2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, J.J. Cleveland, 3p. quarto, April 23, 1853, Day Town, California, with integral leaf addressed to J. Emory Cleveland in New York, it reads in part: “...I am traveling a circuit as a preacher. My circuit is about thirty miles in diameter. I have a lazy black Indian pony which I ride. There was one church on my circuit when I came here about three months ago, now we have another nearly finished. It has cost about $400 and when finished will have cost about $600....four years ago this was a wilderness, which white people had seldom visited. Often I sleep on a bed of straw which is covered only with one or two woolen blankets. I reside with a kind Christian family....there are about forty families and nearly one thousand inhabitants at another twenty families and five hundred inhabitants. There will be a large immigration this season...My circuit has for several months been infeste with Spanish robbers of the most daring and dangerous discription. Several of them have been caught and hung as all murderes ought to be. We dont stop in this country to consider whether capital punishment is proper or not. Men are frequently hung for stealing horses. The leader of this gang has not yet been caught. He is suppose to wear armor under his clothes which protects him from rifle and pistol balls. He has been hunted so much that he has probably left the country for the countrys good...” VG.
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