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EDWARD W. WELLS: 1859 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A WEALTHY FAMILY SCION OF HARTFORD CONNECTICUT	G. PAUT: 1899 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF FRENCH WEAVING TECHNOLOGY AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY	JULIUS THEODOOR LEOPOLD HOEFFTCKE: 1849 - 1868 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS COPY BOOK AND JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF HOLLAND'S PRE EMINENT SURGICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS
DR. I.J. ALLEN: 1865 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAIR [2] OF HANDWRITTEN LETTERS EXHAUSTIVELY DETAILING HIS LIFE AND KEEN EYED VIEW OF CHINA, HONG KONG AND US RELATIONS BY AMERICA'S CONSUL TO CHINA	HALVAR 'HAL' LINDGREN: 1934 + 1935 ORIGINAL PAIR OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A 24 YEAR OLD SWEDISH AMERICAN WHO IS A YOUNG SAILOR BUT AN OLD SALT DESCRIBING IN WONDERFUL DETAIL ABOUT LIFE ON AND BELOW DECKS	GEORGE EMLEN ROOSEVELT: 1935 - 1947 ORIGINAL GROUP INCLUDING LOGS AND SCRAPBOOK OF THE NOTED RACING SCHOONER THE 'MISTRESS'
UNIDENTIFIED: 1856 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF MEETING NOTES, WRITS AND RECORDS OF THE COLUMBIA UNION BRIDGE CORPORATION	JOSEPH GERMAIN CHARLES COTTIER: c1896 ORIGINAL TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT STUDY OF ADVANCED HIGHLY TECHNICAL COMPLEX MATHEMATICS BY A PRODIGY WHO WOULD DIE WITHIN THE YEAR AT THE AGE OF 23	HIPPOLYTE JOSEPH VIAL: 1905 ORIGINAL, SUPERB FRENCH NAVY FUTURE LEGION OF HONOUR WINNER MIDSHIPMAN'S LOGBOOK IN A CONFIDENT HAND AND BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED WITH HAND DRAWN AND COLOURED MAPS
UNIDENTIFIED: 1916 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING LIFE ABOARD A ROYAL NAVY DESTROYER PROTECTING THE BRITISH COAST AND SHIPPING LANES	JOEL CADBURY: 1815 - 1820 ORIGINAL, FASCINATING, MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG POLITICALLY ENGAGED, VIRULENTLY ANTI SLAVERY ENGLISHMAN TRAVELING IN POST WAR OF 1812 AMERICA SEEING SLAVERY FIRST-HAND, MEETING THE VICE PRESIDENT AND WITNESSING CONGRESS	MR. KING: 1889 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL JOURNAL OF ONE ENGAGING ENGLISHMAN'S TRIP TO THE PARIS EXPO DOING AN IN DEPTH TOUR OF LA TOUR EIFFEL AND HIS INTRODUCTION TO SOME OF EUROPE'S NOTABLES
LIEUTENANT ALBERT SMITH: 1867 - 1921 ORIGINAL, SIGNIFICANT ARCHIVE OF TEN [10] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A VICTORIAN ERA CAREER OFFICER IN THE ROYAL NAVY LITTERED WITH FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF NAVAL HISTORY INCLUDING THE SINKING OF THE HMS VICTORIA BY THE HMS CAMPERDOWN	W.H. AVERY: 1878 - 1879 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE TRAGIC AND COMPELLING VOYAGES OF THE BRIG "HARRIET G" AS IT PLIED ITS TRADE TO AND FROM NEW YORK AND VENEZUELA COMPLETE WITH DETAILED NAUTICAL CALCULATIONS AND IN-DEPTH CARGO LISTS	AGNES GUNIRLLE: 1938 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN IOWA WOMAN MOVED TO LOS ANGELES DOING WHAT IT TAKES TO SUPPORT HER FAMILY IN DEPRESSION ERA SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
PRINCE ALBERT [FRANCIS ALBERT AUGUSTUS CHARLES EMMANUEL]: 1852 ORIGINAL, SUPERB RELIC OF HIS LOVE AND SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT 'LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT' OF PRINCE ALBERT, THE LOVING HUSBAND AND CONFIDANT OF QUEEN VICTORIA, ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED AND REVERED MONARCHS TO EVER RULE	CHURCH OF ENGLAND: c1700s ORIGINAL SIGNIFICANT HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF ANGLICAN DOGMA BEING THE 'THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES OF RELIGION', A DEFINITIVE STATEMENT OF DOCTRINE BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND	IAN WRIGHT: 1990 BRITISH OPEN MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK HANDWRITTEN BY CADDY IAN WRIGHT SIGNED AND AUTOGRAPHED BY SOME OF THE PREMIERE GOLFERS IN THE WORLD
