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Image for 1913 Detailed Diary of Leading Member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, L. Flora Plummer, Sabbath School Secretary and Author, in Washington D. C.

1913 Detailed Diary of Leading Member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, L. Flora Plummer, Sabbath School Secretary and Author, in Washington D. C.

Price: $3,789.99

Publisher: Indiana Illinois, Washington, Dc, Minneapolis, MN, Sabbath School, Seventh Day Adventist, Indiana, Washington, Minneapolis: 1913

Seller ID: 0011011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

On offer is a diary kept by a leading person in the Seventh Say Adventist Church. The author of the diary is Lorina (sometimes spelled Lorena) Flora Plummer. Plummer was born in 1862 in Indiana and passed away in Washington DC in 1945 at the age of 82. She is best known for her work with the Seventh Day Adventist church as Sabbath School Department secretary (the equivalent of today's Department Director). She and her husband, Frank, were public school teachers in Iowa when she became an Adventist in 1886. Soon afterwards she joined the Iowa Conference's Sabbath School Department, and then the...
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1850 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A PROMINENT MONTGOMERY PRESBYTERIAN WHO COVERS LIFE AND TIMES FROM CONSUMPTION TO HUMOROUS ANECDOTES

By: L. M. WADDEL

Price: $1,350.00

Publisher: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA AL, 1850

Seller ID: 0002292

Condition: Good+

On offer is a fascinating, original 1850 manuscript letter handwritten by L. M. Waddel, of the prominent Montgomery Presbyterian family who writes dear Cynthia Ann from Montgomery, a long chatty letter full of local news and gossip touching upon many of the sad and happy times of the era including the death of a dear friend from 'consumption' [tuberculosis], marriages, politics, a humorous quote about Presbyterians having plenty of children and plenty poverty. The 8.25 x 10.75 letter has the original fold creases; some soiling and age wear but overall G.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾&...
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1943-48 Archive of Six Diaries from a Rural Farmer's Wife from Walton, New York Who Was Active in 4-H, the Home Bureau, and Walton Grange, During and after World War Two

By: Lena D Carey

Price: $1,595.99

Publisher: Walton, New York, Walton NY, Agloe NY, Rural New York: 1943-1948

Seller ID: 0011020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

On offer are a set of six diaries written during and immediately following WWII in rural America. They paint a wonderful view of life in a small rural community. The author of these diaries is Lena Carey. Carey was born May 14, 1880 in Walton NY. She was married to John Carey. Together, they had 2 daughters. She passed away in 1970 at the age of 89. A housewife, she was a leader in 4-H work for 10 years; active in the Home Bureau and for many years a member of Walton Grange and Delaware County Pomona Grange. She lived on a farm very close to Walton. Interestingly, Walton is close to Agloe, the...
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1934 + 1936 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARIES BY A YOUNG FARMER AND BUS DRIVER FROM GARRET COUNTY, PORTRAYING RURAL LIFE IN MARYLAND DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

By: LESTER GLOTFELTY

Price: $2,255.99

Publisher: MCHENRY MARYLAND, 1934

Seller ID: 0008004

Condition: Good

On offer is a pair (2) of original diaries authored by Lester Glotfelty (1905-1949), a farmer from McHenry area giving a powerful evidence of day-to-day life of western Maryland farmers in 1930s known by iconic photographs by Jung and Ben Shahn. Lester was a son of John and Sarah Glotfelty, whose ancestors arrived in Pennsylvania from Switzerland in the 18th century, and whose grandfather, William Glotfelty, moved to Maryland in mid-nineteenth century and bought farming lands from heirs of James McHenry. At the time when the diaries were written he lived with his parents, two sisters and a nep...
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1928-1932 Simple Diary of Rural Alabama Reverend's Wife Living through the Great Depression

By: Lucy Thompson Nix

Price: $395.99

Publisher: Blount County, Alabama, Usa, Southern Alabama American Depression: 1928-1932

