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[California Gold Rush - Sacramento - Cholera Epidemic - Illness - Mining - Sandwich Islands - Maine] [Locke?], SamuelBiblio.com

1850 Letter from Sacramento Describing the Cholera Epidemic Failed Mining Ventures Violent Crime and Emigrants Too Sick and Impoverished to Return Home: "O How I long to get out of this place

1850rif. BK0017Sacramento City California 1850. Autograph letter signed "Sam'l Locke" to his wife in Belfast Maine. 6 pp. Stampless folded letter with clear circular "SACRAMENTO CITY / CAL." postmark and "40" rate handstamp; manuscript notation recording receipt in Maine on December 19 1850. Light soiling; very good. A bleak California Gold Rush letter written during the 1850 Sacramento cholera epidemic by Samuel Locke a Maine emigrant suffering from prolonged fever and unable to regain his strength. Surrounded by sickness failed mining ventures violent crime and men too poor or ill to return home Locke plans to seek recovery in the Sandwich Islands while relying upon his religious faith for consolation. Locke had been ill since August and was now so weak that ordinary work exhausted him: "My limbs or legs are very weak short breath and no appetite at all. I have no desire to eat anything not one thing I can think of. I have no strength to go into any business or to do any. I do a few little chores round or about the store occasionally but to sweep the store it beats me all out . O how I long to get out of this place. Can't get any strength don't know as I can anywhere but I long to try." Friends advised him to spend the winter in the Sandwich Islands. He expected to travel first to San Francisco and then make the fifteen- to twenty-day passage to Hawaii though he feared that continued illness might leave him unable either to support himself there or return to Maine. He states that he will "trust in providence yes trust in God who I feel is my only refuge". Locke gives a grim account of California's climate and the spread of cholera through Sacramento claiming that the climate in California prevented the sick from recovering their strength as the "air is very light & bad middle of the day very hot and nights very cool." The previous week's report had stated forty dead but "nothing near all the cases were reported" with Locke himself knowing of several unreported cases personally. A local blacksmith died overnight after his companions borrowed Locke's syringe and "We can hardly see a healthy looking individual in the streets." The letter also records the uncertain fortunes of men from Locke's home region scattered through the mines. William Beckett and his partners had spent the summer constructing a mining dam had struck gold on the first day and then immediately "the dam was washed away so they lost all their summer's labor." Other acquaintances had moved to Kelsey's Bar the southern mines or Oregon or were preparing to return east by way of Panama. Some remained convinced that California would reward perseverance while others had "seen enough" after accomplishing nothing. Locke regarded success as largely accidental: "Thousands are here and in the mines who want to get home and cannot-not able to do seamen's duty and no money to pay but they have got to stay in the mines and do the best they can. Some it is true have been lucky. It is all luck. If they happen to hit a good place they do well." News that cholera had entered the mining districts increased his alarm. Locke feared especially for men living in tents as the rainy season approached with poor food and little protection from exposure. Sacramento itself was marked by nightly violence: "There are murders or robberies about every night. One man killed in front of our house a few nights ago. We heard him holler and heard the blows. Next morning he died. His head was dreadfully mangled." Locke closes with an emotional message to his wife and children. His health finances and prospects all appeared uncertain and he repeatedly asked his family and church to pray for him: "Tell the dear Children to be good and if they never see me again when I am gone they will have the satisfaction . of knowing they acted as thy Father requested . Pray for me ask the Church to pray for me indeed I know I have your prayers and you have mine often." A particularly bleak account of the human cost of the California Gold Rush documenting epidemic disease physical collapse failed mining schemes violent crime religious faith and the predicament of emigrants unable to escape California after their health and resources were exhausted. . unknown

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[California Gold Rush - Sacramento - Cholera Epidemic - Illness - Mining - Sandwich Islands - Maine] [Locke?], SamuelABAA

1850 Letter from Sacramento Describing the Cholera Epidemic Failed Mining Ventures Violent Crime and Emigrants Too Sick and Impoverished to Return Home: "O How I long to get out of this place

