The Donald Carmichael Presidential Collection

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The Donald Carmichael Presidential Collection
JOHN ADAMS Privateer’s Commission for the Ship Camilla,WHICH RESCUED A
PORTUGUESE VESSEL FROM TWO FRENCH WARSHIPS DURING THE QUASI-WAR
1) JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826) 2nd President of the United States. Partially Printed Document Signed, “John Adams.” One page,
12” x 15 1/2”. Philadelphia. September 3, 1798. Countersigned as Secretary of State by TIMOTHY PICKERING. Paper wafer seal
of state intact and bright. Adams commissions “the private armed ship called the Camilla of the burthen of One hundred sixty three
tons, or thereabouts, owned by Eben Parsons & Graham Parsons of Boston State of Massachusetts Merchants mounting eight carriage guns, and navigated by Thirty men; hereby licensing
and authorizing Thomas Seward Jun. captain, and Walden
Kenison 1st & Martin Hanson 2nd Lieutenants … “The
commission authorizes the seizure of “French vessels
which shall be found within the jurisdictional limits of
the United States, or elsewhere on the high seas; and such
captured vessel with her apparel, guns and appurtenances,
and the goods of effects which shall be found on board
the same, together with all French persons and others,
who shall be found acting on board, to bring within some
port of the United States, which may have been captured
by any French armed vessel; in order that proceedings
may be had concerning such capture or re-capture in due
form of law, and as to right and justice shall appertain.”
Framed with an image of Adams and a brief historical
overview of a battle between the Camilla and two French
warships. The printed document reads, in part:
“ … In the Massachusetts Mercury, Boston, December 28, 1798 it was reported: A letter has been received
from Capt. Seward, of the armed ship Camillus of this
port, (Boston) belonging to Mr. Eben Parsons, informing that on his outward passage he was attacked
by two French privateers, which after an action he beat off and rescued from them a Portuguese vessel, which they had taken.
His men stood to their guns with perfect resolution, and exercised them in the most active manner. This is another proof of
the expediency of arming. Several Benefits result from the issue of this engagement, which all honest Americans must exult
in. A Valuable ship, cargo and a number of brave fellows are presented to their Country- and Piracy disappointed of its prey.”
Built in 1794 in Amesbury, MA, and commissioned as a private armed vessel in 1798, the Camilla and her crew distinguished themselves during America’s Quasi-War with France. While sailing off Lisbon Rock in 1799, the Camilla was attacked by two French privateer vessels who were assaulting a Portuguese prize brig. The outgunned Americans successfully drove the two French vessels off and returned the distressed Portuguese ship to its master. Subsequently, in the
summer of 1799, the Camilla was able to recapture the American schooner Little John from the French off the River Elbe.
A perfect display piece concerning the first international conflict of the fledgling American nation, the Quasi-War with France.
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JEFFERSON SIGNED APPOINTMENT FOR JACOB KINGSBURY,
ONE OF THE PRINCIPal BUILDERS OF THE FIRST MILITARY
INSTALLATION IN THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY
“George Washington. First
President of the United
States” hand-colored
Currier lithograph
2) “George Washington. First President of
the United States” hand-colored lithograph.
New York. N. Currier 2 Spruce St. Cor.
Nassau N.Y. Framed to an overall size of
18” x 22 1/2”. Very Fine.
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4) THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) 3rd President of the United States,
principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the most influential of the Founding Fathers. Partially Printed Document Signed, “Th.
Jefferson,” as President. One page, 14 1/2” x 17 3/4”. Washington City. February 23, 1808. Framed with a silhouette portrait of Jefferson and a ¾ bust
pose image of Jefferson. Framed to 28” x 23 1/2” overall. Jefferson appoints
Jacob Kingsbury a Colonel in the army.
“Washington’s Reception
by the Ladies, on Passing
the Bridge at Trenton, NJ”
hand-colored
Currier PRINT
3) “Washington’s Reception by the Ladies,
on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N.J., April,
1789. On His Way to be Inaugurated First
President of the United States” New York.
N. Currier, 2 Spruce Street. Hand-colored.
1845. Framed to and overall size of 12 1/2”
x 16 1/2”. Some toning. Else Fine. $500 - up
JACOB KINGSBURY (1756-1837) U.S. soldier. In 1775, Jacob Kingsbury enlisted
as a private in the Continental Army, where he served in General Anthony Wayne’s
Indian Campaigns, achieving the rank of lieutenant of infantry in 1789. Subsequently, Lieutenant Colonel Kingsbury was given command of Fort Wilkinson, Georgia,
and went on to serve as one of the principal builders of the fort at Bellefontaine,
the first U.S. military installation in the Louisiana Territory. The fort served as headquarters of the Department of Louisiana and was also the regional Army headquarters during the War of 1812. Kingsbury eventually reached the rank of colonel inspector-general before retiring to his home in Franklin, Connecticut, in 1815.
Paper wafer seal intact at upper left. Fine vignette of military weapons and
flags at bottom edge and vignette of eagle at upper edge. A truly unique association of the architect of the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson,
and a central figure in that region’s first military installation. $6,000 - up
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Act of the Second Congress Signed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State
5) THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) 3rd President of the United States. Printed Document Signed, “Thomas Jefferson,” as Secretary of State. One page, 9 1/4” x 15”. Philadelphia. April, 12, 1792. The document reads:
“SECOND CONGRESS of THE UNITED STATES,
At the First Session, begun and held at the City of
Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. An
Act supplementary to the act for the establishment
and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public
piers. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, Expenses of beacons, &c. to
be borne till July 1793. That all expenses which shall
accrue from the first day of July next, inclusively, for
the necessary support, maintenance, and repairs of all
lighthouses, beacons, buoys, the stakeage of channels,
on the sea-coast, and public piers, shall continue to be
defrayed by the United States, until the first day of July,
in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninetythree, notwithstanding such lighthouses, beacons, or
public piers, with the lands and tenements thereunto
belonging, and the jurisdiction of the same, shall not
in the mean time be ceded to, or vested in the United States, by the state or states respectively, in which
the same may be, and that the said time be further allowed, to the states respectively to make such cession. Sec. 2. And be
it further enacted, Floating beacons to be placed at Charleston harbor and Chesapeake bay. That the secretary of the treasury be authorized to cause to be provided, erected, and placed, a floating beacon, and as many buoys, as may be necessary for the security of navigation, at and near the entrance of the harbor of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina.
And also to have affixed three floating beacons in the bay of Chesapeake; one at the north end of Willoughby’s Spit, another at the tail of the Horse Shoe; and the third on the shoalest place of the middle ground. Approved, April 12, 1792.”
Mounted to the right of an attractive 6 1/4” x 10” portrait engraving of Jefferson. Framed to an overall size of 28 3/4” x 26 1/2”.
The three beacons mentioned above were constructed around the same time that the first lighthouse, located on Cape Henry, was commissioned by the U.S. Government. It is interesting to note that these three beacons, all of which were located
in the lower portion of the Chesapeake Bay, largely failed to ensure the safety of vessels. Bandits very quickly recognized
an opportunity, and began to relocate these beacons in order to profit off the ensuing shipwrecks. Very Fine. $6,000 - up
Four Thomas
Jefferson Prints
6) THOMAS JEFFERSON
(1743-1826) 3rd President of the
United States. Set of Four framed
Jefferson Images. All of the images are full color, with each image
depicting Jefferson at a different
stage of his life. Each framed separately to an overall size of 9 5/8”
x 11 1/4.”
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James Madison Signed Ship’s Pass FOR JOHN JACOB ASTOR’S
“ENTERPRISE” WHICH CONDUCTED BUSINESS WITH THE
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN FUR TRADE IN ALASKA
“Thomas Jefferson, Third
States.” hand-colored print
by Currier
7) “Thomas Jefferson, Third President of
the United States” New York. N. Currier, 2
Spruce St., NY. 11 ¾” x 9 ¼”. Framed to an
overall size of 12 1/4” x 16 1/2” $500 - up
9) JAMES MADISON (1751-1836) 4th President of the United States. Printed
Document Signed, “James Madison.” COUNTERSIGNED, “R. Smith,” by Secretary of State ROBERT SMITH (1757-1842). One page, 10 1/2” x 15”. Washington. November 15, 1809. Vignettes of a schooner and lighthouse at top. Scalloped top edge. Some soiling and wrinkling. Paper wafer seal fully intact and bright.
“By the President of the United States of American SUFFER the Ship Enterprise of New York John Ebbets master or commander of the burthen of
two hundred ninety one 3/95 tons or thereabouts mounted with fourteen
guns navigated with twenty eight men TO PASS with her Company Passengers Goods and Merchandise without any hindrance seizure or molestation...”
Limited edition Jefferson
Print Based on an 1804 engraving accomplished by
Fevret de Saint-Memin
8) THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826)
3rd President of the United States. Small
oval print of Jefferson struck from an 1804
engraving accomplished by Fevret de SaintMemin. Originally accomplished from life,
this particular edition of the Saint-Memin
Jefferson engraving was struck in a limited
edition of 2500 by the Everett Waddey
Company of Richmond, Va., for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. Image
measure 2 5/8” x 3.” Framed to 9 ½” x 10
¾” overall.
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Banking on a yet unsigned contract with the Russian government, John Jacob Astor
purchased the Enterprise in September 1809, and hired John Ebbets, a Bostonian and
veteran sea-otter trader, to captain her in order to capitalize on the highly lucrative
Russian-American fur trade. Meeting with Russian Consul-General, Andrew Daschkov, the first accredited Russian diplomatic appointment to America, Astor struck a
deal that made him the sole legal supplier of goods to the Russian-American colonies
in Alaska. In possession of a legal American ship’s pass, Astor’s Enterprise set sail from
New York. While ostensibly trading with Canada, the Enterprise made way to RussianAmerica without either the consent or knowledge of the American government. In
trade for much needed supplies, the Russian colonists, with the consent of the colonial governor and Consul-General Daschkov, traded for highly valuable furs. Unloading the highly valuable furs in Canton, China, once again without the knowledge or
consent of the U.S. government, the ship then returned to Russian-America where
it acquired additional pelts. This route proved exceptionally lucrative for Astor, who
dispatched a second ship, aptly named the Beaver, to Canton to meet with the nterprise.
There, the Beaver was loaded with Asian goods traded for the Enterprise’s cargo of furs
before she returned to New York. This complex scheme remained in effect, with the
Enterprise returning to U.S. ports at intervals, until 1813, at which time Astor’s prized
Enterprise, flying under a Russian flag with the agreement of Dashkov in order to pass
English blockades, was unloaded and held by the Royal Navy after she departed New
York. $1,500 - up
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PrEsidential Pardon Signed by James Monroe and John Q. Adams as Secretary of State
10) JAMES MONROE (1758-1831) 5th President of the United States. Manuscript Document Signed, “James Monroe,” as President. One page, 10” x 16 ½”. Washington. January 8, 1818. COUNTERSIGNED by Secretary of State JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Framed with a printed image of Monroe at his desk and a small slip
noting Monroe’s tenure as President to 31 ½” x 26 ¾”. Paper wafer
seal intact. Some separation at folds. The document reads, in part:
“… Whereas, at a Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, begun and held in and for the county of Washington, in said District, in June one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, a certain
Nathan Dark was convicted of the crime of theft, and incurred
thereby fine and imprisonment; and it has been reported to me
that the said Nathan Dark is wholly unable to pay the said fine,
and that his case is at present entitled to favorable consideration:
Now, therefore, I, James Monroe, President of the United States,
moved as well by the premises as by divers other good causes, have
pardoned, and do hereby pardon, the said Nathan Dark … fully
and entirely exonerating and discharging him from the payment of
the same, or any part thereof … James Monroe.” $3,000 - up
John QUINCY Adams Signed Ships Pass FOR THE SERAPH, PART OF THE
SOUTH SEA FUR COMPANY AND EXPLORING EXPEDITION
11) JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1767-1848) 6th President of the United States. Partially Printed Ships Pass Signed, “John Quincy Adams.” One
page, 11” x 15”. Scalloped top edge with vignettes of a lighthouse and ocean-going vessel. Framed with a silhouette print of Adams to 18 3/4” x
42”. Washington. August 31, 1827. Countersigned by HENRY CLAY as Secretary of State. Paper wafer seal intact. The document reads, in part:
“ .. Suffer the Brig Seraph of Stonington B. Pendleton master or commander of the burthen of One Hundred Twenty four 26/95
tons … To Pass with her Company of Passengers Goods and Merchandise without any hindrance seizure or molestation … Given
under my Hand and the Seal of the United States of America … John Quincy Adams By the President H. Clay Secretary of State.”
A precursor to the Wilkes’ Expedition, The South Sea Fur Company and Exploring Expedition of 1829-31 was both a commercial enterprise and a scientific voyage to learn more about Antarctica. While neither of these goals was fully realized, the expedition marked an important, early step in the exploration of the region. Originally The South Sea Fur Company and Exploring Expedition was proposed as a U.S. government-funded voyage (it would
have been the first federally sponsored scientific expedition in American history) with the intention of testing the hollow-earth theories of John Cleves
Symmes. After the election of Andrew Jackson, public funding for the voyage quickly dried up, and the expedition shrank in both scale and focus.
Relying exclusively on funds from commercial interests in Stonington, Connecticut, the voyage’s scientific goals were now a secondary concern: seal
hides and oil were now its primary concern. The three vessel expedition, consisting of the Annawan, Penquin, and the Seraph, the latter still under the command of Benjamin Pendleton, set sail in October of 1829. Despite its largely commercial goals, scientific aims were not wholly abandoned: the expedition brought with it Dr. James Eights, a trained naturalist. As the New York Enquirer noted prior to the expedition’s departure: “stores of science will be increased by the products of far-distant islands, as yet unknown to civilized man, and curiosity may, perchance, be gratified by something new.”
Despite early commercial success, bad weather assailed the expedition. Storm followed storm, and the ships and their crews were heavily battered. The vessels’ captains chose to head north and to Chile, where they hoped to recruit more sailors and replenish their dwindling supplies. The crew, healthy again after a time in Chile,
rebelled against launching again. With their numbers low due to desertion, the expedition was forced to abandon its goal and return to its home port of Stonington.
Despite this failure, Dr. Eights still managed to make ground-breaking observations during the truncated voyage, including the discovery and cataloging of three new invertebrate species of crustacea and the description of the first plant fossils. While his work was little known to his contemporaries, it is now viewed as the first successful scientific examination of Antarctica.
Upon their return from the voyage, Captain Pendleton succinctly noted the conflicting goals of
the expedition, profit and scientific discovery:
“an exploring expedition, under private means, never can produce any great or important national benefits, the same must be under the authority from the government, and the officers and men under regular pay and discipline, as in the navy.”
The ambition expressed in Pendleton’s statement was finally realized in August of 1838, when the U.S. Exploring Expedition, under the command of Lt. Charles
Wilkes, set out on a four year voyage in the southern seas and the Pacific Ocean. (PHOTO NEXT PAGE)
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Hand colored Early Currier Print - Memorial to
President William Henry
Harrison
General Andrew Jackson
hand-colored memorial
print by Currier
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“General Andrew Jackson: the
hero, the sage and the patriot” handcolored memorial lithograph. New York.
N. Currier, 152 Nassau Cor. Spruce St.
N.Y.” 1845. Framed to an overall size
of 17 ¾” x 22 ½”. Very Fine. $400 - up
Lot #11
13) WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
(1773-1841) 9th President of the United
States and the first U.S. Presidents to die in
office. Early Currier print: “Death of Harrison, April 4 A.D. 1841.” 11 1/8” x 15”
framed to 18 1/2” x 14 1/2” overall. New
York: N. Currier, 1841. An early Currier
print, showing the death of Harrison and
recording his last words, at lower edge: “I
wish you to understand the true principles
of the Government. I wish them carried
out. I ask nothing more.” Some very light
toning. Overall Very Fine.
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Andrew Jackson Signed RECOGNITION OF THE
VICE CONSUL OF URUGUAY
14) ANDREW JACKSON (1767-1845) 7th President of the United States. Partially Printed Document Signed, “Andrew Jackson,” as
President. One page, 14 ½” x 12 ½.” Washington. December 23,
1836. COUNTERSIGNED by Secretary of State JOHN FORSYTH.
Framed with a black and white image of Thomas Sully’s painting of
Jackson, a full body profile silhouette of Jackson, and a slip noting his
tenure as President to 38” x 33” overall. The document reads, in part:
“ … Satisfactory evidence having been exhibited to me that Carlos
Dudley Head had been appointed Vice Consul of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay for the Port of New Orleans, I do hereby recognize him as such, and declare him free to exercise and enjoy such
functions, powers and privileges as are allowed to the Vice Consul of
the most favored Nations of the United States … Andrew Jackson.”
Paper wafer seal intact and crisp. Usual folds.
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Van Buren Signed Appointment FOR DAVID H. VINTON an artillerYman
15) MARTIN VAN BUREN (1782-1862) 8th President of the
United States. Van Buren is only one of two people to serve as
Secretary of State, Vice President, and President (the other being Thomas Jefferson). Partially Printed Document Signed, “M
Van Buren,” as President. One page, 13 ½” x 14 ¼”. Washington. July 10, 1838. COUNTERSIGNED by Secretary of War
JOEL R. POINSETT. Vignette of an eagle at upper center and
vignette of military armaments and flags at lower edge. Framed
with an image of Van Buren and a slip noting his tenure as
President to an overall size of 35” x 27”. Van Buren appoints
David H. Vinton an Assistant Quartermaster with the rank of
Captain in the service of the United States …
DAVID H. VINTON (1803-1873) Career U.S. Army officer. Vinton graduated from West Point in 1822, receiving a brevet second lieutenancy in the Fourth Artillery. He served at a number of garrisons, including Fortress Monroe, before being appointed Quartermaster during the Creek
and Florida War. Serving as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Department of Texas at the start of the Civil War, Vinton was captured by Rebel forces under General Twiggs and was sent to New York on parole. Following his exchange, Vinton served as
Chief Quartermaster of New York City. For his meritorious service to the Union, he was brevetted Brigadier-General in 1865.
This particular promotion saw Vinton transferred from Florida to the northern frontier of New-York during the Canadian border disturbances, where he served as Captain of Staff. Wax seal intact. Usual folds.
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PRESIDENT TYLER AUTHORIZES THE AFFIXING OF THE SEAL FOR THE
APPOINTMENT OF FUTURE CONFEDERATE GENERAL HENRY A. WISE
16) JOHN TYLER (1790-1862) 10th President of the United States. Partially Printed Document boldly Signed, “John Tyler,” as President. One page, 8” x 10”. Mounted with an image of Tyler
and a slip noting his tenure as President to 25” x 20 ¼” overall. Washington. May 23, 1844. The document reads, in part:
“I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to
affix the Seal of the United States to a full power for
Henry A. Wise accredited as E.E. and M. P. to the Emperor of Brazil. Dated this day, and signed by me and
for so doing this shall be his warrant. John Tyler …”
HENRY A. WISE (1806-1876) American statesman from
Virginia and a general in the Confederate Army during the
American Civil War. After playing an active part in securing
the election of John Tyler to the vice-presidency in 1840, Wise
received an appointment to the post of U.S. minister to Brazil. Following his return to the United States, Wise went on
to serve as Governor of Virginia from 1856 to 1860, during
which time he signed the death warrant of John Brown. Wise
also served as a member of the Virginia secession convention
of 1861, speaking in opposition of immediate secession. Still, Wise joined the Confederate army with a commission of brigadier general upon the withdrawal of the commonwealth from the Union. During his military service, Wise saw action during the Seven Days
Battle and during the First and Second Battles of Petersburg. Wise also served alongside Lee at Appomattox, where he urged surrender.
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POLK CERTIFICATE OF MERIT FOR A SOLDIER SERVING UNDER
WILLIAM SELBY HARNEY DURING THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR
17) JAMES K. POLK (1795-1849) 11th President of the United States. Partially
Printed Document Signed, “James K. Polk,” as President. One page, 16” x 10”. Framed
below on image of Polk and a small slip noting Polk’s tenure as President to 24 ½”
x 38”. City of Washington. November 25, 1848. COUNTERSIGNED by Secretary
of State WILLIAM L. MARCY (1786-1857) U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary
of State. Fine vignette of a spread eagle at upper center. The document reads, in part:
“…Certificate of Merit. Know all whom it may concern, that private John D. Herring, of Company B of the 2nd Regiment of Dragoons, having distinguished himself in the service of the United States on the eighteenth day of April, 1847, in
the Battle of Cerro Gordo, on the recommendation of Colonel W.S. Harney,
the Commanding Officer … I do hereby award to the said Private John D. Herring, this Certificate of Merit … James K. Polk President of the United States…”
WILLIAM SELBY HARNEY (1800-1889) U.S. cavalry officer. Harney is best known for
the 1839 “Harney Massacre.” In mid July 1839, Harney and thirty soldiers were attacked in
the night by 250 Seminole warriors while encamped at a trading post on the Caloosahtachee
River. Harney and four other men were able to escape slaughter, and news of the event
quickly re-ignited the conflict between U.S. forces and the Seminoles in Florida. In response,
General Taylor began a forceful assault on the Native American population, decimating the Seminoles in Florida within three short years.
Harney went on to serve with distinction during the Mexican-American war as commander of the 2nd Dragoons (now the 2nd
Armored Cavalry Regiment). The regiment, the oldest cavalry regiment in the U.S. Army, has more than 150 years of continued
service and served in every major conflict of the Mexican-American War. During the conflict with Mexico, Harney and his regiment were recognized for their meritorious service during the Battle of Cerro Gordo. The regiment played a key role in driving
Santa Anna and his larger forces from a strategically important defensive position at this battle, often referred to as “the Thermopylae of the West,” and Harney was promoted to the rank of brevet brigadier general for his actions.
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Postmaster Appointment Signed by Millard Fillmore
18) MILLARD FILLMORE (1800-1874) 13th President of the United States.
Partially Printed Document Signed, “Millard Fillmore,” as President. One page,
15 ½” x 10”. Washington. March 6, 1851. COUNTERSIGNED by Secretary
of State DANIEL WEBSTER. Framed with a print of Fillmore and a slip noting his tenure as President to 23 ½” x 39 ½.” The document reads, in part:
“… Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the Integrity, Ability, and
Punctuality of John C. LaNone, I HAVE NOMINATED, and, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, DO APPOINT him Deputy Postmaster at Baton Rouge,
in the State of Louisiana, and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfill the
duties of that Office according to law … for the term of four years, from the day of the
date hereof … Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the sixth day of March,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one … Millard Fillmore.”
Paper wafer seal intact and crisp. Some light spotting. Usual folds with some minor
splitting at center fold. $1,000 - up
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ZACHARY TAYLOR signs a Warrant To Affix The
Seal To A pardon framed with a very
scarce inaugural ball invitation
19) ZACHARY TAYLOR (1784-1850) 12th President of the United States. Partially
Printed Document Signed, “Z. Taylor.” One page, 9 ½” x 6”. Washington. May 1, 1850.
The document reads: “I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the
Seal of the United States to the pardon granted to William C. Gumman, dated this day,
and signed by me and for so doing this shall be his warrant Z. Taylor.”
Framed along with a printed invitation to Zachary Taylor’s Inaugural Ball. One page, 5 ¾”
x 9”. The following prominent individuals are listed among the managers at Taylor’s Inaugural Ball: Abraham Lincoln, Colonel R.E. Lee, Major General Winfield Scott, and Colonel
Joseph E. Johnston. Vignette of Taylor in military uniform with his horse at upper center.
Both items mounted along with an image of Taylor in military dress with his printed
signature at lower margin, a slip noting his presidential tenure, and a slip noting some
prominent individuals who served as managers at Taylor’s Inaugural Ball. Framed to an
overall size of 30 ¾” x 25 ¼”. Some light soiling at edges of Inaugural Ball invitation
and some wear to right edge of Taylor’s pardon. Else Fine.
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Franklin Pierce Engraving
20) FRANKLIN PIERCE (1804-1869)
14th President of the United States. Engraving of Franklin Pierce standing by his
desk with his printed signature in lower
margin. Framed along with a slip noting
his tenure as President and a plaque that
reads: “A New Hampshireman”. Overall size 18 1/2” x 22 1/4”.
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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED
STATES CHROMOLITHOGRAPH
21) [ABRAHAM LINCOLN] [FRANCIS
BOUCLET] “PRESIDENTS OF THE
UNITED STATES.” Chromolithograph.
1861 A. Feusier, artist and lithographer.
A striking presentation of America’s first
sixteen Presidents, each shown in an oval
bust portrait around an ornate oval framework. Washington’s portrait at the top and a
beardless Lincoln (based upon his “Cooper
Union” photograph) at the bottom. The
central oval shows Columbia holding a liberty cap on a pole and a stars-and-stripes
shield; a bald eagle grasping arrows is at her
side. In addition, a steamship and the U.S.
Capitol dome can be seen in the background.
Framed to an overall size of 30” x 36”.
This print was made to honor Lincoln ’s first
Inauguration but, due to his newly grown
beard, the print proved difficult to sell. Vibrant colors throughout. Fine. $1,500 - up
PIERCE SHIP’S PAPERS FOR THE WHALING VESSEL YOUNG PHENIX
22) FRANKLIN PIERCE (1804-1869) 14th President of
the United States. Partially Printed Four Language Ships
Pass Signed, “Franklin Pierce.” One page 20” x 15 1/2”.
Framed to an overall size of 25 1/2” x 21 1/2”. Washington. July 20, 1857. Countersigned by WILLIAM L. MARCY as Secretary of State. The document reads, in part:
“FRANKLIN PIERCE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To all who shall see these
presents, GREETING BE IT KNOWN, That leave and
permission is hereby given to William Schockley master or
commander of the Ship called Young Phenix of the burden
of 376 65/95 tons, or thereabouts, lying at present in the
port of New Bedford bound for Pacific Ocean, and laden
with provisions, stores, and utensils for a whaling voyage ...”
The Young Phenix was a 377 ton ship owned by
William Phillips & Son, New Bedford, which
spent the entirety of her 1857 voyage in the southern Indian Ocean. The three year voyage proved rather successful, bringing back 1150 barrels of sperm oil, 2400 barrels of whale oil, and 18000 pounds of bone. The Young Phenix continued to enjoy success on her subsequent voyages, but ultimately met her fate in a major 1888 storm off Point Barrow. $2,000 - up
“The Lincoln Family” by
Currier & Ives
23) “The Lincoln Family.” New York.
Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street. 1867.
Toning. Overall Very Good. Framed to
an overall size of 16 1/2” x 12 1/2”.
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Lot #24
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James Buchanan Ship’s Pass for the Governor Troup, which escaped the Confederate
Raider Shenandoah during the Civil War
24) JAMES BUCHANAN (1791-1868) 15th President of the United States. Partially Printed Four Language Ships Papers Signed “James
Buchanan,” as President. One page, 22” x 16 3/4”. Framed with an image of Buchanan to 42” x 25 1/4”. Washington. June 27, 1859.
Countersigned by JOHN APPLETON, as Acting Secretary of State. Paper wafer seal intact and bright. “...leave and permission is hereby
given to Reuben Kelley master or commander of the Ship called Governor Troup of the burden of 429 76/95 tons, or thereabouts, lying
at present in the port of New Bedford bound for Pacific Ocean, and laden with provisions, stores, and utensils for a whaling voyage...”
