Thisextremelyinteresting sex scandal letter from 1854 was written to George Thomas, formerly of Portland, Maine by his friend Dan, in Portland. The letter is addressed to \"George Thomas Esq. Columbia California.\" Columbia is a town located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, in Tuolumne County and was founded as a boom-town in 1850 when gold was discovered in the vicinity during the California Gold Rush. Apparently the gold rush in that area is over and George is ready to come home. His friend Dan is telling George how pleased he is that he is coming home and writes him a three-page letter filling him in on all the \"dirt\" that had been going on in his home town of Portland, Maine. This news in this letter is so salacious and scandalous that he tells George to \"burn\" the letter.
The letter is dated \"Portland Oct 3rd 1854\". The letter begins with Dan telling George that many people in town have been asking about him and are looking forward to seeing him. Dan goes on to tell George how busy Portland is, how well business is and whats new in town. In the letter Dan refers to George as \"Duke\". On the second page Dan starts to get into some of the recent scandals including a scandal a local architect had with some prostitutes. He writes:
\"Scandal my dear Duke is again busy with the fair fame of our best & most moral men. Mr. Alexander an architect a border at the Jones was visited one evening by a girl named Bessie, pretty but loose in company with another damsel supposed to be frail. The Bessie girl politely requested $3.00 fair sum being do on a past account from said Alexander to said Bessie - Alexander refused payment and ordered girls out of his office - girls refused to go - Alexander took up stick and attempted to drive out girls - girls resisted bravely - Row kicked up and a crowd of influential citizens immediately gathered around the scene of conflict - Bessie girl addressed the crowd who gazeadmiringly on the excited beauty - \"Gentlemen here is a pretty fellow, last night he took me up here in his office and put cushions on the floor and slept with me then half the night - he agreed to give me $5.00 but only paid me two & said he would pay the balance tonight - now he won\'t do it - I call him a rascal and a cheat\" - Exit the crowd\"
The letter goes on to discuss the local daguerreotype photographer, apparently some local boys got quite a sight as they were looking down through the skylight on the roof into the photographer\'s studio. Dan goes on to write:
\"Our friend Carletin Alderman of Ward one has it is said discovered a new mode of taking daguerreotypes - The modus operandi is said to be very pleasant, and one operated in is not obliged to sit still but on the contrary the more wriggling about there is the more pleasant it is for both parties. The operator lays the young woman (it is only practiced on young girls or women) on the floor, opens her legs wide, or she opens them herself as the case may be, unbuttons the place where he keeps his instrument and then adjusting it properly immediately inserts it into a hole below her abdomen. After a brisk wiggling,squirming and rising up and downfor a longer or shorter time according to the state of both parties, the business is done - What is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the operator pays instead of being paid. It is reported and believed that some of theadventurousboys looked though Carletin\'s skylight and discovered his scent. The boys say he put it to her twice and that he has two dodgers because the one he did it with first was much larger than the instrument used the 2d time. It is thought by judges experienced men that the boys being _ _ _ _ are not acquainted with business and that C\'sinstrument is one of the patent self-erecting, self inflatinginstruments with a small mute attachment. - The girls name is not known - Moral - Daguerreotypists & all others having offices should let the girls alone when they have skylights in their rooms without curtains.\"
At the end of the letter Dan writes:
\"Burn this. This scandal won\'t do to keep on paper.\"
The three page 160 year-old letter is written on blue paper that measures approx. 8 x 10 inches. Very good condition! !
Scandalous letters of this type from the mid-19th century are extremely rare and this has to be one of the funniest and most outrageous letters I have ever read! As with all all of my items I am starting this letter at $9.99 with !