Handwritten letter on letterhead of the Ames Botanical Laboratory, thanking William Wilson Baker for his translations from Latin

by Oakes Ames

$35 · Offered by Bolerium Books

North Easton, MA: the author, 1901. Letter. Single sheet of stationery, 8.5x11 inches, faint creases from having been folded. The letter begins with an apology for mislaying the precise amount of money Ames owed to Baker, an instructor of Latin at Harvard, for some recent translation work. “The translations were..... More

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