Autograph Letter Signed Henry M Stanley Applying For A Special License For My Marriage With Miss
$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
Signed
One page. Small 8vo sheet with integral blank; second and third pages glued together. Small closed tear in text, soiling, remnants of prior mounting along right edge of the terminal page. Item #236875 Though Stanley writes in this letter to apply for a marriage it was actually Miss Dorothy Tennant who wooed Stanley and insisted on their marriage. The explorer suffered under his wife; she forbade his traveling to Africa again, forced him to run
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