oh dear Kate I long for it. You do not know how hard it is for me to live here alone away from you but I would not ask you to come darling until I can do everything to make you happy. I must leave the rest until next time. I will answer all of your letter then…</i></p><p><i>.Your loving Chas"</i></p><p><i>"Friday evening</i></p><p><i>My precious Darling</i></p><p><i>…We have just been interrupted by calls. Mrs. Stanly and a Miss Sweatt. I did not like to be hindered. I tried to write this morning. I hurried to make my calls helped Dr. Shreve in on operation then I went with Nell & Frank down to the Williams. We returned about three o'clock. I had not lost any calls but a man was waiting in the office to have me amputate his finger. Jesson came up to help me. He was a strong man and struggled so I got dreadfully tired holding him while he was taking ether. Since the operation I have made three calls so I have had a good day's work.</i></p><p><i>…many loving kisses yours Chas"</i></p> books
30815<p>19 letters 39 pages plus 10 manuscripts totaling 76 pages as well as related ephemeral material.</p><p>The collection consists of the following items:</p><p>19 letters 39 pp. dated 4 September 1809 to 11 December 1821; 8 letters are not dated but are from the same period early 19th century as the rest of the letters in the collection which includes:</p><p>- John Casey to Joshua Casey Ferrisburgh 1809.</p><p>- Charles Smith to Edward Casey 1815.</p><p>- Beloved Mother to Beloved Friend and Respected Husband Lanesborough 1816.</p><p>- Alexander Ely to Eli Garlish dated Pittsfield 1816.</p><p>- Edward Casey to Mary Casey New York 1816.</p><p>- J. Bissup to Edward Casey Pittsfield 1817.</p><p>- to Edward Casey Mr. Stanneys 1817.</p><p>- Gideon Norton to Edward & Mary Casey Pittsfield 1817.</p><p>- Lucy Norton to Edward & Mary Casey Lanesborough 1818.</p><p>- Sally Norton to Mary N. Casey Lanesborough 1819.</p><p>- Edward Casey to Pittsfield 1821.</p><p>- Remaining letters are not dated they were written by: J and A. Casey to C. and M. Casey; Sally Norton to Mary Casey; to Edward Casey; Eliza Phelps to Edward Casey; others incomplete.</p><p> 10 manuscript papers totaling 77 pages dated 12 April 1806 to 1 May 1829 as follows:</p><p>- 44-page manuscript dated 12 Apr 1806 to 26 July 1807 which is a religious reflective diary of sorts by an unknown author but the author does tell us he was 18 years old on 12 April 1806 giving the author a birth year of 1788 which suggests Joshua Casey Mary Norton Casey as prospective authors.</p><p>- 16-page manuscript dated 1 May 1829 "Town Clerk's Office Whiting VT" distribution of estate of Ezra Allen Esq.</p><p>- 2-page manuscript dated 1 October 1818 estate distribution of Charles Norton Lanesborough Massachusetts.</p><p>- 1-page manuscript dated 10 February 1818 for 25 acres in Whiting Vermont for the poor.</p><p>- 1-page manuscript not dated includes 3 epitaphs for gravestones of Timothy S. Norton Daniel C. Norton and Charles Norton.</p><p>- 1-page manuscript dated January 1813 concerns part of a quarry being sold by J. Elijah Phelps of Lanesboro to Edward Casey also of Lanesboro.</p><p>- 12 pages of miscellaneous manuscript writings some with religious content.</p><p>15 manuscript ephemeral items including receipts invoices memoranda notes etc. dated 26 February 1810 to 23 February 1817.</p><p> Some of the manuscript material and correspondence in the collection consists of correspondence between family members and friends. Much of the material has highly religious content which specifically references and deals with the Second Great Awakening a period of strong religious revival that took place in America during the first several decades of the 19th Century. </p><p> While it occurred in all parts of the United States the Second Great Awakening was especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. This religious awakening was unique in that it moved beyond the educated elite of New England to those who were less wealthy and less educated. The center of revivalism was the so-called Burned-over district in western New York the region produced dozens of new denominations communal societies and reform. The correspondents in this collection lived in towns in Massachusetts and Vermont that straddled the border of New York State. Closely related to the Second Great Awakening were other reform movements such as Temperance which is touched on in one letter.