WILLIAM MACGILL: 1850s - 1940s SUPER ARCHIVE OF DOCUMENTS AND LETTERS BY AND ABOUT WILLIAM MACGILL, CAPTAIN OF ONE OF THE FASTEST CLIPPER SHIPS IN THE WORLD: THE "SWEEPSTAKES"	Lieutenant Hussa, Sergeant Stevens, Corporal Nelson, Private Mowers, Private Sours: 1930s FASCINATING AND UNIQUE DIARY OF AN ARMED DETAIL OF FIVE MARINES TRAVELING BY STEAMBOAT INTO THE INTERIOR OF CHINA, EACH MAN CONTRIBUTING RECORDING AND DETAILING THE LIFE AND NATURE ALL AROUND THEM	JOHN BRUEN, Snr: ARCHIVE OF TWELVE [12] ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS TO AND FROM JOHN BRUEN, GRANDSON OF AN ESCAPED SLAVE, AND HONORED CHRONICLER OF THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS IN 1960s AMERICA
Anthony Pasternak: ORIGINAL AND HANDWRITTEN DRAMA-FILLED DIARY OF A PRIVATE IN THE ‘BATTLE OF HURTGEN FOREST’, THE LONGEST SINGLE BATTLE IN U.S. HISTORY AND ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES IN WORLD WAR TWO	Captain James Posey Woodside: ORIGINAL, HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL AND DIARY OF A YOUNG CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, HELD PRISONER AND THEN WITNESSING THE LAWLESS AFTERMATH OF THE CIVIL WAR AND THE "BUSHWHACKERS" WHO TERRORIZED THE MISSOURI POPULACE	NELSON WHITE [?]: 1865 HANDWRITTEN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A UNION CAVALRY SOLDIER AT THE VERY END OF THE U.S. CIVIL WAR, FIGHTING IN THE BATTLE OF FORT BLAKELY, OCCUPYING MOBILE, ALABAMA, AND WITNESSING THE AFTERMATH OF A BLOODY AND DESTRUCTIVE WAR
Hattie Summer: CURIOUS ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN 1876 JOURNAL OF ONE WOMAN’S TRIP ALONE TO THE WORLD’S FAIR CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION IN PHILADELPHIA AND ALL THE AMAZING SIGHTS AND FASCINATING INVENTIONS SEEN	WALTER TRENT: 1944 FASCINATING ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL OF A HARD-DRINKING, SHORT-TEMPERED EVERYMAN, WORKING AS A CARPENTER ON THE SS JOLIET, WORKING HARD ON DUTY, DRINKING AND FIGHTING WHEN OFF	EDWIN AND MARY STETSON: 1870s ARCHIVE OF SIX [6] ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN JOURNALS FROM A YOUNG WELL-TO-DO MAN, EDWIN STETSON, WHO WOULD BECOME A WELL REGARDED AND BELOVED FAMILY DOCTOR AND MARY, WHO WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME HIS WIFE MANY YEARS LATER
UNNAMED YOUNG WOMAN: 1920s FOUR YEAR DIARY OF A LOVING DAUGHTER, ACTIVE CHURCH AND CHOIR PARTICIPANT, WOMEN’S ACTIVIST AND MODERN WOMAN, LIVING IN POST WWI SMALL TOWN PENNSYLVANIA	PAUL JAMES MCGAHAN: FASCINATING AND INTRICATELY DETAILED ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG INFANTRYMAN, ENDURING INTENSE TRAINING AND WORKING HIS WAY UP THE RANKS IN THE AMERICAN HOMEFRONT AT THE VERY END OF WORLD WAR ONE	UNIDENTIFIED: 1939 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DETAILED 5 YEAR DIARY OF A YOUNG, MOVIE LOVING JEWISH TEENAGER FROM THE BRONX NEW YORK, GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL, STARTING COLLEGE AND LIVING A FAST-PACED, VIGOROUS LIFE
P. BARRY: 1943 - 1944 FASCINATING ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN CAPTAIN'S LOG OF ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED SHIPS OF WORLD WAR II, THE U.S.S CALIENTE, AS SHE PARTICIPATES IN SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS REFUELING MISSIONS OF THE PACIFIC THEATER	ELIZABETH KNOWLTON: 1940s WONDERFUL ARCHIVE INCLUDING EDITED TYPESCRIPTS OF ARTICLES, SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS OF ELIZABETH KNOWLTON, ONE OF THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED FEMALE MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY	ESTHER A. WALLING: 1919 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF A FEMALE CLERK OF THE ERIE RAILROAD WHO IS A STRONG AND PROUD UNION MEMBER, CHURCH GOING WOMAN AND LIVELY PRESENCE IN HER SMALL TOWN
