Corkrin, Anthony
three letters, five pages, quarto, some splitting along horizontal folds, otherwise in good, legible condition. Vito (Victor) Viti is listed in the 1840 Philadelphia City Directory as a merchant at 269 S. Front Street. Ann H. Corkrin, presumably Anthony Corkrin's sister Anna, mentioned in the letters, is listed in the same directory as being in the dry goods business at S.E. 4th and Gaskill Streets. Viti and his family were early Italian settlers in Philadelphia. Viti's business apparently took him away from Philadelphia for long periods of time. Corkrin apparently rendered business assistance to Viti and looked after his family. Corkrin's sister Anna, who was in the dry goods business, apparently also corresponded with Viti. Philadelphia, Nov. 20th, 1840, Anthony Corkrin, to Vito Viti, Cincinnati "My Dear Sir, Yours of the 14th inst came to hand with an enclosed check on the Pennsylvania Bank for Four hundred ninety seven 69/100 dollars $ 497 69/100, which I deposited in the same Bank and passed to your credit. I believe the Grand contest is over, and the Old General is Elected thank God with an over majority the Loco Focos console themselves with the anticipation of the General going in but one term, but that is but poor satisfaction, the Loco foco papers is recommending Harrison, not to do as Jackson did to turn all out of office that was opposed to his principals, but to continue in office those that was his vilest enemys, but I think the General is not such a fool but I would recommend him to turn all Out, to have a clear start. The Business continues the same and no alteration. Your family are in good health, and all the girls and myself are the same … Anthony Corkrin" Philadelphia, Anthony Corkrin, to Vito Viti, New Orleans, March 15, 1841 "Mr. V. Viti My Dear Sir, Your favour past mark'd 4th inst came to hand this morning I am extremely sorry that the error was committed in the account current, of $ 89.26 on the U States Bank of N York which I received but I did not give you credit in the account current but that error is easy corrected as I gave you credit in the Book. Our Business continues the same as last year very near but the U States Bank business has made some difference but not material, but if we had some way of disposing of her notes we would have done a better business but Anna was fearfull of taking them, as the merchants would not give her no encouragement to take them, but we cannot complain than God of the business at present for we average about $ 375 a week … Your family are in good health with the exception of Vito he has had several fits of the ague & fever, but he is now getting better … he has had Mary's doctor in attendance … Anthony G. Corkrin"
Bradley, William Czar
Quarto, one page, plus stampless address leaf, old tape residue in left margin, otherwise in good, legible condition. 1824 President Monroe remembers Ethan Allen while ending his second term in office. "…the books arrived…in good condition. I immediately handed to the President his copy with the accompanying letter and he smiled when I told him he would find in the volume a pretty good history of Vermont during the dictatorship of Old Ethan and that it would probably amuse him when he arrived at those days of dignified leisure to which every patriot was entitled at last….There is very little news here… Since the nomination at Harrisburg the politicians seem to be…waiting for the moving of the waters in some other quarter. The course pursued by Vermont has been dignified and proper. She is universally considered as nearly unanimous for Mr. Adams…" When Congressman Bradley wrote this letter after seeing James Monroe, the outgoing President was about to end his second term. In the election that year, he supported his Secretary of State John Quincy Adams as his successor, running against Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay. Jackson received the greatest number of popular votes but as no one had received a majority of the Electoral College, the contest was thrown into the House of Representatives, where Adams finally won the office - with the support, as Bradley predicted in this letter, of Vermont and all the other states of New England. The book mentioned was undoubtedly "Vermont State Papers", compiled and published by the Vermont Secretary of State, which included documents about Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen's "dictatorship" while dominating Vermont politics and ruthlessly hunting down former British Loyalists. Monroe would have been aware of these events while representing Virginia in the Continental Congress, 35 years before his rise to the Presidency. Bradley went on to live to the age of 85, long enough to remember this chat with "patriot" James Monroe while supporting Abraham Lincoln and the new Republican Party in the run-up to Civil War.
