On offer is an original manuscript relic of another time and another era being a 1941 diary handwritten by, we believe, a woman detailing her life on the farm somewhere near Wooster, Kidron and Orrville Ohio in and around the Amish and Mennonite communities. [While unidentified in the book recent research suggests it is that she was Dale Schaffter, who died in an Orrville, Wayne Co., OH nursing home 23 Feb 1988 at age 98. In 1940 (Ohio/Wayne County/Sugar Creek/Enumeration District 85-39, image 25 of 32), she was living in a household with her younger (apparently not very kind!) sister Blanche... View More...
On offer is a superb, original World War II and beyond manuscript diary handwritten by Dallas H. W. Young dated January 1942 to October 1946 being a fascinating and eclectic melange of intelligent observation and commentary on the global war news, family business, his toy soldier hobby, malaria bouts, and his return to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [since the Commandos are being disbanded after the war] and many references to his distinguished, famous and future author, son Peter, including entries about big war events, with Young Sr.'s analysis: Stalingrad, Pacific war events, D... View More...
On offer is a fascinating, original manuscript relic of the early Vietnam War dating back from the mid to later 1950s to the early 1960s. Handwritten by a Vietcong soldier called Mao [full name Ðang Van Xuân], the book is comprised of poems, letter copies and diary like entries and pages that remind one of memorial albums with entries by friends and admirers with whom he studied political courses by the Communist Party in Hanoi for 3 years. The writings include; sentimental, patriotic love poems about the role of love in war and love in general; also the lyrics of popular songs which our resea... View More...
On offer is a vintage handwritten letter on ornate letterhead dated Sept 28, 1965 from Dave Morris FN USN USS Turner Joy FPO San Francisco CA to Mrs. M. A. Mulvaney Des Moines Iowa [FREE POSTAGE from warship Postmarker from Turner Joy ship]. A two page letter about shelling Viet Cong camps; shore bombing S. Vietnam E & W Coast; spotter plane said overall a good effect on targets; also on Saturday 7 targets, 6 were shot at, a 7th at an island was overcast weather so they couldn't bomb; also talks about a 1962 Harley Davidson Motorcycle purchased at Yokosuka Japan Navy Exchange Auto Sales. Then ... View More...
On offer is a very interesting, original manuscript relic dated September 6, 1966 through October 1, 1967 of the Vietnam War and American involvement handwritten and typed by US Special Forces Chaplain, David G. Boyce [b.1928 - d. March 4th 2013]. One part "Duty Log" and moreso a diary of all his movements and his personal thoughts regarding his service this is a very intimate personal history. (There are even some movie plots he has imagined and poetry and songs - Boyce was quite a Renaissance man it appears!) Using yellow legal pad paper, originally handwritten, the author changes ov... View More...
On offer are to very interesting manuscript relics of Depression era Americana being the original handwritten diaries of David Harris Underhill (1850-1936) the rather well-known founder of the Underhill Society of America. "DHU" as he was commonly known, was a librarian at the New York Public Library and also at St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church in the Williamsburgh section of New York City. DHU was married to Caroline F. Green and they had 2 children, Stephen Greene and Lucinda Harris [a census record of the Harris household also included an adopted daughter Emma and an adopted gr... View More...
On offer is the wartime diary of David Meyerowitz, a Jewish cadet aboard the USCGC Sassafras. The diary is entitled by Meyerowitz, “Newfoundland Diary” and details his time spent onboard the Sassafras, performing Aid to Navigation (ATON) duties throughout. It begins: “On october 24, 1944 the Coast Guard ship SASSAFRASS pulled into the harbor of Port-aux-basque in Newfoundland. Aboard her were the regular crew and construction unit 192, which she had brought there and which I was a member of. This was that part of the world where I was going to spend six months or even more. We had come from Sy... View More...
Fascinating diary kept by a young Mormon enlisted man from Utah or Idaho named Dean Young, who spent the year Stateside in training to be an airplane mechanic. He also attempted to become an aerial gunner but failed the physical. Mr. Young made an entry every day from January 1, 1943 to July 30, 1943, in blue fountain pen, at which point the diary abruptly stops. I think, from reading it, that it is the result of his depression over the precarious state of his marriage, which he agonizes over on many a page. This young man had a child as well, and most of his entries deal with his training, KP... View More...
On offer is a fascinating. original pair (2) of interesting manuscript diaries that belonged to members of the Bates family in Massachusetts - Mrs. Hiram Bates (nee Ellen Francis Thorpe, in the second marriage Mrs. Charles W. Merry), and her step-daughter Delia Maria Bates. The first diary, authored by Delia Maria Bates in 1871, measures 3'9 x 2'5, and almost 100% complete. The second authored by Ellen Francis Thorpe, measures 3'9 x 2'5, is for 1879, but the entries are for March 3rd to April 10th, 1881 and for May 1st to June 12th, 1907. Both diaries are in very good condition. Delia Maria B... View More...
On offer is the remarkable, original handwritten manuscript journal and diary by Desmond Harmsworth regarding his travels in the South Pacific. Over 150 pp written as letters to his mother and father, Lady and Lord Harmsworth. Desmond and sometimes his wife Dorothy write long, detailed intimate letters detailing their travel, observations and growing concerns while in Tahiti on the cusp of the War. The original 3 ring style book is in terrible shape given the covers are distressed and the rear is present but off. Some pages are detached but otherwise holding well. Simply super one of a kind re... View More...
