One and one-half page autograph letter signed to B enjamin B rown French

by John Pendleton Kennedy

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Baltimore: December 14, 1847. 4to, on integral leaves, approx. 22 lines and 150 words, in ink; very good. U.S. Congressman, Secretary of the Navy, political pamphleteer and novelist, Kennedy writes to thank French for providing information from the Congressional Globe, acknowledging tardiness and sending payment. I have been constantly under the expectation of making a visit to Washington when I hoped to make my acknowledgements, and with them the payment of

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