Box VMF 6
Container
Contains 6 Results:
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
Item — Box: VMF 6, Folder: 7
Description
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.
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Richard S. Hawes Collection
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
Item — Box: VMF 6, Folder: 3
Description
Brown ink, calf, back cover separated, pages 142-156 loose. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4," 160 pages
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Jeremiah Green Collection
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
Item — Box: VMF 6, Folder: 3
Description
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
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Jeremiah Green Collection
Gregory to Weldon Kees discussing his own poetic method and outlining in rough terms his publishing plans for the immediately following years, 1941 February 24
Item — Box: VMF 6, Folder: 4
Description
Typed letter signed, 2 pages
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Horace Gregory Letters
Gregory to Weldon Kees thanking him for his reply to the former letter and giving details of the circumstances surrounding the Poetry review of his wife's (Marya Zaturenska) second book of poems, which subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize, 1941 March 9
Item — Box: VMF 6, Folder: 4
Description
Typed letter signed, 2 pages
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Horace Gregory Letters
Gregory to Weldon Kees commending Kees on his recent work, and giving a sketch of the current situation in Milwaukee, Gregory's birthplace, undated
Item — Box: VMF 6, Folder: 4
Description
Typed letter signed, 2 pages
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Horace Gregory Letters