Autograph letter signed : New York, to "Raphael" Earl in Nashville, Tennessee, 1819 Apr. 2.

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Autograph letter signed : New York, to "Raphael" Earl in Nashville, Tennessee, 1819 Apr. 2.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270574094

Asking him to make a small portrait of Andrew Jackson from life so that the writer may use it to make a full portrait of him for the New York City Corporation; he also writes of the progress of his Panorama.

1 item (3 p.) ; (fol.)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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