Search Results: Authors starting with C from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

quarto, 6 pages, formerly folded, light toning to paper, else in very good, clean and legible condition.
Letter discussing the potential mineral development of Lost River. The writer, is clearly a geologist involved in exploring the potential profitability of the area for tin mining, he comments on the climate, topography and condition of the Native population. The area was mined early in the 20th century, but commercial mining was soon abandoned.
Lost River is a waterway on the Seward Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska. Rising in the York Mountains, the river empties into the Bering Sea, 10 miles (16 km) west of Port Clarence. It is located 10 miles (16 km) east of Cape York.
Lost River has a length of about 10 miles (16 km) and drains the central part of the York Mountains. Its two tributaries, Tin Creek and Cassiterite Creek, enter from the east about 3 miles (4.8 km) and 1 mile (1.6 km), respectively, from its mouth, and tin ore has been found on both of these creeks.… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. quarto, two pages, formerly folded, neatly inscribed in red ink. A manuscript by one G.W. C., in which he discusses, in humor peculiar to the custom house, the Civil War: "To the Weighers Uncommon Council Greetings! Whereas It has become necessary in the course of in human events to fire leaden bullets at divers and sundry wicked men known as rebels to their country and their flag, and whereas one Aug Belmont patriotically imports pigs to be driven in small quantities through the southern herd of swine, it becomes us to see that said pigs are weighed in the balance, and not found wanting. Beware O! Weigher! That your ways are weighs of truth - And may they lead you to the lead which arrived in the "Ocean Spray" about Aug 18th 1862, and by the "Addison Child" Aug 30/62 - Little Mac sighs for the leaden pills, and all… Read More

quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, some light damp staining, else in good, legible condition.
The letter describes a journey from Burlington, Vermont to Montreal via Lake Champlain on an early steamboat. The letter writer then gives his impressions of Montreal, its people and its architecture as well as its future prospects:
"Montreal Augt. 3, 1816
My dear friend,
I wrote you a few lines from Burlington and the next morning by 5 o'clock we were embar'ct on board the steam boat which was in every respect calculated for the navigation of lake Champlain the passengers were about seventy in number from various states and destined to various places – many of them were persons of information and being conversable the time pass'd pleasantly – the lake is a fine sheet of water ornamented with many islands and has lofty and romantic mountains in view – its banks are generally cover'd with wood, and in many situations exhibit cultivation and improvement – our passage was… Read More

quarto, 4 pages, including stamp-less address leaf, formerly folded, else in very good clean condition.
A detailed account of Canby's week of travels in upstate New York to visit relatives and fellow Quakers, after sailing from Boston to New York:
"My Dear Anna,
… we left town in the Hudson Packet for Fishkill, we chose the above in preference to the Steam Boat on account of her being so much retarded by a strong head wind as to prevent her passing thro the Highlands before daylight the succeeding morning – we arrived at that narrow pass about seven oclock first day morning and was exceedingly gratified by the magnificent scenery, the mountains presented. I can scarcely convey to thee in this way an idea of the stupendous scenery, the mountains presented. I can scarcely convey to thee in this way an idea of the stupendous Grandeur of this remarkable place, the river thro the pass is about one mile in width but owing to the height of the mountains on… Read More

Quarto, 4 pages, including stampless address leaf, in very good, clean and legible condition.

"… I have been too busy for the last two weeks to know on which end my head was with any degree of certainty … The High School building was dedicated two weeks ago … The School opened last week … Mr. Gidding's first made a few remarks after which Mr. Gallaudet led in the devotional exercises and made an exceedingly appropriate address to the school … in speaking and singing the greater part of the morning was consumed, preventing … any real progress in the business of organization … This third week of the school finds us moving on with something like regularity. The number of scholars in the school is about 220, for which there are only four teachers. Unless, they provide us another we cannot, by any means, do justice for such a host of pupils. The difficulty is even greater here than in a common school because we have a longer list of studies and a greater diversity of scholars. Our… Read More

first edition, octavo, 83 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on titlepage, retains front wrapper, removed from bound pamphlet volume, front wrap and titlepage lightly foxed, else a good copy.
Important case argued before the Supreme Court concerning Habeas Corpus.

