Sold for $24!

P-I News Services, as it appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 22 September 1999

A 1626 letter containing what is believed to be the only surviving mention of the Dutch purchase of Manhattan — for $24 — went on exhibit at the New York Historical Society yesterday.



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