[Holbrook, G. C.?]
octavo, 64-page pamphlet, illustrated with cuts, lacking printed wrappers, sewn, text somewhat browned, light damp staining, corners slightly rounded, else a good copy. This pamphlet presents the sensational account of the tragic lives and deaths of the Williams sisters, Maria and Sarah, twin daughters of a middle-class New York family. This example of mid-nineteenth century sensational literature is one of the genre which aimed at capitalizing on the misfortunes of women who fell afoul of the social and sexual mores of the day. These works, whether based on "real life" events or not were supplied with over wrought language and images that worked to inflame the imaginations of the target audience. These works attracted a wide audience in search of either a thrill or sympathy with the unfortunates depicted in the florid prose. This pamphlet supposedly tells the story of Sarah and Maria Williams who led model lives of propriety until reaching the age of twenty, when during the prolonged absence of their father, they fell into bad company. Maria began receiving visits from a Mr. Knight, the brother of an old schoolmate. Maria was seduced by Knight into a fraudulent marriage, disgraced, Maria is separated from her family and is ultimately forced into sex work for Knight's profit. Maria eventually fore to "a high position among those of her kind … as a prostitute of superior grade." She operated on her own and refused to return to the Williams household despite the entreaties of her twin sister Sarah. Sarah's continued relationship and sympathy with her sister led to her own loss of reputation and social status, a sort of contagion by association. The end result was that all participants in the affair ended taking their own lives.
Peale, Charles Wilson
octavo, 23, [1] pp., sewn as issued, untrimmed, ex-library, hand and blind stamps on title page, text somewhat tanned, else a good copy. Peale here appeals for financial assistance for his museum founded in the 1780s, which, in 1816, like Peale himself, was in financial duress. He presents his museum as a public benefit to city; he cites its benefits as an attraction to the city as well as a place of learning. He looks back with bitterness stating that even "with all this… the institution does not maintain itself." Peale believed that a museum could only exist with a liberal endowment. It had been "madness … to form a school of useful knowledge, to diffuse its usefulness to every class of our country, to amuse and in the same moment to instruct the adult, as well as the youth of each sex and age." American Imprints 38567, see Sellers, Charles Coleman, Peale's Museum and "The New Museum Idea" Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Feb. 29, 1980, Vol. 124, No. 1, pp. 25-34
Catherwood, Frederick, and Burford, Robert
first edition, octavo, folding plate, entitled: A Description of a View of Jerusalem, now exhibiting at the Panorama, Charles Street, with key to 71 locations in Jerusalem, the 71 sights are described in detail in the text of the pamphlet, 12 pages, original printed wrappers, some wear, and chipping to edges of wrappers, corners somewhat bent and dogeared, else very good. First Boston edition, and the first edition of the description of the panorama first exhibited in the United States by Catherwood at the Panorama, in Boston in 1837. Catherwood would later exhibit this panorama which he had purchased from Robert Burford in New York City between 1838-1842 at the Broadway Panorama, or the "Catherwood Panorama" or" Catherwood Rotunda", and in Philadelphia in 1840. Catherwood's Panorama was one of the most popular entertainment venues in early New York. Catherwood, born in London in 1799, was a well-known architect, illustrator, and explorer, who had provided the sketches for Robert Burford's circular panorama of Jerusalem (1835). Catherwood arrived in New York in 1836, he had traveled widely, recently completing a six-year tour of Egypt and the Middle East. Catherwood had worked for Robert Burford, the impresario of his own panorama in Leicester Square, London, where he was taught the business of popular entertainment. In between trips to Central America with John Lloyd Stephens, he went back into the entertainment business, opening his own panorama at Prince and Mercer Streets in New York. Burford exhibited the "Jerusalem" panorama in London 1835-1836, and in Edinburgh, 1836. Catherwood purchased "Jerusalem" from Burford and brought it to America, exhibiting it first in Boston, 1837, New York, 1838, and Philadelphia in 1840. The panorama, based on the plate, consisted of two wide views, one facing north and the other south. The painting was destroyed along with all of Catherwood's other work when his New York rotunda burned down in 1842. American Imprints 43483, five locations, we are aware of only one copy of this first Boston edition appearing at auction, Swann, 2020, lacking original wrappers. See Huhtamo, Erkki, Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles, (2013) p. 171, and Oettermann, Stephan, The Panorama History of a Mass Medium, (1997), pp., 113-114, 317-323.