Quarto, 4 pages, including stampless address leaf, postal markings on address leaf, formerly folded, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
The Carrolls of Doughregan: Rich life of the premier Catholic family in America "in these Know Nothing days."

The only grandson of the famed Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the sole Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, was the fifth Charles Carroll, attached Doughregan, his Baltimore manor house, to his name, to distinguish himself from his forbears. He lived a rich life (in every sense of the word), as revealed in this letter to a French nobleman he and his family had befriended when the Count, a longtime American resident, was French charge d'affaires in Washington, taking the place of a drunken, boorish, belligerent ambassador who was "despised" by President Monroe. Count Menon, on the other hand, "took a warm and lively interest in everything that related to the prosperity and progress of American institutions, and cherished the… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. octavo, 3 pages, on school stationery, with original mailing envelope, very good, clean and legible condition. Case, a Phillips Academy student, lets loose some racist and classist remarks to his father: ". Yesterday Abbott in my class took Brown another senior in my class and myself over to Lowell . a very busy and also beautiful city. About six o'clock the factories closed and then the streets were filled with the operatives. As a general thing they are a poor miserable looking set, worthy of all the pity and attention the New Englander have so zealously bestowed on the far more comfortable niggers . Our lessons are very easy this term and none of the boys study very hard ." After graduating that year from Andover, Albertson Case went on to Yale, Harvard and Columbia Law School, eventually practicing law in the town where his father had long been an attorney for the wealthy and a prominent Democratic politician. Both father and son held many state,… Read More

24 letters, 41 manuscript pp., dated 15 February 1887 to 21 December 1891, written on U.S. Letter Sheet Envelopes (self envelopes). Of the 24 letters in the collection, 13 were written in 1887; in 1888; 1 in 1889; 3 in 1890; and 1 in 1891. The earliest letter of 15 February 1887 is written in pencil, the rest are written in ink. The letters are written in a legible hand. Mrs. Chaney writes to her husband in Atlanta, while she was in Leominster, Boston, or Roxbury, Massachusetts. All but one of the letters is written by Caroline Isabel Carter Chaney.
Caroline Isabel Carter Chaney (1845-1925) and Rev. George Leonard Chaney (1836-1922)
Caroline Carter was born on 11 January 1845 in Leominster, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. She was the daughter of William Sawyer Carter (1811-1849) and his wife, Ann Sophia Warren (1825-1860). Caroline's parents died when she was rather young, her father when she was only 4, her mother when she was 15. Caroline married George Leonard Chaney on 3 January 1871. Together… Read More

quarto, three pages, plus address leaf, few splits along folds, some very minor loss at fold joints, roughly opened, otherwise in good legible condition. "Dear Brother, Having an opportunity to send a few lines by Govr. Bell I shall write a few words to you on politicks supposing you take some notice of passing events. And in the 1st place I would Congratulate you on the happy termination of the Presidential election of the triumph of pure patriotism and love of Country over faction, intrigue, sectional feelings & prejudice in the elevation of the Honr. J. Q. Adams to that office for although Jackson had majority over Mr. A. in the electoral college yet it very certain if the votes of the people had been given to Mr. Jackson and Mr. Adams exclusively Mr. Adams would have received a good majority over his opponent. The friends of Jackson has made a great outcry against Mr. Clay and have gone so far in Pittsburg as to burn his effigy and without doubt the principle is in them if they… Read More

42 letters, 204 handwritten pages, with envelopes, dated 5 April 1870 to 20 February 1892, and a couple of newspaper clippings; correspondence informs of the social history of the families, sickness, deaths, work, people moving about, keeping in touch with family who moved away, etc., there are a couple of letters dealing with women's medical issues.
*Quotes from the letters can be emailed on request.
Nancy Russell Sever Chase (1835-1908) and husband Rev. Henry L. Chase (1832-1905)
Henry L. Chase was born on 9 September 1832 in Westford, Vermont. He was the youngest of five children born to farmer Truman Chase (1790-1871) and Laura Ballard (1794-1872) of Westford. In 1865 Chase was living in Carver, Massachusetts, where he was listed as a clergyman. Online searches show Chase to have been a Congregational minister who served in Carver, Massachusetts (1865); Dyersville (1867-1870) and Green Mountain (1870-1882), both in Iowa, then later, in 1885, he was appointed to a church in Hutchinson, Minnesota.… Read More

