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DORIS L. BERGLUND: 1938 ORIGINAL ENIGMATIC TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A STRONG WILLED WOMAN WHO SUDDENLY CHANGES FROM ENGLISH TO SHORTHAND CAPTAIN C.H. BACON: 1905 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY F A HARDWORKING SHIPS CAPTAIN PLYING HIS SHIP UP AND DOWN AMERICA'S EAST COAST PEARSON FAMILY [HANNAH & WARREN]: 1906 ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK OF LOCAL NEWS, EVENTS AND GENEALOGY MOSTLY OF THE PEARSON FAMILY OF LE ROY NEW YORK
GRETA HUGGINS: 1938 EXCELLENT, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF THE ALL ENGLAND WOMENS' HOCKEY ASSOCIATION TEAM TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA HANDWRITTEN BY THE TEAM GOALIE HANNAH COY by way of an UNKNOWN NARRATOR: 1798 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF RELIGIOUS MANIFESTATION BEING A HANDWRITTEN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG GIRL'S VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HER TRIP TO HELL WITH JESUS GEORGE ELKANA MORTON: 1886 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA NOTABLE AND RENOWNED BOOKSELLER, APOTHECARY AND AUTHOR
REVEREND C.H. VON GLAHN: 1937 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND SCRAPBOOK HANDWRITTEN AND COMPILED BY A BELOVED RELIGIOUS LEADER IN PRE WAR RHODE ISLAND ALBERT WILSON CONDON: 1892 + 1893 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A TOBACCO MERCHANT AND OWNER OF THE FIRST 5 AND DIME IN FREDERICK MARYLAND EDWARD BALLENGER: c1900s ORIGINAL GROUP OF 15 MANUSCRIPTS HANDWRITTEN BY A REBEL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGIAN AND PREACHER OF HIS NOTED BOOK PRIOR TO PUBLICATION
ALBION F. BALLENGER: 1912 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A REBEL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS PREACHER AND THEOLOGIAN LOULIE D. QUINN, [sometimes QUIN]: 1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A LOVING, CHARMING GEORGIA GRANDMOTHER GRANVILLE WILSON, COXSWAIN: 1930s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LOG BOOK AND TRAINING JOURNAL OF THE SEA SCOUT PATROL PROGRAM CHARMINGLY WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE SHIP'S COXSWAIN
JIM DICKINSON, RDSN: 1961 ORIGINAL SUPER 'BELOW DECKS' MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A RADIO OPERATOR ABOARD THE STORIED USS SHANGRI LA ON ITS SHAKEDOWN CRUISE PRIOR TO SERVICE IN VIETNAM J. CARSON LITTLE aka THE MOTORCYCLE MAN: 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING ONE YOUNG MAN'S DEVOTION TO ALL THINGS HARLEY-DAVIDSON HANDWRITTEN BY 'THE MOTORCYCLE MAN' THOMAS BOYLSTON ADAMS: 1806 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF HISTORICAL PHI BETA KAPPA SPEECH AT THEIR 30TH ANNIVERSARY MEETING HANDWRITTEN BY THE SON OF PRESIDENT ADAMS
HAL ?, ROYAL NAVY: 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 PEGGY MILLER: 1950 ORIGINAL MANSUCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NICE ALL AMERICAN 'GIRL NEXT DOOR' WHO SADLY HAS SUFFERED FROM THE SCOURGE OF THE ERA - POLIO AND WHO WRITES OF HER CONTINUING ILLS AND HER REMARKABLE RECOVERY WILLIAM A. BROOKS: 1920s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A PROFESSIONAL WORLD TRAVELER'S TRIP TO THE ZUYDER ZEE
WILLIAM A. BROOKS: 1920s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A PROFESSIONAL WORLD TRAVELER'S TRIP TO THE CAMINOS MACIONALES IN PANAMA WILLIAM A. BROOKS: 1920s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A PROFESSIONAL WORLD TRAVELER'S TRIP TO THE MOSQUES AND MINARETS OF NORTH AFRICA WILLIAM A. BROOKS: 1920s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A PROFESSIONAL WORLD TRAVELER'S MEMORIES OF THE PEOPLE HE HAS MET WHILE ABROAD
