MEXICAN WAR STAGE COACH ROBBERY LETTER WITH RARE COVER
$140.00
60078-57
A.L.S. "L. Ortigosa", 1p. 4to, Mexico City, Apr. 16, 1848, in Spanish, in which Ortigosa writes to relate the dangers of travel in wartime Mexico. In part: "...The stagecoach had been robbed with Farinoli in it and still full of blood from an American who the robbers had killed...". Integral transmittal leaf with seal tear thereon costs one letter of text, otherwise very good.