(WAR OF 1812) Pair of civilian letters with interesting war

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(WAR OF 1812.) Pair of civilian letters with interesting war content. Each 2 or 3 pages, about 10 x 8 inches, on a single folding sheet, with address panel and postal markings on final blank; much of the final blank of the 1814 letter restored. Vp, 1812 and 1814

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Thomas Mendenhall. Letter to Henry Hall of Hartford, CT. "The Tories here chuckle much at the treasonable and infamous surrender of Hull's army. The pleasure it produced was very discernable in the smiling faces and significant grins of the Tontine patriots . . . whether the disaster has originated in the camp or the cabinet, I trust it will meet its reward." He also comments on the recent victory of the USS Constitution: "The news of this morning has raised the drooping spirits of the Sons of Freedom. The haughty gasconading Capt. of the Guerrier [Guerriere] with his crew are prisoners of war, and his ship safely lodged in the bottom of the ocean." New York, 2 September 1812
Matthew Clark, letter to customs collector Henry A. Dearborn of Bath, ME, on the escape of Commodore Joshua Barney's blockaded Chesapeake flotilla: "Much anxiety had arisen for the fate of the flotilla, as the enemy's force was considered by friends as sufficient to capture or destroy it, but it appears they were repulsed after a pretty severe contest, in which Com. Barney acknowledges the loss of eleven persons." Custom House, Boston, 2 July 1814.