Category: 19th Century Diary

1880 ORIGINAL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY LEVI HARD, A FARMER FROM KENDALL, ORLEANS COUNTY, NY, DOCUMENTING FARMING ACTIVITIES AND SOCIAL LIFE

Price: $985.99

Publisher: KENDALL, N.Y. ORLEANS COUNTY, : 1880

Seller ID: 0008014

Condition: Very Good

On offer is an original diary of Levi Hard from Orleans County showing the life of a well-off farmer in a small New York town in 1880s, detailing his day-to-day activities including routine farming operations, fighting field blaze, and his social life. The diary covers the whole year, all pages are densely filled. At the time when the diary was written Levi Hard, was about 70 years of age and lived with his wife, their daughter and son-in-law lived nearby. They were growing crops, fruit and vegetables, and kept cows and sheep. Hard continued working himself and was often helped by his son-in-...
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1880 - 1921 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF AN ERUDITE AND EXPRESSIVE LATE 19TH CENTURY BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR

By: HARLAN PAGE FRENCH

Price: $2,055.99

Publisher: Pleasant Valley [Cambridge] Vermont Albany New Yor, : 1880

Seller ID: 0001922

Condition: Good+

On offer is a super, original manuscript diary handwritten by Mr. Harlan Page French, an expressive 19th Century business man and entrepreneur born in Pleasant Valley [Cambridge] Vermont but spent most of his adult life in Albany New York. In 1881 Harlan's business of French & Choate Stationer succeeded the Readers and Writer's Economy Company. His partner left the business in 1884. While not a day to day diary Harlan writes 154 handwritten pages in the 6" x 11" book beginning March 15th, 1880 through to February 13th, 1921 but sometimes not writing for years but he retrospectively bri...
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1897 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ALL-AMERICAN BOY-NEXT-DOOR WHO HAPPENS TO LIVE IN A TENT

By: HARLOW T KAYS

Price: $1,255.99

Publisher: California, : 1897

Seller ID: 0002571

Condition: Good+

On offer is a charming and unusual pre turn of the Century manuscript diary handwritten by a young, 12 year old, boy named is Harlow T Kays. Harlow it appears to live in a tent, one that is equipped with a kitchen in we think California. He lived/worked at a Dairy Creamery and went to a creamery dance making for a unique perspective of a late 19th Century boy. He writes about his daily activities, whitewashing, playing, sweeping the tent and stuffing up holes in the kitchen. He enjoyed reading Tanglewood Tales. He also talks about a bunk house and not making it to school because of chores. He ...
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1884 CHARMING HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF ONE LEICESTER FAMILY'S TRAVELS IN NORTH WALES

By: HARRY SWETORS [?]

Price: $885.99

Publisher: Brynmair, the Morfa, Conway Wales Great Britain UK, : 1884

Seller ID: 0001134

Condition: Very Good+

On offer is an utterly charming diary of a trip to North Wales by a man and his family in 1884. The journal is approximately 60 pages, many with some small and excellent vignette pen and ink drawings and in a cultured and quite nice handwriting. The diary begins, as he catches a train at Chester, setting the amusing tone: "Caution! When about to travel by rail always give yourself plenty of time - do not leave anything to the last minute - otherwise you may have to rush off with your chin adorned with a stubble of nine and twenty hours growth - your wristbands unfastened, and with several ...
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1877 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NEW YORK MAN WHO TRAVELS BETWEEN CITIES TO SELL HIS GOODS AND TRAVELS BETWEEN MORAL COMPASS POINTS CHAMPIONING HIS FIDELITY TO HIS GIRLFRIEND WHILE HE MAKES THE ODD DRUNKEN VISIT TO A HOUSE OF ILL REPUTE

By: HARRY VAN ZANT

Price: $1,155.99

Publisher: NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK NYC NY, : 1877

Seller ID: 0002176

Condition: Good

On offer is the original, interesting manuscript diary of a young traveling salesman living in New York City whose writings span January 1st, 1877 through August 8th, 1877 (though leaves blank the space between Feb 6-May 15). While at first glance this diary is a look at how a young man, whose name we believe is Harry Van Zant as per what appears to be an ownership signature on the rear endpaper, made his way as a salesman by day, factory worker, carouser and bit of a hell raiser by night, in New York City in the late 19th century, on further reading it is actually a love story. Our author is ...
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1887 - 1892 ARCHIVE OF THREE (3) ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARIES BY A VERY PROLIFIC 21 YEAR OLD HOLLAND NEW YORK GIRL