</p><p><b>Sample Quotes:</b></p><p><i>"Pittsfield Augt 29 1816</i></p><p><i>Mr. Eli Garlish</i></p><p><i>Sir</i></p><p><i>Mr. Casey informs me that you refuse to let him quarry on your land either as agent for Elisha Ely or myself. That you are abusive & threaten to use all legal & illegal methods in your power to prevent his working the Quarry.</i></p><p><i>A man possessing a Lordship of six or eight hundred acres of land ought in order to command respect to be a gentleman. At least he ought to be above pocketing $500 for a lease of part of his estate and then refuse the lease the right of occupying the premises agreeable to the tenor of the lease. And he further ought to be ashamed of pocketing a large sum for work done on the quarry & then in the face of & contrary to the tenor of his own instrument appropriate the Quarry to his own use and when called on for a settlement break out into a passion – go to a tavern quarrel with the hostler & swear that he 'will whip Ely like an honest man' – Believe me Mr. Garlish a man possessing a Lordship ought to hold such conduct in the utmost abhorrence for if such abuses were tolerated in the community the vilest wretch would have the same right to fall on & give you a bruising that you would have to assault another man – be assured that I lay no claims to the character of a bully or blackguard neither am I to be intimidated.</i></p><p><i>Get yourself cool my good friend. Lay your hand upon your heart call on your conscience follow the dictates of your better judgement & my head for it you will at once see the folly of your present proceedings and the necessity of a speedy adjustment with Casey who has full powers to act for Elisha Ely and also a settlement with me for you may rest assured that you are entangled in a web of your own manufacture & unless by honorable means you extricate yourself it will eventually prove very detrimental to your interest. I am &c. Alexander Ely"</i></p><p><i>"Lanesborough Jan the 11 1818</i></p><p><i>Dear Brother & Sister</i></p><p><i>I have been informed this evening that Mr. Stone is in the neighborhood tho it a late hour I will not fail of writing a few lines to inform you of the health of our friends. Father Norton's family are much as they were when brother left here except Sally who for five days was very feeble and I think rather lower that when you left here since that time she has been on the gaining hand but is not able to sit up much now. Isaac Smith fails very fast and today I have been informed that his mouth is very sore.</i></p><p><i>It has been a xxxxxx time amongst professors of Religion this fall and fore part of winter but for a few days past I am informed their attention has been called conferences have been very full and some that have been very careless and stupid are now enquiring to know what shall I do to be saved. Otis Smith came forward in conference a few evenings ago and made a very humble acknowledgement for his treatment of professors and asked their forgiveness and is wondering if Christians saw such a beauty in the character of xxxxxxx he now discovers why they never told him and I hope that he will be a bold soldier of the cross as was Paul the persecutor. And my dear Sister while I am informing you of the prosperity of Zion in Lanesborough me thinks I hear you anxiously enquiring after the little branch of Zion in Pittsfield it has been a dark and trying day amongst us in general since you left as but some seem to be more engaged of late and feel as tho God was about to visit us by his spirit. Today I have been to meeting and five of the sisters spoke and some if I am a judge really possessed the spirit of the meek and lowly Jesus. It reminded me of the milk's kin carrying the ark to its place. Affectionately yours Lucy Norton"</i></p><p><i>"Thursday April 3</i></p><p><i>Dear Sister</i></p><p><i>With acclamations of joy and songs of praise I would inform you the Lord is in this place and I think we may adopt the language of the Prophet great is the Holy one of Israel in the midst of thee. Mr. Ebenezer Squire came here yesterday to inform us they had such a meeting to Mr. L. Clarkes the night before as had not been in town for twenty years about forty or fifty people were assembled and no appearance of an idle spectator some were speaking forth the wonders of redeeming love others inquiring to know what they should do to be save not scarcely one but what had some thing to say. They have meetings every evening and Mr. S says there is not a family on the street but what there is more or less awakened in it this awaking has not appeared very visible until about a fortnight or three weeks and now Sister I suppose you may well think that by this time I am ready to ask the question why I should be confined when the day has come that I have so many years prayed for desired to have and at times believed would come yet I think I am truly say I rejoice in the government of that God that orders my trials and changes in life and believe will be my object of love and adoration in a boundless eternity.