JOHN RABY: 1830s ORIGINAL 500+ PAGE MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF METHODIST SERMONS, ESSAYS, THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE AND HANDWRITTEN TESTIMONY OF HAUNTINGS AND APPARITIONS CHARLES E. MATTHEWS aka WILLIAM E. SMITH aka AUSTRALIAN BILLY: 1913 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE LIFE OF AN EL PASO TEXAS LAWMAN, BODYGUARD, BOXER, BOUNCER, TEXAS RANGER AND HOTEL DETECTIVE WITH MULTIPLE ALIASES INCLUDING 'AUSTRALIAN BILLY' VERNA C. GREEN: 1920s ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK AND PHOTO DIARY OF A TEACHER'S TIME SPENT WITH THE HOPI INDIANS OF ORAIBI ARIZONA
EDNA HUNTINGTON MERRELL: 1907 - 1910 ORIGINAL GROUP OF THREE [3] BIRD WATCHING DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY THE DAUGHTER OF THE PRESIDENT OF RIPON COLLEGE UNIDENTIFIED: 1967 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DAIRY OF ONE YOUNG MAN'S SERVICE AS AN ELECTRICIAN'S MATE ABOARD THE STORIED USS RICHARD B. ANDERSON IN VIETNAM ADAMS FAMILY [?]: 1863 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THIS 87 YEAR OLD MAN WHEN HE LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1791
CAPTAIN G.P.D. PEASE, ROYAL MARINE: 1939 - 1940 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE ONSET OF WORLD WAR II AND THE ROYAL NAVY'S RUSH TO ENGAGE THE ENEMY FROM THE UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE OF A CAPTAIN OF THE ROYAL MARINES JOHANNA BERGEN: 1786 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF LATE 18TH CENTURY CYPHERING AND EARLY AMERICAN EDUCATION IN MATHEMATICS OF A YOUNG BROOKLYN NEW YORK GIRL HERMETIC BROTHERHOOD EXECUTIVES et al: 1899 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF SIX [6] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS,TEMPLE TALKS: VERY SCARCE COPIES OF THE HERMETIC BROTHERHOOD'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S 'OFFICIAL ORGAN' ON REINCARNATION, DREAMS AND INTERPRETATIONS, KABBALAH TEACHINGS AND MUCH MORE
ARTASHES OHANESSIAN: 1922 - 1933s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF PHOTOS, EPHEMERA AND MANUSCRIPT LETTERS AND NOTES HANDWRITTEN BY NOTED ARMENIAN AUTHOR UNKNOWN: 1942 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT OF A DANGEROUS TREK BETWEEN BURMA AND ASSAM UNDERTAKEN BY ALLIED FORCES AND THE INDIAN ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS ALBERT 'BERTIE' SUMNER LAFONE, Royal Navy, Midshipman: 1879 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF ONE YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN'S FORTUNATE FIRST CRUISE ON A SCIENTIFIC MISSION TO THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS AS HE CLIMBS THE RATLINES TO THE ADMIRALTY
ABRAHAM JOHN HILLSDON: 1886 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF NORTH OXFORD COUNTY ONTARIO FINANCE AND COMMERCE HANDWRITTEN BY THE COUNTY TREASURER WM NESBITT FOR MR. ELIJAH ALLEN: 1792 ORIGINAL HUNTERDON NEW JERSEY FINANCIAL 'COLLECTION' NOTICE DAVID EILENBERGER: 1830 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF THE SEMINOLE INDIAN WARS AND THE SCANDALOUS CHARGES OF DESERTION AGAINST THE TENNESSEE VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS
MARIA L SALISBURY: 1884 CHARMING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF PATRIOTIC, RELIGIOUS, ROMANTIC AND COWBOY SONGS UNIDENTIFIED: 1906 ORIGINAL, SUPERBLY DETAILED UNUSUAL ENGLAND TO CANADA OVERLAND TO THE PACIFIC ON TO JAPAN AND CHINA EARLY 20TH CENTURY TRAVEL DIARY LAWSON NATHANIAL McMANUS: 1942 - 1945 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF 100 LETTERS HOME HANDWRITTEN BY A CORPORAL IN THE 828TH ENGINEER AVIATION BATTALION NOTED FOR THEIR HELP REBUILDING THE MUNDA AIRFIELD
UNIDENTIFIED: 1939 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND PROUDLY BOASTFUL SCRAPBOOK OF THE GERMAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF POLAND METICULOUSLY COMPILED AND LIKELY CREATED BY A GERMAN OFFICER SAVERIO FILIPPONE, USN: 1933 - 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY MIDSHIPMAN AS HE LEARNS THE WAYS OF THE NAVY, THE SEA, WOMEN AND LOVE AS HE BEGINS A CAREER THAT WILL SEE HIM AS A SUBMARINE COMMANDER IN THREE WARS UNKNOWN: c1915 SUPER SCRAPBOOK AND RELIC OF EARLY 2OTH CENTURY WAR MACHINES: ONE MAN'S HOMAGE TO THE MARRIAGE OF COMBUSTIBLE ENGINES AND WORLD WAR I MACHINE WARFARE INCLUDING A 4 MONTH DIARY OF A FAMOUS MOTORCYCLE RACER AND DESPATCH RIDER
ANN P. SHARPLES: 1883 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE DAUGHTER OF A NOTED QUAKER MINISTER IN CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA DETAILING THE LIFE, TIMES AND SADLY THE ONCOMING DEATH OF HER MOTHER IAN CAMPBELL HANNAH: 1908 - 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY AND OVER STUFFED SCRAPBOOK COMPILED AND HANDWRITTEN BY A RENOWNED BRITISH ACADEMIC, AUTHOR AND POLITICIAN HELEN DENZER: 1930 ORIGINAL, MASSIVE SCRAPBOOK FILLED WITH PHOTOS, CLIPPINGS, AUTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA DOCUMENTING THE 1930 WORLD CHAMPION DANCE MARATHON IN FORT WAYNE INDIANA
L. MACBEAN, [Lachlan Macbean]: 1889 ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN GAELIC with HANDWRITTEN NOTES BY DR. PETER DAVIDSON OF THE HERMETIC BROTHERHOOD FREDERICK HARKER: c1900s SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HOMAGE AND DETAILED COMPILATION OF ESSAYS, REVIEWS, PLAYBILLS, EXTRACTS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT THE 18TH CENTURY PLAYWRIGHT AND ACTOR DAVID GARRICK JOHN STANWOOD PULSIFER: 1820s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LEDGER BOOK FILLED WITH RELIGIOUS, PERSONAL, FINANCIAL AND GENEALOGICAL ENTRIES IN A MASSIVE FOLIO
UNKNOWN: 1650s ORIGINAL MASSIVE MANUSCRIPT EFFORT DETAILING THE REIGN OF LOUIS THE XIII AND HIS LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR DOMINATION OF FRANCE UNDER HIS SON LOUIS THE XIV MARIANA TOWNSEND: 1923 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY DETAILING A GRAND JUBILEE AROUND THE WORLD TOUR WITH HISTORIC STOPS IN EGYPT AND THE SUEZ CANAL HANDWRITTEN BY A SUPER WOMAN DIARIST KERMIT E. DUCKETT: 1950s - 1960s ORIGINAL ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS NOTES OF A TENNESSEE PROFESSOR AND AUTHOR
MARIE HARDY: 1920s ORIGINAL MEMORY AND SCRAPBOOK WITH DIARY ENTRIES HANDWRITTEN AND COMPILED BY A VERY POPULAR CENTRAL TEXAS GIRL IN THE 1920s ELSTON GREY TURNER: 1938 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A FUTURE RENOWNED DOCTOR AND MEDICAL OFFICER OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS JAMES GREY TURNER: 1909 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A VOYAGE TO ITALY NAPLES AND TUNIS BY A BANKER WHO WOULD ONE DAY BE THE PATRIARCH OF A FAMILY OF FAMOUS DOCTORS
LT. BARLOW [?]: 1948 - 1949 SUPERB ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING LIFE IN OCCUPIED JAPAN HANDWRITTEN BY A KEEN EYED, ERUDITE WAC LIEUTENANT PORTER JUDSON SMITH: 1912 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY SADLY HANDWRITTEN BY A VERY SICK MAN IN THE FINAL MONTHS OF HIS LIFE CORPORAL JOHN M. MCSHANE: 1918 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF LONG BREEZY LETTERS [27] HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN CORPORAL WHO CANNOT MASK HIS FEAR AND CONCERNS ABOUT RETURNING HOME
