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Early and Rare ALS to John Rodgers while Patrolling the Mediterranean Sea by PERRY, MATTHEW C

by PERRY, MATTHEW C

Early and Rare ALS to John Rodgers while Patrolling the Mediterranean Sea by PERRY, MATTHEW C

Early and Rare ALS to John Rodgers while Patrolling the Mediterranean Sea

by PERRY, MATTHEW C

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PERRY, MATTHEW C. (1794-1858). American naval officer whose 1853 visit to Japan helped open that country to the world. ALS. ("M.C. Perry"). 1½pp. 4to. Aboard the USS Concord at Gibraltar Bay, November 29, 1830. To JOHN RODGERS (1773-1838), the highest ranking American naval officer in the War of 1812 and Secretary of the Navy in 1823.

"A fast sailing schooner sails this evening for New York and as she will probably take the earliest intelligence from this quarter I write a line to say that I left the Squadron two weeks since at Mahon, every one in good health. The Constellation had arrived a few days before from Tunis, and was in Quarantine. Cap. Wadsworth was perfectly well as also was your son who has been slightly indisposed with the varialoid [smallpox].

I am waiting here for money for the Squadron which Col. Hayne finds some difficulty in procuring owing to the recent disturbances in England.

Consul Cox of Tripoli is dead and Cap. Mullany is now sick at Gibraltar, supposed by his physicians to be on his death bed. Com. Porter when last heard of was at Leghorn with the Boston. Mr. Henry & his wife & family are in England attending the sick bed of his eldest surviving daughter who has a disease of the spleen, and has become deformed. Every means has been resorted to, to bring her form into its natural shape, in attempting which the poor child has suffered martyrdom to her mother's pride, an hundred times. It makes one shudder to listen to the recital of the suffering of the poor little delicate creature in the endeavors of the Surgeons to make perfect a form which the hand of disease and the ordinations of Providence have decreed should be imperfect. You recollect her. She was the youngest of the two beautiful little girls that we saw when we were here in the North Carolina. The eldest died about 2 years ago.

We have had many rumors of your having had some disputes with the Secy of the Navy, but I am glad to observe by the last papers recd. these reports contradicted. They remark that there is some difference of opinion as to the construction of a law but that the utmost Courtesy prevails, etc.

Will you be good enough to present my Respectful regards to Mrs. Rodgers and Believe me to Be, very Respectfully & Sincerely y[ou]r h[umble] & ob[edient] ser[vant]…"

Perry entered the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1809, becoming an aide to Commodore Rodgers aboard the USS President during the War of 1812. He went on to serve in the Mediterranean under Stephen Decatur aboard the USS United States during the Second Barbary War and helped suppress piracy and the illegal slave trade in the West Indies. Perry was Rodgers' fleet captain from 1826-1827 and took command of the sloop-of-war USS Concord, in May 1830, aboard which he penned our letter. The Concord joined the American squadron patrolling the Mediterranean Sea until December 1832, and in the same year, Perry and the Concord brought American envoy John Randolph to the Imperial Russian court at St. Petersburg. Perry was an advocate for modernizing the Navy, which he did by reforming naval education, organizing the first corps of naval engineers and overseeing construction of the second steam frigate, the USS Fulton, earning the nickname "the Father of the Steam Navy." He earned a commission of commodore in 1840, and commanded the USS Mississippi during the Mexican-American War. However, it was for his role in the opening of Japan that he is perhaps best remembered. In 1852, he became famous when he was "selected to undertake the most important diplomatic mission ever entrusted to an American naval officer, the negotiation of a treaty with Japan," (DAB). The mission, comprised of two visits by Perry during 1852-1853 and in 1854, successfully opened Japan to American trade.

During the Tripolitan War, our letter's recipient, John Rodgers, distinguished himself as commander of the blockade that led to the peace of 1805. Rodgers gained popularity for defeating the British aboard the USS President in 1811, and his performance in the War of 1812, won an appointment from President Madison to become head of the Board of Naval Commissioners, a post he held for many years.

