Nov 29, 2001 - Sale 1916

Sale 1916 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CALIFORNIA--GOLD RUSH.) Manuscript Letter written in a Gregory's Express Pocket Letter Book, a love letter from Jonathan Bard to his fiancee, lamenting their separation, longing to be together and relating his disappointments. 16mo, original wrappers.<\t>California, 7 August 1851

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The letter book is printed for Gregory's Express in San Francisco and is, as the front wrapper states, "designed to facilitate correspondence between cities and towns, and the mining districts in California, and all parts of the United States."<