A Letter by Elliott Coues concerning the plotting of Lewis & Clark's courses along the Missouri River and of Coues' hope that the journals would soon be published in full
Seattle: Book Club of Washington, 1993. Limited Edition. Stiff Paper Wraps. 4to. Pp. 4. Single leaf twice folded and hand tied in beige deckle-edge wrap, titles on the cover and club insignia on back in black, letter facsimile tipped in. Edition limited to 200 copies printed by Jim Koss at his Farmhouse Press, Seattle. Near Fine. Item #6871 Now housed in a clear archival pouch with acid-free backing.
Transcription and facsimile of a letter addressed to Wendell Phillips Garrison, literary editor of The Nation April 11, 1895. Colophon states "This previously unpublished letter, from the collection of L.F. Javete, is presented as a keepsake to the members of the Book Club of Washington, December 1993." Javete, long a member of the BCW, was a local collector of Pacific Northwest Americana, among other subjects, and proprietor of Saxe Floral. With abbreviated Coues biography sourced from Paul Russell Cutright and Michael J. Brodhead.
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