Autograph letter signed from a California gold miner

by California, L. O. Hart

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

3pp., folded sheet, blue paper. Usual folds, some staining, two sheets separated, small hole affecting a few letters. Item #376875 Writing in 1851 from Nevada City, at the time California's most important mining town in the leading gold mining county, this letter, written by L. O. Hart to his aunt and uncle, opens with the familiar prose on not having received letters and fearful that his previous letter not receive, before turning to his life in

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