Dear friends and colleagues,

Now on offer: sixteen recently-catalogued items in which you will find the answers to the following questions: How do you cure hog cholera? Did Willa Cather have a buzzcut when she was a teenager? Do people from Brooklyn dress better than everyone else? How many Tiffany's tea sets make a marriage? And finally, are amoeba weird or what?
 

1. [Americana] [Second Great Awakening] [Women] [Stebbins Family] Anonymous

Manuscript Diary Kept by a Massachusetts Woman Through the Second Great Awakening and a Pregnancy

Longmeadow, MA: 1826-1827. Small quarto (20.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; [48]pp. filled to completion. Front and rear leaves starting to separate, some dampstaining affecting approx. five leaves with some bleeding of ink leading to brief loss of meaning, else Good to Very Good.

Remarkable daily record kept by an unknown woman in the rural farming community of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, at the height of the Second Great Awakening. The author may have been related to the Stebbins family, making mention of the death of "Uncle Quartus Stebbins" in Ohio in 1827, though most of the names provided are of the myriad local clergymen to whose meetings the diary-keeper was an almost daily attendee. Much of the day-to-day records only the meeting the author attended, who gave the sermon, and from section of the Bible the sermon was taken, often followed by a biblical quote. At the outset only occasional mentions are made to daily life, including the Monday wash, candle making, sewing, and the diligent record of the many deaths taking place in this tiny community. 

Significantly, the author is pregnant through the first nine months of the keeping of this diary, though the only allusions made to her state are on the days when she must remain at home and miss meeting due to ill health. The earliest hint of her pregnancy arises around the three month mark, when she mentions visiting a Mr. Benedict on Monday. The following day, "Tuesday," is enigmatically marked by what looks like a "pr" (for pregnant?), followed by several days where the author can hardly record more than the day of the week, concluding that Sabbath simply "Stayd at home all day." After this initial bout of what we presume to be morning sickness, the author returns to her regular schedule of attending daily meetings, though as her delivery date approaches more and more meetings have to be missed due to ill health, culminating on January 21st with the brief entry, "Sabbath not well this evening I was confined between 11 and 12 Ock and A son is given us and blessed be God." 

The record quickly returns to the matter of attending meetings, though the health of the author's two daughters begins to encroach. During the two years this diary was kept Lucy (presumably a daughter) experienced four severe "fits," one of these heart-wrenchingly recorded by her mother: "Friday evening meeting to Mr. Cooley Mr. Eastman attended a very good meeting when we got home found Lucy had had a fit. The shock at the thought [?] stop it is God that does this, oh Rebuke her disease if it be consistent with thy holy will...oh do not spoil her reason in the morning of her days may she live and be useful in the world. Say the word and she shall be heal'd Bless oh my soul that there is a God of mercy."

Additionally, the prolonged illness of another daughter, Lauren, is also recorded with the succinctness of a mother consumed by anxiety. During that six week period, from May 8 to June 24, no mention of attending a meeting is made, though clergymen attend to the child as "it seems as if she could not live long she continues so through the knight and the next day." Lauren did eventually recover and her mother could return to meeting.

An extraordinary document valuable as both a record of motherhood in early 19th century rural New England and a day-to-day account of an active member of the Second Great Awakening.
 

2. [Civil War] James M. Smith; Alexander B. Kline; Rebecca Virginia Smith Kline et al.

Manuscript Notebook

Martinsburg, WV / Stephens City, VA: 1861-1891. Civil War-era manuscript ledger with the striking ownership inscription, "James M. Smith his book. Took from the Yankees while Stationed at Martensburg [sic] On the 8th of September 1861." Octavo; leather-backed boards; 50ll. of lined paper filled to approx. half completion. Rather worn, corners chipped, binding holding. Several pages torn out, others torn with loss. Hand-written notes faded or smudged in spots, but largely legible throughout. 

