One-page autograph letter signed to My dear child...

by Charles D'Wolf, Capt

$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: March 11, 1815. Single sheet approx. 9¾ x 7½ , approx. 30 lines and 275 words, in ink; left margin erose, previous folds, break with an old tape repair at the bottom affecting several letters sense remains clear ; good. Charles D'Wolf 1745-1820 , sea captain and merchant and brother of James D'Wolf, the privateer and slave-trader writes to his daughter about the health of her sister, Eliza, and memorializes the passing of her

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