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

octavo, 28 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on title page, lacking wrappers, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good, clean copy.
"In 1837 an attempted insurrection in Canada was put down, and the group fled to an American island in the Niagra River. A small steamer, the Caroline, brought provisions to them, and the British sent out a force to destroy it, which they did, killing Amos Durfee in the effort. The incident led to a controversy between the United States and England. McLeod, while in Buffalo, boasted of being Durfee's killer. He was arrested and charged by New York state with the murder. The United States government tried to prevent the trial, and failing, the United States Attorney successfully defended McLeod, who probably had no part in the event." – see McDade, Annals of Murder, 660

quarto, 6 pages, formerly folded, some minor spotting and smudging, else in good, clean legible condition.
A woman writes her sister about Texas slavery in 1851, Mrs. Tankersly writes about her purchase of a number of slaves belonging to her relation William. William was forced to sell his slaves due to his spendthrift ways, and Mrs. Tankersly urged her husband to purchase them, and keep the slaves "in the family"; however, at least two of the slaves were sold off and separated from their families.
"My Dear Sister,
I was delighted to receive your letter and Green's, and would write to Green now, but as I wish to say some things to you in regard to business matters of William's I will defer writing him 'till next mail.
Truly grieved was I at William's situation – indeed I do not know that I have ever had anything so distress me more but he brought it on by his extravagance – when William came here he was in debt over the amount of nine hundred dollars to… Read More

Quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf.
Significant letter with several faults: Lacking a first page or pages written at an earlier date than the remaining text. Band of staining across all 3 pages some holes in the paper, affecting signature and 3 or 4 lines of text on each page with the loss of several words.
1830s Former Speaker of the House of Representatives recalls the transition from the John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson Administrations and the "folly to which demagogues would lead the people."
"Aug. 11. If the gravity of the last page needs apology, you see by the date it is a Sunday exercise and gravity can not be unsuitable to one obliged to say with Job in affiliation 'I am made to possess months of vanity and wearisome nights are appointed to me.' But while I write Sarah Jane comes with Album in hand and asks if I remember the Jubilee party [50th anniversary of Independence], at the same tire presenting a memorial of a meeting sufficiently joyful, however, otherwise some… Read More

Archive consisting of 166 letters (313 pages), plus approximately 560 pieces of paper ephemera, manuscript and some printed items, of which about ⅓ concerns land and properties (deeds, grants, property maps, taxes, etc) mostly in St. Louis, and elsewhere, and with about ⅔ being other business, legal, and personal papers (household and daily expenditure receipts, repairs and services receipts, insurance policies, rent receipts, estate papers, loans, etc.), all dated between the years 1819-1911. The Rev. Joseph Templeton was born at Wheeling, Virginia, about 1805. He studied at Washington & Jefferson College, Class of 1835. He was stated to have been acceptable in society, respectable in studies, active in all religious movements, a complete and very popular man. At school he studied theology, obtained licensure and ordination somewhere in the south, and seems to have preached first at Delmonica, Georgia, and traveled as an evangelist as far as New Orleans. Returning, he settled as pastor at Bowling… Read More

Collection of 28 diaries totaling 8,106 manuscript pages, with 1 visitor's book, totaling 119 manuscript pages (There are also 49 invitations, with envelopes). The collection includes diaries for following years: 1881, 1883-1884, 1886, 1889-1902, 1904, 1908-1909, 1912, 1914, 1919, 1921, 1927 and 1929. There is also a five year diary for 1907-1911 for his wife Edith Bouve Tenney. Of the diaries, nineteen are one day per page diaries, six are two days per page diaries, and two are three days per page diaries, with the remaining diary, Mrs. Tenney's five year diary, which has one page containing one day for each five years The diaries are written in ink, in a legible hand. The five year diary measures approximately 3" x 6", the rest of the diaries are small pocket diaries, measuring approximately 2" x 3". Almost every page has been written in, except for some days in 1908-1909 and Oct-Dec 1929. The entries are generally short, between one to three sentences per day. Half of the diaries have memoranda,… Read More

