2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, 4p. quarto, December 4, 1845, Maysville, Kentucky, with integral leaf addressed to E.G. Harel in Ohio, with notation by the writer “Distance 240 miles”, this letter reads in part: “…I will give you one chapter on slave holding. The man with whom I board owns a wench about 23 years of age, who has four small children from 7 years of age downwards. The wench was presented to Mrs. Gordon when only about a year old, was nursed by & taken care of by her, and would cry after her as much as her own children will now do. She taught nearly as much of her as of her own children, and now says it never yet seemed as though she could part with her though sometimes when saucy (as she sometimes is) she tells her that she can easily stop this by putting her where she won’t have a chance to do so. This is enough it immediately brings the tears into her eyes, and she ceases her sauce. The black woman is a good one, and her four children are the neatest best dressed and most intelligent appearing children I have seen among the blacks. They are dressed as well as the whites in the family and I expect in some coming day though now apparently (and really) happy & contented they will enjoy the bright beams of freedom’s sun…” Fine.
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