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29 letters, 38 pp., (no envelopes), dated 8 March 1851 to 26 July 1984, the bulk of the letters are incoming originals dated 1951-1957 (only one letter is post 1957); there are 3 outgoing copies of Habib's letters, the rest are incoming; letters are mostly typed and signed, only two letters are handwritten.
The 3 outgoing letters are retained copies, Habib wrote 1 letter in 1952 to O.T. Foster, secretary of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand and provides Foster with a short biography of himself before officially meeting with him and his organization; and 2 letters in 1957 to Walter W. Orebaugh, Esq., American Consul General, Port of Spain, Trinidad; Habib's 2 letters to Orebaugh concern Habib being assigned to work under Orebaugh at Port of Spain, asks help to find housing for himself and his family, forwards his travel plans.
The 26 incoming letters to Habib were written by the following individuals:
- Henry J. Vaux, School of Forestry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2… Read More

Scottish Immigrant in New York fears War between the US and Britain during the "Aroostook War", 1839.
folio, three pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, formerly folded, some minor spotting, small tears along folds, else very good.
"…I received the 21 of February giving a account of the stormes that was along the western coast of great Britain…I have had a visit from my brother from Sheldon [Valley?]. He is thinking of going home this fall. I should like very much to go home to see my people but I have got myself much entangled that I do not think that I can get away at all. I am determent not to work for any more men that cannot pay me down every month…I should like very much to hear how you are getting along in this trublesome times. I hope that there will not be any war but I think it remains with England now, war or not war. I have not seen any news since the maine concern occurred, there was some very warm speeches given on the house of commons and likewise in the house of Lords, the yankees… Read More

octavo, one page, formerly folded, written in ink in a clear legible hand.
Hale writes:
"Matunuck R. I. September 17, 1885
Dear Mr. Howe,
Thank you for your kind and full letter. I accept readily your advice to wait till the new election before attacking the members of the Assembly. I have sent a good many parcels of our pamphlets to people in the State of New York by addresses sent me in various ways – We remonstrants will look with interest upon the coming N. Y. Elections hoping that the woman suffragists will upset their own applicant by their attempts to vote prematurely.
Very truly yours Susan Hale"
"Susan Hale was born December 5, 1833, into a prominent family of Boston. She was the youngest of eight children. Her father, Nathan Hale, nephew of the revolutionary war hero of the same name, was editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Her mother, Sarah Preston Everett, was a sister of the orator, Edward Everett.
Susan's brother, Edward Everett Hale, was a leading Unitarian minister, a leader in… Read More

quarto, 4 pp. including stampless address leaf with signed Free Frank, hole from seal opening with no significant loss of text, in good, clean, and legible condition.
1840 Whigs wildly optimistic about the election of General William Henry Harrison to the Presidency.
"…We are all in the highest spirits on the subject of the Presidential election. I do not think there is a Whig in Congress but most truly and sincerely believes that Gen. Harrison will be elected President, and it is generally thought by a very large majority. And I have good reason to believe such is the present expectation of the leading administration men, including Mr. Van Buren himself. It is said the administration has it under consideration to make some new movement in reference to the currency in order to escape from their present dilemma, and that Mr. Forsyth in particular is in favor of what he terms a Bank of Exchanges. I do not think any new movement can be agreed on, and if agreed on that it could help the… Read More

octavo, 129 page pamphlet, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, ink markings on titlepage, else a very good, clean copy.

1839 Farsighted Corporate Reform Proposal by Former President of the Maine State Senate.
Quarto, three pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, formerly folded, otherwise, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
Ham congratulates Mildram, "and the Democracy of Old Wiles and of the state that you are again called to your former post of usefulness in the Ho. of Repts. "Do our friends all behave well this session or not? Are they all REAL or PRETENDED Democrats?"
He then praises Mildram's Senate colleague Nathan Ide for "an important principle...incorporated into an act of incorporation...Mr. Ide's section holding the private property of every Stockholder for the whole amount of corporate debts. I could carry it one step further - that is, there should be no private property exempt from attachment for corporate debts - it is, and ever has been a libel of the most palpable character on equal laws and free institutions that a man should be permitted to contract debts in a corporate capacity,… Read More

