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Item #009949 1864-1868 – Three letters from a Michigan Civil War Medal of Honor Awardee: one...

1864-1868 – Three letters from a Michigan Civil War Medal of Honor Awardee: one reporting on actions in Tennessee, one describing the aftermath of the crater explosion at Petersburg and the third recounts his new post-war life in Missouri during the Reconstruction

John A. Falconer

Petersburg, Virginia and Knob Noster, Missouri: 1864 & 1868. Envelope or Cover. The first of these three letters contains four pages and is datelined “Annapolis Maryland / April 8th 1864. Although unsigned, it is in the same hand as the other two letters and was found in the same lot..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #009936 1842 – Letter from a West Point cadet complaining about the academy’s arbitrary...

1842 – Letter from a West Point cadet complaining about the academy’s arbitrary and unjust demerit system

Louis D. Welch

West Point, New York: 1842. Envelope or Cover. This one-page stampless folded letter Louis D. Welch to Welch’s father in Brooklyn, Connecticut, measures approximately 8” x 10” unfolded. It is undated, but pencil docketing indicates it was received in 1842. It is postmarked with a circular West Point NY “Nov..... More

Price: $300.00

Item #009940 1864 – Letter from a Confederate soldier in the 60th Alabama Infantry Regiment at...

1864 – Letter from a Confederate soldier in the 60th Alabama Infantry Regiment at Petersburg, Virginia reporting on desertions from his unit and the probable execution of one soldier caught in an attempt.

Petersburg, Virginia: 1864”. Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter from Joseph “Wyatt” Wilson is datelined “Camp 60th Alabama Regt. Gr’s Brig. [Gracie’s Brigade] / Petersburg Va Dec 23rd 1864”. The letter was written in pencil but is easy to read except for two blurred lines that can be read using..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #009939 1863-1870 – Collection of 14 Documents, Letters, and Ephemera related to...

1863-1870 – Collection of 14 Documents, Letters, and Ephemera related to Recruiting, Civil War Draft Substitution, and Pension Payments at Paris, Maine

Paris, Main: 1863-1870. Unbound. These 14 items vary in size. All came from a descendent of S. P. Maxim, a selectman of the town of Paris, Maine, and as such a member of its Civil War recruiting committee. Most of these items reference either Maxim or the town of Paris..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #009937 1863 – Letter from a soldier in the 25 Connecticut Volunteer Infantry written...

1863 – Letter from a soldier in the 25 Connecticut Volunteer Infantry written March 1863 during the Bayou Teche campaign as the unit skirmished its way from Port Hudson, Louisiana, to Brashear City at Berwick Bay in preparation for General Nathaniel Bank’s Overland Expedition into Texas later that fall

Private Edwin Thorne

Donaldsonville, Louisiana: 1863. Envelope or Cover. This three-page letter from Private Edwin Thorne at Donaldsonville, Louisiana to his mother in Connecticut is dated “March 30 / 60”. It is enclosed in its original mailing envelope which bears a New Orleans arrival postmark dated April 6, 1863. Simultaneously, the envelope received..... More

Price: $400.00

Item #009932 1853 – Letter from the Secretary of the Navy placing the flagship of the Home...

1853 – Letter from the Secretary of the Navy placing the flagship of the Home Squadron at the disposal of one of the worst ambassadors ever appointed who destroyed U.S. credibility in Central America and whose diplomatic filibustering gave rise to William Walker’s attempt to conquer Nicaragua

James C. Dobbin

Washington DC: 1853. Unbound. This one-page letter is datelined “Navy Department / June 1st. 1853.” It is addressed to the Honorable Solon Borland of Hot Springs, Arkansas and signed by James C. Dobbin, the Secretary of the Navy. There is no mailing envelope. The letter is in nice shape with..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #009925 1857 – Letter from a California pioneer who had gone into the lumbering business...

