Autograph letter signed : Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to Judge Joseph Story, [1836] May 5.

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Autograph letter signed : Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to Judge Joseph Story, [1836] May 5.

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Offering impressions of society in New York city: "I had formed rather an uninteresting notion of the place; but the literary men, the professors & lawyers, the merchants & their ladies, the old State families, & the abolitionists compose a very various & interesting society, --far more simple & far more liberal than much that I have met with elsewhere"; and describing Stockbridge.

1 item (4 p.) ; 24.6 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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