The Governor Troup, a whaling vessel out of New Bedford, MA, was originally built in 1833 and traveled throughout the world, sailing
to the Indian Ocean, the North West Coast, the Pacific Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean. Under captain Reuben Kelley, the Governor
Troup set out on an ill-fated Pacific voyage in 1859. From accounts of sailors onboard, the ship pushed into largely unknown waters
during its voyage, jamming itself in ice and losing a number of men during the treacherous trip. Though the crew eventually met with
success in capturing whales, morale remained low throughout this voyage: Ultimately, the crew mutinied and deserted Kelley and the
ship at St. Catherine’s during the return voyage to New Bedford. Setting out for the Arctic under a new captain soon after returning
to New Bedford, the Governor Troup faced further difficulties while in the Bering Sea, narrowly escaping capture by the Confederate Raider Shenandoah, which sunk or bonded thirty-eight merchant ships, mostly New Bedford whalers, from 1864-65. In addition,
the Shenandoah is also notable for firing the final shot of the American Civil War while attempting to capture a U.S. whaler off the
Aleutian Island. (PHOTO PREVIOUS PAGE)
$2,000 - up
Lincoln Signed Draft Call
25) ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States. Partially Printed Document Signed, “Abraham Lincoln.”
Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. June 30, 1863. One page, 10” x 16 ½”. Framed alongside a Lincoln medallion and a print of
Lincoln based on Alexander Gardner’s February 5, 1865 photograph of Lincoln. Overall size of 35 1/2” x 32”. The document reads:
“I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States
of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and
Navy thereof, having taken into consideration the number
of volunteers and militia furnished by and from the several
states, including the State of Vermont, and the period of service of said volunteers and militia since the commencement
of the present rebellion, in order to equalize the numbers
among the Districts of the said States, and having considered and allowed for the number already furnished as aforesaid, and the time of their service aforesaid, do hereby assign
one thousand five hundred and five as the fixed proportional
part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the 1st DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF Vermont under this, the first
call made by me on the State of Vermont, under the act approved March 3, 1863, entitled ‘An Act for Enrolling and Calling out the National Forces, and for other purpose,’ and in
pursuance of the act aforesaid, I order that a draft be made
in the said 1st DISTRICT OF THE STATE of Vermont
for the number of men herein assigned to said District and
FIFTY PER CENT IN ADDITION. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this Thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States, the eighty seventh. Abraham Lincoln.”
The first effective draft by the federal government, signed into law by President Lincoln on March 3, 1863, called for all men
between the ages of 18 and 45 to be enrolled into local militia units and be available to be called into national service. The actual draft was managed by the states, which most often used a lottery system. Not long after being signed into law, draft riots
erupted in New York City and federal troops, including soldiers from Vermont, were called upon to restore order in that city.
$12,500 - up
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ANDREW JOHNSON SIGNED MILITARY PROMOTION
26) ANDREW JOHNSON (1808-1875) 17th President of the United States. Partially
Printed Document Signed, “Andrew Johnson,” as President. One page, 14” x 19”.
Framed with an image of Johnson and a slip noting his tenure as
President to 35” x 28”. COUNTERSIGNED by Secretary
of State EDWIN STANTON.
With vignette of an eagle to upper center and vignette of various military weapons and flags
at lower edge. Johnson appoints
“Elijah R. Craft...a First Lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of
Artillery in the service of the
United States: to rank as such
from the twenty-second day of
September eighteen hundred
and sixty-four …”
Elijah Craft served as a member of the 5th Regiment of Artillery (NY) throughout the Civil War. He would exit the army with the rank of Major, which
was granted him following meritorious service at Port Hudson, Louisiana.
Usual folds. Some light fading of upper vignette. It also bears mention that this document was signed less than two months after the tragic assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. $1,250 - up
Rutherford B. Hayes Signed
Executive Mansion Card
28) RUTHERFORD B. HAYES (18221893) 19th President of the United States.
His Signature: “R.B. Hayes,” on a 4 1/2”
x 2 5/8” Executive Mansion, Washington
card. Mounted to the left of a printed
image of Hayes standing by his desk bearing his printed signature in lower margin.
Framed to an overall size of 20” x 21”.
Very Fine.
$300 - up
PRESIDENT GRANT APPOINTS GEORGE ROBESON SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
27) ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885) 18th President of the United States. Partially Printed Document boldly signed, “U.S. Grant,”
as President. One page 22 1/2” x 18”. City of Washington. December 8, 1869. COUNTERSIGNED, “Hamilton Fish,” by Secretary of State HAMILTON FISH. The document reads, in part:
“Ulysses S. Grant President of the Untied States of America. To
all who shall see these presents Greeting: Know Ye, That reposing
special trust and confidence in the patriotism, Integrity and Abilities of George M. Robeson of New Jersey, I have nominated and,
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him
to be Secretary of the Navy of the United States … In testimony
where, I have caused these letters to be made Patent and the seal
of the United States to be hereunto affixed … U.S. Grant.” Paper
wafer seal intact and crisp. Some slight splits at folds. Else Fine.
Framed along with two images of Grant and a slip noting his tenure
as President to an overall size of 44” x 32”.
George Robeson, a former Union brigadier general and Governor of New Jersey, was appointed to the post of Secretary of the Navy
by Grant in 1869. During his service as Secretary of the Navy, Robeson was alleged to have accepted over $300,000 in bribes and
wasted nearly $15,000,000 of Navy construction funds on real estate purchases in Washington, D.C., Robeson’s prowess at covering
his tracks even earned him the dubious monniker, ‘the cuttle fish’ of the Navy. A nice association indicative of the scandals associated
with the Grant administration. $2,500 - up
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PROBABLY UNIQUE INAUGURAL RECEPTION PROMENADE CONCERT INVITATION
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT GARFIELD AND VICE-PRESIDENT ARTHUR
29) JAMES GARFIELD (1831-1881) 20th President of the United States. Probably unique Printed invitation for Garfield’s Inaugural
Reception Promenade Concert Signed at lower left “James A. Garfield,” as President. Also signed by CHESTER A. ARTHUR (18291886) 21st President of the United States: “C.A. Arthur May 20, 1881,” as Vice-President, at lower right. One page, 9 ½” x 5 7/8”. The
invitation bears images of both Garfield and Arthur (left and right edges, respectively) and an image of George Washington at lower center.
Framed with a program for Garfield’s Inaugural Concert. 4 ½” x 6”. Portrait vignettes of Garfield and Arthur at center surrounded by color images of an eagle and flags. Original red, fabric tassel. Produced in multiple colors, an unusual choice for the period, this program is considered among the most attractive of the early inaugural programs.
Also framed with a slip that reads: “James A. Garfield XX 1881”. On the verso of this Inaugural reception invitation in pencil is the following: “Autograph of the President written May 9, 1881. Obtained for T.H. Putnam by Warren S. Young, Executive Clerk at White House. Vice President’s autograph procured at his residence by Charles Jones.”
Two images of Garfield complete this attractive grouping, which is framed to an overall size of 30 ½” x 25 ¼”.
James Garfield only occupied the office of President of the United States for 200 days before an assassin’s bullet took his life. Garfield’s signature as president is naturally rare, and we have never encountered a Presidentially Signed Garfield document that also bears
the signature of Vice-President Arthur. These printed invitations are seldom encountered in any form, making this signed example
an especially rare opportunity to acquire a probably unique item bearing the signatures of both President Garfield and Vice-President
Arthur. Slight soiling and edge-wear to Inaugural Concert invitation, with a small section of upper border missing. Overall Fine. $12,500 - up
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card. 4 ¼” x 2 ½” His Signature: “Grover Cleveland, April 1896,” on a card
bearing an engraved image of the White
House. Framed with an image of Grover
Cleveland and a slip noting his tenure as
president. 16 1/2” x 26 1/2” overall size.
$600 - up
Card bearing an engraved image of children playing on the White House lawn
Signed, “William McKinley.” 4 1/2” x
3 3/4” framed along with a printed image of McKinley in left facing profile to
an overall size of 21” x 17”. Very Fine.
$300 - up
Chester A. Arthur Signed
30) CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR (1829 –
1886) 21st President of the United States.
4 1/2” x 3 1/2” card bearing an engraved
image of the White House signed: “Chester
A. Arthur.” Mounted to the left of a printed
image of Arthur. 19 1/2” x 16 1/2” total
framed. $300 - up
BENJAMIN HARRISON SIGNED
ENGRAVED WHITE HOUSE CARD
32) BENJAMIN HARRISON (1833-1901)
23rd President of the United States. His
Signature, “Benj. Harrison,” on a card bearing an engraved image of the White House.
5” x 3 ½”. Framed with an image of Harrison bearing his printed signature and a slip
noting his tenure as President. 22 1/4” x 26
1/2” overall.
300 - up
TR Signed White House and
Sagamore Hill Cards
34) THEODORE ROOSEVELT (18581919) 26th President of the United States
and the first American to be awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize. 4” x 2 5/8” The White
House, Washington card Signed: “Theodore
Roosevelt” and a 4 3/8” x 3 3/8” Sagamore
Hill Calling Card Signed: “Jan 29th 1917
Good Luck! Theodore Roosevelt.” Both
framed below an image of Roosevelt in a 11
1/2” x 20 7/8” frame. Very Fine. $600 - up
PRINTED AND ENGRAVED
WHITE HOUSE CARDS SIGNED BY
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
William McKinley Signed
31) GROVER CLEVELAND (18371908) 22nd and 24th President of the
United States. Two Cards Signed by Cleveland: His Signature, “Grover Cleveland,” 33) WILLIAM MCKINLEY (1843on an Executive Mansion, Washington 1901) 25th President of the United States.
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Theodore Roosevelt to Historian Justin Smith Regarding the first full access pass
ever granted for the War Department records
35) THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1858-1919) 26th President of
the United States, author, and the first American to be awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize. Typed Letter Signed, “Theodore Roosevelt,” on
The White House, Washington stationery. With a twenty-one word
postscript entirely in Roosevelt’s hand. One page, 6 3/4” x 8 1/2”.
Framed with two artistic renderings of Roosevelt. One rending black
and white, the other a color Flagg print from “Vanity Fair,” September 4, 1902, issue. Framed to an overall size of 28” x 23 1/2”.
Roosevelt writes to “Justin H. Smith, The Hamilton, Washington D.C.”:
“My Dear Mr. Smith: The enclosed copies of letters explain
themselves. I am not prepared to give my assent to either the
line of conduct that has been adopted or to the reasons justifying it. But before I can either dissent from, or overturn, the practices I must have time to go over the whole matter. With real
regret, sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt P.S. The two volumes of the “Troubadours” have just come, I thank you cordially for them, and look forward to reading them”
Most likely, Roosevelt writes to historian Justin H. Smith regarding access to War Department records. Through the intervention of
Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Justin H. Smith became the first scholar ever to be granted full access to the War Department in
1907. The research Smith subsequently accomplished enabled him to prepare his highly regarded two volume work The War with Mexico.
$1,000 - up
Theodore Roosevelt
Signed Card
36) THEODORE ROOSEVELT (18581919) 26th President of the United States
and the first American to be awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize. His Signature: “Theodore Roosevelt Dec 2d 1916.” 4 1/8” x 1
3/4” framed below an image of Roosevelt
to 13 3/4” x 17 5/8” overall. Very Fine.
$250 - up
THREE T.R. Prints
37) THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States and
the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. James Montgomery Flagg print
of T.R. in profile with a printed quotation at lower left: “T.R. said when I told him this
drawing was finished, ‘That’s very good of You!’ You get his meaning don’t you?” 13” x 16
1/2” framed. Harper’s Weekly cover from September 29, 1900, bearing an image of T.R.
on horseback. 11 1/2” x 16 1/2” framed. Life magazine cover from June 16, 1910, bearing
a comical image of T.R. riding a white elephant away from a throng of tribesmen. Caption at lower border reads: “Home, Sweet Home.” 14 1/4” x 16 1/2” overall size framed.
$100 - up
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White House Card Signed By
William H. Taft
38) WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857 –
1930) 27th President of the United States
and 10th Chief Justice of the United States.
4 1/8” x 2 3/4” The White House Washington card Signed: “Sincerely yours Wm.
H. Taft Nov. 19th 1912.” Mounted along
with a 7” x 10” photograph of Taft in 3/4
bust pose. “Harris & Ewing” blind embossed photographic credit at lower right.
Framed to 22 1/2” x 18” overall. Very Fine.
$275 - up
Woodrow Wilson Typed
Letter Signed TO SECRETARY
OF THE TREASURY WILLIAM
MCADOO CONCERNING THE
EXPOSITION AT SAN DIEGO
39) WOODROW WILSON (1856-1924)
28th President of the United States. Typed
Letter Signed, “Woodrow Wilson,” on The
White House, Washington letterhead. Two
pages, 6” x 8”. No place. December 22,
1914. Both pages framed side-by-side below an image of Wilson and above a slip
noting his tenure as President. Overall size
20” x 31”. Wilson writes to “Hon William
G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury”:
“My dear Mr. Secretary: I am very glad to
know that you are to attend the opening of
the Exposition at San Diego. I hope that at
some later time I may myself have the pleasure of visiting it. In the meantime, will
WHITE HOUSE CARD
SIGNED BY WILSON
40) WOODROW WILSON (1856-1924)
28th President of the United States. White
House card signed. Framed with a color ilyou not be so kind as to convey to the man- lustration of Wilson to an overall dimenagers of the Exposition and to the people sion of 14 1/2” x 22”. In excellent condi$275 - up
of San Diego my warmest congratulations tion.
and my best wishes for the Exposition’s entire success? To my mind, such expositions
are beneficial to the country in many ways.
They give a great artistic impulse not only,
which is no small matter, but they also bring
different sections of the country together
by representation, so that the people who
crowd to them not only learn to know one
another, but also learn more than they ever
knew before of the abounding industries
and extraordinary productivity of our great
country. Best of all, perhaps, these expositions make for friendship. People come
from all parts of the country and people
from all parts of the world fraternize there,
and with acquaintance come cordiality of
feeling and broadened sympathies. I am
sure that these influences will be felt nowhere more powerfully or more graciously
than amidst the genial and beautiful surroundings of Southern California. AlWarren G. Harding Signed
ways, Faithfully yours, Woodrow Wilson.”
White House Card
Wilson’s signature exhibits significant fading. $500 - up
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41) WARREN G. HARDING (18651923) 29th President of the United States. 4
1/4” x 2 7/8” The White House Washington Card Signed: “Warren G. Harding.”
Mounted above a 6 7/8” x 9 3/4” profile
photograph of Harding. Blind embossed
“Harris & Ewing” photographic credit at
lower left. Overall 14 1/4” x 26” framed.
Very Fine. $275 - up
right of a 6 1/4” x 9 1/4” photograph of
Coolidge in right facing profile pose Inscribed and Signed: “To David A. Carmichael with regard Calvin Coolidge.” “Harris
& Ewing” credit at lower right. Photograph
shows some spotting. Mounted with a 4”
x 5” Calvin Coolidge personal bookplate
bearing his printed name and an image of
a country cottage. All three items framed
to 19” x 17” Other than spotting to photograph, Very Fine.
$500 - up
“Mar 20 1921” stamp at upper left. Mounted
to right of a photograph of Calvin Coolidge
in 3/4 bust pose Signed: “With regards Calvin Coolidge.” 6 1/2” x 10” Both items
framed to 21 1/4” x 17” overall. Very Fine.
EDWARD BOK (1863-1930) was
a Pulitzer Prize winning author and
editor of
Ladies Home Journal.
$750 - up
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
SYMPATHY CARD UPON THE
TRAGIC DEATH OF HIS
YOUNGEST SON, CALVIN, JR.
42) CALVIN COOLIDGE (1872-1933)
30th President of the United States. Printed
Card, 5 1/8” x 3 1/2”. The card reads: “The
President and Mrs. Coolidge are deeply
grateful to you for the expression of your
sympathy for them.” Framed to an overall
size of 7 1/4” x 5 1/2” Fine. This card was sent in response to the great
public outpouring of sympathy that
Coolidge received from the American people following the tragic loss of his younger
son. In 1924, Calvin, Jr., developed a blister
while playing tennis on the White House
courts. The blister soon became infected,
and Coolidge’s son succumbed to blood
poisoning within days.
$50 - up
Calvin Coolidge Signed
Photo and Signed White
House Card
30th President of the United States. 4” x
2 3/4” The White House, Washington card
Signed: “Calvin Coolidge,” mounted to the
Signed Picture Postcard of
President Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States. PhoCalvin Coolidge Signed
tograph
of Coolidge Signed “Calvin
Photo and TLS on
Coolidge.”
3”
x 5 1/4” framed to 9 /4” x 12
Vice-President’s Chamber
3/8”
overall
and
housed in a double-sided
Letterhead TO PULITZER
frame.
Postcard
used
for backing. NotaPRIZE WINNING AUTHOR
tion
on
postcard
reads:
“President Calvin
EDWARD BOK
Coolidge taken by A.G.Q., Thursday September 11th at 5pm 1924 Wash. D.C. White
$275 - up
44) CALVIN COOLIDGE (1872-1933) House Grounds.” Very Fine.
Letter Signed, “Calvin Coolidge,” on The
Vice-Presidents Chamber, Washington
letterhead. One page, 7” x 9”. Washington. March 19, 1921. Coolidge writes to
“Mr. Edward W. Bok, The Academy of
Music Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa.”:
“My dear Mr. Bok: - It was very kind of
you to write me such a gracious letter,
and of course we should be pleased to
se you in Washington practically any time
you want to come down. If you could let
me know a little in advance, I might be
able to receive you in a way that would be
more to my liking than if you came unannounced. Many of my evenings are taken
up, but there are still some which are open.
I very much doubt if I can consider going to Philadelphia more than three times.
Very cordially yours, Calvin Coolidge.”
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Edison and Coolidge Signed Cards framed with A
CONTEMPORARY image of the two men
46) CALVIN COOLIDGE (1872-1933) 30th President of the United States. 4” x
2 1/2” The White House Card Signed: “Calvin Coolidge.” THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 – 1931) American inventor, scientist, and businessman. 2 3/4” x 2 1/8”
card Signed: “Thos. A Edison.”
Both cards framed along with a
wonderful 6 1/2” x 9” picture of
Coolidge and Edison preparing to
take a photograph. All framed to an
overall size of 17 1/2” x 14 3/4”.
This fine image of Coolidge and
Edison was most likely taken during
one of Edison’s journeys as a member of the Four Vagabonds. The
Vagabonds, composed of Henry
Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs, took numerous motor camping trips in the late 1910’s and early 1920’s. Viewed as the first notable
combination of automobile travel and outdoor recreation, the Four Vagabonds traveled
throughout the nation. This image is most likely from their visit to Calvin Coolidge’s
Plymouth, Vermont home. Some staining to cards and mat. Overall Fine. $750 - up
Photograph Signed by the Coolidges, noted editor
Edward Bok, and Standard oil magnate E.T. Bedford
47) CALVIN COOLIDGE (1872-1933) 30th President of the United States. Image
of Coolidge, his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bok, and E.T. Bedford Signed: “Calvin
Coolidge.” Also Signed, “Grace Coolidge,” by GRACE COOLIDGE (1879-1957) First
Lady of the United
States; “Edward W.
Bok,” by EDWARD
BOK (1863-1930) Pulitzer Prize winning author and editor of Ladies Home Journal; “Mary
Louise Curtis Bok,” by
Bok’s wife; and “E.T.
Bedford,” by E.T.
BEDFORD executive
at Standard Oil Company. Image measures 9
1/2” x 7 1/2”. Framed
to 14 3/4” x 13” overall. Typed slip at lower
edge identifies those
pictured. Very Fine. A
wonderful association. $750 - up
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FDR Typed Letter Signed
concerning “Eyes for the
Navy”
48) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (18821945) 32nd President of the United States.
Typed Letter Signed, “F.D. Roosevelt,” as
Assistant Secretary of the Navy on Navy
Department Letterhead. One page, 7
1/2” x 10.” Navy Department Washington, D.C., April 18, 1918. The letter, to Mr.
E.M. Whitcomb, Amherst, Mass. reads:
“Dear Sir: Your prompt and patriotic response to the NAVY’s call for binoculars,
telescopes, and spy-glasses, is most appreciated,. The glasses will be very useful in the
prosecution of Naval Operations until victory is won. At the termination of the war, if
possible, every effort will be made to return
them to you, when it is hoped that you will feel
compensated for any evidence of wear, by
the knowledge that you have supplied ‘Eyes
for the NAVY’ during a very trying period.
On behalf of the NAVY, I wish to thank
you most heartily, Very respectfully, F.D.
Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy.”
Mounted to the left of a finely engraved 7
1/2” x 11” certificate of recognition bearing a facsimile signature of FDR thanking
Mr. Whitcomb for his assistance with “Eyes
for the Navy.” Mounted with these two images is a reduced reproduction of the “Will
YOU supply EYES for the NAVY’ poster
used to solicit binoculars and spy-glasses. 28
1/4” x 17” framed. Very Fine. $350 - up
VERY RARE Herbert Hoover FRANKING SIGNATURE
49) HERBERT HOOVER (1874-1964) 31st President of the United
States. Very scarce Free Frank, “Herbert Hoover,” in the upper right
corner of a White House envelope. The envelope is not addressed but
bears a postal cancellation dated January 30, 1933, just 34 days before
the end of Hoover’s term. 6 3/8” x 3 1/2” mounted below a printed artistic rendering of Hoover. Framed to 11” x 14 3/8” overall. Hoover’s
Franking signature as president is extremely rare with Siegel auctions
stating only three known to exist. One sold in their sale at $5,750. This
example is in exellent condition.
$3,000 - up
TWO Signed Herbert Hoover WHITE HOUSE CALLING
CARDS AND AN INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH
50) HERBERT HOOVER (1874-1964) 31st President of the United States. A fine,
framed group of three signed Hoover items with an original sketch of Hoover and
a bookplate facsimile: His Signature, “Herbert Hoover,” on a
The White House, Washington
card. 4 ¼” x 2 ¾”. His Signature, “Herbert Hoover,” on a
The White House card bearing
an engraved image of the White
House. 8” x 6”. Photograph of
Hoover seated Signed and Inscribed: “ … Regards of Herbert
Hoover,” 6” x 9” “Harris and
Ewing” photographic credit at
lower left. All items framed with
an attractive pencil sketch of
Hoover, a slip noting his tenure in
office, and a facsimile bookplate.
25” x 32” overall size. $500 - up
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Signature on Groton
School StationEry
Groton School, Groton Massachusetts
stationery bearing the school seal Signed:
“Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 2 1934.” 3 1/4”
x 3 1/2” framed to an overall size of 8” x
9 3/4”. Text at bottom of certificate reads:
“White House memo: On June 2, 1934,
the President left Worcester after break-
fast and motored to Groton, returning to
train at Worcester and leaving at midnight.
Groton purely and strictly a family party, no
pictures permitted. FDR there mainly as father of one of the children. John Roosevelt
graduated from Groton in 1934. ER out of
town.” Very Fine.
$400 - up
EAST ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE.”
(3) Accompanied by original black bordered
envelope addressed to “Lt. and Mrs. John
Roosevelt.” (4) Also accompanied Card
bearing the name “Mrs. John Roosevelt,”
with gilt U.S. Seal of State at upper center. All items framed to 16” x 16” overall.
$100 - up
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Hous- ton was ordered to the Pacific, where it
was sunk at the Battle of Sunda Strait in
February of 1942. Speaking of the Houston, nicknamed the “Galloping Ghost of
the Java Coast,” Roosevelt said: “I knew
that ship and I loved her. Her officers and
men were my friends,” a testimony to the
special place the vessel held in his esteem.
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continued to the Galapagos for sport fishing.
The “King Neptune” ceremony took place
when the ship crossed the equator, marking the induction ceremony for new sailors
(those who have not yet crossed the line)
into the fraternity of seasoned mariners.
F.D.R. Endorsed check FOR
THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION
FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS
COMMEMORATIVE
PROGRAM FOR A “NEPTUNE
CEREMONY”HONORING
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
52) FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
(1882-1945) 32nd President of the United States. Printed Program for a “Ward
Room Dinner in Honor of Senior Shellback President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Celebrating the Entrance of the United
States Ship Houston into the Domain of
his Royal Highness Neptunus Rex” One
page, 5 ¼” x 7 ¼”. Framed with an image of Roosevelt to 11 ¼” x 20 ¾” overall. Accompanied by a photocopy of the
entire program listing attendees and menu.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt traveled aboard
the U.S.S. Houston, the flagship of the U.S.
Fleet, on four occasions in the late 1930’s.
Our “King Neptune” program is for a
ceremony that took place on President
Roosevelt’s third voyage onboard the U.S.S.
Houston. The voyage began with a Fleet Review at San Francisco on July 14, 1938, and
FDR’s youngest son, John
Roosevelt, attends his
father’s funeral at
the White House
53) [FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT]
(1882-1945) 32nd President of the United
States. Group of four items commemorating the Funeral of FDR. 1) Admission card
for services issued to “Lt. and Mrs. John
Roosevelt” [JOHN ROOSEVELT (19161981) sixth and last child of FDR and the
only Roosevelt not to seek political office.]
The card requests that the bearers: “ … will
please present this card at THE NORTHWEST GATE THE WHITE HOUSE APR
14 1945 at 3:30 O’clock” Underprint of the
White House. 2) Black bordered printed
invitation to “Funeral Services of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Late President of the
United States APRIL FOURTEENTH,
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTYFIVE At FOUR O’CLOCK P.M. THE
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3” x 8” Manufacturers Trust Company
check endorsed by Roosevelt on back,
“Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Mounted to the
right of a photocopy of the check’s front.
Framed to 12 1/4” x 15 1/4” overall.
Stamp cancellation affects Roosevelt’s bold
signature. Perforation and stamp cancellation. Attractive handwritten notation at
lower edge notes that FDR endorsed this
check to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Slight mounting trace at
center of top, bottom, left and right edges.
The Reverend Cornelius Greenway (1896-1968) Unitarian minister at the
Unitarian Church of Taunton, Massachusetts, and at All Souls Universalist Church,
Brooklyn New York. Reverend Greenway
was also a passionate autograph collector
and an active contributor to noted charities.
A very rare item, which highlights FDR’s
continued attention and devotion to his
Foundation for the Cure of Infantile Paralysis even during the Second World War.
$750 - up
Inscribed and Signed F.D.R. photograph
55)
FRANKLIN
D.
ROOSEVELT (1882-1945)
32nd President of the United States. 8 1/4” x 10 3/4”
silver-tone photograph of
Roosevelt seated in right facing profile. Signed and Inscribed by FDR: “For Neil
McNeil, with my regards
Franklin D. Roosevelt” on
the mat. “Harris and Ewing” photographer’s credit.
Framed to 11 3/4” x 14
13/4” overall. Very fine condition. Neil McNeil served as
managing night editor of the
New York Times from 1930
to 1951.
$1,000 - up
Two staple holes at top of card, and fold below printed area, not affecting FDR’s writing or text. Overall Very Fine. $400 - up
11” x 14”. Text below image reads: “WE
HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT
FEAR ITSELF …” FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT. Thirty first President
of the United States.” Published by Old
Print Shop. Framed to 14” x 17” overall.
$250 - up
TRUMAN WHITE HOUSE
CALLING CARD
58) HARRY TRUMAN (1884-1972) 33rd
President of the United States. His Signature,
“Harry Truman,” on a The White House,
Washington card. 4” x 2 ¾”. Framed with a
photograph of Truman, a small caricature,
and a slip noting his tenure as President. 19
1/2” x 26 1/4” Overall.
$250 - up
.
Christmas wishes from FDR
to Harold Ickes
Printed The President card Inscribed and
Signed: “for Harold- Merry Christmas
from F.D.R” 3 3/4” x 2 1/4”. Mounted
below an image of FDR’s hand writing.
11 1/2” x 13 1/2” overall size framed.
HAROLD ICKES (1874 – 1952) Secretary
of the Department of the Interior. Ickes
was also responsible for implementing
much of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
“New Deal”
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Print
“In the Manner of Currier
and Ives.”
Color lithographic Print of Roosevelt.
