Handwritten letter from Loewe to Mayer dated 19th of March, 1859. 1 leaf, with writing on one side.

Letter from Carl Loewe to Emilie Mayer. Content of letter on p. 1. Address and postmark on p. 2.

Bound compilation of sheet music. The dates of publication range between 1852 and 1879, and most of the publishers' imprints were located in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, with others from Cleveland and New Orleans. Several items have the name of Minnie S. Greene on the first page, and some have the location of the Southern Home School in Baltimore, or Patapsco [Ins. or Tns.]. A wide variety of composers and lyricists appear in the volume, with multiple entries from Virginia Gabriel, Luigi Arditi, Fabio Campana, Charles Gounod, John Hullah, and Harrison Millard.

Issues for the ninth year of the magazine Signale für die musikalische Welt.

Bound compilation of sheet music collected by Fannie K. Schieffelin. The volume contains a variety of composers, though Diederich Krug is most prominent as a composer and arranger, along with three works each by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Many kinds of works are present, though two adjacent compositions are funeral marches. Numerous publishers are present, and are more or less evenly divided between the East Coast of the United States and Europe (particularly Leipzig and present-day Mainz).

Bound compilation of sheet music, collected by Florence B. Paulson. This volume consists primarily of ballads and love songs, most of which were published in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.