19th Century Manuscripts

1892 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ALL AMERICAN TEENAGE BOY DETAILING HIS LIFE AND TIMES AND EVEN GREAT GRADES IN LATE 19th CENTURY CENTRAL MICHIGAN

1892 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SOON TO BE SUCCESSFUL LAWYER, ANOTHER IN A LONG LINE OF LAWYERS, PLYING HIS TRADE IN LINCOLN NEBRASKA AND ALL THE WAY TO THE STATE SUPREME COURT

1899 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE LIFE OF A 2nd GENERATION JEWISH WOMAN, THE DAUGHTER OF GERMAN JEWISH IMMIGRANTS CHASING THE AMERICAN DREAM

1898 - 1907 FASCINATING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOKS OF THE FRENCH CANADIAN BORN POLICE CHIEF OF CENTRAL FALLS RHODE ISLAND

1897 - 1898 & 1899 ORIGINAL TRIO [3] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN OF TWO [2] MASSACHUSETTS SISTERS FILLED WITH COMINGS, GOINGS AND DOINGS OF A POPULAR PAIR OF YOUNG LADIES

1893 - 1920s FASCINATING, ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING A SOMERVILLE MASSACHUSETTS MAN'S LIFE OVER A 43 YEAR SPAN

1893 - 1907 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HOMEY RURAL WIFE DETAILING LOCAL LIFE AND TIMES

1896 ORIGINAL INFORMAL MANUSCRIPT LOG OF A VOYAGE FROM NEW BRUNSWICK TO LIVERPOOL HAND WRITTEN BY A KNOWLEDGEABLE SHIP SAVVY PASSENGER

1896 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A NEW HAMPSHIRE MINISTER, COMMISSION MERCHANT AND AUCTIONEER STILL GOING STRONG AT 77 YEARS OF AGE

1896 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF NOTED BRITISH INDUSTRIALIST, PARLIAMENTARIAN AND METALLURGIST

1895 - 1900 SUPERB ORIGINAL TRIO OF HAND WRITTEN NOTEBOOKS DETAILING THE NITTY GRITTY JOB OF POLICING THE STREETS OF BOSTON IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY

1896 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARD WORKING ENTREPRENEURIAL LE ROY NEW YORK MAN

1891-92 DIARY OF E. O. FISHER, AN AMBITIOUS SCHOOL STUDENT FROM RURAL IOWA, DESCRIBING HIS DAY-TO-DAY LIFE AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND TECHNOLOGY EXPANSION IN THE "GILDED AGE"

1893 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF FRENCH FIN-DE-SIÈCLE REGIMENT BUGLE SONGS FROM A BUGLE PLAYER STATIONED IN THE INDRE-ET-LOIRE DÉPARTEMENT

1899 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PILOTAGE AND NAVIGATION TRAINING BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN WHO WOULD ONE DAY BECOME THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF UNEXPLODED BOMBS DEPARTMENT DURING THE LONDON BLITZ

1899 - 1900 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY BY A MISSIONARY TRAVELLING FROM LONDON TO BORNEO TO BRING CHRISTIANITY TO THE NATIVES FACING STRIFE AND DIFFICULTY THROUGHOUT

1899 ORIGINAL TYPED LETTER SENT BY THE U.S. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK TO THE SECRETARY OF THE U.S. EMBASSY IN RUSSIA, DISCUSSING THE UPCOMING 1900 PARIS WORLD’S FAIR AND U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS

1895 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL: “METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE DUTCH STEAMER JAVA” AS IT GOES FROM AMSTERDAM TO THE DUTCH WEST INDIES AND BACK

1899 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF FRENCH WEAVING TECHNOLOGY AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

1897 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ALL-AMERICAN BOY-NEXT-DOOR WHO HAPPENS TO LIVE IN A TENT

1896 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOUNG MUSLIM MAN WHO WITNESSES THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER AT THE HANDS OF THE SULTAN'S SOLDIERS, HIS MOTHER BY ROBBERS AND HIS SUBSEQUENT ENSLAVEMENT AS A GUNMAKER AND TRAINING AT AMERICA'S WINCHESTER ARMS FACTORY

1890s MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTION OF HER OWN 1855 TRAVEL JOURNAL FROM BOSTON TO CHILE AND HER FRIEND'S LOG OF THE SAME TRIP IN 1854

1897 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER REQUESTING PRIME FARMING LAND FOR THE PURPOSE OF SETTLING AND COLONISING NORTHERN FARMERS INTO ALABAMA

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