A Guide to the John Pendleton Kennedy Letter, 1853
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6954-n
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John Pendleton Kennedy Letter, Accession # 6954-n, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from David J. Holmes Autographs on June 2 1995.
Scope and Content Information
John Pendleton Kennedy, Navy Department, to B.B. French [Kennedy sends more formal thanks for French's letter and pleasant reminiscence about their long-standing friendship which he had sent from his journal. He also thanks him for his critique of Horse Shoe Robinson (published in 1835) and encloses a check for twenty dollars "for the poor people of Madeira"].