By: HATTIE BAKER

Price: $2,225.99

Publisher: Holland New York NY, : 1887

Seller ID: 000020

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

On offer three diaries all belonging to Hattie Baker of Holland, New York. This first diary represents the year 1887 when Hattie turns 21 and I she was very faithful when writing in her diariy. Once you start reading this personal memoir her amazing life story unfolds which only makes the reader want to know more about Hattie. Intertwined between the pages of her diary you'll find subtle hints, little pieces to the puzzle that give our young woman a sense of mystery to her life. For example, on October 8th, 1887 she writes, "This day will never be forgotten, H & I".Or at one point in t...
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1869 SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT EUROPEAN TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE EXCEEDINGLY BRIGHT YOUNG GIRL WHO IS THE NIECE AND WARD OF HER FAMOUS AMERICAN ARTIST UNCLE

By: HATTIE CARNES

Price: $2,855.99

Publisher: Italy, : 1869

Seller ID: 0008150

Condition: Good

On offer is an original manuscript travel journal of a young woman who is closely related to two of America's significant art figures of the 19th Century. Measuring 6 inches by 3.5 inches, the journal contains 60 pages. It is approximately 66 percent complete. The covers and pages are in good condition. However, several pages are loose within the journal. The handwriting is legible. The journal is a record of Hattie Carne's trip to Italy in 1869. Hattie Carnes was born in 1858. She and her brother were orphaned after her father died in 1860 and her mother in 1863. She was raised by her uncle a...
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1874 THROUGH 1887 ARCHIVE OF FOUR [4] HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF LIFE IN CENTRAL NEW YORK STATE

By: Hattie Jeannie Barnes

Price: $985.99

Publisher: Cooperstown Otsego County New York, : 1874

Seller ID: 000691

Binding: Leatherette

Condition: Good

On offer is a treasure trove of Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York history and genealogy. The author, Hattie Jeannie Barnes, writes in four [4] handwritten manuscript diaries of life, usually hardscrap, always hard working, in early central New York State. The years covered are 1874, 1875 [?], 1876 & 1887. It should be noted that it is assumed to be 1875 though not positive as the first week or so of January is missing along with the census, dates etc portion missing. However research with dated calendars and the flow of writing lead us to believe with certainty of the date. Overall conditio...
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1895 - 1900 SUPERB ORIGINAL TRIO OF HAND WRITTEN NOTEBOOKS DETAILING THE NITTY GRITTY JOB OF POLICING THE STREETS OF BOSTON IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY

By: HAYDEN J. RINGER

Price: $3,955.99

Publisher: BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, : 1895

Seller ID: 0008049

Condition: Good+

On offer is a rare collection of police patrol notebooks belonging to the City of Boston Police Department. Dated 1895, 1897 and 1899, they give a detailed look at life on the streets of Boston at the turn of the 19th century. There are 3 volumes. The first is embossed with "Property of the City of Boston Police Department", and covers the calendar year 1895. It measures 6 inches by 31/2 inches and contains 365 dated pages plus memoranda pages. The daily pages are 100% complete. The second book has a printed title page identifying it as the "Diary For Police Department of the City...
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1876 ARCHIVE OF FIFTEEN [15] HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTERS BETWEEN WOOD FAMILY MEMBERS IN BROOKLYN NEW YORK, HANOVER NEW HAMPSHIRE AND ST. JOHNSBURY VERMONT

By: HELEN WOOD & FAMILY

Price: $985.99

Publisher: ST. JOHNSBURY VERMONT VT, : 1876

Seller ID: 000835

Condition: Good

On offer is an archive of handwritten manuscript letters that belonged to Helen Wood of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The letters, which date circa 1876 - 1888, interestingly are both to and from Helen. In all there are 15 letters and 7 of those still have their envelopes. Then there are 9 empty covers. These letters will be of particular interest to historians of the era as the correspondents were detailed in their writings. One letter written to Helen by a friend living in Brooklyn New York dated 1887 relates over 4 pages a fascinating account of the way Brooklyn is changing especially 5th avenue....
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1892 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A 'TYPICAL' VICTORIAN GENTLEMAN

