Herman Hooker autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, 19 August 1851
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Describes the illness of the auctioneer Jones, an old enemy of Griswold's. Discusses [Henry Theodore] Cheever's edition of the work of Walter Colton, whom he himself thought "the last to come directly to an object," though his work as Alcalde [of Monterey] did him credit. Praises Griswold's sketch of C[alvin] Colton.