Description:
Coolidge, John Calvin Jr. (1872-1933) Signed School Notebook, c. 1890
Quarto format notebook associated with students from the Black River Academy in Ludlow, Vermont, including minutes of various meetings, and notes concerning the formation and subsequent minutes of meetings of the Adelphic Union, of which Coolidge was a member, and president in the 1890s; signed by Coolidge in several places, some entries may be in his hand as well, in contemporary half sheepskin, worn, binding becoming detached, 8 x 7 in.
Estimate $400-600
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