Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

151 151 c   (MAINE.) Franklin, W.B. Notice to Mariners: Changes at Moose Peak & Manheigin Light-Houses. Letter- press broadside, 13 x 8 inches; minimal edge wear, light folds and light offsetting. Portland,ME: Lighthouse Board, 12 December 1856 [500/750] A notice regarding the lighthouses at Moose Peak (Mistake Island along the eastern coast) and Monhegan (later the home of an import- ant artist colony).The lighthouses changed their signal patterns to avoid confusion with the lighthouse at Petit Manan Island. None others traced in OCLC or elsewhere. 150 c   (LOUISIANA.) Slidell, John. Letter on his appointment as attorney general. Autograph Letter Signed as “John” to sister Caroline in NewYork. 3 pages, 9 3 / 4 x 7 3 / 4 inches, on one folding sheet, with address panel and postal markings on final blank; folds, minor wear. With a typed transcript. New Orleans, LA, 31 March 1829 [500/750] John Slidell (1793-1871) was a native New Yorker who settled in New Orleans as a young man and gained success in law and politics. His first appointment to public office was as district attorney: “My gratification at this event is not a little enhanced by the reflection of the pleasure which it will give you at home. I had to contend with numerous & powerful competitors, all of them of much longer standing at the bar & older residents of Louisiana & some two or three of them having strong claims on the admin- istration. You may believe that I do not mention these things in the spirit of vanity or boasting, but that it may allow you the better to appreciate the consideration in which I am held here. I am half tempted to send you an extract from the Louisiana Advertiser of the 30th inst. noticing my appointment, but I am afraid that it is rather extravagantly eulogistic. . . . I have studied & I think successfully to conciliate the good will of the community in which I am destined to live. The effort was at first rather irksome, but I now find that it is much easier to be habitually civil than to be occasionally so.” He also notes his failed efforts in “the matrimonial line.” Slidell later became a United States Senator for Louisiana, and then a diplomat for the Confederacy in Europe, settling in France after the war. 152 c   (MAINE.) Noyes, George Freeman. Commonplace book including several original songs. 25, [38] manuscript and scrapbook pages. 4to, 1 / 2 original calf, worn; minor wear to contents. Np, 1844-64 [400/600] Author George Freeman Noyes (1824-1868) was a native of Eastport, ME and an 1844 graduate of Bowdoin College. This volume includes several of his original manuscript pieces, including epitaphs he wrote for family members, a song he wrote for the Bowdoin senior supper in 1845, a song he wrote in support of Henry Clay for the Eastport Clay Club in 1844, and his 1845 “Odd-fellows’ Ode.” The first 25 pages are in manuscript, and the remaining 38 pages are mostly a scrapbook of clippings by and about Noyes, who was active in Republican politics, was ordained in Chicago in 1858, and then took charge of New York’s Hope Chapel in 1859. Some of the clippings report on his abolitionist speaking. Included is his October 1856 printed handbill, “Rallying Song Dedicated to the Fremont Clubs of Portland” (not recorded in OCLC).