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

quarto, one page, on a folding letter sheet, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, in good, clean, and legible condition.

Jack writes his wife that he will be detained in Washington sometime, and excoriates his Whig colleagues:

"My Dear Wife,

I would have wrote you on Sunday agreeable to my promise but was very unwell… I have been in the House all day - & am about as well as usual I wrote Sidney last evening & least you might be uneasy – have concluded to give you assurance of my being very well –

When we may adjourn I am not able to say – it may take place in a few days which I wish very much – yet the prospect is we may be detained for three weeks yet. We are at the mercy of the Whigs and have to submit to whatever course they may direct. Every democrat wishes an adjournment & would willingly vote the same to take place tomorrow. The Whigs have yet much wickedness to put in practice. The doings of this Congress will be distinguished for many… Read More

Collection of 98 letters, 315 pages of correspondence, plus related ephemeral material, in very good, clean, and legible condition. Archive of correspondence both incoming and outgoing of Herbert Worth Jackson, his wife and children, dated 1871-1908. The collection includes letters to Jackson from fellow classmates while a student at the University of North Carolina, letters from his mother Elvira Evelina Moffitt (1836-1930), and letters to his wife Anna, both before and after their marriage, as well as their children and other family members. The collection also includes correspondence written to Jackson's wife, Anna Hyman (Phillips) Jackson, from her mother, her mother in law, her children and other family members. The contents are mainly of a personal nature dealing with family and domestic life and date from the period when Jackson was still living in North Carolina before his move to Richmond. "Herbert Worth Jackson, banker and civic leader, was born in Asheboro, North Carolina, the son of… Read More

1888 Black immigrant 'stumps' California for Democrats
quarto, one page, somewhat tanned, old tape repairs, mounted on separate stiff quarto sheet, good.
"Can you please forward me at your earliest opportunity a copy of President Cleveland Message to Congress wherein he recommends the payment of the Freedmen's Bank Depositors… sent sometime in Dec….86. I am a Colored man and as I am going to stump the State in interest of Democracy I would like to have it as it would enable me in my argument."
Jacobs was a British "Mulatto", possibly born in Sierra Leone, Africa in the 1840s, who had immigrated to the US as a young man, in the 1870s. He had worked as a janitor at Los Angeles City Hall – where he probably acquired a taste for politics – before moving to northern California to become agent of an Oakland insurance company. Most African-Americans were Republicans in the post-Civil War era, so Jacobs undoubtedly saw an opportunity to advance his career by "stumping" California for the Democrats,… Read More

86 letters, comprising 607 manuscript pages, most with envelopes, written in ink, pencil, with a couple typed. The letters are written in legible hands. The letters are written by Lila and Belle Jacobs mainly to their mother, but also to their father. The collection includes the following: 15 letters, 88 pages, dated 1893; 42 letters, 287 pages, dated 1894; 24 letters, 205 pages, dated 1895; 5 letters, 27 pages, undated; 3 postcards; and 2 pieces of paper ephemera, which are from the same time period.While the envelopes tend to be addressed to their mother at East Windsor, Massachusetts, the actual letters themselves are generally addressed to "Mama and Papa" or "Dear ones at home." The letters written by Lila and Belle are written while the girls are away for three years studying at Dalton High School in Dalton, Massachusetts, which is about 7 miles distance from where the family lived in East Windsor. The girls are staying with family (an aunt and uncle) while they attend school. The relationship… Read More

Single sheet, measuring 3 x 8", 1 page, with docketing on verso. J.E. McCombs, Constable, ordered to summon "William Baynard, Negro, to be and appear…to answer unto Francis G. Smith admn. of Saml. G. Smith, Decd. In a plea of Debt…"
1856 (Free?) "Negro" summoned to Maryland Court on charge of Debt
Samuel G. Smith was one of the early property and Mill owners in rural Caroline County, on the eastern shore of Maryland, a very religious man who held the first "tent meetings" in the village that became known as Smithville. He died just a few months before this document was written.

