Letter signed Wm. Gowans to Fitz-Green Halleck, poet and a Gowans customer; New York, n.d. not after 1867

by William Gowans

$350 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, small 4to. Item #409663 Every body has some 'damned good natured friend.' Let me be your ficus achates on this occasion & point out the amusing passage in the National Journal. You will see that you are not so great a man as we have always supposed you were.. An Invalid criticizes you, & a 'young sprig of the law' knows no such man'... Pray instruct me – how

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