Autographed Letter Signed

by Thomas Russell Gerry

$200 · Offered by Argosy Book Store · No longer available

New York: 1838. 2 pages front and back , 10 x 7.75 inches, addressed on the back of the accompanying blank page, New York, January 6, 1838. Written by the son of Elbridge Gerry to his mother, concentrating on family matters before turning to politics -- the family passion, in part: ...I have been thinking what to call my little Boy, and have determined as there is one Elbridge Gerry in the family, and no grand-child who bears the surname to call him

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