Books & Ephemera: Including Chapman Family Historical Documents

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Featuring over 220 lots from the 17th to the 20th centuries, the auction includes antique and vintage books on many subjects and in diverse languages. There is also a wide selection of works on paper – engravings, vintage photographs; maps; war posters, lithographs, and several artworks. Historical documents from the Chapman family are part of a collection related to Edward Mortimer Chapman (1862-1952), a Connecticut pastor, academic, author, and descendant of one of Saybrook’s first settlers.
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[WILSON, WOODROW. 1856-1924]; and RAY STANNARD BAKER, 1870-1946.31 - [WILSON, WOODROW. 1856-1924]; and RAY STANNARD BAKER, 1870-1946.
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A group of two letters from Woodrow Wilson's biographer, Ray Stannard Baker, requesting personal remembrances of Wilson, and a 13-page hand...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
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CADMAN, SAMUEL PARKES, 1864-1936; [CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH].32 - CADMAN, SAMUEL PARKES, 1864-1936; [CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH].
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A two-sheet ALS on letterhead of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, New York, to Edward M. Chapman, January 26, 1926. The Rev. Cadman thanks
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Start Price : 50.00 | Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
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[SAYBROOK COLLEGE, YALE UNIVERSITY, 1934-1938].33 - [SAYBROOK COLLEGE, YALE UNIVERSITY, 1934-1938].
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A correspondence between Elliott Dunlap Smith, Master of Saybrook College at Yale (and later Carnegie-Mellon University Professor), and Edward
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HOCKING, WILLIAM ERNEST, 1873-1966; [HARVARD UNIVERSITY].34 - HOCKING, WILLIAM ERNEST, 1873-1966; [HARVARD UNIVERSITY].
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A letter from Professor William Ernest Hocking to Edward M. Chapman, and a typed carbon copy of a letter from Chapman to another Harvard-associated ac
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SHOREY, PAUL, 1857-1934; [UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO].35 - SHOREY, PAUL, 1857-1934; [UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO].
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A single-sheet TLS to Edward M. Chapman, on University of Chicago letterhead, January 21, 1929. Shorey thanks Chapman for his letter and the book sent
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
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BROWN, CHARLES REYNOLDS, 1862-1950; [YALE UNIVERSITY].36 - BROWN, CHARLES REYNOLDS, 1862-1950; [YALE UNIVERSITY].
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A single-sheet TLS to Edward M. Chapman on Yale University Divinity School letterhead, January 22, 1926. Brown thanks Chapman for the offer of his for
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WATHAM, ARTHUR E.; [DIOCESE OF KENTUCKY].37 - WATHAM, ARTHUR E.; [DIOCESE OF KENTUCKY].
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A lively correspondence (three documents) on theological topics, between Rev. Arthur E. Watham, Presbyter of the Diocese of Kentucky, and Edwa
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PERSONS, FREDERICK T., b. 1869; [CONGREGATIONAL LIBRARY, BOSTON].38 - PERSONS, FREDERICK T., b. 1869; [CONGREGATIONAL LIBRARY, BOSTON].
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A single-sheet TLS to Edward M. Chapman, on Congregational Library letterhead, April 30, 1935. Persons discusses what he has discovered in response to
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WILDER, AMOS NIVEN, 1895-1993; and WILDER, AMOS PARKER, 1862-1936.39 - WILDER, AMOS NIVEN, 1895-1993; and WILDER, AMOS PARKER, 1862-1936.
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Letters from Amos P. Wilder (diplomat/journalist) to Edward M. Chapman, one in which he refers to his son Thornton Wilder's writing; together wi...
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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"PRECIOUS STEINS," ANONYMOUS, c. 1920s.40 - "PRECIOUS STEINS," ANONYMOUS, c. 1920s.
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Typescript onionskin sheet of a limerick about Gertrude Stein, Albert Einstein, and Jacob Epstein; signed "Author! Author! / The Phoenician.&qu...
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