Autograph letter signed to Theophilus Parsons, Jr., East Bridgewater, 3 April 1857

by Ezekiel Whitman

$500 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

One and a quarter pages, 4to. Item #405002 The Massachusetts jurist and congressman writes to Parsons: Dear Sir: Your favor of the 31st ultimo came duly to hand. It would afford me great pleasure to be able to render any essential aid in the preparation of a biography of Chief Justice Parsons. But I was not personally acquainted with him till he made his appearance at Portland as Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, in 1807. I

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