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Milne, Bruce [Editor]; Andrew Maine [Editor]Biblio.com

Fast Forward

rif. 140940258Melbourne Australia: Fast Forward 1982. Complete run of 13 issues in 12 #008/009 is a double issue. Magazines often folded and sometimes staple bound with a variety of folded inserts with cassettes housed in silk-screened colored plastic wallets. Near Fine condition overall appearing to contain all inserts etc.; slightly rubbed and soiled occasional slight creasing to inserts or oxidation to staples. Small tear to rear wallet of #005. Issue 008/009 wallet gilt lettering well-rubbed. Offsetting to wallet of #011. Rare as a set. One of the very first cassette magazines which was popular financially successful and proved to be influential in the burgeoning global "cassette culture" of '80s independent music directly spawning such other projects as Sub Pop editor/ label head Bruce Pavitt was a contributor to the double-issue and the UK's Mix. The audio portion was structured somewhat like an old-timey news broadcast featuring new music as well as interviews with musicians. In addition to featuring the sounds of Aussies The Birthday Party Primitive Calculators Dead Can Dance Scientists and the Go-Betweens et al many prominent cutting-edge British and American musicians such as Pere Ubu The Clash The Fall The Residents Adam and the Ants and Gang of Four were interviewed and sometimes provided songs. Being Australian the magazine was bound to have a sense of humor. Robert Smith of The Cure got in on the act and provided "A Few Stylish Tips" in #013 about how he obtained that perfect lift for his '80s hair: soap and water. Crossword puzzles became a feature early on. Also Michael Trudgeon's design of the magazine was inspired growing in sophistication throughout the run adding inserts steadily stylishly utilizing only one or two colors in the printing process. A real acme of early '80s independent music print and design cultures. Its run lends credence to the idea that post-punk truly went beyond punk in many ways. Fast Forward unknown

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Milne, Bruce [Editor]; Andrew Maine [Editor]ABAA

Fast Forward

Burnside Rare Books, ABAA · Stati Uniti1250,00 USD≈ 1114,58 €

READ, Nathan (1759-1849; congressman, judge, and influential citizen of Salem and Belfast, Massachusetts and Maine)Biblio.com

Creating and operating a school in Belfast Maine as recorded in a file of 33 manuscript documents more fully described below

rif. 70167Having moved from Salem to Belfast in 1807 Read quickly realized the need for a school for the needs of the community and his children launching his effort to build something from the ground up; instrumental in its establishment Read served on the schools Board of Trustees until his death. Old fold lines to most some other light storage wear and soiling but a very good lot. 1 READ. Retained autograph copies of 1808 letters to Joseph Story 1779-1845; Salem judge and state legislator U.S Supreme Court justice author of important American legal works and Thomas Whittier a state legislator for then Belfast region seeking help on a petition for a charter and grant of land to establish "a contemplated Academy in Belfast" local citizens having already raised "upwards of $4000" for the project. The letter to Story: 4to 2-pages approximately 250 words signed by Read; Story was named to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1812 serving until his death. The letter to Whittier on an integral leaf: 4to 1-page approximately 175 words in Read's hand but unsigned. 2 READ. Extracts from Secretary's Records caption title. 4-page manuscript printing selections from records relating to the construction of the academy 1808-1814. 3 READ. An Inventory of the Property belonging to the Trustees of Belfast Academy Jany. 1st 1809 caption title to a manuscript "Waste-Book" recording the school's inventory and accounting for building the school and other operating expenses 1808-1810. Small 4to 25 cm. 17 pp. Plain drab wrappers. 4 READ Trustees meeting fund raising and accounting reports land grants requests to local officials and state legislators promises to send children to the school etc. relating to the building and operating of the Belfast Academy 1808-1832. 22 manuscript documents 31 pages total approximately 2500 words. 4to and folio almost all in the hand of Nathan Read several signed by him. Accompanied by seven small receipts 1808 1810 1826 and 1828 4. For the file of 32 documents unknown

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READ, Nathan (1759-1849; congressman, judge, and influential citizen of Salem and Belfast, Massachusetts and Maine)ABAA

Creating and operating a school in Belfast Maine as recorded in a file of 33 manuscript documents more fully described below

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti1500,00 USD≈ 1337,49 €

[Maine and European Photographica]: [Lawrence, Ralph Restieaux]:Biblio.com

THREE ALBUMS OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF SCENES IN MAINE AND OF LIFE IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN THE YEAR BEFORE WORLD WAR I TAKEN BY MIT PROFESSOR RALPH RESTIEAUX LAWRENCE.

