Manuscript Archive (13 results)

A collection of works by James Laver, CBE FRSA (18991975) an English author, art historian, and museum curator. About 100 loose leaves (205 x 325 mm), handwritten ink, usually on the the recto only; most of them paper-clipped into distinct compositions (though a few stragglers will require careful reading to see where they belong). In excellent condition, some light wrinkling and dust-soiling along the edges. Laver's penmanship is a bit sloppy, but consistent -- once you learn its idiosyncrasies, its perfectly legible. The works include: "Waiter," "The Revival of Art Nouveau," "The Evolution of the Nocturne," "The Ommeganck of 1615" (an essay on Denis von Alsloot, c.1570-c.1626, Flemish Baroque Painter), 5 leaves of bibliography, and the longest piece, perhaps a work-in-progress or broad outline for comprehensive study, "Religious Dress and Vestments." Laver acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959. He was also an important and pioneering fashion historian described as "the man in England who made the study of costume respectable". To supplement his pay whilst at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Laver dedicated his free time to writing magazine articles, book reviews, play translations, dramatic criticism and light verse. It was typical of Laver that he might decide to take an interest in random subjects. During the Second World War, he determined to read all the books on occultism in the London Library. As a result, he became an expert in the field, writing a book on the prophet Nostradamus. A rich collection, worthy of further study.

First Edition. All items are in a very good condition. Some minor fading and edge-dulling as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 10 pages; A small collection of letters and documents regarding the vicarage in the village of Brize Norton in West Oxfordshire, dated 1896-1897. Contents: 4 letters addressed to Mr. Butler, signed John W. Wynd [or Wynde] -- Letter addressed to Mr. Butler from a Mr. Whittick. -- 'Churchwarden's Account of Receipts and Payments, Easter 1896 to Easter 1897' in pencil -- 5 documents of related material. Subjects: Brize Norton, West Oxfordshire -- Local history -- Church history -- Churchwarden -- England -- Great Britain -- late 19th century. 3 Kg.

First Edition. All items are in a very good condition. Some minor fading and edge-dulling as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 10 pages; A small collection of letters and documents regarding the vicarage in the village of Brize Norton in West Oxfordshire, dated 1896-1897. Contents: 4 letters addressed to Mr. Butler, signed John W. Wynd [or Wynde] -- Letter addressed to Mr. Butler from a Mr. Whittick. -- 'Churchwarden's Account of Receipts and Payments, Easter 1896 to Easter 1897' in pencil -- 5 documents of related material. Subjects: Brize Norton, West Oxfordshire -- Local history -- Church history -- Churchwarden -- England -- Great Britain -- late 19th century. 1 Kg.

Four Certificates Appointing a Distinguished Litchfield Judge [Manuscript Archive]. [Woodruff, Morris (1777-1840)]. [4 Judicial Appointment Certificates]. Litchfield, CT, 1829-1839. 12-1/2" x 7-3/4" part-printed bifolia, text running parallel to fold line, blind-embossed seal to 3 certificates and residue from removed seal to 1 certificate. Light toning, negligible light soiling, a few horizontal fold lines to each document, docket in small early hand to verso of final leaf. $400. * Born in Litchfield, Woodruff was a judge on the Litchfield County Court for over ten years, in addition to serving as a major general of the state militia and holding other municipal appointments. He "felt deeply the importance of having a reputable court" and discharged his duties on the court with gravitas and distinction (Kilbourn). His sons George C. and Lewis B. Woodruff became prominent Litchfield attorneys. These certificates document his appointments as associate judge and commissioner of the court in 1829, 1835, 1836 and 1839. They are signed by the respective governors of Connecticut at the time, Gideon Tomlinson (1829), Henry W. Edwards (1835 and 1836) and William W. Ellsworth (1839). Kilbourn, The Bench and Bar of Litchfield County, Connecticut 78.

12mo. sized 3 x 5 in. up to 8 x 11 in. 4to. 81 separate pen & ink drawings, intended for text illustrations, and page illustrations, many with paginations, some for during printing mock-ups, while most appear in storyboard format, others are just image montages, most on translucent paper, with a couple on ruled paper, some with fold creases from mailing, and 1 w/ portion burned at margin, still a remarkable set of original artwork. This exceptional archive original illustrations reflect the artist's interests in whimsical fairy tale and folk tale settings, and exotic locales he embraces from his many travels. Several of the first grouping within this archive depict a rural thatched roof farm and family with animals, while another group focuses on a Japanese folktale. About 25% of the illustrations are focused on his book Raminagrobis and the Mice, including notes on colours, assorted stages of a few of the illustrations, and others. The remainder appear focused on "Kassim's Shoes" and others, including his "Mother Goose," with inventive portrayals of animals, and nicely executed storyboarding. As a sociologist, and folklorist, Berson actively sketched, and drew from his surroundings in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa to create inventive and engaging worlds for young readers. Berson (1926-1986) was born in Los Angeles, served at the end of World War II, and was an avid traveler. He graduated from UCLA with a BA in 1953, and spent most of the next two decades traveling in Europe, studying art in Paris, and then living in Spain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Turkey, North Africa, and after 1958 together with his fellow artist & wife Paula Winter Berson (1929-2003). His first illustrated book was "Loretta Mason Potts" by Mary Chase in 1958. He is perhaps best-remembered for his whimsical fairy tale creatures in his Henry Possum, Mabel Watts's "The King and the Whirlybird," "Mother Goose Treasury," "Raminagrobis and the Mice," "King Midas and the Golden Touch," and many others.

