ID 411465
Лот 57 | In support of Cresson's colonization campaign
Оценочная стоимость
$ 800 – 1 200
Two pages, 73 x 191mm (mounting revenants at left margin and weak center vertical fold). Housed in a clamshell case with a portrait of Madison.
Henry Clay offers his support to Elliot Cresson’s colonization campaign with a verse of support from Dolley Madison. Clay writes, “Go on, Mr. Cresson, in the noble cause of Colonization which you have so zealously espoused; and may you enjoy the joint blessings of America and Africa, and hereafter higher blessings.” On the reverse, Madison has added a short verse: “Habit and Hope, the crutches which support our march through the vicissitudes of life.” With a a near-contemporary note of explanation written below in an unknown hand.
[With:] MADISON, Dolley. Autograph manuscript, n.p., n.d. One page, 171 x 112mm. An eighteen line poem: “I tremble for thee! — Ah! Be wise…”
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