Unusually long autograph letter, signed,

by William B. Wetmore to his mother Sarah T. Wetmore

$2,750 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Camp in the field near River Bend, Colorado Territory , 16 September 1873. 4to 12.5” x 8” . 22 pp. bound by cord at top edge, in ink, approx. 4400 words. 1 illustration 2.5” x 1.8” in the margin of p. 5. “No. 1021” in the upper left corner of p. 1, suggesting that this is a retained copy. CONDITION: Good, old horizontal fold at middle, one short tear along upper edge of first leaf, partial loss to one word at lower right

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