Martinsburg changed hands between Union and Confederate forces 37 times throughout the Civil War, and this ledger was presumably retrieved by Smith after the Union retreated. Facing Smith's inscription is a hand-drawn map of a Civil War camp, with "Cumberland" and "Charlest-" as the only identifying marks. A series of entries from 1861 mention a "Levi Baker" and receipts for corn, chickens, and hay. Entries appear to be in a variety of hands and most are undated, Those with listed dates skip around from the 1860s to the early 1890s. The Kline and Grim families of Stephen City, Virginia are identified and they and Smith may be our main authors though the content appears to be in a number of different hands. Entries with mentions of the Klines and Grims include recording taking down a telegraph wire ($10.00) and Service in the Army ($46.60) in addition to the regular entries of labor, produce, and goods purchased. 

Aside from the regular ledger entries, the author(s) give a cure for hog cholera, which includes a mixture of milk and pure carbolic acid and instructions to "drench the hog"; a "Black or all healing salve" recipe; and two hair tonics, one using whiskey, glycerine, and quinine. A slightly illegible incantatory cure for a bloody nose is also included. (The afflicted is to repeat the given verse three times to stop the bleeding.)

While the bulk of the ledger is level in tone, half of one page is dedicated to an unnamed reviled real estate agent. The screed reveals the author's prejudice and hatred for the individual in stark terms, as the agent is described as a "cheating liying [sic] money scraper… how many lies in a day tell you old skinflint most felonious Jew and when death's shadows close round you won't the devil have his due…you bet." 

A haphazardly composed manuscript notebook and ledger, notable for its early Civil War provenance and brief glimpses into the daily goings-ons and toils in late 19th-century Virginia and West Virginia.
 

3. [Civil War Manuscript Poem] [Miss O'Ferrall]

"To Col. Ashby" [Manuscript title]

N.p.: ca. 1862. Civil War two-page manuscript poem folded with manuscript title "To Col. Ashby." Presumably penned by a Miss O'Ferrall. Later pencil inscription reading "Mrs. Sue Lupton"; tears along folds with some general spotting, but overall intact. 

The poem is laudatory of Confederate Colonel Turner Ashby, leading "a gallant band from a Southern land." A "tyrant's band" approaches however, and "Lincoln in vain with servile chain / Would keep our freemen under / With proud disdain, will burst in twain / And scatter his bonds assunder." Ashby's cavalry was highly lauded in the early stages of the Civil War, supporting Stonewall Jackson's valley campaign. This poem continues in praise of "the patriot band from Maryland," presumably an allusion to soldiers from Maryland with Confederate sympathies, confirming "they'll by us Stand / To crush the Tyrant's madness." Ashby was killed near Harrisonburg in July 1862, though this poem appears to have been written while he was still alive.
 

4. Mark Twain [pseud. Samuel L. Clemens]; Mrs. E.M. McDonald

Mark Twain's Scrap Book

New York: Daniel Slote & Co., ca. 1878. Octavo; publisher's cloth over marbled paper-covered boards; [30] gum-lined leaves of grey stock. Boards a bit scuffed and rear cover quite sunned and faintly dampstained, one leaf separated. Contemporary ownership signature of a Mrs. E.M. McDonald to rear free endpape, textblock filled to fifty percent completion with news clippings. A Good to Very Good example overall.

Scrapbook invented and patented by Twain in 1877 and reissued numerous times through the end of the 19th century. Ownership signature of a Mrs. E.M. McDonald, though it is possible that a family member filled the notebook with clippings, as the opening entry is the announcement of the unexpected death of Mrs. Elizabeth Morton McDonald, of Berryville, VA, and Charlestown, WV. 

Whoever they may be, the previous owner has filled the scrapbook with thirty-six (36) clippings for recipes and home remedies, followed by thirty-six (36) clipped poems, mostly religious, sentimental, or elegiac. The remedies are worth special attention, displaying the health concerns of the late 19th-century American. Concoctions include remedies against consumption, cholera infantum, diphtheria (whiskey), rheumatism (turpentine and camphor), croup (egg whites and sugar water), catarrh (inhaling steamed tar), corns (raw cotton), warts (muriatic acid or just leave them alone), and colic (turning the patient upside down). 

