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LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
341 cover   image1844 (August 7), transatlantic folded letter from Philadelphia to
Toulouse via Liverpool, with a contemporary account of the
Philadelphia Nativist Riots, endorsed "Packet Ship Argo via Havre"
but entering at Liverpool with Liverpool Ship (15 Oct), London,
"ANGL. / BOULOGNE," boxed "COLONIES &c. ART. 12," French rating
and Toulouse receiver, complete four-page contents, fine-very fine,
written only weeks after renewed violence in Philadelphia. The
four-page letter contains a contemporary account written from
Philadelphia only weeks after the violent civil disturbances of the
summer of 1844. The writer reports that “a mass of people revolted
against the authorities,” adding that “the cannon and the rifle
restored order” and noting approximately forty wounded or dead. The
Nativist Riots were violent anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant
clashes in 1844 between native-born Protestant Americans and Irish
Catholic immigrants. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Currently...C$60.00
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342 cover   image1844 (August 31), transatlantic letter from Troy, New York, to
Glasgow, stampless letter from H.S. Burdett at the Troy Iron Works,
with bold blue Troy, N.Y. (31 Aug) c.d.s. and matching PAID
handstamp, endorsed “Halifax Steamer via Boston” and carried by the
Cunard paddle steamer Acadia, departing Boston on September 1 and
arriving Liverpool on September 14, struck with black oval “AMERICA
/ LIVERPOOL / 15 SEPT” arrival marking, prepaid 18¾c for United
States inland postage to Boston and rated 1s in black for British
packet postage due, the letter including the sender’s promise to
pay the recipient’s expenses for a visit to America, typical
handling wear, otherwise sound. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Currently...C$40.00
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343 cover   image1845 (May 27), transatlantic immigrant-family inquiry from Toledo,
Ohio, to the municipal office at Hedelfingen, Württemberg, bearing
faint Toledo (27 May) datestamp, boxed "PAID," manuscript routing
via New York and Havre de Grace, Outre-Mer/Le Havre (18 Jun) entry
and large red-crayon "40," with partial transit and arrival
markings, complete German contents enclosed, usual filing folds and
some light uniform toning. The letter from immigrant Georg Gottlieb
Hartmann to the local mayor or magistrate (Schultheiss) in his
hometown of Hedelfingen seeks information regarding his long-lost
family members, including his sisters Elisabeth and Maria Barbara,
while detailing his personal condition and providing a first-hand
account of economic life in the United States: "Since 1818 I have
been in this country and for a long time now I have heard nothing
more from my relatives and friends... I want to report that, praise
God, I am still healthy, and that I am doing quite well in this
country." "The times in America are fairly good, the food supplies
are in abundance and have been at a very low price for many years;
the wages for labor are a bit lower than earlier, both for
craftsmen and for day laborers." He remarks that "If any of my
relatives wants to send me a letter... I will gladly pay for
everything." (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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344 cover   image1847 (November 7), stampless cover & letter from New Orleans to New
Jersey concerning the yellow-fever epidemic, the Mexican-American
War and the death of Captain Samuel Walker, bearing New Orleans (7
Nov) datestamp and black "10" collect handstamp, some edge wear and
minor soiling, small professionally repaired insertion at upper
left, very good, with fascinating historical contents enclosed.