But who was William Baynard? He was probably a free Black. Before the Civil War, Freed Blacks in Maryland could occasionally testify in cases involving white men, but they probably dreaded court appearances of any kind because if they were brought up on even the most modest criminal charge, the most severe punishment could provide for their being sold back into slavery. Probably the most common appearance of freed… Read More

octavo, 27 page pamphlet, text printed in double columns, lacking wrappers, removed from bound pamphlet volume, else a good copy.

No Binding. Very Good. quarto, two pages, formerly folded, postal markings on integral address leaf, some splits along folds, else in very good, clean legible condition. An unusual letter, in which a woman writes about acquiring a prosthetic foot. The man she writes to, Benjamin Franklin Palmer, or B. Frank Palmer, as he called himself, had his own leg "ground off in a bark mill" when he was ten or eleven years old. Palmer, born in 1824, tried and was dissatisfied with "all the most approved artificial legs, and resorted to fashioning his own out of a section of a 4willow tree from his New Hampshire farm. In 1846, Palmer secured the first American patent for an artificial limb and began to publicize his invention. Palmer's device first earned acclaim at the 1846 National Fair in Washington, D.C. In 1847, Palmer opened a factory at Meredith Bridge, New Hampshire. He later took on partners, and moved the business to Springfield, Massachusetts, and established offices in Philadelphia and other cities;… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. Archive of 316 letters, comprising 1,311 pp., with 28 pieces of ephemera, (including calling cards, used envelopes, and postcards), all dated between 1925 and 1951, with the bulk of material being 1925 to 1938. Of the 316 letters, 112 of them (545 pp.) were written by Margaret M. "Peg" French to her fiancé, and later husband Charles H. "Peter" Jones, Jr., and are dated 1925-1927. Charles writes 146 (598 pp.) of these 316 letters to his fiancée, later wife, Margaret. The remaining 58 letters (168 pp.) are by various correspondents and include Charles H. "Pete" Jones, Jr. writing letters to his mother-in-law Mrs. Henry C. French (6) and to his son Charles H. "Willie" Jones, III (2). Also in these remaining letters are 14 letters written by Margaret to her son Charles, and 17 letters written by Charles H. Jones, Sr. to his daughter-in-law Margaret and 3 letters to his grandson Charles H. "Willie" Jones, III. There are… Read More

quarto, 25 pages neatly inscribed in ink, with manuscript corrections.
The author notes: "This oration was written for July 4, 1844 & for which I received the second prize, a silver medal from the Young Men's Association of the City of Utica – It was not delivered – M. M. Jones Delivered with the amendments in red ink at Hampton July 4, 1845"

legible condition.
A manuscript note on the last page states: "This oration was written for July 4, 1844 & for which I received the second prize, a silver medal from the Young Men's Association of the City of Utica – It was not delivered – M. M. Jones. Delivered with the amendments in red ink at Hampton July 4, 1845"
Fourth of July Oration written by Jones a young man from the Utica New York area is fairly typical in its patriotic effusions of similar productions of this genre a staple of Fourth of July Celebrations during the 19th century. Many of them were printed in pamphlet form, this one was apparently never printed or published. Below is a quote from Jones' address which resonates today:
"It is not in a splendid government, supported by powerful monopolies and aristocratical establishments that the people will find happiness or their liberties protection, but in a plain system void of pomp, protecting all and granting favors to none" …"

Quarto, three pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, formerly folded, in very good, clean and legible condition.
1844 – New York Surveyor General, Seward Democratic intimate, describes a Daniel Webster Whig mass meeting
"…You may desire to learn something of the gathering here yesterday. Danl. Webster, F. Granger, Senator Berrien of Georgia and some other notable Whig speakers were on the ground. There were people from Mass and Vermont. Sundry S.[team]boats chartered at low prices from N York and along the River Towns…DW spoke for nearly two hours. Mainly on the Tariff subject, the other Notables spoke more briefly. There were an unusual number of banners with various devices and mottos and on the whole the Pageant is said to have been quite imposing. As to the Number, there are so many contradictory…statements in the papers of this morning and in the mouths of those who attended, that it would be quite difficult to state the real force. My brother William who was present at the recent Whig… Read More