E. W. D. SAYERS [?]: 1912 - 1914 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A PETTY OFFICER ABOARD THE HMS KENT, A ROYAL NAVY ARMOURED CRUISER IN CHINA STATION, WORKING AND LIVING THROUGH THE VIOLENT AND CONSEQUENTIAL SECOND REVOLUTION OF THE 1913 CHINESE CIVIL WAR	FRANK JOSEPH PESCE: c1930s FASCINATING, ORIGINAL EXHAUSTIVE HANDWRITTEN BOOK ON THE STUDIES OF AN AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGY STUDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, LEARNING FROM SOME OF THE GREATEST MEDICAL MINDS OF THE 20th CENTURY	WALLACE WHEELER: 1912 - 1929 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DETAILED AND COMPREHENSIVE JOURNAL AND SCRAPBOOK OF THE MUSIC CAREER OF ONE OF NEBRASKA’S MOST FAMOUS ORCHESTRA PIANISTS, WALLACE WHEELER, DURING THE ROARING 20s
ROBERT SCURFIELD: 1940s ORIGINAL AND FINAL TYPESCRIPT PLAY WRITTEN DURING TIME IN A POW CAMP AND FINISHED AFTER THE WAR BY THE SOLDIER AND PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT SCURFIELD	JOHN THOMPSON: LATE 1800s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LEDGER BOOK OF A GENERAL STORE IN TUCKERSMITH, ONTARIO KEEPING DETAILED AND METICULOUS NOTES ON PRICES, PAYMENTS AND BALANCES OVER THE COURSE OF ALMOST 20 YEARS	NEW BEDFORD MILITARY COMMITTEE: 1861 - 1865 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN ONE-OF-A-KING AND FASCINATING RECORD BOOK OF THE MILITARY COMMITTEE OF NEW BEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS, DETAILING THE MANY MILITARY AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THE CIVIL WAR ON A SMALL NORTHERN CITY
JOHN RING, ROYAL MARINE: 1914 - 1918 WW1 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL OF A ROYAL MARINE STATIONED AND PATROLLING IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND EAST INDIES, CONTAINING BOTH DETAILED AND FASCINATING DIARY ENTRIES OF AND COMPREHENSIVE LISTS OF NAVAL FACTS AND FIGURES	OSCAR McCULLOUGH: 1891 - 1900 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LEDGER OF THE COMPREHENSIVE AND FASCINATING FINANCES AND ACCOUNTING OF A SUCCESSFUL GENERAL STORE IN RURAL MANITOBA, THAT GROWS LARGER AND MORE SUCCESSFUL THROUGH THE YEARS	RAYMOND L. WYANT: 1944 - 1946 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN INTRICATELY DETAILED AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WW2 LOGBOOK OF THE HEAD ENGINEER OF THE DECORATED LCI(L) 322, ON DUTY IN THE PACIFIC THEATER DURING AND AFTER THE LAST YEARS OF WORLD WAR 2
DAVID MEYEROWITZ: 1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WARTIME DIARY OF JEWISH COAST GUARD CADET ABOARD THE USCGC SASSAFRAS ON ‘AID TO NAVIGATION’ AND U-BOAT DETECTION DUTY IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC	LORAN COOLIDGE: 1954 - 1955 TWO (2) ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LOGBOOKS AND JOURNALS OF THE CAPTAIN OF A HIRED FREIGHTER IN ALASKA FIGHTING DANGEROUS WEATHER, BEING ARRESTED AND ENDURING MONTHS OF ‘BLOOD, SWEAT AND MISERY’	A.N. NELSON: 1919 - 1920 HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY A CREW MEMBER OF THE U.S.S. BIRMINGHAM FLAGSHIP OF THE PACIFIC FLEET’S DESTROYER SQUADRON AS IT PERFORMS POST - WW1 DUTIES, EXERCISES AND NAVY PUBLICITY ALONG THE WEST COAST OF AMERICA
