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1910réf. 15233St. Augustness: The Record Company 1910. First Edition. Pamphlet. Near fine. Promotional booklet for Orlando located in Orange County Florida published by The Record Company circa 1910. Oblong octavo 32pp. Publisher's maroon wrappers title printed in gold on cover bound at spine with staples. Sunning to covers staples beginning to rust. A scarce pamphlet showing the local infrastructure farming operations municipal buildings and churches all in half tone illustrations. Illustrations likely by Clarence E. Howard who worked as a photographer and newspaper editor. A reference to the first Automobile Carnival dates this pamphlet prior to 1912. OCLC 882242309 A scarce work. Orlando Florida traces its roots back to the 1830s during a period marked by the Seminole Wars where the U.S. Army built Fort Gatlin south of the present-day Orlando city limits to protect settlers from attacks by Native Americans. By 1840 the area around Fort Gatlin was settled leading to the growth of a small community that by 1856 was known as Jernigan named after the Jernigan family who established the first permanent settlement. The name Orlando was adopted in 1857 though the origin of the name is subject to various legends one of the most popular claims it was named after Orlando Reeves a soldier who allegedly died in the area during the Second Seminole War. The city was officially incorporated in 1875 and by the late 19th century Orlando became a significant hub for Florida's citrus industry. The Record Company unknown
1815réf. 267901New York 1815. unbound. 2 pages front and back 13 x 8 inches signed "Ruggles Hubbard" as Sheriff of New York City -- an arrest warrant for two defendants to appear in Mayors Court September 25 1815 in part: ".I Ruggles Hubbard Sheriff of the City of New York do hereby assign the within written Bail Bond to the use of the plaintiff s to be sued for _____ according to the form of the statute in that case made and provided." Evenly toned with usual folds and a minimum of fraying at the borders; very good condition overall. New York City Sheriff and adventurer who joined his friend General Gregor McGregor's expedition in conquering Spanish Florida June 29 1817 - December 23 1817 culminating in his appointment as Governor of Fernandina. His six-week reign came to an abrupt end after being overthrown by the notorious pirate Luis Aury who claimed Florida in the name of Mexico. unknown
1946réf. 38206St. Augustine: Private printing 1946. 1946. FLORIDA. 9" x 6" colorful pictorial wrappers. Foreword. 44pp. including wrappers. Black and white map of Florida high-lighting the Florida East Coast Railway from Jacksonville to Miami. Black and white photographs include a portrait of Henry Morrison Flagler the builder of the Florida East Coast Railway Flagler System Hotels and associated enterprises. A pioneer of the East Coast of Florida. "Linking the entire east coast of Florida with a transportation system and establishing tourism and agriculture as the basis of the state’s economy at the time was largely an uninhabited frontier demanded a great deal of foresight and perseverance. More than a century later the mainstays of Florida’s economy are still agriculture and tourism and Flagler’s incredible legacy as the inventor of modern Florida can still clearly be seen throughout Florida." This booklet is well written and provides an interesting summarized history of the Florida East Coast Railway and the development of the area it served. Soiling to wrappers a "Railroadians of America" sticker to front wrapper else a good copy of an informative booklet. Private printing, 1946. unknown
1961réf. 0904240097Peninsular Publishing Company 1961-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear. [Peninsular Publishing Company] paperback
1872réf. 361607Tallahassee FL: Charles H. Walton State Printer 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A considerable portion of this year's session was consumed by the impeachment of the Republican governor Harrison Reed led by members of his own party. He was accused of fraud connected to the issuance of railroad bonds. While the Assembly formerly the House of Representatives prior to the 1868 post-Civil War constitution impeached Reed during this session the Florida Senate did not convict him. This was the second of two impeachments that Reed survived during his contentious four-year term as Florida's first Reconstruction governor. This legislative session was "Begun and held in the capitol in the city of Tallahassee on Tuesday January 2 1872" and concluded on February 17 1872. 350 journal 76 reports pages. Contents generally very good and clean. Title page self wrapper spotted and stained. Finely bound in three-quarter's leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine has raised bands and is stamped in gilt. A truly lovely period-style binding. Charles H. Walton, State Printer hardcover
1854réf. 308253Tallahassee FL: Office of the Floridian & Journal Printed by Dyke & Williams 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A nicely-bound volume collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1854–55. Each journal—the message of Governor James E. Broome to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies—are followed by the same appendix of "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." House Journal pagination: 340 Journal 54 Documents pages. Senate Journal pagination: 337 Journal 54 Documents pages. With a final blank leaf. Contents generally very good no separate wrappers as issued. Pages tanned and foxed as usual. This volume is finely bound in three-quarter's leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine has raised bands and is stamped in gilt. A truly lovely period-style binding. Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by Dyke & Williams hardcover
