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BETTIE G. HICKS: 1878 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY AN ALABAMA FRIEND OF THE MCLAUGHLIN FAMILY REPORTING ON THE STATE OF FAMILY INTERESTS NOW THAT ARCHIE HAS PASSED	HOWARD P. DUNHAM: 1927 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A NEAR 'ZELIG' LIKE CONNECTICUT MAN WHO WORKS AND SOCIALIZES IN THE UPPER ECHELONS OF CONNECTICUT POLITICS	JAMES S. QUINN: 1934 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A GRAND MANAN NEW BRUNSWICKER WHO REGALES HIS FRIEND WITH TALES OF WHALES AND RUM RUNNING ROCKEFELLERS
UNIDENTIFIED: 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	CAPT. LOUIS MCKEEHAN: 1941 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A CRITICALLY TIMED TRIP TO WAR TORN ENGLAND BY AN AMERICAN PHYSICIST WHOSE DETERMINATION AND OUTSIDE-THE-BOX THINKING WILL PERFECT THE ART OF TORPEDO WARFARE	MRS. ARCHIBALD [ARCHIE] M. MCLAUCHLIN: 1870s ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] PARTIAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS OF LIFE, DEATH AND THE LEGACY OF HER HUSBAND
to GEORGE NEUMANN: 1942 - 1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF 100+ LETTERS SENT IN THANKS AND GRATITUDE TO AN EXEMPLARY AMERICAN WHO MADE IT HIS SERVICE DURING WORLD WAR II TO LIFT THE SPIRITS AND FEED THE SOULS OF THE SOLDIERS AND SERVICEMEN WHO GAVE THEIR ALL	RICHARD J. O'FARRELL: 1849 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A NEAR DESPERATE IRISH IMMIGRANT BEGGING FOR ASSISTANCE FROM A FELLOW COUNTRYMAN	JEROME B STILSON: 1863 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT CIVIL WAR LETTER SHOWING THAT WAR ALONE CANNOT STOP PROGRESS OR COMMON COURTESY AS THE MAN IN CHARGE OF BUILDING THE BALTIMORE COURTHOUSE PROVES
WILLIAM WILSON: 1848 + 1849 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A BALTIMORE MAN WHO HAS A GRASP OF BOTH THE LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF THE DAY	LYMAN REED: 1858 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER REVEALING A CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY RELATED TO POTATO ROT BY A BALTIMORE AREA NATURALIST	JOHN B: 1900 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING A MASSIVE BLAZE IN BALTIMORE CITY
HENRY PERKINS GODDARD: 1885 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY THE 1ST PRESIDENT OF THE SHAKESPEARE CLUB OF BALTIMORE ON ONE OF THE MORE ECCENTRIC VISITORS TO HIS HOME	GEARY BEAM: 1887 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY AN ITINERANT NEAR ILLITERATE THOUGH WONDERFULLY DESCRIPTIVE TRAVELER	LIZZIE [ELIZABETH] MORRIS: 1857 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAIR [2] OF LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A BALTIMORE SISTER TO HER NEW YORK BROTHER WHO AMIDST THE BREEZY FAMILY TALK VOICES CONCERNS OVER THE ELECTIONS AND THE MOBS
CRAWFORD R. BUELL: 1972 ORIGINAL TYPED MANUSCRIPT: LONG WALK RECOLLECTIONS BY NAVAJOS BY NOTED HISTORIAN PLUS HIS EDITORS COPY	DR. F.E. GORDON: 1847 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A SOUTH CAROLINA MAN NOT HAPPY WITH THE LESS CIVILIZED, LESS HOSPITABLE ALABAMA WHICH HE IS DETERMINED TO MAKE HIS NEW HOME AND MEDICAL PRACTICE	GEORGE SHAPLAND: 1788 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DUAL PURPOSE BOOK: CIPHERING AND COMPLEX MATHEMATICS WITH NAUTICAL AND NAVIGATIONAL EXERCISES AND OBSERVATIONS HANDWRITTEN BY AN ADVANCED SCHOLAR BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED
HERMAN T. PARKER: 1901 - 1902 ORIGINAL, SUPERB GROUP OF FOUR [4] FOLIO MANUSCRIPT BOOKS DETAILING THE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCES ON THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME FOR A NEW CADET ON THE UNITED STATES TRAINING SHIP ENTERPRISE	CAPT. HENRY HAWKINS, GEORGE HAWKINS: 1810 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LOG AND LEDGER OF A BUSY COMMERCIAL SHIP TRYING TO PLY IT'S TRADE IN THE INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS WATERS FACED BY AMERICAN SHIPPING FROM THE BRITISH NAVY AS COASTAL WATERS AND THE ATLANTIC CROSSING HEAT UP AS THE WAR OF 1812 LOOMS	MARIE BARBE THERESE HENROTAY: 1805 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT COOKBOOK AND ANCIENT TREASURE OF EUROPEAN CULINARIA