1857 – Letter from a California pioneer who had gone into the lumbering business in the Sierra Nevada

E. C. Gadson

Sevastopol [Sebastopol], California: 1857. Unbound. This two-page letter measures approximately 7.25” x 12.5.” It is datelined “Sevastopol April 11 -57”. Although there were several Sebastopols/Sevastopols in California, the letter’s description of weather and lumbering indicate that this was probably written from the one in Nevada County. No mailing envelope. In..... More

Price: $300.00

Item #009920 1802 – Letter from a businessman in New Orleans, New Spain to merchants in...

1802 – Letter from a businessman in New Orleans, New Spain to merchants in Bordeaux regarding a shipment of Indigo one year before the Louisiana Territory would officially retrocede to France and 13 months before it would be officially transferred from France to the United States

James (Santiago Pablo Francisco) Carrick

New Orleans: 1802. Unbound. This stampless folded letter from James (Santiago Pablo Francisco) Carrick in New Orleans to Messers Charles & Olivier Durand in Bordeaux is datelined “Nouvelle Orleans a 15 Novre 1802”. It bears a handstamp reading “Poste / Maritime / Bordeaux” and a manuscript rate marking. Written in..... More

Price: $1,750.00

Item #009916 1847 – Letter from a Captain in the 1st Regiment Missouri Mounted Volunteers...

1847 – Letter from a Captain in the 1st Regiment Missouri Mounted Volunteers identifying soldiers that had died during in the Navaho Expedition so their names could be published in the Liberty, Missouri Tribune.

Captain John T. Hughes

El Paso, Texas, 1847. Unbound. This one-page stampless folded letter written on “Tuesday 26th” [January 1847] by Captain John T. Hughes, Company C, 1st Regiment Missouri Volunteers is a postscript to a letter he had written newspaper editor the day before while at El Paso, Texas, shortly after seizing the..... More

Price: $1,750.00

Item #009913 Confederate soldier’s letter describing his unit’s fight against Birney’s...

Confederate soldier’s letter describing his unit’s fight against Birney’s Colored Brigade at the Battle of Fussel’s Mill

William J. Kirkland

Brazzell Hill, Virginia: 1864. Envelope or Cover. This two-page letter measures 7” x 8.5”. It is from William J. Kirkland of the 33rd North Carolina Infantry and datelined “Brazzell Hill, Va. Aug. 19th. 1864.” (Perhaps “Brazzell Hill” was a mistaken understanding of “Fussel’s Mill.”) The letter is enclosed in its..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #009912 1862 – Partial settlement of a Mississippi estate including the ownership transfer...

1862 – Partial settlement of a Mississippi estate including the ownership transfer of four slaves: one woman and three children

Martha Moore

Monroe Country, Mississippi: 1862. Unbound. This one-page document, measuring 7.5” x 12”, itemizes property from C. R. Walker’s estate that was transferred to Martha Moore. Although the document is undated, its text indicates this portion of the estate was settled in 1862. The location is not identified; however, it was..... More

Price: $150.00

Item #009909 1858 – Letter urging an immediate suit in a convoluted inheritance to recover four...

1858 – Letter urging an immediate suit in a convoluted inheritance to recover four slaves from the son of a dead executor of a South Carolina estate who was now also on his deathbed.

John L. Gamble

Shiloh, South Carolina: 1858. Envelope or Cover. One-page letter dated November 25, 1858, from John L. Gamble of Shiloh, South Carolina, to Messers Spain & Richardson in Sumter. The letter is enclosed in its original mailing envelope franked with 3-cent, dull-red Washington stamp (Scott #26). The cover bears a manuscript..... More

Price: $400.00

Item #009904 1822 – Court documents related to the theft of three slaves in Howard County,...

1822 – Court documents related to the theft of three slaves in Howard County, Missouri

Wax Seal. These three documents are joined at the top by a small circle of sealing wax. Each leaf measures 7.75” x 12.5”. A Howard County Circuit Court stamp is embossed at the bottom of one leaf. Old tape repair to two storage fold splits.. The first document is..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #009891 1984-1986 – An archive of letters from a citizen to President Ronald Regan and...