Archive of Correspondence From the Hope Family, 1809-1824. [Manuscript Archive]. [Hope Family]. Hope Family Archive. Hope, Charles [1763-1851]. Hope, Louisa [d.1824]. Hope, Charlotte [1771-1834]. [8 Brief Autograph Letters from Members of the Hope Family, 1809-1824]. This is a small archive of correspondence from the Hope family of the early nineteenth century: the men of this family essentially formed a legal dynasty that spanned several centuries. There is, for instance, a letter from the Rt. Hon. Charles Hope, Lord Granton, when Lord President of the Court of Session, and a letter from his wife, Lady Charlotte Hope. Much of the correspondence may well be incoming correspondence of James Hope, W.S. [1769-1842], British lawyer, friend of Sir Walter Scott, and son of the famous physician and botanist Dr. John Hope [1725-1786]. There is an entry on James Hope in A History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 102. Apparently his namesake James Hope W.S. [1803-1882] was his apprentice at the society. This last-named James Hope [1803-1882] was the third son of Lord Granton and Lady Charlotte Hope, which suggests that family ties form a predominant pattern running through this archive. Typed transcripts included. $450. Some of the principal correspondents and figures: The Right Honourable Charles Hope (1763-1851), Lord Granton. He was Lord President of the Court of Session, and later Lord Justice General. Lady Charlotte Hope (1771-1834), the wife of Charles Hope (1763-1851), Lord Granton. James Hope, W.S. (1769-1842), British lawyer, son of the physician and botanist Dr. John Hope (1725-1786). There is an entry on James Hope in A History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 102. Apparently his namesake, James Hope, W.S. (1803-1882), was his apprentice at the society. This last-named James Hope (1803-1882) was the third son of Lord Granton and Lady Charlotte Hope. James Hope, W.S. (1769-1842) had a son who himself became a Writer to the Signet, John Hope (1807-1893), who is well-known as the founder of the Hope Trust. For more on John Hope and his family background, see the lengthy biography by David Jamie, John Hope: Philanthropist and Reformer (Edinburgh, 1900). Miss Louisa Hope (.

Six documents 1832-1836. New York & Ohio. (illustrator). Six documents 1832-1836. New York & Ohio. A New York Lawyer Re-Establishes His Practice in Ohio [Manuscript Archive]. [Scott, Lyman, Jr.]. [Documents Concerning Scott's Application to Practice Law in Ohio]. Coshocton County, OH and Cattaraugus County, NY, 1832-1836. Six documents, one franked on verso, sizes ranging from 4-1/2" x 8" to 12-1/2" x 7-1/2" (11.4 x 20.3 to 31.75 x 19). Moderate toning, fold lines, light edgewear and soiling, all documents written in legible hands. $500. * An illuminating archival record documenting the migration and re-certification of a New York attorney establishing a frontier practice in Ohio during the Jacksonian era. Lyman Scott Jr. began his legal career in Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York, where he was admitted to the bar on February 1, 1832-a milestone documented here by his original New York practice certificate. By the mid-1830s, Scott joined the westward tide, relocating to Coshocton County, Ohio. The remaining five documents map his navigation of the Ohio Supreme Court's admission requirements in September 1836. These include Scott's own signed statement certifying his residency since October 1835 and his intent to become an Ohio citizen; two formal character and professional references from established Ohio attorneys; and a September 24, 1836 certificate from a local committee of lawyers confirming that Scott had successfully passed his oral bar examination. The archive concludes with an unsigned, contemporary draft or retained copy of the final order admitting him to the Ohio bar. A concise, complete group illustrating the mechanics of interstate legal reciprocity and professional development on the early midwestern frontier.