Other recipes of a tastier variety include pickled pears, creamed eggs, stuffed tomatoes, and fruit jumbles. Also: clippings on removing grease from wallpaper, cleaning marble, and making cough syrup and tooth wash.

See BAL 3614 for the first (1877) appearance.
 

5. [Chicago - Penal Reform] Charles E. Felton and Herbert A. Streeter

[Original Patent Application No. 370,011 Accomplished in Manuscript] "To all to whom these presents shall come…a petition praying for the grant of Letters Patent for an alleged new and useful improvement in [Heating and Ventilating Prisons or other Buildings…]

Washington: H. Peters, 1887. Folio (30.5cm.); ribbon-bound engraved self-wrappers, wax-sealed and accomplished in manuscript; [8]ll. of photo-engraved plans printed on versos only, followed by [3]pp. text printed in double columns on rectos only. Previous mail folds, extremities a bit chipped and toned, ribbons slightly frayed, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by Acting Secretary of State D.L. Hawkins and Commissioner of Patents Burton J. Hall. 

Detailed patent application submitted by the Superintendent of the Chicago Bridewell Prison on September 13, 1887. Charles E. Felton (ca. 1832-1909) was the prison's longest serving overseer, having held the position from its opening in 1872 until his retirement in 1890. Formerly a printer in Buffalo, New York, Felton entered the field of prison administration through the usual political platforms, though he assumed his position in Chicago not through the usual channels but based on his previous experience serving as director of the Erie (PA) correctional facility. A Democrat and avid duck hunter with a rather unfocussed eye on the mayoralty of Chicago, Felton was especially interested in enforcing labor in his prisons as a means of reducing costs and galvanizing individual reformation, a position he clung to even past his retirement. 

The present patent, submitted with steel manufacturer Herbert B. Streeter (1833-1919), offered substantial air circulation improvements for prisons "or other structures where the tiers of cells or dormitories have an open hall or corridor, without separation by floors or otherwise." Previously, the Chicago House of Corrections had just one small ventilating flue, leaving the air "absolutely foul and poisonous." The plans depicted here show two foul air flues and one steam-coil heating device per cell, as well as additional open air gratings for increased circulation. Though it is unclear whether the patent was ever approved, Felton, in an address delivered before the Prison Congress four years later, complained that the increase in crime rates could be blamed in part on "the comfortable quarters" offered prospective convicted criminals. Also to blame, "the present views of the public, and acts of legislatures as to systems of prison labor and its ease to the prisoner…[the] quality of food; their [the prisoners'] easy access to visitation, and the readiness with which a sympathetic public accepts as true the complaints of the prisoners" (Inter Ocean newspaper, October 14, 1891). This patent, submitted to improve the comfortable prison cells Felton so bemoaned, an important document for students and historians of prison reform, architecture, and engineering.
 

6. [Willa Cather]; [John A.] Bulkley [photographer]

Studio Portrait Photograph of Willa Cather

Red Cloud, Nebraska: [John A.] Bulkley, ca. 1890. Original studio portrait of Willa Cather aged 16 or 17, taken while she was a student at the Nebraska Latin School. The bust-length portrait shows Cather wearing a hat over her short, buzzcut hair (as described by the Nebraska State Historical Society), a bow-tie over her jacket, and a slight smile. Photograph rather faded with wear to edges and marginal dampstaining to rear. "Willa" written in pen in bottom-left corner, but does not appear to be in her hand. 

The Red Cloud Chief newspaper notes a J. Bulkley opening a photography studio in June of 1888, and the Willa Cather Foundation identifies the photographer as Illinois Civil War Veteran John A. Bulkley.

Rare juvenile photograph of the author, taken around the time of her first print appearance, an essay on Thomas Carlyle printed without her knowledge in the Nebraska State Journal.
 