1984-1986 – An archive of letters from a citizen to President Ronald Regan and other politicians urging them to implement policies against “the abomination of torture,” along with responses he received from the State Department, Senator Alan Dixon, Senator Charles Percy, and Congressman Sidney Yates; “Dear Mr. President . . . As you said in a recent speech there should be ‘increased respect for human rights everywhere. . .. I know you are promoting democracy which make societies in which torture is unlikely. But it is now, in many countries, by government.”

Ralph E. Works

Various: 1984-1986. Unbound. This archive consists of nine items. Drafts and copies of letters sent by Ralph E. Works of Chicago, Illinois to President Ronald Reagan, Senator Alan Dixon, Senator Charles Percy, and Representative Sidney R. Yates, in which he vigorously urged them to support the United Nations’ 1984..... More

Price: $200.00

Item #009880 1813-1817 – Three letters related to the War of 1812 naval service and prize money...

1813-1817 – Three letters related to the War of 1812 naval service and prize money for the capture of two British ships that was posthumously awarded to the son of a Revolutionary War hero who laments his loss while incarcerated in a Vermont debtor’s prison

General William Barton, Harry Barton, and Jonathan Lillibridge

Savannah, Georgia and the Brig Troup: 1813-1817. Envelope or Cover. This correspondence consists of three stampless folded letters. The first two letters were favor-carried and have no postal markings. The third has a circular Savannah, Georgia postmark and manuscript “75”, three times the normal postage indicating it had two enclosures..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #009878 1830s – A young woman’s attractive leather-bound “Album” that was used as a...

1830s – A young woman’s attractive leather-bound “Album” that was used as a commonplace book

Unidentied compiler

Album. This book measures 3.5” X 4.5”. Although unpaginated, it contains approximately 130 pages filled with poems, notes, drawings, and illustrations. The handwriting is tiny and fine. There is an old neatly done paper repair to the front hinge that reattaches the front board of its black faux caoutchouc-gutta-percha cover..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #009873 1916 – Collection of photographs from the Mexican Border War including piles of...

1916 – Collection of photographs from the Mexican Border War including piles of dead bandits from Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and an inexplicable photo of an African-American private assigned to the otherwise all-white 3rd Field Artillery Regiment

“Uncle Max” Mittag

Mexican Border: 1916. Disbound. This collection of 59 photographs was purchased as a lot from a woman who had removed them from a disintegrating family album that chronicled “Uncle Max” Mittag’s service as a cook in Battery A, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment during the Mexican Border Campaign. All of the..... More

Price: $1,750.00

Item #009867 1852 - A Congressional pamphlet containing the correspondence between the Governor...

1852 - A Congressional pamphlet containing the correspondence between the Governor of the Oregon Territory and President Millard Fillmore regarding his refusal to enforce the relocation of the territory’s capital from Oregon City to Salem

“I owe it to the people of the United States, whose agent I am; to the people of Oregon, whose rights it is my duty to protect, and to my official oath, to decline any participation in executing your act"

Washington DC: 1852. Unbound. 32nd Congress, 1st Session [H. of Reps.] Ex. Cod. No. 96.: Oregon-Governor Gains. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Copies of correspondence with Governor Gaines in reference to the government of the Territory of Oregon. May 3, 1852. 8 pages. Never bound... More

Price: $200.00

Item #009863 1790 - Broadside enumerating the reasons that Connecticut’s claim to what today is...

1790 - Broadside enumerating the reasons that Connecticut’s claim to what today is the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania were valid

“Wyoming was settled under the authority of Connecticut, as part of the State, under her Charter, in the assertion and defence of her claims, west of New York.”

Unbound. Nine Propositions, Which contain the grounds of the Wyoming Claim, on the State of Connecticut. [probably Connecticut: circa 1790.] This broadside measures 6” x 9.5”. Light wrinkles and faint marginal toning, mostly along the top margin. It makes a strong case for Connecticut’s retention of the Wyoming Valley..... More

Price: $800.00

Item #009862 1852 – Congressional pamphlet containing eight maps illustrating different...