Large archive consisting of: 138 letters (189 pp.), 28 volumes of business ledgers, accounts, and memorandum books (5,500 pp.), plus approximately 1,068 pieces of paper and manuscript ephemera, including checks, letterhead business receipts, newspaper clippings, brochures, circulars, used envelopes, post cards, etc., as well as essays and verse. Letters date from 1857 to 1939, with the bulk of the correspondence and ephemera dated between the years of 1870 and 1910. The letters tend to be mostly business and financial correspondence, with many written on company letterhead. There are also letters that discuss personal or family matters.Charles L. Clark (1850-aft. 1930)
Charles L. Clark was born in Nov 1850, at Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut. In 1870, Charles is found working as a clerk in a store at Old Saybrook. By the time the 1880 Census was taken he is found located at Essex, Middlesex County, Connecticut, listed as a merchant. Clark married Marie Louise Kirtland in 1873, she… Read More

Quarto, two pages, plus address leaf, formerly folded, short tear into letter, repaired with archival tissue, portions missing from address leaf, docketing on address leaf in Smith's hand, else in good, legible condition.
Gerrit Smith was a reformer who devoted his large fortune to what he considered the good of mankind. Smith's wealth was derived in large part from vast tracts of land throughout America, but primarily in New York State. Smith was in essence a land baron. Clark, in his letter, is likely discussing payment for land purchased from Smith.
Smith advocated a wide array of causes, strict Sunday observance, vegetarianism, temperance, dress reform, prison reform and woman's suffrage. Joining the anti-slavery movement in 1835, after a brief interest in colonization efforts, he became one of the best-known abolitionists in the United States. He was the Liberty Party candidate for President of the United States in 1848, 1856, and 1860. He was an intimate of practically every leading abolitionist… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. quarto, three pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, separating along folds, else in good, clean and legible condition. Clarke rails against "poor, pitiable" Irish job-seekers: ". since I came here and especially since I was appointed Canal commissioner, I have been invelloped [sic] in a moving mass of importunate office hunters - and appointments are nearly all made and the crowd have pretty much dispersed. The very blind and the lame, the halt and the maimed were all ready patriotically to serve their country. Poor pitiable objects came imploring by seeking an office, a post and a place, because they had "a wife and nine small children and one at her breast." The multitude attended with pretty much the same feeling of eager anxiety that is said to take place at the drawing of a lottery - each hoping that he would draw a prize. An inordinate lust for office - and an insatiable hungering and thirsting for money are at present crying evils in America. Ambition and Avarice and… Read More

No Binding. Good. folio, two pages, folded, some splits along folds, in good legible condition, accompanied by original mailing envelope. James Cleland, an Ohio "Copperhead" reports on anti-Negro riots in Detroit and Cleveland: "Brother John, . I am sorry to hear of so many of your boys dieing off . But so it goes some of the Republican speakers in the north tell us if it is necessary to sacrifice this whole generation in order that the next generation may be a better one why do it and I guess they are doing what they can to do it. There is going to be a meeting of democrats at Hamilton this state the 20th of this month to consider some maters there is two men appointed from each state to go Valindigham and Olds goes from our state some are going from this county just to see what will be done something must be done or we will have to bow to the tyrant yet you would be surprised I suppose if I would tell you everything that is going on just now in the north revolvers… Read More

