An 1814 Letter sent by an Englishman in Cherbourg, France to the Earl of Liverpool in London: warning that the American Privateer Prince de Neufchatel had just sailed into the English Channel intent o

by VENNER, John Harvey. (John Ordronaux)

$2,500 · Offered by Between the Covers

Cherbourg, France: 1814. Retained manuscript copy. Small quarto. 3pp., neatly written in ink on the first three pages of one folded sheet (bifolium) of wove paper. Datelined “Dup: – Original sent to British Ambassador at Paris – Cherbourg 8 July 1814”. Addressed on the final fourth page to the Earl..... More

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