One and one-half page autograph letter signed, in ink, to Daniel Weston, Duxbury
Cambridge: [Harvard University], October 8, 1810. 4to, address on verso of integral leaf, wax seal, previous folds; very good. H. Weston is likely Hiram Weston who was a divinity student at Harvard in 1811 and who later became a merchant in Duxbury. He was born in Duxbury, Mass, in 1793, and married Olive Little in 1818. He was one of the descendants of Edward Weston, an early settler of Duxbury. Here, he writes to his brother Daniel in Duxbury: " I have the painful news to communicate to you, that on Wednesday last I attended the funeral of one of my classmates named Hooper, belonging to Marblehead, and aged nineteen years. He died at his father's house of a nervous fever. He was sick but about ten days. 'So fades the lovely blooming flower'." The late Mr. Hooper was no doubt William Hooper, son of Captain William and Mary Hooper. His death record of Oct. 1, 1810, at Marblehead, states that he was "one of the senior class of Harvard." Weston notes that the funeral procession (in chaises and carriages) started in Cambridge in the morning, went to Marblehead, and returned by nine that evening. Weston asks his brother to send his boots and to let him know when the schooner will be launched and be in Boston. It is signed, "your humble servant" H. Weston. Item #55576
Price: $125.00
