Autograph letter, signed, laced with Texas patriotism and pro-slavery sentiment, to his cousin, Jeremiah Wilbur of New York City.

by Edward Wyllis Taylor

$5,250 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Independence, Republic of Texas, Sept. 1, 1838. Bifolium, 31.5 x 19.5 cm. 4.5 pp. 1 p. cross-written , 1700 words, in ink, including address leaf; posted via New Orleans, received, N.Y., Oct. 16. CONDITION: Very good. A remarkable letter by a pro-slavery Northerner who emigrated to Texas in 1837, shortly after the Revolution, and settled in Independence, located in Washington County, in southeast

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