[Rarebooks] FS: Hardwick, Massachusetts, Friendship Album, 1879

[Bob Petrilla]

Sturtevant, Elliott. AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT ALBUM KEPT BY THIS YOUNG MAN OF
HARDWICK, MASSACHUSETTS, 1879-1886. Original manuscript. Contains about
40pp of handwritten entries, containing signatures and messages. Bound in
blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt-decorated cover with chromolitho of a
child's head; front inner hinge cracked. 3" x 4.75" Very Good. Original
Cloth.
Most of the entries are datelined at Hardwick and Ware, Massachusetts, with
others at Orange, South Hadley Falls, Milford, Gilbertsville, Belchertown,
and Greenwich (one of the "lost" Quabbin towns). Family names include:
Sturtevant, Nichols, Killmer, Barnes, Robinson, Cheever, Richardson,
Sibley, Avery, Bartlett, Fitzpatrick, and others. $50.00

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