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By: DR. BISHOP LESLIE R. MARSTON
Price: $1,355.99
Publisher: GREENVILLE ILLINOIS IL, 1921
Seller ID: 0002252
On offer is an intriguing, original 1921 - 1922 manuscript diary handwritten by a young man, only identified by the initials L.R.M. who through some extensive detective work has been deduced as Leslie R. Marston notably the future Dr. Bishop Leslie R. Marston. Of note this diary has the unique characteristic of having a gift inscription from his then girlfriend along with notes and entries by his College girlfriend and later wife! Inscribed in one hand: "Christmas 1920;... View more info
Price: $3,285.99
Publisher: BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, CHICAGO ILLINOIS, 1910
Seller ID: 0001520
On offer is a very interesting archive of two [2] handwritten diaries and 14 early photos handwritten by Dr. Harry H. Baker of Brooklyn New York and at one time Chicago Illinois. The diaries relate specifically to his life and practice but of particular note are entries detailing his own illness from diagnosis to death. [In fact he writes right up until the last week of his life.] Historians, researchers and collectors of medical writings of a personal and intimate natur... View more info
Price: $1,485.99
Publisher: BOSTON CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS MASS, 1928
Seller ID: 0001575
On offer is a super manuscript relic of medical education at the Harvard Medical School in the 1930s. The notebooks [2] are compiled by Dr. Jacob J. Longacre, M.D. [1907 - 1976] while a student. There are copious notes and hand drawn illustrations, charts in the hand of a young man who would become a nationally renowned clef palate and facial surgery specialist who practiced in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Headings include Clinical Pathology and Parasitology in one book an... View more info
Price: $1,385.99
Publisher: Milwaukee, Wisconsin WI, 1922
Seller ID: 0001235
On offer are original 1922 and 1928 manuscript diaries handwritten by noted chemist Dr. John Arthur Wilson. Dr. Wilson was one of the most distinguished chemists in America at the time and was so renowned that his scientific articles and papers were translated into many foreign languages and published in scientific journals throughout the world. These diaries detail and document his busy business and social life: he writes of working in his lab, writing his book, doing r... View more info
By: DR. RUTH REYNA
Price: $3,955.99
Publisher: BELLFLOWER CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES CA, 1982
Seller ID: 0001789
On offer is a fascinating manuscript relic of many years study of Indian literature, history, philosophy and all matters spiritual and New Age thought being a journal dated 1982 handwritten by Indologist Ruth Reyna Ph.d. dedicated to her Grandson. Dr. Reyna used the book as a collection of specific quotes or writings she had written over a four decade period. This passage gives the gist of it: 'My special diary tintinnabulations of the mind refers to soft ringing in the ... View more info
Price: $1,655.99
Publisher: HARRISON NEW YORK WESTCHESTER COUNTY BLOCK ISLAND, 1912
Seller ID: 0002221
On offer is a super, original 1912 - 1915 manuscript relic of one man's utter dedication to sailing and yacht racing. Dr. Swepson J. Brooks of Harrison New York in Westchester County from August 1912 to March 1915 keeps a remarkable travel diary detailing his sailing, sometimes motor boat, trips. As he states at the outset: "An account of my wanderings by sea chiefly in the good ketch Sindbad". The 150+ page book begins with a first voyage that appears to be Long... View more info
By: DR. WILL P. SHERIDAN and MRS MARY W. P. SHERIDAN
Price: $17,585.99
Publisher: CHENGTU SICHUAN PROVINCE CHINA, 1909
Seller ID: 0001418
On offer is a simply super archive of three [3] historically significant manuscript diaries and journals authored and handwritten by Dr. Will P. Sheridan and his wife Mary W.P. dated 1909, 1910 and 1911. [Curiously inscribed noting that the diary is primarily Will's but Mary does the actual writing.] The largish two-days to a page Grand & Toy 8½ x 7 inch journal style books sent by Toronto friend Ethel Cassidy are filled with this extraordinary Canadian missionary and d... View more info
Price: $6,655.99
Publisher: BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 1910
Seller ID: 0008161
On offer is a detailed and fascinating record of a busy physicians practice in the early 20th century. Comprised of 2 volumes, they measure 12 inches by 8.5 inches and contain 220 pages each. They are about 95% complete. The hardboard covers are worn but intact and all pages are secured. Along with the record books, are a number of prescription forms on which he has made notes. Dr. William Worthy was born in 1878 in Georgia and died in 1954 in Boston, MA. He was a black ... View more info
Price: $6,585.99
Publisher: China Station Shanghai Hong Kong England UK, 1913
Seller ID: 0009018
On offer is an exceptional and significant piece of British naval history, the diary of a petty officer and watchman from the HMS Kent [The author's name is on the front but it is extremely faded. It appears to be "E. W. D. Sayers" but the name has not turned up researching the HMS Kent. The author does mention taking his petty officers exam on December 2nd, 1912 which may assist local historians in confirming the name], one of 10 Monmouth-class armoured cruisers... View more info
By: E. W. SCHUSTER
Price: $2,055.99
Publisher: ST. PETERSBURG FLORIDA FL, 1997
Seller ID: 0001574
On offer is a unique, pair [2] of desperately intimate 1997 - 2000 manuscript diaries of a near middle age woman [1978 alumni at University of Maine] who lays out the tragic, difficult life of this South Florida woman whose problems and the scope of those problems is sometimes mind numbing. Addictions, eating disorders, gender and social issues with a newly open lesbian, family disputes, work problems are all detailed by an obviously intelligent, well written woman who b... View more info
