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Stanley Applies for a Marriage License
Autograph Letter Signed (“Henry M. Stanley”), applying for a “Special License for my marriage with Miss Dorothy Tennant …” [Tipped into:] Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (Boston, 1909).
De Vere Gardens: May 24, 1890.
Price: $5,000.00
About the item
One page. Small 8vo sheet with integral blank; second and third pages glued together. Stanley Applies for a Marriage License. Small closed tear in text, soiling, remnants of prior mounting along right edge of the terminal page.
Item #236875
Though Stanley writes in this letter to apply for a marriage it was actually Miss Dorothy Tennant who wooed Stanley and insisted on their marriage. The explorer suffered under his wife; she forbade his traveling to Africa again, forced him to run for Parliament, and exiled him to an English country house and an early death at 63.
