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	Autographs: Authors Square octavo-sized journal measuring approximately 8.75 x 6.75 inches. Signed by Anne Rice twice: once on the front free endpaper, and again on the verso, above her Berkeley address. Unpaginated, but with 110 lined pages containing Rice's neat, legible hand-written diary entri...
	Autographs: U.S. Presidents President Clinton thanks the recipient for his note, adding: "I hope you will continue to write such meaningful pieces -- surely many like myself have benefited from your father's story being told." Fine condition.
	Autographs: U.S. Presidents DESCRIPTION TO FOLLOW.
	Autographs: Statesmen signed by John Endecott, who had previously served as Massachusetts Bay Colony's second governor. Endecott (ca. 1588-1665) was a member of the Massachusetts Bay Company. He led a group of about one hundred Puritan settlers in 1628 from England and settled north of Plymouth Colony in wh...
	Autographs: Statesmen 11.25" x 15", May 25, 1680, n.p. The day and month have been left blank. This deed of land from father (William Tubs Sr.) to son (William Tubs Jr.) begins, "To all people to whom these presents may come, William Tubs Senior of Duxburrow in the Collony of New Plimouth in New England in America:...
	Autographs: Statesmen and Berkshire" to vote for their first U.S. representative. In part (boldfaced words are handwritten, all others are printed): "To the Selectmen of the Town of [blank] in the District of *Hampshire and Berkshire* Greeting. These are in the n...
	Autographs: Military Figures the Names of the officers entitled to fill them". This document then lists thirteen officers by name who were promoted, resigned, or dismissed. The document concludes, "These Gent. have ever since done Duty been Mustered and Received pay agreeable to those appointments, but in order...
	Autographs: Statesmen next In consideration whereof the said Thomas Danforth & Edward Micholson do covent with the said Thomas Call to pay & sattisfie [?] them or their Assignee the full sum of sixteen pounds & ten shill". The agreement specifies that six pounds could be paid in "In...
	Autographs: Statesmen the first Connecticut governor to serve in a true executive capacity. A close friend and advisor to George Washington, Trumbull gave his all to the American cause, going so far as to personally supply about 60% of the manpower, food, clothing, shoes, and munitions for the Continental Army. Trumbu...
	Autographs: Celebrities bears the faded testimony of Margaret and David Crockett with regard to the "rights and claims that she had to the land that was wilt [sic] to her by her husband William Crokit [sic], the land whare [sic] the said John Crokitt [sic] was liv[i...
	Autographs: Military Figures Port of Boston. Matted and framed to an overall size of 13.25" x 9". Fine.
	Autographs: Non-American Moshe Dayan was an important Israeli military leader and politician who served as a fighting symbol to the world for the new state of Israel He served variously as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, defense minister, foreign minister, and minister of agriculture. In late 1957, Dayan req...
	Autographs: Non-American Romanoff of the Transbaykal Cossack Troops includes the following: a cabinet card of Tsar Nicolas II in the uniform of His Majesty's Guards Hussars, the uniform the tsar wore at his wedding, cracked lower left corner; a cabinet card with a composite image of Nicolas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II, both...
	Autographs: Non-American integral pages, March 23, 1810 (originally dated the 22nd, but changed by Wellington), Viseu, Portugal, with endorsement on page twelve. This important dispatch was written to Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley of the Royal Navy who was responsible for the supply of men, food, and material to ...
	Autographs: Statesmen York City sheriff to bring the accused "before the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen of the City of New York, at the next Court of Common Pleas called the Mayor's Court." Accusations of the six individuals include mostly "trespass, assault and battery." Revolutionary War veteran ...
	Autographs: Military Figures gratified to see in the Post just recd. that you had been elected Colonel of a regiment. My book has been published & I suppose you have recd. the copy you ordered." Sweetser would go on to be promoted as a brigadier general with service in World War I. Confederate Colonel John Mosby, ...
	Autographs: U.S. Presidents 8, 1945. Following the end of the war in Europe, this multicolored lithograph proclaims "Sunday, May 13, 1945, to be a day of prayer." The president has provided a large signature in brown in the lower right margin. In the lower left margin, the president, whose birthday was May 8, has...
	Autographs: Statesmen half page response on verso. Together with two letters by John Livingston, all to Justice McLean. Near fine to fine.
