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ALS, one page, 6 x 9.25, The Rockaway (Bar Harbor, Maine) letterhead, August 11, 1895. Handwritten letter to Miss Shannon: "Will you kindly say to your niece that I am indebted to her for the four leaf clover for $687 secured in Bar Harbor? I leave this evening." In fine condition, with light creasing and edgewear.
Written from Bar Harbor, Maine, where Washington made fundraising visits among wealthy Northern supporters, the letter offers a charming glimpse of his relationship with his benefactors. The recipient was apparently longtime Tuskegee supporter Mary C. Shannon of Newton, Massachusetts, to whom Washington had written as early as 1884, recalling that he had met Shannon and her sister in Bar Harbor.
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