[TLS from Mary H. Lincoln to Max Babb, Washington, D.C., 1933 April 26]
Description:
BEIN Za B816 862 Copy 2: Author's autograph presentation copy to Abraham Lincoln. Letter from Mary Lincoln laid in. B binding.
Publisher:
Carleton,
Subject (Name):
Babb, Max, Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Presentation inscription from C.F. Browne, Lincoln, Mary H, and Ward, Artemus,--1834-1867--Presentation inscription to A. Lincoln
Signed note in Horace Walpole's hand to his friend Richard Bull, in which Walpole mentions the depiction of his Marc Anthony medal in the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals. Walpole also writes that he is sending along to Bull a copy of ...
An autographed letter signed (partially rubbed off) discussing family matters and financial concerns to his relative the Hon. Thomas Symonds at his seat at Pengethly in Herefordshire. Written on the verso of Vertue's engraving of "The west prospect o...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Vertue, George, 1684-1756. and Symonds, Thomas, Dr.
An account of his voyage from Pike, New York to California by way of Panama to work in the gold mines. When his health was failing, he took up farming of onions as a livelihood; he discovered this occupation had its hazards in the dry season. He did n...
Subject (Geographic):
California--History--1846-1850, Panama, Isthmus of (Panama), Sacramento City (Calif.), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Ancient Order of Knighthood of the Ark (California), Northerner (Steamship), Van Slyke, David, Van Slyke, Martin, Van Slyke, Menso, Van Slyke, Norman, Van Slyke, Peter, Van Slyke, William S, and West Wind (Steamship)
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--California, Gold mines and mining--California, and Voyages to the Pacific coast