Writing from New Orleans as the Yellow Fever epidemic subsided, the
sender - Woolston - reports that the disease had made “great havoc”
among the population and estimates that “about 5,000 souls have
fallen victims to this pestilential disease,” while noting that
newspapers had ceased publishing daily mortality reports and that
citizens were beginning to return to the streets. The letter then
turns to the ongoing Mexican-American War, reporting that “a great
many soldiers have arrived here within a few days, on their way to
the seat of war,” and recording the recent death of Captain Samuel
Hamilton Walker of the Texas Rangers, stating that “Capt Walker of
the Texas Rangers was killed in a fight with a guerilla party,”
written less than one month after Walker's death at the Battle of
Huamantla. Additional contents discuss Red River steamboat
navigation, dangerously low water conditions, the writer's
intention to abandon the steamboat trade, the sale of family
property, and prospects for the sugar and cotton economy. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Currently...C$100.00
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345 cover   image1848 (June 30), Retaliatory Period folded letter from New Orleans
to Paris, with contents describing the economic repercussions of
the February Revolution in France, stampless folded letter from
Bailly Blanchard & Co., New Orleans, routed via Boston, with blue
oval TR: BAILLY BLANCHARD & CO. / NEW ORLEANS merchant handstamp
and black double-oval FORWARDED BY S. C. THWING & CO. / BOSTON,
struck with red PAID, Boston c.d.s. (5 Jul) and scarce red 29
retaliatory-rate handstamp, with red boxed COLONIES / ART 13
accountancy marking and dark red ANGL. / BOULOGNE French entry
c.d.s. (10 Aug), usual filing folds and light wrinkles, else a
fine-very fine usage from the brief 1848 postal dispute. The
enclosed three-page letter by Bailly Blanchard notes that “the
prosperity of the country” depended upon the “re-establishment of
order and tranquility in Europe,” observing that the revolutionary
“counter-blow” had caused substantial “depreciation” in American
products and left merchants in the West and South unable to meet
debts and rents because the western districts were “not buying as
much as in prosperous years.” The correspondence also records a
favourable Supreme Court decision in the “Claude Thomas affair” and
the sale of land at Lafayette for $100,000. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Currently...C$60.00
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346 cover   image1848 (March 24), "Appalling news of the Revolution in France",
transatlantic folded letter from Philadelphia to Paris, carried by
the Cunard steamer Cambria, bearing blue Philadelphia (24 Mar)
"5cts" datestamp and matching blue octagonal “PAID” handstamp,
endorsed “per Cambria,” with red boxed “COLONIES / &c. ART. 13”
accountancy marking applied in London and red “ANGL. AMB. BOULOGNE”
(9 Apr) French entry datestamp, faint orange-brown transit marking
on reverse, light filing fold, else very fine. Written by Edward
Pepper to his brother Frederick at 7 Rue de la Paix, Paris, the
letter records the reaction in Philadelphia as news arrived of
Louis-Philippe’s abdication and the establishment of the French
Second Republic: “I have just rec’d a letter from Charles per
Steamer Cambria which brings the most appalling news of the
Revolution in France & of the great loss of life & a pretty full
description of the King abdicating the Throne.” Pepper reports that
“our people are in great state of excitement,” particularly the
city’s Irish and French communities, who were holding public
meetings and passing resolutions “to assist their friends abroad,”
adding that events in France had become “the common topic of
conversation.” (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Currently...C$50.00
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347 cover   image1849 (July 25), folded letter from Norfolk, Virginia, to Tübingen,
Württemberg, with contents on the failed German Revolution and
emigration to America, struck with red NORFOLK VA. / JUL 26 c.d.s.
with integral 5 cents rate, endorsed “via Liverpool per Steamship”,
carried by Cunard Caledonia, departing Boston August 1 and arriving
Liverpool August 14, with red boxed COLONIES / & ART. 13
Anglo-French accountancy marking, forwarded through France, the
Württemberg postal administration applying red-orange crayon 1f16/8
to show 1 gulden 16 kreuzer due to France for British and French
transit together with 8 kreuzer retained for German carriage, the
reverse with London exchange transit (15 Aug) and Tübingen marking
(20 Aug), fresh and fine. In addition to personal contents, the
enclosed two-page letter from Albert Seifried to his brother
provides an account of the political aftermath of the 1848-49
German Revolutions, with Seifried expressing relief that a
representative identified as “Mr. Schweigarth” had opposed what he
regarded as “dishonorable measures” and asks about the fate of the
National Assembly at Stuttgart. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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348 cover   image1848 (September 19), transatlantic folded letter from Hartford,
Connecticut, to Paris, written by Laurent Clerc, with contents on
his family and the American School for the Deaf, endorsed “Per
Washington from New York” for carriage by the Ocean Steam
Navigation Co., struck with red HARTFORD / SEP / 19 c.d.s. and
matching PAID handstamp, prepaid manuscript 29 cents representing
5c U.S. inland postage and 24c steamship charge, with red 5
accountancy marking and large manuscript 14, entering the French
mails with red OUTRE-MER c.d.s. (7 Oct), the upper left
additionally endorsed “Art. 13” in manuscript; fine-very fine, with
clearly legible contents. Written by Laurent Clerc, the celebrated
French-born educator who helped establish the American School for
the Deaf in Hartford, the letter provides insight into both his
family life and his continuing professional work; he reports the
recent marriage of his son Francis and the birth of his
granddaughter Adele, and notes that his “Institution” remained
prosperous with an enrolment exceeding 200 students. A desirable
letter from a foundational figure in American deaf education. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Currently...C$140.00
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349 cover   image1850 (March 18), redirected transatlantic folded letter from Boston
to London and onward to Cadiz, with slavery contents, stampless
folded letter from Howes Crowell to Joseph Bensusan, endorsed “per
Steamer via New York via France”, with black manuscript 5 cents for
the U.S. inland charge and carried by the Cunard Canada, departing
New York March 20 and arriving Liverpool April 1, originally
addressed to London and there handled by forwarding agents J.C.