1855réf. 308254Tallahassee FL: Office of the Floridian & Journal Printed by James S. Jones 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session with the message of Governor James E. Broome and a number of state office reports issued as an appendix to the governor's message. 175 28 pages. Contents generally very good no separate wrappers as issued. This volume is finely bound in three-quarter's leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine has raised bands and is stamped in gilt. A truly lovely period-style binding. Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by James S. Jones hardcover
1858réf. 361605Tallahassee FL: Office of the Floridian & Journal Printed by Jones & Dyke 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. With most of the legislature's time taken up with questions of infrastructure particularly the Florida railroad Governor Madision S. Perry uses his annual address to warn of coming conflict with the north and to encourage the spread of slavery. This is a nicely-bound volume of the daily legislative log and the accompanying state office reports. The session ran from November 22 1858 to January 15 1859. In his prescient call for funding a militia an action that the legislature does not appear to have discussed seriously Gov. Perry warns that "the late elections in the non-slaveholding States forebode no good to us in the South. He would be a false sentinel who under the present aspect of affairs would cry peace" pp. 27–28. He then observes that many White Floridians are ambivalent about slavery and he encourages the legislature to make changes in the law to encourage slaveholding another action the lawmakers seem to have not spent much time on. Another subject that Perry devotes time to is the forcible removal of Native Americans from Florida. After twenty years of conflict the federal government had recently declared victory and ended the war. Both the governor and the legislature make appeals in this document to continue the effort until all the Seminoles and other tribes are gone from the state. 456 journal 70 reports pages. According to the daily log the print run of this issue was 700 copies. Contents heavily foxed; title page laid down on paper; some loss to the margins; fifth gathering duplicated in error; corner loss to final leaves of the reports section with no loss of text. Finely bound in three-quarter's leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine has raised bands and is stamped in gilt. A truly lovely period-style binding. Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by Jones & Dyke hardcover
1922réf. 64060Tallahassee FL & Buffalo & New York NY: Department of Agriculture Florida The Matthews-Northrup Works 1922. One large oblong double-atlas folio colour lithograph map sized 50 x 44 in. county lines and railroad lines demarcated in colours fold creases as issued minor dustsoiling edgewear to verso some very slight weakening to a couple fold creases otherwise a VG bright copy. First edition thus of this uncommon and updated sectional map of Florida incorporating the 1920 census numbers as well as updating the agricultural statistics farm properties and average acreage values at the outset of the Roaring 20’s. Also delineated are the railroads reaching into Florida including the Atlantic Coast Line Florida East Coast RR Seaboard Air Lines Georgia Southern & FLorida RR Louisville 7 Nashville RR and others. McRae 1870-1943 headed the Florida Department of Agriculture from 1912-1923. Worldcat locates 2 physical copies U of FL WI Hist. Soc. Department of Agriculture, Florida, The Matthews-Northrup Works, unknown
1911réf. 38867New York: Moffat Yard & Co. 1911. 8vo. 16 235 1 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates. Red cloth gilt lettrng plate of Chief Osceola on the frnt cvr rubbng edgewear still a G copy. Revised & expanded edition of this classic anthropological work written to support and help the few hundred surviving Seminole Indians of Florida at the end of the 19th-century. Moffat, Yard & Co., hardcover
1919réf. 40735Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1919. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of Florida and Georgia from Sapelo Island to Amelia Island including St. Simons Island Sea Island Brunswick Jekyll Island Cumberland Island and Fernandina Beach. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coastal border between Georgia and Florida and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown books
1921réf. 40736Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1921. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of Florida and Alabama from Pensacola Bay showing Perdido Bay including Pensacola Perdido Key and Orange Beach. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coastal border between Florida and Alabama and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown books
1919réf. 40735Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1919. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of Florida and Georgia from Sapelo Island to Amelia Island including St. Simons Island Sea Island Brunswick Jekyll Island Cumberland Island and Fernandina Beach. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coastal border between Georgia and Florida and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
1921réf. 40736Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1921. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of Florida and Alabama from Pensacola Bay showing Perdido Bay including Pensacola Perdido Key and Orange Beach. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coastal border between Florida and Alabama and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
2002réf. 35761AB[Gütersloh], RM Buch und Medien Vertrieb, 2002. 22 cm, 384 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Farbfotos, Karten und Abbildungen, kartoniert, Englische Broschur, Karten auf den Vorsätzen. Ungekürzte Lizenzausgabe leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gut erhalten. Club-Reiseführer.
