Manuscripts

Nathaniel Milliken tailor's ledger

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Description: Item is a ledger belonging to Nathaniel Milliken from Boston, Massachusetts dating approximately 1792-1828. Volume is fragile with deteriorating spine.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1792-1828.
Call number: mssHM 49495
Creator: Milliken, Nathaniel(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Chesapeake Galleries, May 15, 1979.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Medical Ledger

Manuscripts

This ledger is an account book of patients and the fees paid for medical treatment. The author is unknown and the accounts seem to belong to several doctors; perhaps in Massachusetts. There is some mention of the treatment performed or reason for visit such as: childbirth, vaccinations, setting fractures, etc. Several pages have been cut-out of the volume. The spine is loose.

mssHM 74829

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Nathaniel Hathorne logbook

Manuscripts

Logbook of journey from Boston to India and return via Madeira. Includes some added notations by his son, Nathaniel Hawthorne and a note of authentication by Julian Hawthorne, 1908.

mssHM 561

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Ledger book

Manuscripts

A store ledger used as a daybook; the volume records specific purchases by Native customers at Gauthier's store, including lists of items purchased, price, and quantity. The beginning of the volume contains an index of accounts, the great majority with Menominee tribal names. The volume is bound in original quarter calf over drab marbled boards, the spine is partially detached and the binding is very warn and fragile but the interior pages are intact and legible.

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Orderly book of Nathaniel Goodwin, 1778-1780, (bulk 1778, Aug. -- Dec.)

Manuscripts

Regimental orders, muster rolls, pay abstracts, weekly returns, communications, memorials, etc. of Nathaniel Goodwin's command. Also, some copies of communications from Gerrish's headquarters, including the "Orders issued at Winter Hill, Nov. 8, 1778," "Copy of Orders to That Captain Commanding Each Division of German Troops, Cambridge, Nov. 8, 1778," signed by Nathaniel Goodwin, a copy of the letter from William Heath to Jacob Gerrish (Boston, Nov. 1, 1778), "Rout of the German Troops from Cambridge to Enfield drawing 4 days provisions on Marching," signed by James Richardson," "Rout of the British Troops from Rutland to Enfield drawing 4 days provisions on March," miscellaneous diary entries, and Goodwin's letters to Nathaniel Heath, Benjamin Beals, Abram Washburn, and other officers in his detachment, chiefly regarding settling the companies' accounts. (1779-1780). Item contains 61 leaves in bound volume.

mssHM 68484

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Nathaniel Wheeler correspondence

Manuscripts

This collection consists of 76 letters, the majority addressed to Nathaniel S. Wheeler at various "Wild West" duty posts such as Fort Bliss, Texas and Fort Craig, New Mexico. The collection is organized chronologically.

mssHM 81470-81546

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Life of Franklin Pierce :

Manuscripts

Partial autograph draft (HM 10850) of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Life of Franklin Pierce (1852) including a two-page preface and pages numbered 24-39, 53-77, and 84-88 (49 pages); also present is a handwritten copy of an article about Pierce by the Chief Justice of New Hampshire, which is not in Hawthorne's hand and is inserted following page numbered 37 (9 pages). Date on preface is 1852 August 27, with location Concord, Massachusetts. Draft pages correspond to text on pages 36-65, 84-122, and 132-140 of the 1852 published edition. Also present in volume are six autograph letters signed from Nathaniel Hawthorne to publisher William D. Ticknor, 1852 August-September (HM 10851, HM 10853, HM 10856, HM 10857, HM 10858, HM 10860) and six autograph letters signed from Franklin Pierce to William D. Ticknor or to Ticknor & Co., 1852 August-September (HM 10852, HM 10854, HM 10855, HM 10859, HM 10861, HM 10862); letters primarily discuss editorial work on the draft and publication of the book. All items are inlaid in leather binding, presumably by collector William K. Bixby, with binding title: Original Manuscripts and Letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne / Life of Pierce. Volume includes Bixby's bookplate.

mssHM 10850-10862

Nathaniel Milliken tailor's ledger

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