Autograph letter, signed, from a wealthy Southern plantation owner to cabinetmakers Shepard & Son of Weathersfield, Conn., incorporating sketches for several chairs.

by John J. Smith

$850 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Beaufort, South Carolina, 19 June 1839. 4 pp. manuscript in ink on bifolium leaf, 9.375” x 7.75”. Docketed in ink above address panel on p. 4: “John Smith Letter Dated Bea u fort Jun 9 1839.” CONDITION: Good, separations along old folds, .5” x 1.5” loss to lower-right corner of p. 1, little loss of sense, and .5” x .75” sealing wax loss at p. 3, with loss to about two words. A

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