Letter and autograph of G.P.R. James, 1851-1853.

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Letter and autograph of G.P.R. James, 1851-1853.

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A letter, 1851 December 3, James thanks an unnamed architect who is proposing to build him a house. After discussing details of vestibule and hall James says "Every one here with whom I have spoken, assures me that the filling up with soft brick will not answer in this place, as from some defect in the manufacture or material, for many miles around, the brick buldings have always proved damp." Therefore he proposes to use hemlock boards which he can "furnishƯ myself at the rate of ten dollars per thousand feet." He is "exceedingly anxious to know what length it would be advisable to cut my pine and hemlock timber, as I have now about a hundred and fifty thousand feet felled."

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James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860

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British novelist. Note included states that James was "led to an appointment about 1850 as consul to Massachusetts, where the present story must have been written." From the description of Christian Lacy : tale of the Salem witchcraft, [ca. 1850]. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29353551 English novelist and historian G. P. R. James wrote nearly a hundred novels, such as RICHELIEU (1825), THE GYPSY (1835), ATTILA (1837), and THE MYSTERIOUS CHEVALIER (1843), as w...