Box 1

 

MITCHELL, [Silas] Weir. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Philadelphia, May 19, [year not stated]. Two-page letter on two integral leaves of stationery bearing Mitchell’s printed address, with each leaf measuring 8 x 5”. Some minor soiling; very good plus. A letter to George Frederick Baer (1842-1914), thanking him for “a memorable day.”

  MITCHELL, [Silas] Weir. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Bar Harbor, ME, Sept. 26, [year not stated]. Three-page letter on two integral leaves, with each leaf measuring 6.75 x 4.5”. Near fine. Mitchell writes to an unnamed female recipient in response to her letter. The letter reads as follows: “Dear Madam, You would be very welcome to verse of mine if I had ever written anything in the interest of children except unpleasant prescriptions. I am unfortunately not in any such relation to...

  MITCHELL, [Silas] Weir. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. [Grand Cascapedia, Quebec, n.d.]. Four-page letter on Cascapedia Club stationery, consisting of two integral leaves with each leaf measuring 7 x 4.25”. According to a penciled note in an unidentified hand, on the final page, the recipient of this letter was William Farrar Smith (1824-1903), a major general of volunteers in the Civil War, and later a civil engineer and a New York police commissioner. In his letter, Mitchell discusses...

  MITCHELL, [Silas] Weir. GROUP OF THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED. Grand Cascapedia, Quebec, [one letter dated July 4, no year stated, the others undated]. One one-page letter and two twopage letters all on Cascapedia Club stationery, each consisting of two integral leaves, with each leaf measuring 7 x 4.5”. Fine. Mitchell writes to a Mr. Bourne about salmon fishing on the Cascapedia River and Bourne’s anticipated arrival. In one letter, Mitchell also mentions the departure of Lord...

 

MITCHELL, [Silas] Weir. AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED. Philadelphia, [n.d.]. One page letter on leaf of stationery bearing Mitchell’s printed address, measuring 4.5 x 4.5”. Small tape repairs to verso with no impact on text; mounting remnants on verso; else near fine. A note of transmittal for an unspecified enclosure, address to a Miss Susan.

 

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL SIGNATURE BOOK. [Cover title]. [Washington, D.C., 1952]. First edition. Printed letter by the president of the Academy, explaining the history of the signature book, laid-in Original printed wraps. Approx. 11 x 9”. [7] pages of facsimiles. Very good. Silas Weir Mitchell is one of the signers.

  REATH, Thomas W. CARBON TYPESCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED IN TYPE. [Philadelphia, circa 1946]. Three page letter on rectos of three leaves, with each leaf measuring 11 x 8.5”, in original mailing envelope addressed to Mrs. Kenneth Day (S. Weir Mitchell’s granddaughter), dated 1946. Reath relates a story told to him by Silas Weir Mitchell in Bermuda, in 1912. Mitchell reputedly described an encounter between his father, John Kearsley Mitchell, and the great actor, Junius Booth, in which the...

 

S[HERMAN], F[rank] D[empster]. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (with Initials). [n.p.], Jan. 17, 1893. One-page letter on leaf measuring 8 x 5”. Two pinholes, else fine. A letter to a “J.B.G.” enclosing a review [not present] and the following: AUTOGRAPH LETTER, IN VERSE, SIGNED (as “Franciseus Dempsterius S.”). [n.p.], Jan. 16, 1893. One-page letter on leaf.

 

[FREEMASONS]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE R.W. GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, AT A SPECIAL COMMUNICATION, HELD AT THE MASONIC HALL, CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 13TH, 1858 … ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF THE R.W. GRAND MASTER, JOHN K. MITCHELL, M.D. Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1858. First edition. Original self wraps. 8.5 x 5.5”. 8pp. Removed with several tiny holes to spine from former binding, else fine and bright. Rare; OCLC locates only four copies.