JOHN PRENTISS POE, GEORGE H. STEWART et al: 1852 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LEGAL DOCUMENT SIGNED BY LOCAL BALTIMORE MARYLAND NOTABLES GRANVILLE S. OLDFIELD: 1841 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED [ALS] AND HANDWRITTEN BY AN INTERESTING BALTIMORE MERCHANT AND ONE TIME CONSUL OF THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII WITH INTELLIGENCE REGARDING THE WINE TRADE LOUIS P. CAYOT, [also CAYATT, CAYOTT]: 1862 ORIGINAL, UNIQUE FRENCH LANGUAGE CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NEW IMMIGRANT WHO DETAILS HIS BATTLE EXPERIENCE FROM ROANOKE ISLAND, THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN AND ANTIETAM
UNKNOWN: c1870s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE MAN'S TIME HUNTING, FISHING AND TRAPPING ON THE NORTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR HIRAM PARKER JR: 1866 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY US NAVY ENGINEER DETAILING HIS TRIP TO FUNCHAL PORTUGAL HIRAM PARKER JR: 1867 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A US NAVY ENGINEER ABOARD THE USS DACOTAH DESCRIBING HIS TRIP TO TALCAHUANO BAY CHILE
MR. POTTS: 1867 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A US NAVY ENGINEER FROM CALLAS PERU TO HIS PAL ON LEAVE CASMIRE G. BONKOSKE: 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 UNIDENTIFIED: 1934 ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK OF THE HISTORICAL NEW YORK TO WARSAW POLAND TRANS ATLANTIC MONO PLANE FLIGHT
KENNETH L. WHITING: 1960s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND EPHEMERA WRITTEN BY AN ASSOCIATED PRESS JOURNALIST OBSERVING AND WRITING ABOUT THE MANY TRIBAL AND CIVIL WARS IN 1960s AFRICA DR. H. COLIJN: 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE NETHERLANDS ON HIS PERSONAL LETTERHEAD MISS G. SEARLE: 1846 ORIGINAL CHARMING 3 PAGE TRAVEL 'JOURNAL' DETAILING A FAMILY TRIP TO NAHANT MASSACHUSETTS BY A VERY YOUNG, BRIGHT AND CREATIVE GIRL
JOE: 1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS [18] HANDWRITTEN BY A REAL AMERICAN 'JOE' WORKING HIS WAY FROM TRAINING AT THE US NAVAL BASE AT SAMPSON NEW YORK TO SUBIC BAY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC TO HIS DARLING 'HONEY' ELI ADMIRE: 1897 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARD WORKING, HARD DRIVING BUT SICKLY OKLAHOMA MAN WHO WOULD ONE DAY PUBLISH A NOTED NEWSPAPER ONLY TO END HIS OWN LIFE IN IT'S OFFICES WARREN, LOANDA AUGUSTINA [nee LAKE]: 1893 - 1894 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN MOURNING HER 'DEARIE' ALL THE WHILE ENDURING UNENDING LABOR, TORMENT FROM HER NEIGHBORS AND DREAM VISITS FROM HER MOTHER AND DEAD HUSBAND
PATRICK O'BRIAN: 1995 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN POSTCARD BY THE PRE-EMINENT AUTHOR OF HISTORICAL NAVAL FICTION TO A FAN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT WARREN, LOANDA AUGUSTINA [nee LAKE]: 1879 - 1880 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A MIDDLE AGED NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN MARRIED TO A WHITE MAN SHE ADORES ALL THE WHILE CEASELESSLY WORKING, FEELING DISPLACED AND HAVING FEW FRIENDS CONFIDING ALL TO HER DIARY CHARLES DIXON: 1902 ORIGINAL PRE PUBLICATION HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BOOK ON BIRDS' NESTS BY ONE OF ENGLAND'S MOST PUBLISHED ORNITHOLOGISTS