Sunday, June 27, 2004

T R Harrison & Frances Darling to Capt. Ed Richmond, Massachusetts, 1854

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This stampless letter has a circular date stamp for PAW PAW Mich., a matching PAID and 3 cent rate, and is addressed to Capt. Ed Richmond, N...

Emma Wadsworth Letter, 1865

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The correspondent, Emma Wadsworth is clearly an intelligent, articulate, young woman and does not hesitate to speak her mind. She gives the ...

An 1860 pre-civil war dated letter from William Wadsworth to his sister, Emma Wadsworth

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1860 PRE-CIVIL WAR LETTER WRITTEN BY CORPORAL WILLIAM WADSWORTH "…A good nigger is worth from fourteen to eighteen hundred dollars h...

1859 PIKES PEAK, COLORADO GOLD RUSH LETTER BY WILLIAM WADSWORTH

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1859 PIKES PEAK, COLORADO GOLD RUSH LETTER BY WILLIAM WADSWORTH "…I expect to start for Pikes Peak about the first of April…. They s...
Friday, June 18, 2004

Lydia Giles, San Francisco California, 1881

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~1880 OVERLAND JOURNEY~SAN FRANCISCO~MARITIME~ “When I have good pen and some better paper, I will write you of the Rocky Mountains, the ...
Thursday, May 27, 2004

S. Brooks to Thomas Brooks, Massachusetts, 1812

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This stampless letter has a faint circular date stamp for BOSTON with the stars / asterisks at the bottom, a handwritten 10 cent rate, and i...

Senator Asa Biggs, North Carolina, 1865

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POST CIVIL WAR LETTER FROM CONFEDERATE SECESSIONIST DELGATE, SENATOR AND JUDGE "All the valuable part of my Library was destroyed o...

Lydia Giles, 1882

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Letter written by an exciting and adventurous, female sailor, and pioneer who made the Overland journey through the Sierra Nevadas in 1880. ...
Monday, May 17, 2004

John Little, New York, 1883

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Name: Terry Schliewe E- mail: tks1952@comcast.net Franklinville, NY 17 July, 1883 Our Dear Son James: We would like very much to...
Wednesday, May 12, 2004

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Saturday, May 08, 2004

Civil War: Charles McDowell, a Canadian in NY 9th Artillery, 1865

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Name: Lisa Saunders E- mail: saundersbooks@aol.com To Nancy Wager McDowell from her husband Charles McDowell (A Canadian who enlisted i...
Wednesday, May 05, 2004

CHARLES R. COLLINS~27TH MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY, 1864

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CHARLES R. COLLINS~27TH MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY~ "I presume that we shall be obliged to go front in the spring camping. If so all rig...
Tuesday, April 27, 2004

John Farris to David Buster, Kentucky, 1842

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Letter is addressed to Mr. David Buster, Laurel County, Ky. [Kentucky]. Unfolded, it is a one and a half page letter written by John Farris....

Daniel Maupin, Virginia 1817

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Letters are addressed to Majer James Mcneal and William M[??], Knox county [Kentucky], and Mager James McNeel in Knox county. Both are writt...
Friday, April 23, 2004

John St. George Honner in Minnesota to brother Edward W. Honner in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada 1863

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Name: Maryjane Honner E- mail: mjonhermusheen@m33access.com Okaman (1) July 19th 1863 My dear Brother I recived (2) the news of yo...
Thursday, April 15, 2004

Joseph Bloomfield, New Jersey 1802

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Joseph Bloomfield of Bloomington NJ Letter (Rev. War, Officer, Attorney, Gov. NJ) The letter reads: Trenton, April 12, 1802 I than...
Saturday, March 27, 2004

F. W. Pitkin to Mary Ann Lewis, c/o Lewis Hotchkiss, Connecticut, 1831

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This stampless letter has a circular date stamp for Hartford Ct, a 'pointing hand' PAID, a handwritten 10 cent rate, and is addresse...

Civil War: CHARLES R. COLLINS 27TH MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY

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CHARLES R. COLLINS~27TH MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY~ I presume that we shall be obliged to go front in the spring camping. If so all right, bu...

Thomas Armstrong from John Cardwell, Virginia 1827

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This stampless letter has a circular date stamp for CHARe. VA [Charlotte, Virginia], a handwritten 18 3/4 cent rate, and is addressed to Tho...

E F Alling to Seth Keney, Connecticut 1848

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This stampless letter has a circular date stamp for WESTVILLE Ct., a handwritten 5 cent rate, and is addressed to Seth A.B. Keney Esq., Burl...