Autograph letter, signed, from a California gold miner to his brother in Maine.

by Henry M. Oliver, Octavia Oliver

$1,250 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Mormon Island, California, 23 December 1851. 3 pp. in ink on a single blue bifolium, 9.5” x 7.625”. Some underlining in pencil by a former owner. Address panel and note in ink by Octavia Oliver on p. 4. CONDITION: Good, short separations along old folds, broken wax seal affecting parts of four words on p. 1 and a part of one word on p. 2, some small staining. An earnest

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