Box 1

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Letters: Neff House, Sunbury, Pa., to Bloomsburg Carpet Mills

3 ALS. Each letter places an order for services and sundry items.

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Letter: Neff House, Sunbury, Pa., to W. E. Leneker, Killinger, Dauphin Co.

ALS. "Three Miles out from Middleburg Store + Farmer Sells about 5 Tuns of Susquehana Co. goods a year including what he uses himself. Won't change."

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Letter: Essex, to Seymour Adelman, 1906-1985, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Thanks Adelman for his letter, and discusses his series of paintings of Keats and Keats's works.

Scope and Contents Letter: Essex, to Seymour Adelman, 1906-1985, Philadelphia, Pa.TLS. Ayrten thanks Adelman for his "kind and pleasant gift of your lecture on Leigh Hunt and of the facsimile letter from Cobbett to James Oldden from your collection. It will be a great pleasure to come and see you with Margo in Philadelphia, where I hope to be sometime in the second half of June. Meanwhile we have heard from Margo and shall see her in London in April." Also included is a newspaper cutout reviewing...

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ANS. "Admit Sir R. Steel (a Member) to view the College Museum."

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Letter: Batavia, to Mr. Curtis Harvey, London

ALS. Discusses various shipments that Adam & Co are expecting.

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Letter: London, to "M."

ALS. Proposes an exchange for a cloak which recipient has found unsatisfactory in color.

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Authorization: for the ship Amazon, Master Samuel R. Trevett DS. Presidential authorization allowing the Amazon "to pass with her company, passengers, goods and merchandise, without any hindrance, seizure or molestation." On the reverse is a statement, signed by Joseph Pitcairn, Consul of the United States at Hamburgh, certifying that the ship is "now mounted with fourteen guns," and dated 30 March 1799.

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Affidavit: Washington, D.C.

DS. Adams, Secretary of State in 1820, certifies "that the annexed is a true copy of a patent granted to Oliver Evans for his improvement in Steam Engines . . . dated the fourteenth day of February 1804."

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Check: Philadelphia, Pa., to H. Ward Gregore

DS. Check for $25 payable from the First National Bank of Camden, N.J., to H. Ward Gregore, with two signatures on back.