Documents from the Settlement of a New Hampshire Estate [Manuscript Archive]. [New Hampshire]. [Wallace Family]. [Deeds, Receipts, Estate Inventories and Other Legal Documents]. Londonderry, NH, 1766, 1782-1801. 17 documents, 7 are 12" x 7-1/2" (30.5 x 19 cm) bifolia and single sheets, 1 is a 15" x 12" (38 x 30.5 cm) sheet, others range in size from 7" x 7-1/2" to 2" x 7-1/2" (17.8 x 19; 5.1 x 19 cm). Moderate browning, somewhat lighter in places, foxing, some leaves have dampstaining, creases, tears along fold lines, a few small chips (with no loss to legibility), 2 items mended with cellotape on versos. $500. * A cohesive manuscript archive documenting the administration and protracted settlement of the estate of Thomas Wallace, a prosperous agrarian landowner of Londonderry, New Hampshire. The core of the collection centers on the immediate aftermath of Wallace's death in May 1790, comprising detailed estate inventories and contemporary sales receipts that minutely record the domestic economy and property values of a wealthy late-18th-century New England farmer. The remainder of the archive consists of financial claims and receipts for payments levied against the estate, tracing its administration through its final dissolution in 1801. The earliest document-a 1766 lease-survives here as an essential piece of evidentiary title or a persistent liability presented during the probate process. Collectively, these documents offer rich primary source material for the study of post-Revolutionary economic life, material culture, and early American probate law in northern New England.

Peace Cannot be Secured by Force [Manuscript Archive]. Bower, Sir Graham John [1848-1933]. [Two Pre-Publication Manuscript Copies of "Treaties of Peace," Read Before the Grotius Society]. [London, c.1917]. 31, 10 ff. on 10" x 8" (25.4 x 20.3 cm) loose-leaf ruled sheets; 29 ff. in 10" x 8" (25.4 x 20.3 cm) ruled "Empire" notebook. Text to rectos in ink in two hands, running parallel to spine in notebook. Moderate toning to loose-leaf sheets, which are secured by contemporary rusted paper clip, light edgewear and chipping to bottom-edge of a few leaves, several folded corners. Moderate toning to printed cover of notebook, which is loosening, light toning to interior, cracks to text block in a few places. Together two items. $650. * Bower, an Irish-born colonial official, served as Imperial Secretary to the High Commissioners for South Africa from 1884-1897 and then as Colonial Secretary of Mauritius until 1910. He was a founding member of the Grotius Society, a British group dedicated to the study of international law. "Treaties of Peace" was read before the Society on February 6, 1917 and appeared in print later that year. The speech discusses the history of notable peace treaties, including the Treaty of Utrecht, the Congress of Vienna, the Treaty of Ghent and the Treaty of Paris at the end of the Crimean War. Bower concludes that he is "unconvinced" of any proposal "to secure peace by an International Force" given the necessity of consolidating the authority to direct the force in the hands of "an Imperial head of a Confederated Empire." Bower was a noted skeptic of bureaucratic power to enforce international agreements, even forcefully opposing the creation of an international penal court for the trial of war crimes. Our manuscript copies differ from the printed version in several ways. The manuscript copy begins by mentioning the work of Dr. Coleman Phillipson by name, while the published version simply refers to "jurists." The published copy is much more strident in its claim that treaties and arbitration do not guarantee peace and adds several concluding paragraphs. There are several other discrepancies that suggest the speech was revised somewhat significantly before it appeared in print.

Souvenirs of a Royal Divorce Trial: Lady Denman Apparently Giving to a Friend Examples of the Hands of Three of the Main Figures on Queen Caroline's Legal Defence Team, Including An Example of the Hand of Her Husband, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench [Manuscript Archive]. [Autograph Notes from 3 of Queen Caroline's Defense Attorneys]. A pair of manuscripts which bear the hands of three chief figures of the legal team for Queen Caroline, the pair of MSS apparently having been given by Lady Denman to a Mrs. Impey in 1833, with a covering MS leaf whose recto gives the addressee's name likely in Lady Denman's hand, above which is an endorsement likely in Mrs. Impey's hand. Typed transcripts included. $1,000. * A little more than a decade earlier, Denman had been one of the lead counsel on the defence team of Queen Caroline, and had been conspicuously brilliant thereon. Mrs. Impey appears to have been sufficiently entranced with the celebrity of the defence team more than a decade later that she showed interest in having relics, examples of the hands, of three of the main figures on the team: Thomas Denman (1779-1854), later Lord Chief Justice; Henry Brougham (1778-1868), later Lord Chancellor; and Sir John Williams (1777-1846), later Puisne Justice at the Court of King's Bench. This desire was answered in full by Lady Denman, who provided examples of the hands for Mrs. Impey, whereupon Impey carefully annotated the group with headnotes for posterity. This is possibly the earliest example to survive of an autograph hunter seeking specifically autographs of a legal defence team from any trial: we are not aware of an earlier instance. The trial was a landmark in legal history, and this clutch of autographs may well be a landmark in the history of the collecting of legal manuscripts.

