(WAR OF 1812) Follet Samuel Junior Letter describing the moo

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"BALTIMORE TREMBLES TO ITS CENTRE AND AWAITS ITS DOOM" (WAR OF 1812.) Follet, Samuel, Junior. Letter describing the mood in Baltimore as the British advanced. Autograph Letter Signed to father Samuel Follet in Worthington, MA. One page, 10 x 8 inches, plus integral address leaf with Baltimore postmark; moderate foxing, minor wear. (MRS) Baltimore, 25 August 1814

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Samuel Follet (1792-1822) was a young Baltimore lawyer writing to his father with distressing news shortly before the Battle of Baltimore: "There is great confusion here. The British . . . have taken the city of Washington. . . . The capitol and the President's house were blown up immediately and the navy yard was in flames. . . . Baltimore trembles to its centre and awaits its doom."