THEODORE JANSEN, MATTHEW JANSEN: 1905 SUPERB ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT RETROSPECTIVE JOURNAL OF THE DETAILED AND ENGROSSING BIOGRAPHY OF CIVIL WAR CAPTAIN MATTHEW JANSEN, BY HIS LOVING BROTHER AND COMRADE IN ARMS WHO SERVED AND FOUGHT IN OVER 100 BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES WITH HIM	ANNA P. HASTINGS: 1932 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF A YOUNG WOMAN’S TRIP FROM COAST TO COAST ON A GREYHOUND BUS, SEEING SIGHTS, VISITING FRIENDS, AND LIVING LEISURELY IN GREAT DEPRESSION ERA AMERICA	SALON C. CURRIER: 1865 UNIQUE, FASCINATING, ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY BY AN AMERICAN LAYING LOW IN SOUTH AMERICA, LIVING A LONELY BUT RUSTIC COWBOY LIFESTYLE IN THE RURAL ARGENTINA MOUNTAINS
JAMES MCFADDEN GRIMES: 1868 ARCHIVE OF TWO [2] NOTEBOOKS AND JOURNALS OF MIDSHIPMAN AND NAVIGATOR OF THE STEAMER ‘DACOTAH’, INCLUDING A LOG BOOK OF A TRIP TO SOUTH AMERICA, AND A BOOK OF IMPRESSIVELY DETAILED NOTES AND IMMACULATELY DRAWN ENGINE DIAGRAMS	C.J. [Cecil James] EDMONDS (?): 1920s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS DETAILING THE DEMISE OF ANCIENT PERSIA AND MARKING THE BIRTH OF MODERN IRAN CREATED BY A FUTURE AUTHOR AND RENOWNED EXPERT ON IRAN AND IRAQ	JOHN R. WRIGHT: 1830s - 1880 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF EIGHT [8] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A WESTERN NEW YORK FARMER WITH ONE EYE TO THE SPIRITUALISM MOVEMENT
MRS. ADAM S. SMALLEY: 1872 - 1873 ORIGINAL DIARY AND LOG BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY THE INCREASINGLY UNHAPPY WIFE OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE BARK 'NEHAMIA GIBSON' AS IT FACED TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS ON THE JOURNEY FROM NEW YORK TO MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA AND BACK	NELLIE [AND HERBERT] HOLT: 1897 - 1912 ARCHIVE OF THIRTY - FOUR [34] LETTERS FROM A WIFE AND MOTHER TO HER SUCCESSFUL BUT OFTEN ABSENT HUSBAND, A PROMINENT CITIZEN OF NEW MEXICO IN THE DECADES LEADING UP TO STATEHOOD	CAPTAIN CHARLES SANDERSON: 1919 ORIGINAL SUPERB DIARY OF THE LAST YEAR OF WORLD WAR 1, HANDWRITTEN BY THE ACTING CAPTAIN OF A MACHINE GUN CORPS COMPANY, FIGHTING AND LIVING THROUGH THE LAST GASPS OF THE GERMAN ARMY IN NORTHERN FRANCE AND BELIGUM
SANDY GRANT: 1947 UNIQUE TRAVEL DIARY OF SANDY GRANT, A DANCER AND ENTERTAINER WITH THE USO, STAGING OVER 70 SHOWS IN JAPAN AND KOREA AND METICULOUSLY DOCUMENTING HER LIFE TRAVELING AND PERFORMING FOR THE TROOPS STATIONED OVERSEAS	UNIDENTIFIED ENGLISH WOMAN: 1877 EXTRAORDINARY RETROSPECTIVE JOURNAL OF ONE ENGLISH WOMAN’S LUXURIOUS AND DEEPLY DETAILED TRIP FROM NAPLES TO THE BIBLICAL HOLY LAND, CROSSING THE DESERT BY BOAT, RAIL, DONKEY AND HORSE	JOSEPH Y. TAFS: 1844 - 1845 SUPERB AND DETAILED JOURNAL OF THE DAY TO DAY LIFE AND WORK OF A SAILOR ON THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY SHIP ‘MERCURY’ SAILING AROUND THE WORLD FROM AMERICA TO ENGLAND TO THE EAST INDIES AND BACK
EBENEZER SAGE: c1810s HANDWRITTEN COPIES OF LETTERS AND STATEMENTS MADE BY A NOTED NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN ON THE WAR OF 1812, INCLUDING THE DRAMATIC BURNING OF WASHINGTON, AS WELL AS THE SORRY STATE OF GREED AND MONEY IN AMERICAN POLITICS	A.R. SHOUSE [to Mr. Lawrence Mossby]: 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	WILLIAM SMITH LEONARD: 1842 SWEET ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL BY THE 9-YEAR OLD SON OF A REVEREND, GOING TO SCHOOL, LEARNING ABOUT LIFE, AND EXHIBITING QUINTESSENTIAL ‘JOIE DE VIVRE’
