“An old and wise and well-balanced people”
- Raymond Chandler on the English US: IN MY LAST American round-up, I reported on the sale at Swanns of an early printing of the Treaty of Paris that had been owned by the Reverend Samuel Cooper of Boston, a now largely forgotten but once key political and spiritual figure in the War of Independence.
In an autograph sale held by the East 25th Street auctioneers on February 4, a letter sent to Cooper…