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

Quarto, one page, written neatly in ink, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
Palfrey, clergyman, author, politician, and abolitionist, here writes Brooks to enlist his support in protesting the Annexation of Texas, which abolitionists vehemently opposed because it meant the extension of slavery into the vastness of Texas and beyond.
"My dear Sir,
I take the liberty to mail to your address some papers which will acquaint you with what we are doing in Massachusetts in the matter of the Annexation of Texas. Can you not get up a public meeting in your town, with the cooperation of others, able, like yourself, to give an impulse to the movement? We wish to pile mountains of remonstrances on the tables of Congress. Whatever is to be done must be done at once. …"
John Gorham Palfrey (May 2, 1796 – April 26, 1881) was an American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. A Unitarian minister, he played a leading role in the early history of Harvard Divinity… Read More

Large Archive includes 2,191 letters, comprising 6,737 manuscript and typed pages, plus over 1,000 pieces of paper and printed ephemera. Of the 2,191 letters, 1,626 letters (4,793 pages, dated 1920-1983) are from the family of Kenneth S. Fagg and Marion Rebuschatis and their children, with the remaining 565 letters (1,944 pages, dated 1896-1960) that of the family of Theodore Szarvas and his wife Vivian Florence Fraser and their children.Description of the Fagg family section of archive:
1,626 letters, comprising 4,793 manuscript and typed pages broken down as follows:
1920s: 1920: 1 letter, 7 pages; 1921: 169 letters, 444 pages; 1922: 154 letters, 508 pages;1923: 62 letters, 186 pages;1924: 153 letters, 465 pages;1925: 117 letters, 387 pages;1926: 135 letters, 370 pages;1927: 78 letters, 201 pages;1928: 8 letters, 17 pages. This part of the collection is mainly correspondence between Kenneth S. Fagg and Marion Rebuschatis both before and after they were married, while they were both attending… Read More

quarto, three pages plus stamp-less "free franked" address leaf, in very good, clean and legible condition.
George Shepherd Park had an amazing life, first as a hero of the Texas War of Independence and then as a Missouri and Kansas pioneer who founded two cities and two colleges. Born in Vermont, lived for a time in Maine, then taught school in Ohio and Illinois, at 24 he went to Texas to fight Santa Anna's troops, said, according to apocryphal legend, to be the sole survivor of the Goliad Massacre. He then moved to Missouri to teach school and to build a home at a steamboat landing site. In this new city of Parkville, which bore his name, he started a Presbyterian Church and a pro-Abolitionist newspaper which was raided by a pro-slavery mob, its printing press thrown in the river. He also established another town on the Kansas River where he funded an anti-slavery society and a college that would later become Kansas State University. Back in Missouri, later in life, he founded yet another… Read More

quarto, 4 pages, plus stampless address leaf, formerly folded, separation along fold, small hole due to careless opening, else in very good, clean and legible condition.
During the Napoleonic Wars, with coming conflict between England and America, Parke writes:

"… I see you only in sleep sometimes, yet in my memory faithful to you … I can never forget her who so often … chear'd my Heart and instructed my Head, whose corrected Judgment amended mine … we are not likely to visit each other in this world … Mr. Parke has been really oppressed with Business but I think the discordant minds of your countrymen will ease him of his burthen. Why do these dissatisfactions arise, why do our Brethren wage incessant war against each other, how shocking, how contrary to Christian thinking minds and which no plea of necessity can justify, self interest and ambition I fear will continue to maintain different opinion, not Justice but legalized Murder wield the sword and would persuade… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. Quarto, three pages, formerly folded, neatly inscribed in ink, very good, clean and legible condition. This letter discusses an "outrageous" social scandal of Van Buren's Washington. "Dear Thomas, . An outrageous ceremony was performed at Georgetown about a week ago, which had for its object the legalization of a breach of all the finer feelings of human nature and the gratification of the appetite of that old sensualist, 'the Chevalier de Bodisco', the Russian Minister - People call it a marriage but I don't; they had a parson to be sure, and I doubt not the parson did what is generally done in such cases, and 'according to Gunter,' but that don't make it a wedding anyhow. People here have been making greater fools of themselves than usual (and that's saying a good deal) by flocking in crowds to see the old Russian Bear and the young American Goose; the latter has had more notice taken of her in one hour than she ever had or ever would have had in all the… Read More

68 letters, 117 manuscript pages, in very good clean and legible condition.

