One and a half pages, 4to, with integral address panel. Loss where seal removed just touching signature. A very fine letter shedding light on the political conflict arising several months after the Massachusetts ratification of the constitution and the establishment of the so-called “new government.” Here John Adams asks, or.....
One page, 12mo. Adhesion along blank rear right side, where removed from an album. In fine condition. A signed quotation from Frederika Bremer: “’The shadow of God wanders through nature’” but in the noble heart, in the happy home his spirit loves to dwell. Fredrika Bremer” The quotation comes from the Swedish botanist.....
Two pages, 4to. On Dreiser's letterhead. Small stain on verso, otherwise in fine condition. Dreiser writes in to Geoffrey Parsons, the editor of the New York Herald Tribune from 1924-1952, describing a writing submission that he has attached with the letter: “Your general and varied courtesies to me, but more.....
Two pages, 4to, a bifolium with integral address panel. Lightly browned, the address panel lightly stained, generally in fine condition. John Jay, having just returned from New York City to Albany, responds to a letter from Parsons. Jay discusses the general state of US politics and specifically the diplomatic relationship.....
Two and a half pages, 4to. John Luzac (1746-1807): Dutch lawyer, journalist and professor in Greek and History, of Huguenot origin. He was the most influential newspaper editor in the Western world in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution. The Dutch scholar-lawyer tells Parsons that he has been employed.....
One page, 4to, a bifolium. With separate oblong sheet, being the envelope, also signed by Maroncelli. Piero Maroncelli writes in 1843 to an unspecified professor of music, discussing a third party, who seems to be the addressee’s music pupil: Translation: "To my respectable friend, I have learned that Mr. [redacted] has for a......
9 May 1865. Oblong 8vo (5 x 8.25 inches), on yellow paper tipped at upper corners to old mount. An amusing rhymed note from the poet John Pierpont (1785-1866), the maternal grandfather of the financier J. Pierpont Morgan: "You ask for my name 'written under a note' But I'm sure.....
The first a small oblong 8vo, the second 8vo. Light soiling to the first, both with contemporary translations from the Polynesian into French in pencil beneath the letters. Two letters from Queen Pomare sent in 1855 and 1856, respectively, from Papeete, French Polynesia. Translation: 1) “Raita hello to you. Prepare some bread for.....
Autograph letter signed, Bedford St., 13 December 1843. Two pages, 4to. Reading: "Dear Theoph. I should like to have an advertisement in the Daily of tomorrow & two successive days Volume II of Prescott's Conquest of Mexico Now received, & for sale at the Bookstores in this city Can't it be set on the head of the Column.....
Two pages, with integral address panel, 4to. Henry van Schaak (1733-1825): banished from New York State during the American Revolution because of his Loyalist sympathies. He moved to Massachusetts, first settling in Richmond and then in Pittsfield. He was a close friend and correspondent of Philip Schuyler, James Duane, and.....
One page, 4to. Jared Sparks: historian, editor, and clergyman. One of the leading mid-nineteenth-century American historians that included George Bancroft and William Prescott. McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard College, and named president of the college in 1849. Reading: "Dear Parsons, I have lately received a letter.....
One page, 8vo. Charles Sumner (1811 –1874): politician, United States Senator from Massachusetts. He graduated in 1830 from Harvard College, where he lived in Hollis Hall, and in 1834 from Harvard Law School where he became a protégé of Joseph Story. At Harvard, he was a member of the Porcellian.....
One page, 8vo. Four lines in Toklas's fine, miniscule hand. On her stationary. In fine condition. Alice B. Toklas writes to Drue Parsons anticipating her upcoming visit. Parsons was married to Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune from 1924 to 1952. Toklas writes: “Virgil Thomson has.....
One and a quarter pages, 4to. Reading: "My Dear Sir As the Court is not likely to have a long session, I must pray you to hasten on yr argument, in the Case of Peters v Warren In ? Co. Are you ever to be done with the License lease, 15 Galton law.....
One and a quarter pages, 4to. The Massachusetts jurist and congressman writes to Parsons: "Dear Sir: Your favor of the 31st ultimo came duly to hand. It would afford me great pleasure to be able to render any essential aid in the preparation of a biography of Chief Justice Parsons.....