</i></p><p><i>Saturday April 5 Doctor Roberts came here yesterday to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord he said from Mr. Collins down to Pittsfield line there is fifteen or twenty hopefully converted within a week. The Doct. observed it and the Lord's doings and marvelous in his eyes and so marvelous that he scarcely could believe when he sees amongst those that have attend a hope Mr. Morrell Squire Rust Long and Betsey Smith Otis' wife and some three of Mr. L. Clarkes children Sully Squire in our neighborhood.</i></p><p><i>Sister you will at once discover from my different dates it is some time since I began to write and from my many pieces I know not when or where to stop I think I am some better but not able to be about</i></p><p><i>Adieu my much love Sister Sally Norton"</i></p><p><i>"Having had it on my mind time after time to sit down the texts of scripture which I have preached from it had my mind to set down the following which I began in the 18 years of my age the 12th day of April 1806.</i></p><p><i>I at this time attempt to set down some of my life passing through God's grace it may be for the honor of his cause and praying if it should ever fall into the hands of those that know not God they would consider as no man knows the things of a man but by the spirit of a man so no man knows the things of God but by the spirit of God and feeling myself a dying creature and believing when I quit this earthly tabernacle I shall praise God in nobler strains than here we can conceive of. I wish to do this is the fear of God hoping that it might be the means of doing good to his cause. I hope that I shall strive to not build up pride and paint it over to such the natural ear. But wishing to do it not knowing but it might fall into the hands of tempted lambs of Christ which are in the same way that God by his almighty grace has commanded me to go…"</i></p> books
029947Archive of family correspondence consisting of approximately 474 letters totaling 2266 pages of correspondence most with original mailing envelopes plus 34 pieces of ephemera mainly used envelopes all dated between 4 October 1852 to 14 March 1924. Letters are written in ink and pencil written in legible hands in good condition with normal wear. <br /><p>Correspondents in the collection include three generations of the extended Alexander and Harrison families of Litchfield and West Winfield Herkimer County New York including Olive E. Alexander who married Thomas E. Harrison Olive's sister E. Jane Alexander and the children of Olive and Thomas Harrison: Dr. Herbert A. Alexander Leonard Alexander and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Harrison. Other correspondents include the brothers of Thomas E. Harrison Jane Alexander sister of Olive other brothers and a number of cousins and friends who have dispersed across America in the migration west. </p><p> Of the 474 letters 326 are written to Lizzie Harrison another 59 are written to her brother Dr. Herbert A. Harrison generally when he was away at school in Manhattan studying medicine or doing a residency at a hospital in Washington DC. Lizzie appears to have never married stayed at home and cared for her parents until their respective deaths and became the center point for the family for all relevant news of members who had left home. Many of the letters written to Lizzie were written by her brother Herbert over 45 letters and Hebert's wife Delia over 50 letters who Lizzie became good friends with. Lizzie's cousin Carrie Alexander who moved to Michigan with her parents would later marry the Rev. Albert S. Tedman and reside in Detroit for time as well as other locations in Michigan. Carrie writes 41 letters to Lizzie keeping her apprised of her life and how things are going in Detroit. </p><p> Lizzie also receives letters from many friends and cousins from various places particularly from New York State and Michigan but also as far away as California. There are also letters written to Lizzie from her brother Leonard as well as her father and mother Thomas and Olive Harrison. </p><p> Dr. Herbert A. Harrison receives 59 letters and writes 46. His main correspondent is his