Collection of incoming letters to Pennsylvania newspaperman and printer, turned lawyer, judge and large land-owner.
Edward M. Paxson, early in his career was a newspaperman and subsequently went into law, and eventually served as a Supreme Court Justice in Pennsylvania for eighteen years. Paxson was one of the largest real estate owners in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. – see Davis, William W. H., A. M., History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1905].
Paxson was the son of Thomas Paxson, a prominent Pennsylvania Quaker, of Bucks County. The correspondence deals with all aspects of Paxson's career his newspaper holdings, real estate and land investments both in Pennsylvania and in Virginia, law and politics, and family. Many of the letters deal with Paxson's newspaper and printing business which included papers in both Bucks County and Chester County, Pennsylvania. There… Read More

quarto, one page, folded, written in ink in a clear legible hand, postal markings on stamp-less address leaf.
A business letter, on commodity prices, etc.
"My Dear Sir,
… I now hand you invoice … for thirty five Hhds tobacco ship to you per Cincinnati; in making the invoice I have given the inspection marks & numbers as well as the shipping marks, in order that you may know each Hhd even in case the shipping marks get rubbed off – ( the other is cut on the staves) – I wish the whole insured at sixty dollars per Hhd or ten% over the cost.
I shall value on you in favor of Mr. Dudly or Mess Dudly & Nelson, tomorrow for fifteen hundred dollars at sixty days sight, which please honor. – The Cincinnati will probably clear today.
The steamers news from Liverpool up to 4th ulto were received on Sunday the 1st inst I think the accounts will not have much influence on our market – there is no change as yet. Lead is arriving in large quantities and must, I… Read More

LINCOLN'S FAVORITE ENGRAVER
Octavo, two letters, two pages, folded, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
"…I have just sent you two more impressions of the plate of Prof. Edmund Andrews. I think [none?] the plates should be satisfactory and if so please send the thirty dolls, for engraving it and very much oblige…Have you any suggestions to make in regard to Rev. Josiah Andrews M.S. which I propose to improve if possible and send a proof?...I have about finished the engraving of the Steel plate of your Son and if you will send me his Autograph I will engrave it on the plate and send you an impression by mail. I should have had it done before but from health prevented me from engraving all the time which has caused the delay,,,"
Pelton had begun his career as a banknote engraver in the 1830s. By the 1850s, he was engraving portraits of American notables, his most famous being an 1861 rendition of Gilbert Stuart's painting of George Washington. A framed copy hung in the Springfield, Illinois… Read More

Quarto, two pages, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
Perkins writes a constituent, at first discussing a routine matter of the distribution of Congressional Reports or speeches in the district before turning to the topic of Slavery:
… It is true Badgers amendment modifies the bill some what yet it is far very far from being satisfactory. It leaves an open question viz is slavery a common law matter of state right of property in negroes recognized by the constitution only to be prevented by legislation or is it a municipal local law which under our system can only exist by legal enactment – I have a pretty clear conviction that the Southern Judges who compose the majority of our supreme court will hold the former & the judges of non slaveholding states the latter. Beside it is just as certain as that two & two make four that a Southern judge will be appointed for Kanzas and no man can be appointed & confirmed by the senate as the judge of that territory whose sentiments on that question… Read More

folio, three pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, formerly folded, in very good, legible condition.
An ill-fated Scottish intellectual immigrant in New York
Newly arrived in New York after 13 years wandering in North America, Peterkin had expected to meet another Scotsman, an in-law, in Canada, but " … such was the dread entertained by the country people of the cholera which then raged in N. York and in every town … that had I started… and got sick by the way, I must certainly have gone the same road with the hundreds of immigrants who were seized with cholera. Therefore, I determined to remain where I was and wait till a healthier season … to have gone to a strange place, crowded with strangers in want of employment, at a time when business of every kind was at a stand would have been an unwise calculation… Mr. G. [Giles, probably his brother in-law] may not be in Canada or he may be dead … the season is too far advanced to think of going, unprovided, to so cold a country. I shall… Read More

