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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Parker, Charles S. Autograph Manuscript diary.
(MASSACHUSETTS.) Parker, Charles S. Autograph Manuscript diary. 325 pages. 4to, original 1/2 calf, covers nearly detached, paper backstrip label reading "Some Personalities"; illustrated with clippings, a photograph, and a program. With 2-page manuscript subject index by Parker. Vp, 1860-1922
- Notes: Charles Symmes Parker (1839-1928) was a printer and newspaper editor. Before the Civil War, when most of this diary was written, he worked as a printer in Woburn, MA. The diary features extremely detailed commentary on local politics and the heated 1860 presidential election by a Lincoln supporter. He had the opportunity to meet Lincoln''s opponent Stephen Douglas and described him at length: "His face looks as though he has been on a ''bender'' for a month. It bears unmistakable evidence that he loves the bottle" (19 August 1860). He also describes an 1862 New York visit in an extended passage. with--letters, clippings and biographical notes found inserted in the diary.
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