Autograph letter signed B enjamin P Howell to Mrs. Anna Howell, Fancy Hill Berks County, Pennsylvania

by Dance - 19th Century - Social

$250 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

2 pp. of a bifolium. Quarto, ca. 198 x 161 mm. Dated Philadelphia, January 28, 1824. In black ink. With integral address panel with remnants of original seal. On wove paper. With minor autograph corrections. A charming piece of American social history, evidently written by a schoolboy to his mother pleading for permission to take dancing lessons: for it is very unpleasant for ! to see people all knowing how to dance. Cousin Abbey had come to town to attend dancing school for

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