Seller ID: 0011041

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is a diary written in the deep south of the United States in the depths of the Great Depression. The author of this diary was Lucy Thompson Nix. It covers the time period of January 1st, 1928 until February 5th, 1932. She was married to Rev John Kelly Nix and they lived in Blount County, Alabama. Research shows that she had two children - a daughter who died in 1904 at the age of 5 and a son who died in 1906, also at the age of 5 years. Her husband is noted in records as being the postmaster. The diary records him doing road work throughout their area. Born in 1863, Nix was 64 when sh...
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1909-1910 Diary of a Young Clymer, New York Girl, Describing the Minutiae of Everyday Life in the Early 20th Century, Filled with Names and Sites of 1900s Rural NY

By: Mabel Newhouse

Price: $459.99

Publisher: Clymer, Ny, Rural New York, Upstate NY, Rural New York, Clymer: 1909-1910

Seller ID: 0011010

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

On offer is a delightful journal kept by a teenage girl in upstate New York in the early years of the 20th century. The author of this diary is Mable Newhouse. She notes on the inside front cover that her age is 18-19 years. Our informal research has not found any other biographical information on her. Newhouse lived in the village of Clymer, NY, located in the northern part of the state. This is very much a rural area. The diary covers the time period of Oct 1909 through Sept 1910. She is living at home and a great deal of her notes detail her daily life and chores: "Frank churn. I help c...
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1940s Royal Artillery British Major's Pocket Notebook Kept While Serving on the Allied Commission for Austria after the Fall of Hitler's Germany

By: Major H. A. Hansen

Price: $1,850.99

Publisher: Austria Germany, Royal Artillery, Britain, Austria: N.D.

Seller ID: 0011014

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

On offer is a very interesting pocket notebook carried by a British Army officer during WWII. The author of this notebook is Major H. A. Hansen. Hansen served in the Royal Artillery during WWII. Following the war, Hansen was part of the British contingent serving on the Allied Commission for Austria which assumed control over Austria following the defeat of Germany in 1945. Specifically, Hansen served in the Economic Division. Although our informal research has not been able to discover any additional biographical information, there is an apparent home address from Liverpool, UK. This is a fas...
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1968 Texan Woman's Descriptive Travelogue of a 6+ Month Long Journey by Train and Ship Throughout Western Europe

By: Marion Estelle Drake

Price: $479.99

Publisher: Texas, Western Europe, New York, Texas, New York, TS Hanseatic, Western Europe: 1968

Seller ID: 0011019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

On offer is delightful travel diary describing a 6+ months long trip throughout Europe in the late 1960s. The author of this travel diary is Marion Estelle Drake. She was born in 1911 and lived her life in San Antonio TX. She passed away in 2003 at the age of 92. The diary covers an extended trip she took to Europe in 1968. She went by train to Port Everglades and there, on Apr 22nd, she and some friends boarded the TS Hanseatic for their trip. After a one-day stop in New York City, they sailed to Europe. After stops in Southampton and Cherbourg, she reached her final destination at Cuxhaven, ...
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1933 Diary of a Young Los Angeles, California Women Coming of Age During the Great Depression

By: Mary Lipshultz

Price: $659.99

Publisher: Los Angeles, Great Depression, Broadway's, MacY's, Bloomingdale's, Long Branch Earthquake: 1933

Seller ID: 0011040

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a very personal account of a year in the life of a young woman living in Los Angeles in the midst of the Great Depression. The author of the diary is Mary Lipshultz. Casual research has not turned up any additional biographical date on her. She was living at home with her parents in Los Angeles, California. Context suggests that she was in her late teens or very early twenties. In her diary, Mary Lipshultz is totally consumed with her relationships with girlfriends and boyfriends. She has apparently graduated from high school. She spends most of her days doing various household tas...
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1932 Petersburg, VA Diary of a Church-Loving, Middle Aged, Middle Class Woman At the Height of the Great Depression

By: Mary Plummer McIlwaine

Price: $545.99

Publisher: Petersburg, Virginia,, Petersburg, VA, Ginter Park Church: 1932

Seller ID: 0011009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

On offer is a fine diary written by a woman in the southern U. S. At the height of the Great Depression. The author of the diary is Mary Plummer McIlwaine. McIlwain was born in 1889, the daughter of a prominent medical doctor in Petersburg, VA. She apparently never married. She passed away in 1973 at the age of 84. Our informal research has not turned up any additional information on her background. She keeps this diary for the year 1932 when she was 42/43. Mary lived with her widowed mother and her sister 'Becca' in Petersburg, VA. She does not work at a job but context shows that she owned (...
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1929 Handwritten Diary of an Elderly, Depression-Era Woman of Some Means Living in Poughkeepsie, NY

