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Vol.2, Iss.19: Gifts for Special Interests

11/23/2011
 

Gifts for Special Interests

As the holidays approach, we thought we might help you find a special gift for those with specific interests. Instead of buying the usual, consider instead something unique, something that will likely appreciate in value over time, and something that has a place in history. We have selected just a few of the thousands of items available for purchase on our website, www.universityarchives.com. Please give us a call at 1-800-237-5692 or email sandie@universityarchives.com and we will be happy to help you select the perfect gift. We offer expedited shipping within the continental United States at no charge with any purchase from our newsletter or inventory.

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Please visit the University Archives website to access our inventory, with over 20,000 items available for purchase.
                    For the Physician/Scientist:
Name Benjamin Rush ID# 54146
Headline Signer Dr. Benjamin Rush's twice signed bill for medicine and house calls to a young lady in Philadelphia.  
Date 1796-1797 Price
Place [Philadelphia] $4,750.00
 

Name Cotton Tufts ID# 54023
Headline Dr. Cotton Tufts, a founder and soon-to-be President of the Massachusetts Medical Society, requests Dr. Draper of Dedham to inform him of the next meeting of his "Association of Physicians" as he desires "to do whatever lays in my Power to encourage every laudable Effort for the advancement of medical knowledge."  
Date October 26, 1785 Price
Place Weymouth, MA $1,500.00
 

Name Arthur St. Clair ID# 32691
Headline April 1776, three months before his appointment to Brigadier General, Arthur St. Clair signs a receipt for expenses incurred for medical care of soldiers in the Revolution, including one woman "belonging to said company."  
Date April 20, 1776 Price
Place [Hackensack] $2,400.00
 

                    For the Scientist:
 

 
Name Joseph Lister ID# 52786
Headline Baron Lister tells lawyer Henry Lucas, who had married into the Montefiore/Rothschild family, that he would attend "the interesting ceremonial on June 21st."  
Date May 25, 1898 Price
Place [London, England] $900.00
 

 

Name Albert Schweitzer ID# 52421
Headline Superb 1892 family portrait of 17-year-old Albert, his parents, three sisters, brother, and dog, signed by Schweitzer who has identified everyone in the photograph. - this image was taken to be sent to his mother's American cousin, Eugene V. Debs!  
Date May 22, 1949 Price
Place n.p. $2,000.00
 

               For the Doctor:
 

 
Name John Staige Davis ID# 53537
Headline The first surgeon to devote his entire practice to plastic surgery writes about the healing of a skin graft - known today as the "Davis graft."  
Date [1900-1909] Price
Place Baltimore, Maryland $1,200.00
 

Name War of 1812 ID# 52509
Headline War of 1812 medical supply broadside.  
Date [ca. 1811] Price
Place n.p. $650.00
 
                    
               For the Inventor:
Name Thomas Alva Edison ID# 53480
Headline Superb signed Thomas Edison photograph seated in his Chemistry Laboratory.  
Date 1920s Price
Place [West Orange, New Jersey] $5,000.00
 

 

 
Name Trains ID# 52318
Headline Matthias W. Baldwin, builder of Pennsylvania's first locomotive, is granted a patent for an improvement in engines "connecting the piston rod with the pistons of steam Cylinders."  
Date December 17, 1840 Price
Place Washington, D.C. $900.00
 

 
Name Public Transportation ID# 52255
Headline Attractive patent for improvement in streetcar wheels to prevent mud from "causing friction and great wear to the journals".  
Date March 6, 1877 Price
Place City of Washington $600.00
 

Name Billiards and Pool ID# 52234
Headline Patent for an early pool table ball-return device.  
Date August 13, 1889 Price
Place City of Washington $900.00
 

               For the Bibliophile:

 
Name Ian Fleming ID# 53375
Headline For Her Eyes Only, From Ian, with Love. A remarkable collection including eight love letters from the creator of James Bond 007 to his Austrian girlfriend, written in 1934/1935.  
Date 1934/1935 Price
Place London, England $23,000.00
 
 

 

