Box Small Collections 12

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Nash Buckingham Collection contains correspondence (1963-1967), clippings (1910s), and the short story "Uncle Willis, Skimpy, and the Cotton Bale" by Nash Buckingham (1900). This is the first appearance in print of this Buckingham story. There are also two typed letters, signed by Buckingham, to Henry Cox commenting on his writings, the story, book collecting, and outdoor matters. Another letter by Frank Pemberton as managing editor of Harvard Today comments on earlier iterations of the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Nash Buckingham Collection contains correspondence (1963-1967), clippings (1910s), and the short story "Uncle Willis, Skimpy, and the Cotton Bale" by Nash Buckingham (1900). This is the first appearance in print of this Buckingham story. There are also two typed letters, signed by Buckingham, to Henry Cox commenting on his writings, the story, book collecting, and outdoor matters. Another letter by Frank Pemberton as managing editor of Harvard Today comments on earlier iterations of the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Nash Buckingham Collection contains correspondence (1963-1967), clippings (1910s), and the short story "Uncle Willis, Skimpy, and the Cotton Bale" by Nash Buckingham (1900). This is the first appearance in print of this Buckingham story. There are also two typed letters, signed by Buckingham, to Henry Cox commenting on his writings, the story, book collecting, and outdoor matters. Another letter by Frank Pemberton as managing editor of Harvard Today comments on earlier iterations of the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains a promotional pamphlet and 18 photographs from the 1897 Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition that opened May 1, 1897 and closed October 31, 1897 in Nashville, Tennessee.The promotional pamphlet consists of 48 pages that contain illustrations, photographs, plates, and a map of the exposition grounds. The pamphlet was issued in commemoratino of the 100th Anniversary of the State of Tennessee's admission to the Union. It is stamped "Feb. 23,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains a promotional pamphlet and 18 photographs from the 1897 Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition that opened May 1, 1897 and closed October 31, 1897 in Nashville, Tennessee.The promotional pamphlet consists of 48 pages that contain illustrations, photographs, plates, and a map of the exposition grounds. The pamphlet was issued in commemoratino of the 100th Anniversary of the State of Tennessee's admission to the Union. It is stamped "Feb. 23,...

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This collection contains two autographed letters, signed and dated, addressed to Don Geronimo Torres Tenorio, Vice-President of the Colombian Senate, for whom the writer is contracting the latest minting machinery in France for export to Colombia.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Nash Buckingham Collection contains correspondence (1963-1967), clippings (1910s), and the short story "Uncle Willis, Skimpy, and the Cotton Bale" by Nash Buckingham (1900). This is the first appearance in print of this Buckingham story. There are also two typed letters, signed by Buckingham, to Henry Cox commenting on his writings, the story, book collecting, and outdoor matters. Another letter by Frank Pemberton as managing editor of Harvard Today comments on earlier iterations of the...

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This collection contains a manuscript, dated 1680, documenting the sale of slave named "Mauricia", a young girl aged 10 or 11 in Colombia. The slave was sold by Garcia Martin de la Reina Alferes of the city of Neiva, Colombia to Pedro de Arana Berino of San Juan de Pasto. The slave was sold for 260 Patacones (also known as a peso).

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Handwritten letter in Spainish. No English transcript available at this time.

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Handwritten document. No transcript available at this time.

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Contains a letter from Robert Penn Warren to E. Lowell Robbins Jr. about how Warren has been too busy to read Robbins' draft for his new novel.

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This collection contains a handwritten daily diary dated 1915-1916 by Ranson Griffin. Griffin is 74 year old woman that details her life, family, and friends in rural Alabama. There is an ownership inscription in the back signed by Griffin. The diary details daily chores, visits, trips, local events, and family occasions.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of the diary dated 1861-1867 of an educated young woman as she leaves school and reflects on the changing world around her due to the American Civil War.Description from the vendor: "1861-1867. Comprised of 94 handwritten pages densely composed in ink and pencil, with one page excised and one censored toward the rear. Measures 120 x 76 mm. Tan sheep over card; light wear to extremities and shadow of owner's signature to front board. Internally tight and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Two volumes. A collection of racist dialect manuscripts by Isaac Coale, Jr. Bradbound into generic oak tag wrappers, one with the label of Isaac Coale, Jr., & Co. on the frontispiece wrap. Typed leaves (with mixed ribbon and carbon pages), with corrections in type and in pencil. Letter from Norman Vincent Peale dated in 1936 lauding the stories bound into the second volume. Signed by the author, at various places, as Isaac Coale, Sambo, or "N***** Jim."The Baltimore (and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Two volumes. A collection of racist dialect manuscripts by Isaac Coale, Jr. Bradbound into generic oak tag wrappers, one with the label of Isaac Coale, Jr., & Co. on the frontispiece wrap. Typed leaves (with mixed ribbon and carbon pages), with corrections in type and in pencil. Letter from Norman Vincent Peale dated in 1936 lauding the stories bound into the second volume. Signed by the author, at various places, as Isaac Coale, Sambo, or "N***** Jim."The Baltimore (and...

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This collection contains a manuscript about the construction of the Panama Canal from Paris, 1876.

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This collection contains an original handwritten travel diary of a trip by an American Railroad Engineer to South America and down the wild, immense, and untamed Amazon River into the interior of Brazil, dated 1867-1868.

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This collection contains correspondences from Alice Savage from her time in Monterey, Mexico.