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PRESIDENT TRUMAN SIGNED PROCLAMATION ANNOUNCING
THE SURRENDER OF GERMANY:
“THE WESTERN WORLD HAS BEEN FREED OF EVIL FORCES”
59) HARRY TRUMAN (1884-1972) 33rd President of the United States. Printed Broadside Signed, “Harry Truman.” One
page, 14 ¾” x 21 ½”. “Washington, D.C.” “May 8, 1945.” Framed with a red, white, and blue ribbon to 23 ½” x 28” overall.
The large, elaborate three-color broadside of President Truman’s proclamation upon the Nazi surrender to the Allies reads:
“BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES A Proclamation: The Allied armies,
through sacrifice and devotion and with God’s
help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The western world has
been freed of the evil forces which for five years
and longer have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of freeborn men. They have violated their churches,
destroyed their homes, corrupted their children,
and murdered their loved ones. Our Armies of
Liberation have restored freedom to these suffering peoples, whose spirit and will the oppressors could never enslave. Much remains to be
done. The victory won in the West must now
be won in the East. The whole world must be
cleansed of the evil from which half the world
has been freed. United, the peace-loving nations have demonstrated in the West that their
arms are stronger by far than the might of the
dictators or the tyranny of military cliques that
once called us soft and weak. The power of our
peoples to defend themselves against all enemies
will be proved in the Pacific war as it has been
proved in Europe. For the triumph of spirit and
of arms which we have won, and for its promise to the peoples everywhere who join us in
the love of freedom, it is fitting that we, as a
nation, give thanks to Almighty God, who has
strengthened us and given us the victory. Now,
therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the
United States of America, do hereby appoint
Sunday, May 13, 1945, to be a day of prayer. I
call upon the people of the United States, whatever their faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory we have
won, and to pray that He will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the ways of peace. I also call upon
my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who have given their lives to make possible our victory. In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Harry Truman”
On April 6, 1945, Donitz authorized General Jodl to complete an armistice agreement with General Eisenhower. While the Germans wanted a separate peace with the Allied troops in the West so they could continue their battle against the Russians, Eisenhower demanded the Germans surrender unconditionally. The Germans acquiesced, and fighting officially ceased on May
8th. That same day, Truman read the above proclamation during a news conference at the White House. An elegant broadside,
composed of two columns of Gothic type with large gilt initial letter and red and blue paragraph letters. Without official seal.
$7,500 - up
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Nomination
FOR U.S. AMBASSADOR TO NEPAL
60) DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (1809-1969) 34th
President of the United States
and a five-star general. Typed
Document Signed, “Dwight D.
Eisenhower.” One page, 8” x
12 ½”. The White House. September 1, 1959. The document
reads: “To the Senate of the
United States, I nominate Henry
E. Stebbins, of Massachusetts, a
Foreign Service Officer of the
Class of Career Minister, to be
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United
States of America to the Kingdom of Nepal. Dwight D. Eisenhower.” Framed alongside a Norman Rockwell print
of Eisenhower and a slip noting his tenure as President. 27 ¾” x 25 ½” overall size.
HENRY E. STEBBINS (1905-1973) U.S. Foreign service officer. Stebbins served as U.S
Ambassador to Nepal and Uganda.
$750 - up
White House Card Signed by
Lyndon B. Johnson and LBJ
RANCH Card Signed by Lady
Bird Johnson
62) LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
(1908-1973) 36th President of the United
States. His Signature: “Lyndon B. Johnson,”
on The White House, Washington card. Approximately 4” x 2 ½”. CLAUDIA “LADY
BIRD” JOHNSON (1912-2007) First Lady
of the United States. Her Signature, “Lady
Bird Johnson,” on LBJ Ranch, Stonewall,
Texas, cardstock bearing an image of the
ranch. Approximately 5 ½” x 3 ¾”. Both
cards framed with a Norman Rockwell print
depicting three images of Johnson and a slip
noting his tenure as President. All framed to
an overall size of 24 1/2” x 20”. $500 - up
JOHN F. KENNEDY INSCRIBED
AND SIGNED PHOTO
61) JOHN F. KENNEDY (1917 - 1963).
35th President of the United States.
Inscribed and signed photo “For Donald
S. Carmichael - With warm regards, John
F. Kennedy”. Framed with a bronze
Kennedy medal at center to an overall size
of 14 1/2” x 25”. In excellent condition.
$1,000 - up
Jimmy Carter Signed Photo
63) JIMMY CARTER (b. 1924) 39th
President of the United States. Photograph of Carter Signed, “Jimmy Carter.”
7” x 10”. Framed along with a Jimmy
Carter medallion, a caricature of Carter,
and a slip noting his tenure as President.
Overall size 24” x 22 1/2”.
$125 - up
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NIXON APPOINTS ARTHUR GODFREY TO THE CITIZENS’ ADVISORY BOARD,
A precursor TO THE National Environmental Policy Act
64) RICHARD NIXON (1913-1994) 37th President
of the United States and the only President to resign
the office. Partially Printed Document Signed, “Richard Nixon.” One page, 16 1/2” x 13 1/2”. Framed
with a Norman Rockwell print of Nixon and a slip noting Nixon’s tenure as President to 35 1/2” x 23 1/4”
overall. Washington. June 26, 1970. Countersigned
by Secretary of State WILLIAM P. ROGERS. Paper
wafer seal of sate crisp and bright. Nixon appoints
“Arthur Godfrey, of Virginia... a Member of the Citizens’ Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality
for a term expiring May 3, 1973...”The period from
1962 to 1970 saw environmentalism gain strength as a
movement dedicated to ending, and if possible, reversing this decline in the human environment. The situation seemed so dire that in May 1969, U Thant of the
United Nations gave the planet only ten years to avert environmental disaster. The Nixon Administration, although preoccupied with
an unpopular war and a recession-ridden economy, took some stopgap action on the environmental front in 1969. In May, President
Nixon had set up a Cabinet-level Environmental Quality Council as well as a Citizens’ Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality.
Despite these efforts, Nixon’s critics charged that these were largely ceremonial bodies, with no real power. In response, Nixon hastily
appointed a White House committee to consider whether a separate environmental agency should be created. At the same time, Congress
sent a bill known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to President Nixon. The impact of this bill cannot be overstated,
as Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis) noted in 1980: NEPA was “the most important piece of environmental legislation in our history.”
ARTHUR GODFREY (1903-1983) American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer.
President & Mrs. Nixon
Christmas Card
65) RICHARD NIXON (1913-1994) 37th
President of the United States. Cover leaf
of President and Mrs. Nixon’s Christmas
card for 1971. Cover bears a print of N.C.
Wyeth’s painting depicting the construction
of the first White House. Mounted with a
blind embossed U.S. Seal of State and a slip
identifying the image as the cover leaf of
the Nixon’s 1971 Christmas card. Framed to
an overall size of 8” x 16”.
$75 - up
Ronald Reagan notes
THE ACHIEVEMENTS
OF IRISH-AMERICANS
Reagan writes to “Mr. Donald S. Carmichael
Delaware-North, Inc. 7100 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, New York 14201.”:
66) RONALD REAGAN (1911-2004)
Letter Signed, “Ronald Reagan,” on The
White House, Washington letterhead. One
page, 7” x 10 ¼”. Washington. March 17,
1982.
“To the Carmichael Family: Nancy and I are
delighted to wish a warm and wonderful St.
Patrick’s Day to the Carmichaels. Even today in the Irish countryside you can see the
words “Gone to America” on old houses.
The Emerald Isle has given much to the
world, but she has blessed America abun-
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$2,000 - up
dantly, with her most precious gift: her children. And like so many of the indomitable
Irish, the Reagans and the Carmichaels
came to the United States seeking the liberty and bounty of this great land. Every
American gratefully acknowledges the many
contributions of Irish Americans in every
walk of life down through our nation’s history. But, most of all, the sons and daughters of Erin upheld a fine old Irish tradition
by making their mark in American letters
and politics. Just as St. Patrick lit the fire of
faith in Ireland centuries ago, so, more recently, has the Statue of Liberty’s torch of
freedom ignited the spirit of liberty in his
countrymen. This special link and appreciation have engendered the mutual affection
between both lands for many years. ON this
St. Patrick’s Day, let us fervently wish that
America and Ireland will continue to be
friends as long as the hills are green. Sincerely, Ronald Reagan.” Framed along with
a photograph of Ronald Reagan Signed
“Ronald Reagan.” 8” x 10”. Also framed
with a caricature of Reagan and a slip noting his tenure as President. Overall size 28”
x 30 1/2”. $750 - up
spots of
toning. Overall Very Fine.
$500 - up
George Bush Signed Photo
and Signed Card
67) GEORGE BUSH (b. 1924) 41st President of the United States. Photograph of
Bush Signed, “George Bush.” 7” x 10”. The
President of the United States of America
card Signed, “George Bush” with the Seal
of the United States at top center. 6” x 3
½”. Both items framed with a caricature of
Bush and a slip noting his tenure in office.
Overall size 27 1/2” x 17 1/2”. $200 - up
“The Presidents of the
United States.”
WILHELM II SIGNED PHOTO
71) WILHELM II (1859-1941) German
emperor and king of Prussia. Photograph
of Wilhelm
in
military
dress Signed
in blue “Wilhelm
I.R.
Doom Nov.
1928.” 6 ¼” x
8 ¾” Framed
with
Wilhelm’s wax seal and a number of newspaper
clippings relating the story of how a young
Donald S. Carmichael was finally able to get
a signed photograph of the former Kaiser
Wilhelm. One clipping notes that the image
was hand-colored personally by Wilhelm. 21
3/4” x 24 1/4” overall size, framed. A fine
display piece with an interesting and amusing history.
$400 - up
hand-colored
Currier Print
69) “The Presidents of the United States.”
Showing the presidents from Washington
to “President Elect” James K. Polk. New
York. N. Currier, 2 Spruce Street. 1844.
Hand-colored. 13” x 9”. Framed to an overall size of 12 1/2” X 17”.
$500 - up
FRAMED Wartime Print of
Winston Churchill SIGNED
by THE ARTIST, Arthur Pan
“LES PRESIDENTS DES ETATSUNIS” hand-colored
Lithograph by Maurin
68) “Les Presidents Des Etats-Unis Dedie
a leur ami le General Lafayette.” lithographic print. 14 1/2” x 19 1/2”. A. Maurin, Imp.
litho. de Langlume, rue de I’Abbaye No. 6.
With Portraits of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and J. Q. Adams
in clouds. Underneath is an Eagle with outspread wings. Hand-colored. Framed to an
overall size of 23” x 30 ½”. A few light
72) ARTHUR PAN (1920-1960) Hungarian artist and portrait painter. Vintage Blackand-white war-date reproduction of Pan’s
famous portrait of Winston Churchill Inscribed and Signed, “With love to my dear
friend Ella, A. Pan. 22.7.45” No place. July
22, 1945. Printed quotation from Churchill
“The Declaration of
at lower right border: “We are all of us deIndependence” hand
fending … a Cause … The Cause of Freecolored print by J. BaillIe
dom and of Justice, of the weak against the
strong; law against violence; mercy and tolerance against brutality and iron bound tyr70) “The Declaration of Independence, July
anny Winston Churchill December 5th
4th 1776.” New York: J. Baillie. 8” x 12 ¼”.
1942.” Framed to 27 1/2” x 24 1/2” Some
Original hand color. Framed to an overall
wrinkling.
$500 - up
size of 16 1/2” x 12 1/2”.
$500 - up
End Of Carmichael
Collection
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AUTOGRAPHS AND RELATED ITEMS BY PRESIDENT
GEORGE WASHINGTON
A Fine Oration Delivered In
Memory Of George Washington By
Daniel Adams
Ambrotype Of The Marriage Of
Washington To Martha Custis
73) 1/2 plate Ambrotype of The Marriage
of Washington to Martha Custis by Junius
Brutus Stearns. 6 1/4” x 4 3/4” overall in
a gilt and leather frame. The original painting from which this Ambrotype was taken
was accomplished by Junius Brutus Stearns
in 1849 and is now housed in the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts. This work was one
in a series of five paintings that represented Washington as Citizen, Farmer, Soldier,
Statesman and Christian. Among those in
the background of this image are two children from Martha’s first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. Following their marriage,
Washington adopted the children as his
own.
$1,000 - up
THE MASSACHUSETTS ROOM AT
MT. VERNON
74) 6 ½” x 4 ¼” Photograph. Back stamp
reads: Library Massachusetts Room Mount
Vernon Mansion Copyrighted by Luke Dillon photographer to Mount Vernon Office at Pullman’s Gallery 935 Penn Avenue,
Washington D.C” Very Fine.
$40 - up
75) Pamphlet entitled: “Dr. Adams Oration” 25pp. Leominster, Mass. Feb 22, 1800.
Self wraps. An extraordinary oration on the
death of George Washington delivered on
his birthday in Leominster, Massachusetts.
The speech was written by Daniel Adams
(1773-1864), a
physician and
educator. The
text states in
part: “WHILE
every heart feels
sensibly
the
wound inflicted
by our late national
loss…
GONE, forever
gone, and never
to return! THE
FATHER OF
OUR INDEPENDENCE LIES NUMBERED WITH THE MIGHTY DEAD!
…He was your friend – he was a friend to
his Country – he loved virtue – he cherished
religion – he hated tyrants – he despised
flattery – he detested vice…THE eyes of
these then instant Colonies were lifted to
WASHINGTON. On him his Country
called – his voice responded to their cry. He
quit the scenes of rural bliss for the horrors and fatigues of war…BUT it was not
the gallant armies of Britain alone he had
to combat; - no, but innumerable exigencies
perplexities and discordant opinions, which
convulsed our Country, created jealousies,
excited suspicion, and perpetually spread
alarms…WASHINGTON never drew his
sword to hew a road to fame…”. There is
much more outstanding content throughout. 5¾” x 9½”. The pamphlet has some
roughness at the extreme right margin and
light foxing, but the condition is fine.
$400 - up
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A Superb ALS By Elisha Whittlesey
Detailing The Arrangement For
Placing A Pamphlet In The
Washington Monument Cornerstone
76) Elisha Whittlesey (1783 – 1863). Congressman from Ohio. He was appointed
general agent of the Washington Monument Association in 1847. ALS. 1 page. 8”
x 10”. Whittlesey writes a fine letter concerning the laying of the cornerstone of
the Washington Monument and placement
of an address within; Washington National
Monument Office, June 16, 1848. J. S. Lyn,
Esqr. No. 595 Broadway, New York. “Your
esteemed favor of the 13th is received and
I thank you for the information communicated. The two pamphlets containing your
address have not arrived. So soon as they
come to hand, it will afford me much pleasure to present one of them to the Committee of arrangements to be placed in the
Corner Stone of the Washington National
Monument and you will be pleased to accept my thanks for your kindness in permitting me to retain the other copy. The Board
of Managers and General Agent will be
gratified by your company, on the occasion
of laying the Corner Stone of the National
Monument, on the 4th of July next. Most
Sincerely Yours, Elisha Whittlesey”. After
years of fundraising, design and development, excavation for the foundation of the
Washington Monument began early in 1848.
The cornerstone was ceremoniously placed
on July 4, 1848. When the cornerstone was
laid, a number of items including Bibles,
pamphlets, addresses and other items were
placed within for posterity. This letter refers
to an address by J. S. Lyn which was to be
placed in the cornerstone during the ceremony. This letter, written less than three
weeks prior to the corner stone ceremony
offers a seldom seen first hand account as
to the workings of the committee preparing
for the dedication of one of America’s most
recognizable monuments. Accompanied by
an early one page letter detailing the letter
and Whittlesey.
$500 - up
“I am not afraid to die. When the aged say ‘I have
no pleasure in my days’, I cannot complain with
them. I have pleasures far greater than my pains.”
JOHN ADAMS SURVEYS HIS LIFE AT 75
“DISEASE MAY MAKE ME AS QUERULOUS, AS I THINK OTHERS HAVE BEEN. BUT NO DISEASE, NO PAIN,
NO DISTRESS I HOPE WILL EVER SHAKE MY CONFIDENCE IN THE WISDOM AND BENEVOLENCE OF
THE UNIVERSAL GOVERNMENT.”
77) JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826) 2nd President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, “John Adams.” Two pages, 8” x 9 ¼”.
Quincy. May 13, 1811. Framed alongside a portrait engraving of Adams and a transcription of Adams’ letter to 26 ¼” x 14” overall
in an original Goodspeed’s Book Shop Inc. framed, dated and numbered: “2/28/68 No. 423.” Adams writes to Judge Sewall, DAVID
SEWALL (1735-1825) Massachusetts attorney and judge:
“I am much obliged by your kind favour of the 24th of April. The esteem, the affection and I may say, the veneration which I conceived for our Class Mate
Hemenway at College; tho’ I have never seen him more than twice or thrice, and then only for a few moments since we took our degrees; have never been diminished;
but rather increased from year to year. His release from the torments of a Cancer is no doubt to him inexpressible gain. Wentworth, Gardner, Sewall, Dalton
Whitemore and Adams, are all who remain of the Class of 1755. This indeed is a greater number than can be found in any other class of equal antiquity; at
least in proportion to the whole number. Our contemporaries fall around us, in such numbers that scarce an obituary in a newspaper can be read without presenting a memento. Cushings, Lincoln Willard Webber, Dana and a multitude of others and in the small circle of my acquaintance in this town some of them, my
school mates and earliest acquaintances have dropped within a few months and several of my dearest friends and relatives at and above forescore, are quivering
like the dying lamp, and like myself, over the grave. These are warnings indeed and I am not inattentive to them. I know not what to think of the saying of the
Patriarch ‘Few and evil have been the days of my years.’ The Prophet was too peevish and fretful. My days have been many, and I will not say, I cannot say they
have been evil. I can still deliberately say I love to live, and shall be thankful for a continuance of life: but I am not afraid to die. When the aged say ‘I have no
pleasure in my days’, I cannot complain with them. I have pleasures far greater than my pains. This felicity possibly may be the effect of health. Disease may
make me as querulous, as I think others have been. But no disease, no pain, no distress I hope will ever shake my confidence in the wisdom and benevolence of
the Universal Government. I am very sorry that I did not think to enjoin upon my son, to pay his respects to you, on his journey to the eastward. I may say with
Mr. Bollan I some times have wit but it generally comes too late. I am sir, your affectionate classmate and sincere friend, John Adams”
DAVID SEWALL served as a member of the York Committee of Correspondence, the Legislative Council of Massachusetts, and as a
Delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1779-1780. In 1789, Washington nominated Sewall to be the first judge of
the United States District Court for the District of Maine, a position he held until 1818.
In addition to Sewall, Adams makes reference to a number of additional individuals who graduated from Harvard along with Adams in
1755. Among these classmates are JOHN WENTWORTH (1737-1820) British colonial governor who was forced to leave New Hampshire in 1775, and TRISTRAM DALTON (1738-1817) American politician and Senator from Massachusetts.
Aside from Adams’ fond remembrances of his Harvard acquaintances, this letter offers a powerful commentary on mortality inspired
upon the recent death of a former classmate. Quoting Genesis 47:9, in which Jacob states to the Prophet: “Few and evil have been the
days of my years,” Adams expresses an opposing contentment with his life, embracing his long-life without regret. No doubt contemplating both his political and personal successes, Adams encapsulates his philosophy of life with an inspiring and eloquent calmness. $12,500 - up
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A Superb Printed Silk Broadside Of
Andrew Jackson’s Farewell Address
Abigail Adams Calling Card
78) A 2 7/8” x 1 3/8” calling card. The card
reads: “Mrs. Adams.” Based upon the style
of the calling card, it is presumed to belong
to ABIGAIL ADAMS (1797-1801). First
Lady of the United States. According to
John H. Young’s 1879 book Deportment,
when cards were delivered by the card bearer they were folded at the upper right corner. Our calling card shows a deliberate fold
in the upper right, a sign that Adams herself
delivered this card. This calling card comes
rom the collection of BENJAMIN OGLE
TAYLOR (1796-1868). Taylor was involved
in real estate in the Washington D.C. area
and was also the owner of the Willard Hotel. Mounting trace on verso. Else Very
Fine.
$500 - up
80) [ANDREW JACKSON]. A large printed silk broadside displaying the entire text of
Andrew Jackson’s Farewell
Address
to
the American
People. Jackson delivered
the address
on March 4,
1837
upon
his retirement
from
the
presidency. A
couple of minor splits and light repair. Fine. $1750 - up
79) [ANDREW JACKSON]. Addresses
of the Presentation of the Sword of Gen.
Andrew Jackson to the Congress of the
United States, delivered in the Senate and
House of Representatives, Feb. 26, 1855.
40 pages. 5/8” x 8 7/8”. Printed by Bevereley Tucker, Washington, 1855. Brown hard
bound cover with gold gilt lettering. Cover
shows some light wear. Some very minor
discoloration on a few pages. Fine.
$400 - up
82) (ELECTORAL COLLEGE). DS. 1pp.
7 3/4” x 5”. Harrisburg. December 5, 1832.
A rare Electoral College document paying
“George McCulloch Esquire, the sum of
twenty eight & 80/100 dollars being the
amount of his pay as an Elector for President and Vice President of the United States
of America.” In the election of 1832, Jackson was re-elected. Split at fold repaired on
verso with archival tape. The piece has two
“X” cut cancellations and is in fine condition overall. A rarely seen piece. $400 - up
EARLY NEW ORLEANS AND
ABOUT PRESIDENT ANDREW
JACKSON
ANDREW JACKSON
Presentation Of The Sword Worn By
Andrew Jackson Throughout His
Military Campaigns
A Rare Pennsylvania Pay Document
For Service In The Electoral College;
In This Election, Andrew Jackson Was
Re-elected
A Choice Printed Silk Broadside
Of Andrew Jackson’s First Inaugural
Address
81) [ANDREW JACKSON]. A choice silk
broadside of Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural address. Framed to an overall size of
16” x 21”. March 4, 1829. Printed on silk by
Richard C. Langdon, Xenia, Ohio. Complete
text of Andrew Jackson’s address. A lovely
graphic broadside depicting an eagle at top
supported by ornate pillars with wonderful,
fine detail. Some minor light dampstaining
mentioned for accuracy. Overall a nice clean
example of this rare early silk. Fine. $2,000 - up
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83) Autograph Letter Signed. New Orleans, June 19,1837, 8” x 10” 3 pp. with
integral address leaf. To Miss Lorraine H.
Fisk, Keeseville, New York from brother
Elbridge. General family news and about
President Jackson “...We have the old cry
here ‘Poor Old Gen’l. Jackson...’ has to bear
the sins of the
whole commercial
world not only our
own country but
all the other side
of the Atlantick
(sic)- poor Old
Man, he has an
abundance to answer for surely...”
The author was
likely commenting on Specie Issue & Banking policies of great controversy at the time.
At end is penciled note passing letter on to
sister Mary, sharing news from their brother and advising her to take onion juice to
suppress her cough “...take a teaspoon full
every time you feel inclined to cough...”
Fine.
$300 - up
SEEKING ANDREW
JACKSON’S AUTOGRAPH
84) Autograph Letter Signed, “Alfred
Balch.” One page, 7 5/8”x 11”. Nashville.
December 13, 1843. Addressed on integral leaf. With red, circular “NEW YORK”
postal
cancellation.
Balch writes, in part:
“ The promise I made
to send you the autograph of General Jackson has not been forgotten … I addressed
him a note on this subject to which he made
a reply and in which he
acknowledge the honor which your request
implied: but this note was mislaid and thereupon Icharged a divine little widow who is
a member of the family at the Hermitage to
recover it … she has always said that the next
time I came she would be sure to have it …
The old Hero if he lives, which is exceedingly doubtful will be seventy seven years
of age the fiftieth of the coming March …’
A friend of Andrew Jackson, Alfred Balch
was appointed Commissioner of the Indian
Treaties during Jackson’s presidency. Subsequently, Balch was appointed federal district
court judge for the state of Florida by President Van Buren in 1840. Very Fine.
$200 - up
A PHRENOLOGICAL ACCOUNT
OF MARTIN VAN BUREN
85) Autograph Letter Signed. One
page, 7 3/4” x 12 7/8”. Greenburgh. July 6, 1839. Addressed on integral leaf. The letter reads, in part:
“…I had the pleasure of seeing the President (Martin V. Buren) the 5th, and if I
were able to judge as accurately from appearance as Phrenologists pretend to from
the bumps I should say he is a Man of intense thought, quiet of apprehension, and
profound of judgement[sic]; A penetrating
eye, and easy in his manners-. I think we will
elect him again…” Aside from this account
of Van Buren, our author speaks about
his recent travels and the overabundance
of English cherries. Minor dampstaining,
paper loss. Small tears at bottom and top
edge, not affecting text. Else Very Good.
$250 - up
MARTIN VAN BUREN
Martin Van Buren Calling Card
MARTIN VAN BUREN WRITES TO
SECURE A POST IN THE
CUSTOMS HOUSE FOR
AN ACQUAINTANCE
86) MARTIN VAN BUREN (1782-1862)
President of the United States. Autograph
Letter Signed, “M Van Buren.” Two pages,
7 7/8” x 9 7/8”. Lindenwald. July 9, 1845.
Addressed on integral leaf to Coln. S.W.
Lawrence Esquire New York.” Van Buren
writes, in part: “ Private … I have had innumerable applications to write to you on
the subject of appointments all of which
I have virtually declined & have contented
myself with certifying to the characters of
the applications whenever I could do so …
A case has however been presented to me
which does not admit of a refusal. Mr. John
S. Vosburgh formerly of this town holds
the place of inspector by the appointment
of Mr. Van Ness. Mr. Vosburgh is the son
of an old Neighbor & friend of mine who
has always been a thorough Democrat …
When his friends applied to Mr. Van Ness
for a place in the Custom - House for Mr.
Vosburgh he consulted with me in regard
to his acceptance of it, declaring that poor
as he was, he would except [sic] it if by accepting he would improve his standing in
the Democratic ranks … Mr. Vanbough is
abundantly capable & I have no doubt faithful in the discharge of his official duties …”
Very Fine.
$1,200 – up
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87) MARTIN VAN BUREN (1782-1862).
Eighth President of the United States. His
2 ¾” x 1 ½” gilt-edged calling card. The
card reads: “Mr. Van Buren.” This calling
card comes from the collection of BENJAMIN OGLE TAYLOR (1796-1868). Taylor
was involved in real estate in the Washington D.C. area and was also the owner of
the Willard Hotel. Mounting trace on verso.
Else Very Fine.
$500 - up
VAN BUREN AND
JOHNSON TICKET
88) Presidential electoral ticket promoting
Democratic presidential candidate Martin
Van Buren and his running mate Richard
M. Johnson in the state of Virginia, with all
23 districts and their candidates listed. The
15th district has been amended with added
paper and a manuscript alteration. 6” x 9”
Light age toning. Jeremiah McCulluck has
signed the verso, and his signature bleed
through the bottom edge of the paper, else
Fine. Early and Rare.
$300 – up
JOHN TYLER
JUST WEEKS INTO JOHN TYLER’S
PRESIDENCY, A VISITOR NOTES
THAT “…HE IS A VERY AFFABLE
MAN, BUT VERY CARELESS AS TO
HIS DRESS AND PERSONAL
APPEARANCE…”
89) [Presidential] Autograph Letter. Three
pages, 7 1/2” x 9 7/8”. “Hartford,” Connecticut. May 1841. Addressed on integral
leaf to “Mrs. Agnes Bacon, West Newton,
Mass.” With HARTFORD postal cancellation. The letter
in part reads: “…We
visited Washington
a fortnight ago last
Monday saw what
was to be seen in the
public building such
as the Capital, the
Post Office and Patent Office, the Naval,
Treasury, and State departments and lastly
the White House where we saw the famous
east-room &c. had an introduction to the
President who took special notice of me as
I was the only lady in the company. -He is a
very affable man, but very careless as to his
dress and personal appearance…”A unique
and humorous outsider’s commentary on
John Tyler not long after his unexpected
ascension to the presidency. Very good.
$400 – up
JAMES K. POLK
WRITTEN WITH THE QUILPEN
POLK SIGNED THE
U.S. - MEXICAN PEACE TREATY
90) 7” x 2 ¾” The signature above was written with a quil pen made
with an Eagle feather with
which James K. Polk the
State signed his first Message to Congress and the
bill to admit Texas as a
state and the Treaty of
Peace between the United States and Mexico.
The Pen is now in the Keeping of The
Tenn. Hist Society at the capital Nashville.
$300 - up
AN HISTORIC LETTER WRITTEN TO PRESIDENT ZACHARY TAYLOR
WARNING HIM OF AN IMPENDING ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
dered, however some scholars
insist the debate is still open.
While the medical examinations
may have concluded otherwise,
one of the letters offered herein
penned by an anonymous, wellplaced official in the Polk administration certainly fuels the
possibility that the debate over
Taylor’s death remains open.
This fascinating and historic
letter provides further insight
into one of the most mysterious American Presidential controversies in history at a time of
great danger for the fledgling
nation.
“I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My
[Zachary Taylor] 1850. New York. 8pp.
only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.”
Written anonymously to President Zachary
91) For over 150 years, there has been con- Taylor one year into his presidency. The lettroversy regarding the untimely death of ter writer, obviously in a high and powerful
the twelfth president of the United States, position in the government, sends a warnZachary Taylor. Well-known nationally for ing to Taylor of evil conspiracies, plots to
his heroic victories during the Mexican- destroy the country and assassination. This
American War, Taylor returned from the lengthy and highly important letter offers
conflict to public adulation. As such, he was such fantastic detail and insight into the
well positioned for a run at the presidency, dangerous political environment of the pewhich he easily secured in the first elec- riod that we have recited it in its entirety.
tion held simultaneously in all states. The
national political scene was treacherous indeed and Taylor immediately found himself
“It seems necessary to inform you I trust I shall be sufembroiled in the divisive controversy over
ficiently (intelligible).
the expansion of slavery to which he was
opposed.
While Bulwer is at Washington persons in private circles
This slavery issue, as well as a dangerous
state of relations with Great Britain which
had existed in the previous few years leading up to his election created a highly volatile and emotionally charged political environment both at home and abroad.
are there whose influences could be readily used to divert
the attention of government from an investigation or impede its action. Emissaries have been out lately to assassinate a citizen of this country.
Since about the 3rd of this month he has been in great
peril. It is believed that a kind of management through
the press and paid writers is designed to cover and obscure
the question, which is both vitally and practicably allied
to the mode of opposition to the coconspiratory and evil
purposes entertained by the existing interest — the existing order of things in England. It will be well to mark
the influences upon the press closely.
The landscape was littered with potential
enemies, political and otherwise. It was
long held that Taylor was a victim of a well
placed assassin. Many had postulated that
he was poisoned with arsenic. In 1991, after years of debate, his body was exhumed. As a citizen I have a right, and it is my duty to write my
Scientific examination concluded that there sentiments plainly to you. With true lights before you it
was no evidence suggesting he was mur- is my belief that your own strong mind will direct things
aright.
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I know he had been employed to assassinate me; that he
had stted that this man not only had his signature with
others to a banded gang, but that he had the signature of
my brother in law and other persons, to other papers, and
that there were persons on the other side of the AtlanMr. Clayton can answer you whether or not any persons tic connected in the same manner. I cannot now question
are now in his confidence who were accused of what was these statements in my own mind. The most strenuous
termed pipe laying in 1840, in New York. If their should and persevering yet cautious means have been used to test
be, allow me to suggest, that your Excellency satisfy your- them. Where the labours of intelligence have prevailed to
self as to the as to the justness of those allegations, before elicit facts in this case, the rack(?) might have failed. Yet
yielding weight to their opinions, in any thing - If true, did I move, or attempt to move one step, I should be called
it is probable, that some of the persons were got into the insane: headed; thus, at every point, and thus weaken
Scrape unreflectingly, at dinners or suppers and did not the modes of defense, without obtaining aid or protection.
appreciate the extent of the designs or know the source The last news of the person who was then said to have
been at the Springs in Virginia (was been ?) that he was
from which they originated.
in London, shouting with the nobility, at Crockfords.
The origin of the affair was in England. If the project
had succeeded, the happiness and interests of the people There are reasons for the most profound and conspiratory
of this country would have fallen beneath a system of proceeding and for my destruction preliminarily for the
financial complexities and false elections. The plan to mar objects to be attained under those proceedings. No person
this country, tributory to the maintenance of the English who knows me will believe, I think, that I could be made
system by auxiliary complexities and disorganization, an instrument in the hands of any persons to rivet the
chains of a people to a system of financial Monarchy and
failed.
Despotism; or that I could be brought into any secret or
In that period, as now, attempts were made to destroy the traitorous purposes towards the soil which has sheltered
male representative of the exiled family, the other branch my father and afforded me its genial support. Of my
in this country was in against him, by some secret ar- existence is a hindrance to evil designs I shall endeavor to
rangement.
preserve it. The fact of its continuance is no evidence that
attempts have not been made to deprive me of it; and, if
A person who had been employed and knew some part the country is now safe, it is no evidence, it has not been
of the intrigues, said he never saw the play of Richelieu in danger.
without being reminded of the affair. I had not then seen
the play, or at least had no recollection that I had seen or In 1845, there was a partial demonstration as if to touch
read it - I obtained a copy, and upon reading was forcibly the object of conspiracy; there was then organized gangs in
reminded of its analogy, in many respects. That there are this country sufficient to lay every Atlantic City in ashes;
conspiratory papers, I do not doubt. An important part there was an English fleet at sea sufficient to strip the sea
of them, might, I think, upon one occasion have been of our entire mercantile and naval marine, and blockade
obtained, provided that there had been a healthy and ef- every port. Who will say that under such calamities, the
ficient action, in the police and magisterial departments to public mind would not have staggered and reeled? The
set out with. It is quite certain to me, that there is nothing country was open to danger. The great fire in this City
encompassing in those departments in this City unsup- in 1845, I believe was the work of a gang so organized;
ported by the application of means and strong influences. there was a doubt on the minds of the conspirators as to
what might be dared, or attempted in the then existing
I think it was in 1845, passing by a book shop, a man relations between the two countries. If an expose had been
stept from the door with an extra newspaper in hand, attempted to be forced by persons of weight and authority
just after an arrival – and desired me to go with him, to carry it through, the direst consequences might then
or send some person with him, to the Virginia Springs. have ensued.
He said that there was a person there, who had papers
in his trunk, of utmost consequence – that the possession In July I think of 1845 the fire took place, and afterof them was of utmost consequence, and that they would wards, in the same month the Unicorn Steamer lay for
some time within Pistol Shot of the Battery. I do not
implicate persons of highest respectability in this City.
know, that any thing has yet transpired, publicly as to
His own signature was upon a paper in this mans pos- the object of her visit. I think it was in August of that
session: he had been employed by this man to assassinate year Lord Palmerston, proposed to arm the militia of
me, had been much with him, and became in some manner England. For What?
possessed of secrets, beyond the point of assassination –
the newspaper, which he held in his hand, contained a The Unicorn may have been here to carry away, or afremark made by the Duke of Wellington, that the throne ford an asylum for evil persons; or to abduct me. I was so
was in danger. I had held no conversation with this man, closely hunted at that time as to deem it scarcely prudent
to sleep two nights at a place. I was alone, friendless,
of a political character, what ——?.
emaciated by care and almost distracted. If Mr. Polk was
with you, he could not but say that I had done my duty to
him and the country, without claiming protection beyond a
voluntary and prudential disposition to grant it.
Persons who would attempt to defraud the people of their
rights, by hired voters in this country, are quite as bad, in
my opinion, as those who are base enough to be employed
to commit perjury when giving their votes.
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Had a war ensued, I should have been driven to the forest, and pursued for extermination, in order carry out the
designs of conspiratory proceeding. If I had fallen by the
assassins hand, the happenings and institutions of this
country would as certainly have been assailed by future
hands under those conspiratory designs as if the calamities of war had been hitherto, suddenly and treacherously
imposed upon us, by an expose of the conspiracy itself
and with the causes originating it, and the political secret
and historical fact, so carefully concealed by the English
Government, and so expensively guarded.
I send herewith the Atlas. An article - the concluding
part - induces me to conjecture - that persons here may be
employed, by the English Government through agencies
here. It is my most earnest wish, Sir, that you may be
enabled to see every thing, and misapprehend nothing.
/private/- New York Jany 23, 1850”
The content of this detailed missive surely
speaks for itself. In all likelihood, this dire
warning to the president was penned by a
highly placed member of the Polk administration, though we’ve been unable to determine who. This frightening letter surely
would have been of grave concern to the
president. When placed within the backdrop of the harsh political climate both at
home and abroad, Taylor must have felt
threatened at nearly every turn. This letter
clearly demonstrates the conditions that
existed to foster the long-held beliefs that
Taylor may have been assassinated. While
the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty was signed in
1850 easing some of the tensions between
the United States and Great Britain, political foes in favor of slavery’s expansion at
home clearly abounded with motivation to
carry out an attempt on the president’s life.
This letter offers what is perhaps some of
the most shocking political content to come
to market in quite some time. $12,500 - up
GENERAL NATHAN KIMBALL TO GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR
92) [ZACHARY TAYLOR] 1848. Indiana.
4 pp. An outstanding letter of rarely seen
content related to the Mexican-American
War with fascinating content regarding
“slanderous” comments made by General
Taylor against the 2nd Indiana Regiment
in Taylor’s heroic and legendary Battle of
Buena Vista, the victory which arguably
gave him the Presidency:
“Fredericksburg Washington County Indiana August 17, 1848
General,
You will pardon the liberty I take in addressing you
this, asking of you an answer in regard to a subject
which you have already been troubled considerably
about and which you have already answered satisfactorily to most whigs – to wit. The incorrectness
of your report in relation to the conduct of the 2cd
Ind. Regiment in the great battle of Buena Vista
Feby 22nd & 25th. 1847.
You are aware that the leaders of the Cass party
in Indiana are endeavering to injure your prospects
in the state by Charging you with having slandered
the 2cd Regt of Indiana and Vol. (Col Bowles) in
your report, this charge is clearly and satisfactorily
settled by your letters to Hon G.G. Dunn M.C.
as also – the charge “that you neglect and refuse to
correct said report having the proper Datta before
you by which you can correct.” But the charge is still
made against you ; & it is said by persons who contributed to those reports – that the proceedings of
the Court of enquiry which was had for Genl Lane
(?) & Col. Bowles & the supplemental report of
Lane – were forwarded to you and that they contain
the datta for a connection of your report of that
battle – as relates to the conduct of that Regiment.
But that you still refuse to correct.” Now General
I am an humble one – a supporter of the “Taylor
& Fillmore” ticket. I am an Indianan & I was
in the Battle of Buena Vista & a member of the
2cd Ind Regt. I had the honor to command a company – being its Capt and I know the conduct of
the regiment during that day having joined the Regt
of Mississipians, under Col. Davis with a portion
of my company after the retreat of our regt & I
remained with Col. Davis commanded until our
regt was rallied & brot back by Lt. Col Haddon
& even then my Company continued next to the
flank of Col. Davis regt. I do know that the Regt
of Col Bowles – retreated by orders - & that it
was rallied again – but Col Bowles neglected to join
it & thus it was unrecognized – as a distinct regt.
Altho it participated in every engagement but one
– in which the Miss. Regt. Was engaged- It was in
the engagement when the charge by the Lancus was
made against Miss. & third Ind. Regt. & contributed in the glorious repulse of the Mexicans – But
this is rather foreign to the purpose.
fought bravely at Buena Vista – because you don’t
correct your detailed report of that glorious battle
& they say you have the proper & sufficient official
datta to enable you to correct that report.
General – you can immagine our feelings here when
we hear all this – having been under you – having
served under you in that battle & venerating you
as I do- it goes hard to hear this, and I wish you
to condescend to answer this that I may meet your
enemies - & the enemies of my state – these barely
fawning sycophants – I know that you are willing to
do Justice to my brave associates in arms of the 2cd
Regt. Ind. Volunteers & that you will do it in an
individual capacity in answering this - & officially
if you have the proper official datta to go upon – I
enclose a paper notice ..one of my efforts in your
behalf, and I do hope that you will pardon the (liberty) I have taken in thus addressing you that you
I am anxious to know whether or not you have of- will grant me an answer, for by it we will be able to
ficially received the supplemental report of General defend you and ourselves.
Lane of the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry
– in the Cause of Lane & Bowles & also whether Accept General appearances of high consideration
or not one or both of those documents don’t furnish & esteem and my wishes for your success & hapsufficient evidence of the gallant bearing & good piness and believe sir Respectfully Your Obt Servt
conduct of the 2cd Ind Regt. To cause you to make Nathan Kimball
a supplemental or a corrective report to the Detailed
report made by you in regard to that regt. in the Late Capt. G. Comp. 2nd Ind Vol.
battle of Buena Vista.
PS You will see on the first page of the paper and
The Leaders of the Cass party are denouncing you article over the signature of “Justice” which I wrote
on that account. They denounce & stigmatize all & also on 2nd page an editorial in relation to my
of us who support you – as cowards & slanderers effort on the stump. N Kimball.” On reverse: “Majr
– As I was in that battle and knew the conduct of Genl Zachary Taylor Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
that regt - & the causes that produced the misfortunes of our regt – and the cause of your making
your detailed as you did – I have been called upon
to take the stump by your friends & by my own
desire to see your cause successful & the truth to
triumph by lending my feeble aid – this I have done,
but I have been assailed on all hands, by the papers
and stump orators of the opposition. I have told the
people that you were not to blame – that your report
was made up from the reports of your subordinates.
Wool, Lane & c. I have compared all of the reports and have shewn that yours is milder than any
other. They say in answer that – now having all the
proper & sufficient datta to go upon you refuse to
correct. I point them to your letter to Dunn – they
still say that you now have those proper documents
& still you refuse – Genl Lane, Col Lane, are
now making speeches in this state – in which you
are barely slandered & denounced – because – as
they say – you refuse to do Justice to Indianians who
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Frederickburg, Ind August 17, 1848 Nathan
Kimball Late Captain 2cd Ind Vol. In regard to the battle of B.V.
To be attended to Baton Rouge from Indiana Troops” 4 pp. Integral address leaf.
Included with the letter is the page from
“The Salem News” (Salem Indiana, Tues.
Aug 1, 1848) that General Kimball refers
to, where he is anonymously published as
“Justice.” A docketed postcript in Taylor’s
hand states “To be attended to Baton Rouge, from
Indiana Troops”.
Extraordinary first-hand account of the
Battle of Buena Vista and a fantastic demonstration of political support for the future president. Fine.
$3,500 - up
PRESIDENT TAYLOR
MOURNING SERMON
93) God’s Hand In Human Events. A
Sermon, Preached
In The Bleecker
Street Church On
The 14th July, 1850.
Sermon preached
and mourning the
Death Of President
Taylor. 19pp. Yellow wraps with back
page separated, o/w
Fine
condition.
$175 – up
MILLARD FILLMORE
Printed Shareholders Letter Signed By
Josiah Quincy Jr. For Presentation To
Pres. Fillmore
94) JOSIAH QUINCY JR. (1802-1882).
American political figure from Massachusetts. Presentation copy of a Printed
Booklet, “Letter
to the Shareholders of the Vermont
Central Railroad,”
Inscribed
and
Signed, “Hon. Millard Fillmore with
the respects of
Josiah Quincy Jr.”
Twenty six pages,
5 5/8” x 9 1/2”.
A few pencil notations in margins.
Minor edge wear
and toning. Else Fine. A nice early railroad item with an unusual association.
$250 - up
FRANKLIN PIERCE
LETTER TO FRANKLIN PIERCE
95) Document Signed. One page, 8” x 10”
Richmond. July 25, 1853. The letter, written to President Pierce, states that public
opinion calls for the removal of the present Marshall of the Western District of
Virginia & proposes that Col. Charles
Blue is capable of handling that office.
Fine.
$125 - up
JANE PIERCE ALS
96) JANE PIERCE (1806-1863) First Lady of the United States. Autograph Letter
Signed, “Jane Pierce.” Four pages, 5” x 8”. Andover. March 11, 1862. Pierce writes
to her brother, in part: “ … Fanny wrote huge
accounts of the snow in Maine which I suppose
is by this time sinking away as it is here ... Sister Mary although very well, has been troubled
a good deal with the lame limb which you know
she injured on her journey to New York ... a niece
of Mr. Aikens, Mrs. White & her little daughter
have been here for several weeks. She is a great
invalid and they have been very unfortunate in a
pecunious way. We all feel much sympathy for her
husband in seeking business, as so many are now
... My husband is at N. hamp just now and last
week in Boston on business, but has found a part
of the time here very quietly this winter and has
fortunately escaped the terrible cough which he
had last winter ... We are all liking Mr. Smith very much (the new pastor who has kind &
social manners ... In January I was not often able to go to church, but of late have been
half the day most of the Sabbaths. I have had more chance to get about (for I knew you
would inquire for my health) this week than last but situated as I have been have gone
along as comfortably as I ought to have expected ...How fast are passing away those we
have known through our lives and we too are hastening on- may it be open “the skyward
path, the heavenly oval.” Usual folds. Overall Very Fine. $1,500 - up
JAMES BUCHANAN
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM FROM BUCHANAN’S TENURE
97) [AUTOGRAPH ALBUM]. Accomplished in the
administration of James Buchanan during the period
of 1857 “ 1861. Signatories
include: The President of
the United States “ James
Buchanan; Secretary of State
“
Lewis Cass; Secretary of the
Treasury Howell Cobb; Secretary of the InteriorJ. Thompson of Mississippi; Secretary
of War “ John B. Floyd; Secretary of the Navy “ Isaac
Toucey; Postmaster General “
Aaron V. Brown; Attorney General U. States “ J. S. Black; Jas. Alfred Pearch of Maryland;
George R. Toombs; James Harlan, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; Free Geo W. Jones, Dubuque,
Iowa; Jno. W. Thomson, New Jersey; L. F. S. Foster, Norwich, Con.; Charles Durkee,
Wisconsin; Sam Houston, Texas; David S. Reid, N.C.; Henry Dodge, Wisconsin; Lewis
Cass, Michigan; J. Collamen, Vt.; John P. Hale, Dover, N.H.; Hamilton Fish, New York;
Chas. Stuart, Michigan; S. A. Douglass, Chicago, Ills.; Lyman Trumbull, Illinois; Jno
Bell, Tennessee; Asa Briggs, North Carolina; J. J. Crittenden, Kenty.; Nicholas Snyder,
Washington City, D.C.; Albert M. Snyder, Nebraska; Henry Wilson, Mass.; William H.
Seward; Solomon Foot, Vermont; A few additional individuals also have signed. Moreover, there is a lovely three stanza poem entitled Oh, Whisper what thou Feelest” written and signed by Emma Paddock.
$2,500 – up
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Abraham Lincoln Engraving
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
GENERAL ORDERS 315: SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS
PASS-CO CERTIFIED ABRAHAM
LINCOLN AUTOGRAPH
FRAGMENT
98) ABRAHAM LINCOLN. (1809-1865).
Sixteenth President of the United States.
Autograph fragment from a larger legal
document. Approximately 8” x1”. Over 10
words in Lincoln’s hand, 1858. “…In the
Circuit Court of Vermilion County—April
term…” This item has been authenticated
and encapsulated by PASS-CO, LLC., and is
accompanied by a Certified Silver PASS. $1,250 - up
100) Printed Document, “General Orders
No. 315.” Three pages, 4 3/8” x 7”. War Department. Adjutant General’s Office. Washington. September 17, 1863. The document
reads, in part: “ … during the present rebellion, the President of the United States,
whenever, in his judgment, the public safety
may require it, is authorized to suspend
the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus
in any case .... BY THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES - A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the Constitution
of the United States has ordained that the
privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall
not be suspended, unless when in cases of
rebellion or invasion the public safety may
require it ... Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, President of the United States,
do hereby proclaim and make known to all
whom it may concern, that the privilege of
the write of habeas corpus is suspended...”
Extremely Fine.
$250 - up
102) [LINCOLN]. Engraving depicting a
standing Abraham Lincoln with his hand
resting upon the Emancipation Proclamation. 13 7/8” x
17 3/4”. Text
below engraving
identifies Lincoln.
Engraved by T.
Doney and entered in the Clerks
Office of the District Court for the
Northern District
of Illinois in 1866. Extensive soiling in
border. Some dampstaining. Overall Very
Good. $200 - up
President Lincoln’s Favorite Poem
103) Printed Document, “President Lincoln’s Favorite. A Poem, recited by Rev. Dr.
Vinton, at Trinity Church, April 20, 1865.
‘Oh! Why should the Spirit of Mortal be
Proud?’ ” Ornate border. Some soiling.
Bleed through from pen notation on verso
affects right border. Overall Very Good. $225 - up
Great 1864 Presidential Campaign Broadside
101) Color Broadside. “Presidential Campaign,
1864.” 70 1/2” x 95 1/2”. Published by H.H.
Lloyd & Co., B.B. Russell and L.R. Langdon.
Broadside bears portraits of presidential candidates Lincoln and McClellan and vice-presidential candidates Johnson and Pendleton at
top center. Along border are small portraits of
14 former presidents and short biographies of
the candidates. This broadside also includes
the Union and Democratic platforms and Lincoln’s and McClellan’s letters of acceptance. At
bottom center is a map “showing loyal states in
green, what the rebels still hold in red and what
the Union soldiers have wrested from them in
yellow” Paper loss at edges, some tearing and
wrinkling. Else Good. An exceptional and eye
catching piece.
$1,500 - up
PENNED ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ELECTION LETTERHEAD
99) Autograph Letter Signed, Chatham,
R.I.. July 30, 1860. On rare beardless Lincoln election special letterhead engraved &
published by E. Meade, Chicago. 1½ pp.
5¾” x 7¼”. “D. Tolcott Norton”. Atmosphere letter with discussions regarding
purchasing sheep; going to Orleans and a
ranch in Texas. Accompanied by original
postal envelope. Fine.
$400 – up
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Group Of Rich Content Letters From Union Officer Joseph H. Prime, With Great Military
And Political Content, Including Commentary On Lincoln And Johnson
Group consists of four war-date letters
and the draft and final copies of two
Memorials accomplished by Prime in
1897.
104) (1) Autograph Letter Signed, “Joe.”
Three pages, 7 3/4” x 9 3/4”. Office Provost Marshall 2nd Div. 25th A.C. March 26,
1863. The letter reads, in part: “ … We had
another review today and this time big Uncle Abraham himself and such a crowd for a body guard you
never saw. There was Lieut. General Grant - Maj.
Generals Meade Warren and Weitzel and a dozen
other Maj. Generals that I did not know about
- forty (40) Brigadiers Generals any quantity of
Colonels - Lieut. Colonels Majors, Captains and
Lieutenants, a whole Battalion of Cavalry and last
though by no means least Mrs. Lincoln and her
youngest son a boy I should think about twelve or
thirteen years old. Mrs. Lincoln was on horseback
and is a first rate rider and looks well on horseback, in fact a great deal better than when walking.
Lincoln was looking very pale and thin, much more
so than I ever saw him looking before and I hear
that he has been sick. Grant was looking as usual
only he has shaved off his mustache. He wore that
same old had all drooped down like a roosters tail
in a shower. General Ord is a man about sixty-five
(65) years old and his hair and whiskers are white
as snow … While I had the chance of taking off
my hat to the President today and would have liked
very much to have had you here to have seen the
military display as well as to have seen Mr. &
Mrs. Lincoln but I would have given much more to
have been at home with you where I could have had
a quiet bath with you. We are to be in readiness to
move at a moments warning with four days rations
and the first Division is now holding the lines that
our Division held yesterday … The Review did not
occupy more than forty (40) minutes after Lincoln
arrived although we had to ride the whole length of
the line and then have the whole line pass us at the
station of the reviewing Officers … Well I am hoping to get a letter from my darling tonight when the
mail comes and I think I had ought to as this is the
second one that I have written … ” Usual folds.
A few hole at intersection of folds. Overall
Very Good..
The letter reads, in part: “ … I thought I would
try and write a few words to you to let you know how we
are all getting along out here in the ‘Sunny South’ Well
this is the coolest day so far that we have had since we
got back fro that march up on the Peninsula … The
doctor says that the present camping ground owing to the
shade f these pine trees not allowing the sun to come in
and dry the ground … Well it has been almost a whole
year since I enlisted and it has been the longest year that
I ever saw … If I was only as free as I was one eyar ago
today when they caught me in the service of Uncle Sam
they would have to draft me … Well we hear that hey
have drafted in N.H. and we are very anxious to hear
who are drafted in Barnstead and Strafford … I should
like to know how they are getting along resisting the draft
down in Strafford and I really hope they have not done
it and still I don’t care much for if they have they have
probably learned by this time how useless it is to resist the
government, just let them remember that every citizens
owes allegiance to the law and that the conscription act is
a law … the man that resists it is nothing but a traitor
and as such should be hung to the nearest tree and I could
help do it … it would not make any difference for me who
it was for I should not wish for any relationship to exist
between me and a traitor … We hear that all that have
been drafted are at Concord and that the 5th NH Vols.
are guarding them … I am going to send you a pass that
I had to go to Norfolk with the other day for you to see
how many hands it had to go through before I could go a
distance of perhaps three miles and a half … I hear this
afternoon that instead of moving tomorrow we are to have
a review of this division … Since the fight as Suffolk
we have been called Getty’s Fighting Division although
don’t see the fight in me and I am one of the Division I
suppose. Well I suppose if Warren has been drafted he
has paid his three hundred and got clear … I should like
to see John Yasker Rufus Yap and a few others … but
I suppose that would commit suicide before Rufus should
so that by that means Rufus would be exempt as the only
support of a widowed mother and I suppose Gil Yasker
would do the same for John if he had not money enough
to pay for his release from the drafting rolls … we shall
have no soldiers to help us finish the war except those that
don’t have their pockets lined with gold but then a heart
can as well beat beneath coarse garments as fine ones …
I have staid out here long enough and seen enough of the
war to be heartily tired of it … ” A few splits at
‘it matter not where a man dies or is buried’ yet I would
rather die at home in the midst of friends - provided I
have any … … although I claim no more friendship
with Rebels as those that I doubt not will glory in the
assassination at Washington as I doubt not many of my
pretended Copperhead friends will yet - the man that does
so is not better than the assassin that executed the damnable deed and as Shakespeare says ‘I’d let him stare in
the midst of Desert land with lakes of pure water flowing around just out of his reach … there I’d let him die
enduring all the pains of Hell” … We have still to hope
that Andy Johnson will prove to be the right man in the
right place and administer the affairs of government well
as he has taken the initiatory course well and by his late
speeches made since the death of the President has spoken
sentiments which if adhered to will wipe out the stain of
his first political acts of getting drunk at the day of his
inauguration … ” Overall Very Fine.
(4) Autograph Letter Signed, “ Joseph.”
Two pages, 5” x 8” Dover NH. April 21,
1862. Accompanied by original envelope.
The letter was written just prior to Joseph’s
entry into the Army and contains lesser personal content. Fine.
(5 &6) Accompanied by drafts and the final
printed copy of two Memorials written by
Prime as a member of the Committee on
Resolution. The Memorials, dated April 1st
and 3rd, 1897, honor Chaplin Charles H.
Berry and Henry O. Huntress, respectively.
Overall Fine.
Joseph H. Prime enlisted in August of 1862
as a Corporal in the Union Army. The following month he mustered into F company
of the NH 13th Infantry. In 1864, Prime
applied for a commission as a Lieutenant
in the 7th Regiment United States Colored
Troops, which he was granted. Following
the war, he returned home to his wife, Hannah, in New Hampshire.
A nice lot with insightful military and political content, including great commentary on
both Abraham Lincoln and Andrew John(3) Autograph Letter Signed, “Joe Prime.” son.
$2,500 - up
Four pages, 5” x 8”. U.S. Genl. Hospital
Point or Rocks Va. April 19, 1865. Accompanied by original envelope printed with
an “illustrated history of the ‘Stars and
(2) Autograph Letter Signed, “Joe.” Four Stripes’” The letter reads, in part: “ … While
pages, 7 5/8” x 9 5/8”. Camp 13, N.H. I sit here writing I can hear the rifles of the escort firing a
Vols. Near Portsmouth Va. Tuesday morn- volley over some poor fellow that has just been buried here
ing half past nine o’clock. August 18, 1863. far away from friends and home. We hear men say that
folds. Overall Fine.
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LINCOLN AUTOGRAPH DISCHARGE STATEMENT
105) ABRAHAM LINCOLN (18091865) 16th President of the United
States. Autograph Document Signed,
“A. Lincoln,” as President. One page, 3”
x 1 7/8”. No place. February 20, 1865.
Lincoln writes: “Let this man take the
oath of Dec. 8 1863 & be discharged.”
Mounted under an engraving of Lincoln
to 12 ½” x 19 ¼” overall.
Published by Chas. Magnus, 12 Frankfort
St. NY. The first verse and chorus follows:
“ The Eagle of Columbia in majesty and
pride, / Still soars aloft in glory the traitors
have defied, / The flag we fondly cherish,
the emblem of our will / Baptised in the
blood of heroes way down on Bunker Hill
/ Chorus: Stock to the Wagon, the great
Union wagon, / The triumphant Wagon,
Abe Lincoln’s bound to rise … ” Very
Fine.
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On December 8, 1863 Lincoln issued a
proclamation which provided a means
of repatriating “those who resume
their allegiance” despite the fact that
the Union and Confederacy continued
to fight. With some key exceptions, former Confederates who took this oath
of loyalty were granted a full pardon.
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CITY COUNCIL ON THE
DEATH OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN PAMPHLET
SERMON DELIVERED UPON THE
DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
105B) “The Humble Conqueror: A Dis105A) “Proceedings of the City Council course Commemorative of the Life and Serof Boston, April 17, 1865, On Occasion of
vices of Abrathe Death of Abraham Lincoln, President
ham Lincoln,
of the United
Peached to the
States.” 35 pagCambridgeport
es, 5 5/8” x 9
Parish, April 23,
1/8”. Boston:
1865. By RevJ.E. Farnwell &
erend Henry C.
Company. 1865.
Badger. Boston:
Total print of
Printed for the
350 copies. One
Parish” 1865. 18
of only 118 coppages, 5 7/8” x
ies printed on
8 ¾”. $125 - up
alternate pages.
Signed “George
C. Montfont” at
MAGNUS SONG SHEET, “ABE
upper right corLINCOLN’S
UNION WAGON.”
ner of cover by
GEORGE MONTFONT, a leading mem105C) Magnus Songsheet, “Abe Lincoln’s
ber of the New England Genealogical SociUnion Wagon.” One page, 4 7/8” x 7 7/8”.
ety during the mid-19th century. $125 - up
Hand-colored image of an allegorical female at upper left and a hand-colored image of Lincoln within a gold star flanked
by American flags above a small image of
the U.S. Capital building at upper right.
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Robert Todd Lincoln
Autograph Letter Signed
105D)
ROBERT TODD LINCOLN
(1843-1926) American lawyer and Secretary
of War. Lincoln was the first son of Abraham Lincoln. Autograph Letter Signed,
“Robert T. Lincoln,” on his name-imprinted
legal stationery. One page, 4 7/8” x 7 3/4”.
Framed to 10 1/4” x 13 3/8” overall. Chicago. April 19, 1871. Lincoln writes to “Henri
Gerard Esq.”: “Sir: Your letter of Apl. 15 is
forwarded to me from Washn. As you request I enclose an autograph signature of
my father. Yours truly, Robert T. Lincoln.”
Very Fine.
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MEMORIAL ADDRESS OF THE LIFE
AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, TO BE DELIVERED, AT
THE REQUEST OF BOTH HOUSES OF
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
BEFORE THEM, IN THE HALL OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
BY THE HON. GEORGE BANCROFT
ON THE 12th OF FEBRUARY, 1866 ...
The programme goes on to provide detailed
seating and speaker information. Hole at
center fold, affecting all pages. Paper loss at
bottom of first page, not affecting text or
border. Overall Fine.
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KIDDER, PEABODY AND CO.’S
TESTIMONIAL TO MRS. LINCOLN
109) Manuscript Document Signed, Kidder, Peabody & Co,” on Office of Kidder,
Peabody & Co letterhead. Two pages, 5
1/8” x 8”. Boston. April 22, 1865. The document reads, in part: “Please find enclosed
check on National Bank of
Commerce for
($29) Twenty
nine dollars for
the following
subscriptions
BRADY PHOTO OF
to testimonial
MARY TODD LINCOLN
for Mrs. Lincoln ...” The
OFFICIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR
107) [MARY TODD LINCOLN]. Phosubscribers list
THE FUNERAL OF ABRAHAM
tograph. 6” x
twenty
nine
LINCOLN
9”. Sepia print
individuals, inmounted to origcluding Francis and Oliver Peabody and Henry Kidder,
105E) Printed Document. Three pages, 5” inal stock. Taken
each of whom offered a dollar toward the
x 8”. War Department, Adjutant General’s by Matthew Braabove noted testimonial. A fine association
Office. Washington, April 17, 1865. The dy in Washington
of Mrs. Lincoln and one of the nation’s olddocument reads, in part: OFFICIAL AR- in 1862. Some
line financial institutions. Very Fine.
RANGEMENTS at Washington for the slight edge chip
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funeral solemnities of the late ABRAHAM ping and minor
LINCOLN, President of the United States, loss of corners at
who died at the Seat of Government, on upper and lower
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Saturday, the 15th day of April, 1865 “ A left.
detailed order of the procession follows.
Extremely Fine.
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DONATIONS IN THE MEMORY
OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
108) Letter Signed by Five individuals
pledging one dollar each. One page, 5”x
8”. Boston. April 21, 1865. The document
reads, in part:
“Enclosed
please
find
the pledge of
myself
and
family to the
cause you repARRANGEMENTS FOR A MEMOresent hoping
RIAL ADDRESS OF ABRAHAM
it may be acLINCOLN
cepted for our
late Presidents
memory”.
106) [ABRAHAM LINCOLN] Printed
Very Fine.
Document. Four pages, 5 3/4” x 8 3/4. No
$200 - up
place. February 1866. The document reads,
in part: ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE
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Massachusetts Senator Frederick
Gillett Honors Abraham Lincoln
110) Frederick H. Gillett (1851 – 1935). Congressman and Senator from Massachusetts,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
from 1919 – 1925. Portrait with inscription
honoring Abraham Lincoln. 6” x 9”. Washington, Sept. 15, 29. “Lincoln is a by word
in every house for liberty, equality & the ideals of true Americanism. Fred. H. Gillett”.
A nice tribute to Lincoln while serving as
a senator. Couple of light folds. Extremely
Fine.
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STODDARD COMMENTS ON HIS RESPONSIBILITIES AS
A SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN
111) WILLIAM O. STODDARD. (18351925) Close friend and Assistant Secretary
to President Abraham Lincoln. Autograph
Letter Signed, William O. Stoddard,” on
his name-imprinted stationery. Two pages, 5
3/8” x 7”. Madison, New Jersey. December
18, 1922. Stoddard writes to John W. Starr,
Jr, in part: “I am sorry that I cannot send
you a personal impression” relating to the
points you indicate. I have but a dim recalling of the name and of Maj. J.B. Merwin and
cannot speak of his services. I almost laugh
when I recall one thing more for the benefit of several writers and talkers who aver
that they knew Lincoln. I knew him ...during
several years I was in absolute charge of his
correspondence, of all things coming to him by the mail as well as other important actions the inquiries could have been all the while at my elbow, they would doubtless have
discovered his extreme reticence and constant refusal to let himself out” incidentally on
public or private affairs.”
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JAMES E. KELLEY SKETCH OF
WILLIAM O. STODDARD
112) JAMES EDWARD KELLEY (1855
“ 1933) American sculptor and illustrator
who
specialized
in
depicting
people and
events
of
American
wars,
particularly the
American
Civil War. 8”
x 11”. Pencil sketch of
William O.
Stoddard by
James E. Kelly. William O. Stoddard Private
Secretary to President Lincoln” signed Kelly Oct. 27, 1921”. Top right corner missing,
far removed from sketch and would easily
matte out. Notation on verso indicates that
this item was purchased from Dr. Gordon
Stoddard, grandson of William O. Stoddard. Very Fine.
$1,000 - up
OLIVER HAZARD PALMER
REQUESTS A DISCHARGE FROM
SECRETARY OF WAR STANTON
113) Autograph Letter Signed, “O.H. Palmer.” Three pages, 4 7/8” x 7 7/8”. Washington. February 28, 1863. Palmer writes to his
wife, in part: “I have worked up my courage
to the sticking point and this morning presented my papers to the Sec. of War asking
to be relieved … he glanced over the papers
and simply remarked it was a strong case
but they disliked to part with good officers.
I think my resignation will be accepted. It
is possible I may be required to go to the
Regt. and offer it there … It has required a
good deal of effort to reach this point but
I am so thoroughly satisfied that my duty
is at home that I dare not let the pride of
feeling control … I met Genl. Sumner yesterday … He seemed very glad to see me.
I told him I thought of retiring. He said
don’t do it at present at any rate … I was
very glad to meet & find him so cordial…”
In 1862, Oliver Hazard Palmer assumed
the rank of Colonel in the 180th NY Regiment and served bravely at the Battles of
South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericks-
38
burg before ill health forced him to retire
from the service not long after our letter
was written. For his valorous and meritorious service, Palmer was brevetted Brigadier General in 1866. In addition, Palmer
served as Treasurer of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, helped to organize the
legal department of the Mutual Life Insurance Company and served as President of
the Hahnamann Hospital. Some soiling and
a slight tear at bottom edge. Else Fine. $225 -up
ANDREW JOHNSON
OHIO POLITICO ON PRESIDENT
JOHNSON & ELECTIONS
114) An Ohio Politico On President Johnson & Congressional Elections. Autograph
Letter Signed, “John Bacon.” Three pages,
8” x 12 ½”.Springfield. May 22, 1866. Bacon writes concerning business, the weather, the year’s crops and politics. Concerning
the latter, Bacon writes: “…Politically I am
in the fog. I fear there will be trouble ahead
and while I think the President is acting very
badly I think Congress is to blame, I think
had the proper efforts have been made they
might have got along … I have not much
fault to find with the vetoes, the last one I
think was perfectly right I see by the papers
you are having trouble to Elect a Senator
in Connecticut. Ohio elects Congressmen
this fall. I do not think we will have much
trouble we may lose one or two Union
Members but hope not, our people are not
disposed to enter into the quarrel and will
not harm anything to do with the Copperheads … There may be some trouble
in making the Nominations for Congress
… There will be some opposition to our
Congressmen Shellabarger but I think he
will be nominated he appears to be making
quite a reputation for himself, he has but
little personal popularity, he is as cold as an
iceberg, but has shown more talent his [?]
previous thought to possess…” SAMUEL
SEHLLABARGER (1817-1896) was a
U.S. Representative from Ohio. Very Fine.
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ULYSSES S. GRANT
AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT
BY PRESIDENT GRANT
“…Well the President had Flossie upon his
leg about a dozen times and gave her as many
kisses…Flossie said he kissed them all, but he
kept pulling her on his lap all the time and kissing
her. I presume from the peevish way Flossie told us
about it that she did not so fully appreciate it…”
115) Autograph Letter Signed. Eight pages,
5” x 7 ¾”. Home. February 12, 1873. Accompanied by a severely damaged original
envelope. The letter reads, in part: “…Mrs.
Jackson and her cousin came here … and
invited our children to attend the reception
of President Grant at their house … They
gave a dinner at five oclock. I dressed Elsie all in white and sent her along with our
children … Well the President had Flossie
upon his leg about a dozen times and gave
her as many kisses…Flossie said he kissed
them all, but he kept pulling her on his
lap all the time and kissing her. I presume
from the peevish way Flossie told us about
it that she did no so fully appreciate it …
He[Grant] went through the factory shortly
after dinner. Our children … went over
to the factory and sat in their handsomest
Pony Phaeton each with a flag and when
President Grant passed by them waived
it in honor. He stopped and took off his
hat to these tiny ones. We all of us were
over there. The factory looked its prettiest
trimmed with flags & c. … There were great
crowds assembled there. I shook hands with
him… Jackson’s house was trimmed inside
with evergreens and elegeant boquets[sic]…
There was about eighty guests Legislature
and all, they held a public banquet at Institute Hall…” Fine.
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CDV of ULYSSES S. GRANT
116) (1822-1885) American general and
President of the United States of America.
2 1/2” x 4”. Printing under image reads:
“U.S. Grant , -Lt. Gen., U.S.A. Photographed on the field, March 15th, 1865 by
H.F. Warren Waltham, Mass.” Pencil text
on verso reads: “This is not very good of
Grant, it was taken in the field and it has a
scowl which he has not. Mary” Some minor soiling at edges and edge wear. Overall
Fine.
$225 - up
Scene On The Beautiful Hudson River
117) 11 1/2” x 10 black and white photograph of the Hudson River. Mounted to a
17 1/8” x 14 1/4” sheet, which is in turn
mounted to a piece of foamboard. Text
below image reads: “SCENE ON THE
BEAUTIFUL HUDSON RIVER, In Front
of General Grant’s Resting-Place, the Day
of the Burial. At the conclusion of the Ceremonies at the Tomb, the Regimental Salute
HAYES ERA AUTOGRAPH ALBUM
was answered by the thunder of the guns of
the North Atlantic Squadron.” Some splits
119) A statement at the beginning of the
and paper loss to larger sheet, not affecting
album details the circumstances of the
image. Overall Fine.
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album: “December 25, 1880. This autographic album was signed by the President,
Cabinet, Supreme Court of the U.S. Senate,
House of Representatives and others in
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
1880 and was presented to Miss Etta Gist
at Fairfield, Iowa in token of her fidelity
in the Baptist Church and Sunday School.”
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
This statement sums up the contents of the
PARDONS A MAN CONVICTED
book and a complete list of all signers is exOF MAIL FRAUD
tremely lengthy. Hayes and his cabinet sign:
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES; WILLIAM
118) RUTHERFORD B. HAYES (1822- EVARTS; JOHN SHERMAN Secy. Trea1893). Nineteenth President and Union sury; GEORGE McCRARY, Secy. Of War;
general during the Civil War. DS. 2 pages. RICHARD W. THOMPSON, Secy. Of the
Both sides of a single sheet. 10 ¾” x 15 ¼”. Navy; D. M. Key, Postmaster General. Su“Whereas Milton G. Abbot, on conviction preme Court includes: M. R. Waite, Chief
of devising a scheme or artifice to defraud Justice Sup. Ct. U.S.; Nathan Clifford, Asby means of the mails was sentenced by the sociate Jus. Sup. Court U.S.; N. H. Swayne,
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District Asso. Jus. Sup Court U.S.; Sam. F. Miller,
of Pennsylvania on the 2nd day of Decem- Associate Justice Supreme Court United
ber, 1879, to pay a fine of $500, with costs, States, Dec. 2, 1879; Stephen Field, Associand to imprisonment for the term of 10 ate Justice of U.S. Sup. Court, Washington
calendar months…in consideration of the Dec. 3, 1879; W. Strong, Asso. Jus. Supreme
premises, divers other good and sufficient Court U.S.; Joseph P. Bradley, Asso. Justice
reasons me thereunto moving, do hereby Sup. Ct. U.S.; John M. Harlan, Asso. Justice
grant to the said Milton G. Abbot, a full and Supreme Court, U.S., Dec. 3, 79. William
unconditional pardon.” Signed by Hayes McKinley and James Garfield both sign,
as president. Countersigned by William thus the book contains the signatures of
Evarts as Secretary of State. Folds. Fine. three presidents. A virtual who’s who of au
$2,000 - up tographs of the government of the United
States in 1880 with significant autographic
value .
$3,500 - up
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JAMES A GARFIELD
enue, (New Number 847) Bet. Portland Ave
and Elliot Place, Brooklyn. Particular attention given to Carte de Visite of Children…”
Pencil notation on verso identifies images.
Mounting trace on verso. Slight soiling.
Overall Fine.
$125 - up
CDV’S OF PRESIDENT
GARFIELD AND FAMILY
120) Group of six CDVs of various members of the Garfield family. All measure
approximately 2 3/8” x 4”. Images of
President James A. Garfield, Mrs. James A.
Garfield, Harry Garfield, James Garfield,
Mollie Garfield and Mrs. Eliza Garfield.
Overall Fine.
$300 - up
GARFIELD CABINET PHOTO
121) 4 1/8” x 6 1/2”
Cabinet Photograph
of JAMES GARFIELD (1831-1881)
President of the
United States. Text
under image reads:
“Gen. James A. Garfield.
Republican
Candidate for President 1880” Some
slight toning. Overall Fine. “PRESIDENT GARFIELD’S FUNERAL
MARCH” BY E. GILMORE
123) “President Garfield’s Funeral March”
sheet music. Three pages, 10 3/4” x 14”.
Line engraving of Garfield on cover. Copyright, 1881, by R.A. Saalfield. Published by
Richard A. Saalfield, 839 Broadway, New
York. Some slight toning and edge wear.
Overall Fine.
$125 – up
LUCRETIA GARFIELD ALS
$125 - up
122)
CDV of James Garfield’s House. 4” x 2
1/2”. Backstamp reads: “Carte de Visite
W.L. Trozell, Photographer, 319 Fulton Av-
124) LUCRETIA GARFIELD (1832-1918)
First Lady of the United States. Autograph
Letter Internally Signed
on her monogrammed
black
bordered mourning stationery.
West-Mentor
Lake, Co. June
28, 1913. Garfield writes,
“Mrs. Lucretia R. Garfield asks that the Treasurer send to her the yearly tax due on her Hiram
property. Her address in West-Mentor Lake Co.”
Extremely Fine.
$250 – up
40
GROVER CLEVELAND
Grover Cleveland Writes To Massachusetts Congressman John E. Russell
Referring To The “Silver League” Just
A Week After His Third Nomination
For The Presidency
125) GROVER CLEVELAND (18371908). Twenty Second and Twenty Fourth
President. 4 ½” x 6 ¾”. Three page ALS on
Gray Gables, Buzzards Bay, Mass. Letterhead. Dated Aug. 1, 1892 Grover Cleveland
writes to John E. Russell, Congressman
from Massachusetts, “My dear Mr. Russell, I was very glad to receive your letter
and the article on the Bank Tax report. I
have been thinking of that subject a good
deal, and it has seemed to me that there was
much justice and politics in it. I could not
help thinking that the project furnished a
first rate author for the Silver League. What
you say on the subject is so wise and so fair
that it gives me great strength and comfort.
I won’t know when I shall write a letter of
acceptance, but I hope it will be after I have
seen you. And this leads me to say, I am delighted to learn that we are to have you and
that other good democrat under our roof
about the fifth of September. We will give
you a hearty welcome and cool air. I hear
that the campaign is doing very well. I do
not know much about it presently. With
kindest remembrances from us both to Mrs.
Russell I am, Yours most Sincerely, Grover
Cleveland”. Cleveland writes to Russell just
a week after the The Democratic National
Convention was held from June 21 -23, 1892
in Chicago. At the Convention, Cleveland
was nominated as the Democrat’s candidate
for the presidency. His commentary on the
Bank Tax report offers a sarcastic view as to
his thought on subjects as the Silver League
meeting had been held in Reno, Nevada on
June 24, 1882. The Silver League was Republican oriented and in direct conflict with
Cleveland’s supporters. While the Silver
League was meeting in Reno, Democrats
rallied to endorse the nomination of Grover
Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson as their candidates. A choice Cleveland ALS with fine
content written just after his nomination for
presidency in the contentious political race
of 1892. Excellent.
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ENGRAVING OF CLEVELAND
INSCRIBED ON VERSO BY
W.O. STODDARD
MARY HARRISON
130)
MARY HARRISON (1858-1948)
Second wife of Benjamin Harrison. ALS.
“Mary Lord Harri128) 2 3/4” x 3 1/4” engraving of Grover
son,” on her monoCleveland mounted to a 4 1/8” x 6 1/2”
grammed stationery.
card. Inscribed on verso From the PresiThree pages, 4 1/2”
dent at the White
x 6”. April 17, 1916.
House W.O.S.” WILNew York City. HarLIAM O. STODrison writes in reDARD. (1835-1925)
sponse to a request
Close friend and Asfor her husband’s ausistant Secretary to
tograph. Very Fine.
$125 – up
President Abraham
Lincoln. Fine. $200 - up
WILLIAM McKINLEY
GROVER CLEVELAND ALS ON
EXECUTIVE MANSION
LETTERHEAD
126) (1837-1908)President of the United
States. Autograph Letter Signed, “Grover Cleveland,” on Executive Mansion,
Washington letterhead. Two pages, 4 3/8”
x 7” Washington. February 7, 1888. Accompanied by original Executive Mansion
envelope. Cleveland writes, in part: “ Please
accept my sincere thanks for the beautiful
specimen of photographic art which I today
received from you … It is certainly a charming picture and I am quite pleased that my
name should be given to a mountain … ”
Tape repair on verso, not affecting signature. Minor paper loss at edges. Else Fine.
$2,000 - up
GROVER CLEVELAND
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
127) Presidential electoral ticket promoting Democratic presidential candidate
Grover Cleveland, vice-presidential candidate Thomas Hendricks, and candidates
for Congressional and state offices, New
Hampshire, 1888. Woodcut vignette atop
with an illustration of eagle, flags and shield
reading “Constitution and Union.” One
name in the County Officers list has been
glued over with another name, apparently, a
change in the nominee. 3¼” x 7½”. Fine. $80 - up
BENJAMIN HARRISON
STEREOVIEWS OF PRESIDENT
AND MRS. MCKINLEY
131) 1)Stereoview of “President McKinley at his desk in the White House, Washington, D.C.” 2) Stereoview of “Mrs.
McKinley in the Conservatory of the Executive Mansion, U.S.A.” Verso of Mrs.
McKinley’s stereoview identifies the image
in five languages. Both printed by Underwood & Underwood, Publishers. Both Fine.
$125 - up
MARY LOUISE HARRISON ON
HER FATHER, RUSSELL
FARNHAM LORD, CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE DELAWARE &
HUDSON CANAL
129) MARY HARRISON (1858-1948).
Letter Signed, “Mary Lord Harrison,” on
her personal stationary. Four pages, 6” x 6
7/8”. New York City. November 2, 1941. To
Mr. John Burr. “My Dear Mr. Burr …Did
you know that my father—Russell Farnham
Lord was manager and inquirer in charge of
the building and engineering of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal from 1830-1863 when
he retired in accord of ill health and whose
advice was of great value to the company so
considered by them and their engineers…”
$125 – up
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STEREOVIEW OF
MCKINLEY WITH FOUR
GENERALS
132)
WILLIAM MCKINLEY (18431901) President of the United States. 7”
x 3 1/2” stereoview, “President McKinley and Major-Generals Wheeler, Lawton,
Shafter and Kiefer” Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers, New York, N.Y. Sold by
Underwood & Underwood, New York,
London, Toronto-Canada, Ottowa-Kansas.
Copyright 1899 by Stromeyer & Wyman.
Some minor soiling. Small tear on right stereoview image. Else Very Good. $100 - up
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
TEDDY ROOSEVELT’S WIFE:
“THANK YOU FOR THE LOVELY
ROSES”
133) EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT
(1861-1948) First Lady and second wife of
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the
United States.2pp. A.L.S on White House
stationery: “Friday, My dear Captain Goddard, Thank you so much for the lovely
roses, which adorned the table most successfully at an opportune dinner party. They
are still fresh and lovely. I had another letter
from Kermit and as he does not mention his
foot I must hope that it is all right. Sincerely
yours, Edith Kermit Roosevelt” Boldly written, minor tone discoloration, light remnant
from scrapbook glue on verso, otherwise
Very Fine.
$175 – up
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
137) WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT(18571930). Twenty-seventh President and SuWILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
preme Court Chief Justice. 7” x 9 ¼”. TLS
on Taft’s personal
135) WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857- stationary.
Dated
1930) President of the United States. Typed New Haven, ConLetter Signed,
necticut, October
“Wm.
H.
28th, 1917 and
Taft,” on his
addressed to Mr.
name imprintFrederic H. Fuller;
.
ed letterhead. 5
“Upon my return
to
3/8” x 8 3/8”.
New Haven today, I
Washington,
find your letter of
D.C. DecemOctober 25th, and I have had pleasure in
ber 11, 1908.
writing to Senator Lippitt in regard to his
Taft
writes:
accepting the Chairmanship of your State
“My dear Mr.
Committee. Sincerely yours, Wm. H. Taft.”
Pierce: I beg to
Very Fine. $300 - up
acknowledge
the receipt of
your telegram
of congratulations, received at the time of
the election, and to thank you for sending
it and for your kind words of greeting and
good wishes. Very sincerely yours, Wm. H.
Taft.” Some bleeding of type. Else Fine. $300 – up
TAFT THANKS A WELLWISHER
AT CHRISTMAS
EDITH ROOSEVELT FREE FRANK
134) EDITH ROOSEVELT (1861-1948).
First Lady of the United States. Her Free
Franking Signature, “Edith K. Roosevelt,”
on a 5 3/8” x 3 3/8” envelope. December
15, 1942. With OYSTER BAY postal cancellation. Cancellation affects signature.
Finee.
$100 – up
136) WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (18571930) President of the United States. Typed
Letter Signed,
“William H.
Taft,”
on
original Supreme Court
of the United
States,
Washington,
D.C. letterhead
with
one word autograph addition. One
page, 5 3/4”
x 5 3/4”. Washington, D.C. December 24th,
1926. Taft writes to Mr. and Mrs. Charles
J. Livingood, in part: “ … Thank you for
your kind card of Christmas greetings and
New Year’s good wishes, which Nellie and
I cordially reciprocate. May we all meet at
dear old Murray Bay in good condition next
summer … ” Mark from paper clip at upper
left. Else Fine.
$300 – up
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TAFT AND THE ISTHMIAN
CANAL COMMISSION
138) WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (18571930) President of the United States.
Typed Letter Signed, “Wm. H. Taft,” on
War Department, Washington letterhead.
One page, 5 5/8” x 9”. Washington. June
30, 1907. Accompanied by original nameimprinted envelope. Taft writes to Mr.
Rufus A. Lane, Assistant to the Secretary,
Isthmian Canal Commission, in part: “ ... I
have your note in respect to you retention
in the service and I shall give it proper consideration. My impression is that there will
be no trouble about your remaining, but I
must consult with Colonel Goethals as to
the particular place which you will hold...”
The Isthmian Canal Commission was set
up in 1904 to oversee the construction of
the Panama Canal and reported directly to
Secretary of War William H. Taft. Colonel
George Washington Goethals supervised
the construction and the opening of the
canal, and also served as the name sake
of both the Goethals Bridge and the Goethals Medal. Staining from paper clip at
upper left-center. Usual folds. Overall Fine.
$700 - up
WOODROW WILSON
EDITH BOLLING WILSON
bossed Massachusetts State Seal. Coolidge
writes in response to a request for his auto140) (1872-1961), First Lady of the United graph. Mounting trace of verso. Some slight
States. Autograph Letter Signed, “Edith wear. Overall Fine.
$225 - up
Bolling Wilson,” on 2340 S Street N W
letterhead. Three pages, 4 1/4” x 6 3/8”.
Washington, D.C. January 4th, 1928. Mrs.
Wilson writes: “A very happy New Year to
both you dear Mrs. Warren and your husband! … how dear you were to send me
those lovely California greens for ChristDAUGHTER MARGARET WILSON
mas. They gave me such pleasure and evON HER SISTER’S CHILDREN
eryone who saw them exclaimed at their
AND HER FAMILY’S CIVIC
unusual beauty. … I do hope you both had
ACTIVITIES
a happy visit North and that you will remember how much your thought added to
my content. Faithfully yours, Edith Bolling
$150 – up
139) MARGARET WILSON. (1886- 1944). Wilson.”
Daughter of President Woodrow Wilson
CALVIN COOLIDGE
and a noted opera singer. Autograph Letter
Signed, “Margaret Wilson,” on The White
CALVIN COOLIDGE WRITES THE
House Washington letterhead. Three pages,
U.S. SHIPPING BOARD
5 ¼” x 8”. “Waterford, Conn.” October 7,
1916. Accompanied by a The White House 141) CALVIN COOLIDGE (1872-1933)
envelope addressed to “Mr. Oliver P. New- President of the United States. Typed Let- CALVIN COOLIDGE WRITES THE
U.S. SHIPPING BOARD URGING
man, District Bldg., Washington, D.C.” With ter Signed, “Calvin Coolidge,” on White
ADDITIONAL SHIPS BE
red two-cent stamp and WATERFORD House, Washington letterhead. One page,
PLACED IN SERVICE FOR THE
CONN postal cancellation. Wilson writes, 7” x 9”.Washington. September 30, 1924.
MOVEMENT OF GRAIN
in part: “Dear Mr. Newman, I did not see Accompanied by United States Shipping
your letter until last night as I have been Board envelope. Coolidge writes, in part: “
143) “ ... It is very important that addiaway for a rest. My voice gave out because,
I have your letter of tional ships be put on the Gulf ports for
I confess, I overworked it. In my enthusiSeptember 29th and the movement of grain, and that it be done
asm at being able to work again, I used it
note the demands forthwith. The information has come to me
too much, and so when I saw that it needed
which are being made that your Board does not intend to put ada rest I went to Williamstown to see my sisupon the Board for ditional ships on. This ought to be done at
ter. You should see her babies! The little girl
additional
freight once or the favorable effect will be lost ...”
is going to look like Mother, I think. But
vessels by the grain
I did not sit down to write to you about
dealers and cotton CALVIN COOLIDGE (1872-1933) PresiJessie’s babies. I am afraid that I am going
producers. I hope dent of the United States. Typed Letter
to develop into a doting old maid aunt …
you will do the best Signed, “Calvin Coolidge” on The White
Then when your letter came and I realized you can to move the crops. As to the number
House, Washington letterhead. One page,
that the celebration had not yet come off, I and location of vessels, I leave this to your
7” x 8 3/4”. Washington. June 29, 1926.
consulted with Mr. David about my going judgment ... “ Usual folds. Pin holes at upper
Coolidge writes to the United States Shipdown to it. He begged me not to saying that left. Two punch holes at top edge. Overall
ping Board, in part: “ ... It is very imporI had said I would not one thing at a time Fine.
$375 - up tant that additional ships be put on the
and not mix music with civic center activity
Gulf ports for the movement of grain,
… I am very happy over Father’s promise
and that it be done forthwith. The inforto speak later at the Park View school. I am 142) CALVIN COOLIDGE (1872-1933)
mation has come to me that your Board
really extremely sorry that I cannot be in President of the
does not intend to put additional ships on.
Washington for the twentieth. With my real United States. Typed
This ought to be done at once or the favorregards, Faithfully yours, Margaret Wilson.” Letter Signed, “Calable effect will be lost ... Of course, some
A range of commentary on White House vin Coolidge” on
expenses will be incurred, but the benefits
stationery from Woodrow Wilson’s eldest The
Commonwill be of great importance to the grower’s
daughter. Fine.
$150 – up
wealth of Massaof grain .... “ File and staple holes at top.
chusetts, Executive
Some slight toning at left edge. Else Fine.
Department letter
$750 – up
head bearing an em-
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CALVIN COOLIDGE ON
PUBLIC LIFE
President of the United States. Typed Letter Signed, “Calvin Coolidge,” on his nameimprinted stationery. One page, 8 1/2” x
11”. Northampton, Massachusetts. May 23,
1930. Coolidge writes, in part: “ … For a
great many years I have been assisting individuals and newspapers to prepare articles.
I am not in public life and should like very
much to be relieved of that kind of work.
You do not know what a great burden it
gets to be when you have to pursue it day
after day after you are out of office. Late I
expect to have the picture men all together
after which the picture business of my residence I hope will be closed ...” Some slight
edge wear and minor toning. Overall Fine. $375 - up
145) GRACE COOLIDGE (1879-1957).
Letter Signed, “Grace C.” on her gold
monogrammed letterhead. Two pages, 5
¾”x 7 ¾”. No place. Tuesday [August 4,
1929]. Accompanied by original envelope.
Coolidge writes: “Dear Mollie K. Because
of the daily dispatches which go out to the
newspapers Mr. Coolidge finds it impossible to get away and so we must forego accepting your tempting invitation. We hope
that you will make that visit for us and come
up here for a few days- week-end if you prefer- middle-week if more convenient. The
only time when we are booked up is the
week of September seventh (7th). Perhaps
you prefer waiting until Lilian has gone to
school or until you close your house at the
shore. It is lovely here and I rather think
you would enjoy it. We can promise you
both a quiet time- Do say “Yes” to us. With
much love Sincerely your friend Grace C.”
$200 – up
GRACE COOLIDGE
146) GRACE COOLIDGE (1879-1957)
First Lady of the United States. Autograph Note
Signed,
“Grace
Coolidge,”
as
First
Lady,
on
The White
House,
Washington
letterhead
bearing an
embossed
Seal
of
State. Washington.
October 12, 1928. Coolidge writes, in
part: “ … I am receiving the lady representatives of the Press on Friday ... and
I should be grateful if you could come
to assist me...” Usual folds. Very Fine.
$150 - up
GRACE COOLIDGE INSCRIBED
AND SIGNED PHOTO
147) GRACE COOLIDGE (1879 - 1957).
First Lady. Black and White Photograph
of an angelic Grace Coolidge Inscribed,
“To Mrs. Nen in token of friendship Grace
Coolidge.” No place. February 14, 1929.
Very Fine.
$200 – up
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POSTMASTER GENERAL HARRY
NEW COMMENTS UPON THE OFTEN OVERLOOKED GENIALITY
OF PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
148) HARRY S. NEW (1858-1937). Postmaster-General. Typed Letter Signed, “Harry S. New, P.M.G.” One page, 6 ½” x 9”.
Washington, D.C. January 19, 1924. Accompanied by an Office of the Postmaster General envelope and a The Vice-President’s
Chamber envelope with a printed “Calvin Coolidge” Free-Frank. New writes, in
part:“Mr. Coolidge was a good deal of an
enigma not only to the newspaper men who
were brought into contact with him, but to
most of his associates. His reputation for
maintaining quiet was one to which he was
entitled.; and yet, when the spirit moved him,
or when he really enjoyed the company and
the occasion, he not only could but would
and did talk most entertainingly. I well remember one such occasion— a dinner given
for the President by the Postmaster General,
one of the annual affairs of the kind given by
Cabinet members. The guests were all from
Indiana, and it chanced that their personalities appealed in a way that prompted Mr.
Coolidge to drop his reserve…I remember
very well that after the President and Mrs.
Coolidge had taken their leave every member of the party went almost into paroxysms of delight over what they had heard.
“How did he ever acquire a reputation
for being glum and quiet?” they asked.
And seldom in the days of the Coolidge
administration did any one speak of the
President without coupling with his name
some illusion[sic] to “economy”… “economy with him did not mean parsimony.
As President, Mr. Coolidge believed that
a government, like an individual, should
live within its means.” Fine condition.
$125 - up
HERBERT HOOVER
HERBERT HOOVER AND THE
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
149) (1874-1964), President of the United States. Typed Letter Signed, “Herbert
Hoover,” on Herbert Hoover letterhead.
One page, 7 1/4” x 10 1/2”. California.
January 22nd, 1937. Hoover writes: “ …
The Boy Scouts of America has recently adopted an extension program whereby seven
years hence, if successful, one out of every
four male citizens in America arriving at the
age of twenty-one will have been a four year
Scout trained man. Walter Head, President
of the National Council, has appointed me
Chairan of a Committee to secure $100,000
to make possible this program in Region
Twelve, comprising the States of California,
Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Hawaiian Islands … In order to carry out this program
about $45,000 is needed from Northern
California to cover the five year period. … I
am anxious that this job should be done as
a contribution of the first order to the community. I am therefore taking the liberty of
asking if you will serve on the Committee
for this purpose … ” At the time of writing this letter, Herbert Hoover was serving
as chairman of the Boy Scouts of America.
Very Fine.
$400 – up
ing down to see him and I hope it will be
straightened out before the I.S.S. meeting. I
am going to lunch with Dr. Cohn on Thursday, and I will do my best to have him come
to the meeting in a cheerful frame of mind
...” Alvin Johnson, an American economist, served as editor of the New Republic and was co-founder of the New School
for Social Research in New York. During
the Second World War, Johnson helped to
save many central European scholars from
persecution by brining them to the UniverLOT RELATED TO THE
sity in Exile, a division of the New School.
CELEBRATION OF HERBERT
With Roosevelt’s reference to the ISS, the
HOOVER’S 75TH BIRTHDAY
International Student Society, one can infer
that the noted meeting concerns Johnson’s
efforts with the University in Exile. Usual
150) 1)HERBERT HOOVER (1874 - 1964) folds. One line of light soiling. Overall Very
President of the United States. Autograph Fine.
$225 - up
Letter Signed, “Herbert Hoover,” on his
name-imprinted stationery. One page, 7” x
10 1/2”.The Waldorf Astoria Towers. New
York, New York. August 23, 1949. Hoover
writes to Mr. Carl Holley, in part: “ … I am
sorry I was too overwhelmed to arrange a
meeting at Stanford. The fact is that the Bureau is more intent upon socialization than
upon its proper function. But that cannot
be changed under the present regime …”
2)Typed Letter From Mr. Holley lamenting
that he was unable to meet Hoover at his
birthday celebration. Five pages, 8 1/2” x
11”. Printed Invitation to the Hoover Institute’s celebration of Hoover’s 75th birthday.
5 1/4” x 7 7/8” Also accompanied by two
letters from F.A. Wickett to Carl Holley regarding the celebration and one letter from
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Carl Holley to F.A. Wickett regarding same.
All in Very Fine condition overall.
$350 – up 152) ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (18841962) First Lady of the United States.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Typed Letter Signed, “Eleanor Roosevelt,”
on her Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt 211 East
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ON ALVIN 62nd Street New York 21, NY letterhead.
JOHNSON AND THE I.S.S.
One page, 6” x 6 7/8” . New York. April
25, 1958. Roosevelt writes, in part: “ It
151) ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (1884- would give me pleasure to speak for your
1962) First Lady of the United States. girls, but I fear it cannot be worked out at
Typed Letter Signed, “Eleanor,” on The the present time. There are certain places to
White House, Washington letterhead. With which I go without fee but I cannot add to
a seven word handwritten postscript, “ It the list at the moment since I have such a
was so good to have you here!” One page, heavy schedule of paid lectures and orga6” x 9 1/4”. Washington. October 6, 1941. nizing work which I do as a volunteer for
Roosevelt writes, in part: “ … I am so glad the American Association for the UN …”
you had such a satisfactory time with Al- $175 – up
vin Johnson. Joe Lash did tell me he felt
he should have gone to see him before the
meeting in Washington ... I think Joe is go-
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HARRY S. TRUMAN
I know how Ed feels about education with
a war going on and a Commission in sight
but I think you are right …I hope you
write Gene Donnelly about our reunion
in San Francisco. I wrote Fritz Bowman
about it and it pleased him very much …”
Two punch holes, one set of staple holes
and two small tears at top edge. Else Fine.
$400 – up
ton letterhead. Two pages, 4 1/2” x 6 7/8”.
Washington, D.C. “Saturday” March 21,
1948. Accompanied by original The White
House, Washington envelope addressed in
Truman’s hand. Truman writes: “Dear Mrs.
Hunter, I am perfectly delighted with the
exquisite tea set you and Mr. Hunter sent
me. It is simply a charming one and I know
I shall enjoy it tremendously and prize it
always- Thank you so very much for your
HARRY TRUMAN SENTIMENTS
kind and generous thought of me. Very Sincerely, Bess W. Truman.” Extremely Fine. 155) HARRY TRUMAN (1884-1972) $175 – up
President of the United States. Autograph
Note Signed, “Harry Truman.” One page,
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
6” x 8 3/4”. No place. August 8, 1956. Truman writes: “Best wishes to Colleen Laverne Roy from Harry Truman.” Very Fine.
$300 - up
HARRY TRUMAN WRITES TO
NOTED AMERICAN COMEDIAN
JACK BENNY
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH SIGNED
BY ELIZABETH “BESS” TRUMAN
153) (1884-1972) President of the United
States. Typed Letter Signed, “Harry S. Truman,” on his name imprinted letterhead. Independence, Missouri. September 29, 1959.
Truman writes to the famous American comedian Jack Benny, in part: “ … If you had
a good time here, I want to say to you that I
enjoyed myself immensely, and I share your
hope that everything will work out to your
satisfaction and to that of everyone else
concerned … ” Extremely Fine. $600 – up
156) (1885-1982), First Lady of the United
States. Scarce Signed biographical sketch
of Bess Truman. Two pages, 8 1/2” x 11”.
Typed Official Truman Library Biographical
Sketch Signed, “Bess
W. Truman,” at top of
first page. This is a rare
and interesting item
in that Mrs. Truman
was a fiercely private
woman who shunned
the limelight. VF.
$300 – up
MAMIE EISENHOWER SIGNED
WHITE HOUSE ENGRAVING
158) MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER
(1896-1979), First Lady of the United States.
8” x 6” card bearing oval image of the White
House. Signed “Mamie Doud Eisenhower.”
Very Fine.
$175 – up
MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER ON
WHITE HOUSE LETTERHEAD
HARRY S. TRUMAN
154) (1884-1972). President of the United
States. Typed Letter Signed, “Harry S. Truman,” on United States Senate Committee
on Interstate
Commerce letterhead. One
page, 8” x 10
1/2”. Washington, D.C.
April 18, 1942.
Truman writes,
in part: “ … Mr. McFarland got his interview with Leo Crowley all right. I don’t
know what the result was because we have
not seen him since … Of course you and
(1869-1979) First Lady of the United states.
Typed Letter Signed, “Mamie Doud Eisenhower,” on The White House, Washington
letterhead. One page, 6” x 9 1/4”. Eisenhower writes, in part: Dear Margi, “I am
delighted with the beautiful dress which
you sent me for my birthday—what a lovely
shade of red, and just perfect for the holidays ahead! Thank you so very much for
ELIZABETH “BESS” TRUMAN
remembering me, and I hope you will express my appreciation to your staff, also,
for all their skilful work on my gift. It was
157) ELIZABETH “BESS” TRUMAN thoughtful of them to add their birthday
(1885-1982). First Lady of the United wishes and names on your attractive card,
States. Autograph Letter Signed, “Bess W. too...” Very Fine.
$150 - up
Truman,” on The White House Washing-
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terhead. One page, 7 1/4” x 10 1/2”. New
York City. December 31, 1952. Eisenhower
writes, in part: “ ... I just wanted to tell you
how much I appreciate your writing ... We
have always appreciated the mighty power
of prayer and depended upon it to see us
through these difficult days. I firmly believe
that we can face any problem if we appeal
constantly to our Maker for guidance and
strength ...” Tape at upper left and right
corners. Usual folds. Overall Very Fine.
$150 - up
JOHN F. KENNEDY
MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER
SIGNED PHOTO
(1895-1979). First Lady of the United
States. Heartwarming, Official White
House Photograph of Eisenhower with her
infant granddaughter Inscribed, “For Delores Moaney from Mary Jean Eisenhower
and her Grand Mother Mamie Doud Eisenhower.” 8” x 10”. Minor wear at edges, else
fine.
$250 - up
JACKIE KENNEDY RECEIVES A
BARTENDER’S GUIDE
MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER
RELATES HER REMEMBRANCES
OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON
(1896- 1979). First Lady of the United
States. Autograph Letter Signed, “M.D.E.,”
on stationery bearing an image of the Eisenhower’s Gettysburg, Pennsylvania residence.
One page, 7” x 10”. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. November 4, 1976. Eisenhower writes:
“Dear Mr. Pruett- There is little I can add to
that you already have about President Johnson- One vivid memory was when President Johnson landed by helicopter right in
front of our house at Eldorado Country
MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER ON Club just at dusk- (Spooky)- When the two
gentlemen played golf together and […]
THE POWER OF PRAYER
through the kitchen to get to golf carts in
161) MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER the garage - was another time. M.D.E.” Very
$200 – up
(1879-1957) First Lady of the United States. Fine.
Typed Letter Signed, “Mamie Doud Eisenhower,” on her Mrs Dwight Eisenhower let-
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163) JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS (1829-1994) First Lady of the United
States. Typed Letter Signed, “Jackie” on her
name imprinted stationery. One page, 5” x
7” Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. August 17,
1959. Kennedy writes to Sydney G. Walton
to thank him for sending her a “Bartender’s
Guide.” Mounting trace at center, affecting
text. Else Very Good. $500 - up
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
CLAUDIA “LADY BIRD” JOHNSON
164) CLAUDIA “LADY BIRD” JOHNSON (1912-2007) First Lady of the United
States. Envelope Signed twice, “Mrs. Lyndon Johnson.” 6 3/8” x 3 5/8”. Extremely
Fine.
$175 – up
GERALD R. FORD
RICHARD M. NIXON
RICHARD M. NIXON TLS
“I played in the Tony Lema Memorial Tournament the other day”
165) RICHARD M. NIXON (1912- 1994). 37th President. One page Typed Letter
Signed “Dick” on his personal stationary to Mr. Cy Laughter of Dayton, Ohio of a
personal nature with discussion of golf, music, Pat &
Tricia: “NY, March 2, 1961, Dear Cy: Of all the people
who should have had letters from me before now, you
are No.1 on the list. First of all I want to thank you for
the beautiful MacGregor golf clubs. I only wish that the
style of my game matched the style of this outfit. As you
may have heard, I played in the Tony Lema Memorial
Tournament the other day -- I’ll have to get out on the
links with some understanding friends like you before I
get into competition like that again. Incidentally, I appreciate all you have been doing, talking to sports figures
and the like - I know I could not have a better good-will
ambassador! Secondly, all the Nixons would echo loud
and clear their delight with the stereo tapes which you
so generously sent along. You will be interested to know
that Pat, Tricia and I were able to accept Ray Bolger’s invitation at the Waldorf and I
have never seen the two of them have such a delightful time. The two-step was back in
style and Tricia conceded that I am not as old-fashioned as she thought I was. Pat asked
me to tell you that we have not forgotten your request for a picture of Julie and David.
As soon as she tracks down copies she will send them along to Audrey and you. Againwe were so delighted you could be with us. I’ll 1ook forward to seeing you when I get
back from my world tour in May. With deep appreciation for your continued generosity
and support, Dick.” 7” x 10 ½” in Fine condition. $500 – up
PAT NIXON ON WHITE
HOUSE LETTERHEAD THELMA
“PAT” NIXON
166) PAT NIXON (1912-1993). First Lady
of the United States. Typed Letter Signed,
“Pat Nixon,” on The White House, Washington letterhead. One page, 6 1/4” x 9
1/4”. Washington, D.C. April 2nd, 1974.
Accompanied by original The White House,
Washington envelope with “Washington D.C.” postal cancellation. Mrs. Nixon
writes to Mr. Wiseman, in part: “ … How
thoughtful of you to send get-well wishes! The warm message of friendship and
cheer they brought hastened my recovery
and was deeply appreciated …” Very Fine.
$150 – up
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FORD COMMENTS ON THE NEWLY ADOPTED CONSTITUTION OF
MICHIGAN AND THE “CUBAN
SHOOTING INCIDENT”
167) GERALD R. FORD (1913 - 2006).
Thirty-Eighth President. Active in local Republican politics as a young man, Ford was
first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1948 and in 1965, became the
House minority Leader. 8”x
10 ½”. TLS on
Committee of
Appropriations
Congress of the
United
States
House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Letterhead. Dated
April 5, 1963, and addressed to Miss Mary
A. Dow of Rockford, Michigan. A letter
written in response to Miss. Dow’s inquiry
as to why Ford supported the new Constitution and his opinion on the shooting incident in International waters with Cuba.
Signed “Gerry Ford” at its conclusion. Despite the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis
reached a peaceful conclusion in late 1962,
tensions between the United States and
Russia continued to run high, with both nations maintaining an aggressive posture in
the Caribbean. In late March of 1963, two
Cuban MIG fighter planes opened fire on
a United States merchant ship in international waters. Moving hastily to prevent a
further escalation of tensions, Castro stated
that the planes had no intention of firing
and “probably fired in error.” The Kennedy Administration made their own moves
to lessen hostilities following the incident.
Responding to Soviet warning that it would
consider ‘appropriate measures’ to protect
its shipping interests in the area, the Kennedy administration aggressively worked
to dissuade Cuban exiles from continuing
their armed attacks on Soviet vessels in Caribbean waters. As Ford notes in this letter,
diplomacy triumphed in this situation and
the relationship between the U.S., Cuba,
and Russia returned to Cold War status quo.
Staple holes at four corners with small tear
from staple at lower right. Fine. $400 - up
GERARLD FORD TLS
168)
GERALD FORD. (1913-2006). Typed Letter Signed, “Gerald R. Ford” on his
name imprinted letterhead embossed with a gold U.S. Seal of State. One page, 6 3/8” x 8
1/2”. February 15, 1990. Accompanied by original envelope. The letter reads, in part: “…
Tomorrow I am leaving for a four day trip to Europe where I expect to have in depth consultations with a number of Government leaders and foreign policy experts on developments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. On my return I will prepare a speech on
these issues, a copy of which I will send you. You have my best regards, Gerald Ford.”
$200 - up
RONALD REAGAN
REAGAN WORKS AGAINST MCCARTHY’S RED SCARE TACTICS IN
HOLLYWOOD AND LIMITS LEGISLATION BY THE HOUSE
COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
169) RONALD REAGAN (1911-2004). President of the United States. Exceptional Document Signed, “Ronald Reagan,” as secretary of the Motion Picture Industry Council. Nine pages,
8 ½” x 11”. November 20,
1952. The document reads, in
part: “...discuss the problem
created by films released in
America which utilize the services of men who had gone
abroad after having been
identified under oath as Communists... considerable progress had been made in dealing
with the problem, and that it
no longer appeared necessary
to seek legislation, by way of
the House Committee on
Un-American Activities, to
remedy the situation... steps
were being taken to provide
information which would
enable American companies
to avoid hiring members of
pro-Communist unions in the
course of overseas production activities...”
These minutes of a meeting of the MPIC cover the hearings of House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Council’s discussions on the issue of Communist infiltration in the industry,
specifically with regard to limiting legislation against actors overseas. Due to the red-scare tactics
of Sen. Joseph P. McCarthy, the House Committee pushed Hollywood to blackball many actors
and directors. An important association document between President Reagan and McCarthyism
in Hollywood. Reagan wrote in his autobiography that be was against McCarthy’s red scare tactics
and did what he could to fight it. Reagan even met his wife Nancy for the first time at a meeting to clear her name regarding a communist related issue. File holes on left margin. In excellent
condition.
$2,000 – up
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EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF ITEMS
TO CASUALTY JAMES BRADY,
KENNEDY SENDS MESSAGE OF
COURAGE TO THE FALLEN PRESS
SECRETARY “THIS IS TRULY A
TIME OF SHOCK, OUTRAGE AND
GRIEF FOR ALL AMERICANS”
Presidential Assassination Attempt
Reagan Has Been Shot!
170) On March 30, 1981, Reagan delivered
an address at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
Would-be assassin John Hinckley, Jr. was
waiting outside in a small crowd including
news media, the Canadian prime minister,
Pierre Trudeau and a number of other foreign dignitaries. Hinckley blasted his revolver six times. Reagan, White House Press
Secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent
Timothy McCarthy, and District of Columbia police officer Thomas Delehanty were
wounded. Hinckley was quickly subdued by
the Secret Service. The entire incident was
captured on video by television reporters.
James Scott “Jim” Brady (born August 29,
1940) was Assistant to the President and
White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan. After nearly being
killed and becoming permanently disabled
as a result of an assassination attempt on
Reagan in 1981, Brady became an ardent
supporter of gun control. Exceptional
group of 7+ White House and congressional letters, invitations and other items
to James Brady, including plastic Presidential Seal Visitor pass items: • Typed Letter
Signed from Edward Kennedy as senator
on US Senate letterhead. April 3, 1981. Four
days after the earth shattering incident:
“Dear Jim, This is truly a time of shock,
outrage and grief for all Americans. We
are united in our tremendous admiration
for your courage and determination, and in
our prayers for your recovery. An ancient
philosopher once said “Man is loved mainly
because of two virtues: courage first, loyalty
second.” You have an abundance of these
virtues, Jim, and you are loved. I will pray
for you daily. Sincerely, Ed Kennedy.” He
inscribes in his own pen: “My hope for a
speedy recovery.” With original Franked envelope (printed). Fine. • Personal invitation
to “the Honourable James S. Brady” “On
the occasion of the visit of the President
of the United States of America and Mrs.
Reagan / The Prime Minister of Canada…
Pierre Elliot Trudeau requests the pleasure
of (your) company…at a Gala Performance
at the National Arts Center…March 10,
1981.” Twenty days before the shooting.
Notable as well by the fact that Prime Minster Trudeau was there with Reagan on that
fateful day. On verso, Invitation is in French.
7” x 5½”. Fine. • Typed Letter Signed from
Thomas Foley as Majority Whip on US
Senate letterhead to Mrs. Brady sending his
condolences. Including original stamped
envelope. • Printed invitation to the join
The President and Mrs. Reagan at the White
House for a “Christmas Open House.”
Four items to include White House envelope addressed to the “Honorable James
S. Brady and Mrs. Brady, West Wing” as
well as “the Social Secretary” of the White
House RSVP card, and green White House
engraved identification card. • Three other
like White House invitations, all addressed
in pen personally to Brady and his wife for
luncheons, recognizing the “Champions of
American Sports” and another Christmas
Open House, all with RSVP & identification card. (12 items in all). • Plastic Visitor
Card Department of Defense seal. A fascinating association of the Kennedy name
and Presidential assassination as well as an
uncommonly found grouping of materials
owned by the man who took an immortal
place in history that day in 1981, but whose
name is now also deeply tied to Gun control. A superb collection.
$750 - up
Political Letters, Documents, Autographs and Graphics
1775 COLONIAL BROADSIDE
MOCKING KING GEORGE AND
PARLIAMENT
171) Printed Broadside. One page, 10” x
15 ¼”. Boston. January 31, 1775. The
broadside contains George III’s speech of
November 30, 1774, in which he notes“ …
a most daring spirit of resistance and disobedience to the law still unhappily prevails
in the province of Massachusetts-Bay …”
The broadside also contains the response
of both Houses of Parliament, and a reaction from the Colonial printer: “ ...Good
God! What spirit of Folly and precipitation
presides in the British Councils! – The Dye
seems to be Cast- …” Additional fine content from both George, Parliament, and the
colonial printer. Edge-wear and some paper
loss. Overall Very Good. Framed along with
a silhouette of George III, a plaster medallion bearing George III’s profile image,
and plaque highlighting portions of the
broadside’s text to a size of 37 ½” x 26 ¼”.
$300 - up
” x 9”. Hillhouse, a Connecticut Senator,
proposed changes to the Constitution in an
attempt to limit the power of the Executive
Branch. These changes included the annual
election of Representatives, a term of three
years for Senators, the abolition of the Vice
Presidency and a term limit of one year for
the president, who would be elected from
among the retiring Senators by random
drawing. Sewn and uncut, as issued. Some
dampstaining.
$275 - up
A LOCK OF WASHINGTON’S HAIR
173) [GEORGE WASHINGTON] 17321799 First President of the United States,
Founding Father, and leader of Continental
Forces during the
American
Revolution. A lock of
Washington’s hair
affixed to an 8 ½”
x 11” sheet. A reduced photocopy
of a statement attesting to the provenance of the hair
in the hand of Mrs. Custis Powel appears
below Washington’s hair. A statement from
Charles Hamilton, handwriting expert, certifying the provenance of the attached hair.
$1,000 - up
GEORGE AND MARTHA
WASHINGTON HAIR LOCKS
174) [GEORGE WASHINGTON] 1732PROPOSITIONS FOR
AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION 1799 First President of the United States,
Founding Father, and leader of ContinenBY HILLHOUSE
tal Forces during the American Revolution.
172) JAMES HILLHOUSE “Propositions MARTHA WASHINGTON A lock of both
for amending the
George and Martha
constitution of the
Washington’s hair
United States, subaffixed to an 8 ½”
mitted by Mr. Hillx 11” sheet. A rehouse to the Senduced photocopy
ate on the twelfth
of a statement atday of April, 1808,
testing to the provwith his explanaenance, noting that
tory
remarks.”
the hair was given
New Haven: Olito Mrs. Cassius Lee
ver Steele & co,
by Martha Washington originally, appears at
1808. 31 pages, aplower edge.
$1,250 - up
proximately 5 1/4
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GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE HEBREW CONGREGATION OF SAVANNAH
AMERICA’S FIRST PRESIDENT DECLARES HIS SUPPORT OF
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE FLEDGLING NATION
175) Gazette of the United States, June 19, 1790 New York: John Fenno. Four pages, 10 ¼” x 17”. This edition contains “Washington’s Letter to the Hebrew Congregation (Mickve Israel) of Savannah, Georgia” and along
with the Congregation’s May 6, 1789 address to him. The congregation writes, in part:
“Your unexampled liberality and extensive philanthropy have dispelled that cloud of bigotry and superstition, which has long as a veil shaded religion – unrivetted the fetters of
enthusiasm – enfranchised us with all the privileges and immunities of free citizens, and
initiated us into the grand mass of legislative mechanism. By example you have taught us
to endure the ravages of war with manly fortitude, and to enjoy the blessings of peace,
with reverence to the Deity, and benignity and love to our Fellow-Creatures. / May the
great author of worlds grant you all happiness…and a continuance of guardianship to that
freedom, which, under the auspices of Heaven, your magnanimity and wisdom have given
these States.” Washington’s writes, in part:
“I rejoice that a spirit of liberality and philanthropy is much more prevalent than it formerly was among the enlightened nations of the earth ; and that your brethren will benefit
thereby in proportion as it shall become still more extensive. Happily the people of the
United States of America have, in many instance, exhibited examples worthy of imitation. – The salutary influence of which will doubtless extend much farther, if…they shall
conduct themselves with reverence to the Deity, and charity towards their fellow-creatures.
/ May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since delivering the Hebrews from their
Egyptian oppressors, planted them in the promised land – whose providential agency has
lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an Independent Nation – still
continue to water them with the dews of Heaven, and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and
spiritual blessings of that people, whose God is Jehovah.”
The publication of this and other writings between Washington and American Hebrew congregations in various 1790American newspapers constituted a public declaration of the free and equal status of Jews in America.
In addition to this fine Jewish-American content, this issue contains “An Act…in respect to the State of Rhode-Island…,” which concerns duties on goods, signed in type by Adams, Washington, & Jefferson. It also contains official news from Congress of the thirteen
United States of America noting “The ratification of the Constitution…by Rhode Island…, with the amendments annexed, were
read…”; an equally important notice that “the bill to authorize the purchasing of West-Point was read the second and third time – and
passed”; and a printing of part of John Adams’ Discourses on Davila, No. X, written at this time exclusively for publication in Fenno’s
Gazette. 1” x 1” hole at left column. Some light edgewear and toning. Else Fine. $7,500 - up
Election For NH’s Representative To Congress And For Electors Of President And Vice-president
176) Partially Printed Document. One page, 8 1/4” x 13 1/2”. New Hampshire. 1796. The document
reads, in part: “ … Pursuant to an Act of this State, passed June 21st, 1792, directing the mode of
choosing Representatives to the Congress of the United States. You are hereby required to notify and
ward a meeting of the inhabitants of said Plymouth … for the purpose of voting, by ballot for one of
the following persons, viz. JONATHAN FREEMAN, Esquire, or PELEG SPRAGUE, Esquire … one
of which is to be chose for a Representative of this state in the Congress of the United States … Given
at the COUNCIL-CHAMBER in EXTER, this 24th day of September. In the year of our LORD, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six … N.B. The meeting for the choice of Six Persons to be electors
of a President and Vice President of the United States, is to be holden on the First Monday of November, agreeable to law … ” Usual folds. Some edge wear at left, not affecting text. Evans 25869, Bristol
B8082, Shipton & Mooney 46520. Some light toning from a previous framing. Printed at Exeter by H.
Ranlet. Overall Very Fine. $1,000 - up
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“WHEN WEBSTER, CLAY OR
CALHOUN IS TO SPEAK THE
SENATE GALLERY IS CROWDED...
YOU MAY REMEMBER I USED TO
BE A DEMOCRAT BUT DEMOCRACY MUST HAVE DEGENERATED
SINCE THE DAYS OF JEFFERSON
& MADISON...”
177) ALBERT SMITH WHITE (18031864) US Congressman & Senator, Whig
Presidential elector
in 1836, President
of several railroads,
and was appointed
by President Lincoln to a three-man
commission
to
adjust the claims of
Minnesota and Dakota for Indian depredations. Free Frank on 3pp. letter from
what appears to be his wife, as dictated by
him, with superior content from Washington, March 1838: “Dear Mother…Immediately after our arrival we took board with
Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. P. has a husband, but it is
customary for Ladies here to keep boarding houses during the session independent
of the husband… the two Senators Smith
& Niles of Cont among the most illiberal
narrow-minded low bred men I ever met
– I am so disgusted with their democracy
the party are in great danger of losing my
influence – you may remember I used to
be a democrat but democracy must have
degenerated since the days of Jefferson &
Madison– or rather the party so called…we
go to the Capital...the Gallery of the Hall
of the House of Representatives or Senate
or Supreme Court, wherever the debates are
likely to be most interesting…when Webster, Clay or Calhoun is to speak the senate
Gallery is crowded with beautifully dressed
women…” There is lengthy and rich detail
of the costume and accoutrements of the
political players in the Capital and a well described ceremony of the reception of the
President, where he (or they) paid respects.
Letter is unsigned. White was serving as a
Whig Senator at the time. Although franking privileges were to be used for official
business, often the allowance granted was
greatly abused. Letters to mom would not
be considered official business, although
the business described in this missive luck-
ily for us brings Washington life with great
flair. Integral address leaf addressed to Mrs.
Amelia Bigelow, Indiana with red Washington postal mark. Light age wear, o/w Fine.
$400 – up
An Early Republican Circular Inciting
Party Members To Choose Delegates
For An Election “Which At This Time
Agitates Our Distracted State...”
178) 9” x 11”. Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
July 17, 1805. Printed circular in which
the Republican Corresponding Committee
presses the need for viable republican candidates in the upcoming election which they
considered to
be “the absolute Necessity
of prompt and
vigorous Exertions…” The
appeal continues on, “The
Motives
and
Designs of the
Leaders of the
present Faction are daily developing, in Colors so strong that no well-disposed Citizen,
who is not blinded by Prejudice, or deluded
by the fascinating Charms of Novelty, can
in Justice to himself, or his Country, remain
a silent Spectator, at the Destruction of our
Charter of Rights, and the Immolation of
our venerable and patriotic Governor…”
“The Result of the next Election will either
add Stability to the present Constitution, or
consign it to Oblivion…” Thomas McKean,
who had been elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1799, would win the upcoming
election, ensuring the current party would
stay in power. The national political climate
was particularly difficult at this period and
this document exhibits the efforts put forth
at the local levels to support the national
agenda. A fine political item. Some light age
spots at center, otherwise fine. $250 - up
National Balloting List For The Midterm Election Of 1838
179) One page, 7 ¾” x 9”, mounted in a
12 ½” x 13 ½” brown wood frame. The
document lists pertinent information for
each state regarding the 1838 House election. This information includes the seat of
government in all states, the time elections
are to be held, the time each legislature is
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scheduled to meet, and the number of electors and representatives from each state. $500 - up
1851 MASS WHIG PARTY CIRCULAR
180) Printed Document. One page, 7 7/8”
x 9 7/8”. Room of the Whig State Central
Committee, No. 20 Old State House Boston. October 27, 1851. The document reads,
in part; “You are aware that the election for
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Senators
and Representatives, takes place on the 10th
of November, just two weeks from to-day;
an election, we must say to you, of vast importance to our Country utmost exertions
to bring every Whig voter to the polls, in
your town, and thus do your full share in
achieving that triumph over an unprincipled
coalition, which we believe awaits us in the
old Bay State, and which will enable us to
sustain that proud position which we have
so long held among the States of our glorious Union. Our accounts from every part
of the State lead us confidently to expect
that the Whig Party will triumph on the
10th of November, and that WINTHROP
and GRENNELL will be elected. This will
certainly be the case if all the towns bring
out a full Whig votes; and if your town
doest its duty, you will do your share in accomplishing the end. Be vigilant and untiring, and success will crown our efforts.
By order of the Whig State Central Committee, GEORGE MOREY, Chairman.
EZRA LINCOLN, Secretary”. Very Fine.
$200 -up
ELECTION RESULTS FOR 1840
181) Letter Signed. Two pages, 7 ¾” x 9
¾”. “Philadelphia.” November 3, 1840.
With lengthy handwritten postscript. Philadelphia, Nov. 3, 1840. “It is confidently
believed here that Harrison has carried the
Electoral vote of the State. I have no doubt
of it—but as the vote is close it has been
feared that alterations may be made somewhere in the returns, by bad and designing persons, so as to give the State to Van
Buren. To prevent this it has been thought
necessary to obtain the returns from every
Township, election District and County in
the State. My request is that you would procure from the Prothonotary’s office of your
County, a copy of the returns for Electors
of the County; then a copy of them in every Township—have them added up carefully so that any errors in the County return
may be detected. Let these returns then be
submitted to the officers of the Elections,
so that all inaccuracies may be ascertained.
When the returns are thus made out from
all parts of the State, they can be compared
with those upon which the Governor shall
issue his Proclamation; and if there be any
error either intentional or otherwise on
the part of any one it can be discovered at
once. If you will take the trouble to procure the returns of your County as abovementioned, and forward them to me, I will
take care that they shall be used for the purposes indicated. The friends of the country have unquestionably carried the State
for the Harrison Electors,—let them not,
through a want of vigilance, suffer the Van
Buren Electors to be proclaimed elected.
The friends of Harrison feel confident here
that we have carried this State—It is hardly
necessary I know to urge you to exertion,
but we must have decided & unimpeachable
information from Warren Potter, Tioga &
McKean, and I have advised this application
to you from a knowledge of your zeal in
the good cause & aware of your extensive
means of information in the north.” Still
reeling from the aftereffects of the Panic of
1837, President Martin Van Buren faced a
difficult bid for re-election against a Whig
Party unified for the first time behind the
war hero William Henry Harrison. Harrison, who followed the example of Andrew
Jackson and ran as a war hero and man of
the people, captured the imagination of the
people and, although his popular vote margin was only about 6 points, saw himself
elected by an overwhelming majority of
the electoral college, carrying North, West,
and South! Even with this wide margin of
victory, Harrison’s supporters, as this document shows, feared fraud on Van Buren’s
part and kept a careful watch over election
returns throughout the voting period.
$300 – up
RICH POLITICAL CONTENT
PENNED BY MASSACHUSETTS’
POLITICO
182) Rich Political Content Penned By A
Massachusetts’ Politico As State Elections
Near In 1832. Autograph Letter Signed, “F.
Robinson.” 2 ¼ pages, 8” x 10 ¼”. Marblehead. July 18, 1832. Addressed on integral
leaf to “Eliphalet Case Esq., Lowell Mass.”
“…I have just returned from a journey,
& just received yours of the 9th concerning the State Address. I hardly know what
answers to give to your enquires. I should
think however, that the address should not
appear untill [sic] after the Nationals hold
their conventions. The shorter time it ap-
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pears before the election, provided there is
time to publish it in all the papers., I should
think the better, so that it may be fresh in
the mind of the electors. An address of a
very democratic cast, like that of last year,
I think, will have the most effect. Let the
man in the field, with the hoe & the axe &
the man in the work ship with the mechanic
tool, know that our party is friendly to his
interest. This “string,” I think, “Should be
pulled hardest.” I think we ought to make
the most of the bunk veto, excite the fears
of the people against a monied [sic] and
against a professional aristocracy & against
the union of them both. The craft of those
should be exposed who wish for the continuation of a U.S. Revenue of many millions
more than sufficient to meet the exigencies
of Govt., for the purpose taxing the people,
individually on American goods & in order
to have the interest of the surplus revenue
to be divided among the bank stockholders. It ought to be shown how these different branches of the “American system”
are made to sustain each other. It should be
shown that the present executive officer of
this state has already held his office too long,
even if he were what he ought to be, according to any fair democratic rule of “rotation
in office” But it ought to be Shown that he
has apostatized from democracy, & betrayed
those, who trusting in his hypocritical professions & assumptions, raised him into
power, that he has connected & identified
himself with all the aristocracies of the time
serentine [serpentine?] course to unite the
lukewarm among the republican party, with
the whole body of the old federal party, to
continue him in office. Much should be said
in favor of our candidates but I know not
what. Would it not be well to have a meeting of the Committee in Boston before the
publication of the address. Perhaps it would
be well for each member to prepare something & perhaps something good might
be compiled from all Your very respectfully F. Robinson N.B. Have the goodness
to tell me mother & sister that my health
is better although I am not yet well F.R.”
Pinholes at folds and wax seal on integral
leaf, not affecting text. Else Very Fine. Rich
political content penned during the years
when President Andrew Jackson succeeded in solidifying the Democratic-Republicans as a powerful national political party.
$250 - up
RICH POLITICAL AND
CULTURAL CONTENT
Abolitionists, Whigs
and The Mexican War
“…In my opinion the free States & particularly
NewEngland have subserved[sic] the interests of
the Slave trade long enough…Free Soil in Labor
& equal rights is my motto ... The “Gold Fever”
rages high & there are several going from this
place expecting to make a fortune immediately…in
my opinion the gold scheme will explode by & by
& many will be the victims of the scheme & will
find that it is not all gold that shines & that all
cannot secure a fortune in days…”
184) Autograph Letter Signed, “Geo. Haven.” Three pages, 7 ¾” x 9 ¾”. Meriden,
MA. October 4, 1849. Addressed on integral leaf to “Liberty F. Thurber, Washington Vt.” Haven comments upon a suicide
and later writes, in part: “ … Politics is what
I don’t have much to do with now for I am
drove very hard with study and finally I
never had much to do with them. You seem
to laugh because the Whigs & Abolitionists
got beat last Spring. If you had minded the
State vote last spring you should have found
that Colby the Whig candidate gained about
three thousand while Berry the abolition
candidate lost to a great rate … the Mexican
War raised considerable excitement this way.
How it will terminate I cannot tell. I am for
the Wilmot Proviso. No more slave territory. The Democrats in this State are against
eh Wilmot Proviso. You are aware that the
1st & 3rd District sent a Whig & Abolitionist Representative last June. N.H. has now
one Abolition Senator, one Democrat, two
Democrat Representatives, one Abolitionist
& one Whig. So they are even in the House
& Senate …”
$250 - up
183) Autograph Letter Signed. Three
pages, 7 ¾” x 9 ¾”. Newton Upper
Falls. January 1, 1849. Addressed on integral leaf. The letter reads, in part: “… on
the whole I think we have done very well, &
think that if money matters again become
easy we will do better. I am in hopes that
now the political questions are decided that
we will have better times. Not that I think
so in consequence of the election of “Old
Zach” but that is usually the case after a
Presidential Election. It may be new to you
& perhaps (considering that I was brot[sic]
up a Whig) strange in your opinion that I
tell you I am a Taylor man. But it is so for
I am far from it. I consider him a man in
every aspect, but poorly qualified for that
office. In my opinion the free States & particularly New England have subserved[sic]
the interests of the Slave trade long enough.
This has been the theme of the Whigs for
years, but it has been nothing but talk for as
a party they are seen to fall into the Southern trap which is baited Whig while the interests of Slave labor & the perpetuation of
the institution are at the bottom of it. Free
Soil in Labor & equal rights in my motto.
There “there’s my politks[sic]“ but I am no
politician … I have no news to communicate to you of any particular interest. The
“Gold Fever” rages high & there are several
going from this place expecting to make
a fortune immediately. One in now in the
store talking about procuring tents and boxes for the voyage. Ships are leaving Boston
every week with the adventurers No doubt
some will make their fortunes, but in my
opinion the gold scheme will explode by &
by & many will be the victims of the scheme
& will find that it is not all gold that shines
& that all cannot secure a fortune in days.”
Fine.
$300 - up
ties, not only in this country but in others
countries, that not a single point, that could
be brought to bear upon the party questioned was not brought forward and used to
the best considered purpose, One party held
up the Slane [sic] before the eyes of Voters
to get their votes through sympathy. Other
of another party cried “bleeding Kansas” to
us, Other’s of another party contradicted all
stories and recommended their candidates
upon merit leaving the result in the hands
of the dispensation of Providence, and we
must yield all our opinions and abide the result of his wisdom and rejoice in His providence and study to inform ourselves the
best course to act to perpetuate this Good
and Glorious Union of States. G.W. Dunbar.” Extremely Fine.
$250 - up
CHOICE POLITICAL
CONTENT
186) Autograph Letter Signed, “James
Clarke.” Two pages, 7 3/4” x 9 3/8”. Blairsville, Pennsylvania. September 29, 1838.
Addressed on integral leaf to “Mr. A. Boyd
Hamilton, Washington City, D.C.” With circular “Blairsville PA” postal cancellation.
“THE LATE PRESIDENTIAL
The letter reads, in part: “ … The glorious
ELECTION”
tenth of September was the greatest day
ever seen in Pittsburg- The West poured in
“One party held up the Slane [sic] before the eyes of Voters to get their votes between 3 & 4 thousand of her real genuthrough sympathy. Other of another party ine democratic sons- men with clean hands,
pure hearts and bright countenances; all
cried “bleeding Kansas” to us, Other’s
actuated with one soul, one mind, one imof another party contradicted all stories
and recommended their candidates upon pulse, and aiming at one end- and that end
merit leaving the result in the hands of the to preserve their liberties from the insidious
approaches of corruption and the rescue
dispensation of Providence...”
of our state from thralldom. The splendid
185) Autograph Statement Signed, “G.W. display made by the great Convention when
Dunbar.” Two pages, 4 3/4” x 7 1/2”. No in procession, as well as their unexpected
numbers, and orderly conduct for two days,
place. No date
struck terror and dismay into the modern
[1856]. Dunbar
Whigs and late anti-masons. It was cheering
writes: “The
to the hearts of all patriots … You mention
late Presidential
Election of the
a report that Samuel D. Ingham is spoken
United States
of in a certain quarter for United States
was an elecSenator- that cannot happen, he is not dantion of more
gerous. The West will assuredly claim the
than common
honor of furnishing the man- in as much
interest, and so
as the North has been represented for six
deeply was the
years, and the East has the other senator.
issue felt and
The splendid talents of Mr. Buchanan is an
considered by
honor to our state. He should be given a
all political parcolleague in whom he and Mr. Van Buren
54
1912 Election Of Presidential Electors
For Franklin County, Indiana
and the democratic party can depend. One
who by long and faithful services has proven that he will not flinch ... one who can neither be deceived, cajoled, intimidated nor
purchased. These are not the proper times
for risking untried men …” Great political
content. Paper loss from wax seal and separations at folds on integral. Else VG.
$175 - up
“IF YOU ARE A MANUFACTURER
… OR IF YOU ARE A WORKING
MAN … YOUR INTEREST LIES
WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
FOR THIS ELECTION AT LEAST”
187) Printed Document. One page, 8” x
10 ½”. October 29, 1880. Brooklyn. Accompanied by original envelope and a 3” x
3” slip bearing the names of the Electors
for New York. The document reads: “Dear
Sir:- On Tuesday, November 2d, between
the hours of six thirty-two A.M. and four
thirtysix P.M. you will have an opportunity
of casting your vote for President of the
United States. Before doing so, it becomes
you to consider carefully for which candidate you will deposit your ballot so as to
secure the greatest benefit to yourself and
family. The Democratic platform declares
for “a tariff for Revenue only,” and General
Hancock in his letter of acceptance says,
“the principles enunciated by the Convention are those I have cherished in the past
and shall endeavor to maintain in the future.” This means free trade and low wages,
or note at all .. The Republican platform
declares, “We reaffirm the belief, avowed in
1876, that duties levied for the purpose of
revenue should so discriminate as to favor
American labor;” … There can be no
mistaking this language. It means that the
Republican party is in favor of protecting
home industriesso that the capital employed
in our manufactories, as well as labor, shall
be protected against the low-priced labor of
Europe … if you are a manufacturer … or
if you are a workingman … your interest lies
with the Republican party for this election.
… If you are a married man, consult with
your wife before you make up your mind
which way you will vote, as she is equally interested with you, and then go to the poles
early in the morning and deposit your ballot. It is a duty you have no right to neglect.”
Fine condition.
$125 - up
Tabular Statement Of Votes From
Wisconsin, The Final State Counted
In The Election Of 1876, The Second
Closest Race In The History Of The
United States
188) Two pages, 23” x 17 ¾”. “Tabular
Statement of the Votes polled for Electors of President and Vice-President of the
United States for Representative in Congress for the third Congressional District,
and in the adoption of An Act to Incorporate Saving Banks, at a General Election
held in the several towns, wards, and election precincts in the County of La Fayette,
State of Wisconsin, on the Tuesday succeeding the first Money, being the seventh
day of November, A.D. 1876.” Verso bears
the “Statement of the County Board of
Canvassers.” With gold seal of the county
of La Fayette. Original folds and minor tear
at bottom edge, else Fine.
The 1876 election that resulted in the election of R.B. Hayes as President of the United States is seen as one of the most hotly
contested elections in the history of the
American nation to this very day. Second
only to the disputed election of 2000, the
election of 1876 was only decided following
the creation of a special electoral commission. Examining and recounting the Electoral votes from a number of closely contested states, this commission was finally
able to put an end to this political battle just
after four a.m. on March 8, 1877, when, after completing a recount of Electoral votes
from Wisconsin, it declared Hayes and
Wheeler victorious.
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189) Partially Printed Document. Four pages, 8 ½” x14”. The
document tallies the
votes received by
electors in Franklin County in each
of the following
categories: Democratic, Republican,
Prohibition, Progressive, Socialist
and Socialist Labor.
Fold
reinforced.
Else Very Fine.
$125 - up
NY State Secretary Christopher
Morgan Writes About Whig Politics &
Henry Clay For President
190) 1842, New York. ALS. 1 page. CHRISTOPHER MORGAN (1808-1877). Morgan
was admitted to the bar and set up practice
in Aurora. He was elected as a Whig candidate to the House of Representatives of the
26th US Congress and reelected for a second term, serving from 1839-1843. He was
defeated for reelection in 1842. He moved
to Auburn, NY in 1843 and set up practice
there. Christopher served as New York Secretary of State 1847-1851 and as Superintendent of New York Public Schools 18481852. He was elected Mayor of Auburn in
1860 and 1862. He also served as a trustee
of the State Lunatic Asylum in Utica.“For a
zealous devotion to Whig principles and an
earnest endeavor to promote the interests
of the country, by the adoption of wise and
beneficial measures, the Whig members of
Congress, desire no higher reward than the
approbation of their Whig constituency.”
“The violated pledges and broken promises of a perfidious President have ( ) the
accomplishment of most of the great measures which were expected on the occasion
of the Whigs to power.”
“Though disappointed, the Whigs are not
discouraged. They are ready for another
contest. Their standard is borne by one
against whom ( ) has never dared to breath
a suspicion of perfidy. Our great statesman
(for Kentucky has no right to claim as exclusively her wone, the common property
of the Union) Henry Clay, is now the only
candidat of the Whig party for the Presidency and I doubt not that he will be elected by a greater majority of votes than was
given to the lamented Harrison. If other
states falter, New York is pledged to sustain
him...The duties of a political convass in my
own district prevent an acceptance of your
kind and flattering invitation...” A fine letter with choice political content. Excellent
condition.
$200 - up
National Galaxy Featuring Engravings And Biographies
Of America’s First Ten Presidents
192) Printed J. Greenleaf
Broadside. One page, 28
¾” x 21 ½”. With ornate
black & white border. Boston. 1849. There are 10 N.
Dearborn steel engraved
portraits of the presidents
and a printed biography of
each. Published by J. Howe,
Boston.
This broadside is especially
unique in that each of the
10 portraits were printed separately and then mounted in the proper place on the broadside sheet bearing the presidents’ biographies. This process ensured that the publisher
could achieve a life like image of the subjects far superior to alternate method using
woodblock engravings. Some paper loss and dampstaining at edges. Else Very Fine. $1,800 - up
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
SONG SHEET
adding Franklin’s name to a
plaque bearing
SPECTACULAR CAMPAIGN
193) “Glory to ‘Old Glory’: A National the names of
BANNER ADVERTISING LITHO- Flag Song for
Wa s h i n g t o n ,
GRAPH WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSSchools.” One
Adams,
and
TRATED ENVELOPE
page, 5” x 8”.
Jefferson. EnIllustrated with
graved by J.A.
191) [POLITICAL ADVERTISING] An
a detailed scene
Duplessis and
extraordinarily colorful advertisement for
of
spectators
W.J. Edwards
the sale of campaign items. 1884. 4 pcs. A
watching
solin 1856. Light
political advertiser soliciting campaign bandiers salute the
water staining
ners and merchandising that just splashes
American flag.
at lower right. Overall Fine. Framed to an
with color: THE CAMPAIGN BANNER
Lyrics by J. Edoverall size of 9” x 12 1/4”.
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AND OUTFIT COMPANY: “Manufacmund Estes. A
turer of political net banners and campaign
wonderfully iloutfits,” J.T. Commoss, Managers, N.Y. On
lustrated Song
the top is a campaign flag of presidential
CHARLES SUMNER PHOTO
Sheet.
Reincandidates James Blaine and John Logan,
forced folds. Dampstaining at lower right.
below in a style of Puck is a crowded conElse Fine.
$175 - up 195) CHARLES SUMNER (1811-1874)
vention with candidate expounding and fireAmerican politician and statesman from
works exploding, a band playing and an auMassachusetts.
An
Benjamin Franklin
dience that looks somewhat aghast. Prices
academic
lawyer
and
a
engraving by Duplessis
are listed for the banners ($90. For a 30x40!)
powerful
orator,
Sumand Edwards
as well as description of their products and
ner was the leader of
term. 9¾” x 14”. Included are two cards for
the antislavery forces
the same company “capes, caps torches and 194) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706- in Massachusetts. 1
all campaign articles!” Also a rare, stamped 1790) Founding father, printer, political 1/4” x 4 7/8” phoillustrated pink toned envelope addressed theorist, inventor, scientist and author. Steel tograph of Sumner.
top Hon. E.R. Wellington, Chesterfield Fac- engraving of Franklin. Smaller picture un- Backstamp reads: “Altory in an exceptional presentation. A very der portrait shows the signing of The Dec- len & Rowell 25 Winexciting political lot.
$1,250 - up laration of Independence. Smaller image ter Street Boston, Portrait Photographers.”
above portrait shows two allegorical females Very Fine. $90 - up
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Four Broughton’s Monthly Planet Reader And Astrological
Journal For The Presidential Candidates Of 1860
In The Wake Of The Dorr Rebellion
196) 15 3/4” x 22” broadside. One page.
The document reads, in part: “Door Returned!! This would be Governor, the
public enemy of Rhode Island, author and
arch-leader of treason, sedition and rebellion, whose bones were not left at Acote
Hill, whose ambition has cost the state
$100,000, in one year, had returned to our
borders to superintend the election of his
secret, legal adviser and fellow conspirator,
THOMAS F. CARPENTER !!! Fellow Citizens! let us not bind ourselves to the perilous significance of this re-union of General
Carpenter with this unprincipled, ambitions
[sic] leader of those restless, misguided
men, whom a few months since, Carpenter
himself denounced as ˜rascally insurgents’
... Carpenter’s occasional pretensions of fidelity to the principles of Law and Order,
are hollow, deceptive and false. You cannot
trust him, for you cannot understand him.
You can understand, and you can trust no
man, who contradicts himself. In the city he
is known; and whatever virtues he may possess as a man, no one trusts or confides in
him as a politician: no one of any party ...
Behold him then, fellow-citizens, as above
drawn, coiling about his own contradictions, and his absurd, false, wicked pretensions, taken up almost at random, from the
vast accumulations of a single year. Behold
him, and discard him. If you take him,
you take Dorr, and SEDITION with him.
If you discard him you put down the demon of insurrection for a hundred years.”
Some toning and edge wear. Tape repair to
folds on verso. Hole at center of document
197) Group of four “Broughton’s Monthly Planet Reader and Astrological Journal”
1) Philadelphia, September 1 Vol. 1 No 6. Nine pages, 5 3/4” x 9”. Image of a clean
shaven Abraham Lincoln on cover. In the Lincoln article, Broughton writes: “ … Mr.
Lincoln has a rather fortunate Nativity for becoming popular, and for rising in the world
with care and industry. But we are sorry to say that he has some rather unfortunate
aspects coming on … all of which aspects make us inclined to judge that he will be
defeated this next coming Presidential election …” In his “The Presidential Election”
article, Broughton notes: “ We are still of the opinion that S.A. Douglas, will be the next
President …” 2) Philadelphia, August 1, 1860 Vol. 1 No. 5. Image of Stephen Douglas
on cover. 3) Philadelphia, October 1, 1860. Vol 1 No. 7. Image of John Breckenridge on
cover. 4) Philadelphia, November 1, 1860. Vol. 1 No. 8 Image of John Bell, the Union
Candidate for President on cover. Bottom left corner of last page torn. A fine lot relative to the election of 1860, with interesting astrologically tinged predications and commentary throughout. Overall Very Fine.
$2,000 - up
filled, affecting less than ten words. Overall
Very Good. The Dorr Rebellion remains
one of the truly bizarre events in American political history. Led by politician and
reformer, THOMAS DORR (1805-1854),
the infamous political rebellion named after him gained a large amount of support
in Rhode Island. Dorr formed his own political party in an effort to have his reforms
concerning voting rights for all men of legal
age adopted. At the time, voting privileges
were restricted to land holders of their eldest sons. In 1841, Dorr’s party held a convention, drafting a new constitution which
ultimately received a decisive majority in a
separate election. Dorr’s party then held its
own election and chose him as the state’s
governor in defiance of the existing and
now minority government. Federal troops
were called in to quell the rebellion. Dorr
was convicted of treason and sentenced to
life imprisonment, but he was released after
serving one year.
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FINELY ILLUSTRATED MAGNUS
LETTERHEAD FEATURING THE
FIRST FOURTEEN PRESIDENTS
OF THE UNITED STATES
198) [MAGNUS] Black and White letter
sheet: “The Presidents of Our Great Republic.” The letter sheet pictures the first
fourteen U.S. Presidents against a patriotic
background and flags. Paper loss at edge,
not affecting text. Else Fine.
$125 - up
JOHN A. ANDREW
the League contained within its provisions
the seeds of inevitable trouble. Sometimes
a remedy is worse than the disease it is designed to cure. The whole subject bristles
with the most serious and fundamental considerations. I do not think that the country
should allow itself to be stampeded by the
glittering generalities which Mr. Wilson is
so adept in spouting. Neither his wiles nor
his threats will have any effect on me...” A
few folds and some edge wear. Overall Very
Good. $90 - up
199) JOHN A. ANDREW (1818 - 1867).
Civil War governor of Massachusetts. Instrumental in the development of some of
the first black regiments in the war, including the 54th Mass. ALS. 1 page. 5 ¼” x 8”.
July 12, 1859. To an unknown recipient, “Is
there anything to be found in the ancient
record showing the establishment of the
boundaries of the counties of Massachusetts? I want to see whether the counties on
the Atlantic coast are made to extend out LEADING PRESBYTERIAN CLERto the Maine league from land so as to be
GYMAN JOHN BRECKENRIDGE
terminus with the boundary of the state.
Yours Very truly, J. A. Andrew” Fine.
202) JOHN BRECKENRIDGE (1797
$90 - up 1841). Presbyterian clergyman and controversialist. Autograph Letter Signed, “Jno.
JOHN ALBION ANDREW
Breckenridge.” Three pages, 7 ¾” x 12 ¾”.
September 2 ,1834. Philadelphia. Addressed
on postmarked integral leaf. Breckenridge
200) JOHN A. ANDREW (1818-1867)
writes, in part:“…The Comm. Feel deeply
Governor of Massachusetts between 1861
interest in securing such services as yours
and 1866. Andrew was a guiding force bein the important field to which they have
hind the creation of some of the first U.S.
appointed you- & from the tenor of your
Army units of black men, including the
letters, they can but hope that so desirable a
famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry. 2 1/4”
result is at hand. $1200 – the sum which was
x 3” oval portrait of Andrew mounted to
suggested to you by Mr. Chester, has been
a 4 1/4” x 6 1/4” card. Backstamp reads:
considered by the Comm. As the maximum
“Warren’s 289 Washington Street, Boston,
for that field- & indeed $800- has been
Mass. Under the Superintendence of Mrs.
heretofore the salary of that station- The
S.B. Heald.” Fine.
$50 - up
difficult of giving more in that field is maniWONDERFUL COMMENTARY ON fold … not only our resources, but public
opinion forbids a large salary. We have high
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
expectations from your labors- the territory
is large & the churches able to give abun201) FRANK B. BRANDEGEE (1864- dantly. And in the event of their coming up
1924) U.S. Representative and Senator from to this work as they ought, I think there is
Connecticut. Typed Letter Signed, “Frank no doubt that the Ex. Comm. will promptly
B. Brandegee,” on United States Senate, increase you salary, thus making the amount
Committee on Foreign Relations stationery. above a comfortable support… it will be out
One page, 8” x 10 1/2”. Washington. Feb- of our power to give more unless the field
ruary 25, 1919. Brandegee writes to George of your labor produces it…There is anothL. Rockwell, in part: “...The Senate Com- er fact also … we consider the expenses of
mittee on Foreign Relations is to go to the the Agent while absent from home (which
White House tomorrow night to hear what of course we pay) as a pretty fair offset to
the President has to say to us ... This whole the perquisites of a pastor… the commitquestion of the League of Nations ought tee will cheerfully appropriate an extra sum
to have the most searching scrutiny. Some for your removal say $150.00 though this is
people seem to think that because they dis- contrary to our usual course. I only add that
like war, they ought to be for any proposal I do believe that $1500 per anu. would mathat has for its object the making of war terially inspire your success…Please let us
more difficult. It has seemed to me that hear from you soon in reply … Jno. Breckit would be material to consider whether enridge.” Separation and minor paper loss
the proposed League would, in fact, make at folds, paper loss at wax seal. Else Very
$300 – up
it more difficult to have a war, or whether Good
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JAMES BLAINE CABINET
PHOTOGRAPH
203)
JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE
(1830-1893). U.S. Speaker of the House
of Representatives,
Senator from Maine,
and two-time Secretary of State. Cabinet photograph of
Blaine. 4 ¼” x 6 ½”.
“Warren’s Portraits
465 Washington St.
Boston” backstamp. $75 - up
JAMES BLAINE CABINET
PHOTOGRAPH
204) JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE (18301893). U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator from Maine, and twotime Secretary of
State. Cabinet photograph of Blaine.
4 ¼” x 6 ½”. “C.M.
Bell Artist, 459, 461,
463&465 Penn Ave
Washington D.C.”
backstamp. $75 - up
JAMES BLAINE CABNET
PHOTOGRAPH
205) JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE (18301893). U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator from Maine, and
two-time Secretary of
State. Cabinet photograph of Blaine.
4 ¼” x 6 ½” “Child
& Co New York
and 242 Thames St.,
Newport, R.I.” artist’s credit in lower
margin.
$75 - up
SIGNED JAMES BLAINE
CABINET PHOTOGRAPH
MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESSMAN With circular, red “Boston” postal cancellaAND SENATOR
tion and straight, red “Paid” Cancellation.
Curtis writes: “I was much surprised to re206) JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE (1830- 209)
ALEXANDER H. BULLOCK ceive from Judge Whate [?] last evening an
1893). U.S. Speaker of the House of Repre- (1816-1882). Member of the Massachu- answer, saying that it will not be in his power
sentatives, Senator
setts House of Representatives and Senate, to comply with our flattering request” What
from Maine, and
Speaker of the House for Massachusetts shall I do? Yrs with Great Respect & regard
two-time Secretary
and Governor of that state. Photograph B.R. Curtis” A great association of a curof State. Cabiof Bullock signed on verso “A.H. Bullock rent and future Associate Justice of the U.S.
net
photograph
Speaker 1862” 2 3/4” x 4 1/4”. No place. Supreme Court. Extremely Fine. $250 - up
of Blaine Signed
1862. Backstamp reads, “Photographed by
at lower edge of
Claflin 188 Main St., Worcester.” Fine.
image: “James G.
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Blaine.” 4 ¼” x 6
KENTUCKY CONGRESSMAN
½” “Geo Prince
CALEB CUSHING
E.
M. BRUCE WRITES TO A GENPenn Ave & 11th
ERAL ASKING FOR A POSITION
St. Wash. D.C.” artist’s credit in lower margin.
$150 - up ON BEHALF OF A CONSTITUENT
WHO WAS TERRIBLY MAIMED AT 212) CALEB CUSHING (1800-1879)
JAMES BLAINE SIGNED
THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA, American statesman and diplomat. Cushing
served as a Congressman from MassachuCABINET PHOTOGRAPH
WHERE I FOUND HIM ALMOST
setts and as Attorney General under PresiDEAD”
207)
JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE
dent Pierce. Autograph Letter Signed, Cush(1830-1893). U.S. Speaker of the House 210) ELI M. BRUCE (1828 - 1866). Repre- ing.” One page, 5” x 5 1/8” Boston. April
of Representatives, sentative from Kentucky in the first and sec- 7, 1862. Cushing writes: “In the matter
Senator from Maine, ond Confederate congresses, philanthropist. of the school books which came up in the
and two-time Secre- Heavily financed the Confederate shadow House yesterday it gives me pleasure at the
tary of State. Cabi- government of Kentucky during the Civil same time to oblige you and to present the
net photograph of War. ALS. 1 page. 8 ¼” x 10 ¾”. House of wishes of my constituents. I am yours truly,
Blaine Signed at low- Representatives May 23 1863. Bruce writes Cushing” Mounting trace on verso. Overall
er edge of mounting asking for a position for Jno. H. Blanchard, Fine. $90 - up
card: “Very Sincerely, Co. I, 4th Kentucky regiment. General “I
CALEB CUSHING’S FIRST
James G. Blaine.” 4 respectfully ask your special attention to the
CONGRESSIONAL TERM
¼” x 6 ½” “Warren’s claims of a most meritorious young man “
Portraits 465 Wash- he is competent for almost any subordinate
ington St. Boston” position “ of good family and education “ a
backstamp. “Return to Library- The Bruce constituent of mine and I know he was ter- 213) CALEB CUSHING (1800-1879)
American statesman and diplomat. CushPublishing Company” stamp on verso.
ribly maimed at the battle of Chickamauga,
$150 - up where I found him almost , and hence know ing served as a Congressman from Massachusetts and as Attorney General under
the facts as stated. I have the honor to be,
President Pierce. Autograph Letter Signed,
General, very truly your friend & obt. Servt.
“Caleb Cushing.” One page, 7 3/4” x
JAMES BLAINE SIGNED
E. M. Bruce.” The letter has been backed
CABINET PHOTOGRAPH
10”. Newbury Port. November 10, 1835.
and docketing information on verso is readAddressed on integral leaf to Mr. Wil$200 - up
208) JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE (1830- able.
liam Nichols, W. Amesbury. With “NEW1893). Cabinet phoBURYPORT Mass” postal cancellation
B.R. CURTIS TO ASSOCIATE
tograph of Blaine
and “Free C. Cushing M.C.” Free-frank.
JUSTICE STORY
Signed at lower edge
Cushing writes, in part: “May I ask you to
of mounting card:
do me the favor to send me a list of the
“James G. Blaine.”
names of individuals in West Amesbury
4 ¼” x 6 ½” “C.M.
211) BENJAMIN R. CURTIS (1809-1874) to where it would be proper & agreeable
Bell
Photograph
American attorney and Associate Justice of for one to send papers or documents durArt Studies” gold
the U.S. Supreme Court. Autograph Note ing the approaching section of Congress
on black backstamp.
Signed, “B.R. Curtis.” One page, 7 7/8” x 9 & in so doing you will greatly oblige.” A
Two minor chips at
3/4”. Boston. June 15, 1843. Addressed on fine document relative to Cushing’s first
left edge. $150 - up
integral leaf to Mr Justice Story. JOSEPH term as a Congressman. Paper loss on adSTORY (1779-1845) American lawyer and dress leaf from wax seal. Overall Very Fine.
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. $125 - up
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New York State Senator James C.
Curtis Accepts the Nomination for
State Senator by the Free Soil Party
“the extension of Slavery into Territory now free
should be resisted because it is wrong in principle,
contrary to the spirit of our republican institution
and the best interests of our blessed Country”
214) James C. Curtis. New York state
senator and free soil party member. Curtis
writes just after his nomination for state
senator by the newly formed Free Soil Party
convention. ALS. 1 page. Cochecton, 30
Aug., 1848. “Your letter informing me that
a convention of the free soil democracy of
the 9th Congressional district had nominated me as the candidate for Congress of
the free soil democracy of the district was
duly received. For this mark of respect and
confidence on the part of the convention
I am truly grateful. Fully believing that the
extension of Slavery into Territory now
free should be resisted because it is wrong
in principle, contrary to the spirit of our
republican institution and the best interests
of our blessed Country. As the platform
and resolutions adopted at the Buffalo
convention are correct in principal and of
course are correct in practice. I fully subscribe to them and to the principle of no
more Slave Territory and cheerfully accept
the nomination so unanimously tendered
me through you only regretting that some
are more efficious capable and able to carry
out the principal for which we are contending. Free soil & free territory have been selected by the convention. I am with great
respect, Yours…James C. Curtis.” The Free
Soil party had just held its first convention
on August 9 and 10th. Organized on a platform which opposed the admission of any
new slave states into the Union. In 1854,
the party was absorbed into the new Republican party.
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EDWARD EVERETT
215) EDWARD EVERETT (1794-1865).
U.S. Secretary of State under Fillmore; U.S.
Congressman and Senator; Unitarian clergyman; Teacher. LS. 3 pages. 8” x 10”. Department of State, Washington, 3rd March
1853.To W. H. Gardiner Esqe Boston, “Sir
The President, for the purpose of putting
more distinctly on record his views in reference to the claim on the Chilean Gov-
ernment now pending, has directed me to
address you an official not on that subject.
When the President advised a reference of
this long deferred case to the arbitration of
a friendly power, he considered it a matter
of course that all the questions, on which
the parties had differed, should be submitted to the arbiter. The President was not apprized, at the time, of the exceptions taken
by my predecessor to the two first articles
of a draft on a convention submitted by
Mr. Carvallo in his note of the 26th August
1852. Although it may have been advisable to object to the specific incorporation
of those two articles into the Convention,
the President thinks that the United States
ought not to insist on the exception from arbitration of any of the questions on which
the Governments in their correspondence
on the subject have differed. The President, for this reason, approves the course
taken by me in giving my consent to the
proposed withdrawal of Mr. Carvallo’s note
of the 26th of August 1852 with the draft
of a convention enclosed in it, with a view
to protracted correspondence which would
necessarily result from a refusal to allow the
two first articles of the convention to be
specifically submitted; and he regrets that
you were not authorized, on behalf of the
claimants, to accede to that proposal. The
President thinks it quite possible that the
United States ought in the outset to have
made a peremptory demand on the Chilean
Government for the reimbursement of the
money originally seized by its officers; but
this false step“ if it was onecannot possibly
be retraced. A diplomatic correspondence
has been carried on for several years, and
an offer of arbitration has been made by
us and has been accepted by Chile. Under
these circumstances the President thinks it
neither to be desired nor expected that any
of the questions which have arisen in the
discussion should be excepted from the
submission to the arbiter. I am, sir, respectfully, Your Obedient servant, Edward Everett.” This letter was written and relates to
a claim against the Chilean government of
a vessel and its prize owned by a group of
Boston merchants. The seizure took place
in Peruvian waters but was accomplished by
Chilean vessels in 1821. The King of Belgians served as the arbiter in this case. Over
thirty years later, the case had still not been
resolved.
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EDWARD EVERETT
216) EDWARD EVERETT (1794-1865).
U.S. Secretary of State under Fillmore; U.S.
Congressman and Senator; Unitarian clergyman; Teacher. ALS. 2 pages. 7” x 8 ¾”.
Marked as “Private”. To Honorable T.H.
Perkins, Department of State 22 Nov. 1852.
“Dear Sir, I have received your favor of the
16th; as also a letter of W. Gardiner of the
15th to myself and one from W. Gardiner
to W. Hunter of the 15th, together with the
papers accompanying them, which I have
read with attention. This claim was one of
the first subjects which engaged my attention on entering the department; although
the person of the public business, which
was much in arrears, has prevented my making as much progress in it as I could wish. I
have appointed an interview with the Chilean Minister for this day. I shall propose to
him to compromise the matter by a sum in
gross. If he declines that, I shall fall back
upon the arbitration, taking care to exclude
those features of his project, which Mr.
Webster regarded as inadvisable.- I will take
care to advise you of the result, as soon as
anything is agreed upon. I remain, Dear Sir,
with sincere regard, faithfully yours. Edward
Everett”.
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EDWARD EVERETT
217) EDWARD EVERETT (1794-1865)
Massachusetts politician who served as
Massachusetts’ Governor and a Representative and Senator from that state. In
addition, Everett served as president of
Harvard University and as United States
Secretary of State under President Fillmore.
Partially Printed Document Signed, Edward
Everett.” One page, 8” x 10”. Department
of State, Washington. November 11, 1852.
The document reads, in part: “To his Excellency the Governor of Mississippi Sir:
Agreeably to the law for the distribution of
the Acts of Congress, (Act, Aril 20, 1818,
sec 6,) the number of copies of the Acts of
the First Session of the Thirty Second Congress, due to the State of Mississippi: is 148.
These have been put up in packages, each
containing Five copies and deposited in the
Post Office in this City to be forwarded to
you.” Very Fine. $250 - up
EDWARD EVERETT TO
PRESIDENT TYLER
JOHN C. FREMONT ALS
“It would have afforded me much pleasure to meet
you during my visit to Virginia to express to you
in person my high sense of obligation for the trust
exposed in me during your administration.”
220) JOHN C. FREMONT (1813-1890).
Explorer; Politician; Union general in the
Civil War. ALS. 1 page. 8” x 10”. Washington
City, Aug. 20, 1850. To Franklin L. Rising,
Esq., New York.
“Sir, I have to
acknowledge the
receipt of your
note of the “
inst addressed to
me at the Irving
House and take
pleasure in complying with your
request.
Very
respectfully yours J.C. Fremont.” Mounted
to another sheet. Some light dampstaining.
Fremont’s text and autograph remain bold.
Accompanied by an engraved portrait of
Fremont.
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Massachusetts’ Governor and a Representative and Senator from that state. In addition, Everett served as president of Harvard
University and as United States Secretary of
State under President Fillmore. Autograph
Letter Signed, “Edward Everett.” Two
pages, 5” x 8”. Richmond. March 18, 1865.
Everett writes to PRESIDENT TYLER,
in part: “I have received your very obliging letter. It would have afforded me much
pleasure to meet you during my visit to Virginia to express to you in person my high
sense of obligation for the trust exposed
in me during your administration. Trusting
that Mr Tyler’s improved health will soon
relieve your amity...” Mounting trace on
verso. VF. $250 - up
EDWARD EVERETT
Massachusetts’ Governor and a Representative and Senator from that state. In addition, Everett served as president of Harvard
University and as United States Secretary
of State under President Fillmore. Manuscript Document Signed, “Edward Everett.” One page, 7” x 10”. Department of
State, Washington. December 20, 1852. Everett writes: “I have the honor to enclose,
herewith, copy of a letter received from the
Treasury Department, from which you will
learn that, in accordance with your request,
the necessary instruction have been issued
to the Collector of Customs at New York,
for the delivery to your order, free of duties and charges, the articles enumerated in
the Bill of Lading, enclosed in your note of
the 18th inst. which are herewith returned.
I avail myself of this occasion to renew the
assurance of my very high consideration.
Edward Everett.” Extremely Fine.
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MASS. GOVERNOR
HENRY GARDNER
Pruden. I think the signal as to the time we
were trying to arrange the other day could
best be done this way. I will get you to the
telephone & say will your father be in the
city at O’clk today”? The hour I name will
be the time I think you should be there.”
Intriguing content and a clandestine tone.
Very Fine.
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SEYMOUR WRITES DURING HIS
CAMPAIGN SHORTLY BEFORE
HIS ELECTION TO THE NEW
YORK GOVERNORSHIP
223) HORATIO SEYMOUR (1810-1866).
Twice served as New York Governor, once
during the Civil War. A Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1868, he lost to
Grant. ALS. 2 pages. 5” x 8”. Elmira, Oct.
26, 1862. “My dear Sir I have addressed
a number of meetings in this part of the
State “ all have been full and spirited “ our
friends are ¦¦under the influence of elections. Their elections have brought out the
conservative sentiments of the People “ I
shall speak every day until election “ In my
opinion we are constantly gaining ground.
Truly yours, Horatio Seymour.” Just short
after this letter was written, Seymour won
the election for the New York state governorship. Fine.
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221) HENRY GARDNER (1819-1892)
Governor of Massachusetts. Autograph
Note Signed, “Henry J. Gardner.” One page,
7 3/8” x 5 1/2”. No place. Monday, June
25, 1855. Gardner writes to Thos. H. Chandler Esq., in part: “I am much obliged to
you for telling me so plainly of Harry’s deROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP
linquencies, and I have had a plain talk with
him. I think he will do betterhe promises to
try. What course suggests itself to you to
224) ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP
advise one to adopt with one of the pecu(1809-1894) American lawyer and philanliar constitution he possesses?” Very Fine.
$75 - up thropist. Winthrop served as a Senator and
Representative from Massachusetts and as
the 22nd Speaker of the House of RepreASSISTANT SECRETARY TO
sentatives. Autograph Letter Signed “Robt.
McKINLEY AND T.R.
Winthrop.” One page, 5 5/8” x 9”. 1 Pemberton Square. April 16, 1861. Winthrop
222) OCTAVIUS L. PRUDEN (1842-1902) writes to THOMAS GARFIELD (1825Assistant Secretary to presidents McKinley 1900) Glass-maker, MIT trustee and memand Theodore Roosevelt. Autograph Letter ber of MIT’s Society of Arts, in part: “I
Signed, “O.L. Pruden,” on Executive Man- have the honor to acknowledge your kind
sion, Washington letterhead. Two pages, 4 invitation of the 13th & thank you for the
3/4” x 6”. March 25, 1898. Pruden writes: compliment it implies. The presence of my
Dear Miss Solomons: Not until this year friend Mr. Fillmore would give a peculiar
has the Gardener at the Ex. Mansion been charm to your Festival, but it will be out of
able to grow violets like these. I only regret my power to attend it. Present my respectful
there are not more of them, but it is about acknowledgement to the Commee” Mountthe end of the season & no more in blos- ing trace on verso. Tape repair to small split
som this morning. Very truly yours, O.L. at lower right. Overall Fine.
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AMASA WALKER
225) AMASA WALKER (1799-1875) U.S.
economist and politician. Autograph Letter
Signed, “Amasa Walker” and “A.W.” One
page, 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Boston. January 17,
1851. Walker writes, in part: “I have ordered
your paper sent to the office of the Secretary of State. You will, when you receive the
order, discontinue the one sent to North
Brookfield I have not seen your paper for
a fortnight and feel quite lost without it My
counsel is, great caution & calmness in the
present trying crises we do not despair, &
need not if our own friend will be quiet.”
Very Fine.
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Scathing 1829 NH Republican Political Circular Attacks
“HARTFORD CONVENTION MEN IN THEIR UNHOLY PROJECTS”
WHILE PROMISING TO “PUNISH THE DECEIVERS, BUT RECLAIM
THE DECEIVED” IN THE STATE ELECTIONS
Mayor Wood Of NY To Franklin Pierce
“I Am Quite Sure That Political Consideration
Can Have No Influence…(but) His Extensive
Influential Family Connections Are Of Our Own
Political Faith –he Is A Democrat Of
Unwavering Stomp…”
226) FERNANDO WOOD (1812-1881).
Congressman, Mayor of New York City. Autograph Letter Signed “Fernando Wood.” 1
page, New York, 1853. Mayor Wood writes
to Franklin Pierce
,“His Excellency”
with some insightful political
content into the
political appointment
process:
“…I beg to recommend to your
favorable consideration the application of Wm. H. Allmand, Eng. To be
appointed one of the Pursers of the United
States Navy…Though I am quite sure that
political consideration can have no influence with your excellency in that appointment, yet I am happy to add…his extensive
influential family connections are of our
own political faith – He is a democrat of
unwavering stomp….” Includes a 19th century steel plate engraving of Wood. Light
age wear, mostly Fine.
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227) Partially Printed circular. Two pages, 6 ¾” x 8 ¼”. Concord, [NH]. January 19,
1829. The document reads, in part: “The Object of this Circular is to solicit your aid
in furtherance of the election of the candidates above named, and of the candidates
for Counselors, Senators, &c. who shall be nominated by the Republican Conventions
in the several districts; and of Representatives to the State Legislature. To you, Sir, we
say, that an united and a vigorous effort prior to, an on the day of the next election,
LL SECURE US THE VICTORY… furnish your neighbors with all the needful and
necessary information to counteract the machinations and the falsehood that may be
put in operation by a corrupt and vindictive Aristocracy…For what was BENJAMIN
PIERCE proscribed and hunted down in the last year’s election? Had he made himself
busy against the New England President? No; this was not his sin. He refused to make
himself and instrument in office to persecute his fellow republicans who had declared
for Gen. Jackson- he refused to unite with federalists and Hartford Convention men in
their unholy projects- he refused to join a cabal of office seekers who has sold themselves to the federal party; and therefore he must be immolated to the altar of party…
If we all do our duty on the second Tuesday of March, there cannot be doubt of complete success…On that day, let the watchword of Republicans be, Reform in our State
administration: on that day, let our motto be -“Punish the deceivers, but reclaim the
deceived!” $750 - up
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