Autographed Letter Signed
1826. 2 pages, 12.5 x 8 inches, no place, December 7, 1826. In this somewhat quirky letter, he writes to a friend who has sent him a deformed apple that resembles a chicken, in part: "...This production of nature puts the beholder in mind, from its size and figure of a chicken coming forth from its native eggshell. Perhaps no such anomaly has occurred before..." Signed "Samuel L. Mitchell." Natural folds; faint ink bleeding. Very good(-) condition. Mitchell, an American..... More