Discussing the possible uses for an invention he’s working on and its possible shipment for use in Virginia, in an autograph draft letter (with two dozen or so deletions, corrections, and additions, from single words to entire lines), signed by Read (“N. Read”), February 25, 1819, from Salem, Massachusetts, to “James Madison, Ex-President of U. States, Richmond, Virginia.”
Small 4to (22 cm). Bifolio of four pages, approximately 550 words, in part: [Responding to a recent letter from the Ex-President:] “With a view to ascertain by experiment the use of a machine most notable for different horse power, I am now constructing one at Salem, designed, nearly as I...... More