On offer is the original 1915 manuscript diary of Ernest Dickinson, farmer, lumberman and teamster living on the Mohawk Trail Charlemont, Massachusetts. From his handwritten diary we get a one-year glimpse of this young man's life. He's a serious, dedicated young fellow living in the pristine woodland of the Mohawk Trail in western Massachusetts. He carefully records his daily activities: hauling sawdust or grain or manure, putting in fence posts, building a sawmill, pressing cider, gathering maple sap, hoeing, cultivating, hauling potatoes. We read of his encounters with Alice Whipple, notes ... View More...
On offer is the five-year diary of Dora J. (Bradbury) Pinkham (1891-1941) of Fort Kent, Maine. Dora kept this diary while completing her undergraduate degree at Mount Holyoke College (graduated 1913) and her Master?s degree at Columbia University (graduated 1914). Less than a decade after graduation, she made political history and became a pioneer for women in politics in the state of Maine (see BIO NOTES following the diary description). Dora?s entries throughout her post-secondary education show her to be devoted to Christ, her music, sport, and expanding her mind. She attends lectures outsi... View More...
Evidential to the roots of Middle Eastern terror, this is the extraordinary handwritten diary of Miss Doreen M. C., daughter of General and Mrs. J. C., sister of Cynthia. This British family witnesses the very beginnings of the modern era of Middle East tensions and terrorism having been residents of Jerusalem from January 1st to mid-June of 1936. Doreen writes a significant, extraordinary, insightful and well written diary. A young girl of 16 or 17 we estimate (too young for boys - she detests them - and too old for the usual games that girls play [paraphrase]) she writes of her time spent tr... View More...
On offer are five diaries written by Doris Cuthbert Metzler of Michigan between 1968 and 1978. She was 57 years of age at the time the first of these diaries was writtenIn her diaries, Metzler details her family?s daily life, as well as specific medical issues that she and her husband, Richard A. Metzler (Dick) , as well as other family members, faced over the years. The 1968 diary is replete with medical references, especially regarding her mother Minnie (age 82 at the time). They detail the type of care that was offered to this elderly woman who would, in fact, pass away the next year. ?M. W... View More...
On offer is and interesting and intriguing 1938 travel diary handwritten by Doris L. Berglund of Waukegan Illinois who left from Union Station likely in Chicago to New York by train and then to Holland via steamship. While the book is about 20 pages one cannot help but be intrigued: Doris is very headstrong taking charge to change her dining arrangements when it suited her: she was to sit with a Mr. B and she changed them to sit at another table with Bill Wright of Denver Colorado, headed to Paris to study - she notes that he "has girls on both sides of the ocean but doesn't seem to love a... View More...
On offer is a large archive of 150+ original 1944 - 1946 manuscript letters handwritten by adoring wife and new mother Doris Tibbels of Baltimore Maryland whose homey, loving letters make for an intimate look into the home front life of this charmingly head over heels in love with her adored 26 year old serviceman husband. Even when he is in Maryland at the Edgewood Arsenal and coming home many times she is still somewhat desperate in her detachment. Later while she writes of family and friends and her doings in Baltimore as the War winds down her husband is still active in New Orleans at the ... View More...
On offer is a super collection of original manuscript diaries spanning 35 years handwritten by a Baltimore Maryland woman who over four [4] five-year diaries provides a fascinating, well detailed description of this all-American girl's evolution from teenager and student to young married woman and new mother through to middle aged matron. The diaries belong to Dorothea H. Ensor. She was born in 1915 and passed away in 2004. The diaries begin when Ensor is 16 years old. This first volume covers the balance of her teenage years up until she was 21. The entries are fill of the events and coming a... View More...
On offer is an original, charming manuscript 1928 diary handwritten by Dorothy Morton who provides an excellent view of a life of a young woman at Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1928. Dorothy is an eager, attentive student. She writes about classmates who get caught going to a public dance and then punished. She notes advice on how to deal with men, sex, avoid smoking. Dorothy, from Melrose, Massachusetts, writes about her trips home, touring Boston and area, berry picking near Waterville, teaching Sunday School. Prof. Weber drives a friend and Dorothy to Boston, and they tour Boston hi... View More...
On offer is the original handwritten manuscript 1934 diary authored by Dorothy Mae ["Dodo" or "Dot"] Smith a 17 year old high school in the Eastwood and Syracuse New York areas. She writes about everything - her family, girlfriends, boyfriends, school and daily activities +++. She has a crush on someone named "Al" who plays in a band and obviously is older. Tucked in the diary was a letter from Al in which he refers to an encounter they had during his last visit. Dorothy sends for photos of the popular Radio Stars, worries about her clothes, sneaks cigarettes and write... View More...
On offer is a fascinating first-hand account of a young American sailor in the Korean War. This slim notebook measures 6 inches by 3.5 inches and contains 136 pages. It is 10% complete. The cover, binding and pages are all in good condition. The handwriting is quite legible. The author of this notebook is Doyle O. Crain. Born in Tulsa, OK, Crain was 18 when he entered the United States Navy. Crain passed away in 2009 at the age of 75. Casual research had not turned up any additional biographical information. Crain's notebook begins on June 13th, 1952 and ends on August 6, 1952. He was posted t... View More...