folio, 3 pages plus stampless address leaf, some weakness at folds and hole from seal opening with loss of a few words of text.
1828 Ohio Jacksonian Democratic Legislators fear "conspiracies and plots" by "Blue Light" ex-Federalist supporters of "King John the Second" (John Quincy Adams).
An important Ohio political letter from the tumultuous months before the presidential election when a new Democratic Party was still forming around the candidacy of Andrew Jackson and supporters of his opponent, John Quincy Adams, mostly remnants of the defunct Federalist Party, simply called themselves "Anti-Jacksonians". The party lines were still so blurred that, as this letter from two Jacksonian state legislators makes clear, there was a great deal of mutual suspicion, approaching paranoia, about conspiracies and plots that grew out of confused loyalties. The text is particularly interesting because of the writers' use of two forgotten political slurs – "Blue Lights" referred to former Anglophile Federalists… Read More

octavo, 22 page pamphlet, lacking wrappers, ex-library, handstamp on title page, bottom 1/3 of title page torn away, and missing, with loss of imprint information, else textually complete, a good reading copy.
"Dunbar, twenty-one years old, killed the nephews of his step-father, one by a blow, the other by hanging in a tree, fearing they might inherit the property which he felt should come to him." – McDade, Annals of Murder, 269

4 letters, quarto, 7 pages, written on the letterhead of the Chicago Theological Seminary, of which Hammond was then treasurer, in very good, clean and legible condition.
Henry L. Hammond (1815-1893) was born in Smyrna, New York; graduated from Oberlin College in 1838, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1841. He came west to Michigan in 1842, organizing the First Congregational Church of Detroit, and was its pastor until 1850. He then served as pastor of the Congregational Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1850-1856, when he moved to Chicago to become editor of the Congregational Herald, a post he held until 1861. He preached in Princeton Illinois from 1861-1862. Hammond was an ardent abolitionist and was fearless in preaching against slavery. While preaching in Princeton he got up a petition which gained many signatures, sent to President Lincoln, urging him to use his war powers to free the slaves. His wife was the sister of Owen Lovejoy, Illinois abolitionist, congressman and… Read More

octavo, 4 pages, neatly inscribed in ink, partially cross-written, very good.
Hanna writes her friend in the immediate aftermath of the War's end and Lincoln's death, and reflects upon the losses endured by the nation:
"Mary darling,
… I am now teaching three miles from Frederick… I was in Frederick last Thursday & heard a splendid sermon delivered by Rev. Williams of the Presbyterian Church, on the life & death of our lamented Chief Magistrate. He showed how he was fitted for the great work by poverty, toil & danger, he then described his conduct through the great struggle, repeating an extract from one of his messages. It was grand, he then spoke of the soldiers & described a farewell scene, showing the heroism of our boys & the self denying spirit of our patriotic women. There sat the weather beaten veteran, who had been fighting bravely for four long weary years, no doubt he felt a thrill of pleasure as he reflected that his labors were at least appreciated. After partaking… Read More

Quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf, in very good, clean, and legible country.
1850 Threat to burn down a Pennsylvania city of refuge for fugitive slaves.
"Dear Mother,
…This place is very healthy now. I know of no disease or sickness at all except among a few old people. We had a great many alarms of fire a few days ago, a party of fellows from Phil. came up here and threatened to burn this place down but they were discovered too soon. They have had a watch out since and nothing is heard of them now. The place is not large enough for such persons to do any injury to it..."
Why did the writer not mention the cause of the threatened arson? Mary Louisa Harbaugh was the newly-married young wife of Rev. Henry Harbaugh, a minister of the German Reformed Church, a conservative of Swiss-German descent who was a prolific writer and orator but was remarkably silent on the subject of slavery. On the other hand, Mrs. Harbuagh's father, a prominent Lewisburg lawyer, was an adamant Abolitionist… Read More