sister Lizzie. Earlier correspondence from the 1850s to 1870s concern the Alexander sisters Jane and Olive Lizzie's mother and their friends and cousins. In all Olive E. Alexander Harrison writes 31 letters and receives 13 many from her sister Jane and Jane Alexander who never married writes 3 letters but receives 27. Thomas E. Harrison Lizzie's father in all writes 12 letters receives 15 mostly to and from his children Lizzie Herbert Leonard. </p><p><b>Alexander and Harrison Family History</b> </p><p> Thomas E. Harrison was born in Litchfield New York on 25 February 1836. He was the son of Stephen Harrison 1806-1894 who came from England and settled first in New Hartford and then at Litchfield about 1833. He married Mary Watson 1810-1890 and they had eight children Thomas E. Harrison being one of them. Thomas was a justice of the peace for a number of years. </p><p> Thomas married Olive E. Alexander of Litchfield New York about 1865. She was the daughter of Joseph Alexander 1797-1861 and his wife Eliza Warner 1801-1860. Olive's father had a small farm of about 105 acres at Litchfield where he grew oats and corn and had some milk cows and pigs. Olive became a school teacher and taught at Winfield in 1856 and at Litchfield in 1858. At the time of her parent's death they were buried at the Jerusalem Hill Cemetery in Herkimer County New York. The Alexander's had a second daughter by the name of Esther Jane Alexander 1824-1883 Olive's sister who features in the early correspondence of this collection. </p><p> Dr. Herbert Alexander Harrison was born in 1871 at West Winfield Herkimer County New York. He was the son of Thomas E. Harrison 1836-1920 and Olive E. Alexander 1839-1893. Herbert had a sister Mary Eliza Harrison 1867-1929 and a brother by the name of Leonard E. Harrison 1876-1936; both were living at West Winfield when Herbert died in 1915. </p><p> Herbert's sister Mary Eliza Harrison titled "Lizzie" in the correspondence was educated first at the West Winfield Academy then at the State Normal School at Albany where she graduated in the class of 1888. She became a teacher and for awhile taught at Selden Long Island. She is found living with her parents and her brother Leonard in the 1892 NY State Census and listed with no occupation. Lizzie M. Harrison of North Winfield is shown contributing $25.00 in 1895 to the Daniel Hand Fund for the Education of Colored People. A later letter in the collection shows her to be contributing money to the Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee. When the 1905 New York State Census was taken she is shown living with her father and brother Leonard her mother having died. She was not listed with an occupation but rather listed for her occupation as "house work." She is later found to be a charter member of the Society of Middletown Upper Houses. On 3 October 1910 a passenger manifest for the ship Celtic shows her arriving at the Port of New York from Liverpool England. Her father accompanied her to Europe. </p><p> Herbert's brother Leonard E. Harrison attended the West Winfield Union School and Academy. Leonard died of pneumonia contracted after he was hospitalized for a fall. He was a farmer and a graduate of Cornell University. He left a wife Edith Bonfoy Harrison 1885-1973 and a son Walter L. Harrison 1914-1994 a student at Cornell when his father died. There are several letters in this collection written to Lizzie by a woman named Edit. It may be her sister-in-law Edith Bonfoy Harrison. </p><p> Herbert A. Harrison grew up in West Winfield and attended the village school and was graduated from the West Winfield Academy. Deciding to study medicine he went to New York City and took a course in the New York Homeopathic College from which he graduated. A number of letters written to and from his sister Lizzie were written at the time that he studied at New York Homeopathic College. </p><p> After taking his degree in medicine at the N.Y.H.M.C. & H. in 1895 he served two years as an intern at the Washington Hospital and then began practice in Cooperstown N.Y. When he was living at Washington DC there is some further correspondence between him and his sister Lizzie. After several years at Cooperstown he took a special course in eye ear nose and throat diseases at the New York Ophthalmic Hospital which he completed in June of 1903 and remained at NYOH for six months as house surgeon before returning to Cooperstown where he practiced until July of 1905 when he removed to Utica New York and followed his profession residing at 8 Scott Street and having an