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MARY DWIGHT [?]: 1912 ORIGINAL TWO VOYAGE MANUSCRIPT DIARY: AUSTRALIA TO LONDON, THEN LONDON TO CALCUTTA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL POINTS AND PORTS IN BETWEEN ??? DEFOREST: 1826 - 1827 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN WHO SHUTTLES BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN HER CHAMBER AT THE CONVENT AND HER FAMILY HOME COUSIN PLUMERY: 1796 SUPER, ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY ERA STAMPLESS LETTER BETWEEN HOROLOGISTS AT THE APEX OF TIME KEEPING HISTORY IN DECIMAL CALENDAR AND CLOCKS FRANCE
THOMAS EDWARD PINKETT: 1856 - 1858 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED ROYAL WILTSHIRE LIEUTENANT WHO DETAILS THE REGIMENT'S TRAVELS AND DUTIES POST CRIMEA THOMAS EDWARD PINKETT: 1859 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAYROLL AND REGIMENTAL RECORDS OF THE FAMED ROYAL WILTSHIRES EVELYN M. TAYLOR: 1929 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING HER YEAR AND LIFE AS THE WORTHY MATRON OF HER HIALEAH FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR CHAPTER
E.B. WILHELM: 1927 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A MICHIGAN MASTER OF MAGIC CADET C.F.P. CAMPBELL: 1921 - 1922 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED SALVATION ARMY CADET INTENT ON SAVING SOULS AND BRINGING MORE SOLDIERS TO THE ARMY OF GOD IN PRE CONFEDERATION NEWFOUNDLAND GRACE ELINORE CHAPMAN [later NASH]: 1930 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG OHIO VIOLINST WHO WOULD ONE DAY SOON DEFY HER JAPANESE CAPTORS, ENDURE THREE YEARS OF HORRIFIC TREATMENT AND DEPRIVATIONS EVEN WHILE PREGNANT IN PRISON ONLY TO ENDURE AND FLOURISH UNTIL HER 97TH YEAR
WARREN R. GRIMES: 1942 - 1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF EIGHT [8] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A PURDUE UNIVERSITY CHEMIST WORKING ON TOP SECRET PROJECTS LIKELY THE ATOMIC BOMB WHO SHARES MANY DETAILS WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND IN UNCENSORED LETTERS MAUD[E] MAY TELFER: 1888 + 1889 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF SOUTH WESTERN ONTARIO MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG, INORDINATELY MATURE 12 YR OLD GIRL WHO GOES FROM PLAYING GAMES AT RECESS TO DISCUSSING THE SCOTT ACT OF 1888 FOR TEMPERANCE IN KENT COUNTY MARY or MARGARET DISCON [?]: 1922 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DESCRIBING A DAY SPENT TRAVELING AND VISITING A VILLAGE IN SINGAPORE NEAR SARIBUE DOLOK BY AN UNUSUALLY OBSERVANT AND INTREPID BRITISH WOMAN
MISS BARTLETT: 1869 - 1870 SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG CONNECTICUT WOMAN VISITING HER FAMOUS PARIS BASED ARTIST UNCLE AND COUSIN WHILE FRANCE ONCE MORE ROILS FROM NAPOLEON III SECOND EMPIRE TO BE REBORN AS A MORE ENDURING THIRD REPUBLIC FRANK EARL HERRICK: 1905 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATE DETAILING THE TRIVIAL AND SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AND DOINGS OF WHEATON ILLINOIS AND DUPAGE COUNTY REVEREND NEWTON HEELAS, VICAR OF NORBITON: 1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I SURREY ENGLAND HOMEFRONT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE VICAR OF NORBITON
NELLIE GARDNER: 1882 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A CHARMING, SIMPLE WESTERN NEW YORK FARM GIRL SETH C. SMITH, AMORY HOLMAN et al: 1829 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT CONTRACT AGREEMENT BY A NOTED BOLTON MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESSMAN HIRING TO 'CONVEY THE UNITED STATES MAIL' UNIDENTIFIED: 1900s ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOKS WITH HANDWRITTEN ENTRIES REGARDING THE CORDWAINERS GUILD IN LONDON ENGLAND
