[1892 Autograph Letter Signed by School Founder John Downey, i.e., Brother Sabinian, writing from St. Mary’s College in Oakland, California].

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Letter from the founder of the Catholic institution St. Mary’s College, Brother Sabinian [i.e., John Downey], i.e., an Irishman of birth who died in 1909. The letter is written to an Anne R. Meade regarding her father, a man named Riley, a cattle rancher who kept a ranch near the school in Oakland, California. Sabinian writes entirely of Meade’s father and notes that he was a “special friend of the Christian Brothers.”

Price: $75.00