![[Manuscript Journal of a Boston Merchant]. Ralph Haskins.](/pictures/thumb/2100_1.jpg?v=1492033074)
Manuscript journal of a Boston merchant—an uncle of Ralph Waldo Emerson—illuminating trade, shipping, and life in Boston during the early years of the American republic. Ralph Haskins, born in Boston on April 5, 1779, was apprenticed to Theodore Lyman, a well-established merchant, at a time when Boston was a....
The diary of a teenage schoolgirl, one Minnie La Mont, at the Poughkeepsie Female Academy in 1856, recording her daily life and thoughts among her friends and studies in the Hudson River Valley. Typical of her time, she conceives of her journal as an intimate friend ("You know journal...
![[Poem Written by an American Prisoner of the British at Melville Island During the War of 1812]. William Jr Payne.](/pictures/thumb/3819_1.jpg?v=1492454414)
An original, apparently unpublished poem on prison life during the war of 1812. Melville Prison, on an island in Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, was used to house prisoners captured by the British in the War. This vivid poem, in rhymed couplets, was composed by William Payne Jr. of Philadelphia...
![Liber Amicorum [Photo Illustrated Journal of a European Grand Tour]. Caroline Alden Weir.](/pictures/thumb/3913_1.jpg?v=1495725897)
Caroline Alden Weir’s delightful account of a springtime grand tour of Italy, France, Scotland and England with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Cora and an annoying companion named Heller. Caroline Weir, daughter of impressionist artist Julian Alden Weir, traveling variously by ship, gondola, train, landau, and car, visits Venice, Genoa...