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Cheltenham, 1893. Letter. Very good. In a Christmastime letter of 1893, a woman writes in great error, apparently responding to an advertisement in a local newspaper in which a school is looking for a an infant mistress, to which she offers her own. Mrs. Holtham, a mother of six writes offering to part with… Read more about this item

Dedham, Massachusetts : Dedham Associated Charities , 1887. Wraps. Very good. 6p., 9" x 5.75" in printed wrapper. Lightly toned at border. Speech addressing social reforms, holistic approach to aid, with pleas to thougtfully include those less fortunate in larger cooperative networks. Mrs. G. G. Nichols was a contributor to the Columbia Hospital for Women. Seemingly unrecorded. … Read more about this item

New York: The McAuley Mission , 1914. Staplebound. Fair. 58 p., Folding halftone of family and converts in home, halftones of exterior, chapel, portraits, Bushwick Reformed Church, Williamsburg Recue Mission, Northfield, in printed wrappers showing halftonw of line of men outside mission. Lacks lower wrap, damptstained. America's first rescue mission, now the New York Rescue Mission, begun… Read more about this item

Arkansas , 1893 . Letter. Very good. In a letter to a Mr. J. L. Winchell of Fair Haven Vermont, Mr. Worthen writes that parties are continually writing, wanting to buy "Blood Hounds". " I saw your dogs at the 'Bench Show' in Madison Square Garden February last have you any for sale, age and price and… Read more about this item

Springfield, Ohio: Animals Helper, 1932. First Edition. Letter. Very good +. Signed. Lengthy, anti-vivisectionist's two page letter to non-renewing subscriber whose prior submitted poems had not been accepted. N. F. Whitaker seems anti-everything, bashing higher learning and college education, Theodore Roosevelt, calling him a magnificent cave man and a murderer, directly insulting Mr. Hurd while extoling Edison, Shakespeare,… Read more about this item

New York: New York Board of Education, 1970. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Cover photograph, Ed Lavitt. Stapled 4to., pp12 in photographic and printed covers. Dual language outreach text explaining roles of guidance counselors, with student stereotypes and framework for utilizing the guidance tier. In the gang-fueled and difficult time of 1970s NYC, the network… Read more about this item