![Letter from an Early Texas Settler and Plantation owner.]. Silas Parsons](/pictures/thumb/5501_1.jpg?v=1563809016)
An interesting letter written by ex-Alabama Associate Justice turned Texas plantation-owner Silas Parsons, this letter doing much to flesh-out his later life. Born in Kentucky, Silas Parsons (ca. 1800–1860) served as an Associate Justice from 1849 to 1851 in Huntsville, Alabama and soon thereafter relocated to Travis County, Texas.....
An engaging group of letters between the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Maine historical novelist and a former marine Captain stationed in Haiti turned author, concerning research for the former’s novel, Lydia Bailey. Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1885–1957) of Kennebunk, Maine, was a renowned journalist and author of American historical fiction. His Lydia.....
![A letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania in pursuit of a runaway slave.]. Thomas Contee Worthington](/pictures/thumb/5142_1.jpg?v=1560464239)
A brief letter written by a former U. S. Representative from Maryland to the Governor of Pennsylvania on behalf of a slave-owner whose slave has gone missing. Attorney Thomas Contee Worthington (1782–1847) here writes to sitting Governor of Pennsylvania George Wolf (1777–1840) on behalf of one Mr. McGill, a farmer.....