By: HENRY A. WHITEHEAD

Price: $1,785.99

Publisher: Shustoke Warwickshire England, : 1892

Seller ID: 0001354

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

On offer is a super original 19th Century manuscript travel diary in a premium leather bound notebook of about 200 pages of lined paper. Signed and dated 1892 by Henry A. Whitehead on the first page. [Research suggests Whitehead was vicar of the village in the mid nineteenth century.] The journey starts from Shustoke in Warwickshire, via Birmingham to Liverpool, where the author with his companion McWilliams boards his first boat The Mareotis, at Huskisson Dock, bound for Gibraltar, Tangiers, Algeria, Malta, Alexandria, Ramleh, Cairo, Aden, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Durban and beyond. This is a ve...
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1856 & 1857 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES BY THE SON OF A DISTINGUISHED MAINE FAMILY WHO GOES ON TO GREAT PERSONAL FAME FOR HIS SERVICE IN THE CIVIL WAR WITH THE 5TH MAINE REGIMENT

By: Henry Ripley Millett

Price: $3,355.99

Publisher: LEEDS GOREHAM MAINE CAMPELLO MASS MA, : 1856

Seller ID: 0001058

Condition: Good+

On offer are two mid 19th century, pre Civil War, handwritten manuscript diaries dated from 1856 and 1857 and both belonged to Henry Ripley Millett who was originally from Leeds and Gorham Maine. Henry had quite a distinguished background and would also come to distinguish himself as Colonel Millett of the 5th Maine Regiment during the civil war. [Henry Millett was the cousin of Frank D. Millet, the artist, who was director of decorations for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair Columbian Exposition.] Henry was born in Leeds on September 23rd, 1832. He was the son of Thomas and Elmira A. Day Millet. ...
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1802 - 1803 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF MATHEMATICS, GEOMETRY, TRIGONOMETRY AND MORE, GEARED TOWARDS THE IRISH IMMIGRANTS NEW TO THE SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TOWNSHIP

By: HENRY SNEVELY (or SNAVELY)

Price: $3,055.99

Publisher: BETHEL TOWNSHIP, LEBANON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, : 1802

Seller ID: 0009162

Condition: Good

On offer is an interesting document of early 19th century education, an original, handwritten note book covering a myriad of subjects related to mathematics. The owner and creator of this book was a man named Henry Snevely (also written as Snavely) and the book dates from 1802 - 1803. It seems Snevely was born in the United States and lived his whole life in Southeastern Pennsylvania. At the time of the creation of the book, Snevely was almost 50 years old, an established land owner in Bethel Township, Lebanon County. Why he had a book of mathematics is unknown, however, I have found records o...
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1868 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS COPYBOOK/TRAVEL DIARY BY A BRITISH SOLDIER ON HIS WAY TO INDIA SHARING INTIMATE DETALS WITH HIS MATER, PATER AND KITTY

By: HENRY ______

Price: $2,295.99

Publisher: SS MEMPHIS HMS EUPHRATES THE FORT ALLAHABAD INDIA, : 1868

Seller ID: 0001708

Condition: Fair

On offer is a very interesting, original 1868 manuscript diary handwritten by a British army officer signing himself Henry who details through exact copies of his letters to his Mother, Father and Kitty a diary like journal with approximately 75+ pages [there has been some loss to the first section of the book but included are pages 73 - 80, then pages 89 - 160 are complete] his time aboard a number of ships including the SS Memphis, the HMS Crocodile and the HMS Euphrates and ends with a letter from 'The Fort' Allahabad Jan 26 1870. This journal will be of particular interest to researchers ...
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1866 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND JOURNAL OF US NAVAL ENGINEER, VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR AND WITNESS TO ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE WARS IN SOUTH AMERICA EVER

By: HIRAM PARKER Jr., US NAVY ENGINEER

Price: $4,485.99

Publisher: ASEA ABOARD USS DACOTAH BRAZIL FALKLAND IS., : 1866

Seller ID: 0001640

Condition: Fair

On offer is a super, original 1866 manuscript relic of maritime and naval history being a journal handwritten by US Navy Asst. Engineer, Hiram Parker Jr. Dated January 26th 1866 and ending on May 13th 1866 Parker details his voyage on the noted gunboat USS Dacotah to Rio de Janiero, Medina, Brazil and last entries were from the Faulkland [sometimes Falkland] Islands [known as the Malvinas Islands to most South Americans]. Parker and his ship arrive at the height of the intense and horrific "Great War of La Plata" 1864 - 1870, a war against Paraguay which was the bloodiest and most expe...
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Image for 1895 - 1912 FIVE (5) ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK JOURNALS BELONGING TO HORACE HOBART, NOTED CHICAGO JOURNALIST AND FOUNDING EDITOR OF THE STILL-PUBLISHED RAILWAY AGE MAGAZINE

1895 - 1912 FIVE (5) ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK JOURNALS BELONGING TO HORACE HOBART, NOTED CHICAGO JOURNALIST AND FOUNDING EDITOR OF THE STILL-PUBLISHED RAILWAY AGE MAGAZINE

