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Mathematics copybook kept by Thomas Bridgforth in Lunenburg County, Virginia. Gives rules for solving various problems and examples of calculations. Book has been laminated and rebound.

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Drawing copybook, ca. 1850, entitled "Accessary to Chapman's American Drawingbook . . . No. 1, 1850," of an unidentified child. The volume bears the signature of E. T. Pilsen on the front cover, and contains simple line drawings.

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School copybook, circa 1818, of Nancy Grove, which includes a multiplication table.  On last page appears the name, Thomas B. Glenn, with the date June 26, 1831. Possibly Page County, Virginia. 20 pages.

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Letter copybook, 1858-1860, of J. A. Robinson, merchant and postmaster, Fetterman, Taylor County, Virginia [West Virginia].

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Letter copybook, 1804-1806, of James Patton, planter, commission merchant, and shipowner, Alexandria, Va.

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Copybook, 1890-1902, of James S. Browning, which includes business correspondence of the Browning [Coal] Mines.

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Letter copybook, 1849-1855, of Lt. John S. Devlin, U. S. Marine Corps, while cruising on the U. S. S. Falmouth (United States West Coast and some Pacific Islands) and in Washington, D. C. and Brooklyn, N. Y. Concerns a court martial and includes accounts.

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Letter copybook, 1838-1871, of F.. A. Lewis, (Fisher Ames Lewis) of Fortress Monroe, Virginiaa. and Jefferson County, West Virginia. Many of the later letters are religiously oriented and addressed to public officials.

Scope and Contents Copybook of Lizzie Ellis Bernard of Rockwood, Orange Coounty and Petersburg, Virginia. The following description was provided by the seller: "There are several numbered pages where the writer has copied poems, lengthy essays, German language exercises, lists for home remedies, word puzzles, etc. She has also cut pages, cartoons and articles from newspapers and broadsides and glued them over existing hand-written work.... There is a newspaper piece with an image of a New Year's clock from...

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Letter copybook, 1893-1894, of B. G. Manor, grist miller, of New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia.

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Letter copy book of Thomas M. Rutherfoord, tobacconist, Richmond, Virginia, 1873-1877. Includes copies of business correspondence and invoices.

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School copybook, 1813, of an unidentified child which contains practice in writing letters and numbers.

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School copybook, 1815, of an unidentified child which contains practice in writing letters and numbers.

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Mathematics book, 1859, of William N. Smith, Laurel Mills, Rappahannock County, Virginiaa. The volume was also used as a handwriting copybook, and as a legal and business book.

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Letter copybook, 1810-1813, of W. S. Stone, commission merchant and shipowner, of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Letter copybook, 1851-1852, of Alexander H. H. Stuart, kept while serving as United States Secretary of the Interior. Includes official and personal correspondence.  Index.

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Letter copybook, 1798-1799, of Thomas Ladd, tobacco merchant of Richmond, Va. Later, the volume was used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings, 1841-1862, by Alice Starke.

Scope and Contents Small bound writing book kept by an unknown individual, but most likely a woman related to the family of Robert Anderson Bright (1839-1904). The first entry is a lengthy essay on sincerity. Many of the other entries are copies of poems, sonnets, and some original musings. There are a few entries written in French. Some of the writings are signed by Ella (possibly Eliana Maria Jerdone Southall) and two entries are signed by Helen M. Anderson, Robert Anderson Bright's mother and...

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Typescript, 1771-1783 and 1796, of letter copybook I and II of William Reynolds [merchant ?] of Yorktown, Virginia.

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Letter copybook, 1883-1899, of William T. Leavell, Jr., Louisville, Ky. which includes both business and personal matters.