Friends and Colleagues,

The Hotel Monterey was a popular spot for well-to-do travelers, and this ledger provides a picture in time of what life was like there in the early part of the 20^th century.   Highland County, Virginia  was the locale.  The summers were cooler there, and to this day it is more populated by sheep than people.

It is also ruggedly beautiful.

The ledger is of particular interest because in many of the hundreds of names listed, the car in which they traveled is identified by make, and in some cases by chauffeur. There are some notable Virginians listed as guests, and a number of out of state guests as well.  One of the names is John Philip Sousa, the enormously popular band leader and composer of popular tunes.  What would our 4^th of July celebrations be without his lively music?

This is fantastic artifact from a part of Virginia about which we don’t often find a lot of documentation.

 I hope you enjoy it!

NIck

[SILAS WESLEY CRUMPETT]. [TRAVEL] [SHENANDOAH VALLEY] HOTEL MONTEREY REGISTER. Price: $950.00	Ludwig Bemelmans. [TRAVEL] BEMELMANS’ ITALIAN HOLIDAY. Price: $80.00

Timothy B. Smith | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] SHILOH. CONQUER OR PERISH. Price: $95.00	J. R. R. Tolkien. [LITERATURE] [SLIPCASE] THE HOBBIT. OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN. Price: $40.00
Charles Campbell. [AMERICAN REVOLUTION] THE ORDERLY BOOK OF THAT PORTION OF THE AMERICAN ARM STATIONED AT OF NEAR WILLIAMSBURG, VA., UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL ANDREW LEWIS, FROM MARCH 18th, 1776 TO AUGUST 28th, 1776. PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. Price: $200.00	Arthur Rackham [Illustrator] | S. Vernon Jones [Translator] | G. K. Chesterton {Introduction]. [ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] AESOP’S FABLES. Price: $95.00
[Louis M. Alcott]. [CHILDREN] LITTLE WOMEN OR MEG, JO, BETH, AND AMY. PARTS I AND II. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. Price: $75.00	S. B. Macy | Charles Robinson [Illustrator]. [FINE BINDING] [ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] IN THE BEGINNING. BEING THE BOOK OF GENESIS TOLD TO CHILDREN. Price: $750.00
Freeman Cleaves. [AMERICANA] OLD TIPPECANOE: WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON AND HIS TIME. Price: $75.00	Henri Clouzot. [IRONWORK] LA FERRONNERIE MODERNE. Price: $200.00
Robert Bosher Purcell. [SKETCHBOOK] [DIARY] NONSENSE COMPOSITION BOOK. Price: $95.00	W. R.; Tymms; M. D. Wyatt. [ART] THE ART OF ILLUMINATING AS PRACTISED IN EUROPE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, ILLUSTRATED BY BORDERS, INITIAL LETTERS AND ALPHABETS. Price: $125.00
J. R. R. Tolkien. THE LORD OF THE RINGS [Collector’s Edition; Slipcase]. Price: $150.00	Benjamin Butterworth. [GRAPHIC ARTS] THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRIAL ART. Price: $200.00
J. R. R. Tolkien. [LITERATURE] THE LORD OF THE RINGS. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING; THE TWO TOWERS; THE RETURN OF THE KING. [3 VOLUMES; SLIPCASE]. Price: $125.00	UCLA DAILY BRUIN. [LITERATURE] [ARTS] 2 ISSUES OF TWO O’CLOCK MAGAZINE. Price: $100.00