Autograph letter, signed, from a Virginia City, Nevada miner to his sister Julia in Maine.

by “Sam.”

$450 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Virginia City, Nevada Territory, 9 November 1863. Bifolium, 8” x 5”, 3 pp. in ink. CONDITION: Good, some separations along old folds, one 1.5” tear, no loss to text, some toning along folds and on last blank page. An early letter from a miner in Nevada’s gold and silver boom discussing money matters and Virginia City’s murder

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