Autograph Letter Signed, June 4th 1840, Schoolcraft, Michigan to Samuel Cobb, Cobb Corners, N.H.

quarto, two pages, inscribed on a four page bi-folium, old folds and creases, remains of sealing wax, free frank and Schoolcraft, Michigan postal stamp, in good legible condition. Cobb writes to relatives back home with news from the West, family news, hard times and also touching upon political matters: "the times are said to be very hard produce very low money scarce so much for Vanburenism and Slavery, and the Whigs are wide a wake for Harrison and Slavery and I am like old Billy Wood of two evils I choose neither. The Locofoco Dems & Whigs have almost ruined our country it is time to look out for honest men I am traveling a circuit this season there is a little moral virtue left in our country and much kneed [sic] of a general reform Death is at hand and we must get ready for it".