Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843 to Henry Maynadier
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02379 Author/Creator: Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 26 November 1819 Pagination: 2 p. : address ; Height: 30 cm, Width: 21 cm Order a Copy
Written from Georgetown. Key writes to his uncle about depressed stock prices. He also discusses colonizing 12 captured Africans who are in Baltimore (he does not explain how they came to be there), in reference to his efforts through the American Colonization Society.
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