By: Myra L. Jordan

Price: $455.99

Publisher: Poughkeepsie, New York, Hudson River Valley, Poughkeepsie, NY, Luckey Platt & Co: 1929

Seller ID: 0011035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a fine diary of a woman living in the Hudson River Valley during the Great Depression. The author of this diary is not explicitly stated. However, there are a number of contextual clues that suggest the writer is Myra L Jordan. Jordan was born on Aug 22, 1866. She was the second wife of William Burnap Jordan. They lived in Pine Plains, NY, located in the Hudson River valley, south of Albany, NY. She passed away in 1953 at the age of 87. She is 63 when she writes this diary. Her diary is very personal, focused intensely on here immediate family and friends. She hardly ever comments ...
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1925 Work Journal of a Massachusetts Railroad Laborer During the Heyday of Railroad Construction

By: N. E. Drury

Price: $189.99

Publisher: Worcester, Massachusetts, Central Massachusetts Railroad: 1925

Seller ID: 0011017

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

On offer is a detailed worked record of a man who worked on the railroad in central Massachusetts in the 1920's. The diary belonged to N. E. Drury. He lived in Worcester MA. Our informal research did not turn up any additional biographical information on him. From context, he does not appear to be married as there is no reference to spouse or children. He works for an unidentified railroad, most likely the Central Massachusetts Railroad. Much of the time he served as a relief worker, filling in for other men. The Central Massachusetts Railroad was formed out of the failed Massachusetts Central...
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1824 ORIGINAL TRAVEL DIARY KEPT BY A PROPER YOUNG ENGLISH GENTLEMAN ON AN EXTRAVAGANT, DELUXE TRIP TO A NUMBER OF DUTCH CITIES, LANDMARKS AND WATERWAYS

By: REVEREND WILLIAM MONEY

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: MANCHESTER UK ROTTERDAM HAGUE NETHERLANDS HOLLAND, 1824

Seller ID: 0009038

Condition: Good

On offer is a short but fascinating travel book of one wealthy young Englishman’s journey to Rotterdam and The Hague, Holland in 1824. It is a unique and rare look at the travel of English aristocracy in the first half of the 19th century, the last great age of the English landed gentry. The book is 30 pages in length of which writing is on every single page. Every page is filled with excursions, observations, and examples of lavish living for William Money, his father, and his cousin, as they travel first to Rotterdam and then spend over a month in The Hague, living at quite a fancy hotel, ...
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1930-1945 Diaries of a Ford Motor Company Employee, Chronicling His Life from Childhood to Adulthood through the Great Depression and World War Two, Experiencing the Greatest Generation

By: Richard Allen Metzler

Price: $9,850.99

Publisher: Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, Ford Motor Company, Labor Relations, Greatest Generation: 1930-1945

Seller ID: 0011013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

On offer is a rare 14-volume archive of diaries that chart the course of an American boy's life through the Great Depression and World War II a classic member of 'the Greatest Generation'. This is an outstanding archive of diaries that document the life of a man throughout his boyhood in Midwestern America throughout the Great Depression and into WWII. The author of this archive is Richard Allen Metzler. He was born in 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska where his father, Clyde, was a dentist. He married Doris Cuthbert in 1946. He worked his entire career with Ford Motor Company. His wife taught with dist...
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1947-1950 Collection of Post-War Diaries Detailing the Daily Existence of a Rural Appalachian Farmer Who Worked Hard and Died Young

By: Richard Glen Cox

Price: $659.99

Publisher: Lee County, Va, Appalachia, Farmland, Lee County VA, Appalachia, Dryden VA: 1947-1950

Seller ID: 0011004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

On offer is an interesting collection of 10 pocket notebooks kept by a young man from rural Appalachia immediately after WWII. These pocket notebooks are undated, lined notebooks, designed to fit in a shirt pocket. They were sold by a farm supply firm and included several pages of useful farming information. The owner of these notebooks was a man named Richard Glen Cox. Cox was born in Dryden VA in 1927. He passed away in 1959 at the early age of 31. Our informal research has not found any additional biographical information. The notebooks cover the period August 1947 to May 1950. The 1941 not...
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1943 + 1944 CHARMING PAIR OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG KEXBROUGH, SOUTH YORKSHIRE LAD COMING OF AGE WHILE THE WAR BRINGS DEPRIVATIONS AND SACRIFICE THROUGHOUT ENGLAND

