An 1838 Letter by Josiah H. Vose, Commanding Officer of Fort Towson, Arkansas (now Oklahoma), in the Choctaw Nation

by VOSE, Josiah H.

$3,000 · Offered by Between the Covers

Fort Towson [Oklahoma]: 1838. Unbound. Autograph Letter Signed. Small quarto. 4pp., neatly written in ink on one folded sheet (bifolium) of wove paper. Datelined Fort Towson, April 8, 1838. Addressed on the final page to Vose’s sister in Boston, with a scarce Fort Towson postmark. Three-inch split along one mailing..... More

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