Doyle, Agnes
Oblong quarto, undated, likely late 19th early 20th century, 31 examples of paper cutting mounted on cardboard leaves, which fold accordion style into a brown cloth album, with string tie, "Kindergarten Work" stamped in gilt on front board, in very good, clean condition. This album contains the paper cutting and folding work done by Agnes Doyle for two of Froebel's "Occupations" in this case paper cutting and folding. The materials in this occupation were scissors and papers, squares, triangles, and circles of white or colored paper. The papers were first folded and then cut according to either geometric progression or fancy, the pieces subsequently arranged in a design by the child. The child also cut flowers, fruit, animals or any complete form from the paper without folding, and the work subsequently mounted on cardboard. This album is a particularly nice example of its kind. The present album grew out of the series of "gifts" and "occupations" devised by Friedrich Wilhelm Fröbel as part of his Kindergarten system of early childhood education. "Kindergarten has been around so long, and is so thoroughly familiar, that it is natural to assume personal expertise on the subject. But kindergarten for us, and for most of the generations born in this century, is a distortion, a diluted version of what Friedrich Wilhelm Fröbel (1782–1852) originated as a radical and highly spiritual system of abstract design activities developed to teach the recognition and appreciation of natural harmony. Kindergarten has always included singing and dancing, as well as observation of the workings of nature—the growth of plants, the symmetries of crystals and seashells. One's teacher was usually a woman and she led the class in activities that would have been considered play outside the school. But long abandoned, and thus hardly known today, is the practical and philosophical heart of the system—Fröbel's interconnected series of twenty play "gifts" using sticks, colored paper, mosaic tiles, sewing cards, as well as building blocks, drawing equipment, and the gridded tables at which the children sat." – Norman Brosterman, See also: Brosterman, Norman, Inventing Kindergarten (New York: Abrams, 1997)
folio, two pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, else in very good, clean, and legible condition. Letter discussing the status of trade on the Oswego Canal and the level of exports of salt and other commodities bound for Buffalo, Lake Erie, Ontario and Montreal. "Geo. Tibbitts Esq. Sir – Yours of 3rd ult directed to Mr. Morgan was handed me by him as his health did not permit him to reply – by referring to mine of the 4th I found I had anticipated yr enquiries so far as to render an answer unnecessary. I avail myself of the oppty presented by our member Mr. Dunning to remark that I have had some conversation with the different forwarders with a view to the business of another year & tho the prices are not finally noted I am of opinion they will be for a bbl flour from Lewiston, Geneva or Oswego to Cape Vincent – 20 cts Storage at do – 5 thence to Montl – 70, 95 cts or 9.50 pr ton this will probably be the regular price, tho it will doubtless be carried down occasionally – I subjoin a Statement of the Salt trade for the last three years includg the present, filling out this year with my estimates, which at this season can be made with considerable accuracy – as a month of the navigable season only remains, at the close of which if you desire I will give you the exact time, of Salt wd be shipped – Arrived at Oswego 1818 – 36,000 bbls Salt of which passd thro Niagara portgs 26000 price at B Rock $ 4.50 remaining for Ontario market 10,000 Arrived as above – 1819 – 47,000 Passed to L Erie – 29,000 price $ 3.75 to $ 4 For Ontario – 18,000 at Black Rock Arrived the present season - 42,179 To Nov 1st Estimated to arrive in addition – 5000 47,179 Shipped to L Erie – 23,884 Still to be shipped say 1,500 – 25,384 price $ 2.50 to 2.75 For Ontario - 21,790 as above Giving an increase for the Ontario market since last year of 3790 bbls and a decrease in the same time for the Erie markets of 3611 bbls- A view of the trade for the last three years shows an increased demand for the Ontario & St Lawrence markets of more than 100 perct and an actual falling off for the Lake Erie & Ohio markets during the same time and that too notwithstanding the very great reduction in the price of manufacture & transport and notwithstanding the shores of Erie have populated much more rapidly during this time than those of Ontario … Alvin Bronson"
small quarto, 3 manuscript pages, plus address leaf, formerly folded, paper somewhat toned, else in good condition. Long-winded advice to a young woman about social standing, beauty, pride, etc. "I do not consider myself competent to correct the manners of the age, count on the focus of polite arts of which I am totally unacquainted, but war I master of all the fine arts, and possess a knowledge of the graces equal to that of Lord Chesterfield, it would not suit the simplicity of county peasantry, every society constitute principals dictated by prudence adequate to their several situations, there is a regular gradation from the noblest of kings to the meanest of peasants, every person ought to move in their own sphere and copy the manners of that society in which their situation in life place them, to attempt to soar above our equals, this [?]envy to demean ourselves and associate with inferiors no one will attempt to raise us, a man is known by the company he keeps and it is infinitely important that we select with caution our friends and companions. I do not wish to be understood that I consider the rich or the well-born the only fit subject of society but all those who by a long course of good conduct support a reputable character… There is not any thing that commands so much attention and admiration as beauty, this however cannot be called an accomplishment nor a virtue, as it is as often possest by the vulgar and licentious as by the wise and virtuous…", etc. Assuming that this was written in Massachusetts (and not Bolton, England) it appears that the writer intended to produce a series of advice letters similar to British Lord Chesterfield's classic "Letters to his Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman" published in 1774, though, in this case, addressed to a young woman and possibly intended to present an American point of view, as evidenced by this somewhat confusing opening paragraph. It's unfortunate that the letter is unsigned and that there is no evidence of the writer's identity, although from the rambling prose in this letter, it's doubtful that, if his words were ever published, he might have posed any American challenge to Lord Chesterfield.