7. [The Mountaineers Club] H.A. Fuller

[Photo Album] Fourth Annual Outing of the Mountaineers: Glacier Peak and Lake Chelan, July 23 - August 14, 1910

Glacier Peak and Lake Chelan, 1910. Large oblong quarto album (25.5x32cm.); full green reverse calf, "Outing 1910" etched into the upper cover leather; [16]ll. filled nearly to completion with 24 sepia toned original photographs. Most images measure ca. 13.5x21cm. or the inverse, though the volume concludes with three panoramic views (8.5x28.5cm.) and two smaller format shots of Lower Lilliwaup Falls (20.5x8.5cm.). This collection also includes six loosely laid in photographs and four small snapshots (9x14.5cm.), as well as H.A. Fuller's Mountaineers Club membership card, signed by Fuller and Club secretary Anna Howard. 

Album extremities a bit toned and slightly worn from handling, the loose large format photos starting to curl at extremities, else Very Good, interior contents bright and sound with legible manuscript captions.

One (of two?) of the official photo albums compiled by Mountaineer member H.A. Fuller to commemorate the Club's fourth summer excursion to the summit of Glacier Peak in Washington State. The Club had been founded just four years earlier in 1906 by the renowned nature photographer Asahel Curtis and W. Montelius Price with the mission "to promote the discovery, conservation and documentation of the 'mountains, forests and watercourses of the Pacific Northwest'" (see the University of Washington's Mountaineers Photograph Collection). 

Within a year of the club's founding, 151 members had joined, more than half of them women. That number had expanded enormously by 1910 when this excursion took place, to 400 members of which 70 took part in the climb, many of them women. Another album from that climb, also compiled by H.A. Fuller, now resides with The Mountaineers Archive. The image from that copy includes the photograph capturing a long line of climbers trekking up a snowy ridge and is playfully captioned: "Puzzle: find the women. They are all women." Our copy is more succinctly captioned "Climbing Glacier Peak." The image faces the group shot taken at the "Summit of Glacier Peak." The earliest recorded summit of Glacier Peak had only taken place twelve years earlier, in 1898, and was only repeated a handful of times, never with such large party. Indeed, this may have been the first party that included women to achieve the summit.

The photographs in this album are of such professional quality that it raises the question as to whether or not some of the images were in fact taken by Asahel Curtis, who lead the expedition. Images show the party first setting out with their pack train of equipment-laden horses in the Lower Buck Creek Valley, twice fording Mason Creek, and setting up a commissary in their sprawling main camp. The final views include Upper Buck Creek Valley, Pleasant Harbor overlooking Lake Chelan, and both Lower and Upper Lilliwaup Falls. 

A splendid record of the early years of the still active Mountaineer Club. See Jim Kjeldsen's The Mountaineers: A History (1998), for additional information.

8. [World War I] Gerald Donnelly et al.

Archive of World War I Letters, Photographs, and Ephemera, addressed to Francis P. Deimer of Napoleon, Ohio

Columbus, Sacket Harbor, Is-sur-Tille, and Others: 1917-1919. Archive consisting of 38 letters, mostly autograph and accompanied with original mailing envelopes; 14 snapshot photographs; and the shard from a wooden airplane propeller. Letters with usual mail folds and some wear, else a Very Good, well-preserved archive. 

Collection of letters addressed to businessman Francis P. Deimer, general manager of the Napoleon (Ohio) Home Telephone Co. The vast majority (30) of letters are from former office-mate Gerald Donnelly, whose correspondence spans the entirety of his participation in the Great War, from his arrival at the Columbus Barracks in Ohio to the Madison Barracks in Sackett Harbor, New York, to "Somewhere in France" (later revealed to be the American Expeditionary Force Camp William in Is-sur-Tille, a village fifteen miles west of Dijon). Donnelly proved to be a steady, observant, and humorous correspondent. Early letters, written while still in Ohio, describe the perks of enlisting: "Just had dinner a short while ago and am stuffed full, I will be so fat when I get back that you won't know me. For dinner we had boiled beef, mashed potatoes, tapioca pudding with raisins in it, corn on the cob with butter and water to drink and all the meals run along that order and you get all you can put into you" (August 16, 1917).

