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| Scott Number | 1 |
|---|---|
| Date | January 28, 18xx |
| From City | Worcester |
| From State | MA |
| To City | New York |
| To State | NY |
| Addressee | Miss E. B. Cheever |
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| Quantity 1 | 1 |
| Quantity 2 | 0 |
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5c Red Brown (1). Huge sheet margin at bottom, large at sides, ample at top, remarkably fresh color, tied by one of three neat pen strokes on cover to New York City, red "Worcester Ms. Jan. 28" circular datestamp, Very Fine
Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale 853 Lot 2119 realized 300
Not listed in Alexander
The 1849 edition of Doggett’s lists Rev Henry Theodore Cheever (1814-1897) at 17 Eldrich Street. He was a prolific author about whalers and editor of the New York Evangelist (1849-1852). In the early 1840s he voyaged as a passenger on the whaleship Commodore Preble and in late 1849 or early 1850 published The Whale and His Captors, a major source for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick* (1851). Cheever also published Life in the Sandwich Islands (1851) and edited the travel books of Chaplain Walter Cotton of the U.S. Navy.
Letter written to Elizabeth Bancroft Cheever Washburn (1812-1893), who was noted for her philanthropy. She lived with her mother in Hallowell, Me., until her brother, Henry, became a pastor. After that she lived wherever his pastorate was. She married, on 13 October 1858, Ichabod Washburn (1798-1868), founder of the great wire industry in Worcester, Mass.
She was his second wife.
Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale 853 Lot 2119 realized 300
Not listed in Alexander
The 1849 edition of Doggett’s lists Rev Henry Theodore Cheever (1814-1897) at 17 Eldrich Street. He was a prolific author about whalers and editor of the New York Evangelist (1849-1852). In the early 1840s he voyaged as a passenger on the whaleship Commodore Preble and in late 1849 or early 1850 published The Whale and His Captors, a major source for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick* (1851). Cheever also published Life in the Sandwich Islands (1851) and edited the travel books of Chaplain Walter Cotton of the U.S. Navy.
Letter written to Elizabeth Bancroft Cheever Washburn (1812-1893), who was noted for her philanthropy. She lived with her mother in Hallowell, Me., until her brother, Henry, became a pastor. After that she lived wherever his pastorate was. She married, on 13 October 1858, Ichabod Washburn (1798-1868), founder of the great wire industry in Worcester, Mass.
She was his second wife.
