Diaries, Journals, Log Books, Cyphers and Scrapbooks

1857 - 1860s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT MEDICAL CASE BOOK OF A PROGRESSIVE PHYSICIAN, PATHOLOGIST AND WOULD BE AUTHOR

1856 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF MEETING NOTES, WRITS AND RECORDS OF THE COLUMBIA UNION BRIDGE CORPORATION

1856 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN MATURING, GROWING, AND FACING THE ALL-TOO-COMMON DIFFICULTIES OF YOUTH: MEAN BOYS, HURTFUL GOSSIP, AND DIFFICULT FAMILY

1856 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT MEMORIAL ALBUM OF POETRY INTIMATE THOUGHTS, LOVELY POETRY AND SOME SAD GOODBYES: A LOVELY TREASURE OF ANTEBELLUM TIMES IN NEW ORLEANS

1856 ENIGMATIC PRE-CIVIL WAR HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A PIONEER, LABORER, PREACHER AND TRAVELING BOOKSELLER

1856 - 1859 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MEDICAL STUDENT AND SOON TO BE PROMINENT CITIZEN OF SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA

1856 - 1858 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED ROYAL WILTSHIRE LIEUTENANT WHO DETAILS THE REGIMENT'S TRAVELS AND DUTIES POST CRIMEA

1856 & 1857 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES BY THE SON OF A DISTINGUISHED MAINE FAMILY WHO GOES ON TO GREAT PERSONAL FAME FOR HIS SERVICE IN THE CIVIL WAR WITH THE 5TH MAINE REGIMENT

1855 Diary of a 21-Year-Old Student at Fairfield Academy, Herkimer County, New York: A Profound Spiritual Self-Examination Suggestive of Repressed Desire and Inner Conflict

1855 Original Handwritten Notebook and Relic of Yale Scholarship by a Prominent 19th Century American Academic

1855 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND LEDGER OF A NEW YORK CITY BUSINESSMAN AND ATTENDEE TO THE FUNERAL OF LEADING BOWERY BOY WILLIAM (BILL THE BUTCHER) POOLE

1855 - 1891 SIX [6] ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS FOLLOWING THE ADULT LIFE OF A MAN AS HE GROWS, MARRIES, HAS CHILDREN AND LIVES A BUSY SOCIAL LIFE IN SALISBURY MASSACHUSETTS

1855 - 1862 ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK AND DIARY OF WORK, PURCHASES, FINANCE AND PERSONAL INTERESTS OF A SAGAMORE - PLYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS FATHER AND SON

1854 SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG 14 YEAR OLD BOY WHO WOULD SOON GROW TO BE ONE OF NEW YORK CITY'S MOST RENOWNED JURISTS PRESIDING OVER SOME OF THE CITY'S MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMES

1854 ORIGINAL NAIVE MANUSCRIPT DIARY FILLED WITH THE DAILY DETAILS OF LIFE IN EAST BOSTON HANDWRITTEN BY A ELDERLY WOMAN WHO STILL REMEMBERS THAT HER FATHER WOULD HAVE BEEN 112 HAD HE LIVED

1854 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LOG BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY AN ILL FATED SAILOR ABOARD A TWO MASTED MERCHANT BRIG PLYING ITS TRADE BETWEEN MAINE AND THE CARIBBEAN

1854 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND STUDY OF ASTRONOMY OF JAMES LIKELY

1853-1874 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY/JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK OF A SUCCESSFUL HOMER NEW YORK BUSINESSMAN

1853 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES HANDWRITTEN BY NOTED ABOLITIONIST OF RENOWN GERMAN PROFESSOR ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

1853 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE RHODE ISLAND MAN'S TRIP TO CINCINNATI AND HIS IMPRESSIONS AND EXTENSIVE OBSERVATIONS OF THE CITY

1853 LITERARY EXERCISES OF THE YOUNG LADIES OF PROFESSOR METCALFE'S ACADEMY IN REVEREND MR. PORTER'S CHURCH - BROADSIDE

1853 Handwritten Manuscript Diary of William Loving

1853 - 1866 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT CIVIL WAR AND PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA DIARY OF A 53 YEAR OLD OXFORD NEW YORK MAN

1852 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A NOTED SCHOOL FOR GIRLS PROVIDING A SUPER LOOK AT THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN PRE CIVIL WAR PENNSYLVANIA

1852 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PASSIONATE, OPINIONATED MAN WHO DETESTS THE FREE SOILERS, LADY'S BLOOMERS AND INTERFERING FOREIGNERS TRYING TO TELL AMERICANS 'WHAT IS WHAT'

1852 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NOTED AND RENOWNED MASSACHUSETTS AUTHOR, EDUCATOR AND ENGINEER

1851 - 1858 ORIGINAL, SOMBER MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF SENTIMENTS AND MEMORIES HANDWRITTEN BY FRIENDS AND FAMILY FROM BEAUFORT TO SAVANNAH TO OCALA

1850 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A WELL-TO-DO YOUNG MAN WHO EXPERIENCES HOMESICKNESS AND DEPRESSION AS HE’S SENT OFF TO CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS TO STUDY FOR HIS HARVARD ENTRANCE EXAM

1849 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TREASURE OF GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY OF EARLY SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI

1849 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT GOLD RUSH ERA WORK DIARY OF A BOSTON FREIGHT HANDLING COMPANY

1849 - 1868 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS COPY BOOK AND JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF HOLLAND'S PRE EMINENT SURGICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS

1849 - 1860 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FINANCIAL DIARY AND INVESTOR'S LEDGER DETAILING THE HISTORY OF TWO SHIPS PLYING THEIR TRADE ON THE ATLANTIC

1849 - 1855 MASSIVE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND JOURNAL DETAILING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A LOCKPORT NEW YORK MAN WHO WOULD SOON BE ELECTED TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK

1849 - 1854 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A KEEN EYED, INTROSPECTIVE INDIANA SURVEYOR DETAILING HIS LIFE AND FAMILY HARDSHIPS OF TRAGIC ILLNESS WHO STILL SEES THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WHILE VISITING THE NEW YORK CRYSTAL PALACE EXPOSITION

1849 - 1850 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A REBEL AND PARTICIPANT IN THE REVOLUTION OF BADEN DETAILING HIS PARTICIPATION, ARREST, INTERROGATION AND IMPRISONMENT

1848 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ALMANAC AND JOURNAL CATCHALL OF A GLOUCESTER MASSACHUSETTS FISHERMAN

1847 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT INTRACONTINENTAL TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN TRAVELING FROM NORWICH TO NEW YORK TO CLEVELAND TO PHILADELPHIA TO NEW YORK ALL BY THE CANAL NETWORK ESTABLISHED IN THE PRIOR 20 YEARS

1847 ALMANACK OF A GERMAN BEER MERCHANT INCLUDING PAYABLES, RECEIVABLES, EXPENSES, CONTACTS AND PERSONAL WRITINGS

1847 - 1921 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LEDGER AND JOURNAL OF A HARD WORKING PRE CONFEDERATION SOUTH WESTERN ONTARIO MAN DETAILING A LIFE OF HARD WORK AND ENTERPRISE

1846 ORIGINAL CHARMING 3 PAGE TRAVEL 'JOURNAL' DETAILING A FAMILY TRIP TO NAHANT MASSACHUSETTS BY A VERY YOUNG, BRIGHT AND CREATIVE GIRL