THURIN & Co., struck with orange-red PAID / 2 AP 2 / 1850 and oval
P.F. (Paid to Frontier), then redirected to Cadiz through France
with black ANGL. / CALAIS entry marking (3 Apr), manuscript 1/3
accountancy notations and final red 13R Spanish handstamp, the
reverse with London transit and Cadiz receiver; stained internally
and to reverse, but most contents sound. The sender, Howes Crowell
reports that Bensusan’s effort to secure appointment as a United
States Consul had stalled in Washington because “The Slavery
question has occupied so much of the time of this session that
little or no thought has been given to any other subject;”
commercially, he discusses the “extremely dull” cork market,
depressed auction prices and expectations for the salt trade as
fishermen entered the market for supplies. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Currently...C$50.00
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350 cover   image1851 (March 7), triple-rate transatlantic folded letter from New
Orleans to Paris, with contents describing Mississippi flooding,
struck with red NEW ORLEANS / MAR 9 despatch c.d.s. and red
two-line PAID / 21 handstamp, with blue oval TH: BAILLY BLANCHARD &
CO. / NEW ORLEANS merchant handstamp, large 90 centimes due mark,
red circular ANGL. / CALAIS entry marking (1 Apr), the reverse with
London transit (31 Mar), Paris receiver and manuscript 28 pence
accountancy notation for the triple-rate letter, filing fold and
light wrinkles, fine. The enclosed three-page letter by Bailly
Blanchard provides an account of rising Mississippi waters and the
threat of serious flooding around New Orleans; he reports that the
“river has considerably risen” following the “simultaneous rise of
all the great rivers,” describes concern for the levees at Bouligny
and Jefferson City, and records a levee breach that required
widespread labour to repair. The writer further criticizes the new
defences as “too fragile” and “hastily made” to resist the pressure
and explicitly compares conditions with the “great flood of 1846.” (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Currently...C$90.00
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351 cover   image1851 (July 6), double-rate transatlantic folded letter from New
Orleans to Paris via New York, carried by the Pacific, with
commercial and legal contents, stampless letter struck with red NEW
ORLEANS / JUL 8 despatch c.d.s. and red two-line PAID / 21
handstamp, the reverse with red London transit and ANGL. / CALAIS
entry marking on front (31 Jul), along with with red circular ETATS
UNIS. PAQ. BRIT. / PARIS datestamp (31 Jul) and large handstamped
15 décimes notation, quite fresh, fine-very fine. The enclosed
three-page letter by Bailly Blanchard provides a view of ongoing
legal, property and municipal affairs in New Orleans, including
continuing litigation in the “Claude Thomas affair,” changing
real-estate conditions in the Lafayette district, the rental of a
house on Chartres Street for $1,100 per year, and local political
“maneuvers” surrounding the proposed establishment of a market on
“rue Bonnaparte.” (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Currently...C$70.00
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352 cover   image1851 (October 23), California Gold Rush and Tuscan earthquake
transatlantic stampless folded letter from Danvers, Massachusetts,
to Florence, Tuscany, datelined “Wellington Square Oct. 20/51” and
addressed to artist Abel Nichols, care of Maquay & Pakenham,
Bankers, with clear red Danvers (23 Oct) origin datestamp, several
red and blue “PAID” handstamps, prominent red “5” credit handstamp
and small black “ETATS-UNIS / PAQ. BRIT.” Calais entry datestamp,
the reverse with London (10 Nov) transit and Firenze (16 Nov)
double-circle receiver, containing four extensively cross-written
pages, fine and attractive. Writing to her daughter Jemima and
son-in-law Abel Nichols, an American portrait painter living in
Florence, Susan Freeman relays reports received from relatives in
the California gold fields; she describes the miners as “hard put
to, laid on the ground without any covering,” suffering privation
and illness and exhausting labour. One relative had contracted
bilious fever, ague and chronic liver complaints and had become so
debilitated that a physician advised him to leave the mines and
undertake a sea voyage via Australia. Freeman also expresses
concern over reports of the August 1851 Tuscan earthquake, noting
that local newspapers were “full of awful doings” and hoping that
her daughter and family were safely removed from the area. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Currently...C$150.00
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353 cover   image1852 (January 6), stampless letter from Tompkinsville, New York, to
Tanunda, South Australia, folded letter with red Tompkinsville,
N.Y. (6 Jan) c.d.s., from prominent steamship and insurance agent
