Autograph letter signed, Horace Greeley H. Greeley to Obidiah A. Bowe Oiah

by Horace Greeley

$600 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

2pp bifolium, pen and ink on paper. 4to. Old folds, small tear, else very good. Item #314854 A friendly letter to fellow newspaperman and lifelong friend and correspondent, Obidiah A. Bowe. Written shortly after Greeley's tenure as the editor of the New York state Whig newspaper, the Jeffersonian, and two years before Greeley founded the New York Tribune. The letter may be a reference to the 1839 congressional race and the “Coopers”

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