One-page autograph letter signed on personalized stationery N. G. Herreshoff, Bristol, R.I.

by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

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Bristol: August 19, 1937. 8vo, approx. 20 lines and 100 words, to Brother Leahy thanking him for the gift of Jeff Davis's log. Autobiographical Reminiscences of the Yachting Editor of the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin which had been published earlier that same year. I ... have days of 'ups & downs.' I want to thank you for the very artistically done-up package ... the Log of Arthur W. Davis - so called 'Jeff' - I don't know why. And cleverly

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