The Prospect Extolling George Griffin

$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

nd ca.1860? . Single sheet. 33 x 21 cm. 1.5 pages. Old fold lines, short tears and small separations at folds. Original manuscript poem written by a friend of some talent and education, praising the attorney, George Griffin 1778-1860 , of New York City, comparing him to Great Hamilton who had died in a duel with Aaron Burr some years before. The poem reads, in part: Great Hamilton was summoned to the skies, And in his place, we saw an equal rise. Powerful in thought, as in expression

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