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Item 34

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Stockton, Henry K. Autograph Letter Signed to Moses Grant; Boston, 1834 August 30

 Item — Item: 34
Call Number: MS Ch. M.2.2, pt. 2
Scope and Contents

Reports investigation of dealers in obscene prints and snuff boxes. Cases cited: W.S. Pendleton (wife made objectionable drawing on Sabbath); E.N. Stratton; John I. Blake; Jacobs; Cory & Spring, from whom Stockton bought six snuff boxes as evidence. Deprecates theatre: "sink of polution [sic]". 3s. (11p.) [Former numbers 35-39]

Dates: 1834 August 30