Box VMF 6
Contains 13 Results:
Richard S. Hawes Collection
Various journals collected by Hawes
Jeremiah Green Collection
Two accounts books maintained by Green
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham Letter
Autograph letter signed from Graham to Mrs. Hills, thanking her for her letter and book, and commenting on his own work which he says is for his own pleasure "for nothing I have written seems to have given pleasure to anyone else." 3 pages
Henrietta Hochschild Collection
1870: December 25. Autograph story in verse titled "Ye legend of G.H.J., G.S.D., and .[N].D." concerning a trip to Europe, written as Christmas present, 21 pages
1886: March 23-1893: January 12. The Hendschel Album. Album containing autograph poems and tributes to Clementina Zwarts from her friends. Inscribed on page 1 "Clementina Zwarts. St. Louis Mo. March 23, 1886." Bound in blue with ocean scene.
William Hooker Letter
Autograph letter signed from Hooker to "My good frind and correspondent," offering Christmas greetings and inquiring about family. Mr. Hooker complains of his gout but resolves to bear the affliction patiently, for God alone is the "great physician of all souls." He also speculates that the French theaten to declare war any day, waiting to lull the British into complacency before striking. 2 pages.
Horace Gregory Letters
Correspondence from Horace Gregory to Weldon Kees
Louise Imogen Guiney Manuscript
Autograph poem by Guiney, Winter Boughs. Signed, 1 page
Album. Inscribed on flyleaf `to Ellen S. Sawyer by her friend E. A. Andrews.' Contains poems and tributes to Ellen from her friends, and a four leaf clover with the inscription `A talisman of constant love this humble clover sure will prove', 1854 April 28 - 1855 August 25
6 x 7 7/8" Red leather cover designed and titled Moss rose album in gold leaf. Central area in front has no gold leaf, only central area in back has the gold leaf, 11 pages. 2 loose sheets, illustrations of flowers bound in.
Account book of Captain Jeremiah Green, distiller, Boston. Signed receipts for business and personal cash disbursements, mostly for molasses, in the handwriting of the receiptors with three or four separate receipts per page, numerous entries on separate pieces of paper tipped in at the inner margin of the leaves, and additional entries pasted onto existing, unused pages, all in chronological order. Two entries pasted on inside back cover. Signature of Green on first sheet. Collection of autographs of distinguished Boston merchants of recognizable, important families, though not, perhaps, the most well-known as implied in the catalog. Collection includes: Thomas Boylston, Abraham, Fuller, Isaac Gridley, Jabez Hatch, Jacob Wendell, Thomas Gray, Joseph Lee, Oliver Wiswell, Abraham Wendell, William Chesebrough, Harrison Gray, and Joseph Wadsworth, 1744 March 23 - 1752 December 30
Brown ink, calf, back cover separated, pages 142-156 loose. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4," 160 pages
Account book. Boston. Including the following: a) Signed receipts , April 2, 1752 - April 24, 1753. In the handwriting or the mark of the receiptors for the shipping firm of John and Samuel Phillips. Includes wages for the officers and seaman, pilotage, etc., about three receipts per page. b) Diary Entries, September 21, 1771 and October 7-8, 1771. Three personal entries attributed to Jeremiah Green concerning purchase of tallow from John Dillaway, also cotton and spinning the same, noting price paid. c) Personal (?) accounts paid by John Phillips, Jr. Boston, December 30, 1755 - July 31, 1757. Eight signed receipts in the hand of the receiptors. No note of service rendered or purchase. d) Ledger of paid rents on property owned by Jeremiah Green. Lists the cash payments, services or goods rendered in payment. Accounts noted to be continued from earlier rent book, some transferred to new entries within ms by noting new page transfers. Some records discontinued with no explanation; at least two entries note loans and interest amounts; list of outstanding debts 1785, etc. Unidentified author, possibly son of same name. Tenants included the Rev. Jeremy Belknap, Cow Lane, 1787. Nine scratch sheets laid in of arithmetic figuring, names of tenants and rents agreed for particular property. e) Autograph letter signed, laid in, possibly transcribed, or in pencil. J. Crosby (unknown) announces to Green that he is setting off for New York as he wishes to spend the time left with his friends at home. Arithmetic figuring on reverse side, 1752 April 2 - 1789 December
Bound, unfinished calf, metal clasps. Titled in black ink, or burned in, on front cover "Book of Rents: Began 1784." 7 1/2 x 6 1/2," circa 165 pages