quarto, one page, in very good clean condition. Jarrett writes from the Baltimore Museum declining the addition of specimens for his Museum. Jarrett writes that the “services of a Juvenali Man have already been secured for next season,” and continues: “We can do nothing for the “Belgian Giant” as he would not draw a dollar at our establishment. We play no star’s at our establishment but those of the 1st Class, by the way, when did Jack Weaver loom up as a star.” Jarrett began his career as an actor in amateur theatricals in his native Baltimore, then in 1851 he purchased the Baltimore Museum and four years later assumed the management of Washington’s National Theatre. In 1861 Jarrett added the new Brooklyn Academy of Music to his roster of theaters and in 1864 the Boston Theater. He brought the “Parisienne Ballet Troupe” to New York for an engagement, but the ballerinas ended up being in The Black Crook (1866), a milestone in the history of… Read More

39 letters, 114 pages, in good, clean, and legible condition.
Collection consisting mainly of incoming correspondence from a variety of military officers from many different posts on military and personal business; including General David B. McKibbin, Major John B. Furay, Col. Robert Hall, Major Fred. D. Ogilby, William A. Bell, President of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, Nathan Myrick, fur trader and Sioux Agency Post trader, General John M. Wilson, Medal of Honor recipient, amongst many others.
Henry Goddard Thomas was born in Portland, Maine, on April 4, 1837. At the age of twenty-one he graduated from Amherst and then studied law and was admitted to the Maine bar. He enlisted in the 5th Maine as a private in April, 1861, and was commissioned captain in June. This command fought at the battle of First Manassas, after which, on August 5, 1861, Thomas accepted a commission as a captain in the newly authorized 11th U.S. Infantry. He was on recruiting duty until the summer of 1862… Read More

octavo, 4 pages, formerly folded, in very good, clean and legible condition.
Union General O.O. Howard gravely wounded – account by close friend, a cousin of General Kearny.
A love letter, written by an unidentified correspondent, yet one who was well connected: A close friend of General Oliver O. Howard, and cousin of General Phillip Kearny.
Thanks his love for her sending her carte-de-visite photograph, and comments on her "Kaligraph" [calligraphy] penmanship, which made her handwriting "look so strange". Asks if her brother, a soldier, was in the Hanover Court House battle, and was relieved to see that his name was not among the list of wounded and killed.
"I have written you of my friend, Col. Van Wyck of the 10th Legion – 56th N. Y. V. and M.C. of the 10th Congressional District of New York State. He was wounded slightly however I am grieved most on account Brig. Gen. Howard, my very highly esteemed friend. He was wounded twice in the right arm, not dangerously, it was at first… Read More

quarto, 2 pages, plus stamp-less address, leaf, formerly folded, else in very good, clean and legible condition. General Swift was the first graduate of West Point, Superintendent of the Military Academy during the War of 1812, and post-war, Chief of Engineers of the US Army. The second page of text includes a small, skillful sketch of an ore cart.
Foremost American military engineer of the Civil War era offers expert advice about marble quarrying, mining and blasting, 1832.
Totten writes:
",,, I got yours in due time but have been too busy to answer before and must hurry now. As to Harting [rock quarry at Harting, New York] – I doubt there can be such a thing as system throughout, introduced – except it be to firing. We contrive as far as possible that the blasts shall be fired after the men break off work – retaining two or three faithful men 15 minutes for that purpose. If we must fire in the hours of work, we prepare all that can be got ready and then back off to fire.
Good… Read More

Quarto, two pages, in very good clean and legible condition.

Tourtellotte writes about rebel actions in the vicinity of Allatoona, Georgia leading up to the Battle of Allatoona Pass, on October 5, 1864. He was later brevetted for meritorious service in that engagement.

