Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Miss Porter, [ca. 1837].

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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Miss Porter, [ca. 1837].

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Asking her to circulate the enclosed prospectus among her friends, acknowledging that she does not expect Porter to subscribe as "I do not look upon our profession as affording guineas to throw away." Adding in self-justification that "no notion short of duty to an unfortunate husband ... could have induced me to take this mode of publishing, a mode of which I deeply feel the humiliation."

1 item (4 p.) ; 18.8 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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