Lot 3021
Dubuque W. T. Feb. 11, clear c.d.s. and matching "FREE" handstamp on 1838 folded letter to congressman G.W. Jones from John Plumbe Jr.with somewhat obsequious contents as Plumbe presents himself as a candidate for the Office of Register, using Martin Van Buren as a reference, etc., Very Fine. Plumbe was one of the earliest proponents of a transcontinental railroad. As a prominent photographer, he at one time operated a chain of galleries; his visionary and frustrated attempts to interest Congress in a railroad led to bankruptcy in the late 1840s and his suicide in 1857.
Estimate 400 - 500
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