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[Account Book of the Brigs Nimrod and Jasper under Captain John Hill, 1826-1833]
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[Account Book of the Brigs "Nimrod" and "Jasper" under Captain John Hill, 1826-1833]

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[v.p., including Antwerp, London, Havana, Pensacola, New York, 1833. Folio. (12 3/4 x 8 inches). 21 leaves, plus two additional manuscript leaves laid in. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, manuscript label on front board. Bookseller's label on front pastedown. Account book of Atlantic trading voyages. An interesting manuscript ship's log containing financial accounts for the brigs Nimrod and Jasper for an eight year period from 1826 to 1833, while they were under the command of a Captain John Hill. The two ships made numerous voyages between the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. The present log book contains line accounts of expenditures for journeys from London and Marseilles to New York and Norfolk in 1827; from Antwerp to London in 1828; from Philadelphia to the West Indies in 1829; from Madeira to the Turks Islands in 1831; from the West Indies to Pensacola to Havana in 1832; from the Indies to New York in 1833; and other similar voyages. The log also contains two copies of an… Read More
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Archive: Abraham Lincoln's 1861-62 Chiriqui Colonization Project and Related Kansas Senator...
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Archive: Abraham Lincoln's 1861-62 Chiriqui Colonization Project and Related Kansas Senator Samuel Clark Pomeroy Papers

by POMEROY, Samuel Clark (1816-1891); THOMPSON, Ambrose W. (1810-1882); et al.

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Washington, DC, 1895. Archive. Sheet sizes variable. Over 60 ink and pencil manuscripts and typescripts, including copies, ledgers, letters, and US Government correspondence on paper. This remarkable archive of manuscript materials tells the story of "Linconia," Abraham Lincoln's failed 1861-62 scheme to resettle free black Americans in the Chiriqui province of what is now Panama. "You having been charged by the President of the United States with the execution of the Acts of the 1st Session of the 34th Congress for aiding in the Colonization of persons of color freed by the provisions of law in some tropical country." - Lincoln's Secretary of the Interior Caleb B. Smith to Kansas Senator Samuel C. Pomeroy, 9/11/1862 This archive of materials related to President Lincoln's Chiriqui Project is important evidence in a story often unacknowledged in American history: that of the US Government's attempts to relocate black Americans overseas. The Chiriqui Colonization Project was a scheme Lincoln pushed… Read More
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Archive Comprising 1 Certificate Signed by President Grover Cleveland Granting Land in South...
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Archive Comprising 1 Certificate Signed by President Grover Cleveland Granting Land in South Dakota to Conservationist Edward A. Bowers and 3 Supporting Documents

by BOWERS, Edward Augustus (1857-1924); CLEVELAND, President Grover (1837-1908)

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Washington DC, 1895. Archive. Sheet sizes variable. 1 US Timber-Culture certificate granting land in Aberdeen, South Dakota, to Bowers, signed in ink and affixed with the wax seal of the US Land Office; 1 brass-fastened collection of 4 typescript pages: "Application for Extension of Time by Edward A. Bowers"; 1 typescript letter corrected and signed in ink from J. McChesney to Bowers; and a small sheet with calculations titled "Dimensions in Planting Tree Claims" A remarkable US government document signed in ink by President Grover Cleveland granting 150 acres of Dakota Territory to Edward A. Bowers, an important early advocate of environmental conservation. With three additional documents concerning Bowers and his Dakota parcel. "'To encourage the Growth of Timber on the Western Prairies,' the claim of Edward A. Bowers has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the South East quarter of section eighteen in township one hundred and twenty-four. North of range sixty, West of… Read More
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[Autograph letter, signed, from a sailor to his wife during the Mexican-American War]
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[Autograph letter, signed, from a sailor to his wife during the Mexican-American War]

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1847. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Central fold, running the horizontal length of the sheet, reinforced with tape. Minor soiling, else fine. A very affectionate letter from a sailor to his wife back home, full of pining declarations of love and devotion. The sailor, Gregory, notes that he is safe and likely to stay that way, as they are at a good anchorage and the coast has been entirely secured. He indicates that she should direct her letters both to Vera Cruz and Pensacola, and that either way they will surely find him with the Gulf Squadron. He also mentions a possible posting to the Naval Observatory, which would bring him home to his dearest Jenny. "The frigates 'Potomac' & 'Raritan' have both sailed for home some days ago, but we had no opportunity of writing by them, as the former sailed from Sacrificios & the latter from Tobasco. You will doubtless have heard long ere you receive this all about the taking of Tobasco. The whole coast is now in our possession and there… Read More
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Autograph letter signed to Member of Parliament Benjamin Hawes, concerning the Spanish slave...
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Autograph letter signed to Member of Parliament Benjamin Hawes, concerning the Spanish slave market in Sierra Leone and the colony at Liberia

by SLAVERY - CRESSON, Elliott (1796-1854)

