ALS signed “W. C. Bryant,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, January 27, 1861. Fascinating handwritten letter to Edward Buck, addressed from Rosyln, Long Island, and penned shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War, in part: “I date this from my place in the country…You will not of course suppose that we are here to get away from ‘the wind of that commotion’ which is going on in the political world, for just now everybody is eager for the latest news and glad to be where it is first to be had. Your remedy for the…times is a very judicious one, provided you could get the patients to take it. But they will not come to Faneuil Hall neither shall we I suppose have to go to Charleston, except that we must reinforce Fort Sumter…Long Island has determined not to secede, which I hope you will consider as good news. We have at least a third more white people on the island than there are in all South Carolina and it is of ten times the consequence to keep us in the Union for we command the Narrows, owning as we do Fort Hamilton, to say nothing of Coney Island. If you hear any rumor of our holding a convention you may contradict it boldly…As for the political condition of the country I do not by any means renounce the hope that the year will end much better than it began.” In fine condition, with light toning to the bottom edge.
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