IRVING WASHINGTON Autograph Manuscript unsigned working draf

Sale 2595 - Lot 113

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FROM "CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS" IRVING, WASHINGTON. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, working draft of the last 14 lines from chapter XVII of his Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, abridged version, with several holograph emendations. 1/2 page, 8vo; moderate brittling overall, nearly complete horizontal tear affecting second line of text (without loss), faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, remnants of prior mounting at upper and lower edges verso. Np, [1830]

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In full: "given the name of Rio del Oro. Here, as the seamen were ranging the shore, they found the bodies of three men and a boy, one of whom had a rope of Spanish grass about his neck, & another, from having a beard, was evidently a European. The bodies were in a state of decay, but bore the marks of violence. This spectacle gave rise to many gloomy forebodings, and Columbus hastened forward to La Navidad, full of apprehensions that some disaster had befallen Diego de Arana and his companions."