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(NEW YORK.) Archive of eccentric orator R.H. Patchin's notes and memoranda. 16 items on 78 leaves, various sizes and conditions, most about legal-sized and a bit worn but stable, with a bit of intermittent dampstaining. Vp, 1860-79
Richard H. Patchin (b. circa 1829) was a farmer, teacher, and orator who lived much of his life in Marlborough, Ulster County, NY. This group of his memoranda suggests an eccentric, or perhaps a man teetering on the brink of a breakdown. He obsessively documented his thought process on a great variety of subjects, great and small. Financial problems and marriage were frequent concerns. In 1874 he noted "It is as true as sunshine that I better make the best pick that I can for a suitable wife, who will in all probability bring with her the proper aid & influence to insure my full & complete success on finances." Though he described sending numerous letters and circulars toward this object, no such wife ever materialized. Many of the notes were written in something like a diary format in 1860 and 1873-74, while others are more freeform musings or annotated lists of his students. Some of the notes are written on the verso of broadsides printed to promote his lectures. Another piece, apparently written as a sort of press release, is titled "Sterling Honesty or Integrity" and describes (in Patchin's own hand) how Patchin returned a hundred dollars in incorrect change from a bank. The conclusion: "He has certainly proven thus beyond all question that no one need be afraid to trust him to money or anything else he may ask for . . . Such men ought to be generously rewarded by all reasonable credit & benevolent action compatible with reason."
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