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Jane Austen's Letter Coolly Dissing Another Novelist Fetches Over $200,000 at Sotheby's | artnet News
Jane Austen's Letter Coolly Dissing Another Novelist Fetches Over $200,000 at Sotheby's | artnet News
Love-letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846 : with an introduction by Julia Ward Howe ; to which are added the reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley and Charles T. Congdon : Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Alexander Hamilton's oldest surviving letter, written in 1769, as he was about to turn thirteen years old. The way his handwriting evolved is fascinating. Look at that flourish under his name, Jesus, kid. I've read this letter many times so I know what it says, I must say it's not easy in his youthful hand, given that he apparently did not have the time for spaces between words.