Beschreibung:

BELL, Alexander Graham (1847-1922), Inventor . A small collection of manuscripts and artifacts of this seminal American inventor, including: Autograph manuscript signed ("Graham Bell"), a notebook entitled "Things to Remember," c. 1904-06. 73 pp., mostly in pencil, brown leather, gilt edges . A small pocket notebook in which Bell has jotted hundreds of brief notes, memoranda, statistics and citations, the text of a condolence telegram, queries and points for further study ("What is the flying weight of a dandelion seed?"; "Photo-telephoning"; "Shallow-draft propulsion"' "Smithson monument"; "Breakfast foods cost more & have no more nutritive value than un-prepared foods"; "caisson disease - effervescence of blood"; "aeroclub"; "steam turbine"; "Submarine sank in 100 ft of water"; "baboon in Hotel" etc.) The book includes some drawings and schematic diagrams -- Autograph letter signed ("F. Arthur") to his daughter Marion, Utica, N.Y., 7 December 1896. 1 p., 8vo, with envelope addressed by Bell . To "darling little girl" Daisy, then sixteen and at boarding school: "Many thanks for three nice letters received from you. I thought my best reply would be to come up to Utica myself and answer in person. So here I am at Bagg's Hotel waiting for a chance to see my sweet tootsie-wootsie-ootsie dootsie." -- Autograph notation, n.p., [4 August 1902]. 15 words and date on a 5-page manuscript speech, 4to . Bell notes "Speech of Mr....McQuras at Banquet held in his honor at Bevin Blueagle Hall, Aug 4 1902." -- Partly printed document signed ("Alexander Graham Bell"), a check for $61.67 drawn upon the Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax, 26 January 1895. 1 p., an oblong, stained . [With]: Bell's calling card, a printed wedding anniversary poem for A. M. Bell and his wife [1894] and a briarwood tobacco pipe owned by Alexander Graham Bell Together seven items . (7)