MRS. JACKSON: 1820 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT COOKBOOK OF EARLY 19TH CENTURY BRITISH COOKING AND CULINARY ARTS	UNIDENTIFIED: 1880s - 1906 ORIGINAL PAIR OF OF ENGLISH COOKBOOKS WITH RECIPES FROM THE VICTORIAN ERA THROUGH TO EDWARDIAN TIMES	SIDNEY SCHULMAN: 1941 + 1945 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, THEN COLLEGE FRESHMAN AND 3 YEARS AND ONE WAR LATER A MAN SEARCHING THE FLESHPOTS OF ASIA AND RAINING DEATH ON AMERICA'S ENEMIES
UNIDENTIFIED: 1850s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF GLASSMAKING RECIPES, PROCEDURES AND FORMULAES	DORIS TIBBELS: 1944 - 1946 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF 150+ MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY AN ADORING BALTIMORE HOMEMAKER WORSHIPING HER HUSBAND FROM AFAR KEEPING UP HEARTH, HOME AND THEIR HAPPY BABY UNTIL HE RETURNS	UNKNOWN: c1700s HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT "ONKO CHISHIN GO ROKU" - COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
Takitaka Kawaguchi: 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	UNKNOWN: 1830s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A JAPANESE VISITOR TO THE ISLANDS OF IZU AND THE SEVEN ISLAND CHAIN et al IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY	HENRY GUEST BLISS: 1834 + 1837 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FIVE [5] LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MASSACHUSETTS MAN SEEKING INVESTMENT AND EMPLOYMENT IN ALABAMA ONLY TO MAKE AN ILL ADVISED MOVE TO TEXAS
UNIDENTIFIED: 1932 - 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 5-YEAR DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A WEST COAST NAVY WIFE DUTIFULLY AND DELIGHTFULLY FOLLOWING HER HUSBAND FROM SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA TO BREMERTON WASHINGTON AND BACK	to/from FRANKLIN J. SCHOFIELD, DECK ENGINEER et al: c1935 - 1950s ORIGINAL GROUP OF 120+ MANUSCRIPT LETTERS AND EPHEMERA OF A BALTIMORE MAN OF MANY PARTS: HUSBAND, FATHER, STEAMSHIP DECK ENGINEER, SEAMAN'S UNION REPRESENTATIVE, SHIP BOARD NEGOTIATOR AND LABOR ACTIVIST	MAISIE SHEPHERD KINGSLEY, MRS. HARRY NORMAN SHEPHERD: 1924 - 1953 ORIGINAL GROUP OF 15 MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A FASHION FORWARD SUFFRAGE ERA BRIGHTON GIRL WHO EVOLVES INTO A DUTIFUL 1950s WIFE
COUSIN CHAS: 1862 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY BALTIMORE BASED COUSIN CHAS REPORTING ON THE LOCAL BALTIMORE NEWS AND POLITICS OF THE DAY INCLUDING REBELS 'HOOKING UP' WITH THE LADIES	�ang Van Xu�n [MAO] et al: 1950s to 1960s ORIGINAL MEMORY BOOK AND LETTER COPY BOOK OF A VIET CONG SOLDIER LEAVING HIS FRIENDS FOR THE WAR IN THE SOUTH	LIAO ZI YU: 1960s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE DETAILING MAO ZEDONG'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND IT'S MOVEMENT OF SUPPRESSING COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES AND ONE DOOMED MAN'S CAPTURE, INTERROGATION, CONFESSION AND RECANTATION
ADELE RICE [MRS OWEN R. RICE]: 1929 ORIGINAL, SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF EARLY SOVIET UNION AND AMERICAN RELATIONS HANDWRITTEN BY A KEEN EYED AND ENTHUSIASTIC AMERICAN DELEGATE FROM OAK PARK ILLINOIS A MERE SEVEN YEARS AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE USSR	UNIDENTIFIED: 1919 - 1922 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND LOG BOOK OF A BUSY HUNTER, TRAPPER AND FISHERMAN PLYING HIS TRADE ON THE ALASKAN PENINSULA	J.W. SYKES: 1884 - 1889 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND LOG BOOKS [2] HANDWRITTEN FROM THE UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE OF THE COMMANDER'S STEWARD OF THE RENOWNED HMS DREADNOUGHT
