Autograph letter signed : Lenox [Mass.], to [Allen Putnam?], 1851 Oct. 19.

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Autograph letter signed : Lenox [Mass.], to [Allen Putnam?], 1851 Oct. 19.

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Commenting on Allen's "account of Salem Witchcraft"; warning him against "a certain Carlyleism in the style"; declining to serve as editor of the book: "my reputation ... has already too much fog and mist diffused through it; and if the public find me setting myself up as a sponsor for other people's books of dreamcraft and witchery, I shall get a very bad name."

1 item (2 p.) ; 19.2 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Putnam, Allen, 1802-1887

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