Box 5 (OS)

 

PUBLIC LEDGER. PICTORIAL SECTION. Philadelphia, Jan. 18, 1914. Original self-wraps. 16 x 11”. [16]pp. Faint crease and small area of toning with slight impact on image of Mitchell; tear to gutter; good plus. Front wrap bears a large photographic portrait of Mitchell, published as a memorial soon after his death.

 

WILLARD, Mrs. And KNIGHT, J.P. ROCKED IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP. WORDS BY MRS. WILLARD. MUSIC COMPOSED AND DEDICATED TO DR. MITCHELL BY J.P. KNIGHT. [Cover title]. Boston: Oliver Diston, 1853. Sheet music. Original printed wraps neatly backed in cloth. Very good. Dedicated to John Kearsley Mitchell (I).

  [CENTURY COMPANY]. HAMBIDGE, Jay, [illustrator]. THE CENTURY FOR NOVEMBER. LARGE CHROMOLITHOGRAPH ADVERTISING BROADSIDE FOR CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. N.Y.: G.H. Buek & Co., Lith[ographers], 1896. Broadside measuring 17.5 x 21”. The text continues: “Beginning the New Volume. A Great Article on Elections. Opening Chapters of the New Serials: “CAMPAIGING WITH GRANT,” Personal Recollections by Gen Horace Porter. “HUGH WYNNE FREE QUAKER,” A Novel of the Revolution by Dr. S. Weir...

 

MITCHELL, S[ilas] Weir. “A Prayer.” A poem. Vol. 42, No. 2173, Aug. 13, 1898. Original self-wraps. Short tear to head of spine, else near fine. Mitchell’s poem appears in an inset box in the “Diary of the [Spanish American] War.”