[Rarebooks] Gideon Welles Norwich Academy Als

[Garry R Austin]

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GIDEON WELLES. (1802-1878) United States Secretary of the Navy under  
Abraham Lincoln. Autographed letter signed, (Als). Approx. 9 3/4" x 7  
1/2". (1824). Northfield Vt. Two pages to Captain Partridge  
enumerating reasons for leaving the Military Academy at Norwich,  
(later Norwich University). He states that his father is old and  
failing, his property is suffering and his younger brother needs his  
assistance. His older brothers are unreliable. His father had wanted  
him to have a liberal education and now four years later "I am now at  
twenty-two almost an ignoramus" . He than praises school's influence  
over him and states his efforts have not been in vain. He also asks  
for confidentiality and to have this missive returned to him. $495.00


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