 
Name Samuel L. Clemens ID# 53367
Headline Framed Display of Mark Twain's signature and a large superb photograph of the author seated in his writing arm chair!  
Date n.d. Price
Place n.p. $1,500.00
 

 

 
Name Walt Whitman ID# 52603
Headline Whitman signed photograph removed from the frontispiece of "Two Rivulets," his 1876 volume of prose and verse, originally published with "Leaves of Grass" as part of a two volume Centennial Edition.  
Date 1880 Price
Place n.p. $3,600.00
 

 

 
Name Theodore Roosevelt ID# 52948
Headline Fantastic Teddy Roosevelt hand-written manuscript, tipped into a copy of his book The Winning of the West. Roosevelt attacks Jefferson and Madison for their lack of foresight regarding the burning of Washington DC by the British during the War of 1812: "...the cowardly infamy of which Jefferson and Madison...were guilty in not making ready...to protect their capitol...".  
Date 1899/1900 Price
Place n.p. $15,000.00
 

              To Build Your Child's Collection:
 

 

 
Name Charles Schulz ID# 52767
Headline Rare uninscribed signed drawing of Snoopy in "Home is on Top of a Dog House," the first all-Snoopy book and debut of the erratically flying bird which was named Woodstock four years later  
Date n.d. Price
Place n.p. $2,400.00
 

 

 
Name Charles Dickens ID# 54015
Headline Beautiful ALS portion of Charles Dickens, signed with his initials "CD".  
Date n.d. Price
Place n.p. $900.00
 

 

 
Name Maurice Sendak ID# 54306
Headline Emil, the Wild Thing! Original signed pencil sketch from "Where the Wild Things Are"  
Date n.d. Price
Place n.p. $7,500.00
 

                   For the Lover of the Arts or the Artist:

 

 
Name Trapp Family ID# 54020
Headline "The Sound of Music" Trapp Family singers signed program of a Vermont musical festival in their honor.  
Date 1965 Price
Place Stowe Vermont $1,300.00
 

 

 
Name Frank Lloyd Wright ID# 52764
Headline Original Blueprint of the National Historic Landmark "Fallingwater," named by the American Institute of Architects in 1991 as the "best all-time work of American architecture" accompanied by a Frank Lloyd Wright Autograph Document Signed.  
Date July 16, 1953 Price
Place Spring Green, Wisconsin $20,000.00
 

 

 
Name Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet ID# 52795
Headline Signed 12-word handwritten note penned on Massenet's calling card, imprinted with his "change of address" to an apartment overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens.  
Date 1903/1904 Price
Place [Paris] $400.00
 

 

 
Name Alvin Ailey
Robert Joffrey		 ID# 53911
Headline Letter of thanks for contributions made to the National Corporate Fund for Dance signed by the artistic directors of its constituent companies including Alvin Ailey and Robert Joffrey.  
Date December 31, 1978 Price
Place New York, New York $675.00
 

 

 
Name [Edgar Rice Burroughs] ID# 54252
Headline Tarzan illustrator and son of the author, John Coleman Burroughs, archive including original artwork.  
Date n.d. Price
Place n.p. $2,500.00
 

              For HIs or Her Royal Highness:
 

 

 
Name King George VI of England ID# 51412
Headline Fabulous and ornate letter of state signed by King George VI whose struggles were depicted in the Oscar Award winning movie "The King's Speech" on his coronation after the abdication of King Edward VIII.  
Date June 11, 1937 Price
Place England $7,500.00
 

 

 

 
Name Princess Diana of Wales ID# 54005
Headline Princess Diana's revised greeting to those who would be present at the August 6, 1996, dedication of the Mont Pincon War Memorial in France, "so typical of the warm friendship which the people of Normandy have demonstrated towards the British forces since 1944. It is fitting that their suffering during the Liberation of France should also be marked at the site of the Memorial..." Her original greeting composed in June was written as "Colonel-in-Chief of The Light Dragoons" - she had to rescind this honor as part of her divorce agreement announced three weeks later, so she revised the first line.  
Date July, 1996 Price
Place Kensington Palace $3,250.00
 

                    For Collectors of Judaica: