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VICE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON WRITES TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S GRANDSON: “I HAVE MADE THESE OBSERVATIONS MERELY TO ENABLE YOU TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF WHICH OF THE TWO SPECIES OF SACRIFICE YOU WOULD PREFER” – LOT 67 COMMEMORATIVE ALBUMS OF THE LONDON REPRESENTA- TIVE OF THE BRITISH WAR RELIEF SOCIETY; THE HUNDREDS OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND LETTERS SHOW WHAT THE ORGANI- ZATION DID FOR THE BRITISH, INCLUDING THE DONATION OF AMBULANCES, SEEDS AND CLOTHING - LOT 16

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I hope this finds you well, and I’m certain you will find interesting historical material in these pages. This is the largest and most varied catalog I have ever produced. Last year, I bought the stock of the legendary manuscript dealer Joseph Rubinfine, and some of the letters and manuscripts in these pages were once owned by him. Some of the catalog’s highlights include the British War Relief Society photography albums, two important Albert Camus manuscripts, a Thomas Jefferson letter to Benjamin Franklin’s grandson, a rare photograph signed by the Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, an oversized President Kennedy autographed photograph, a King Kamehameha V signed cavalry commission, a Robert E. Lee letter about Virginia railroads, a Rose O’Neill illustrated letter, photographs of the 1995 New York City gay pride parade, a letter from Secretary of the Senate Samuel Otis notifying Washington’s secretary of the first Federal census, a Marcus Reno signed CDV, a FDR letter praising the role of the Merchant Ma- rines in World War II, a large Theodore Roosevelt signed photograph, a lengthy Montgomery Blair letter about emancipation & the Civil War, a Zachary Taylor document mentioning his enslaved men, a Woodrow Wilson handwritten Biblical quote, a Moses Austin slave document, the original manuscript of Henry Dearborn’s July Fourth oration at Bunker Hill, and much, much more. If you want to receive my monthly email newsletter, please send me your email address at [email protected]. I have found that most of my best and interesting material sells that way...long before it reaches these catalog pages. Plus, you can participate in the fun but never-easy American history trivia contest that I feature in my newsletter. Lastly, I wanted to mention my appraisal services for estate tax, donation and insurance purposes. I am a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America with a certification in Historical Documents. If you have appraisal needs or questions, please feel free to contact me to discuss. If you are looking to donate your property, the IRS now requires qualified appraisers to have education and experience, and I have both credentials. Many thanks to Alexandra Kiely for her fine writing and editing found throughout these pages.

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AN HANDWRITTEN LETTER BY FIRST LADY ABIGAIL ADAMS TO HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

1) Partial ALS. 1pg. 7” x 8”. N.d. N.p. The conclusion of an autograph letter signed “Abigail Adams” to her daughter-in-law Ann Harrod Adams, wife of Thomas B. Adams. The First Lady wrote: “Commit this hasty scratch of my pen to the flames my dear Nancy. It is written more to show you how much I bear you in mind, and how tenderly I love you than to afford you any entertain- ment - a mere chit chat scribble - not half so elegant so refined so sentimental as my dear daughters to her ever affectionate Mother Abigail Adams Present me kindly to all your family. Mrs. Smith Caroline John and Susan all send a thousand Loves kisses for our dear Babe…”. On the verso, she wrote “Ms Ann Adams Haverhill”. The partial letter is in fine condition with dark writing, folds and some toning boxes on the verso. $5,000

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND HENRY CLAY SIGN A PATENT DOCUMENT FOR A METALLURGIST

2) DS. 6pg. 11” x 14 ½”. March 27, 1827. Washington. A partly printed patent document signed “John Quincy Adams” as President, “H Clay” as Secretary of State and “Wm Wirt” as Attorney General. The government acknowledged that Benjamin Green of Hartford, Vermont “invented a new and useful improvement in the Machine for grinding & polishing hard & soft metallic Substances”. There are several manuscript pages of description of the improvement. The vellum document has one horizontal fold and two vertical ones, a large eagle seal and several pink ribbons that holds the document together. The condition is very good with dark autographs. $2,250

A FREE FRANKED PANEL SIGNED BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND LOUISA ADAMS

3) FF. 5 ½” x 4”. N.d. N.p. A address panel signed “J.Q. Adams” and “L C Adams”. The panel is addressed to H.L. Dunkerr of Boston. It is in very good condition with dark writing. $950

A POSTER CREATED IN THE WAKE OF THE WATTS RIOTS: “UNCLE TOM SAYS: ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT GHETTO FIRES”

4) (AFRICAN-AMERICAN). Poster. 22” x 33”. 1967. Los Angeles. A 1967 poster by cartoonist Ron Cobb. It shows an African-American man holding a hoe with a burned urban setting in the background. The text says “Remember…Uncle Tom Says: Only You Can Prevent Ghetto Fires”. The poster is a takeoff on the popular Smokey Bear “Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires” posters of the 1960s. Cobb created this poster just a couple years after the devastating Watts Riots in Los Angeles. The purpose of the poster was to comment on the moderate African-Americans who didn’t have the same anger as the younger people who were protesting racism. The poster, made by Sawyer Press, is in very fine condition. A terrific visual item. $500

THE ALASKAN GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS THANKGIVING IN 1895

5) (ALASKA). Broadside. 1pg. 10” x 12”. 1895. Alaska. A Territory of Alaska broadside issued by Governor James Sheakley for the 1895 Thanksgiving. He noted that “Our territory has been notably favored during the now-closing year, the people have made rapid progress in material prosperity, the population has received large additions by immigration, the min- ing and fishing industries have been abundantly rewarded, education, civilization and Christian influences more widely diffused, and the settlers in this new country are hopeful and contented…”. The proclamation has an embossed seal in the lower left corner and four mailing folds; it is matted in brown. Not in OCLC. $400

A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA AND KING EDWARD VII

6) PS. 8 ½” x 11”. 1910. N.p. [likely England]. A photograph inscribed on the lower margin “Edward VII & Alexandra our last opening of Parliament 1910”. Alexandra wrote the entire inscription, not the King. The portrait shows the King and Queen formally dressed. The Downey photograph is matted in dark red and framed in wood to an overall size of 15 ½” x 18”. $750

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THE EARLY NEW JERSEY INDUSTRIALIST JAMES P. ALLAIRE TO HIS WIFE; HE MENTIONS CORNELIUS VANDERBILT AND NOTES THAT HIS WIFE IS IN CHARGE OF THE ENTERPRISE: “YOU MUST SHOW HER HOW TO KEEP BOOK AND LET HER GO TO THE STORE WITH YOU…I EXPECT TO ENGAGE AN ENGINE AND IT WILL NOT DO FOR ME TO BE ABSENT…NOW MY DEAR AS YOU ARE MANAGER OF THE HOWELL WORKS”

7) An archive of five James Allaire letters to his wife Calicia Allaire at the Howell Works. The Village collapsed in 1846, and these letters to his wife were done in the aftermath. He wrote on long blue paper. The archive consists of: a) ALS. 1pg. 8” x 12 ½”. April 12, 1848. New York. An autograph letter signed “James P. Allaire”: “Yesterday I had no letter or tidings from you. I sent after supper to the Boat…I look for you on Friday if a good day I am somewhat suspicious that you and I will be disappointed for as much as I want to see you, I hope you want to expose yourself to sickness by coming in bad weather…Miss Jack wants to know what kind of ribbon Mrs. Odlum wishes to have on her hat. I shall try to send two bbl Rye Flour to day – I hope you have been able to ride out the good days we have had and when I see you, you will look and feel much better than when you left New York…”. It has mailing folds and a seal tear. b) ALS 1pg. 8” x 12 ½”. June 11, 1848. New York. An autograph letter signed “James P. Allaire”: “I have to wait Mr. Collins bidding – he sent me word that he would be here on Monday 11 O’clock which will prevent my coming until Tuesday when I will come unless something else prevents me…I stay on our own account, it is my duty to provide for my family and we all stand in need of provision. I am going to Red Bank today to see Mr. T.G. Combs, I shall want him to be security for me to carry up the lawsuit to a higher tribunal in July next. If I do not see him today I shall have to stay at Red Bank on Tuesday for that purpose and he may be from home on a weekday – my dear, nobody can want to see another more than I do…”. The letter has light staining and mailing folds. c) ALS. 2pg. 8” x 12 ½”. August 18, 1848. New York. An autograph letter signed “James P. Allaire”: “Jack got home between 2 and 3 O’Clock this afternoon – she could not find me so I did not get your letter till late and as I was uneasy to hear from you I sent a boy down to the Boat but before he returned your letter was handed me by Cousin Susan…Jack says Matilda took home a very large tomatoe [sic], I expect it was from the seed I got from Mr. Corliers…I want the seed for next year…he can’t mix the seed nor have the plants too close that they mix and have a mongrel sort…you will have some company to make this time pass not very lonely till your old man that loves you as dearly as tho he was young can come and spend a few days with you. I feel that I must not be out of the way not only for the business of the concern but for the business of my own that I expect so much from and have mentioned to you as far as I could and do right…she was able to give George a whip- ping – I believe our Breed don’t make much ado about these things but nevertheless I hope you won’t try again…”. The letter has minor staining and mailing folds. d) ALS. 1pg. 8” x 12 ½”. September 28, 1848. New York. An autograph letter signed “James P. Allaire”: “I have not heard anything about Campbell and David…Instead of your having less to do, you will have more now that I have sent you Linen for Mrs. Roe and Hal…I do not wish you to work so hard as to expose your health…I have not sent the Sugar for Brookside nor the Boots or cloths…I hope she will help you sow besides gathering apples – you must show her how to keep book and let her go to the Store with you for I want you to come to New York some time next week that is if I am not able to come and see you in the beginning of the week for I shall not be able to come on Saturday. Capt. Comstock is to be here on Saturday, I expect to engage an Engine and it will not do for me to be absent…Now my dear as you are Manager of the Howell Works I think it will be more to my interest and I am sure more satisfactory to me if you will jump on your horse and ride to Brookside and Jones Farm and see what they are at than be sewing all the time and at the same time I think it will improve your health – if any person should want to look at my Books – I trust that you will refuse and tell them you can’t give them any information about accounts.”. Cap- tain Joseph Comstock was an early naval engineer involved with steam engines. It has light staining, a small seal tear and mailing folds. e) ALS. 1pg. 8” x 12 ½”. July 30, 1849. An autograph letter signed “James P. Allaire”: “I got to the Bank comfortably and in good time – we are all well here and Jack looks as well as ever she is much better since she was sick a short time ago…I can’t say how my business progresses – this day I shall attend to those who are to befriend me and will be able to report to you on Wednesday how matters and things are, if not in person I will write, as the stage is to come down to the Bank on Wednesdays and Saturdays…If I see Capt. [Cornelius] Vanderbilt I shall invite his Daughter come to Howell with me. I hope if she does come some good will result from her visit…”. $1,500 for the archive

TEXAS FOUNDER MOSES AUSTIN HANDWRITES A DOCUMENT MENTIONING ONE OF HIS SLAVES

8) ANS. 1pg. 7 ¾” x 3 ¾”. August 15, 1812. N.p. [Missouri]. An autograph note signed “Moses Austin” to Mr. Buyler: “I will thank you to send by my Negro Boy as much meal as he can bring also be so good as to send me 50 pounds of flower in one end of one of the bags…”. In 2015, Heritage Auctions sold for $4,000 an 1827 document by Elias Bates, the nephew of Moses Austin, liberating one of his former slaves several years after Austin died. The auction house erroneously stated that “This may be the only extant document associating Austin with the ownership of one of his slaves.” Obviously, this statement is not true because of the existence of this Austin document. The document is tanned and light in spots and somewhat brittle. $5,000

A REVOLUTIONARY WAR DOCUMENT ORDERING MASSACHUSETTS MEN TO DRILL

9) (AMERICAN REVOLUTION). D. 2pg. 8” x 10”. September 16, 1778. Upton [Massachusetts]. A document ordering Corporal Elisha Wood to summon the local militia company, probably for training: “These are therefore in the Name of the Government and people of the Mas- sachusetts Bay to will and require you forthwith to warn and notify the Persons herein after mention'd to meet at the Training field at or near the meeting house...on Thursday the 17th of Septr. at two o’clock in the afternoon…”. Below is listed the names of the officers, including Cap- tain Thomas Marshall, Lieutenant Asa Hazeltine and Lieutenant David Kelley. There is then a listing of the names of twenty-one enlisted men in a different hand. Corporal Wood wrote on the verso “In obedience to the within Warrant I have warned and notified all the persons within named to meet at time and place within mentioned. Elisha Wood Corporal”. The document has the usual wear and stains. $400

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FRENCH POET CHARLES BAUDELAIRE THANKS A MAN FOR SENDING A BOOK

10) ALS. 1pg. Monday, May 19, 1862. N.p. An autograph letter signed “Ch. Baudelaire”. Baudelaire thanked the recipient for sending him a book. He wrote in French, but the English translation is as follows: “Monday, Dear Sir, I thank you so very much! You guessed right that this book would interest me. Such a strange coincidence: just as your book was delivered to me, I was writing you to tell you that I was coming to your house tomorrow early in the morning and that, if you needed to leave, not to wait for me but just to leave word with your concierge to let me know where we could meet. I have something to ask you that I consider a great service and that, I believe, will not be anything bad or embarrassing for you. Thank you again, and all my best wishes, Ch. Baudelaire”. The name of the recipient is crossed out on the verso, but he lived at 99 Rue d’Enfer in Paris. The letter is in fine condition with dark ink and mailing folds; there is a small chip to the address panel that affects nothing. $5,500

A SEVENTH CAVALRY DOCUMENT SIGNED BY OFFICER FREDERICK BENTEEN

11) DS. 1pg. 8 ½” x 7 ¼”. March 22, 1878. Fort Rice, Dakota Territory. A partly printed document signed “F W Benteen” and co-signed by Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Otis. The requisition is for clothing, such as blouses, stockings and pants. The document is in very fine condition. $1,750 (photograph below)

A LENGTHY MONTGOMERY BLAIR LETTER FROM 1862 ABOUT SLAVERY, RACE, EMANCIPATION AND THE CIVIL WAR: “I HAVE NEVER BELIEVED THAT THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY…COULD OR OUGHT TO BE EFFECTED, EXCEPT BY LAWFUL AND CONSTITUTIONAL MODES…THE ELEC- TION OF MR. LINCOLN, PUT AN END TO THE HOPES OF DA- VIS…FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNION, AND HENCE THE REBELLION…CAN ANY MAN…THINK IT NECESSARY, WITH SUCH ADVANTAGES ON THE SIDE OF JUSTICE & TRUTH, TO VIOLATE THE GREAT CHARTER OF OUR LIBER- TIES TO INSURE THEIR TRIUMPH?...THE ELECTION OF MR. LINCOLN INVOLVED EMANCIPATION, EQUALITY OF THE NEGROES…I DO NOT THINK…OUR DIFFICULTIES WILL BE LESSENED BY EMANCIPATION BY CONGRESS, EVEN IF SUCH AN ACT WAS CONSTITUTIONAL…LET THE WHITE RACE HAVE THE LANDS, INTENDED FOR THEM BY THE CREATOR…AND AT THE SAME TIME…BREAK UP THE SLAVE SYSTEM BY WHICH THE MOST FERTILE LANDS OF THE TEMPERATE ZONE ARE MONOPOLIZED AND WASTED”

12) LS. 9pg. 8” x 12 ½”. March 2, 1862. Washington. A lengthy letter signed “M. Blair” as Lincoln’s Postmaster General. It is addressed to “The Committee of Invitation & c. & c.” that was also The Committee of Invitation of the late Meeting at Cooper Institute. The organizers held a great anti-slavery meeting at New York City’s Cooper Institute on March 6, 1862. Blair, one of the most conservative members of Lincoln’s cabinet, wrote this lengthy and important statement on slavery and the Civil War. This was written six months before Lincoln first announced the Emancipation Proclamation: “…I do not concur in the proposition that certain States have been 'recently overturned and wholly subverted as members of the Federal Union upon which the call is based. This is, in substance, what the Confederates themselves claim, and the fact that succession is maintained by the authors of this call, for a different purpose, does not make it more constitutional…No one who knows my political career will suspect that my condemnation of this doctrine in influenced by any indisposition to put an end to slavery. I have left no opportunity unimproved to strike at it, and have never been restrained from doing so by personal considerations. But I have never believed that the abolition of Slavery…could or ought to be effected, except by lawful and constitutional modes…there are two distinct interests in Slavery, the political and property interest, held by distinct classes. The rebellion originated with the political class. The property class…had lost no property…and were prosperous. It was the Democratic organization, which did not represent the Slaveholders as a class, which hatched the rebellion. Their defeat in the late political struggle and in the present rebellion, extinguishes…the political interest of Slavery. The election of Mr. Lincoln, put an end to the hopes of Davis, Wise, et id omne genus, for the Presidency of the Union, and hence the rebellion…Mr. Toombs said, with perfect truth, that the institution could only be maintained, in the Union, by the possession of the government. That has been wrested from it and the fray now is on the side of justice and truth. Can any man…think it necessary, with such advantages on the side of justice & truth, to violate the great charter of our liberties to insure their triumph?...the problem before us is the practical one of dealing with the relations of masses of two different races in the same community…in considering the means of securing the peace…it is…jealousy of race which is chiefly to be considered. Emancipation alone would not remove it. It was by proclaiming to the laboring whites, who fill the armies of rebellion, that the Election of Mr. Lincoln involved emancipation, equality of the negroes with them and consequently amalgamation, that their jealously was stimulated to the fighting point. Now is this jealousy the fruit of mere ignorance…or confined to the white people of the South. On the contrary, it belongs to all races…it is in fact, the instinct of self preservation…a theorist, not living in a community where diverse races are brought in contact in masses, may…extend social intercourse to individuals of the subject race…such persons…are so far removed by their circumstances, from any practical equality with working people of any race, that they have little sympathy and nothing to apprehend for themselves from the theory of equality. Not so with the white working man in a community where there are many negroes. In such circumstances, the distinction of caste is the only protection of the race from hybridism & consequent extermination…I do not think…our difficulties will be lessened by emancipation by Congress, even if such an act was constitutional…let the white race have the lands, intended for them by the Creator…and at the www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

same time…break up the slave system by which the most fertile lands of the temperate zone are monopolized and wasted…tho' the Indians occupied larger space…they did not waste the land as the slave system does…the rebellion…like the Indian outbreaks, is but a vain attempt to stem the tide of civilization & progress…I believe it might have been averted, if we had adopted Mr. Jefferson's counsels, and made provision for the separation of the races, providing suitable homes for the blacks as we have for the Indians…no greater mistake was ever made than in supposing that the masses of the...South favor Slavery…the fact that they oppose emancipation, in their midst, is the only foundation for the contrary opinion. But the masses of the North, are equally opposed to it, if the four millions of slaves were to be transported to their midst…It needs, therefore, but the assurance which would be given, by providing homes for the blacks elsewhere, that they are to be regarded as sojourners when emancipated, as in point of fact they are, and ever will be, to insure the cooperation of the nonslave-holders…the more enterprising would soon emigrate and multitudes of less energy would follow…it would require but few generations to put the temperate regions of America in the ex- clusive occupation of the white race, and remove the only obstacle to a perpetual Un- ion of the States.” The letter is edited for publication with a few printer's notations; there are other minor defects and light soiling. This important letter was published in The New York Times on March 8, 1862, and also printed the same year by the Congres- sional Globe Office. $5,000 (photograph right)

ASTRONAUTS BORMAN AND SCHIRRA SIGN A PHOTOGRAPH

13) PS. 8” x 10”. N.d. N.p. A black and white photograph signed “Frank Borman” and “Wally Schirra”. The group photo shows Borman, Schirra, and their wives with American diplomat William McCormick Blair Jr., his glamourous wife Deeda and their young son William Blair III. It is in very fine condition. $350

A HANDSOME SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FAMOUS HORSE BREEDER EDWARD R. BRADLEY

14) PS. 9” x 12 ½”. N.d. N.p. An oversized studio portrait signed “Sincerely at all times E.R. Bradley” on the lower margin. It shows the famous businessman, finely dressed, gazing into the camera. It is in very fine condition. I could locate no other Bradley signed photos selling. $400

AN ARCHIVE OF LOUIS BRANDEIS LETTERS TO AN EARLY JEWISH LEADER, REHABIAH LEWIN-EPSTEIN; BRANDEIS WRITES ABOUT LEWIN-EPSTEIN’S 1918 TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND HOPES “IT WILL NOT BE LONG BEFORE PALESTINE RECEIVES ITS SAVINGS BANK”

15) An archive of five Louis Brandeis letters to Rehabiah Lewin-Epstein (one is about Lewin-Epstein), dated from 1915 to 1941. They are: a) TLS. 1pg. 8 ½” x 11”. December 24, 1915. Boston, Mass. A typed letter signed “Louis D Brandeis” on “Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs” letterhead: “This is to confirm my telegram in reply to yours: ‘Consult Dr. Stephen Wise, and act on his opinion on Gluskin matter.’ I have written Dr. Wise as per enclosed copy.” Stephen Wise was a famous American rabbi. The letter is in fine condition with slight blurring to the ink and mailing folds and two punch holes.

b) TLS. 1pg. 8 ½” x 11”. March 20, 1918. Washington. A typed letter signed “Louis D Brandeis” to Frank L. Polk, the solicitor of the State Department: “In order to centralize the administration and distribution of finds contributed by Ameri- can Zionist Organization and other American bodies for use in Palestine, it will be necessary to have Mr. Lewin-Epstein go to France and England by way of some Spanish Port. After completing this work he will join the Medical Unit of the Zionist Organization at Cairo. May I therefore request that a passport be issued to Mr. Lewin-Epstein which will permit him to go to France and England via Spain, and then to Egypt to join the Medical Unit, and that the respective embassies of these countries be notified so that his trip may be facilitated.” This letter was written just months after the Balfour Declaration in which the British government established the goal of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It is written on thin paper and one fold ob- scures three words.

c) ALS. 1pg. 6” x 7”. May 25, 1939. Washington. An autograph letter signed “Louis D Brandeis” as Supreme Court Justice. He wrote to Lewin-Epstein: “Re yours of 23rd I shall be glad to see you next Tuesday, May 30 at 9AM.” The original mailing envelope in Brandeis’s handwriting is included.

d) ALS. 1pg. 6” x 7”. August 23, 1940. Washington. An autograph letter signed “Louis D Brandeis” as Supreme Court Justice. He wrote to Lewin-Epstein: “Re yours of 19th my thanks for sending the informing report & hope it will not be long before Palestine receives its savings bank.” The original mailing envelope in Brandeis’s handwriting is included.

e) ALS. 1pg. 6” x 7”. Jan 19, 1941. Washington. An autograph letter signed “Louis D Brandeis” as Supreme Court Justice. He wrote to Lewin-Epstein: “Re yours of 17th I have examined the enclosures with much interest.” The original mailing envelope in Brandeis’s handwriting is included. $1,500 for the archive

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THE COMMEMORATIVE ALBUMS OF THE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BRITISH WAR RELIEF SO- CIETY; THE HUNDREDS OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND LETTERS SHOW WHAT THE ORGANIZATION DID FOR THE BRITISH, INCLUDING THE DONATION OF AMBULANCES, SEEDS AND CLOTHING

16) BRITISH WAR RELIEF SOCIETY. The British War Relief Society was an American organization that lasted from 1939 to 1945. Its purpose was to collect money from United States citizens to buy non-military goods, services and products for British citizens suffering during World War II. The organization donated ambulances, canteen trucks, comfort kits, furniture for RAF pilots, vegetable seeds, clothing and much more. The money collected also paid for orphanages, the repair of bombed buildings (including the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), break houses, the evacuation of children and the blind to the countryside, and so much more. In 1941, the American public was donating over one million dollars a month.

BERTRAM DE NULLY CRUGER (1883-1952). Cruger was a banking executive who left that job to be the London representative of the British War Relief Society. For his heroic work, Cruger was made a Knight of the British Empire.

Six albums. Circa 1940s. London. A set of six albums given to Bertram Cruger to commemorate his work at the London representative of the British War Relief Society. The first three sets are complimentary, Volumes Four and Five work together, and Volume Six is separate. Here is a description of the items:

Volumes One to Three. These three albums are individually bound in blue cloth with a gilt border and stamping that states “The British War Relief Society, Inc. of the United States of America”. The trio contains hundreds of original (and possibly unique) black and white photographs of the work of Cruger (who appears in many images) and the British War Relief Society. There are calligraphic captions besides many of the photographs, such as “Bertram Cruger with the Mayors of certain towns” and “A country house converted into a much needed rest-home for seamen”. There are also photographs of the King and Queen touring. Of greatest interest are listings of charities and how much Americans donated to them. For example, in Volume One, there are photographs of the Alexandra Orphanage with a notation that £2,652 was donated to this particular charity. As a different example, 204 canteen trucks were donated with £38,000. At the start of Volume Two, the caption states that 295 ambulances were purchased thanks to £100,000 donated, and there is a photograph of the Duke of Kent inspecting them. Some of my favorite photographs are of the dry moat around the Tower of London, complete with planted crops.

Volume Four and Five. These two albums are bound in red cloth and gilt stamped “Bertram De N. Cruger” on the covers. These albums contain photographs (but no calligraphic captions), but also have newspaper clippings related to the work of the British War Relief Society. In addition, Cruger laid in many letters written to him by prominent people. Perhaps the most important letter is an August 23, 1940 missive from Charles de Gaulle. There are also letters from the Queen’s Private Secretary, Anthony Eden, and other notables. There are newspaper clipping from The Times dated June 4, 1941 detailing American generosity, The New York Times article headlined “London Children Give ‘Relief” to U.S.” and many other clippings about Cruger during the war. There are typed speeches given by Cruger. There are photographs showing the assistance given to young children, to young men, and to firemen. There are also photographs showing blitz damage and the presentation of American ambulances to the Soviet Union. There is also a folder of loose photographs, including a small one signed by Clementine Churchill.

Volume Six. The final album is Cruger’s typed memoirs of his wartime experiences entitled “An American In London”. Apparently not published, there are handwritten corrections, cross outs and notations. It is loosely bound and many of the pages have two hole punches.

There albums were compiled by an unknown author. The first five are in fine condition with light wear to the covers, mild staining and a few photographs or captions that have shaken loose. The sixth volume (the memoir) has more wear than the other albums. This album set is unique and came directly from the Cruger descendants. It has never been on the market before. An amazing and emotional memorial to British and American friendship during the darkest hours. $12,500 for the archive (photograph inside front cover)

CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHER EDMUND BURKE WRITES TO HIS BANKER

17) ALS. 1pg. May 1, 1796. Baconsfield, England. An autograph letter signed “Edm. Burke”. Burke wrote to banker Stephen Thurston Adey: “My Dear Adey, I suppose you have already had a Bill drawn on your home from Wm. Smettel at Bath for twenty five pounds on my account. I beg you to honour it. I am ever my d. friend Very truly yours Edm Burke”. The letter is in very good condition, with creasing, mild discoloration, and small tears throughout. Burke is a scarce autograph. $2,500 (photograph left)

BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DIRECTOR WILLIAM BURNS WRITES TO A PROSPECTIVE AGENT

18) TLS. 1pg. 8” x 10”. December 7, 1921. Washington. A typed letter signed “Wm J Burns” on “Department of Jus- tice Bureau of Investigation” letterhead. He wrote to Louis J. Luxembourg of Boston: “…concerning your application for position as Special Agent in this Bureau. In reply you are advised that your letter will be placed in your personnel file for consideration in connection with any future appoint- ments which may be made…the photograph enclosed with your application be returned to you, you are advised that such photographs become a part of your file and cannot be returned unless absolutely necessary…”. The letter has light faults and two mailing folds. As Burns was the Director for less than three years, his letters in this role are probably scarce. $300

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AN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT OF ALBERT CAMUS’S LANDMARK “THE CRISIS OF MAN” SPEECH GIVEN AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN 1946; HE HANDWROTE “IN THIS WORLD THAT IS DEPRIVED OF VAL- UE, IN THIS DESERT OF THE HEART WHERE WE LIVE, WHAT DID THIS REVOLT MEAN? WE SAID NO TO THIS WORLD, TO ITS ESSENTIAL ABSURDITY, TO THE ABSTRACTIONS THAT THREATENED US, TO THE CULTURE OF DEATH THAT WAS BEING PREPARED FOR US…THE MEN OF THE RESISTANCE WHOM I MET AND WHO READ MONTAIGNE ON THE TRAINS WHERE THEY CARRIED THEIR TRACTS SHOWED, AT LEAST TO US, THAT ONE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE SKEPTICS WHILE HAVING A NOTION OF HONOR”

19) AM. 5pg. N.d. [1946]. N.p. An autograph manuscript draft of Nobel Prize recipient Albert Camus’s famous “The Crisis of Man” (or “The Human Crisis”) speech. Camus delivered this landmark speech at Columbia University on March 28, 1946, during his only trip to the United States. Asked to talk about the French sensibility, Camus delivered a compelling meditation about the Second World War and the crisis facing all humanity. The tone is both stirring and thought-provoking. Camus had been a resistance fighter during the war, and his experiences obviously color his speech, particularly in his descriptions of atrocities committed during the war. In 2016, Columbia held an event to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Camus’s speech. There, actor Viggo Mortensen read Camus’s speech to a sold-out crowd in the Miller Theatre – the same venue where Camus had spoken. Even three-quarters of a century after its debut, “The Crisis of Man” remains relevant and timely, and people continue to reflect on it today. This manuscript is Camus’s draft of the speech. As such, it differs in some places from the version he actually delivered. The manuscript is written in French. The English translation is as follows:

“When it was suggested to me to do lectures at the EUDA [the United States], I felt scruples and hesitated. I am not of the age to give lectures and it was in the reflex as well as the categorical affirmation since I don’t show myself in person at what is generally held to be the truth. Hav- ing taken notice of my scruples, they gave the very polite response that the important thing was not that I have a personal opinion. What was important was that I would in a way bring to France the various elements of information that would permit my audience to form an opinion. As to what about, it was proposed that I tell my listeners about the current state of French theater, literature, and even philosophy. I responded that it might be at least as interesting to speak about the extraordinarily hard work of the French railroad workers and the…of which the min- ers from the North seem to work. I was told patiently that you should never force your talent and that it was good that the specialists were treated by those who were suspicious of them and that, since I had been interested in literary questions for a long time and thus certainly knew nothing about railroad switches, it was only natural that I would be asked to speak about literature rather than the railroad.

I understood right away. And I agreed, in short, to speak of what I knew and to give an idea of France. That is precisely why I chose to speak neither of literature nor of the theater. Because literature, theater, philosophy, and maybe even the hard work of railroad workers and mail carriers, intellectual research and the hard work of an entire people are only the reflections of a fundamental questioning of a struggle for life and for man, reflections that for us make up the entire problem of the time. The French feel that man is quite threatened and that he cannot go on believing a certain idea of man who is not…And that is why out of loyalty to my country, I chose to speak of my…And even if it were a matter of speaking about what I knew, I did not believe I could do better than retrace as clearly as possible the spiritual experience of people of my generation because that experience has had the whole…of the world crisis and because it may bring a faint shimmer, and [faith?] to the destiny of the railroad workers, and an aspect of today’s French sensibility.

How did that happen? In this world that is deprived of value, in this desert of the heart where we live, what did this revolt mean? It made men who say no out of us. But at the same time we were men who say yes. We said no to this world, to its essential absurdity, to the abstractions that threatened us, to the culture of death that was being prepared for us. By saying no we affirmed that things had been like that for long enough, that there was a limit that could not be passed. But at the same time we affirmed everything that was beyond that limit; we affirmed that there was something in us that defended the scandal and that was impossible to humiliate too long. And of course that was a contradiction, but one that had to make us reflect. We thought that this world was and would continue to be without any real value. But then again, there we were fighting against Germany. The men of the Resistance whom I met and who read Montaigne on the trains where they carried their tracts showed, at least to us, that one could not understand the skeptics while having a notion of honor. But consequently, through the simple fact of living, of hoping and of fighting, we affirmed something.

But some thing had a general value – did it extend beyond the thoughts of the individual – did it seem to serve as a rule of conduct? The answer is simple. The men I am talking about accepted their death at the start of their revolt. And that death proved that they were sacrificing themselves for the good of a pay-off that went beyond their personal existence and thus their individual destiny. What these revolutionaries defended against an enemy destine was a value that is shared by all men. – When the men were tortured in front of their concierge, when the nights were purposefully chopped up, when mothers saw themselves forced to condemn their children to death, and when the just were buried like hogs, these revolutionaries decided that something inside of them was being denied to them that did not belong to them alone but was a common bond where the men found their solidarity all ready.

Yes, that was the big lesson of these terrible years, when the wrong done to a student in Prague would touch a blue-collar worker in a suburb of Paris and when the blood spilled on the banks of a central-European river would bring a Texas farmer to spill his on the soil of the Ardennes that he had never seen before. And that in itself was absurd, and crazy, impossible, almost anyway, to imagine. But that absurdity at the same time carried in it the lesson that we were all in a collective tragedy and what was at stake was our common dignity, a feeling of communion with each other that was crucial to defend and to maintain. Aside from that, we knew how to act and we learned how the individual, in the most absolute moral denouement, again can find enough values to rule his conduct. For, if that communication between individuals in the mutual recognition of their dignity was the truth, then it was that communication that had to be helped.

And in order to maintain that communication, it meant people had to be free, because there is nothing in common between a master and a slave, and you cannot talk and communicate with someone who is subservient. Yes, servitude is a form of silence, the most terrible of all. And in order to maintain that communication, we had to make sure that injustice would disappear, because there is no contact between one who is oppressed and one who profits from it. Envy, too, is in the domain of silence. And in order to maintain that communication, we had to banish lying and violence, for someone who lies closes himself off from other people, and someone who tortures and uses force imposes the ultimate silence. Aside from the negation of the simple movement of our revolt, we also drew moral strength from liberty and sincerity.

2) This crisis then is based on the impossibility of persuasion. People live and can do so only because of the notion that they have something in common where they can always meet. You always believe that by speaking humanely to a person, you can get a humane reaction. Yet, we have also discovered this: there are people you cannot persuade. It was impossible for a victim in concentration camps to even begin to explain to the SS who were beating her that they shouldn’t do it. The Greek mother whom I have mentioned could not persuade the German officer that the terrible choice he put her in was just impossible. It’s because the SS, or the German officer didn’t represent a person anymore or persons, but an instinct that had been elevated to an idea or a theory. Passion, even if murderous, would have been preferable. Because passion has an www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

end and another passion, another scream from the heart or flesh can convince it. But a person who is capable of caring sincerely about the ears that he himself has previously torn, that man is not impassioned, he is mathematical (and no one can stop or convince him).

3)This crisis is also about the replacement of natural objects with print, that is to say the increase of bureaucracy. Contemporary man more and more puts an abstract and complicated machine between himself and nature which throws him back into solitude. When there is no more bread, tickets appear. The French have only 1200 calories of nutrition a day, but they have at least six different pieces of paper all stamped a hundred times. And it is like that all over the world where bureaucracy has not ceased to multiply. To come to America from France, I used a lot of paper in both countries. So much paper that I suspect I could have printed this lecture on some of it and have it copied here without even having to show up. With the help of paper, offices and functionaries, we are creating a world where human warmth disappears, where nobody can touch anybody else unless it is through the maze of what is called formalities. The German officer who flattered my comrade about his wounded ears thought he could do so because he had torn them and it was part of his job as a functionary, so consequently that couldn’t be bad. To summarize, one only dies or loves or kills anymore by permit. That is what you call, at least I think so, a good organization.

4) The crisis is also about the replacement of the real person with the political person. Individual passions are no longer possible, only collective passions, meaning abstract passions. We are all introduced to politics by agreeing or by force. What counts is not that you respect or spare the suffering of a mother, but that a doctrine triumphs. And human pain is no longer a scandal, but only a numeral in an addition whose terrible sum total cannot be calculated yet.

5) It is clear that all these symptoms are replicated in one single one which is at once the cult of effectiveness and that of abstraction. This is why today’s European knows only solitude and silence. And that is because he cannot join others with their values that they have in common. Since he is no longer defended by human respect based on his values, the only alternative open to him from now on is to be victim or else exe- cutioner.”

This highly-significant manuscript is in fine condition overall. It has some crossouts, red pencil underlining, light toning, a couple of folded corners, horizontal folds on every page, and a small stain on the third page. $40,000 (photograph inside back cover of the catalog)

ALBERT CAMUS COMPARES THE SPANISH CIVIL TO WORLD WAR II IN A LENGTHY TYPESCRIPT OF HIS PREFACE TO THE BOOK L’ESPAGNE LIBRE; HE WRITES ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS AND REPRODUCED QUOTES: “IT HAS BEEN NINE YEARS NOW THAT THE MEN OF MY GENERATION HAVE CARRIED SPAIN IN THEIR THOUGHTS. NINE YEARS THAT THEY CARRY LIKE A SERIOUS WOUND. THAT EXPERIENCE HAS GIVEN THEM THEIR FIRST TASTE OF DEFEAT AND THE INSIGHT, REALLY A SURPRISE FROM WHICH THEY HAVE BARELY RECOVERED, THAT YOU COULD BE IN THE RIGHT AND YET BE BEATEN, THAT FORCE COULD SUPPRESS THE SPIRIT, AND THAT THERE WERE TIMES WHERE COURAGE WAS NOT REWARDED. NO DOUBT THAT EXPLAINS WHY TO SO MANY MEN ALL OVER THE WORLD, THE SPANISH DRAMA FELT LIKE A PERSONAL TRAGEDY…”

20) TMS. 5pg. 8 ½” x 11”. 1945. N.p. A lengthy typescript, in French, by Albert Camus. It concerns the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939). This manuscript was Camus’s preface to the book L’Espagne Libre [Free Spain] (Paris: Calman-Lévy, 1946). Writing just after World War II, in which he took an active role in the resistance against the Nazis, Camus muses back on the Spanish Civil War, often called a “dress rehearsal for World War II”. Camus felt personally connected to the Spanish Civil War, since his mother was Spanish. The English translation of his writing is as follows: “It has been nine years now that the men of my generation have carried Spain in their thoughts. Nine years that they carry like a serious wound. That experience has given them their first taste of defeat and the insight, really a surprise from which they have barely recovered, that you could be in the right and yet be beaten, that force could suppress the spirit, and that there were times where courage was not rewarded. No doubt that explains why to so many men all over the world, the Spanish drama felt like a personal tragedy, some realiz- ing that this was the first battle in a war for which neither qualities nor flaws had prepared us. But those very same ones who did not don the mantle of prophecy came to feel with anguish that this war was theirs to the degree that it was a war of liberty. For it was in fact that, a war of liberty. We found out about it in the papers, even if it was a badly intentioned paper. There are things that today one doesn’t speak about anymore, but that back then were fresh and bloody history. And we at least have not forgotten that the Spanish Civil War started out as a general’s rebellion against the democratic institutions that a people had just given themselves liberally. We have not forgotten that this general sent Moorish troops against the people of his country in the name of Christ, and German-Italian legions invoking the Holy Spain. In the indignation that overcame us in 1931 despite the warning signs, there was the feeling that an injustice had just been committed that had to disappear as quickly as possible if one didn’t want it to remain on Europe’s flank like a sore that was going to fester and grow wider. But the injustice still was to receive its reward that this world always reserves for it. Agencies published the Italian legions’ victorious communiques at the same time as the non-intervention ones. The Spanish Republic, firm in its rightfulness, teetered in its power and at first with rage, then with pain that filled us all started to give birth to anguished amazement that has not left us all these years at the spectacle of an injustice that gradually took on an immense scale of history and that found itself sanctioned both by the defeat of a people and by the cowardice of the world. This world, nevertheless, perseveres in calling legal what has been established, while we continue, in vain, to call legal what has been given consent. Of all the reasons that the Spanish war has continued to haunt us, many undoubtedly have vanished today. The cruelty of that struggle seems to us almost natural after five years of indescribable violence. But you can see what remains: the passion of a people and the spectacle of injustice that was never repaired. The hostilities have been suspended, the darkness of the dictatorship has dissipated, and so we continue to carry Spain in our thoughts. At the other end of the continent, a patch of night yet reminds us of the reasons for this war and of the fact that we were wrong believing it to be finished, just as we were wrong nine years ago not believing that it had started. But vanquished courage and injustice conse- crated by history are commonplace in this world. And maybe as far as Spain is concerned, our indignation would be less strong if we had a better conscience. How would it be when we cannot forget that France is not the only one to respond to some of the assassinations that shook what was left of the European conscience. The death of Frederic Garcia Lopez thus seems to us less tolerable than others. We had entered a period where every free man could reasonably expect that he would one day stand facing guns of execution. We are still in that period, and it is natural that a free man justifiably prepares himself or at least takes this likelihood into account when he calculates his chances and his convic- tions. Lorca’s death was in the order of things, in the dirty order in which we have since lived. And the Granada execution put men on alert that they had entered serious times, meaning times where poets could be shot by those whom their existence contradicted. At least some of us have seen it that way and are preparing ourselves instead of complaining. But we have to believe that we were not yet prepared enough. For we needed to go further yet, do our part of the assassinations, and see Antonio Machade die as he was leaving a democratic concentration camp. Some years later, and Companys was liberated by a French Marechal to be executed at leisure. How will we be able to forget? All of this has colored in red and in black a face, that of Spain, that we already carry in ourselves but that we can no longer heal. ******** That is why, since Barcelona was taken, there is an absence in us, an emptiness, a sense of waiting. 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Yet would our heart be as anxious if this subjugated land was not at the same time the land of great passion and grandeur? No doubt I have my personal reasons of choice. Based on blood, Spain is my second home. And in this greedy Europe, in this mechanized world where passion is met with derision, half my blood has been pondering its exile for seven years and wants to find the only land again where I feel at ease, the only land where people know how to unite to a higher degree of necessity the love of living and the desperation of living. But it is not just a personal reaction that rules the hope for a free Spain. All of Europe’s intelligent minds also turn to Spain as if they felt that this sad country held some of the royal secrets that Europe is desperately trying to figure out, right through a long list of wars, revolutions, eras of mechanics and spiritual adventures. In fact, what would prestigious Europe be without poor Spain? What more staggering has it invented than this powerful and magnificent Spanish summer light where extremes are wed, where passion can be indulgent as well as ascetic, where death is a reason to live, where you bring seriousness to dance and lightheartedness to sacrifice, where nobody can tell the border between life and dreams, between comedy and truth. While the Western world tears itself up to discover syntheses and formulas, Spain offers them up freely. But it can only furnish them in the effort of insurrections, the terrible breathing of its liberty. Homeland of revolutionaries (the only country where anarchy has been able to establish itself as a powerful, organized party), its greatest works are calls toward the impossible. In each one, the world is accused, yet at the same time glorified. ************* Europe and the world, for what they now need to find, can really no longer do without Spain. But Europe and the world do, and in such a natural way that it is hard to believe. But that is the way it is, and nothing apparently is of any use but the testimony of the free man. The indignation will last through the ages, we know that now. For the last twelve years, many Ubu Fathers rose up and we at first laughed about them, but they put irresistible mechanisms in the service of their mediocre follies. And these Ubu Fathers were masters long enough that at their defeat, men were still blind. You have to believe it, at least since we let the latter continue their parade in what was the country of Cervantes. For the past seven years, the grotesque has been the only Spanish product to manifest itself there. And we, who know the value of the grotesque when it has a police, we support that it continue gagging the people of the revolution and that above Spain the windmills of stupidity and cruelty keep turning. And not only do we support the grotesque, but we also sign treatise with them. The democrats are hungry, and honor does noy count for much when you can have some oranges. The lasting smell of those oranges will mingle with the memory of Machade and Companys. Too bad if in the end we have a change of heart. Why get upset? The realists say that this does not concern us, that you have to leave people to take care of their own business and that finally, we didn’t fight for Spain but against Germany. Democracy, from all it seemed, means not to worry about others. But we learned that democracy means no borders. Misunderstood in one place, it is threatened altogether. And we know better than the realists why we fought. We fought so that free men could look at each other without shame and so that each man would be in charge of his own happiness and would judge himself without carrying the constricting weight of others’ humiliation. That man today can feel himself or actually be free as long as this land of liberty stays entrusted to an arbiter. Every time a man somewhere in the world is weighed down with chains, we are at the same time bound. Freedom must be for all or for no one. That is the only formula of democracy that is worth the sacrifice. Here at least in the following pages, the testimony of some men who feel they are still not quite free. It is the work of those who have not signed commercial treatise and who will continue to make do without oranges. And there is no doubt their testimony is symbolic. It has to be. But in this world without memory, it is good that some believe in faithfulness. They perhaps will help one day to forgive what, in the rage in their hearts, they could not prevent. Albert Camus 1945”. This weighty and heartfelt piece was published as Camus’s preface to the book L’Espagne Libre (Paris: Calman-Lévy, 1946), which also included contributions by Jean Cassou, Jean Camp, and others. Excerpts have been much quoted over the years, even inspiring the title of a recent book on the Spanish Civil War. The manuscript is not signed, but there is a pencil note at the conclusion that the handwritten corrections were done by “A.C.” One page is yellowed, and there are corrections and cross-outs (one quite large) throughout in Camus’s handwriting’ there is a central mailing fold and punch holes that affect little. $25,000 (photographs below)

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A JIMMY CARTER SIGNED OATH OF OFFICE

21) DS. 1pg. N.d. N.p. A typed document signed “J Carter”. The document is a souvenir copy of the Presidential Oath of Office: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God. J Carter”. It is in fine condition. $250

PAINTER GEORGE CATLIN WRITES ABOUT “PRAYING FOR THE ACTION OF CONGRESS ON MY APPLICATION THAT MY COLLECTION MAY BE ADDED TO THE RECORDS OF OUR COUNTRY…THE GOVT WILL HONOUR ME WITH THEIR DUE APPRECIATION OF MY WORKS AND THAT THEM UNDER THEIR PRO- TECTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF HISTORIANS AND ARTISTS…THAT INTERESTING AND DECLINING RACE OF OUR FELLOW MAN”

22) ALS. 2pg. 5 ½” x 8 ¼”. May 14, 1846. Paris. An autograph letter signed “Geo Cat- lin” to an unidentified correspondent: “I thanked you with a letter relative to my Memorial to Congress by the last Steamer; and I now take the liberty of enclosing a paper or two under your address, to my friend the Reverend Mr. [Ralph Randolph] Gurley, Secretary of the Colonization Society, who will be apprised of them and call for them. One of the papers enclosed to him is a Memorial for the American artists in Paris, praying for the action of Congress on my application that my collection may be added to the records of our Country. I hope Mr. Gurley will be will show you the Memorial of the Artists, and I am sure that your opinion will correspond with their as to the nature of such collections to our Country and I believe that if the subject be rightly presented that the Govt will honour me with their due appreciation of my works and that them under their protection for the benefit of Historians and artists, enabling me that the same time, and before the vigourous part of my life is spent, to rescue from…all that yet remains, to be gathered of that interesting and declining race of our fellow man. Wishing you health and happiness & long lone, who have done so much for the honour & literature of our Country, I remain Dear Sir your obedient & humble Servant Geo Catlin”. After painting many Native Americans, he, in 1838, created a traveling exhibition of his works with stops in many Eastern cities. The next year, he took his works for a European tour. By the mid-1840s, he was begging the Federal government to buy his entire collection, but they refused, leaving him financially precarious. In 1852, he sold his paintings to the industrialist Joseph Harrison. After his death, many of his works were acquired by the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum and the Huntington Library. Gurley was a long-time member of the American Colonization Society that advocated returning free African-Americans to Africa, and he helped found the colony of Liberia. The letter has a light chip in the lower corner that affects nothing. $5,000

A UNION SOLDIER WRITES FROM CAMP CURTIN ON THE FIRST DAY OF GETTYSBURG

23) (CIVIL WAR - GETTYSBURG). ALS. 3pg. July 1, 1863. N.p. [Camp Curtin, Pennsylvania]. An autograph letter signed “Daniel Ed- wards” by a Union soldier. Writing home on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, though the author himself was instead in Harrisburg, Edwards mentions living conditions and Confederate prisoners: “...for we could not get first we arrived in Harisburg [sic] on tuesday evening remained till saturay [sic] evening at dusk then we had orders to martck [sic] 4 miles from our camp we throwed [sic] up best til 2 oclock and then started for camp again then on Sunday at non [sic] we ware [sic] called [sic] again to go back then thes ware cutting ortchets and all other timber it is a hard looking place but everything is ful [sic] of life the pickels is cutting at each other every day we got our clothes to day and we expect to get our tomorrow and take out on a scout we have a good number of primers in camp all the time I tell you that we have a sporting set of boys in our company Nate Sam James Lewis...I was putting him in the tent and wanted in our tent and I told him to stay out and he would not then my…begun to bite so I called for him and I knocked him clean up of his feet he came down like a thousand of brick he don’t bother us any more I like it…pleas excuse bad writing Daniel Edwards”. It is in very good condition. $250

A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER RECOVERING IN THE HOSPITAL WRITES: “RUMOR SAYS THAT EARLY HAS HAD A FIGHT AND WHIPPED THE YANKEES BADLY, AND HAS CAPTURED PRISONERS, FOUR OR FIVE HUNDRED AND THEY SAY HE IS NOW AT BUNKERS HILL TWELVE MILES BELOW WINCHESTER. LEE (I AM GLAD TO HEAR) HAS CAPTURED TWO THOUSAND PRISONERS AND NINE PIECES OF ARTILLERY”

24) (CIVIL WAR - CONFEDERATE LETTER). ALS. 4pg. 5 ¼” x 7 ¼”. Staunton [Virginia]. August 31, 1864. An autograph letter signed “Yates”. Dr. Yates Ramsey was hospitalized and wrote to a friend about a miscommunication and plans for the remainder of the war: “...I censure no one for speaking the truth, though it be at my expense...I was met by a force so irresistible that I was gallantry repulsed and obliged to retreat, somewhat in disorder, and doubtless leaving behind the wounded; and without gaining the desired information. But I sincerely hope that there were no wounded, at least none that were more severely wounded than I was: just remember if I was wounded, it matters not; I censure no one but myself for it...I am naturally of a rebellious nature and these may only be rebellious thoughts that have been forced upon me, and have no foundation...allow me (in conclusion on this subject) to say that although this correspondence may cease to exist, yet, our relations towards each other as true friends shall never cease...I am detained here as a patient only in the hospital and do not dislike it as much as I had expected, though it is rather lonesome to me as I am not acquainted about here. I spend my time in walking and sitting about the streets when I have no reading, writing, or other duties to claim my attention. I intend to appear again before the board for another leave of absence as soon as it meets in our ward, if I can get a recommendation from the ward surgeon. I guess we have no news except what you will have heard before this reaches you. Rumor says that Early has had a fight and whipped the Yankees badly, and has captured prisoners, four or five hundred and they say he is now at Bunkers Hill twelve miles below Winchester. Lee (I am glad to hear) has captured two thousand prisoners and nine pieces of artillery but the Yanks still hold the Weldon railroad. I had the wholesome pleasure of listening to two sermons last Sunday and of drinking in the word or of ‘feeding upon the sincere milk of the word’ as preached from the pulpit of the Episcopal Church. Excellent sermons, but not to be compared with that delivered by Mr. Preston at Rocky Spring. If possible I would be glad to hear from you soon…Yours truly Yates…”. The letter is in very good condition with cross writing and some staining. $450

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A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER FROM THE 19TH SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT WRITES HOME AND MENTIONS A “TRIP TO TENNESSEE”

25) (CIVIL WAR - CONFEDERATE SOLDIER LETTER). ALS. 2pg. September 29, 1864. Camp [26 miles from Atlanta, Georgia]. An autograph letter from a Confederate soldier of the 19th South Carolina Regiment: “I now have an opertunity [sic] of writing you a few lines to let you Know that I am all the Boys up my company is well on all that is in the Regt that you know. Pa I will tell you that we are one a going to start up in Tenn and if we do I don’t know when I will get the chance to write to you again. Dear Pa and Ma up if you don’t hear from me soon, you must not think hard of me for I write as often as I see any chance. Ma if I take the trip in Tennessee I will need my clothing up. You must send them the first chance you can send them to me by Capt Harris or Lr. Randall are Both at home they have got 30 days parole but I… no idea where we will be then but if I am a live I hear that the weather will be cold enough for any thing Pa I cant tell you where I think we are a going to Blue Mountain Ala but let us go where we may I will write to you every chance I get I am now 26 miles from Atlanta Ga…”. The 19th would, in fact, go to Tennessee to join Hood’s Campaign there. It is in fine condition. $250

A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SUPPLY DOCUMENT FROM CAMP READING, CONNECTICUT

26) (CONNECTICUT). DS. 1pg. April 4, 1779. Camp Reading, [Connecticut]. A Revolutionary War supply document twice signed “Silas Goodell”: “Recd. Of Sam Richards pay master of Coll Wyllys’s Regt. By the hand of Silas Goodell in State Cloathing [sic] to the amount of the sum respectively annexed to sir names to be deducted out of the pay of January & Feby. [What follows is a list of names and amounts]. Sgt Silas Goodell”. Camp Reading, in Connecticut, was one of the Continental Army’s encampments during the winter of 1778 and 1779. Colonel Samuel Wyllys commanded the 3rd Connecticut Regiment, in which Goodell was an officer. The document is in very good condition. $300

A 1780 VIRGINIA LAND OFFICE DOCUMENT PROBABLY MADE OUT TO THE FAMOUS GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK

27) D. 1pg. 8 ¼” x 6 ½”. January 29, 1780. Virginia. A partly-printed Virginia land office treasury warrant signed by George Carr as a member of the state land office. He gave 560 acres of land to “George Roberts Clarke”. I believe the engrosser misspelled and meant the famous general George Rogers Clark; this certificate in numbered 2137 and I was able to find online examples of certificates made out to George Rogers Clark with certificate number 2134, 2381 and 2375. It has waterstaining and a paper loss around the red wax seal; the condition is good. $400

GROVER CLEVELAND, BETWEEN HIS PRESIDENTIAL TERMS, WRITES A POLITICAL LETTER ABOUT THE McKINLEY TARIFF OF 1890: “THEY COULD NOT BE LED BY PARTISANSHIP TO INDUCE STEALING AND LYING…TO CAUSE AN IMMENSE PARTY MAJORITY FOR THE SAKE OF VERACITY AND TRUTH; AND EVERY GOOD CITIZEN IN ANY PART OF THE COUNTRY OUGHT TO REJOICE AT THE DELIVERANCE”

28) ALS. 3pg. 4 ½” x 7”. November 10, 1890. 816 Madison Avenue [New York]. An autograph letter signed “Grover Cleveland” during his Presidential interregnum period. He wrote to Mrs. Gillespie: “Our Tariff Reform friends and the Democrats did very nobly indict all over the Land. But somehow I think the Pennsylvania people did ‘things up proud’ beyond all others – in our cause at least. They demonstrated the fact that they could not be led by partisanship to induce stealing and lying. It was a good deal to ask of them, as political matters go, to cause an immense party majority for the sake of veracity and truth; and every good citizen in any part of the country ought to rejoice at the deliverance. I hope an appearing conscience compensates you, and makes you glad that you ‘walked like a bearer’; and I hope that you are now well seated. You will soon work in a better cause. Mrs. Cleveland sends her love to you and Mr. Davis and kind remembrances to the Doctor in all of which I heartily join.” In the fall of 1890, the government signed the McKinley Tariff that raised protective tariffs by almost fifty percent. Citizens saw it as a boon to wealthy industrialists and in the 1890 mid-term elections, Republicans lost many Congressional seats. This is the subject of Cleveland’s writing. The letter has a few short fold separations. $500

THE SCARCE SIGNATURE OF MOSES CLEVELAND, THE FOUNDER OF A FAMOUS CITY

29) DS. 2pg. 7 ½” x 7 ½”. 1781. N.p. [likely Connecticut]. A document signed “J Huntington Aud” on the front and “Moses Cleveland” on the verso. George Pitkin, the Connecticut state clerk, ordered payment to “Moses Cleaveland Gaol Keeper in Norwich for his boarding… prisoners in said Gaol Dated at Norwich April 6 1781…”. There is a small marginal loss and it is in fine condition. $500

CONFEDERATE GENERAL SAMUEL COOPER WRITES ABOUT THE FATE OF THE HISTORIC RICHMOND LIGHT INFANTRY BLUES DURING THE CIVIL WAR

30) ALS. 1pg. March 15, 1862. Richmond, Virginia. An autograph letter signed “S Cooper” during the Civil War. Cooper wrote to Confeder- ate General John H. Winder concerning the fate of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, according to Confederate Secretary of War John C. Breckinridge. “General It is the wish of the Secretary of War that Co: A. 59 Va. Regt., called Richmond Light Infantry Blues, lately commanded by Capt O. Jennings Wise, be not disbanded, but that it be allowed to recruit its members under Lt. Lanxey. If you have given any order for its disbandment, please revoke it…S Cooper”. This historic unit, founded in 1789, was meant to be disbanded after the death of Capt. Wise during at Roanoke Island in February 1862. The unit did, in fact, carry on to fight for the Confederacy during the remainder of the Civil War. The letter is in very good condition. It is matted and framed alongside an engraving of Cooper. $1,250

A RARE NATHANIEL CURRIER HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED RECEIPT TO A FAMOUS AMERICAN ARCHITECT THAT CURRIER PRODUCED LITHOGRAPHS FOR

31) ANS. 1pg. 7” x 2”. October 24, 1838. New York. A rare autograph document signed “Nathl Currier” on a small slip of paper: “Received New York Oct. 24th 1838 from A.J. Davis Esq Thirty Dollars on a/c Nathl Currier”. I could locate no sales records for a Currier manuscript in Rarebookhub.com or American Book Prices Current (same for James Ives). Alexander J. Davis was a prominent American architect who spe- cialized in Gothic Revival, and designed Jay Gould’s estate Lyndhurst. In 1837, Jackson published his book Rural Residences with lithographs by Nathaniel Currier; perhaps this receipt was paying for Currier’s art in the book or other work Currier did for Davis. The document has dark ink and a thin mounting remnant to the top of the verso. $3,500

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AN EARLY DAKOTA SETTLER TRANSCRIBES THE NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE FOR A FRIEND

