Reporting on the causes, conduct, and aftermath of an 1814 duel in Washington, D.C. in three autograph letters, signed April, 3, 4, and 5, 1814, to a friend, Moses White, the Postmaster of Rutland, Massachusetts, and perhaps a relative of the wounded duelist Francis B. White;
Each of the letters is franked "free," but we have been unable to discover an official position for the letter writer (possibly former Massachusetts Congressman Ezekiel Bacon, serving in Washington as First Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury). The first letter recounts a misunderstanding between White and Lt. Twiggs, a fellow..... More