1998réf. 41916ABRheda-Wiedenbrück, Bertelsmann Club, 1998. 22 cm, 672 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Farbfotos, Karten und Abbildungen, kartoniert, Englische Broschur, Karten auf den Vorsätzen. Ungekürzte Buchgemeinschafts-Lizenzausgabe, aktual insgesamt leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gut erhalten. Club-Reiseführer.
1890réf. 5287Various locations in Cuba and Florida 1890. Very good. Twelve cabinet card photographs each measuring 3.5 x 4.5 inches on matching mounts measuring 5.25 x 6.5 inches all with manuscript captions on verso. Moderate dust-soiling minor overall wear a few small unobtrusive chips to corners. A dozen original photographs picturing a group of men traveling in Florida and Cuba around the turn of the 20th century. The men seem relatively well-to-do and visit several different locations in each place. Four of the photos emanate from Florida while the remainder picture scenes in Cuba. The photographs are all captioned on the verso which read as follows: 1 "In the Court of Ponce De Leon Hotel St. Augustine" 2 "A frozen fountain in St. Augustine Florida - the white is ice" 3 "Fishing in St. Augustine" 4 "A Tree in Tampa Florida where one tree runs up on another takes root up in tree then runs down & takes root in the ground again" 5 "A Street in Nevaelas Cuba" 6 "A Country Road in Cuba" 7 "Natives in Havana" 8 "In Morro Castle Havana Cuba. Prisoners braking sic rocks" 9 "On top of Morro Castle Havana Cuba" 10 "Country Scene in Cuba" 11 "Country Scene in Cuba" different image 12 "Plaza at south of the Prado Havana unknown books
1909réf. 5288Various locations mostly in Cuba and Florida: March 5 to April 1 1909. About very good. 21 leaves illustrated with 235 photographs all with typed captions. Oblong folio. Contemporary full dark brown cloth brad bound. Moderate staining and coiling to covers some edge wear. Bottom corners of all leaves chipped not costing content. Occasional minor wear to photos or captions. A well-organized and meticulously-captioned vernacular photograph album with significant content on Florida and Cuba in the first decade of the 20th century. The album is organized chronologically and features a family from Ohio traveling from home by train to Florida and thence to Cuba then returning home in the spring of 1909. The first seven and the last twenty-five photographs emanate from Ohio where the journey started Tennessee and Georgia but otherwise the album features Florida and Cuba in over 200 pictures. The scenes in Florida range from Jacksonville to Key West and other points in-between featuring the state in almost 120 photos both before and after the traveling party went to Cuba. The images capture portraits of the travelers numerous homes hotels businesses and other buildings including an ostrich farm in Jacksonville numerous scenes in Ocala including one image featuring "Mary and her old colored Mammy" various churches and other scenes in Tampa residences in Key West beach scenes at Long Key various hotels and agricultural fields in Miami and various buildings in Palm Beach Ormand and St. Augustine concluding with a front view of the "Old Slave Market" in the latter city. Most notably the album includes eighty-six photographs of Cuba the nexus point for the present trip where the party arrived on March 20. The Cuba scenes mostly feature Havana with several views of "Beautiful Residences" and other buildings plus some street views and other scenes in the city. Other interesting Havana scenes picture the railroad station "The Bone Yard -- Old destroyed Catacombs" scenes in the Malecon and more. Some of the street scenes in Havana picture local residents one of "Children on the street corner" and another showing "Children scrambling for pennies" in the middle of the street. The album also contains views of the wreck of the Maine Morro Castle the interior of Fort Cabanas and more. The travelers managed to wander outside Havana for a day when they ventured to the countryside and the town of Guines on March 23. While there the compiler took photographs of countryside outside Guines a railroad car full of sugar cane thatched houses a group photograph of the students at a "Spanish School in Guines" a "Child crying in the street" a group of locals outside a cafe captioned "Strangers in a strange land.Where we tried to get something to eat" other street scenes in the town and the local jail. The last photograph of Cuba here features a "Large Sugar Mill in Providencia." The group then returned through Florida Georgia and Tennessee where they spent a day at Lookout Mountain and Orchard Knob before their final stop in Dayton Ohio. A wonderful early-20th century travel album with significant views in Florida and Cuba. March 5 to April 1 unknown books
