Typed Letter Signed about child labor laws
Cambridge, MA: 1910.
2 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, Cambridge, MA, March 3, 1910. This letter, which includes one holograph correction, was written to a descendant of Elbridge Gerry regarding a challenge to a Massachusetts law prohibiting children under 14 from working on the stage, in part: "I am much obliged to you for sedning [sic] me your article on the 'Children of the Stage'...it covers the ground admirably and undoubtedly has produced many salutary effects on law and custom..." Horizontal and vertical folds; near fine condition.
American academic who became the president of Harvard in 1869.
Binding: Unbound
Language: English
Price: $100.00
Item #142863
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