1907rif. 45906Maine and various places in Europe. 1907 1913 1920. Images of Maine and Europe by an MIT Professor An outstanding collection of photographic images of scenes in Maine coastal France and the Channel Islands. The photographs were taken by an MIT Professor who apparently vacationed in Maine on a regular basis and who also visited England and France in the year before the outbreak of World War I. The albums of Maine images ably show the natural beauty of far western Maine while the album of scenes in France and England captures life in small villages and towns in Normandy Brittany and the Channel Islands before the peace of the region was shattered by the Great War. Two of the albums feature silver gelatin prints that have been printed directly onto the album sheets with accompanying handwritten captions. The third album consists of photographic prints affixed to sheets of the album. Though without ownership signatures we attribute these albums to Ralph Restieaux Lawrence a Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. These albums came with other photographic albums made by Lawrence on trips to the American West and Canada featuring photographs done in a similar style captioned and bound as these albums. Ralph Restieaux Lawrence b. 1873 was born in Cambridge Massachusetts and graduated from MIT in 1895. He taught electrical engineering at MIT from 1896 to 1941 and apparently enjoyed photography and traveling as the present albums would indicate. The three albums are: 1 HEALD POND MAINE 1907. Thirty-nine original photographic prints most approximately 3¾ x 4¾ inches each print affixed to a sheet in the album the sheets measuring 8 x 10 inches. Original oblong octavo album. This album contains a series of lovely photographs of the area around Heald Pond in west-central Maine not far from the Canadian border. Heald Pond is known for its natural beauty - ably captured in these photographs - and for its hiking trails. The photographs in this album are uncaptioned but show a number of images of the large pond and surrounding area as well as cabins and campsites. 2 PHOTOGRAPHS EUROPE 1913. 162 original silver gelatin prints approximately 3¼ x 5¼ inches each printed directly onto a sheet in the album the sheets measuring 6¾ x 9¼ inches. Each image is identified by a manuscript caption on the facing sheet. Original oblong octavo album. The pictures show scenes in France and England mostly in the regions of Brittany and Normandy the Channel Islands of Jersey Guernsey and Sark and the towns of Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon. Many of the photographs show life in villages or larger towns such as Caen in Normandy. There are a number of photographs of scenes in and around the Brittany village of Concarneau including market scenes fetes and scenes along the port but other villages such as Pont-Aven and Vitre are included as well. Many of the photographs in the British islands show castles ruins towns and coastal scenes. In all a magnificent series of photographs of this region on the verge of World War I. 3 PHOTOGRAPHS ATTEAN MAINE 1920. Forty-seven original silver gelatin prints on average 3 x 5 inches one of them a panoramic photo 3 x 13½ inches on a folded sheet each printed directly onto a sheet in the album the sheets 7 x 9½ inches. Each image is identified by a manuscript caption on the facing sheet. Original oblong octavo album. Attean Lake is a resort area located in west-central Maine and this album of attractive silver gelatin prints shows scenes from a vacation taken there by Lawrence in 1920. The panoramic photograph is a lovely view of Attean Lake from a high perspective on nearby Mount Sally. There are several other pictures from Mount Sally as well as images of camps vistas from lake level nearby woods other ponds etc. A total of 248 original photographic prints. Oblong octavo albums. Original black morocco spines gilt titles as transcribed below. Albums with some shelf wear; European album slightly cocked lower portion of front joint splitting. The photographs are clean and in excellent condition. unknown