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Philadelphia, 1834. 3pp. Later annotation at head of first page. Scarce letter on the Liberian colonization movement by one of its founders. Writing to Hawes, a member of Parliament and a committee member of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade, Cresson wishes for success in the British anti-slavery action off the coast of Sierra Leone, writing "[I] hope that you may yet enjoy the satisfaction of crushing one of the worst & most unacceptable of the slave markets in existence, that at Gallinas..." After mentioning the travels of the colonial governor of Liberia, he writes: "... I have been gratified to learn from several highly respectable sources, that such a Colony as you propose, located either at the mouth of the Cape Mount River, or even a little more to the Northward, say at Sugaree, & provided with a good supply of trade goods to exchange with the natives, would have a powerful tendency to break up the monopoly now enjoyed by the Spanish Slavers. My letters from Africa state that… Read More
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Autograph letter signed J. J. Audubon to naturalist Richard Harlan, discussing Audubon's...
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Autograph letter signed "J. J. Audubon" to naturalist Richard Harlan, discussing Audubon's publication of "The Birds of America

by AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

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St. Augustine, Florida: John James Audubon, 1832. Bi-folded folio. 4 pp. (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches). Integral address panel with St. Augustine postal stamp. Some faint staining and browning, small area of marginal loss where wax seal affixed. "Should I live long enough to deserve her applause I shall die happy." A remarkable signed manuscript letter from John James Audubon, which addresses in detail the publication of his landmark work "The Birds of America." Audubon may have deemed the Florida landscape "poor beyond any idea that can be given in a common letter," but in the present correspondence he also reports his discovery of a new species of Ibis, which he proposes to name Fantatus Fuscus. Additionally, he records "3 diferrent [sic] Species of Heaths," and notes his "curious observation" of warblers, "moving easterwards every warm day and returning every cold one." He also outlines his plans to travel up the St. John River aboard the US Navy schooner, the Spark. Ever focused on the project at hand,… Read More
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Autograph letter from Elliott Cresson to Member of Parliament Benjamin Hawes, with a resolution...
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Autograph letter from Elliott Cresson to Member of Parliament Benjamin Hawes, with a resolution titled "Proposition for a Society to co-operate with the Colony of Liberia," along with discussion of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's opposition

by [SLAVERY]. CRESSON, Elliott (1796-1854)

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England: Elliott Cresson, 1833. Bi-folded folio. 3 pp. (12 1/3 x 7 1/2 inches). Important autograph letter from Elliott Cresson, one of the foremost proponents of the American Colonization Society and its colony in Liberia, to Member of Parliament Benjamin Hawes, presenting a resolution to found the British African Colonization Society. Discusses the famed abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's opposition to the colonization movement. The letter begins with the two-page text of a resolution to establish the British African Colonization Society under the patronage of the Duke of Sussex: "[T]hat Colonies composed of fair settlers of African race established on judicious principles on the Coast of Africa appear calculated beyond any other plan to put an effectual stop to the slave trade . . . Resolved that a Society be formed to be called the British African Colonization Society and that its objects be to cooperate with the American Colonization Society and with the several missionaries and other… Read More
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Autograph letter signed, written to George Frederick Kunz regarding his research on the Neutron

Autograph letter signed, written to George Frederick Kunz regarding his research on the Neutron

by CHADWICK, James

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Cambridge, 1932. 1pp. A short letter with an update about Chadwick's research on discovering the neutron. Two months prior to writing this letter, James Chadwick had only just begun experimenting with his research regarding the existence of a possible neutral particle in the nucleus of an atom alongside electrons and protons. In February of 1932, Chadwick published a paper titled "The Possible Existence of a Neutron," where he proposed this possibility. In the early months of his research, he sent the following letter in reply to George Frederick Kunz, the noted mineralogist and mineral collector and vice president of Tiffany & Co. at the time: "Dear Mr. Kunz, I am sorry that at the moment I can supply you with nothing of real interest about the neutron. It is possible, even probable, that I may be able to send you later photographs which show some of the effects of a neutron in passing through matter. Yours sincerely, J. Chadwick" Although the original letter from Kunz is unknown, it is implied… Read More
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[Four manuscript letters from Tocqueville to John Stuart Mill (3) and Henry Reeve (1), written in...
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[Four manuscript letters from Tocqueville to John Stuart Mill (3) and Henry Reeve (1), written in the hand of Gustave de Beaumont evidently in preparation for his edition of Tocqueville's Oeuvres]

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Paris, 1849. 17pp., written recto only on 17 sheets. With a few pieces of related ephemera by J.P. Mayer (the editor of the Gallimard edition of Tocqueville's Oeuvres Completes). From the Tocqueville papers of Gustave de Beaumont. The letters comprise as follows: To John Stuart Mill, 15 October 1839. OC (ed. de Beaumont), vol. VI, p. 93. To John Stuart Mill, 18 December 1840. OC (ed. de Beaumont), vol. VI, p. 106. To John Stuart Mill, 23 April 1847. OC (ed. Mayer), vol. VI, p. 348 To Henry Reeve, 5 July 1849. OC (ed. Mayer), vol. VI, p. 103.
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Letter signed (Edward) to architect James Wyatt, concerning repairs and alterations at Kensington...