CHARLES WIESEKE USN: 1901 - 1905 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A CHARMED WISCONSIN MAN WHO GOES TO SEA AND LANDS A BERTH ON THE USS MASSACHUSETTS DR. BISHOP LESLIE R. MARSTON: 1921 - 1922 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MAN WE SEE EVOLVE FROM STUDENT TO TEACHER, SWAIN TO HUSBAND AND ONE DAY PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE HE ATTENDS 'S.B.' [?] and CLEMENTINE: 1830s SUPERB ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOKS [2] AND HANDWRITTEN STUDY HIGHLIGHTING THE STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN FRANCE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY
ABIJAH W. TALBUT [sometimes TALBOT]: 1862 - 1871 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A NEAR EPIC JOURNEY TO FIND WORK FROM MAINE TO MINNESOTA BY STEAMSHIP, STAGECOACH, TRAIN AND HIS OWN TWO FEET EDWIN FLYE STETSON: 1876 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A FUTURE MEDICAL DOCTOR DETAILING HIS EDUCATION AND LIFE AT THE NOW CLOSED BOWDOIN MEDICAL COLLEGE IN BRUNSWICK MAINE LT. LOUISE A. HOHENER: 1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A WHIP SMART AMERICAN ARMY NURSE BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO BUT SERVING IN AUSTRALIA'S QUEENSLAND
GUNNER C.J. WALLACE O.F.C. 1612928: 1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE BRITISH GUNNER'S MISERABLE 6 MONTHS IN DIEGO SUAREZ MADAGASCAR ADELE DE LEEUW: c1927 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTES OF A TRIP TO HOLLAND THAT WOULD LATER BE PUBLISHED: THE FLAVOR OF HOLLAND BY AN ACCOMPLISHED CHILDREN'S AUTHOR, BIOGRAPHER AND TRAVEL WRITER PARKER EMERSON CALKIN: 1956 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM THE WESTERNMOST EDGE OF THE UNITED STATES HANDWRITTEN BY A BRILLIANT YOUNG MAN LEARNING TO PROTECT AMERICA FROM IT'S COLD WAR ENEMIES
DONALD BAXTER MACMILLAN: 1940s - 1950s ORIGINAL GROUP OF HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED LETTERS SOME EPHEMERA RELATING TO THE FAMED EXPLORER AND HIS AUTHOR WIFE AND THE BELOVED, HISTORIC SCHOONER BOWDOIN RUTH WARFIELD: 1942 -1949 ORIGINAL GROUP OF 12 DIARY LIKE LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A NOTED MISSIONARY BRINGING CHRISTIAN AID AND EDUCATION IN PARTS OF NIGERIA AND THE SUDAN WHERE NO WHITE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SEEN BEFORE HAINES, GREGORY: 19th CENTURY HANDWRITTEN HAND-DRAWN MANUSCRIPT BOOK - BIRDS OF BRITAIN - 378 DIFFERENT BIRDS MINUTELY DETAILED
Harold Sherman Wells: CIRCA 1905 PHOTO ALBUM SHOWING YALE UNIVERSITY'S ELITE AT PLAY AND STUDY ELVIE MOSKAN: 1929 - 1933 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 5 YEAR HANDWRITTEN DIARY BY A BOY CRAZY LOUISIANA TEENAGER WHO'S MAKING A CAREER OF SCHOOL SUSPENSIONS UNKNOWN: 1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING A SUMMER SPENT BY AN ENGLISH WOMAN TEACHING AND TOURING IN PARIS FRANCE
THOMAS Y. KING, ARTHUR KING: 1895 - 1930s SUPER, ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF LETTERS, DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERA BY AN EARLY SETTLER OF TITUSVILLE AND CAPE CANAVERAL FLORIDA UNKNOWN: 1956 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON THE CHESS 'GAME OF THE CENTURY' WHEN THE 13 YEAR OLD BOBBY FISCHER BEAT INTERNATIONAL CHESS MASTER DONALD BYRNE AT THE ROSENWALD MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT UNKNOWN: 1948 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT GROUP OF FILE CARDS DETAILING THE CRITICAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE HAGUE TWO YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER ALEKHINE
S.T. JOSHI [SUNAND TRYAMBAK JOSHI]: c1990s ORIGINAL TYPED MANUSCRIPT BIOGRAPHY AND ANALYSIS OF HORROR AUTHOR SHIRLEY JACKSON BY CRITIC, NOVELIST AND EXPERT OF THE HORROR GENRE S.T. JOSHI CATHERINE PRICE NELSON: 1966 ORIGINAL TYPED MANUSCRIPT BIOGRAPHY OF HER FATHER: THE MAN WHO PROSECUTED WYATT EARP AND HELPED BRING LAW AND ORDER TO IDAHO LIEUTENANT ARMAND MINKIN USN: 1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A DOTING HUSBAND, NEW FATHER AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER SERVING HIS COUNTRY FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC
