Autograph letter signed to Theophilus Parsons, Jr., Cambridge, 7 January 1843
One page, 4to. Jared Sparks: historian, editor, and clergyman. One of the leading mid-nineteenth-century American historians that included George Bancroft and William Prescott. McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard College, and named president of the college in 1849. Reading: "Dear Parsons, I have lately received a letter.....