small quarto, two pages, a damp-stain has faded several words in the text, some archival tissue repairs, else in good legible condition. Very likely a retained copy. The intended recipient may well have been William Woodford (1734-1780) American revolutionary war general from Virginia.
The letter reads:
"My dear Sir
I am just inform'd that a letter was yesterday read in Convention from T. Hepburn to you, mentioning amongst other matters his having left in Norfolk some articles of my property, which from your usual goodness I must request the favor of you to secure for me. A conveyance by water will be I suppose impracticable, but as the Flour Waggons are frequently returning one of them possibly may be spar'd for that purpose, or perhaps they may be got part of the way to some pace of safety. As I now am asking favors, I will venture another which, as it will prove a mean[s?] [two unintelligible words] …ing that humanity which has [rendered yo?]ur name dear to your… Read More

242 letters, 970 pp., (226 retained mailing envelopes), dated 19 November 1930 to 25 February 1966; however, all but six letters (1946, 1950, 1965-66) are from the 1930s; the letters are handwritten and typed, in legible hands, good condition; 31 of the letters are in German, the rest are in English; many of the envelopes have their postage stamps cut out. There are also 4 postcards and 6 greeting cards to either Horst Jacobitz, or his brother Herbert.
Of the 242 letters in this collection, 183 are written in English (with minor German) by Lily Hawkins to Horst Jacobitz from 1930-1939; the remainer are written to Jacobitz by Lily's brother Hugh Hawkins (5); Lily's mother Mrs. Lilian Elizabeth Hawkins (5); Mary Hedges (18) in German; Julius Philipps (11); "Beb" (4) in German; Ena A.M. Bulman (3); plus 13 letters written by various individuals, of which 9 of these letters are written in German.
Lilian "Lily" Alice Hawkins (1911-)
Lilian "Lily" Hawkins was a British woman who lived during this… Read More

quarto, two pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, in very good, clean and legible condition.
Hawks, writes from Florida, after successfully defending himself from defamatory charges about his private life and finances, which had driven him to the South from a New York pulpit, where he was the highest paid clergyman in America. Hawks here ironically offers advice on the correct procedure for the canonical "trial" of a clergyman accused of "suspicious circumstances", whether or not "malicious and unfounded". He concludes that, with "kindness and regard for a brother's character and feelings" the accused should have a chance to offer explanations of his conduct that his accusers should "rejoice" if those explanations proved satisfactory.
Hawks himself had been dogged by such accusations during his brilliant career as an Episcopal priest. Born in North Carolina, he had been a lawyer and politician before being ordained a priest, serving in Connecticut and New York City, where he was… Read More

Oblong octavo, one page, strip of brown tape on verso of sheet, else in good clean and legible condition.
Philadelphia Quakers organize lectures for "Colored Persons" on the eve of Civil War, 1860.
"We are endeavoring to establish a course of semi monthly Lectures for Colored persons in Clarksons Hall No. 615 Cherry Street. On behalf of the Evening School Association we are commissioned to request that thee will favor us with a Lecture on any instructive subject …"
In 1813, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society opened a school for African-American students, which it named Clarkson Hall in honor of the British anti-slavery leader. It also served as Headquarters for the Abolition Society until the building was sold in 1864. There is no mention in newspapers of the time of the planned lectures for Black adults.
Harriet Elizabeth Stockly was a veteran Abolitionist, having signed a statement in support of William Lloyd Garrison as early as 1835. The year she signed (or wrote) this letter, she also… Read More

folio, 259 manuscript pp., entries dated 1855 to 12 October 1875; bound in contemporary split calf over boards, boards worn, pieces of the cover leather missing, and slightly warped, a couple of leaves loose, a few others missing, otherwise in good condition, nearly all the pages are at least partially used, entries written in both ink and pencil in a legible hand.
An interesting ledger offering up two decades of Levi Henderson's activities on the fast developing mid-western and western frontier, punctuated by the Civil War. The writer was a physician and much of the latter part of the ledger is devoted to treatment of patients in the various towns he lived, as well as the drugs he prescribed for their ailments.
The diary chronicles Levi's life from his displacement as a teenager from Morgan Co., Indiana in 1855, to Dallas County, Iowa. There are also entries about his life as a young teacher in Des Moines, Iowa; as well as random jobs as he tries to find his footing as a young man. He eventually… Read More