Alfred Z. Ross, red PAID and SHIP handstamps, rated PAID 37 in red
manuscript, with additional black manuscript 6 due, routed via the
United Kingdom with red SHIP LETTER / LONDON transit (19 Jan),
black G.P.O. SOUTH AUSTRALIA arrival (24 May) and clear Tanunda,
South Australia receiver on reverse, light toning and creasing,
with tears expertly sealed using archival tape, but an uncommon
destination. The letter was likely first carried on board the
Cunard Line steamer 'Africa', which made the New York - Liverpool
crossing in thirteen days, after which it would have been
transferred to the 'Anglia' or 'Standard', both arriving in late
May. The recipient, Dr. Carl Mücke, was a liberal intellectual and
“Forty-Eighter” who left Germany after the revolutions of 1848,
became an important figure in South Australian education,
journalism and Lutheran affairs. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Currently...C$100.00
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354 cover   image1852 (November 12), stampless folded letter from New Orleans to
Grenoble, France, via New York and Le Havre, struck with bold red
NEW ORLEANS / LA. despatch c.d.s. and matching red PAID / 20
handstamp, with red OUTRE-MER / PAR / LE HAVRE entry c.d.s. and
bold manuscript “18” decimes due, the reverse with Grenoble
receiver (7 Dec), fine. The lengthy correspondence from F. Valentin
provides a personal account of a French immigrant woman’s
estrangement from her family in New Orleans, written after learning
of her father’s death following nine years without communication.
She describes inheritance disputes, financial hardship and her fear
that her brother might diminish her share of the estate, while
recounting the difficulty of raising her children alone abroad. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Currently...C$30.00
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355 cover   image1853 (September 26), transatlantic open-mail folded letter from
Washington, D.C., to Spezia, Sardinia, addressed to future Rear
Admiral Andrew A. Harwood aboard the U.S. frigate Cumberland, with
contents related to early photography, bearing Washington, D.C. (26
Sep) datestamp, curved “PAID” handstamp and manuscript “Pd 5 cts”
for the prepaid United States inland postage, endorsed “Cunard
Steamer via Boston” and carried by the Niagara, with London Paid
and Liverpool (10 Oct) backstamps, red “ETATS-UNIS PAQ. BRIT. /
PARIS” (11 Oct) exchange datestamp and manuscript “7” décimes
rating on front, Genoa (14 Oct) transit on reverse and manuscript
docketing recording arrival at Spezia on 15 Oct and total postage
due of 1.70 lire, usual wrinkles for this lightweight paper, fine.
Datelined “Shady-side, Sept. 19th /53” and written during the
developing Crimean crisis, the extensive cross-written letter was
sent to Andrew Allen Harwood while he was serving aboard the U.S.
Mediterranean Squadron flagship Cumberland. Its discussion of
international shipping, customs and finance includes an unusually
early reference to the overseas shipment of photographic equipment,
the writer expressing concern that “some fatality might attend the
box and its contents or that great delay might ensue in its
reaching him, besides the possibility of heavy duties being paid
upon a valuable camera.” Further passages trace correspondence
arriving through Marseilles, seeds and flowering plants sent from
Constantinople, the successful cultivation of an exotic flower from
those seeds, and family, social and political affairs in
Washington. Harwood, a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, later
served as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography,
commanded the Washington Navy Yard and Potomac Flotilla during the
Civil War, and was advanced to Rear Admiral on the retired list in
1869. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Currently...C$70.00
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356 cover   image1854 (May 24), Crimean War period transatlantic letter from Boston,
Massachusetts, to Riga, Russia, sent care of Brown, Shipley & Co.,
Liverpool, with Boston Br. Pkt. (24 May) exchange cds, red “Paid,”
pencil 24c prepaid rating and red “19” credit to Great Britain,
carried by Cunard Line Canada from Boston on 24 May to Liverpool,
arriving 4 Jun, with red America / Paid / Liverpool (4 Jun) arrival
cds, reposted with red Liverpool Paid (5 Jun) cds and red
manuscript 11½d prepaid rating, London (6 Jun) transit cds,
matching oval “P.” and red manuscript 7½d credit to Prussia, red
“Aus England per Aachen / Franco” (7 Jun) transit datestamp, blue
manuscript “fr 3” silbergroschen rating and Prussian “fr 6¼” ,
framed Riga (30 May O.S.) receiver on reverse, very fine, a
desirable letter to a scarce destination, forwarded from Liverpool
through London, Aachen and Prussia while Britain and France were at
war with Russia and the British Baltic Fleet was blockading Riga.