"Capt.
The R. Road below this point, was so wholly unguarded, that I have thought best to patrol the same, as far as Ackworth – troops from below patrol to that point. The R. Road has been so patrolled for a few days.
Last night a party of rebel cavalry estimated by the citizens to be three hundred in number, entered Ackworth or rather struck the R. R. a mile south of Ackworth & tore up a few rods of rails, ties, &c. I am informed that the train from the front this morning ran off the track at the broken point.
The rebels came upon the R. Road from the East, & after taking up rails & ties for a few rods, returned eastward, so as to strike & probably cross the Old Alabama road, about… Read More

quarto, one page of a bi-folium, formerly folded, in very good and clean legible condition.

Letter from Charles Townshend to his sister-in-law relating the latest news from Quebec. Unbeknownst to either of them Quebec had surrendered two days earlier, and Brigadier General George Townshend had been placed in command of the forces surrounding Quebec after the death of General Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham.

"Privy garden Sp. The 19th 1759.
My Dear Lady Ferrers,
As you may possibly read in the prints that two ships are arrived in the River from New York, and might be alarmed for that reason if you do not hear from us, I beg leave to assure you that both the American ships sailed from new York many days after the last Packet Boat came away nothing new therefore is come by these ships.
Upon reasoning with some persons of rank & intelligence in this administration upon the accounts we have, I find it is the general opinion that Quebec will fall without… Read More

quarto, 1 ¼ pages of a four page bi-folium, formerly folded, in very good, clean condition. A letter to Justice Joseph Story (1779-1845) from J. H. Treadwell, of the Merchants Bank of Salem, of which Joseph Story was the president from 1815-1835, this bank was a branch of the Bank of the United States after 1816, and accordingly, (as we see in this letter), he "repeatedly attempted to use his influence with Treasury Department officials to secure large bank deposits in the branch bank of which he was President" (White, American Judicial Tradition, p. 41). From 1818 to 1830 he was also vice president of the Salem Savings Bank. Despite this connection to a bank affiliated with the Bank of the United States, he participated in M'Culloch v. Maryland, in which Marshall upheld the constitutionality of the Second Bank of the United States. "Dear Sir,
I enclose you, by order of our board of directors, the correspondence which has taken place between the Branch Bank and ourselves relative to… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. Quarto, 4 pages, formerly folded, in very good, clean and legible condition. Among other topics, including national politics and the sectional crisis, Tucker describes Boston as a place of some danger due to robberies and other crimes: " . The California trade seems to revive, three Ships Sailed on Thursday & two or three in the early part of the week, & there is now nine Ships & other vessels up to sail soon & there is a meddling crop of cotton, southern goods will be had this Season in pts from the eastern Side of the continent. . The political action in Texas, & some of the Southern States looks gloomy in the extreme, but whether their resolves of State, & political conversations will really be carried out, time alone will disclose. I am clearly of opinion that there is wrong & injustice on both sides North & South, but I still cherish the hope that there is conservative power in Congress, & the Union to lay all these exciting & alarming questions at the foot… Read More

folio, three pages of a bi-folium, docketed on last leaf "about a patent Lusk", formerly folded, portion of last leaf missing at lower corner, not affecting any text, else good.
"Mr. Steel,
Being informed by Mr. Eubank that Mr. Lusk is setting up some pretentions for the Patent Right we work on for your Satisfaction, I have thought proper to give you in as concise a manner as possible the true standing of the claims held by Hearris and myself for which we have legal conveyances in our possession so far as their rights were lawful. In May 1825 we procured Sperry's right but he would not be bound to warrant and defend the same, we were to give him a part of the proceeds should we make any thing at it. Mr. Lusk hearing of it wrote to me wishing to purchase or become an agent which letter I never answered. In 1826 July Thomas Key obtained a patent right and made it appear that he had fixed the first Mill on this plan ever known of some two to three years prior to Sperry's patent and it was surmised that… Read More