Autograph letter signed : New York, to "Drake", [no year] Nov. 27.

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Autograph letter signed : New York, to "Drake", [no year] Nov. 27.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270870327

Containing a biographical sketch: "I have passed through as many vicissitudes as most men see, but they wouldn't interest others, no more than they interest me now. Men who have the most to battle with are not the ones who tell of it."

1 item (4 p.) ; 20.8 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7216912

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