1890réf. 5287Various locations in Cuba and Florida 1890. Very good. Twelve cabinet card photographs each measuring 3.5 x 4.5 inches on matching mounts measuring 5.25 x 6.5 inches all with manuscript captions on verso. Moderate dust-soiling minor overall wear a few small unobtrusive chips to corners. A dozen original photographs picturing a group of men traveling in Florida and Cuba around the turn of the 20th century. The men seem relatively well-to-do and visit several different locations in each place. Four of the photos emanate from Florida while the remainder picture scenes in Cuba. The photographs are all captioned on the verso which read as follows: 1 "In the Court of Ponce De Leon Hotel St. Augustine" 2 "A frozen fountain in St. Augustine Florida - the white is ice" 3 "Fishing in St. Augustine" 4 "A Tree in Tampa Florida where one tree runs up on another takes root up in tree then runs down & takes root in the ground again" 5 "A Street in Nevaelas Cuba" 6 "A Country Road in Cuba" 7 "Natives in Havana" 8 "In Morro Castle Havana Cuba. Prisoners braking sic rocks" 9 "On top of Morro Castle Havana Cuba" 10 "Country Scene in Cuba" 11 "Country Scene in Cuba" different image 12 "Plaza at south of the Prado Havana unknown
1909réf. 5288Various locations mostly in Cuba and Florida: March 5 to April 1 1909. About very good. 21 leaves illustrated with 235 photographs all with typed captions. Oblong folio. Contemporary full dark brown cloth brad bound. Moderate staining and coiling to covers some edge wear. Bottom corners of all leaves chipped not costing content. Occasional minor wear to photos or captions. A well-organized and meticulously-captioned vernacular photograph album with significant content on Florida and Cuba in the first decade of the 20th century. The album is organized chronologically and features a family from Ohio traveling from home by train to Florida and thence to Cuba then returning home in the spring of 1909. The first seven and the last twenty-five photographs emanate from Ohio where the journey started Tennessee and Georgia but otherwise the album features Florida and Cuba in over 200 pictures. The scenes in Florida range from Jacksonville to Key West and other points in-between featuring the state in almost 120 photos both before and after the traveling party went to Cuba. The images capture portraits of the travelers numerous homes hotels businesses and other buildings including an ostrich farm in Jacksonville numerous scenes in Ocala including one image featuring "Mary and her old colored Mammy" various churches and other scenes in Tampa residences in Key West beach scenes at Long Key various hotels and agricultural fields in Miami and various buildings in Palm Beach Ormand and St. Augustine concluding with a front view of the "Old Slave Market" in the latter city. Most notably the album includes eighty-six photographs of Cuba the nexus point for the present trip where the party arrived on March 20. The Cuba scenes mostly feature Havana with several views of "Beautiful Residences" and other buildings plus some street views and other scenes in the city. Other interesting Havana scenes picture the railroad station "The Bone Yard -- Old destroyed Catacombs" scenes in the Malecon and more. Some of the street scenes in Havana picture local residents one of "Children on the street corner" and another showing "Children scrambling for pennies" in the middle of the street. The album also contains views of the wreck of the Maine Morro Castle the interior of Fort Cabanas and more. The travelers managed to wander outside Havana for a day when they ventured to the countryside and the town of Guines on March 23. While there the compiler took photographs of countryside outside