Letter of Invitation to Sam Houston

by John Willis

$475 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Washington D.C., July 12, 1848. 1 pp., manuscript letter on sheet measuring 8” x 10”. An intriguing letter to Sam Houston as a U.S. Senator, from a party of Virginia democrats, docketed by Houston.This is an ostensibly routine invitation to a July 28th and 29th 1848 mass meeting at the Orange Co., Virginia Court House, written by several prominent Virginia Democrats. Though the real purpose

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