ALS, COMPARING AUDIENCES FOR HIS LECTURES, SIGNED 1 FEBRUARY 1839.
8vo. (3)pp., approximately 300 words; addressed on verso of integral leaf, to Miss Putnam of Boston. Buckingham (1786-1855), an English travel writer, wrote, in part: "Charleston, [S.C.], with its 15,000 whites (all the rest of its population being Negro slaves) has furnished a more uniformly large audience & a larger..... More