Hot Springs, Virginia: July 30, 1908. "My dear Ban: The only disappointment I had in Cincinnati was in not getting a chance to talk with you and Charlie Clark, and I don't know what became of you...." The letter is dated the month after he received the Republican nomination for..... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Wm H Taft"), to Otto T. Bannard of the New York Trust Company

n.p [New York]: February 9, 1930. An autobiographical letter from the journalist turned playwright briefly sketching his interests as a school boy, to his transition to a professional playwright. Reading in part: “A great American has written that the man is only half himself, the other half is his expression..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Augustus Thomas" to "Seymour Halpern" in response to...

Aix-en-Provence [France]: 20 January, 1931. ‘I Have Had So Many Exciting Experiences…’. An anecdotal letter from one of the foremost travel writers of the first half of the 20th century.Reading in part: “I have had so many exciting experiences that I really cannot think of one I should put ahead..... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Harry A. Franck") to Seymour Halpern ("Mr. Halpern") ...

Washington, D.C: Sept 18 (c.1931). "GOOD HEALTH AND ATTENTION TO DUTY" A no-nonsense reply from he 15th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Reading in part: “I do not attribute my accession to my present position to anything unusual, but mostly to good health (I did not have to retire) and..... Read More about Autograph Note, Signed "B.H. Fukker," to Seymour Halpern, in response to Halpern's...

[N.p. Logansport, Ind., Chronicle Printing Co: Privately printed], 1920. First edition. Sport in Indiana. Accounts of hunting and trapping in the Kankakee marshlands, deer and waterfowl.Werich was born in 1860 in a log cabin in Valparaiso, Indiana, not far from the river. “In the final chapter the author laments the..... Read More about Pioneer Hunters of the Kankakee

(Dec. 18, 1868 - Sept. 27, 1869). Flora Payne was the sister of Oliver Hazard Payne of Cleveland, William C. Whitney's roommate at Yale. After graduation, Payne and Whitney kept in touch and visited frequently, and it was on one of these visits, in 1868, that Flora and William were..... Read More about Collection of 41 Autograph Letters Signed from Flora to Will & 23 Autograph Letters Signed...

Warsaw [Poland]: May 8, 1931. "INTELLIGENTLY GRASP YOUR OPPORTUNITIES" A reply from the automotive pioneer and statesman whose name will always be associated with the jeep that bore his moniker. Reading in part: "It is hard to answer and I do not think there is one thing that contributes to..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed, "John N. Willys" to Seymour Halpern in response to Halpern's...

Warwick, Mass: Fortieth Congress, September 7, 1868. Windom served as, Senator from Minnesota and later as Secretary of the Treasury from March to November 1881, and again from 1889 to 1891. Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, to "Dear Doctor." Asking about "our" enterprise in...

Madison, Wisconsin: Beriah Brown, printer, 1850. First Edition. An early western periodical designed to "supply an acknowledged deficiency in the periodical literature of the North-west," this ephemeral publication only ran to three issues, March, April, and May 1850. The first two issues contain the papers read at the first meeting..... Read More about The Northwestern Journal of Education, Science, and General Literature. Vol. 1, No. 1

ca. 1883-1901. Gunn, a friend of William C. Whitney, McKinley, and Mark Hanna, was a wealthy Cleveland businessman who retired to spend the last 20 years of his life in Zoar, the commune in Ohio. His note-books, covering 1883-1901, were discovered after Gunn's death, edited by Don Seitz and published..... Read More about Collection of 36 Autograph Letters, signed, from Alexander Gunn to William C. Whitney, and 2...