quarto, one page, with original mailing envelope, formerly folded, in very good, clean condition. "The holidays rather slipped by on me unawares this year because it was just at that time that we were busiest on our preparations for the big 'Red" raids which came off the day after New Years. Since then until today we have been busy day and night examining the prisoners and getting the evidence in shape. When you heard from me last I was in the Pittsburgh district in the field myself collecting evidence. About the first of December my friend Creighton, one of the assistant attorney generals, came back to Washington from Indianapolis, where he had been helping settled the coal strike, and one of the first things he did was to have me called to Washington. He was given charge of the situation in the middle west and brought me out here with him. We were here for about two weeks before Christmas and then went back to Washington for several days. We came back to Chicago the day before New Years and will probably be here another week. After that I expect I will finally get on to New York although you can never count on much of anything in this game. It is certainly very interesting so far…. The "Red Raids" of November 1919 and January 1920 - the postwar period of the First Red Scare after the Russian Revolution - were conducted by the US Department of Justice (and its Bureau of Investigation, with a General Intelligence Division headed by 25 year-old J. Edgar Hoover), under the direction of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, to capture and arrest Socialists, Anarchists and Communists (especially Jewish and Italian immigrants who were suspected of terrorist activity), and deport them from the United States. 6,000 people were arrested in 36 cities, though only some 550 "aliens" were deported. Vincent P. Creighton was a Special Agent of the Bureau of Investigation, as well as an Assistant Attorney General, who played an important role in the interrogation and deportation of Emma Goldman, the best-known woman Anarchist revolutionary of her day. I've been unable to trace the identity of the writer, though he was undoubtedly another Bureau of Investigation agent who probably served in the military during World War I.
octavo, 25, [1] pp., sewn as issued, some minor toning to paper, else very good. The results are priced in ink. With: Leonard & Co., Additional Catalogue of Rare Coins, Valuable Medals, and Autograph Letters, to be Sold on Thursday, May 24, 1866, In Leonard & Co.'s Rooms, 50 Bromfield Street. [Boston: 1866] octavo, 11, [1] pp., sewn as issued, in very good clean condition. This catalog is not priced. The sale includes some notable autograph letters.
Large archive of personal and family correspondence consisting of 307 letters, 1055 manuscript and typescript pages, in generally clean and legible condition, many letters accompanied with their original mailing envelopes. Archive of correspondence of Brainard Henry Warner who played a large role in the development and expansion of Washington, D.C. in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, not only as a real estate developer and builder but as a champion of civic affairs and public philanthropy. The letters detail the family's domestic life and touches on his business life, in Washington D.C., his founding and development of the town of Kensington, Maryland, philanthropic and social activities, political activities and travel. Warner was a highly successful business figure not only in real estate development but also in banking and finance. He counted among his friends and business associates such figures as John Wanamaker and Andrew Carnegie. The archive also contains letters written by his siblings and children, the letters date between 1870 and 1938. Brainard Henry Warner was born in 1847 in Great Bend, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. The son of Henry Warner (1814-1891) and Julia F. Truesdell Warner (1823-1917), he had four siblings. His life in Washington, D.C. dated from 1863 when he came to the city as a clerk in the Judiciary Square Hospital, where he remained for three months, he then accepted a position as a clerk in the War Department. He held that position until 1866 when he was appointed to a position in the office of the controller of the Treasury. He was at this time working as private secretary to Senator Charles R. Buckalew of Pennsylvania. Warner was made deputy collector of internal revenue of the ninth Pennsylvania district in 1867, located in Lancaster. While in Lancaster he continued his law studies with Representative Thaddeus Stevens and started a paper known as the Voice of Truth and aided in the publication of a campaign journal known as the Father Abraham, in the local Pennsylvania German dialect. The following year he resigned in order to resume his study of law at Columbian College Law School in Washington, D.C. Upon his graduation from George Washington University law school in 1872 Warner joined the real estate firm of Joshua Whitney & Co. He later succeeded the owner following his death. In 1876 he built the Warner Building, signaling the beginning of his rather substantial yet largely undocumented construction career of over one thousand houses under the firm of B. H. Warner & Co. Warner was eventually involved in a large variety of business-related enterprises expanding from real estate into finance. He was the founder of the Columbian National Bank in 1887, President of the Washington Board of