THE FREMONT ESTATE: AN ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC, RESPECTING COL. FREMONT'S LEASING POWERS TO THE AUTHOR, FROM JUNE 1850

by Hoffman David

$900 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

4 , 59 pp. Gathered signatures, stitching loose. Tanned. Else very good. SABIN 32393. Item #354255 Hoffman had leased Fremont's extensive California holdings, known as the Mariposa Estate, in 1850, and had proceeded to make further leasing arrangements with British companies. He was astounded to discover that Fremont's father-in-law, Thomas H. Benton, was supporting an American who claimed to hold the only valid lease. He lays the whole case,

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