office in the Evana Building. He was a member of the staff of the Utica Homeopathic Hospital. He attended Plymouth Church and was a member of the West Winfield Masonic Lodge. </p><p> He was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy the American Ophthalmological Ontological and Laryngological Society the National Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis the New York Homeopathic Society the Central New York Medico - Chirurgical Society and the Utica Homeopathic Club. </p><p> In 1903 he married Miss Delia Ellison 1867-1956 of Utica the daughter of Henry Duane Ellison 1833-1910 and Elnora Josephine Arnold 1837-1888. Together the couple had two sons one Thomas Duane Harrison 1904-1984 and Leonard Harrison b. 1911. Delia wrote 54 letters in this collection to her husband's sister Lizzie who she appears to have become close friends with. There are a couple of letters written to Delia's sons Thomas and one written by Thomas in this collection. </p><p> On May 13 1915 while walking the track on his way to the station at East Creek New York. Dr. Herbert A. Harrison was struck by a train and instantly killed. He had the custom of taking the train to East Creek then walking about ten minutes on the train track to a farm that was owned by his wife nearby. This collection contains several letters of condolence written to Herbert's sister Lizzie. Letters upon the death of Thomas E. Harrison Herbert and Lizzie's father are also included in this collection. He died in 1920. </p>Overall the correspondence collection is interesting in that it shows the changing of one generation to the next. Thomas E. Harrison a farmer sends his children to university to become professionals a teacher and a doctor. The collection also shows the extended family migration west the women keeping in touch with folks back home wishing them to come and move west with them with promises of a better life. Most of the correspondents tend to be women and the conversations of the letters tend to be dominated on the domestic sphere of life that they controlled. <br /> books
197048029DeQueen AK: Feathered Warrior 1970. Softcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Feathered Warrior paperback books
030029No Binding. Very Good. Large archival collection consisting of: 2273 letters 5636 pages plus 16 diaries and 9 banker's boxes approximately 11 linear feet of ephemeral materials all dated 1898-1990 the bulk from 1920s-1960s. The correspondence centers on Phyllis Hart Clark and her family. There are 623 letters written by Phyllis mostly retained copies and 647 incoming letters. Her husband Raymond G. Clark writes and receives 201 letters. As a couple Phyllis and Raymond receive 450 letters and their son Philip writes and receives 293 letters. The ephemera includes several thousand pieces including folders of typed and manuscript notes brochures circulars handouts pamphlets postcards telegrams etc. all dated 1930s to 1980s for further description see below. <br/> <br/> unknown books
186026391New York & Philadelphia: Brady & H. Manger's Photograph Gallery 1860. Two carte-de-visite photographs the woman's portrait with touches of lip rouge & cheek tinting. Accompanied by an old mount-surround identifying: "Mrs. Sadie Robbins born Phil. abt. A.D. 1823 died at Brooklyn Aug. 2 A.D. 1874 buried at Woodlands Cemetery near Phil." and Elliott Robbins of New York. 1st wife Ann Eliza Smith of Nissequogue L.I. 2nd wife Mary Frobel Regnault New Orleans 3rd wife Sadie Simpson of Philadelphia." Studios identified on front for Mr. Robbins & back of the mount of Mrs. Robbins' photo. Approx. 2 1/4" x 4" size; some light wear soiling Mrs. Robbins' card top tips rounded; in very good condition. Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. Brady & H. Manger's Photograph Gallery paperback books
1964626131964. KENNEDY Jacqueline designer. KENNEDY FAMILY. CHRISTMAS CARD FROM ROBERT AND ETHEL KENNEDY circa 1963. The front of the card shows a flying angel blasting a trumpet; the design was reproduced by Hallmark Cards for the benefit of the National Cultural Center from an original painting by Jacqueline Kennedy who was honorary co-chairman of the center. Inside the card is green with a 1/4 inch white border. Laid-in near the top-edge is a black and white photograph of the Kennedy children with their names printed in red below; below this are printed the sentiment "Hark The Herald Angels Sing Glory To The New Born King" and the names of Robert and Ethel Kennedy. 10 by 6 7/8 inches folded once at the center. Fine. unknown books
