Box 1

MITCHELL, J[ohn] K[earsley]. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. [n.p., circa 1840’s or early 1850’s]. One-page letter on leaf measuring 10 x 8”. Moderate damping and wear to lower left corner of sheet, with no impact on legibility; good only. A letter to an unnamed recipient, recommending B.C. Cooper for a customs appointment. Mitchell notes that Cooper is an “undeviating Whig” and that he “is almost starving & his wife & child are actually sufferers.”