	Autographs: U.S. Presidents December 10, 1785, Mount Vernon, Virginia. This document announces "John F. Hamtramck, Esquire Captain in the late 2nd New York Regiment" as a member of the select society. A patriotic organization with strict entrance rules, the Society of the Cincinnati only allowed entrance to offic...
	Autographs: Military Figures and dated between November 30, 1865, through October 18, 1896. Two letters are written on "Law Office of N. C. M'Lean" stationery. The Western Union telegraph, dated January 4, 1866, was sent to Louisa: "Send carriage to next train. Want supper." After attending Harvard, Nat...
	Autographs: Military Figures Joseph Bartlett Burleigh. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. 8vo. 287pp plus a 30-page appendix. Full sheep with gilt-stamped red morocco title label to spine. Leather rubbed and extremities worn. Remnants of paper adhered to front board. The signature of abolitionist John B...
	Military & Patriotic: Civil War between the Confederate States and Certain Indian Tribes", specifically the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Osage, and Seminoles. Between July and October 1861, the Confederate States entered into separate treaties with each of these tribes (the Choctaw and Chickasaw were p...
	Military & Patriotic: Civil War Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon supplying the "Estimates of appropriations required to comply with treaty stipulations entered into between the Confederate States and certain Indian Tribes." Various sections of the document read in part: "Seminole Treaty, August 1, 1861. For p...
	Autographs: Military Figures Jersey. Silliman, a Connecticut hero of the Revolutionary War, practiced law as an occupation. In this letter written near the close of the war, he writes as a lawyer concerning a complicated case involving Darius Fulsom and "illicit trade with the enemy." Responding to "every part<...
	Autographs: Military Figures Nathaniel C. McLean letters are dated 1852 from Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory. In these letters, McLean reports on a trip among the "upper treaty Indians" accompanied by Minnesota's first territorial governor, Alexander Ramsey. McLean, responsible for $100,000 to be paid as the In...
	Autographs: U.S. Presidents president writes, "I know I have expected Gen. Keim, upon certain conditions, to be appointed a Brigadier General, but I do not remember particulars. If his case is now presented mature according to the understanding, let him be appointed./ A. Lincoln/ Nov. 25, 1861." Lincoln's ...
	Autographs: Statesmen drafts. Baldwin, who is visiting Washington, D.C., closes the letter, "Nothing interesting going on. I hope to get away next week and am very tired of this d__d place." (2) One page, 7.75" x 10", February 12, 1813, n.p. [likely Washington, D.C.], again concerning money "to be deposi...
	Autographs: Statesmen personal political opinions bears many strikethroughs and corrections, which are themselves interesting. The letter begins, "Since 1829, having been a member of the Supreme Court of the United States, I have not had occasion publicly to avow my views on the political topics of the day, but, la...
	Autographs: Military Figures document to "R. H. Shankland, Esq., U.S. Agent Ind. Affairs. Cattaraugus Co. NY" concerning a Seneca Nation census at Cattaraugus Reservation. In part: "We have no correct data for this year for the necessary statistics of the New York Indians, indeed we have not had since the repor...
	Autographs: Military Figures student at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). Dumble did "good" in Latin with an "Average Mark" of 84. His Greek score, however, was only "fair" at 76. Six months after surrendering at Appomattox Courthouse, Lee became president of Wash...
	Autographs: Military Figures regarding the tenancy transfer of an eighty acre tract of land owned by the Browns in New York. Very good to fine.
	Autographs: Military Figures various familial topics. Folds and light soiling; else fine.
	Photography: CDVs At the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, Jacob Weikert's family of 15 lived on the Taneytown Road, east of Little Round Top, and more than 700 wounded and dying soldiers were housed in the Weikert barn and house. With metal clasps and gilt-edged pages; includes seven tintypes and 22 albumen image...
	Military & Patriotic: Civil War Keifer writes to his cousin, Rev. Milton J. Miller, later the chaplain for the 110th Ohio Infantry, about his participation in the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station. In part: "If you could only see the Army of the Potomac in motion, nearly 100,000 men with over 400 pieces of artillery... I...
	Autographs: Military Figures Immediately following his participation at the Battle of Locust Grove, during Meade's operations in Northern Virginia, Colonel Keifer penned this sobering letter to his cousin, Rev. Milton J. Miller, who would later serve as the chaplain for Keifer's 110th Ohio Infantry. His letter reads,...