Letter signed ("Edward") to architect James Wyatt, concerning repairs and alterations at Kensington Palace, including proposed work on the library

by EDWARD Augustus, Duke of Kent (1767-1820)

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Kensington Palace, 1809. 6pp., on 3 sheets of paper, each 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Each sheet inlaid at a later date. Renovating Kensington Palace. In this lengthy letter, the father of Queen Victoria consults architect James Wyatt concerning repairs to Kensington Palace. Wyatt had been previously employed by Edward to renovate Castle Hill Lodge, but here discusses proposed improvements at Kensington Palace, which were "in a very dilapidated state, & really disgraceful." Among the needed repairs he requests were the walls of the footman's waiting room, the installation of bookcases and other renovation in the library and changes to the garden room.
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Manuscript document signed by the selectmen of Newtown, NJ, attesting that Isaac Titsoort [i.e....

Manuscript document signed by the selectmen of Newtown, NJ, attesting that Isaac Titsoort [i.e. Tietsoort], was sent in December 1755 to negotiate with Indians on the Pennsylvania frontier, but was killed

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Newtown, NJ, 1757. 1p. Signed by Henry Simson, Joseph Byram, John Anderson, Thomas Woolverton and Joseph Parry. The French and Indian War on the New Jersey "Front Tears." In the wake of Braddock's defeat, with tensions with the Delaware Valley Indian tribes rising and with a perceived threat that the tribes of the Delaware Valley would invade into New Jersey, at the end of November 1755, Governor Belcher detached hundreds of West New Jersey troops to the New Jersey/Pennsylvania border (and into Pennsylvania), many under the command of Colonel Abraham van Campen. The present document concerns the death of a resident of Sussex County, who evidently travelled with Van Campen and Colonel Jacob Ford to the "front tears" to "parley or hold a treaty with the Indians there" but "hath never returned & by report was near about that time killed." The document advocates for his bereaved wife and suggests that his eldest son be appointed heir and estate administrator. Another copy of this document, addressed to… Read More
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Manuscript Affadavit Signed by John B. Sarpy Testifying to the Dispersal of the Estate of Henry...
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Manuscript Affadavit Signed by John B. Sarpy Testifying to the Dispersal of the Estate of Henry Fraeb (Frapp) and the Difficulty of Collecting Money from Famed Mountain Man Jim Bridger

by [FUR TRADE]. BRIDGER, Jim (1804-1881), SARPY, John Baptiste (1798-1857)

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St. Louis: John B. Sarpy, 1843. Folio. [2] pp. (12 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches). Docketed on verso, fold lines with some separation, a few repaired. A manuscript affadavit written by fur magnate John Baptiste Sarpy of Pierre Chouteau & Co. that gives one a granular sense of the difficulities of running a frontier business dependent on mountain men like Jim Bridger and Frapp. A remarkable window onto the business dealings of famed mountain man Jim Bridger, this signed manuscript affidavit of John B. Sarpy, testifies to his actions on behalf of the estate of fellow fur trader Henry Fraeb, also known as Frapp, who was killed by Indians in the Rocky Mountains. Sarpy, who was a partner in the major fur firm Pierre Chouteau &. Co., had worked closely with Frapp and knew him well. In his affidavit he writes about the Chouteau Company's concerns about Jim Bridger, Frapp's partner at the time of his demise, and the difficulty of getting Bridger to pay his debts. Written in St. Louis, Sarpy's affidavit states: "On the… Read More
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An album of original watercolour drawings of Cassowaries, with related manuscript title Kasuare /...
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An album of original watercolour drawings of Cassowaries, with related manuscript title "Kasuare / Walter Rothschild

by ROTHSCHILD, Lionel Walter, Baron Rothschild (1868-1937) - John Gerrard KEULEMANS (1842-1912, artist)

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London, 1899. Oblong octavo. (8 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches). Black ink calligraphic manuscript title, manuscript map in blue ink of New Guinea, northern extremities of Australia and the surrounding islands, hand-coloured with a related key beneath to show the distribution of the various species and sub-species, 7 plates of pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings of various species of cassowary (the first five plates each with three heads, the sixth plate with two heads and the final plate with a fine full-length study of an adult and a young bird). Loosely inserted is an early manuscript listing (in the same hand as the captioning of the plates and the index to the map) of various species of the birds, with common names and locations. Contemporary brown morocco-backed cloth-covered boards, dark red morocco box Provenance: Otto Fockelmann (of Hamburg, near-contemporary signature in blue ink on title) Pre-publication presentation manuscript with watercolour drawings depicting the 17 species or sub-species of… Read More
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