Ephemera

1915 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY BOSTON FINANCIER, PHILANTHROPIST AND EARLY SUPPORTER OF THE NAACP TRAVELING BY SHIP DURING THE DARK EARLY DAYS OF WW1

1914 ORIGINAL, CHARMING LETTER HAND WRITTEN BY A FORMER CONFEDERATE COLONEL WHO WOULD ONE DAY BE THE LAST MEMBER OF THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS

1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAIR OF LIGHT-HEARTED AND NOSTALGIC LETTERS HOME HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER FIGHTING THE OTTOMANS AT THE BATTLE OF JERUSALEM AND IN THE BATTLE FOR GAZA

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

1908 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF EXTENSIVE AND EXTRAORDINARY LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENGLISHMAN TRAVELLING FROM NEW JERSEY TO SAN FRANCISCO AND DISCUSSING THE TRAGIC DEVASTATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE BAY CITY FROM THE ALL TOO RECENT EARTHQUAKE

1910 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM NEWFOUNDLAND IMPORTERS THE STEER BROTHERS TO A SUPPLIER, DETAILING A BUSINESS TRANSACTION SOON TO TAKE PLACE BETWEEN THEM

1905 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING A FUN AND UNIQUE DAY VISITING THE LEWIS AND CLARK CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, THE WORLD’S FAIR THAT WOULD BRING THOUSANDS TO PORTLAND, OREGON

1904 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING AN EXCITING TRIP TO THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION IN ST. LOUIS MARRED BY THE MANY AILMENTS OF THE AUTHOR

1906 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTER CONCERNING THE CHARTERING AND PILOTING OF A SHIP AND THE MANY DETAILS TO TO BE DISCUSSED AND IRONED OUT IN THE PROCESS

1903 - 1904 HANDWRITTEN ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS BY A PATRIOTIC JAPANESE CADET BEFORE, DURING AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR WHILE AT THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY AND MANCHURIA

1900 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING A MASSIVE BLAZE IN BALTIMORE CITY

1870s ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] PARTIAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS OF LIFE, DEATH AND THE LEGACY OF HER HUSBAND

1900 - 1908 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS TO A YOUNG WOMAN STUDYING AT SOULE COLLEGE AND THE MEMPHIS CONFERENCE FEMALE INSTITUTE

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

1902 - 1906 ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK OF LETTERS, DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERA DETAILING MUCH OF THE MACHINATIONS AND PUBLICITY OF THE MARKETING AND PROMOTION FOR THE 1901 PAN-AMERICAN AND 1904 LOUSIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITIONS COMPILED BY THE HEAD OF PUBLICITY

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

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

1895 - 1906 ORIGINAL GROUP OF LETTERS BY AN AGED BALTIMORE SWAIN WHO ROMANCES AND MARRIES HIS TRUE LOVE ONLY TO END UP WITH 3 CHILDREN BY ANOTHER WOMAN HE MARRIES NAMED PINK

1908 - 1937 ORIGINAL GROUP OF 60+ MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY SOME 'ARDENT' AND SOME MORE THAN ARDENT LOVERS TO TWO MARYLAND SISTERS AND SOME FROM MOM

1916 - 1924 SUPER, ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF GERMAN AND ENGLISH LETTERS BETWEEN BERLIN AND NEW YORK RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF ALBERT EINSTEIN

1900s - 1947 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOS AND EPHEMERA RELATING TO A RENOWNED REVEREND, LATER ARCHDEACON AND MISSIONARY BRINGING CHRISTIAN OUTREACH TO ONE OF THE EARTH'S MOST DIFFICULT REGIONS

1919 ORIGINAL GROUP OF MANUSCRIPT NOTES, JOURNALS AND DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EDUCATION OF A YOUNG ENSIGN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE FORCE IN THE NAVAL ACADEMY AND SUBMARINE SCHOOL

1911 - 1921 and 1926 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES [2] AND EPHEMERA INCLUDING PHOTOS OF A CHIEF ENGINEER AND MERCHANT SEAMAN PLYING HIS TRADE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC

1905 - 1909 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS HANDWRITTEN AND COMPILED BY A YOUNG MAN WHO RAN AWAY TO THE SEA AND WAS PART OF THE FAMED US ATLANTIC BATTLESHIP FLEET AROUND THE WORLD TOUR

1918 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF LONG BREEZY LETTERS [27] HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN CORPORAL WHO CANNOT MASK HIS FEAR AND CONCERNS ABOUT RETURNING HOME

1919 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF SEVEN [7] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A ROYAL NAVY OFFICER OF THE HMS TEMERAIRE DETAILING THE SHIP'S ROLE IN SETTLING THE POST WORLD WAR EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

1900s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF LETTERS, RECEIPTS, PHOTOS AND BOOKS BY ONE OF TENNESSEE'S FINEST BIRD DOG HANDLERS, TRAINERS AND BREEDERS

1896 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF BUSINESS AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE AND THE HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF A NUGGET COLORADO GOLD MINER

1904 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF CORRESPONDENCE LETTERS DETAILING A POLISH MEDICAL DOCTOR'S SERVICE TO IMPERIAL RUSSIA IN THE FAR EAST DURING THE RUSSO - JAPANESE WAR

1961 Diary and Ephemera of the honorable Andrew Jackson Musselman Jr: Florida Lawyer, Democrat Member of the House of Representatives and Judge

1917 - 1919 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF EIGHT [8] LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A QUAKER NURSE WHILE ON DUTY AT THE PREMIER AMERICAN MENTAL HOSPITAL

1902 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENTHUSIASTIC CLERGYMAN TENDING THE TROOPS IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE BOER WAR

1765 Incredible Handwritten Legal Pleading in a Lawsuit Between Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin’s Nephew, and a Notable Surety

1898 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY ONE MISSIONARY BISHOP IN KIUSHU TO HIS COLLEAGUE THE BISHOP OF NAGASAKI

1897 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPT NOTES BY AMERICAN POET GERTRUDE THOMAS

1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING GERMAN SUBMARINE ATTACK OFF SICILY IN THE IONIAN SEA

1914 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN 'STATEMENT' OF DEATH FOR A GERMAN CAPTAIN AND EARLY CASUALTY AND GREAT LOSS TO THE IMPERIAL PRUSSIAN RESERVE INFANTRY BATTALION

1896 - 1920 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT POSTCARDS, LETTERS, PHOTOS AND EPHEMERA TO AND FROM ONE OF GERMANY'S PRE EMINENT FAMILIES AND THE MAN WHO SINGLEHANDEDLY GAVE HITLER THE REINS OF POWER AND THEREBY PUT GERMANY ON THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR II

1906 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM THE WIFE OF A PERSECUTED BELGIAN CONGO MISSIONARY INVOLVED IN THE NOTORIOUS INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL CONTROVERSY OF CRUELTY AND CANNABILISM: THE COMMANDANT HAGSTROM AFFAIR

1896 ARCHIVE OF 38 MANUSCRIPT LETTERS DETAILING AN OHIO MAN'S ATTEMPT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ONLY TO ADMIT DEFEAT AND RETURN HOME SEVEN MONTHS LATER