Title: Autograph Letter Signed by Sylvester Peck, to his sister in Massachusetts Author: Peck, Sylvester Place: California? Publisher: Date: September 30, 1850 Description: 2 pp., on 4-page lettersheet, address on p.4. 24.5x19 cm. (9¾x7½"). Peck writes little about himself, but fills his sister in on relations and acquaintances, including details about his brother's trip to California, "You requested me to write about Obel's going to California... he started for the mines a year ago last February he arrived at the Isthmus and had to make a stop there for want of money he there kept a victualing house for a time till he got money enough to pay his passage to California to San Francisco he went to the mines and dug some gold and was taken sick and was brought near the grave he had the land scurvy..." Lot Amendments Condition: Fading along folds, a few small holes, about very good. Item number: 211505
Title: Autograph Letter Signed by Sylvester Peck, to his sister in Massachusetts Author: Peck, Sylvester Place: California? Publisher: Date: September 30, 1850 Description: 2 pp., on 4-page lettersheet, address on p.4. 24.5x19 cm. (9¾x7½"). Peck writes little about himself, but fills his sister in on relations and acquaintances, including details about his brother's trip to California, "You requested me to write about Obel's going to California... he started for the mines a year ago last February he arrived at the Isthmus and had to make a stop there for want of money he there kept a victualing house for a time till he got money enough to pay his passage to California to San Francisco he went to the mines and dug some gold and was taken sick and was brought near the grave he had the land scurvy..." Lot Amendments Condition: Fading along folds, a few small holes, about very good. Item number: 211505
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