Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 144
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(MASSACHUSETTS.) Archive of letters to Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep of Harvard Dental School. 5 Autograph Letters Signed from various correspondents, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1825-30

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Nathan Cooley Keep (1800-1875) was a dentist from Longmeadow, MA. He would later become the first dean of the Harvard Dental School, the first university-based dental school in America. The lot consists of personal letters from friends in Massachusetts, one letter describing Indians near Bangor, ME, and one from a creditor of his late brother Samuel. with--two letters and a receipt addressed to Keep's brother Samuel, then building the Pensacola Naval Yard in Florida, 1826-27.