[Letter] 1811 Feb. 12, Hingham, Mass. : [to] Mary Robbins, Boston, Mass. / [from] John Thaxter.

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[Letter] 1811 Feb. 12, Hingham, Mass. : [to] Mary Robbins, Boston, Mass. / [from] John Thaxter.

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Letter is mainly about friends and family but also discusses Dr. Thaxter's "merino mania." His flock appears to have contracted a "small-pox" and is rapidly dying off. The "mania" refers to the eagerness of Americans to purchase merinos that were being sold by Spain as a method to secure ready cash to support their Peninsular wars.

3 p. ; 31 cm.

American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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Thaxter, John B.

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Robbins, Mary Susannah, 1946-

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