Statesman from Massachusetts (1740–1814) who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. ALS signed “Sam A. Otis,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, January 5, 1811. Letter to William Sumner upon the death of his mother. In part: “I cannot suffer the mail to pass without obtruding on your grief & joining my tears with yours & those of your weeping sisters, on the loss of a mother so amiable, & of a lady who to her friends & acquaintances became so endeared by all estimable qualities. The tender hearts of the poor young ladies, twice orphaned, must be deeply pierced. But to you & to them what avail the small consolations of my sincerest sympathy? Those of religion & the healing hand of time can only mitigate the anguish of such wounds…she is gone to join her sister Seraphs in the mansions of peace and felicity—Where pain & death shall know no more.” Second integral page bears a free franked address panel in Otis’s hand, franked in the upper right, “Free Sam A. Otis.” Intersecting folds, mild toning, and show-through from writing on opposite side, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.