JOHN WHEELER RUTLEDGE [to Julia Ann Ward Rutledge]: 1835 HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM A DOTING HUSBAND IN BALTIMORE TO HIS WIFE, TOUCHING ON FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND THE GROWTH AND LOVE OF THEIR CHILDREN TOGETHER	JOHN JENKINS to COL. JOHN JENKINS: 1802 ORIGINAL SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS AND POLITICKING IN WASHINGTON CITY BY ONE JOHN JENKINS TO HIS RENOWNED RELATIVE COLONEL JOHN JENKINS BACK HOME IN LUZERNE COUNTY	CYRIL G. L. SANDERSON: 1920s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF TECHNICAL NAVAL DRAWINGS CREATED AND HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED CAMDEN NEW JERSEY MACHINIST
LT. COMDR. DAVID M. KELLOGG: 1943 -1944 SUPER, ACTION PACKED MANUSCRIPT "WAR DIARY" AND LOG KEPT BY THE LIEUTENANT COMMANDER OF THE USS THOMAS, NAZI U-BOAT HUNTER AND FOUR BATTLE STAR RECIPIENT UNDER ORDERS TO "OPERATE OFFENSIVELY AGAINST ENEMY SUBMARINES"	HONEYWILL, LESLIE C.E.R.A: 1910 - 1971 ORIGINAL FIVE [5] VOLUME MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF SUBMARINES IN THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINE SERVICE WRITTEN BY AUTHOR, HISTORIAN, 'PLUMBER' AND ONE OF THE FOREMOST AUTHORITIES ON SUBMARINES	HONEYWILL, LESLIE C.E.R.A: 1923 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A LIFE UNDERWATER FROM THE UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ENGINE ROOM WRITTEN BY A BRITISH ROYAL NAVY WARRANT ENGINEER, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR AND 'PLUMBER'
HONEYWILL, LESLIE C.E.R.A: 1972 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK: 'SUBMARINE DEPOT SHIPS BASES & SUPPORT SHIPS' WRITTEN BY A BRITISH ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINER, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR AND 'PLUMBER'	HONEYWILL, LESLIE C.E.R.A: 1973 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK: 'PERISCOPE PERSONALITIES 1901-1972' ABOUT THE MANY SUBMARINE COMMANDERS, OFFICERS, MATES AND SEAMEN SERVING IN THE ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINE SERVICES WRITTEN BY A BRITISH ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINER, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR AND 'PLUMBER'	ROY W. FERRENBACH: 1985 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY AND JOURNAL OF THE COMPLEX AND INTENSE DAY-TO-DAY WORK OF EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AN ALASKA GOLD MINE
JOHN [AND CHARLES] BYERS: 1850s - 1870s ARCHIVE OF NOTEBOOKS AND JOURNALS DETAILING THE ACCOMPLISHED AND SCIENTIFIC LIFE OF NOTED CIVIL ENGINEER, GEOGRAPHER AND CANAL BUILDER IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY SOUTH	CLAYTON SMITH RICHMAN [TO FREDERICK RODGERS]: 1870 - 1900 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM ONE SEAMAN TO A FRIEND, CAPTAIN AND CONFIDANT DETAILING HIS LIFE AT VARIOUS POINTS INCLUDING A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE FLORA, FAUNA AND CUSTOMS OF THE SAMOAN ISLANDS	FRANCES M. SIMMONS: 1914 - 1918 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT 5-YEAR DIARY OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO MOVES TO NYC TO BECOME A RED CROSS NURSE AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE WAR EFFORT IN A HOMEFRONT HOSPITAL
about JAMES DIMMICK: 1759 RARE AND EXCEPTIONALLY UNIQUE HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL AND SUBSEQUENT PUNISHMENT OF AN AMERICAN DRAFT DODGER, UNWILLING TO FIGHT FOR THE BRITISH IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR	BRIAN CAMERON GOURLEY: 1903 - 1906 PAIR [2] OF HANDWRITTEN, EXCEPTIONALLY DETAILED JOURNAL AND LOG BOOKS DETAILING THE EXCITING LIFE AND WORK OF A YOUNG ROYAL NAVY OFFICER AND SHOWCASING HIS ABILITY TO DRAW INTRICATE DIAGRAMS, MAPS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS	MARY AND ELLEN CLARK: MID & LATE 1800s ORIGINAL GROUP OF SIX [6] DIARIES OF SISTERS COMING OF AGE IN TWO DIFFERENT TIMES IN AMERICA, ONE THE BACKDROP OF THE CIVIL WAR, AND THE OTHER AN ERA OF DEPRESSION AND DISEASE
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