COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. Autograph Letter Signed, "J. Fenimore Cooper" to Elliot Cowdin, chair of the lecture committee of the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, agreeing to give a lecture because his son was accepted to Cambridge, but

COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. Autograph Letter Signed, "J. Fenimore Cooper" to Elliot Cowdin, chair of the lecture committee of the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, agreeing to give a lecture because his son was accepted to Cambridge, but insisting that it be "extempore, and take it with all the imperfections of such a preference." 1 page, folded 4to sheet; usual folds. Cooperstown, 2 September 1845