Robinson, Joseph C. to "Editor" re: Texas-Mexico War, imprisonment as POW
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00120 Author/Creator: Robinson, Joseph C. Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 01 June 1846 Pagination: 16 p. 30 x 20 cm Order a Copy
Robinson's retained copy of a letter written to the editor of the Newspaper "Intelligencer." Does not appear to have been published. With irrelevant docketing on the outter leaf concerning (Robinson's?) sister, initialed J.C.R. Some sentences and words have been struck in pencil. Pages 6, 8 and 13 have new salutations to the editor (intended as series of letters for publication?). Mentions Dawson's defeat, in which he was captured, attempts to escape, quotation concerning the Sierra Madre (1 p.), seeing Aztec ruins, Mexico in a state of revolution, imprisonment in the castle of Perote (near Mexico City) and his release on March 24, 1844.
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