Autograph manuscript, signed on the inside rear wrapper, a sermon on the birth of Christ

by John Blair Linn

$650 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

24pp., written in a neat hand with some cross outs and corrections. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers, manuscript title on the upper wrapper. Item #352470 John Blair Linn 1777-1804 was an American clergyman and poet, and close associate of Charles Brockden Brown. After college, Linn studied law in the office of Alexander Hamilton, a friend of his father's, but did not take to it. After abandoning the law, he studied theology with Dirck Romeyn at Union

• Binding: Wrappers

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