Autograph letter addressed to Mr. Alvin Crowley of Rutland Vermont discussing the Virginia scene, illiteracy, teaching, attitudes regarding slavery, etc.

by m. S. Tyrrell, illia

$475 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Guyandotte, Virginia, December 21, 1836. 12” x 7.5”, 4 pp. CONDITION: Very good, some foxing, some tears at folds affecting individual letters, rear page with tear along margins affecting text at end of letter. A letter from a Vermont-born schoolteacher in present-day West Virginia describing the deplorable state of education in the region, where illiteracy was pervasive,

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