Guines a railroad car full of sugar cane thatched houses a group photograph of the students at a "Spanish School in Guines" a "Child crying in the street" a group of locals outside a cafe captioned "Strangers in a strange land.Where we tried to get something to eat" other street scenes in the town and the local jail. The last photograph of Cuba here features a "Large Sugar Mill in Providencia." The group then returned through Florida Georgia and Tennessee where they spent a day at Lookout Mountain and Orchard Knob before their final stop in Dayton Ohio. A wonderful early-20th century travel album with significant views in Florida and Cuba. March 5 to April 1 unknown
1836réf. BK0192Apalachicola Florida 1836. Autograph letter signed one closely written page on a folded sheet 7 ¾ x 9 ½. Old folds light toning and scattered minor staining. Very good. An account of the effects of the Creek War of 1836 on commerce along the Chattahoochee River written from Apalachicola by the Florida lawyer Hiram Manley 1802-1853. A native of Easton Massachusetts and an 1825 graduate of Harvard Manley practiced law in territorial Florida and later served as a judge. His involvement in the region's commercial development is documented in February 1838 when he joined a five-man committee in Apalachicola petitioning Congress for permission to import iron duty-free for four steamboats intended to navigate the Apalachicola Chattahoochee and Flint rivers.1 Writing to a northern mercantile firm concerning a protested draft Manley explains that he has been unable to obtain a sight draft from the local bank and intends to travel through Pensacola to Mobile to secure funds. Business in Apalachicola is nearly finished for the season and the fighting upriver has made the collection of outstanding debts almost impossible: "The Indian disturbances in this quarter particularly on the banks of the Chattahoochee River between this City & Columbus in Georgia have had a very prejudicious effect on the business of this place this season & have so completely broken into the business arrangements of the Planters & Merchants in their Neighborhood that it is almost impossible to make Collections at present - the debts are good & will be paid as soon as they can leave the camps & return to the Field." The letter was written shortly after the June 9 engagement at Shepherd's Plantation south of Columbus in which Creek forces attacked Georgia militia inflicting heavy casualties. The fighting formed part of the Creek resistance to fraudulent land transactions encroachment by white settlers and the prospect of forced removal from Alabama. Manley's account documents the immediate commercial consequences farther downriver where militia mobilization had interrupted plantation business and left merchants unable to collect debts even as their own obligations fell due. 1 Petition and Papers of Isaac Gage Praying for Leave to Import Iron Vessels Free of Duty 25th Cong. 3rd sess. H. Doc. 92 Congressional Serial Set 346 1839. . unknown books
1836réf. BK0192Apalachicola Florida 1836. Autograph letter signed one closely written page on a folded sheet 7 ¾ x 9 ½. Old folds light toning and scattered minor staining. Very good. An account of the effects of the Creek War of 1836 on commerce along the Chattahoochee River written from Apalachicola by the Florida lawyer Hiram Manley 1802-1853. A native of Easton Massachusetts and an 1825 graduate of Harvard Manley practiced law in territorial Florida and later served as a judge. His involvement in the region's commercial development is documented in February 1838 when he joined a five-man committee in Apalachicola petitioning Congress for permission to import iron duty-free for four steamboats intended to navigate the Apalachicola Chattahoochee and Flint rivers.1 Writing to a northern mercantile firm concerning a protested draft Manley explains that he has been unable to obtain a sight draft from the local bank and intends to travel through Pensacola to Mobile to secure funds. Business in Apalachicola is nearly finished for the season and the fighting upriver has made the collection of outstanding debts almost impossible: "The Indian disturbances in this quarter particularly on the banks of the Chattahoochee River