JESCO VON PUTTKAMER et al: 1960s ORIGINAL RELIC OF THE APOLLO SPACE PROGRAM: APOLLO 10 PRESS KIT OF ROCKET SCIENTIST JESCO VON PUTTKAMER	JESCO VON PUTTKAMER et al: 1960s FASCINATING, ORIGINAL GROUP OF DOCUMENTS, LETTERS AND EPHEMERA HANDWRITTEN AND COMPILED BY AN EMINENT SATURN AND APOLLO ROCKET SCIENTIST RECRUITED BY WERNHER VON BRAUN	CAPTAIN HAROLD B. SAY et al: 1950s ORIGINAL GROUP OF 200+ LETTERS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA COMPILED BY AN AMERICAN NAVY CAPTAIN INVOLVED IN OPERATION STRIKE BACK WITH THE BARELY OUT OF IT'S INFANCY NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION [NATO]
JOHN TYLER, J.R. BRADFORD: 1854 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT FORMAL REPORT ON THE SHIPWRECK OF THE BRIG EMILY	RENANA BEN GURION [LESHEM]: 1936 ORIGINAL PRE STATE OF ISRAEL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND SCHOOL NOTEBOOKS [3] HANDWRITTEN BY DAVID BEN GURION, THE FOUNDING FATHER OF ISRAEL'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER	WILLIAM A FALCONER: 1880s - 1900s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF ONE ARKANSAS MAN'S DETERMINED DOCUMENTING OF THE 1857 MORMON ATROCITY AND AMERICA'S WORST MASS SHOOTING KNOWN AS THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE
UNIDENTIFIED: 1897 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A GROTON SCHOOL STUDENT AND BEST PAL OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT WHO KINDLY GIVES HIS PAL AND GOLF BUDDY A COUPLE OF STROKES AS A HANDICAP	JESCO VON PUTTKAMER et al: 1963 - 1972 ORIGINAL PERSONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECHES, DATA, NOTES AND RELATED EPHEMERA OF A CELEBRATED NASA EXECUTIVE DURING THE PROLIFIC YEARS OF THE RACE TO SPACE AND THE MOON	JAMES RAGSDALE: 1844 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA MAN KEEPING UP WITH HIS FRIEND IN MISSISSIPPI
MR. REAVIS: 1843 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY AN ALABAMA BASED HUSBAND IN NO RUSH AT ALL TO REUNITE WITH HIS TERMAGANT WIFE IN MISSISSIPPI	W.R. ELLIS: 1888 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY AN ALABAMA MAN 'WEDDED' TO OLD SOUTHERN THEOLOGICAL DOGMA NOW SEEKING SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT FROM A MADISON COUNTY MEDIUM	PVT. ELISHA NEWELL: 1861 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A CONNECTICT VOLUNTEER SOLDIER IN WASHINGTON RELATING TO HIS UNCLE HIS OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES WHILE TRAVELING THROUGH BALTIMORE AND MARYLAND TO 'JEERS AND CHEERS' ON TO CAMP BUCKINGHAM
HENRY S. DeFOREST: 1888 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY THE NOTED PRESIDENT OF TALLADEGA COLLEGE AND THE FATHER OF THE FATHER OF RADIO	PROFESSOR S. R. W. SMITH: 1907 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND MORAL AND MENTAL SCIENCE DETAILING HIS DEDICATED EFFORTS TO BRING MORE STUDENTS TO THE UNIVERSITY	TOM BROWN TIVEY: 1920s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF DOCUMENTS, DRAFT NOVELS, MANUSCRIPTS AND OTHER RELATED EPHEMERA OF AN ENGLISHMAN LIVING IN NORTHERN ALBERTA WHO AUTHORED A NUMBER OF NOVELS BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE 'WILDERNESS TO THE EAST OF THE ROCKIES'
SYLVIA BOND-SMITH, [DEREK BOND-SMITH]: 1951 - 1952 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A 10,000 MILE EPIC JOURNEY BY TRUCK FROM EUROPE TO SOUTH AFRICA HANDWRITTEN BY A 17 YEAR OLD GIRL MAKING THE TRANS CONTINENTAL TREK WITH HER 20 YEAR OLD BROTHER	HOWLE FAMILY et al: 1897 - 1910 ORIGINAL MODEST ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE AND EPHEMERA TO AND FROM THE HOWLE FAMILY OF WETUMPKA AND ECLECTIC ALABAMA	ELIZABETH LEONARD, CAPTAIN OLIVER LANE Jr: 1890s MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTION OF HER OWN 1855 TRAVEL JOURNAL FROM BOSTON TO CHILE AND HER FRIEND'S LOG OF THE SAME TRIP IN 1854