By: HORACE R. HOBART

Price: $3,455.99

Publisher: CHICAGO ILLINOIS, IL, : 1895

Seller ID: 0009175

Condition: Good

On offer is a fantastic group of notebook journals that belonged to Horace R. Hobart. Hobart led a long and illustrious life in newspapers, gazettes, and magazines. Born in 1839 he was a Wisconsin Cavalry Quartermaster in the Civil War starting in 1861 until being wounded in Arkansas. Beginning in 1866 he wrote for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter than was Editor of Chicago Evening Post (1867-1870), Co-founder of the Chicago Evening Mail (1871-1873), Editor of Chicago Evening Post (1873) again, editor and 1/2 owner of Daily Journal in Jacksonville, IL (1874-1875), editor of the Chicago Morni...
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1897 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF FUTURE 3-DEGREE HARVARD PROFESSOR AND LECTURER IN PHYSICS

By: HOWARD LANE BLACKWELL

Price: $2,249.99

Publisher: CAMBRIDGE BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS MASS, : 1897

Seller ID: 00MV185D

Condition: Poor

On offer is an original 1897 manuscript diary handwritten by noted Harvard graduate Howard Lane Blackwell [b.1876, d.1965] who writes in an undated journal 105+ hand-numbered pages of financial notes and then a personal narrative beginning March 28th1898 and is tell tale of much to come: "3:30 pm with Miss Chandler [Sarah E.] to Fresh Pond, bicycling, Bald horse-back rider! She to reception of Seniors to Radcliffe." The writings show a very intelligent young man who is very much into bicycling and thoroughly in the Radcliffe college scene including the music club. Concerts, sports and ...
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1870s ORIGINAL SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND CATCH-ALL OF THE BRITISH CHARGE D'AFFAIRES FOR ARGENTINA WHO DETAILS THE YELLOW FEVER PLAGUE OF 1871 AND HIS PART IN THE NOTORIOUS VIRGINIUS AFFAIR

By: HUGH GUION MACDONELL

Price: $5,595.99

Publisher: BUENOS AYRES AIRES SOUTH AMERICA, : 1875

Seller ID: 0002215

Condition: Good+

On offer here is a fascinating, original journal of Hugh Guion Macdonell, who was British Charge d'Affaires to the Argentine Republic in the 1870s. The journal while not very long contains significant handwritten personal accounts; the yellow fever plague of 1871 and a notorious, major diplomatic incident, the 1873 Virginius Affair, between the Spanish, British and Americans during the 10 years war. In fact the rear cover is a title page from a U.S Dept of State publication regarding the Affair. In all there are a total of 15 pages of narrative and letter copies and six pages of press clipping...
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1898 AND 1899 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES COMPLETELY FULL BY THE HAND OF A 9 OR 10 YEAR OLD SEACONIA NEW HAMPSHIRE GIRL

By: Ina A. Eastman, 10 Year Old Girl

Price: $859.99

Publisher: : 1898

Seller ID: 00064

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Two handwritten diaries written by a very young child, Ina (or Ira?) A. Eastman, of Seaconia, New Hampshire. At first, I thought these were written by a boy, but at the end on the 1899 diary, there are mentions of ribbons and fabric in the memo section. The other diary is from 1898. The child wrote everyday, but never mentioned a birthday. She seems to have been about 9 or 10 years old. Some examples of her writing are below: It is a nice day. Henry Courser stayed here last night. Mamma, Jay and I have been down to grandpas. Papa finished drawing wood today. It is a nice day. Willis Smith has ...
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1878 THROUGH 1889 ARCHIVE OF 5 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING THE LIFE AND TIMES AND POLITICS OF A CIRCUIT RIDING UNIVERSALIST PREACHER

By: ISAAC J. MEAD

Price: $2,855.99

Publisher: AUGUSTA MAINE ME, : 1878

Seller ID: 0001064

Condition: Good+

On offer is a super, original archive of five [5] handwritten manuscript diaries authored by Reverend Isaac J. Mead of Augusta, Maine. He was the son of Albert Manley Read who died in 1861 fighting in the Civil War. Research finds that Mead is listed in the Universalist Register of 1895 as editor of THE GOSPEL BANNER. His handwritten diaries are for 1878 [he is 37 years old], 1882, 1887, 1888 and 1889 when he is 48. Mead is an enthusiastic, prolific writer rarely failing to write a diary entry, rarely failing to detail his visits, his works, his travels and to set these writings apart Isaac Me...
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Category: 19th Century Diary