Excerpt from Highly Important Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Gathered by the Late Joshua I. Cohen, M.D. Of Baltimore, Maryland: Containing a Very Important Collection of Letters of General Washington and Members of His Family, the Finest Set of Letters of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence Ever Offered for Sale The members of the Continental Congress include many of the rarest names and mostly of a period contemporary with the Revolution, and with contents of the most interesting character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Important Collection of Autograph Letters and Documents A magnificent and eloquent letter of Thomas Jefferson (n o. 88) on the evils of Slavery, and in which he prophesies the Civil War as a leaf of our history not yet turned over, is well worth attention; as is a fine letter of the pioneer and Indian fighter, Daniel Boone (no. Benja min Franklin On his mission to England in 1762 (no. John C. Calhoun on the Annexation of Texas (no. A War Letter of Abraham Lincoln, 1861, in which he says he hates to reject any offer from what is called a Southern State (no. And many others of equally great intrin sic value, including the Governors of New York, the Mayors of New York City, manuscripts of Joseph Rodman Drake, Jas. K. Paulding, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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