The naval frigate USS Constellation, was launched in 1797 during the Quasi-War with France, and was one of the six original frigates whose construction had been authorized by the Naval Act of 1794. In 1799, she defeated the French Navy's fastest ship, L'Insurgente, and La Vengeance a year later. The Constellation continued in active service during the First Barbary War, the War of 1812 and the Second Barbary War. She was part of the Mediterranean squadron 1829-1831, under the command of Alexander Scammel Wadsworth (1790-1851), a distinguished veteran of the War of 1812 and Second Barbary War (and cousin of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), and disassembled in 1853 at the Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia. John Rodgers (1812-1882), the son of the recipient and a future Rear Admiral during the U.S. Civil War, received his commission as a navy midshipman at the age of 15 and begin his service on both the Constellation and the Concord. Arthur P. Hayne (1788-1867), whose military career began in 1807, fought in Lake Ontario and at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 where he was recognized for bravery three times. At the time of our letter, Hayne was the U.S. naval agent in the Mediterranean, after which he represented South Carolina in the Senate. Beginning in 1825, Charles D. Cox (?-1830) served as Consul to the Barbary States at Tripoli. David Porter (1780-1843), began his naval career under Rodgers. Taken prisoner at Tripoli in the First Barbary War, he assumed command of the USS Constitution after his release. Porter seized the first British warship taken during the conflict and captured hundreds of prisoners over the course of the next two years. After the war he served on the Board of Navy Commissioners and led a mission to suppress piracy in the West Indies, but during the latter campaign, he made an unauthorized raid on a Puerto Rican village that led to his court martial. Porter resigned his naval commission with the honorary rank of commodore and commanded the Mexican navy from 1826-1829. At the time of our letter Commodore Porter was serving as Minister to the Barbary States. The USS North Carolina was Rodgers' flagship in the Mediterranean from 1825-1827.

Written on a folded sheet with the integral address leaf intact save paper loss from the wax seal. Folded with some fold tears not affecting any text. Marked "private" on the address panel. Bearing the black ink stamp of the "autograph collection of Dr. Max Thorek Chicago," a famous Chicago autograph collector and surgical innovator. In very good condition. Content letters of Perry, particularly this early, are rare; this is the earliest example we could find since 1993.


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"To keep busy is to know how to enjoy
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"S'occuper c'est savoir jouir
L'oisiveté pèse et tourmente;
L'âme est un feu, qu'il faut nourrir
Et qui s'éteint, s'il ne s'augmente"
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"To keep busy is to know how to enjoy
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...Half a Dozen of the Other: Six Plays for Young Actors and Audiences (Plays and Musicals for Young Audiences SERIES)

by Perry Editor, C. Michael; Stephenson, R. Rex; Bennett, Matthew Ivan; Reck, Jennifer; Rinear, Sheila; Stewart, Mahonri

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...Half a Dozen of the Other: Six Plays for Young Actors and Audiences (Plays and Musicals for Young Audiences SERIES)

by Perry Editor, C. Michael; Stephenson, R. Rex; Bennett, Matthew Ivan; Reck, Jennifer; Rinear, Sheila; Stewart, Mahonri

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by Neve Campbell,Matthew Perry,Dylan McDermott,Oliver Platt,Cylk Cozart,John C. McGinley,Bob Balaban,Deborah Rush,Kelly Rowan,Rick Gomez

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THE JAPAN EXPEDITION 1852-1854: The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry

by Perry, Matthew C.. Edited by Roger Pineau

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Narrative of the Expedition of An American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan

Narrative of the Expedition of An American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan

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The Japan Expedition, 1852-1854; the Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry

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Narrative of the Expedition to the China Seas and Japan 1852-1854 Vol. I.

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Mineola NY: Dover, 2000. Reprint of 1856 Edition. Paperback. As New. Based on Perry's 1852 journal: 240 rare illustrations, 6 maps, 537 pages. This remarkable historical document also offers a magnificent travelogue, with revealing anecdotes and picturesque details about Singapore, Mauritius, Macao... Repulication of Volume I....; 8 x 11
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Narrative of the expedition to the China Seas and Japan, 1852-1854. . . compiled from the original notes and journals of Commodore Perry and his officers. . . by Francis L. Hawks.

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Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences

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Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences

by Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M./ Freeman, John R./ Pevehouse, Jon C. W./ Hitt, Matthew Perry

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Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) on letterhead of Harper & Brothers Editorial Rooms, to a Miss Bridgman, 24 January 1895

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NY, 1895. Original manuscript. Very Good. One page, written clearly in black ink. Sangster sends her autograph and thanks Miss Bridgman "for your very kind and sweet letter....Cordially yours...." Signed in full. 8.25" x 5.25
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London: Aug. 11, 1888. 4to, 39 lines, approx. 220 words, on Century Illustrated Magazine letterhead, to the publishers Roberts Brothers, soliciting orders of the book Old Chelsea by Benjamin Ellis Martin. Previous solds, some toning, all else very good. "At the request of Mr. Pascoe I have pleasure sending you ... proofs of Old Chelsea. It is written by Dr. Martin, an American literary man, and a contributor to Harper & Century & the illustrations are by Joseph Pennell ... Altogether it will be a most charming and attractive got up book and for you it must be impotrant as the publisher of Pennell's book and also it will be a copyright book. Within a week I shall send you page and complete proof etc and terms for 500 copies if you wish for a larger number please say so."
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The Complete Letter-Writer.  Containing Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life....
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The Complete Letter-Writer. Containing Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life. Also a Variety of Elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, On Business, Duty, Amusement, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Friendship,.....

by (Donaldson, Alexander, Printer)