Soft cover. Very Good. Group of 46 manuscript and partially printed items (49p.), dated 2 February 1861 to 18 October 1881. The folder that the papers are housed in measures 10"" x 13"" and has the "cover title" - ""1861-81 Lettres de Service et nominations de Mr. Clouet"" inscribed in ink on the front. All 46 items are written in ink, in legible hands. The papers are written in French. Of the 46 items, 29 are printed forms that have been completed in manuscript in ink. Some of the items are on the printed letterhead of the ""Ministere de la Guerre"" or the ""Commission De Sous-Officier Eleve D'Administration Du Service Des Hopitaux Militaires"" which came under the Ministere de la Guerre. Some of the papers are on the letterhead of the ""Corps Expeditionnaire du Mexico"" or the ""Armee d'Algerie."" The Clouet papers represent the various commissions, nominations and appointments of Emile-Victor Clouet during his career in the French Hospital Corps from 1861 to 1881. He was a sergeant with the 17th… Read More

Six letters, 20 pages, two letters retain their original mailing envelopes, in good, clean, and legible condition.
Six letters pertaining to the Coburn family, including three letters by Stephen Coburn to his sisters, two of which were written while he was a teacher on a plantation in Tarboro, North Carolina in 1840.
"Tarboro April 6, 1840
Dear Sister Elvira,
… I was very anxious to learn the result of the series of meetings which you were about to hold and what was the religious state of the Church and community. … But though there should be no more apparent fruit of the revival we ought not to think that God revives his people in ruin. We should believe that he makes the grace and zeal of his people the great instrument of converting the world and he knows whether it is best that the fruits of these should be slow and gradual or more sudden and apparent. Above all we ought to be thankful that thee exists in the church a spirit of Union and Christian love without which it cannot prosper and which… Read More

quarto, 1 page, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, else in very good, clean, and legible condition.
1845 Violent Tennessee hero, Lawyer, Militia General and Vice-Presidential hopeful – "hires out" his slaves in Memphis five years before his death in a street fight.
Written weeks before Texas was annexed by the United States, setting the stage for war with Mexico, politician and businessman Coe, soon to be named Inspector General of the Tennessee Millitia, writes the President of the Planters Bank of Memphis that he was inclined to help the widow of a deceased friend who had treated him "badly by cause of his drinking". Because of health problems, he was reluctant to face the "dangerous exposure" of coming to the city but he wanted to settle his "considerable debt", possibly by "hiring the negroes out in Memphis next year".
"General" Coe was an attorney, active in Democratic politics, who served two terms in the Tennessee Legislature, alongside future President Andrew Johnson. Actively… Read More

quarto, two pages, with original mailing envelope of "Diane de Poictiers Co. Perfumers", 22 East 21 St., "removed to 10 and 12 West 22nd St."
"… I'm going to take a store opposite the Waldorf-Astoria… all our fine customers live uptown and they want me to move up higher… I have been on the waiting list for a store on 33rd Street and have secured one right opposite the ladies entrance of Waldorf, and expect to sign the lease tomorrow … As our goods appeal only to the very wealthy class why it behoves me to get up among them. The store is just eight feet wide, with a show window, and forty-eight feet deep and it is up to me to make that one of the most beautiful and artistic stores in New York. It will cost me about eight hundred dollars to tear things out and get everything as I want it. My idea is to have the walls white satin striped with a border of pale pink roses showering down in long strips, pale green Royal Tilton carpets, green velvet furniture made to order, ferns in gold vases… Read More

quarto, two pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, old tape repair to blank leaf, not affecting text, else in very good, clean and legible condition.
1841 Proposal for an Agricultural Magazine by a Massachusetts clergyman, who was later ridiculed by Charles Dickens
"My dear Sir,

I shall rusticate here a few weeks, occupied in finishing my Reports… I have nearly completed my preparations to publish monthly or two monthly an Agricultural & Horticultural Magazine, embracing Agriculture, Horticulture and all branches of Rural Economy – 60 pages if monthly and at 3 dolls. per year; to be embellished with engravings if the patronage will warrant it. Will you become a regular contributor? No one can render better service. The first year the Magazine will probably have a struggle to live, but afterwards there is a good prospect that it may be successful. As soon as the receipts beyond the actual expenses will warrant it, whether the first year or afterwards, contributors will be paid in… Read More