Collection of 83 letters, 502 manuscript pages, no envelopes, letters dated January 11th to November 8th, 1888. Letters are in good condition, written in ink, in a legible hand.Beulah Irene Peters was born on 17 October 1866 at Parryville, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Jacob and Mary Elizabeth Peters. The Peters were members of the United Methodist Church of Parryville. Jacob Peters was a local merchant. When Jacob died in 1917 at the age of 85, he was described as a wealthy retired business man, who had followed mercantile pursuits at White Haven and Parryville. In the 1880 Census the family was enumerated at Parryville, showing Jacob, his wife Mary Elizabeth, sons Harry and Guy, and their daughter Beulah. The family was doing well enough to have a live-in servant. The letters chronicle the development of Beulah and Charles L. Miller's long distance relationship, almost up to the time they were married on 20 November 1888. According to the Carbon Advocate newspaper… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. 431 letters, 510 pages, dated 1847 to 1868. The bulk are dated 1847-1851, with 3 letters dated 1852, and 1 letter dated 1868.Of these 431 letters, there are 380 incoming letters to Guy R. Phelps of Hartford. Phelps also wrote several of these letters. Also, there are 12 letters written to James Goodwin of Hartford, President of Connecticut Mutual; 26 letters written to one of the company's directors, James A. Ayrault of Hartford. Other directors written to are E. A. Bulkeley of Hartford, (2), Robert Buell of Hartford, (1), and Woodbridge S. Olmsted, Esq. of Hartford, (1). There are also letters written to Dr. Lewis F. Gallup of New Bedford, Massachusetts (1); Joseph H. Davis of Hartford, (1); Amos B. Meritt of Boston (1); and S. C. Bemis, Esq. of Springfield, Massachusetts (1). As well there are 5 other miscellaneous incoming letters written to the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. Almost all of the letters are folding stamp-less letter sheets, written in ink, in… Read More

Manuscript. Good. 1 ALS, to James Redpath, Boston, 30th September, 1875, 4 pp., which discusses the lectures of Mr. Gamaliel Bradford's lectures on finance and banking, and recommends his lectures to Redpath; 1 ANS to Rev. T. L. Cuyler, July 1869, declining an invita tion to lecture on temperance; 1 ANS to H. P. Ross, no date, "acknowledging receipt of yours"; 1 signed quotation: " Peace, if Possible - Justice at any rate Wendell Phillips Oct. 69."; 1 signed card: "13 Dec. 73 Admit bearer and friends Wendell Phi llips" Dictionary of American Biography VII, pages 546-547

oblong quarto, approximately 200 mounted photographs, plus several laid in photographs, photograph album worn, back-strip missing, images in very good, clean condition.
The images, which generally measure 3 ½ x 4 ½ inches, document an unidentified family's travels to Yosemite, San Diego and the Missions, a parade in Los Angeles, and other places in California. The sights and scenery are documented as well as accommodations, roadside events, suburban houses, family members, et cetera.

18 letters, 33 manuscript pp., plus 7 documents, 12 manuscript pp., written in French, Italian, and Spanish, dated 1837-1849.
Eight letters are written in French by Francois Piccioni and another eight letters are written in French by his nephew Vincent Piccioni. They both write separately to either Sebastian Mattei, or Catherine Mattei. The Piccionis and the Matteis, but they appear to be related as one letter indicates that they may be cousins. They are also both merchants. Eleven of the letters are addressed to the Matteis at Pino, Corsica. These sixteen letters are posted from either Saint Thomas, or from Bastia, Corsica. Most of Francois Piccioni's letters are addressed from the island of Saint Thomas, and most of Vincent Piccioni's letters are addressed from Bastia. These letters are written between the years 1842 to 1849.
The letters and documents deal with business matters, detailing the Corsica – St. Thomas dealings of the Piccioni and Mattei families, and their connections to… Read More