Written in Boston on May 23, 1854, by merchant John Dwyer, the
letter arrived on June 11, 1854, catching the city of Riga during
the British Royal Navy's maritime blockade of the Gulf of Finland.
Concern over the immediate economic disruption felt by
international shipping merchants following the outbreak of the was
is evident; he inquires whether to divert vessels to Memel or
Königsberg (neutral Prussian ports) rather than Riga. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Currently...C$100.00
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357 cover   image1859 (November 24), cross-border folded letter from Merrillsville,
Michigan, to St Thomas, Canada West, with legal contents concerning
debtor imprisonment, franked with 10c green (Type III) Jefferson,
cancelled in manuscript, with “Merrillsville Mich Nov 24,”
endorsement at left, struck with framed red “U.S. PAID” and
manuscript “Paid 10 cts,” Windsor (28 Nov) exchange and St Thomas
(29 Nov) receiver, quite fresh and very fine. In this letter, the
sender, Martin Moore asks solicitor E. Horton whether he may return
to Canada without immediate imprisonment for insolvency, while
promising to settle his creditors if permitted to return with his
family. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Currently...C$60.00
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358 cover   image1854/1860 (circa), New Jersey Express Co. unused stamped envelope,
Type B, printed in dark blue-black on orange wove paper, with oval
horse-head corner design and blind-embossed seal on reverse flap,
extremely fine, accompanied by a detailed 1999 letter from Joseph
Geraci, Museum Specialist Emeritus at the Smithsonian National
Postal Museum. Operating between 1854 and 1860 with offices in
Newark and on Broadway in New York, the New Jersey Express Company
utilized these specialized envelopes to convey financial documents,
accounting records, and local messenger mail between New York City,
New Brunswick, and Newark. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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359 cover   image1855 (June 3), 10c green Nesbitt stamped envelope from Grass
Valley, California, to West’s Mills, Maine, the Washington indicium
on buff cancelled by Grass Valley (3 Jun) circular datestamp, fresh
and very fine, a nice example of the 10c transcontinental rate from
the Gold Rush mining town of Grass Valley, carried via Pacific Mail
Steamship to Panama, across the Isthmus, and then northbound by
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360 cover   image1855 (December 5), Prussian Closed Mail folded letter from Boston
to Rome, Papal States, addressed to sculptor Thomas Crawford,
creator of the U.S. Capitol’s Statue of Freedom, with Roman cholera
and American expatriate contents, bearing red Boston Paid Br. Pkt.
(5 Dec) datestamp and manuscript “Postage paid through to Rome”
endorsement, carried by Cunard packet and routed through Germany
with red boxed “AACHEN / FRANCO” handstamp, red manuscript “12” and
blue “2¼” rate markings, addressed to “Hon. Thomas Crawford,” Villa
Negroni, Piazza de’ Termini, with the secondary direction to Miss
N.C. Watson crossed out upon receipt, red Roma (27 Dec) receiver on
reverse, light toning, otherwise sound and fine with complete
letter. Datelined Roxbury, December 3, 1855, the letter from Eliza
Watson conveys the family’s anxiety over reports of cholera in
Rome: “Our Newspapers at that time were Telegraphing distressing
accounts of Cholera at Rome, and fears would continually intrude
upon my mind that you might be in the midst of it,” followed by her
relief upon learning of Emily’s “perfect health.” Watson contrasts
her idealized conception of Italy as “the finest country in the
world” with her concern that she “could not live there for want of
a Spiritual worship,” a reference to Catholic Rome. She also writes
of wishing to witness “those places, and Cities where some of the
Apostles labored and died for Christs sake,” while reporting family
affairs in Massachusetts and expressing gratitude for the kindness
of Louisa Ward Crawford, Thomas Crawford’s wife and a sister of
poet Julia Ward Howe. Crawford maintained a prominent Roman studio
and later created the monumental Statue of Freedom, whose bronze
casting was completed in Washington and installed atop the United
States Capitol dome in 1863. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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