Autograph letter signed ("James G. Drake") to W. Elliott Woodward, being an account of the life of Samuel G. Bishop; Boston, 8 June 1866
3 1/4 pages, 8vo, a bifolium on pale bluish-green paper. Evidence of folds, a marginal tear not affecting text, scant remains of former mounting on last page. The American antiquarian and historian Samuel G. Drake (1798-1875) writes to William Elliot Woodward (1825-1892), the numismatist, New England genealogist, and publisher, about.....