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Letter from a Destitute Swell

Kiddes, Lubin Lavendaw. "Letter from a Destitute Swell." Vanity Fair. 05 Apr. 1862: Ill. Del, Howard. 165.
Type: 
magazine
Genre: 
illustration, commentary
Abstract: 

A letter and image of the author who with his lovely affectation explains how a want has arisen for marriageable men due to the war. He is prepared to meet that demand, though not without extracting a few dollars in the process.