Bremen [ME], Date: 1829. Very good, folded, minor punctures and soiling along margins, remnants to verso, contents clean.. 1 sheet. 7.5 x 8.5 inches. Dated and signed August 12th, 1829. by [Commodore] Samuel Tucker who writes to Samuel Thatcher, following a visit from Thatcher's sons, George and Benjamin, who had expressed interest in writing a biography on Tucker's life. Tucker tells Thatcher, "I must say I am heartily sorry, I gave them any encouragement but the moment must be alleged to my imbecility, as I had heretofore declared ever having any such manuscript, go to the press, for such a thing if ever it was to be done, Doctor Moses Shaw has a great claim on me for it..." Tucker had, at some point, submitted a series of papers to Doctor Shaw, of Wiscasset, Maine,; however they had been destroyed in a fire before anything was published. Fortunately, Tucker's grandson, Colonel Samuel Tucker Hinds was in possession of copies of Tucker's logs, journals, and letters, and left them to Harvard Library. Harvard released them to John Hannibal Sheppard, who, published "The Life of Samuel Tucker: Commodore in the American Revolution" in 1868. Samuel Tucker (1747-1833), naval officer and merchant mariner from Marblehead, "who never learned the social graces...first went to sea in the summer of 1760 at the age of twelve, during the Seven Years' War."... In 1776 George Washington appointed Tucker captain and commander of the Franklin ...an armed schooner commissioned in the Contin ...