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Inscribed books (3), 1800, 1882-1883, inclusive
Scope and Contents
(1) Discourses Delivered Extempore at Several Meeting Houses of the People Called Quakers by the Late Samuel Fothergill (Philadelphia: B. & J. Johnson, 1800). Inscribed "To John Jagger from his friend Josiah H. Quimby. Josiah H. Quimby deceased July 15th 1856 Aged 65 years."
(2) Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882). Inscribed "Grace L. Merritt."
(3) Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883). Inscribed "G. L. Merritt."
Photograph album, 1850s-1870s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Cartes-de-visite, some loose, some identified as members of the Bergen, Brewster, Hudson, Jagger, Merritt, Post, Quimby, and Skidmore families. Includes mass-produced images of Henry Ward Beecher and of the families of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
Photograph album, 1850s-1870s, 1931, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Cartes-de-visite, with a few snapshots dated 1931, none identified, except for the mass-produced images of Abraham Lincoln and of "Charley," "Rosa," and "Rebecca," slave children from New Orleans.
Autograph album, 1852–1861, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Poetic sentiments inscribed mainly to Sarah L. Merritt, who is identified as "Miss Merritt," and by an acrostic on the letters of her name.
Scrapbook, 1870s-1910s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Contains mostly poetry clipped from newspapers and periodicals, or copied onto small scraps of paper. With a cover label inscribed "Helen S. Merritt, Great Neck, Long Island, N.Y."