between this City & Columbus in Georgia have had a very prejudicious effect on the business of this place this season & have so completely broken into the business arrangements of the Planters & Merchants in their Neighborhood that it is almost impossible to make Collections at present - the debts are good & will be paid as soon as they can leave the camps & return to the Field." The letter was written shortly after the June 9 engagement at Shepherd's Plantation south of Columbus in which Creek forces attacked Georgia militia inflicting heavy casualties. The fighting formed part of the Creek resistance to fraudulent land transactions encroachment by white settlers and the prospect of forced removal from Alabama. Manley's account documents the immediate commercial consequences farther downriver where militia mobilization had interrupted plantation business and left merchants unable to collect debts even as their own obligations fell due. 1 Petition and Papers of Isaac Gage Praying for Leave to Import Iron Vessels Free of Duty 25th Cong. 3rd sess. H. Doc. 92 Congressional Serial Set 346 1839. . unknown
1863réf. BK0082Monticello Florida 1863. Autograph letter signed 2 pp. 7 x 9 inches addressed to the Honorable E. J. Vann Madison Florida. Stampless folded letter with fair circular "MONTICELLO FLA." January 23 datestamp and bold "PAID / 10" handstamp. Back flap removed with a small paper repair at the upper left; otherwise very good. A wartime business letter from James B. Jones of Monticello to E. J. Vann in Madison concerning accounts connected with the estate of D. B. Bird and the collection of local debts. The first portion belongs to the ordinary legal and commercial life of Middle Florida with references to unpaid accounts estate administration and the firms of Denham & Palmer and Johnson Bird & Co. Jones then turns abruptly from bookkeeping to Confederate destiny offering an elaborate blessing. After thanking Vann for his wishes for Jones's health and spirits he writes: "May your shadow become more enlarged and may you live to see the Southern Confederacy one of the most powerful & prosperous nations of the earth . In short may you live to see her Eagle if she even has one with his wings extended with one wing in the Pacific Ocean the other at same time in the Atlantic and his tail in the Gulf of Mexico south of Cuba & at the same time drink from the waters of the Ohio." The letter captures both the routine world of wartime Florida-estate claims merchants lawyers and unpaid accounts-and one Floridian's Confederate imaginary. . unknown books
1863réf. BK0082Monticello Florida 1863. Autograph letter signed 2 pp. 7 x 9 inches addressed to the Honorable E. J. Vann Madison Florida. Stampless folded letter with fair circular "MONTICELLO FLA." January 23 datestamp and bold "PAID / 10" handstamp. Back flap removed with a small paper repair at the upper left; otherwise very good. A wartime business letter from James B. Jones of Monticello to E. J. Vann in Madison concerning accounts connected with the estate of D. B. Bird and the collection of local debts. The first portion belongs to the ordinary legal and commercial life of Middle Florida with references to unpaid accounts estate administration and the firms of Denham & Palmer and Johnson Bird & Co. Jones then turns abruptly from bookkeeping to Confederate destiny offering an elaborate blessing. After thanking Vann for his wishes for Jones's health and spirits he writes: "May your shadow become more enlarged and may you live to see the Southern Confederacy one of the most powerful & prosperous nations of the earth . In short may you live to see her Eagle if she even has one with his wings extended with one wing in the Pacific Ocean the other at same time in the Atlantic and his tail in the Gulf of Mexico south of Cuba & at the same time drink from the waters of the Ohio." The letter captures both the routine world of wartime Florida-estate claims merchants lawyers and unpaid accounts-and one Floridian's Confederate imaginary. . unknown
1718réf. 62504Fort Marion Feb. 17 1865. one page. Fine. 12mo. A ms. account of about 70 words unsigned relating an attack on the garrison as they were engaged in improving the ditch; their retreat; and their rally. unknown
