[FLORIDA] DUVAL, WILLIAM POPE. Long autograph letter signed to Secretary of the Navy Abel P. Upshur.
St. Augustine: 5 September 1842. A long autograph letter signed "W.P. Duval" on the recto and verso of both sheets of a bifolium, 10 x 8 inches (25 x 20 cm), Usual folds, very fine otherwise.

A long letter from William Pope Duval, the first Territorial Governor of Florida from 1822-34, to Secretary of the Navy Abel P. Upshur. This interesting letter deals mostly with the decline of the once booming town of St. Joseph in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic and abandonment by the Lake Wimico & St. Joseph Canal & Railroad Company. Duval seeks the appointment of his son-in-law, a well-respected local doctor, within the Navy. He continues discussing the high quality of Florida timber for use by the Navy in building ships. A long letter acquired in 1966.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

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