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Edinburgh: Printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1781. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 230 +9pp contents. Full leather, leather label. Covers worn and scuffed, free endpapers lacking, joints tender, contents tanned and foxed, minor dampstaining to last pages,drawing and doodling on front pastedown, strip torn from lower margin of last page, no loss of text, former owner's name on title page. A very early edition of this title, by the author referred to by James Boswell as the "Prodigious Vendor of Literature.
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Holograph Note Signed

Holograph Note Signed

by Salter, James

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(np): (np) Aprx 9x12 inch 20 lb green stock dated "August 4 Bridgehampton." "Yes, it is a nice collection. A pleasure to sign. My regards to Ms Mason." Salter has signed with his initials "J.S" Folded in half with beginning toning at extremities. Very Good condition.. Signed. Unbound. Very Good/Not Issued.
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From.... "HELL RECONSIDERED"

From.... "HELL RECONSIDERED"

by Styron, William

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Faircopy. 8.5x11 inch 20lb tan stock with perforation line on topedge. Signed in ink by Styron. One typo (uncorrected). Fine condition. Contents are a one paragraph excerpt from Styron's essay that appeared in the June 29, 1978 issue of "The New York Review of Books.". Signed by Author. Unbound. Fine/Not Issued. Faircopy/Typescript.
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Autographed Photo of Bob Hope

Autographed Photo of Bob Hope

by Hope, Bob

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Bob Hope was, and still is, one of the most iconic actor/comedians to ever emerge from Hollywood.
This photo is a promotional movie still for the movie "The Cat and the Canary", released in the year 1939, which starred Bob Hope with Paulette Goddard.
The photo is matted in a pale green photo mat and is autographed,
"Bob".
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Autographed Photo of Penn and Teller

Autographed Photo of Penn and Teller

by Penn & Teller

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Penn Jillette and Joe Teller have successfully combined magic and comedy for decades, becoming one of the most enduring and successful pairings in the entertainment industry.
This 8 inch by 10 inch black & white photo is a publicity still from the Warner Brothers movie "Penn & Teller Get Killed", made in 1989.
It is autographed in red ink by both Penn and Teller.
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Original Handwritten Letter From Pianist Harold Bauer, 1907, With Three Performance Programs, 1917

Original Handwritten Letter From Pianist Harold Bauer, 1907, With Three Performance Programs, 1917

by Harold Victor Bauer

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Florence (1907) And Los Angeles (1917): Trinity Auditorium Villa Braggiotti, 1907. Original Documents . No Binding. Fine. Original Handwritten Two Page Letter To One Of His Students, A Miss Wilson, From Pianist Harold Bauer, 1907, On Villa Braggiotti, Florence Stationary, With Three Performance Programs At The Trinity Theatre, Los Angeles, 1917. Some Wear And Soiling. Harold Victor Bauer (1873 - 1951) Was A Noted Pianist Who Began His Musical Career As A Violinist. He Took Up The Study Of The Violin Under The Direction Of His Father And Adolf Pollitzer. He Made His Debut As A Violinist In London In 1883, And For Nine Years Toured England. In 1892, However, He Went To Paris And Studied The Piano Under Ignacy Jan Paderewski For A Year, Though Still Maintaining His Interest In The Violin. An Anecdote Reports That Paderewski Jokingly Told Bauer To Concentrate On The Piano Because "You Have Such Beautiful Hair". In 1893, In Paris, He And Achille Rivarde Premiered Frederick Delius's Violin… Read More
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Robert Dale Owen Signed Letter

Robert Dale Owen Signed Letter

by Owen, Robert Dale

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, . 5 1/8" x 6 3/4" signed letter from Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877) dated May 5, 1865 at Cincinnati and addressed to publishers Mssrs. Tickner & Fields, acknowledging receipt of $50 as payment for his article on Hofwyl appearing in Atlantic Magazine that month, a fond history of his years at Hofwyl school, the independent self-governing private college in Switzerland to which Owen credited the molding of much of his character and philosophy. In addition to his notorious involvement with social reforms, Robert Dale Owen served in the Indiana legislature and the U.S. House Of Representatives (1843 to 1847), where he introduced and secured passage of the bill to establish the Smithsonian Institution, for which he was appointed to its first board of regents. Never without controversy, in the 1850 ‘s he turned to spiritualism, and while his book on the subject, "Footfalls On The Boundary Of Another World" was popular with the general public, it incurred ridicule from a number of his… Read More
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Autograph letter signed, 1929
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Autograph letter signed, 1929

by MASEFIELD, John

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Fold creases, but in fine condition. One page, 4to, on Masefield's Boars Hill letterhead, Oxford, docketed 2 May 1929, to E. J. Toms, secretary to Geoffrey Parsons, Editor of The Herald Tribune. With envelope address in Masefield's hand. Masefield thanks Toms for his letter of April 9th and for a clipping he sent. "Will you be so kind as to convey to the Editor my thanks for his courtesy in printing my appeal? With greetings, I am, Yours sincerely, John Masefield.
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