30 CITIZENS OF MADISON ALABAMA: 1869 ORIGINAL RECONSTRUCTION ERA HANDWRITTEN PETITION AND PROTEST BY THE CITIZENS OF MADISON ALABAMA	AN UNKNOWN COED AT OLE MISS: 1949 ORIGINAL POST WAR MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A CHARMING RUSSIAN STUDIES SORORITY SISTER AND UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI COED	JOSEPH ANGELS: 1788 ORIGINAL REVOLUTIONARY ERA BALTIMORE MARYLAND MANUSCRIPT LETTER AND INTERESTING PICTURE OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MORES AND INCLINATIONS
UNIDENTIFIED: 1920s - 1940s MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FORMULAE, RECIPES AND PROCEDURES FOR MAKING 1000+++ OF PERFUMES AND FRAGRANCE RELATED PRODUCTS SUCH AS COLOGNES, SOAPS, EAU DE TOILETTE +++	UNKNOWN: 1896 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOUNG MUSLIM MAN WHO WITNESSES THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER AT THE HANDS OF THE SULTAN'S SOLDIERS, HIS MOTHER BY ROBBERS AND HIS SUBSEQUENT ENSLAVEMENT AS A GUNMAKER AND TRAINING AT AMERICA'S WINCHESTER ARMS FACTORY	UNKNOWN: 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
FLORENCE E. HUGHES: 1933 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF DEPRESSION ERA TENNESSEE AND A SADLY TYPICAL LOOK AT THE LIFE AND TIMES AND RACE RELATIONS OF THE DAY	PAUL ROBESON, WESLEY A. WILLIAMS: 1958 COPY OF 'HERE I STAND' BY ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST ICONIC AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTES OF RAGE AND BITTERNESS BY ANOTHER RENOWNED AFRICAN AMERICAN	UNIDENTIFIED: 2001 - 2003 ORIGINAL NO HOLDS BARRED MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A 25 YEAR OLD AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN WHO WILL SHARE ANY AND ALL INTIMACIES WITH HER DIARY
UNKNOWN: 1864 ORIGINAL GROUP OF SIX [6] CIVIL WAR CDVs SOME PHOTOGRAPHS UNKNOWN DEPICTING AN ALABAMA IN THE THROES OF OCCUPATION AND A PARADE OF RECENTLY FREED SLAVES KNOWN AS CONTRABANDS	G I N: 1818 SUPERB, ORIGINAL 600+ PAGE FRENCH MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF COMPLEX AND ADVANCED MATHEMATICS, GEOMETRY, STATISTICS, NAVIGATION AND MORE BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED AND LITTERED WITH 100s OF DRAWINGS, GRAPHS AND CHARTS	ARTHUR GORDON aka ARTHUR SHIRT: 1919 ORIGINAL, MASSIVE MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG MAN, ALREADY AN OLD SALT, WHO PINES FOR A SHIP AFTER SERVING IN THE NAVY AND WHO ONE DAY GOES ON TO WRITE ABOUT THE SEA
ROBERT SHELDRICK: 1942 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A CANADIAN ARMY LAWYER IN NEWFOUNDLAND DEALING WITH UNIQUE HOMEFRONT ISSUES	HENRY BACON: c1895 'ETRETAT: HAMLET OF THE SETTING SUN - A NORMAN VILLAGE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS' WITH 11 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS BY BACON	CHARLES WELLINGTON FURLONG: 1915 ORIGINAL EXPEDITION JOURNAL AND TRAVEL SCRAPBOOK TO WEST AFRICA AND THE ISLANDS OFF THE WEST COAST FOR HIS DAUGHTER RUTHIE HANDWRITTEN AND COMPILED BY A TRUE RENAISSANCE MAN WITH THE BACKDROP OF WWI LOOMING
HERBERT WING JR: 1913 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF ONE STUDENT'S WORK IN ATHENS GREECE ON HIS WAY TO A DOCTORATE IN GREEK STUDIES	JAMES MAURICE SHIPTON, MIDSHIPMAN: 1803 - 1805 ORIGINAL NELSON ERA MANUSCRIPT CYPHER AND EXERCISE BOOK BELONGING TO A ROYAL NAVY MIDSHIPMAN ABOARD A STORIED SHIP WHILE THE ENGLISH BLOCKADE BREST AND PLAY CAT AND MOUSE WITH THE FRENCH FLEET	TIM DEWING, MIDSHIPMAN: 1983 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN ABOARD THE NOTED HMS FEARLESS CRUISING TO TORTOLA PROVING MIDSHIPMAN EVEN 100s OF YEARS SEPARATED BY TIME ARE STILL MUCH THE SAME SINCE THE AGE OF SAIL
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