Varies. Thirty hand drawn political cartoons on different stocks of paper. Some have close margins. Some have wormholes or loss. A handful have margin tears. Size 18 x 14 Inches. A collection of 30 manuscript political cartoons, many with cartographic content, drawn by Frank 'Ket' Kettlewell for the Oakland Tribune . As a group, they constitute a unique comic record of world events c. 1916 - 1935. Each hand-drawn cartoon is a visually striking San Francisco-centric commentary on domestic or international affairs. 'Ket' has signed each, with many most featuring his signature tiny bird (which occasionally comments). Themes and Events The earliest cartoons in the archive date to World War I (1914 - 1918). A handful discuss the U-boat threat. In one, a sea serpent labeled 'U-Boat' is composed entirely of submarines. Other cartoons deal with World War I and its aftermath. Still others focus on the Atlantic convoys, 'dislodging' the war in Belgium, the need for a west coast naval base, and the chaos in postwar Russia and Germany. 1920s themes include remembrances of WWI, domestic politics, and local Bay Area concerns, etc. Finally, six cartoons relate to the tense international situation in the 1930s, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and German President Paul von Hindenburg's (1847 - 1934) ongoing problems with the Nazi Party. Publication History and Census Each cartoon represents a unique work of art by Frank Kettlewell. Most were subsequently published in Oakland Tribune . Individual examples of Kettlewell's work appear on the market occasionally, but rarely large archives, as here. Signed by Author(s).

Letters Tracing the Courtship and Early Marriage of a Notable New Jersey Judge [Manuscript Archive]. Hartshorne, Ellen Fritz [1895-1988]. Hartshorne, Richard [1888-1975]. [Correspondence of Judge Richard Hartshorne and His Wife, Ellen Fritz (Nee Sahlin) Hartshorne. America, Early 1900s]. Approximately 550 letters, 1,150 manuscript pages in ink, 200 pages in pencil, most in original envelopes. Moderate toning, occasional creases, edgewear and minor chips and tears, overall condition very good. $1,250. * Researchers interested in social rituals and letter-writing customs of America in the early 20th century will be engrossed by this archive. Richard Hartshorne and Ellen Sahlin's courtship and early years of marriage and parenthood coincided with the U.S. entry into World War I, the 1920s and the financial disaster of 1929. A graduate of Wellesley College, Sahlin worked as an interior designer for a firm in New York City. Hartshorne, a graduate of Princeton and Columbia Law School, enlisted in the Navy and was stationed on the Eastern seaboard during the war. After his tour of service, he advanced professionally in various legal firms and was a judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1951 to 1961 and a senior judge of that court from 1961 to the end of his life. Both came from renowned families. The Hartshornes were among the earliest settlers in New Jersey. Known for their probity, several Hartshornes served in judicial and legislative posts. Ellen's father, uncle and brother played important roles in the steel industry in the United States and India. Although they were strong-willed, well-educated, career-oriented individuals from pedigreed families, they still faced their share of challenges. For example, Hartshorne, while a naval ensign, had issues with senior officers. Sahlin mentioned her struggles with difficult clients. Several letters from Hartshorne and Sahlin include whimsical drawings. If there is a lesson in this archive, it is related to the importance of having an extensive circle of family and friends to draw upon during difficult times. As the family expanded, and the household fractured to accommodate Hartshorne's work obligations, the couple received vital information and advice from others, especially from Ellen's "devoted brother," Bob. This support was importa.

The Administration of a Small New Hampshire Town, 1783-1815 [Manuscript Archive]. [New Hampshire]. [Documents Relating to the Town of New Ipswich, 1783-1813]. New Ipswich, NH, 1783-1813. 18, 12, 16, 6, 8, 14, 18 pp. 7 stab-stitched manuscript volumes, 1 is 6-1/4" x 4" (15.8 x 10.2 cm), 1 is 12-1/2" x 8" (31.75 x 20.3 cm), 1 is 14" x 12-1/2" (35.6 x 31.75 cm) and 4 are 7-1/4" x 6-1/2" (18.4 x 16.5 cm). Manuscript in ink to most rectos and versos. Moderate browning, somewhat lighter in places, foxing, some leaves have dampstaining, tears or chips, with loss of text in a few cases. An evocative and intact survival of early American municipal record-keeping. $850. * Situated on the Massachusetts border approximately forty miles north of Worcester, New Ipswich was a quintessential early New England farming community undergoing significant growth during the post-Revolutionary era. This archive provides a granular, unvarnished look into the daily mechanics of local governance during the critical formative decades of the Early Republic. The seven volumes contain detailed accounts essential to the survival and infrastructure of the town, including tax assessment rolls, records of levies collected from specific residents, and detailed municipal expenditures. Notable entries document payments disbursed to selectmen, constables, and laborers for local building expenses and highway maintenance. As a cohesive gathering of primary source material, this archive offers rich research potential for historians studying early American civic duty, localized economic structures, and the granular logistics of small-town New England administration.