Two weeks later Donnelly describes the Ohio State fair: "It is soft to get in, anybody with a U.S. uniform on just walks in with his head high in the air and don't even look at the man taking tickets." His transfer to Madison Barracks proves no less comfortable: "Have nice quarters right on the lake front and a pretty place here" (September 17, 1917). A special highlight from Donnelly's tenure at Sackets Harbor is witnessing the crash of a Canadian airplane from the aviation training camp north of the border. "Several times we have seen machines above us from that camp and this one attempted to land and came down too quick with the result that the nose of the machine rammed in the earth and tipped straight up and then slowly settled back to the former position, without injuring the aviator" (October 12, 1917). As one of the first on the scene, Donnelly was able to keep a piece of the wooden propeller, which he enclosed with his letter describing the event and present here. A collection of nine photographs sent a couple weeks later includes images of the crash itself. Donnelly would be shipped to France in December of that year, the quality of life described in his letters steeply declining: "Just washed my hands and face a rare occurence and one to be celebrated as it happens only once in a while" (February 27, 1918). 

Additional correspondence includes five letters from an E.C. Donnelly, possibly a brother of Gerald's, who was stationed with the 38th Balloon Company in Arcadia, California: "A week or so ago a storm came up and one balloon broke loose and went up to 6500 ft and was struck by lightening [sic] and started to burn, as soon as all the gas escaped the rain put the fire out and the balloon fell to earth. The Lt. was in the basket and froze his hands coming down. In landing the basket hit a fence post and drove thru the bottom of [the] basket pinning the lieut. between the post and the side of [the] basket but it did not hurt him. He was out the next day" (June 15, 1918). On a lighter note, later in the summer, E.C. writes "Charlie Chaplin is in camp now I guess they expect to take a picture here today as the movies bought one of our old balloons and I understand they are going to blow it up Sunday" (August 29, 1918). We have been unable to ascertain which Charlie Chaplin action film included a hot air balloon blowing up. Overall the archive provides a detailed and diverse account of the American experience of the Great War both at home and abroad.
 

9. [Shipboard Publication] Chaplain Paul H. Krauss [ed.]; The Crew of the U.S.S. Pocahontas [asst. eds.]

The Tomahawk of the U.S.S. Pocahontas [Nine issues]

At Sea: U.S.S. Pocahontas, 1919. First Editions. Nine issues of the ship's paper for the World War I transport ship, published aboard; octavos; 4pp. apiece. A broken run dating March - August, 1919, including Vol. I, Nos. 1 - 4 (No. 2 mis-labeled Vol. 2, No. 2) and Nos. 7-11. Light wear to edges, folds, a few minor nicks or chewing to edges, else very good and sound.

The U.S.S. Pocahontas was originally a German ocean-liner (nee SS Prinzess Irene), interned by the U.S. at the start of WWI and converted into a troop transport. She carried over 24,000 troops from New York to Brest or St. Nazaire and back again, and in her final year of service published The Tomahawk with news of the crew and passengers, a history of the ship's service in the war, and numerous wise-cracks at crew member's expense.

Other highlights include the "Moving Picture Schedule," a report of a recent shipboard boxing match complete with bout participants, and an additional preview of an upcoming boxing tournament, promising to be "a real bang-up, high class Farewell Smoker with the whole Gang - gobs, yeogirls, Pill-rollers, Pelhamites, sailors and Bensonhurst Boots on deck."  

A lively and colorful look at military life at sea in the closing months of World War I. No copies in retail or auction records at time of this writing in February 2023, one holding in OCLC at Wisconsin Historical Society Library.
 

12. Judith Warner

Collection of Four Bound Volumes of School Notebooks, 1933-1937

Baltimore, MD: 1933-1937. Four quarto volumes (28cm.); uniformly bound in green cloth, pictorial typescript elements mounted to each upper cover; approx. 260ll. per volume totaling nearly 2000 pages of manuscript text; myriad hand-colored illustrations and mounted pictorial elements throughout. Rear hinges of latter two volumes very slightly loose, a few mounted elements separated but present, else a Very Good or better collection.

Remarkable survival of the complete notebooks kept by Baltimore schoolgirl Judith Warner (born ca. 1925) between the ages of nine and twelve as a student at the still-extant private Calvert School. The notebooks, separated by month with a hand-colored drawing, were then bound by year, presumably commissioned by an enthusiastic parent. 

