Diaries, Journals, Log Books, Cyphers and Scrapbooks

1860s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL COVERING TWO DIFFERENT TIMES IN A VIRGINIA MAN’S LIFE, FIRST AS A STUDENT OF THE CLASSICAL SCHOLAR BASIL GILDERSLEEVE, THEN AS A PHYSICIAN MAKING HOUSE CALLS TO PATIENTS IN NEED

1860s HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH AND MEMORY BOOK FROM YARMOUTH NOVA SCOTIA

1860 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PIOUS, INTELLIGENT MASSACHUSETTS MAN FROM A PROMINENT MID-STATE FAMILY

1860 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN 44 PAGE ACCOUNT OF THE MURDER OF THE MOORE FAMILY AND THE CAPTURE OF MARY BY THE INDIANS OF TAZEWELL VIRGINIA DIFFERING FROM THE 'CAPTIVES OF ABB'S VALLEY' AS TOLD BY REVEREND JAMES MOORE BROWN

1859 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAYROLL AND REGIMENTAL RECORDS OF THE FAMED ROYAL WILTSHIRES

1859 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A WEALTHY FAMILY SCION OF HARTFORD CONNECTICUT

1859 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HANDWRITTEN RECIPES, FORMULAES, PROCESSES AND TRICKS OF THE BLACKSMITHING, METAL WORKING AND CRAFT TRADES INCLUDING SPECIAL PAINTS, INKS, GLUES AND WASHES

1859 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY BY AN OBSERVANT YOUNG WESTERN NEW YORK STATE WOMAN - A TREASURE FOR GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY

1858 HANDWRITTEN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND DIARY OF A WELL KNOWN PHILLIPSBURG NEW JERSEY MAN WHO WILL SOON BE A SERGEANT IN THE CIVIL WAR

1857 PAIR [2] OF ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY AND MEMORY BOOKS RECOUNTING THE DEATHS (AND LIVES) OF MANY BELOVED FAMILY MEMBERS, ALONG WITH DOZENS OF QUAKER HYMNS, POEMS AND REMINISCENCES.

1857 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOBIOGRAPHY HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF TROY NEW YORK'S MOST PROMINENT CITIZENS OF THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG TORTURED AND TORMENTED STUDENT OF RELIGION BESEECHING HIS GOD TO SAVE HIM FROM HIS ENEMY - THE DEVILS TEMPTATION

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