[AMERICANA]. Letters, documents, and ephemera, from the Estate of Carroll J. Delery III.

Hundreds of items, primarily constituting personal letters from a wide range of correspondents, from a mix of male and female writers, spanning the 1800s. Lot also includes legal documents, business and personal receipts, postcards, sheet music, miscellaneous imprints, illustrations and engravings, and more. Various places, predominantly in the southern United States, including Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, ca late1700s - mid 1900s (bulk 1800s).

Interesting items include the following: tax assessor sheets for the city of New Orleans, 1861 and possibly 1857, housed in the remnants of ledger books (both substantially incomplete and disbound). -- Land grants made to Josias and Josiah Chambers of Louisiana, secretarially signed by Presidents Van Buren, Buchanan, and McKinley respectively. -- A War of 1812 "Pay Roll of a Company," 1 May to 8 May, 1813, which identifies John Myers, Captain and approximately 70 officers and privates of the company, possibly for the First Regiment, Maryland Volunteer Artillery, Maryland Militia, "Harris's Artillery." -- A subsistence account of Ensign Isaac Wickwim [likely Isaac Wickham], New York Volunteers, May 1814-November 1814, from his post at Fort Niagara. -- Consular documents from the Port of Gibraltar and the Port of Hamburg. -- Brigade Orders, 3 March 1799, signed by "Nathan Crane B Gen." -- An engraving of New Orleans by A.R. Waud. -- United States Department of War. "An Act, Establishing Rules and Articles for the Government of the Armies of the United States; with the Regulations of the War Department Respecting the Same." Albany: Printed by Websters and Skinners, 1812. Identified to "Jacob H. Hager."

A large group worthy of additional research and exploration.

Estate of Carroll J. Delery III, Formerly the “Historical Shop”

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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[AMERICANA]. Letters, documents, and ephemera, from the Estate of Carroll J. Delery III.

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