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KEARNY, PHILIP

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KEARNY, PHILIP
(1815 - 1862) Union major general who served in Napoleon III's guard, lost an arm during the Mexican War, and led with distinction in the Peninsula campaign. He was killed at Chantilly. Rare, very early A.L.S. "Philip Kearney", 2pp. 4to. with integral address leaf, New York, November, 1830 in which the apparently lovestruck 15-year-old Kearney writes a young lady, Louisa. In part: "…I felt quite reproved on receiving your very pretty letter…for I had no fixed residence until I removed [here]…I then wrote you a letter which I kept by me for some time expecting daily to get an opportunity to send it to you, but I am determined to wait no longer…I miss you & him very much to play with…you asked me in your letter how I was pleased with College, I must answer you that it is pleasant beyond description. The President is a good old man, & the Professors are all very kind…I intend, if possible, to rise in my class…". Very light toning in places, otherwise very good.