	Autographs: Military Figures Commander Lee directs Lieutenant Commander John Rutledge to temporary duty. In full: "Sir: You will take command of the Steam Gun Boat 'Escambia' for temporary duty, and proceed to Richmond & report in person to the Hon. Secretary of the Navy. Respectfully, S.D. Lee, Commdr." O...
	Military & Patriotic: Civil War When Virginia seceded from the United States in April 1861, Forrest was made the first and only flag officer of the Virginia State Navy, and assumed command at the Norfolk (then Gosport) Naval Yard. When Virginia joined the Confederate States and merged its military, he joined the navy of the Con...
	Autographs: Military Figures describing events surrounding the Battle of Pocotaligo. Pease comments: "Our Reg. Lost 2 killed and 27 wounded... The Boys here are sick of this War and would like to go home. I should think it was about time this war ended." Minor age toning and very faint staining along up...
	Autographs: Military Figures Content regards an attempt to straighten out complicated and mismanaged accounting of military funds owed and due. Minor age toning and wear at folds, else very fine.
	Autographs: Authors Archive contains ten Autograph Letters Signed to his father, Union General Amos B. Eaton; one of Eaton's field notebooks; and a six-page, American Journal of Science reprint of a lengthy epitaph written upon Eaton's death in 1895. The letters, each two pages, recto and verso, 5" x 7.75...
	Autographs: Celebrities As gold fever swept the nation in 1849, 20-year old Ogden Ellery Edwards set off for California to make his fortune. This archive contains five Autograph Letters Signed by Edwards, addressed to relative Annie, Uncle Amory, sister Fanny, and younger brother Robbie. The letters span a five-month pe...
	Autographs: Military Figures This small collection of Connecticut State Militia appointments spans nearly 50 years (1792 - 1840). Partly printed and accomplished in a variety of hands, they are signed by Lt. Col. Jonathan Humphry (1792), Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (1799 and 1800), Connecticut Governor Henry W...
	Military & Patriotic: Civil War Enos enlisted in his uncle's regiment on March 2, 1863, and died of an unknown illness on July 17, 1864. The archive contains four letters from Enos to family members, two from Jabe S. Beals (a Hammer relation) to Enos' father Henry Hammer, one from Captain Elisha Hammer to his brother Henry Hamm...
	Autographs: Military Figures This official military pass was made out to Lt. Col. F.J. Parker of the 32nd Regiment, First Massachusetts Volunteers, giving him permission to travel from Harrison's Landing, Virginia, to Baltimore, Maryland, during the Peninsular Campaign. Forsyth served as aide de camp to General Joseph K. F. ...
	Autographs: Military Figures son, Professor Daniel C. Eaton of Yale, following the close of the Civil War. Through this large archive, General Eaton provides an important viewpoint - that of a military insider - of the mood and events in the capital city during the turbulent days of Reconstruction. At the outbreak of ...
	Autographs: Military Figures from the 1830s through 1860s. On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, heavy fighting occurred at McPherson's Ridge, part of the McPherson farm located two miles west of Gettysburg. At the time of the battle, the farm was owned by Edward McPherson, a lawyer and newspaperman who was s...
	Autographs: Military Figures facing his well-dressed wife. This Union couple embodied the suffering of the Civil War and the noble sacrifices which resulted. A veteran of the Mexican War and Seminole War, James Ricketts (1817-1887) participated in the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. Following the battle, news of his d...
	Autographs: Military Figures statements, disbursements, lists of provisions, reviews, receipts (for lodging, office supplies, "forage for 12 public horses", "Lodging the 4th Cav. Band", cavalry accoutrements, etc.), affidavits, enlistments, audits, promotion documents, special orders, Internal Revenue d...
	Autographs: U.S. Presidents Phil Ferguson from his friend/ Franklin D. Roosevelt." (Congressman Ferguson represented Oklahoma from 1935 through 1941.) Also included is a photo signed by Vice President John N. Garner (dated January 24, 1936) and a photo signed by Speaker of the House Joseph W. Byrns Sr. (with damp...
	Autographs: U.S. Presidents Washington", with handsome engraved military and patriotic vignettes. The document appoints "John P. Macey . . . Second Lieutenant in the Tenth regiment of Infantry in the service of the United States." Macy, whose name has been misspelled on this appointment, enl...

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