UNKNOWN: 1864 - 1865 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LOG BOOK OF A COMMERCIAL VESSEL THE 'SCHOONER NAPOLEON' PLYING IT'S TRADE FROM THE UNION NORTH TO THE CONFEDERATE SOUTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR MISS P. P. RILEY: 1956 - 1958 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF 60+ TYPED AND MANUSCRIPT LETTERS WRITTEN BY A YOUNG FEMALE SAILOR AS SHE CIRCUMNAVIGATES THE WORLD ABOARD THE STORIED BRIGANTINE YANKEE AND THE REMARKABLE SAILING COUPLE IRVING AND EXY JOHNSON EVA ROBIN, PROFESSOR A.C. TIMIRYAZEV: 1941 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE AND BIOGRAPHY OF THE PATRIARCH AND SEMI EXILE OF TZARIST RUSSIA KLEMENTI ARKADAVICH TIMIRYAZEV
MR. OLIPHANT: 1875 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A KEEN EYED ERUDITE ENGLISHMAN WHOSE TRIP FROM BRINDISI TO ALEXANDRIA IS THWARTED BY THE TRAVEL GENIUS MR. THOMAS COOK JOSE JULIO SARRIA: 1969 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S MOST FAMOUS POLITICIANS, RESTAURANTEURS, PHILANTHROPISTS AND DRAG QUEENS KNOWN AS THE GRAND MERE AND THE ABSOLUTE EMPRESS I OF SAN FRANCISCO WILLIAM WICKOFF: 1794 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING A LOUISIANA PLANTER'S CONCERNS FOR HIS TENANT'S PLANS AND AMBITIONS
JOHN B. TOULMIN: 1846 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS [2] HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF ALABAMA'S LEADING COTTON FACTORS AND WHY COTTON WAS INDEED KING IN MOBILE ROBERT MAUDSLEY: c1990s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY ENGLAND'S MOST INFAMOUS SERIAL KILLER WHO INSPIRED THE CHARACTER HANNIBAL LECTER ADDRESSED TO THE ONE TIME LOVER OF ENGLAND'S MOST NOTORIOUS PRISON INMATE CHARLES BRONSON BRIAN EUGENE MAYER USN: 1965 ORIGINAL UNITED STATES NAVY DIVER'S LOG BOOK DETAILING HIS WORK IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND AREA WATERS WITH DUTIES RANGING FROM RECOVERING BUOYS TO BODIES AND MORE
CAPTAIN JOHN HENRY HUBLEY, L.H. DICKS: 1911 - 1947 ORIGINAL LARGE GROUP OF JOURNALS, DECK LOGS, LETTERS OF CORRESPONDENCE, DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERA RELATED TO THE SERVICE OF AN EAST COAST CANADIAN MERCHANT MARINE STEAMSHIP CAPTAIN PLYING HIS TRADE FROM THE MARITIMES, QUEBEC AND THE WEST INDIES UNIDENTIFIED: 1892 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL FILLED WITH 19TH CENTURY HANDWRITTEN BRITISH BEER MAKING AND BREWING INSTRUCTION, EDUCATION AND THEORY EMMA LOUISA CHITTY: 1871 - 1883 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN POETRY AND LITERARY MUSINGS SOME PRO CONFEDERATE BY A NOTED SOUTH CAROLINA TEACHER AND DOLL MAKING PIONEER
REV. FRANCIS MITCHELL GRACE: 1832 - 1904 TYPED MANUSCRIPT COPY WITH HANDWRITTEN CORRECTIONS BEING A RETROSPECTIVE MEMOIR BY A NOTED ALABAMA PREACHER OF LIFE IN THE DEEP SOUTH RANSON GRIFFIN: 1915 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A 74 YEAR OLD ALABAMA WOMAN DETAILING A LIFE OF FRIENDS, FAMILY AND NEVER ENDING CHORES EVEN FOR HER MA AND PA GEORGE J. NORTON, First Mate: 1898 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SHIP'S LOG BOOK OF THE FAMED STEAM YACHT WINDWARD AS IT CROSSED FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK TO MEET IT'S FUTURE AND DESTINY WITH ROBERT EDWIN PEARY
ABEL VEIL SHOTWELL: 1881 - 1885 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE SCION OF A LONG ESTABLISHED [1709] NEW JERSEY FAMILY WITH ROOTS TO THE MAYFLOWER RICHARD RENSHAW: 1796 - 1801 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF THE NOTED BRITISH 4th BATTALION ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY - OF WHICH PARTS WERE LATER PUBLISHED AS 'VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE' A.C. MATHEWSON: 1843 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A GOLD AND SILVER DEALER FROM RHODE ISLAND TRYING TO MAKE SALES IN MOBILE TO NO AVAIL
