Autograph Letter, signed Walter Wellman to C.A. Hazlitt of Portsmouth, N.H., acknowledging his mistake in reference to Portsmouth and the Census of 1800

by Walter Wellman

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

One page. 1 vols. 4to. Bit ragged at one edge, two punch holes, slight soiling. Item #238163 Walter Wellman 1858 -1934 was an American journalist, explorer, aëronaut, founder of the Cincinnati Evening Post in 1879, and after 1884 became the Washington correspondent for the Chicago Herald, and then the Times-Herald. Here, he corrects a misstatement regarding Portsmouth, N.H.: ... you are right and I was wrong. Today I

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