PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD Author of "Home, Sweet Home." Three autograph letters signed ("John Howard Payne") to W.L. Marcy, Secretary of War in New York, 24 September 1847-23 August 1848. Together 8 pages, 4to and 8vo, one with integral address leaf . The author, recalled from his post as U.S. Consul at Tunis, appeals to Marcy for a new post. 24 September 1847: "Next to knowing whether there is a disposition to grant me anything, it is rather essential to find out whether there is anything to be granted...." He fears being "thrown back upon literary labour, which is now a more beggarly resource in our country than ever." 9 December 1847: Payne proposes a position as a government agent: "So far as the Coast of Barbary is concerned, I think I could execute such a commission...even to Constantinople," then expresses displeasure at having been recalled: "the impressions concerning the causes of my removal did no service to the reputation of our country in Tunis and Malta." In the last letter Payne, still begging for a job, enquires about a vacancy that has opened in Tripoli, in light of "the extreme difficulty of my position." (3)
PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD Author of "Home, Sweet Home." Three autograph letters signed ("John Howard Payne") to W.L. Marcy, Secretary of War in New York, 24 September 1847-23 August 1848. Together 8 pages, 4to and 8vo, one with integral address leaf . The author, recalled from his post as U.S. Consul at Tunis, appeals to Marcy for a new post. 24 September 1847: "Next to knowing whether there is a disposition to grant me anything, it is rather essential to find out whether there is anything to be granted...." He fears being "thrown back upon literary labour, which is now a more beggarly resource in our country than ever." 9 December 1847: Payne proposes a position as a government agent: "So far as the Coast of Barbary is concerned, I think I could execute such a commission...even to Constantinople," then expresses displeasure at having been recalled: "the impressions concerning the causes of my removal did no service to the reputation of our country in Tunis and Malta." In the last letter Payne, still begging for a job, enquires about a vacancy that has opened in Tripoli, in light of "the extreme difficulty of my position." (3)
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