CONVERSE, Freeman

Leesburg, June 16th / Dear Sister, / …

[Newark, DE]: (Designed & Printed by Bill Roberts for First State Press, 2004). First edition, 1/60 unnumbered copies. 24mo (11 cm). (3) pp. Converse’s letter to his sister reports on the deaths from scarlet fever of two of his four children and the course the disease was taking through his family in Leesburg, Virginia in 1843. Cover title: Scarlet Fever / 1843. OCLC locates three copies (SUNY-Buffalo, UCLA, Yale). Original stiff white wrappers printed in red, tied. Fine. Item #70804

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