Electioneering /Aug. 22, 1827 / Original manuscript docket title

by Nathan Read

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

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Folio bifolium. 3 pp., approximately 450 words, docketed verso of integral leaf. Autograph letter to the editor “Mr. Lowell” of a mid-coast Maine newspaper “Courier” , caption-titled “Communication,” requesting that it be included in his next issue, signed by Read as “An Elector.” Ralph C. Johnson 1790-1874, a wealthy merchant and leading local political figure in early 19th-century Belfast, was elected to the first Maine legislature and served as the city’s mayor in the

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