Trade, and member of the Committee of 100. Warner was a charter member of the Metropolis Savings Bank, Central National and Second National banks, a director of the National Bank and National Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and founder of the Rudolph & West Company, and the Washington Loan and Trust Company. He was one of the organizers of the Columbia Fire Insurance Company, and Columbia Title Company. John Proctor, writing in Washington Past and Present states that "many of our finest statues, buildings and parks stand as monuments of his unceasing energy and devotion to the national capitol." Warner was active in many civic causes. He was one of the founders of the Washington Public Library. A member of board of trustees of American University, Howard University. He was president of the Alumni Association of the George Washington University, one of the founders of the Washington Board of Trade, among many other philanthropic efforts. Warner published the Real Estate Review in Washington, which featured condensed real estate stories from around the country, advertiseme
Quarto, 3 pages plus stampless address leaf. small holes in text from seal opening and heavy ink bleed-through with loss of text. Fair condition overall. 1793 During the "Citizen Genet" affair, President Washington maintains strict American Neutrality in the European wars that followed the French Revolution. "…I am confirmed in my determination of suspending any shipment at present…You have judged too hastily of our Government. The Executive has decidedly avowed a disposition to be neutral and has taken very active measures…to prevent any step that could be construed as a breach of Treaties… Privateers … have offered offences to our navigation that will produce spirited remonstrances from us… with an almost unanimous voice in favor of peace and a perfect neutrality - we can have little fear of a cause for rupture on our part and we look for the same disposition with your Government, whose decided Interest it is to keep on good terms with us…" Written by a prominent Boston merchant to the leading British wine-sellers of Madeira, months after revolutionary France declared war on England and Spain, as President Washington formally proclaimed strict American neutrality. This was made difficult by privateers seizing American commercial vessels on the high seas - with some French privateers commissioned to capture British ships by French diplomat Edmond-Charles ("Citizen") Genet over the heated protests of Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. At this tumultuous time, Vaughan could speak with some personal authority of "Executive" Washington's sentiments. His father and grandfather were on close terms with the President, having been guests at Mount Vernon after the Revolutionary War. The younger Vaughan was also knowledgeable about the Naval War that was then harrassing American shipping; in fact, Captain Howland who carried Vaughan's letter across the Atlantic had just arrived in New Bedford with a harrowing tale of his most recent voyage from chaotic Haiti, his ship being stopped seven times by French, Spanish and English privateers, all treating him with "great civility" except for one British privateer who had attempted to seize his ship as a prize, an attempt foiled by Howland's loyal crew. Washington refused to accept all such "prize" claims, ordering that any American ship sailed to an American port by a privateer's prize crew, should be returned to its original owners.
wrappers, untrimmed, removed from bound pamphlet volume, plate somewhat foxed, and with offsetting, some minor spotting to text, else very good. The text is mainly taken up with a key describing the 67 points numbered on the folding plate with information on each point of interest. This panorama of Athens was first exhibited by Barker and Burford in London in 1818 and 1822, and first made its appearance in America in New York at the Rotunda of John Vanderlyn in 1825, where it remained on view for more than a year. It was exhibited again at the Panorama in Boston in 1837 and again in 1842. There is an edition printed in Boston by W. W. Clapp, 1837, held by AAS, not listed in American Imprints, the present edition is not listed either. OCLC records an edition of this work described as possibly of American origin, listing its price as 6 ¼ cents, listing its date of publication as "1830?". The present edition, priced at 12 ¼ cents, does not appear in either American Imprints, or OCLC. See Oettermann, Stephan, The Panorama History of a Mass Medium, (1997), pp., 113-114, p. 315.
octavo, 20-page pamphlet, sewn into original plain blue paper wraps, edges untrimmed, uncut, paper lightly toned, else a very good copy. In this case, Harris offers "prayers" for the conversion of the Jews. Scarce in trade. American Imprints 37798, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Jewish Americana, 49, Singerman, Judaica Americana, 0258
second edition, 12mo, 64 pp., folding plate, removed from bound pamphlet volume, lacking wrappers, else a very good, clean copy. American Imprints 42-5131, two locations, MH, NCH. OCLC locates a combined four copies of both the first and second editions.
octavo, 18-page pamphlet, original printed paper wrappers, ex-library, small handstamps on front wrapper, some wear and creasing to wraps, occasional contemporary ink and pencil notations and corrections to text, else a good copy. American Imprints 25843, Rink, Technical Americana, 5022
