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Letter from Epaphroditus Champion Bacon, Litchfield, Connecticut : autograph manuscript signed, dated 1840 March 30
Title
Letter from Epaphroditus Champion Bacon, Litchfield, Connecticut : autograph manuscript signed, dated 1840 March 30 / E. Champion Bacon.
Production
Litchfield, Connecticut : Epaphroditus Champion Bacon 1840 March 30.
Physical Description
1 item (2 unnumbered pages) : paper ; 27 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Local Notes
Hicks classification: MssA B1325 no.1 tall.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript in English, written in a cursive hand.
Holograph, in ink, signed on page [1].
Date appears as "Litchfield Saturday Eve.g 30th March 1840."
Biographical / Historical Note
Epaphroditus Champion Bacon was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on September 2, 1811. He attended Yale Law School in 1833, was admitted to the bar in 1835, and began his practice in Mobile, Alabama before returning to Litchfield in 1838. He was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1840 and 1841. While on a health trip to Europe, he suffered a strangulated hernia and died in Seville, Spain on January 11, 1845.
Summary
In a letter to an unnamed recipient, Bacon warns of plots by the Loco Foco faction of the Democratic Party to disenfranchise Whig Party electors in an upcoming election.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2022
Subjects
Genre/Form
Personal correspondence.
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