2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, “H. McClure”, 3p. quarto, June 29, 1835, Detroit, Michigan, with integral address to Pennsylvania, and reads in part: “...Mrs. Torbert and Mrs. St. Clair [ probably wife of Gov & Genl. Arthur St. Clair - previous Gov. of NW Territory] came to town today with a view of taking the Boat this evening for Erie on their way to Lycoming ...I have been boarding at a French House for two months past...They have some odd ways about them, but I am becoming a little accustomed to it. You would laugh at their mantle ornaments a whole rank and file of puppet soldiers...Our old gentleman Monsieur Marsae is a great Friend of the Indians and on their way home...where they receive their presents from the British Government stopped in front of our door and pitched their tents. There were about a hundred and fifty ... immediately commenced their encampment in a short time thier ten tents were up, their canoes all drawn out of the water and turned upside down, and the squaws busily engaged in pounding corn...It was altogether rather a novel sight to me and one which I shall not forget very soon. They seemed to be perfectly happy and were off next day in their light barks for the Upper Lakes. There wasa chief among them a very old man, who wore a silver medal with James Madison President of the United States on one side of it and o nthe other Peace & Friendship represented by a Pipe and clasped hands - so much for the Indians...” Some separation at folds, else VG.
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