14 letters, 14 pp. (mostly typed), dated 14 October 1890 to 14 March 1891; of the 14 letters, 13 were written to Mrs. S.L. Oberholtzer, 1 letter is addressed simply "Dear Sir," but likely the recipient was a Professor Thompson; some minor tears at folds of letters, one letter torn through at center fold.
The Society for the Extension of University Teaching
The Society for the Extension of University Teaching was an outreach program that offered to communities an instructional program that helped bring participants up to date in a particular area of knowledge or skills. The instructional courses were designed especially for part-time adult students.
In 1872 the University of Cambridge (England) having received many requests from large towns throughout England, asking assistance in promoting higher education, appointed a syndicate to organize lectures in populous places. The scheme grew rapidly and the syndicate conducted lectures in more than 60 towns. In some places the lectures led to the foundation… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 223 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in half red leather, marbled paper covered boards, back-strip loose, but present, worn at corners and edges, text written in ink, in very good clean and legible hand. This curious work contains a one page preface that states: "In writing this account of four tourists' six months sojourn abroad, I am greatly indebted to the work called "Europe its Scenes and Society," by Daniel C. Eddy. Some of the expressions herein are about the same as in that; the sentences having been written from memory mostly. Hoping it may find its place in the current literature of the day, I leave it in the hands of the publisher, Lizzie Hoyt Henry, Herbert Hall, July 12th, 1888." This work purports to be an account of four month's travel by four persons, the Marstons, they are: Mr. Fred Marston, his wife, and their daughter Florence, of Beverly, Massachusetts, the fourth was presumably Miss Henry. However, it is quite probable that… Read More

8 volumes, 262 mss pages, plus blanks, various small format bindings (stiff paper, cloth spine with stiff paper boards, leather), volumes measure between 2 ¾" x 5" and 4" x 7", bindings good, some scuffing, written in pencil & ink, in a legible hand, dated from 29 Aug 1868 to 12 Sept 1895. While the volumes are not numbered, we have given them numbers based on their chronological order as follows: v.1, 14 pp, 29 Aug 1868-1 Jan 1892; v.2, 37 pp, 19 Mar 1875 - 13 Apr 1889; v. 3, 6 pp, 16 Nov 1883 - 1 Feb 1884; v. 4, 13 pp, 17 Oct 1885 - 19 Oct 1892; v. 5, 8 pp, 1888 - 1893; v. 6, 37 pp, 21 Apr 1891 - 1892; v.7, 52 pp, 16 Jan 1893 - 6 Mar 1893; v. 8, 95 pp, 13 June 1892 - 12 Sept 1895.Of the 262 mss pages, 147 pages are diary entries, the rest memorandum and accounts. The two diary volumes (v. 7 & v. 8) contain sailing trips on the St. Lawrence River taken in the summers between 1892-1895, and a three month trip taken in 1893 to Florida, stopping at various places along the way. The memorandum and… Read More

quarto, two pages, with retained mailing envelope, in very good, clean and legible condition. Hodges writes to Vega describing his work in Africa including an extended interview with Idi Amin over a period of four days in Kampala: "Dear Eric,
... I had a tremendous time of it in Uganda. My 16 hours of interviews with Idi Amin were spread out over 4 days, and each hour was filled with some tension, considerable suspense, and constant revelation. The man is difficult to fathom. His moods seem mercurial. I was received twice at his offices and twice at his residence in the suburbs of Kampala. He has a quick and ingratiating charm - but it exists at surface level, like a thin veneer. Sometimes he showed flashes of anger, irritation, and incredulity at a number of my questions (I had drawn up an extensive interview questionnaire - and the queries concerning press reports and foreign criticism of his personal rule and regime were the ones that appeared to bother him). However, the man was… Read More