ALS, COMPARING AUDIENCES FOR HIS LECTURES, SIGNED 1 FEBRUARY 1839

by James Silk Buckingham

$450 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

8vo. 3 pp., approximately 300 words; addressed on verso of integral leaf, to Miss Putnam of Boston. Item #35074 Buckingham 1786-1855 , an English travel writer, wrote, in part: Charleston, S.C. , with its 15,000 whites all the rest of its population being Negro slaves has furnished a more uniformly large audience & a larger sum of money voluntarily, & without the engagement of any Society, than Boston. DNB: As a lecturer he was, however,

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