Autograph Book of S. B. Doggett with signatures of 3 important Japanese men
Unique collection of signatures on approx. 52 leaves in a book owned by Samuel Bradlee Doggett (1858-1938), who was about 15 years old when he began this collection. A number of autographs are connected to the Boston English High School and also Unitarian church ministers. There are local signatures, letters, newspaper clippings, from varying sources, and signatures by fellow students at the school, quotations and/or verse by W. P. Tilden, and letters by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Phillip Brooks, Robert Winthrop; calling cards and cut signatures by Winston Churchill (the author), John Pierpont. Most interestingly, the book contains the autographs of important Japanese figures, Joseph Hardy Niijima (along with his name card pasted in), Kaneko Kentaro, and Shimizu Atsumori while they were studying in Boston around 1874.
Boston. S.B. Doggett. [1873-1920s].
Approx. 100 leaves (latter half of book is unused). 19.3 x 13.3cm.
In very good condition. Only minor age wear. b34101277
