Correspondence, between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron, which led to the unfortunate meeting of the twenty-second of March

by Stephen Decatur, James Barron

$300 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1820. 8vo, pp. 26; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; text toned and trimmed, 4 columns of a newspaper clipping Hamlet's Madness affixed to the final blank; all else good or better. Contains all the letters that led up to the fatal meeting. Issued by the friends of the slain Decatur to correct the prevailing “misconceptions injurious to him” and to “place the subject in its true light.” I have

• Binding: Wrappers

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