By: RICHARD LEAN

Price: $2,055.99

Publisher: SOUTH YORKSHIRE, KEXBROUGH, ENGLAND UK, 1943

Seller ID: 0008005

Condition: Good

On offer are two (2) diaries documenting life of a young boy from rural England during the Second World War. When starting the first diary Richard was 13, and lived in Kexbrough, at the border of South and West Yorkshire, near the river Dearne with his aunt and father. The diaries contain many details of wartime life, like rationing and watching war documentaries; Richard's school friend is in the Air Training Corps, and a family member, probably his brother, is serving in the navy - there are several entries where Richard writes about him coming for a leave from Devonport, the naval base near...
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1942-1943 Diary of a Young New Orleans Shopgirl Focused on Her Love Life and Social Status Over the Realities of Life in War Time America

By: Rosemary Fisse

Price: $489.99

Publisher: New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States: 1942-1943

Seller ID: 0011031

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

On offer is a diary written by a teenager in the early years of WWII in New Orleans. The diary is a 5-year diary. However, it was used only to record daily events for one year. The author of the diary is Rosemary Fisse. She was born in New Orleans in 1923. She later married Lt. Col John Stahl, U. S. Army. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 93. She was 18 years old at the time she began this diary. The diary recounts Fisse's daily events with a very strong emphasis on her social life. For the context, it is clear that her family enjoys a middle-class life as she takes many opportunities to d...
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Scott Meredith, Pioneering Literary Agent's Biography, "Writing to Sell", Heavily Annotated by an Aspiring Writer, Plus Autographed Letter from Meredith

By: Scott Meredith

Price: $689.99

Publisher: United States, Scott Meredith Literary Agency: 1950

Seller ID: 0011023

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

On offer is a heavily annotated hard back piece of non-fiction by one of America's greatest literary agents - including a signed letter from him affixed to the book. The book is entitled Writing to Sell and is authored by Scott Meredith. Meredith formed the Scott Meredith Literary Agency in 1946 with his first client, P. G. Wodehouse. In the next 50 years, the agency sold 25,000 titles of which over 1,500 remain in print today. Scott Meredith was a pioneering literary agent. He was among the first agents to develop and sell movie tie-in books for films including "West Side Story" and &...
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Tracy Thompson, Poet of the Sun, Part of the San Francisco Literary Renaissance Movement, Archive of 41 Journals from the 1960s-1970s: Poetic, Raw Ideas Capturing Political and Cultural American Change

By: Tracy Thompson, Poet Of The Sun

Price: $6,559.99

Publisher: San Francisco California CA, San Francisco, Creative Review: 1960s-1970s

Seller ID: 0011034

Binding: Spiral bound

Condition: Good+

On offer is is a superb collection of the private journals of one of America's most prolific poets of the mid-twentieth century. The author of these journals is the American poet Tracy Thompson. Thompson lived in California and became an integral part of the literary scene that grew up in San Francisco following World War Two (WWII). Thompson was a college professor in Boise Idaho and then San Francisco, but his true calling was poetry. He was considered a very important part of the San Francisco Literary Renaissance movement in the years immediately following WWII through the 1970s. He was th...
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1994 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF THE TEACHINGS, PHILOSOPHY AND PROCEDURES OF A CULT: THE EMIN

By: UNIDENTIFIED.

Price: $998.99

Publisher: TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA, 1994

Seller ID: 0002015

Condition: Good

On offer is a fascinating, original manuscript journal detailing the inner workings, procedures and philosophical teachings of what some consider a cult and some an alternate or self religion known as the Emin. The 195 page or so book is dated August 1994 through August 1995 and is filled with the notes and teachings one unidentified individual received in training while being inculcated with the Emin philosophy. While there are no ownership clues we believe this book originated in Toronto as some of the tucked in pages are on recycled scrap paper of a Toronto based group. The book is a cheap...
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Category: M. Benjamin Katz, Books & Manuscripts