Indeed, Judith Warner, whose older brother John was a star student athlete at Yale during these years, was herself a fastidious student as exemplified by the teacher's marks and the report cards that begin each volume. Warner appears to have excelled at all her studies, which included more than two hundred writing exercises ranging in subject from Napoleon and Joan of Arc to India ("a country in Asia. England owns it"), the Ancient Romans, and poached eggs. The earliest writing assignment bound at the beginning of the first volume is titled "How Things Started": "Long, long, long ago there was no world. There was just the sun. It kept whirling, sputtering and throwing off sparks. One of those sparks cooled and became our world."

Additional courses included spelling, arithmetic, grammar, history, and geography ("Africa is often called the Dark Continent"), with forays into art history, astronomy, and etiquette. By the time Warner hit her final year at Calvert she was learning how to write an order for a blue sweater from a New York City department store and how to send out (and decline) a proper invitation. In a writing exercise to develop the art of dialogue, Warner images Mrs. X putting in an order for a dinner party with her cook: "I want to have oyster cocktails, tomato misque [sic] soup, roast beef, potatoes baked around the roast, macaroni, and spinach." The few personal essays reveal very little of Warner's home life, other than the night when she and her nurse got locked out of the house because it was the maid's day off and her parents were out to dinner and the theater. A kindly neighbor took them in.

Perhaps the area most notably absent from her studies is science, with the exception of her essay on the beginning of the world, and a year later, her bafflement at the amoeba: "It can walk and it has no feet. It flotes [sic] along like a speck of jelly. It can breathe and it has no lungs It has no nerves and can feel. It can eat and has no mouth. It absorbs little plants. It is round when either it is dead, or starving, or very comfortable. It can also raise a faimaly [sic]. It is very queer, I think."  

We find very little about Warner in the public record apart from a smattering of articles covering her debutante ball in 1942 and her marriage announcement in 1977.
 

Price: $4,500

14. [Connecticut State Society of Children of the American Revolution] Virginia L. Stowell

Three Original Pieces of Art for the Unpublished Work Civilians at War

Waterbury, CT? 1943. Three original drawings (45x30.5cm) using pencil and red, blue, and black ink on stiff paper stock; all signed and dated by Virginia L. Stowell, 1943. Stock a bit unevenly toned and lightly soiled, small loss to bottom left-hand corner of two images not approaching text or image; overall Very Good. 

Three original illustrations, including what appears to have been the proposed pictorial title page of an unpublished pamphlet titled Civilians at War, a guide to the ongoing warfare and production now that the United States had entered World War II. Apart from the title page, the illustrations depict examples of demolition and general purpose bombs by size from 100 to 4000 pounds, accompanied by a nattily-clad gent for size. A dissected view of the 300 lb. general bomb is also provided. The third illustration shows the twelve Civilian Defense Emblems, from auxiliary police and firemen to rescue and decontamination squads. 

The work almost certainly composed by fifteen-year-old Virginia Lee Stowell (1928-1994) of Waterbury, Connecticut, a major metal manufacturing hub during the War, its Scoville Manufacturing Co. employing as many as 10,000 workers at peak production. In March, 1945, at the age of seventeen Stowell joined the Cadet Nursing Corps, though by the time she received her certificate of membership, on September 4th, the war had been over for two days. Whether Stowell would have made a better nurse than draughtswoman is questionable, though it is entirely possible that her impressively inked bombs were traced.
 

15. [Law & Crime] [New York City] Ted Cunningham, Dan Neville, and Paul Hosefros, photographers

Collection of Thirty Original Press Photographs Documenting a Hostage Situation in Queens, New York, June 10-12

Queens, NY: 1974. Thirty original press photographs (measuring ca. 23.5x18cm. to 28x18cm. or the inverse), some with snipe in image or mounted to verso; occasional color pencil annotations to versos, one piece of snipe separated, else a Very Good collection, images all quite sharp.