1852 – Congressional pamphlet containing eight maps illustrating different sections of the Wisconsin River

Seven mid-19th century maps showing planned improvements to the Wisconsin river “to facilitate the passage of lumber, rafts, and flat boats.”

Washington DC: U.S. Senate, 1852. Stabbed binding. 32nd Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Miscellaneous No. 73: April 26, 1852. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin praying A grant of land to aid the improvement of the Wisconsin river between Fort Winnebago and the Beaulieux Rapids. Approximately 6.5” x 9”..... More

Price: $275.00

Item #009859 1860 - Congressional pamphlet detailing the expedition to find a shortcut between...

1860 - Congressional pamphlet detailing the expedition to find a shortcut between the Great Salt Lake and the Oregon Trail

“The greatest difficulty under which I labored . . . was in obtaining guides; for even among the Indian non knew more than small portions of the country we were to traverse and no white man could be found who had any knowledge. . ..”

Washington DC: U.S. Senate, 1860. Disbound. 36th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Ex. Doc., No. 34. Report of the Secretary of War communicating In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the report of Captain H. D. Wallen of his expedition in 1859, from Dalles City to Great Salt Lake, and..... More

Price: $275.00

Item #009850 1779 - Revolutionary War funding-status letter from the Commissary-General for the...

1779 - Revolutionary War funding-status letter from the Commissary-General for the Middle District that reads like a who’s who of the Continental Army’s Quartermaster Corps.;

“Extortion and want of Virtue has taken almost possession of Every Person upon this Continent, the Enormous sums of Public money which is daily expended and the great depreciation of it will if not shortly put stop to end in our ruin.”

Philadelphia to Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1779. Unbound. This two-page letter, datelined Philad’a 15th Feb’y 1779, was sent by Colonel Ephraim Blaine, the Commissary-General for the Middle District of the Continental Army, to Colonel John Davis, the Deputy Quartermaster General for Army’s Western District who was located at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In..... More

Price: $2,000.00

Item #009846 1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John...

1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John “Johnnie” Ware, enclosed in its original rare ‘internal’ Pony Express envelope

“Kill the rattlesnake. Keep his musical bones as a trophy, then throw him over the wall. It does one’s soul good . . . to see the Southerners transepted in this section where they have bullied over [us] so long with dirk and bludgeon”.

San Francisco: June 12, 1861. Envelope or Cover. California politics had long been dominated by pro-slavery Democrats until the presidential campaign of 1860 when their party split into two factions, one led by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas and the other by Vice-President John C. Breckinridge. This schism allowed the..... More

Price: $12,500.00

Item #009830 Colgate & Co’s Concentrated Triple Extracts for the Handkerchief. An advertising...

Colgate & Co’s Concentrated Triple Extracts for the Handkerchief. An advertising packet for Colgate Perfumes and Soaps

New York: 1882. Envelope or Cover. This 1882 advertising packet directed toward retail merchants and addressed to Creasy & Brown of Mifflinville, Pennsylvania, that consists of an An illustrated broadsheet featuring a bottle of Cashmere Bouquet Perfume, A 20-page pricelist listing over 200 perfumes, soaps, and scented..... More

Price: $150.00

Item #009829 “Night and day I have been employed trying to secure the Land of the companies...

“Night and day I have been employed trying to secure the Land of the companies from being washed away and our mill from being destroyed.” Letter from the general who went to work for a Colorado mining company to support his family after being scapegoated and cashiered from the Army following the Union defeat at Second Bull Run

Major General Fitz-John Porter

Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter, dated June 14th 1864, was written by former Major General Fitz-John Porter to his wife. The original mailing envelope is franked with a 3-cent stamp (Scott #65) and bears a scarce Black Hawk Point, Colorado (Territory) postmark dated June 15, 1864. Both are in..... More

Price: $500.00

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