ALS signed “J. L. Chamberlain,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, May 26, 1886. Letter to Charles O. Farrington of Brewer, Maine, in part: "Your letter was long in reaching me, having only got to me today, as also Mr. Floyd's. I knew nothing about the basis on which Mr. Blunt, or Mr. Johnson, was acting. They, each, write me…in such a way that I supposed they were making the offers themselves. I gave Blunt up as I did not hear from him, & responded to Johnson's letter. Now again Blunt writes that he has sold the land to E. H. Blake & Blunt wants me to pay him a commission for selling. He also wants a deed made out to Blake at once. You know better than I do about these men & their relation to the lands. And I shall certainly feel like putting the matter into whatever shape you advise. If anybody is to have commissions for sale, I think it sh'd be you, & not these others." In very good condition, with complete separations to folds tenuously held together with small pieces of old tape. Accompanied by an original mailing envelope and a program for a dedication ceremony of the Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Post Office in Brewer, Maine, on April 2, 1997.
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