Manuscript Journal of a Boston Merchant

by Ralph Haskins

$1,950 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Boston, Providence, New York and elsewhere, June 1803-April 1809. Folio, tan paper spine with blue paper over boards. 132 pages of manuscript entries, 40 blank pages. Manuscript journal of a Boston merchant—an uncle of Ralph Waldo Emerson—illuminating trade, shipping, and life in Boston during the early years of the American republic.Ralph Haskins, born in Boston on April 5, 1779, was

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