Newark: Printed at the Daily and Sentinel Office, 1836. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo,engraved folding map of the City of Newark, by Alexander Martin, 168, 34, 10 pp., ex-library, original brown cloth, boards detached but present, backstrip worn, portion missing, handstamps, map slightly torn, otherwise a complete copy. Scarce with the map. The second New Jersey city directory, preceded only the Newark directory for 1835.

two letters, small quarto, 6 pages, in very good clean and legible condition. The collection contains a description of the Battle of Maubeuge, which featured in a plot to destroy Lafayette's reputation, however his success in the field trumped this vicious plot. Au Camp de Rancenne sous Givet 12 Mai 1792
"Mon cher frère,
Je n'ai aucune nouvelle de toi ni de Villers. Je ne scais quell parti il aura pris, ni comment-il pourra exister quand il aura consommé le capital de son cantonment numeraire, qui lui a été rembourse M. Sutaine Bertrand negt rue ceres à Rheims en depositaire du billes de 6000... Si tu lui ecris par la suite tu mettra à lt. L. Pille, Volre de la 2e Come du Bord de Volont. De la Cote d'or, a l'armee du Genl Lafayette au camp de Rancenne pres Givet si nous avons décampé cela non joindra ... occupe toi donc , je te prie de de faire payer m d'alonville sil en émigré, c'est une raison de plus pour ne pas le menager le decret contre ces debiteurs en formel. Pendant que nous… Read More

quarto, two pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, some minor wear to paper, else in good, clean and legible condition.
Pittenger writes:
"… I must confess that we are increasing in wealth slowly. We have succeeded in getting the county devided this winter and expect the Seat of Justice in our town. However, there will be an election held in the Spring between new Manchester and new Cumberland and the one that has the most votes gets the seat of justice. There is a great stir about this subject of County Seat, the sitizens of our town have mad up twenty five hundred dollars for the purpose of the publick Buildings. Our countys name is hancock and if we get the seat of justice in our town in which I think there will be no doubt we may say welcome Hancock County…"
The Virginia Legislature passed a bill on Jan. 10, authorizing the creation of Hancock County out of the northern end of Brooke County. This was linked to ongoing discussion of a division of the state, separating western… Read More

1950 Chicago Communists fight anti-Semitic, anti-Black 'Hoodlumism'
Community Book Shop, Chicago. July 31, 1950. Addressed to "Faculty Member" of the University of Chicago. Edgeworn. Warning that "a gang of hoodlums" were terrorizing Blacks and Jews on East 55th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago:
"A gang of hoodlums who hang out nightly on 56th St. corners had been terrorizing storekeepers, students, women walking alone, and anyone they suspect of being Jewish or Negro…their attacks have become more vicious. They now boast of help from the White Circle League, the Hate organization which fomented mob violence… For weeks the Community Book Store has prominently displayed leaflets, petitions and books dedicated to the cause of world peace. The War hysteria has given the hoodlums their excuse to smash our windows and attack our customers. Like Hitler's stormtroopers, they have declared war on the word Peace and those who speak for it. Like the storm troopers they use their phoney… Read More

quarto, three pages, postal markings on integral address leaf, Free franked", formerly folded, else in very good, legible condition.
Charles Hobby Pond, lawyer, politician, served as lieutenant governor of Connecticut, twice, and as Connecticut's 37th governor, here writes to a member of Congress promoting George Coggeshall's History of American Privateers, published in 1856, as a textbook for naval cadets, and promotes the idea of a volunteer navy of privateers. Coggeshall was a friend and neighbor of Pond's.
"Dear Sir,
With this I send you Coggeshall's "History of American Privateers", which is presented by the author. Capt. C is a native of Milford, he has been a fortunate Captain & Merchant, he was long my neighbor & friend, & for some years has lived in Brooklyn, NY. This winter he may visit Washington, with his friend Capt Hudson of the Navy, & they, with others, will try, by the aid of Secty Toucey, to have the book put into the hands of the officers & crews of… Read More