Autograph letter, signed, from a California gold rush miner and doctor to a relative, reporting on an outbreak in town of the small pox, the hanging of a murderer

by a mob, and more. by Dr. Achilles Wilkerson

$2,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Yankee Jim’s, Placer County, California, 13 April 1852. 2 pp. in ink on a single leaf, 10.25” x 8”. CONDITION: Leaf separated in half with some loss, the 2 halves rejoined with transparent Japanese tissue, toning and chipping along margins, a few minor punctures, multiple losses to the text which are indicated by omissions and question marks in the cited passages below.

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