Nov 22, 2005 - Sale 2058

Sale 2058 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 546
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Autograph Letter Signed, to Amasa Walker, mentioning Harriet Beecher Stowe and asking for his assistance in the Abolition movement against the Fugitive Slave Law. 3 pages, folded 8vo sheet; the terminal leaf mounted to a page from an autograph album, folds. Amesbury, 9 March [1854?]

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". . . Get Whigs & Democrats to sign, and by means of the Anti-Nebraska feeling virtually nullify the fugitive slave law. What say? Will thee aid in this movement . . ."