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Reply To: Insurance for autograph collections.

Brian Kathenes — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:49:38 +0000

Most appreciable tangible personal property is NOT covered under your standard home owners policy. These items typically need to be “scheduled”, and rider is added to your policy. A “USPAP-compliant, Qualified, Appraisal report is the basis for establishing value. You’ll find an article on this important subject at:
http://www.YourFavoriteAppraisers.com

Best regards,
Brian Kathenes, ISA-CAPP

Ben Franklin free franks

Timothy — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:43:36 +0000

I have a census of 128 BF franks. The vast majority are culled from the BF Papers of Yale and the American Philosophical Society. I’m looking for those letters not listed in the 48 volume series. Tim O’Coonor

Emily Dickinson Letters – Scholars Request

Manuscript Society — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:24:03 +0000

Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo, SUNY) and Domhnall Mitchell (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) are preparing a new edition of Emily Dickinson’s complete letters, to be published by Harvard University Press. We are making new transcriptions of every letter (last transcribed and edited by Johnson and Ward in 1958).
To insure greatest accuracy, we want to transcribe from the original letters, not from digital copies. We have been visiting institutions we know hold Dickinson letters, based on locations known in 1958, but we know that those then in private hands may have changed hands, and that new letters have surfaced.
If you own a Dickinson letter, or have knowledge of one held in a private collection, we would like to know about it. Ideally, one of us would visit and transcribe your letter; if that is not possible, we would hope to obtain a digital image.
Please contact Cris Miller at ccmiller@buffalo.edu.
Thank you for your help!
Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell

Reply To: A. R. Moen letters 1831 trip through the South

Manuscript Society — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:03:58 +0000

Hi, this is Shirley Sands, Exec Director Of the society. I received an email from a gentleman who says he has a lot of information on ARMoen. He says he is not a member but saw this post when he googled Moen. If you would email me at. Sands@manuscript.org I would be happy to forward his email to you.

Best,
Shirley Sands

A. R. Moen letters 1831 trip through the South

Genws — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:59:44 +0000

I am seeking letters by A. R. Moen [Augustus Rene Moen] to the Collins Company in 1831,
written during his trip across the South but particularly in Alabama and Georgia.