GREAT, Signed 1899 ELIAS BREVOORT Santa Fe, New Mexico Real Estate LANDS Letter

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For bid is an important May 5, 1899 New Mexico Territory ALS letter written by Elias Brevoort (1822-1904) on his letterhead, mailed to Mr. Richard Bradley, who was head of the Pioneer Bank of Porterville, California (Tulare County), mailed from his offices in Santa Fe, NM.  This is a long, handwritten message about buying New Mexico lands and he mentions how lands are often purchased with "scrip."  Mr. Brevoort was responding to Mr. Bradley's April 27, 1899 letter with answers about land sales in the territory around Santa Fe.  Large acreage and sales needed to be sent to Washington, DC for approval, etc.  A long, handwritten letter on his letterhead (information stamped in purple on the upper left corner of blank, bond paper.  Signed "Yours respectfully Elias Brevoort" in lower right area of letter.  Brevoort was an author and a longtime, important pioneer citizen of the New Mexico Territory.  As early as 1874, Brevoort had written an important book, "New Mexico: Her Natural Resources and Attractions."  He was a citizen of the New Mexico Territory as far back as the Civil War when it appears he was a Southern / Confederate sympathizer...  Be that as it may, he seemed like a very interesting guy and an important figure in Santa Fe by the time he was much older in 1899.