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Memories of Ohio Governor Jeremiah Morrow from an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [Manuscript]. McLean, John [1785-1861]. [Adair, Robert F.]. Morrow, Jeremiah (1771-1852)]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, To Robert F. Adair, Cincinnati, OH, August 10, 1852]. 4-1/2 pp. Single leaf folded to form bifolium and a single leaf, all 10-1/2" x 8-1/2," franked on verso of single leaf. Content in neat hand to rectos and versos of bifolium leaves. Light toning, vertical and horizontal fold lines, small losses at wax seal causing very small text loss, but no loss of legibility, minor edgewear and a few short tears to margins. This letter is accompanied by a contemporary 4-1/2" x 3-1/2" copperplate portrait of McLean (on a 9" x 6" leaf). Together 2 items. $950. * A substantive letter by U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John McLean about late Ohio congressman, senator, and governor Jeremiah Morrow, who had died five months earlier. McLean had served in Congress with Morrow. Appointed by President Andrew Jackson, McLean is best remembered today as the senior Supreme Court justice who dissented in Dred Scott v. Sanford, one of only two justices to do so. During the 1850s, when Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was frequently ill, McLean presided over the Court. In this letter, McLean replies to a query about Morrow from Robert F. Adair and appends a four-page memoir of his late friend. (Robert F. Adair of Maysville, Kentucky may be silversmith Robert Farris Adair [1833-1907], whose papers are held by the Filson Historical Society.) Justice McLean writes: "Many years ago I was well acquainted with Mr. Morrow, having served with him in Washington, and lived in the same county with him in Ohio." McLean directs Adair to write to "Howard Dunlevy Esquire" who lived only six miles from Governor Morrow. Almost like a postscript, McLean writes "[a] very hasty sketch of Morrow." Much more than a sketch, it spans almost four pages in length and includes biographical facts and, more interestingly, personal observations, anecdotes and judgments. Seller Inventory # 66616
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Title: Autograph Letter, Signed, To Jeremiah Morrow...
Publication Date: 1852
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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