Autograph letter, signed, touching on a machinists’ strike in Lowell, Mass.

by Ayro Jones

$350 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Lowell, 21 March 1853. 9.75” x 7.25”, 1 p. in ink. CONDITION: Very good, one faint spot in upper left quarter. A letter from a man sympathetic to the cause of labor with an update on the ultimately unsuccessful strike by Lowell machinists for a ten hour work day.The letter,

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