Autograph letter signed, to territorial Governor James W. Denver in Washington, in the midst of the events of Bleeding Kansas

by Kansas, Hugh S. Walsh

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

4pp., recto on 4 folio sheets. Usual folds. With the original mailing envelope. Item #366572 The letter begins by updating Denver on reports from Major Sherman and Captain Weaver before turning to events in the territory: The Territory appears quiet and your resignation is deprecated by all parties. Calhoun still withholds the certificates of election and it is now too late for their issuance to do any good. The free state men cannot be made to

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