Star Brand Letter Copying book used by Joseph P. Noyes (1838 - 1900) and his sons Joseph K. Noyes (1868 - 1926) and Thomas McKechnie Noyes (1878 - 1930) of Binghamton, New York. Contains retained typescript copies of their outgoing correspondence from 1898 to 1909. Some of the early correspondence in the volume pertains to Noyes's acquisition of an Oakman "horseless carriage" automobile, one the first in Broome County. The Noyes family ran a comb factory located in Binghamton, and some of the correspondence is related to their business, while other letters relate to their various properties, subscriptions, and other projects. Several letters from 1905 refer to Thomas Noyes's purchase of a Locomobile, another early automobile.