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  • One-Page Letter (A.L.S.)

    Published by NP, Cambridge MA, 1885

    Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.

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    No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Very Good or better copy of this one-page 20-line handwritten letter dated July 18, 1885 to a Professor ("My dear Professor") at the Peabody Academy at Salem MA from 19th-century American astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould (signed "B.A. Gould"). The letter requests permission for a friend's grandson to shoot birds for collecting purposes, noting that "I should naturally apply here, but Agassiz is away", and that he (Gould) understands that the Peabody Academy can also issue such a permit. Book.