Nov 30, 2006 - Sale 2095

Sale 2095 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 132
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
STUDEBAKER, CLEMENT. Autograph Letter Signed, to his parents, wishing them good health, describing his reaction to the devastation of the Boston Fire, and on various sermons he has heard. 4 pages, folded 8vo sheet. New Haven, 25 November 1872

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" . . . I visited Boston on Thursday and passed through the fire district. It was sad sight to behold, but it impressed upon me that all things are perishable in this world. While we are striving to build Mansions on this earth that are perishable we should not neglect to prepare ourselves for that Mansion above which endureth for ever . . ."