Substantial archive of press photographs covering a thirty-hour hostage situation that took place at the South Jamaica Houses in Queens, New York. Floyd Steele, recently on parole from the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, was the tenant of Fred and Peggy Dalton Kinsler, living in their apartment with Peggy's five-year-old daughter Avril. Steele had already been convicted twice for manslaughter charges, including the 1963 fire arm death of his girl friend. Late on the evening of June 10th, 1974, Steele allegedly made an unwanted advance at Peggy, threatening the family with a loaded gun when she rebuffed him. Peggy managed to lock herself in a bedroom and used a sheet to climb out of the third story window to alert the police.

According to Cecil Mackey, a member of the Housing Authority Police and one of the lead negotiators during the following thirty-three hour stand off, an early attempt to break open the door to the apartment found Steele pointing the gun at young Avril's head, threatening to shoot if they did not shut the door. Mackey and the newly-formed hostage negotiation team developed by Simon Eisdorfer in the wake of the deadly attack on the 1972 Olympics, employed the latter's negotiation techniques which, according to a 2005 obituary article, "deemphasized confrontation, focusing instead on saving lives. Studying earlier cases, [Eisdorfer] realized that negotiators could subtly turn a siege into a waiting game that played out in their favor. Police officers could change shifts, but the suspects could not, and eventually became tired and hungry enough to surrender." Mackey and fellow officer Lt. Francis Bolz followed these protocols, addressing Steele as "Mister," chatting about gardenias, and slowly managing to gain Steele's trust enough to open the door long enough to provide him and Avril with breakfast and hot coffee. It was by proffering Avril a glass of Kool-Aid that Bolz managed to pull her out of the apartment door and place his body (equipped with bullet proof vest) between her and Steele. Steele surrendered immediately, though it was discovered that his gun was still loaded and Fred Kinsler had been killed by two bullets to the neck and chest. From start to finish the situation lasted thirty-three hours and was later described by Police Commissioner Michael Codd as "an ideal marriage of the community and the professional policeman in action" (New York Daily News, June 13, 1974). 

The present collection of photographs, attributed to Ted Cunningham, Dan Neville, and Paul Hosefros, were splashed across newspapers across the country. Half of the photographs in the collection depict members of the police force as the situation unfolded, including snipers situated on the ground and on a nearby rooftop. A number of images of the small window into the apartment also feature heavily, including one in which one can just see the small hand of Avril Kinsler shutting the window upon Steele's instructions. Approximately half of the photographs document the immediate aftermath of Steele's arrest, including four close-up shots of him being led by members of the police force; two show Avril being carried away by an unknown policewoman; and three photographs show Peggy Kinsler in a state of shock being wheeled out of the apartment in a gurney after discovering that her husband had been murdered. A substantial and important documentation on the history of police tactics on both the local and the national level.
 

16. Robert Louis Stevenson; [William Safire]; [Len Safire]; [Joseph Chamberlain Furnas]

Familiar Studies of Men & Books [William Safire's copy with letter from J.C. Furnas and draft reply from Safire's brother Len]

London: Eveleigh Nash and Grayson, [ca. 1926]. Reprint. Octavo; red pebbled morocco ruled in gilt with gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt; 356pp. William Safire's ownership signature to front pastedown, under which he has written "see xii 'fire in the belly' coinage?" Boards a bit roughly worn along edges and rear board recently reattached. Binding sound and, other than Safire's ownership inscription and brief note, pages unmarked.

Typed letter signed from J.C. Furnas to William Safire laid in at front. Furnas notes his pleasure to hear that Safire's brother, Len, is a "sound Stevensonian," as was noted in Safire's February 27th, 1983 column "On Language: Right Stuff In The Bully Pulpit." Included here is the Furnas' pamphlet "Stevenson and Exile" from his 1981 address at Edinburgh University. Additionally laid in is Len Safire's draft response to Furnas, with heavy editing in red pen, thanking him for his note and kind words. 

In his February 27th column, Safire thanks his brother for steering him to the alleged earliest reference to "fire in the belly" by Stevenson in the preface to the this volume.