Treaty of Peace Signed and Arrived… Great and Happy News for the Public… Portland, Feb. 14 2 oclock in the morning.
Broadside.
Argus-Office, ( 1815), Portland Maine
Folio sheet. 16 x 10 inches.
Price: $2250
A broadside announcing the signing of the treaty of peace that ended the War of 1812. The text of the broadside begins with a statement by the publishers of the Eastern Argus newspaper office in Portland explaining, At eleven oclock last evening, an express arrived in this town, in THIRTEEN HOURS from Boston, with the following letter and HANDBILL to capt. William Webb, &c. containing the joyful tidings of PEACE. By the favor of an esteemed friend, we are enabled thus early to lay them before the Public. This opening is followed by a letter from Thomas Motley in Boston forwarding the hand bill from the Boston Centinel quoting New York publisher Jonathan Goodhues 11 February announcement of the arrival of H.M.S. Favorite in New York with American commissioner Carroll aboard with a signed treaty in hand. A rare Maine broadside; OCLC locates only the Indiana University copy, American Imprints locating only the Massachusetts Historical Society copy. Tanned, with ink smudge along right border, a few pinholes at folds, and tears along both edges of central fold.