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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Harvard 1962 hardcover with bright clean dust jacket. Looks near fine inside and out.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Copying Book with correspondence relating to Kittson's Erdenheim Farm, Thoroughbred Horses, Horse Breeding, etc. An unique record of the business dealings and inventory of one of the leading stud farms and breeding grounds of the late 19th century. Hardcover copy book, issued with tabbed address section in the front (all blank) followed by 299 blank, tissue, pages numbered on the top corner. Black cloth over boards; maroon leather spine and corners. Spine strip missing and corners bumped, but binding tight. No information at the front explaining what the book was or the dates of the letters within, but it's fairly simple to deduce by reading the letters themselves. Copybooks of this sort were used to keep records of correspondence. Letters were written in a specially devised ink, then pressed to these tissue pages, which would transfer a copy of the letter to the page. Some are quite faint copies and difficult to read, while others are bold and clear. First letter is dated December 11. No date, although the numeral 4 is on the date-line. Likely 1884. Later letters span the years 1884-1888 All the letters are signed by Major J.R. Hubbard and are presumably in his handwriting, acting as Agent to Commodore Norman Kittson or his son Louis. The Kittson family owned the famous Erdenheim Farms, a thoroughbred breeding farm near Philadelphia as well as Stud Farms in Minnesota, where the elder Kittson lived. Hubbard was the co-author of the entry on Horseracing to the 9th Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. First letter is addressed to Leland Stanford, from J.R. Hubbard. "I have decided to sell the Stallion Alarm, foaled by imported Eclipse out of imported . Alarm is the sire of the celebrated horses . " Stanford was the founder of Stanford University, a passionate horseman, and both Senator from and Governor of California. Next letter is to the Secretary of the Jockey Club, from J.R. Hubbard, agent, for L.K. 'L.K' is likely Louis Kittson, manager of the Erdenheim Farm in Pennsylvania and son of Commodore Norman Kittson, one of the leading horse racers and breeders of his day. Letters to Charles Wheatly, Esq. (track manager at Saratoga) & Secretary of the American Racing Association & also of the Maryland Jockey Club. A.W. McAlister. J.E. Brewster of the Washington Park Club, Chicago. Signed by Hubbard, agent of N.W. Kittson. Col. M. Lewis Clark, Jr., founder of the Louisville Jockey Club and the builder of Churchill Downs. This letter dated Feb 16. "I send you a stud book of this [unintelligible] containing the pedigrees of Alarm, Woodland and Midlothian. The following prices are asked for them, [unintelligible]; Alarm $10,000 - Woodlands $4,000 - & Midlothian $1500." C.H Maquire, about training a horse. Col. Sanders Bruce. Author of the American Stud Book and Horse-breeder's Guide and Handbook. A list of 25 colts and fillies foaled in 1884, on three pages. J.G.K. Lawrence, Secretary of the Coney Island Jockey Club. H.D. McIntyre of the Washington Jockey Club. List of Erdenheim Stud, Foals of 1886 and 1887. List of livestock and farm implements at Erdenheim. In all, 92 pages of copies of letters, foals, inventory. There are several letters to many of the people listed above, and there are some where I could not make out the names. Pages 93-96 are missing. All pages beyond page 92 are blank, except for a sketch of two cows near the end. According to an 1888 obituary of Kittson, it was J.R. Hubbard who sold Erdenheim to Commodore Kittson, in 1882.