Lot 306 email save

William Bainbridge ALS

Sign In to see what this sold for

BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM (1744 - 1833) American naval officer captured at Tripoli, and later commanded the Constitution in her victory over the Java.Autograph Letter Signed, "Wm. Bainbridge," 1p. folio, Princeton, February 14, 1807, addressed to William Jones in Philadelphia, and reads in part: "...As you were so obliging as to say that you would endeavor to sell my chronometer for me I will thank you to offer it to those gentlemen whom you suppose might purchase, and let me hear the result...I received a letter from Washington saying 'if your Chronometer is not too high we will take it' but I would prefer disposing of it in Philadelphia for fear of its receiving some injury in the transportation to Washington..." With the attached integral address leaf. VG.

View Raynors' Historical Collectible Auctions next auction.

Similar lots up for auction