Autograph letter, signed, to his son Charles N. Allen, describing the effects of the Great Fire of Belfast, Maine.

by Nelson Allen

$475 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Montville, Waldo County, Maine , 14 October 1865. 2 pp. in ink on a single leaf, 7.75” x 7.75”. Including the original envelope with a canceled postal stamp. CONDITION: Very good, old folds, light scuffing. A vivid letter composed two days after the Great Fire of Belfast, which destroyed over a hundred buildings across some twenty-two acres, comprising an account of the

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