Autograph Letter Signed ("Washington Irving"), to Aaron Vail Esq. Chargé d'affaires of the U.S. in Madrid.
Birmingham: May 18, 1842.
Price: $600.00
About the item
1 page. 4to. Old folds.
Item #305638
Irving writes to a subordinate in Madrid regarding consular business while he was en route there as U.S. Minister to Spain, an office he held from 1842-1846. In part: "I have received a letter from Mr. William Henry Freeman recently appointed consult of the United States at Cuba ... I will thank you to take the neccessary steps ... to forward his commission to him at his post...."
