[Various locations: 1876-1909]. Approximately 250 autograph letters, signed, totaling over 1,000 pages, plus various manuscript documents, two manuscript maps, a group of typed transcripts of letters, and a handful of contemporary family photographs. Minor occasional wear and toning, but overall a well-preserved group. An extraordinary collection of original correspondence written.....

Paramaribo, Suriname: C. Kersten & Co., [ca. 1895]. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit chipped and soiled, both detached. First text leaf detached, text toned. An apparently unrecorded children's primer translated into Sranan Tongo, the Creole lingua franca of Suriname. Structurally based on English with significant Dutch vocabulary and.....