MARCEL THEODORE DUCROS: 1930 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PROMINENT NEW ORLEANS CITIZEN, CIVIL ENGINEER AND ALL AROUND MAN ABOUT TOWN WHO HELPS PUSH THE CITY TOWARDS IT'S GREAT FUTURE FRANCIS G. CAFFEY: 1903 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF TYPED AND MANUSCRIPT LETTERS [17] WRITTEN BY A NATIVE SON OF ALABAMA, LIEUTENANT COLONEL DURING THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR, NEW YORK CITY LAWYER AND ONE DAY UNITED STATES FEDERAL JUDGE "RUTLAND BLEIGN" (?): 1890 SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A 3 WEEK CRUISE ON A 'MONKEY BOAT' THROUGH SOUTHERN ENGLAND'S SADLY DECLINING INLAND WATERWAYS AND CANAL SYSTEM AS RAILROADS BEGIN TO OVERTAKE BOATING
EDWARD B. CURRIE: 1895 - 1897 ORIGINAL GROUP OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS [6] HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MAN KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH HIS MOTHER IN TENNESSEE WHILE HE WORKS HIS WAYS THROUGH THE TIMBERLANDS OF MISSISSIPPI L. BRAUM: 1888 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS BY A JACKSON MISSISSIPPI LAWYER AND SWAIN LIEUTENANT A. GEORGE ROCKWELL JR. USN: 1943 - 1946 ORIGINAL GROUP OF 375+ MANUSCRIPT LETTERS BETWEEN A YOUNG MEDICAL OFFICER SERVING ABOARD THE USS FOND DU LAC AND HIS WIFE IN OLALLA WASHINGTON
LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER C. BROWN C-V(S) USNR: 1942 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF PAPERS RELATED TO THE EDUCATION OF A NAVY RADIO ENGINEER AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICER AT THE NEWLY OPENED HARVARD NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL WHO WE BELIEVE GOES ON TO A NOTED CAREER AS AN AUTHOR AND EXPERT ON MARYLAND MARITIME HISTORY SIDNEY B. PAINE: 1850s ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A TUSKEGEE LAWYER WHO WILL ONE DAY CAPTAIN THE 61ST ALABAMA REGIMENT ELIZABETH KINGSLEY [later SYMONDS]: 1763 - 1764 SUPERB, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF HER LIFE AND JOURNAL OF HER RELIGIOUS TURMOIL AND DESPAIR HANDWRITTEN BY THE SOON TO BE WIFE OF A NOTED ENGLISH CLERGYMAN
CAPTAIN THOMAS CLARKE: 1810 ORIGINAL ENIGMATIC SHIP'S LOG BOOK OF AN UNUSUAL RUSSIA AND NORWAY TO RHODE ISLAND VOYAGE MALTBY GELTSON ROSE, NELLIE DOUGLASS: 1820s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT COPY BOOK, CATCHALL CREATED BY A NOTED JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND EVENTUAL SCRAPBOOK OF A YOUNG SAG HARBOR WOMAN FREDERICK HENRY ADAMS: 1878 SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF OLD SAN FRANCISCO POLITICS AND THEATER AND LUCKY SURVIVOR OF THE CATASTROPHIC 1906 EARTHQUAKE
MARIA L. BAKER, WILLIAM BAKER et al: 1851 - 1858 ORIGINAL, SOMBER MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF SENTIMENTS AND MEMORIES HANDWRITTEN BY FRIENDS AND FAMILY FROM BEAUFORT TO SAVANNAH TO OCALA to SENATOR JAMES THOMAS 'COTTON TOM' HEFLIN: 1932 - 1938 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF 90+ MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN TO ALABAMA'S MOST COLORFUL AND CONTROVERSIAL ANTI CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATORS WHO ALSO CREATED ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED NATIONAL HOLIDAYS LIEUTENANT P.Y. MATTHEWS JR., US NAVY CHIEF ENGINEER: 1955 ORIGINAL SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND JOURNAL OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST ICE BREAKER ON IT'S FIRST POLAR EXPEDITION HANDWRITTEN BY THE CHIEF ENGINEER
SENATOR JAMES THOMAS 'COTTON TOM' HEFLIN: 1924 ORIGINAL SPEECH TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BY ONE OF ALABAMA'S NOTED LEGISLATORS AND NOTORIOUS SEGREGATIONIST UNIDENTIFIED: 1864 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE WISCONSIN MAN'S LAST MONTHS OF WAR AND FIRST HARDSCRAP MONTHS BACK HOME - RETURNING TO A SICK WIFE AND SICK FARM ROSCOE CHARLES MOODY, U.S.N. ENGINEER DIVISION: 1894 - 1896 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT CRUISE NOTES OF THE NOTED USS NEW YORK WHILE COMMANDED BY THE RENOWNED 'FIGHTING BOB' EVANS HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG NAVAL CADET WHO WOULD ONE DAY COMMAND THE USS MAINE AND BE AWARDED THE NAVY CROSS
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