By: E.B. WILHELM
Price: $1,595.99
Publisher: FRANKLIN, MICHIGAN MI, 1927
Seller ID: 0002242
On offer is an original, super 1927 manuscript diary used as a notebook handwritten by popular Franklin Michigan magician E.B. Wilhelm. Using a large page a day book by "Dodge Reports - Yearbook" for 1927 not as a diary but more of a catch-all wherein he details many technical matters of his performances and acts including running orders, load notes, prop lists, stage blocking, scripting, secret codes, jokes, poetry and more. Historians, researchers and collectors of the... View more info
By: E.H. WITHINGTON
Price: $2,285.99
Publisher: PACIFIC THEATER SOUTH PACIFIC, 1942
Seller ID: 0002138
On offer is a fascinating, original 1942 - 1945 World War II manuscript diary handwritten by an American Army Air Force radioman Sergeant E.H. Withington who ultimately ends up in the Pacific theatre. Not a combat soldier the diary is a well-written, insightful, personal commentary on his call up all the more poignant as he begins on his honeymoon and then his adjustment to war. Historians and researchers of World War II will appreciate the very frank, sometimes very cri... View more info
By: E.M. MARTIN
Price: $5,255.99
Publisher: NEW ORLEANS WASHINGTON DC NEW YORK USA, 1911
Seller ID: 0008136
On offer is a rare and absolutely outstanding train log detailing a nearly 10,000 mile journey around the United States. The log book measures 11 inches by 8 inches and contains 60 typewritten pages. The heavy paper cover has a small tear but otherwise, the journal is in excellent condition. E.M. Martin is the author of the California Conductor's Excursion or A Trip of 9,800 Miles. The journal was written immediately following this 1911 odyssey. In 1911, between May 2nd ... View more info
By: EARLE G HOGGARD, JULIENNE HOGGARD
Price: $2,055.99
Publisher: LOS ANGELES DOWNEY BELLFLOWER CALIFORNIA, 1935
Seller ID: 0008225
On offer is the fascinating original manuscript childhood diary of a young 12 year old boy who would one day become a successful professional and noted Rotarian, growing up in Depression era pre-WWII California and his slightly older boy crazy sister! Diary measures 6 inches by 4.5 inches and contains 365 pages plus an extensive address section. This is a 5-year, perpetual diary, begun in January, 1935. Considering its 5-year span, the diary is approximately 25% complete... View more info
By: Ed V. Davis
Price: $2,055.99
Publisher: ASEA ABOARD THE USS BEATTY, 1942
Seller ID: 000001b
Archive lot of two sensational World War II diaries. As you open the cover of diary ONE, a small black book, it is signed "Ed V. Davis Y2C U.S.S BEATTY" (DD640) and at the bottom is has in print 50171 "Manufactured by U.S. Government Printing Office". The book starts out in October 16, 1942 and ends Tuesday, November 10, 1942. This diary was written as if he was talking to his mom. His job was in the bridge of the Beatty. He tells of many other ships and ... View more info
By: EDGAR CAYCE [forward By LYTLE W. ROBINSON]
Price: $2,345.99
Publisher: CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINA, 1955
Seller ID: 000804
On offer is an original typed manuscript of "What I Believe" by Edgar Cayce. Edited and Forward by Lytle W. Robinson [IV + 150 pages, table of contents, approx. 40,000 words]. The earliest edition of the book was published in 1936 in response to the thousands of requests received by Cayce for insight into his beliefs. Most likely a planned later revised edition with a later day Forward and further notes by Robinson who was an author and noted writer on Cayce and ... View more info
By: EDITH HEATH
Price: $1,655.99
Publisher: JEFFERSON, NEW YORK, 1916
Seller ID: 0008214
On offer is an interesting, original manuscript diary handwritten by a woman living in rural, up-state New York during WWI. Measuring 5 inches by 3 inches, the diary is in good condition. There are 365 pages and it is 100% complete. The handwriting is legible. Edith M. Heath lived in up-state New York, on a farm with her husband, Fred. She was born in 1863 and lived her life in Jefferson County, New York. Casual research has not turned up any additional information. She ... View more info
Price: $945.99
Publisher: BOONTON NEW JERSEY NJ, 1909
Seller ID: 0001033
On offer is a super piece of New Jersey Americana being a 1909 handwritten manuscript diary authored by Edmund S. Mills Jr. a 14 year old Boonton, New Jersey boy. Peppered with entries of local references, genealogy and events of local, national and international events such as "a sleigh ride to Denville; Papa went to Dover this morning to work on his book (advertising related); Papa and I went for a long walk this afternoon toward lower Montville". There are som... View more info
By: EDNA A. KLUSSMAN [nee RICE]
Price: $1,755.99
Publisher: SPOKANE WASHINGTON, SHELBY OHIO,, 1917
Seller ID: 0002181
One offer is a super, original 1917 manuscript Spokane Washington diary with a trip back home to Ohio handwritten by the wife of a prominent Spokane medical doctor and herself the daughter of a prominent contractor and road builder. Edna A. (Rice) Klussman who was married to Dr. Henry A. Klussman. They had two children by the name of Richard M. Klussman (R. M. K.) and Helen V. Klussman (H. V. K.). Extensive BIO NOTES follow the description. [While there is no place or ow... View more info
Price: $1,285.99
Publisher: RIPON WISCONSIN, 1907
Seller ID: 0002005
On offer is an interesting, original group of three [3] 1907 through 1910 birding journals handwritten by Edna Huntington Merrell the daughter of Edward Huntington Merrell (1835 - 1910) who was a reverend but also the President of Ripon College in Ripon Wisconsin between 1876 - 1891. He was married to Ada Clark Merrell. All of his children also went to Ripon College including Ada his daughter. Edna did her bird watching around the state of Wisconsin and also on campus. T... View more info