32) (DAKOTA TERRITORY). ALS. 4pg. 5” x 8”. July 2, 1865. Burleigh Ranch, Dakota Territory. An autograph letter signed by Charles B. Wing who eventually settled in Yankton, South Dakota. He wrote to a friend from Maine about his travels to the West and the language of the Native Americans: “...I’ll tell you why I have not written you before. You will remember that I left Augusta [Maine] on a Monday to Waterville on Friday (March 10). I was one week in Fitchburg, Mass three days in Philadelphia, two in Washington, 1 in Pittsburgh, one week in Kittan- ning – 50 miles up the Allegheny – two days in Chicago, two weeks in St. Louis & 5 days coming up the ‘Big Muddy,’ when we should have been but three weeks. You will wonder what I went to Washington for. My Uncle & Aunt were there & I went to meet them & then my Aunt & I went to her home in Penna. As she has four sisters all younger than herself & this but 27 why of course I engaged myself. Tell you what Sam. This is a bully old country, just my style. You would like it I know. Let me tell you how we barbarians live. Our house is a pretty frame house built of timber brought from St. Louis – that is all the doors, flooring, shingles, clapboards, etc. The furniture is equal to the best in Waterville as for grub, I don’t want better. No more mosquitos or bed bugs than in ‘Yankee’ land – not a bedbug in this house. Any number of horses to ride, a good boat & plenty of fish to catch. All we lack is society & the wind blows hard enough to make up for that. I was up at the Agency a week before we moved down here…Indians came down to see us last week, their names are as follows: Alex C – the interpreter ‘Mad Bull,’ ‘Medicine Home,’ ‘Red Wing’ ‘Old Strike’ – the head chief – ‘Left Horn’. We had a big feast in our tepees – a large skin one. How does every thing prosper in Augusta are you all there yet? I see by the paper that Nat Emery has gone into the meat business at Waterville…C.B. Wing”. There is light soiling and mailing folds and it is in very good condition. $450

GENERAL HENRY DEARBORN ASKS HIS SON TO DELIVER THE JULY FOURTH ORATION AT BUNKER HILL; INCLUDED IS HENRY A.S. DEARBORN’S READING COPY OF HIS STIRRING AND PATRIOTIC SPEECH: “THAT WE SHOULD REMAIN HAPPY, UNITED, VIRTUOUS AND FREE, AN EXALTED SPIRIT OF LIBERTY SHOULD BE EXCITED IN EVERY BREAST”

33) ALS. 1pg. 8” x 10”. May 8th, 1811. Boston. An autograph letter signed “H Dearborn” addressed to his son Henry A.S. Dearborn. The father wrote: “I have the pleasure of notifying you that the Council of the Bunker Hill Association has appointed you Orator to the Association for the present year, and that it will be expected that you deliver an oration to said Society on the 4th day of July next. Yours affectionately H Dearborn P.S. notice of your acceptance will be expected H D”. It is accompanied by a manuscript speech that is most likely the reading copy for Dearborn fils. The holograph contains numerous corrections and additions, and it is two different handwritings, one of which is by Dear- born, Jr.. The title pages states “An Oration on the 4th of July 1811” and the manuscript, nineteen pages in length, states in part: “When the patriot, statesman & hero of future generations shall read the history of that instructive period, from the dawn of our revolution, to the present momentous epoch, with what glowing enthusiasm, must they dwell on the annals of that perilous but glorious warfare, which eventuated in the effectual establishment of an independent government. Until the rights of subjugated man were proclaimed in this western continent by the adventurous and hardy champions of liberty, the world had been bound in the manacles of slavery, since Caesar’s towering ambition, induced him to trample on the sacred rights of his deluded countrymen…Succeeding generations will peruse the historic volumes of the revolution, with wonder and admiration. What scene more magnificent can be depicted to an enlightened mind, than a whole nation, rising in the majesty of their collected strength and proclaiming to the astonished universe this irrevocable declaration, that all mankind are born free and equal & that these United States were, and of right out to be a free sovereign and independent. When the impartial America in future times shall run the broad parallel of the unequal belligerents, incredulity at the momentous events and glorious result of that arduous struggle, ought not to dero- gate from his understanding and cannot attach to his heart the damning epithet of literary ingratitude…If foreign nations compel us to fall back on our own inexhaustible resources, we can acquire that perfect independence which will render the existence of any other kingdom necessary for its support; entering the broad basis of a Republic, which shall flourish in unrivalled excellence & prosperity…That we should remain happy, united, virtuous and free, an exalted spirit of liberty should be excited in every breast, not that turbulent spirit which puts at defiance the constituted authorities of an elective and impartial government…”. Some of the feisty, independent content has an eye towards the upcoming War of 1812. The manuscript is contained between marbled paper covers. Dearborn’s words were published that year by the Boston firm of Munroe & French in the pamphlet entitled Oration, Pronounced at Boston, On the Fourth Day of July, 1811, Before the Supreme Executive and in Presence of the Bunker-Hill Association. $2,500

A LETTER BY STEPHEN DECATUR JR. TO JOHN RODGERS

34) ALS. 1pg. August 14, 1803. N.p. An autograph letter signed “Stephen Decatur Jr.”. Decatur wrote to Commodore John Rodgers about water rations. The letter is matted and framed with an engraved image of Decatur. The letter had a mended vertical split, is faded and in fair condition. $1,400

DICKENS WRITES TO A CONTRIBUTOR TO HIS MAGAZINE: “I WISH TO GIVE EACH OF YOUR PAPERS A SEPARATE NAME SO THAT EACH MAY SEEM, FOR THE TIME BEING, COMPLETE”

35) ALS. 1pg. 5” x 8”. October 13, 1865. London. An autograph letter signed “Charles Dickens” to Edward Eastwick, a British diplomat who wrote to Dickens. Dickens wrote on the colorful letterhead of “Office of All the Year Round”, Dickens' weekly publication: “I wish to give each of your papers a separate name so that each may seem, for the time being, complete. Will you let me know what title you would prefer for your first chapter, and will you let me have some more manuscript to send to the printer? It is unnecessary to remark, perhaps, that when you collect your papers, you can either use these separate headings as titles of chapters, or abolish them altogether.” The original mailing envelope, in Dickens’s handwriting, is included. The letter is in fine condition except for two light stains and a bit of ink offset. $2,750

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EUGENE FIELD’S ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DRAFT OF HIS POEM “PAN LIVETH”

36) AMS. 2pg. 8” x 10”. N.d. N.p. An autograph manuscript signed “Eugene Field” at the conclusion. This is the manuscript for his poem “Pan Liveth” and Field marked it at the top as the “Original Draft”. Field made a few handwritten corrections to the text and he added decora- tive green pencil to the start of every sentence. The poem states:

They told me once that Pan was dead, He was not dead! I found him there — And so, in sooth, I thought him; The Pan that I was after! For vainly where the streamlets led Caught in the maiden’s tangling hair, Through flowery meads I sought him-- Drunk with her song and laughter! Nor in his dewy pasture bed I doubt if there be otherwhere Nor in the grove I caught him. A merrier god or dafter - "Tell me," 'twas so my clamor ran-- Nay, nor a mortal kindlier than "Tell me, oh, where is Pan?" Is this same dear old Pan!

But, once, as on my pipe I played Beside me, as my pipe I play A requiem sad and tender, My shepherdess is lying, Lo, thither came a shepherd-maid-- While here and there her lambkins stray Full comely she and slender! As sunny hours go flying; I were indeed a churlish blade They look like me— those lambs—they say, With wailings to offend 'er-- And that I’m not denying! For, surely, wooing's sweeter than And for that sturdy, romping clan, A mourning over Pan! All glory be to Pan!

So, presently, whiles I did scan Pan is not dead, O sweetheart mine! That shepherd-maiden pretty, It is to hear his voices And heard her accents, I began In every note and every line To pipe a cheerful ditty; Wherein the heart rejoices! And so, betimes, forgot old Pan He liveth in that sacred shrine Whose death had waked my pity; That Love’s first, holiest choice is! So--so did Love undo the man So pipe, my pipe, while you still can Who sought and pined for Pan! Sweet songs in praise of Pan!

The two pages are tipped into a larger custom binding, created by book dealer Whitman Bennett of New York. The pages have light soiling and it is in fine condition. $3,500 (photograph right)

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER LISTS CONCERNS ABOUT A FARM BILL WHICH “WILL VERY SERIOUSLY AFFECT THE WELL-BEING OF OUR FARMING POPULATION”

37) TLS. 2pg. August 12, 1954. The White House, Washington. A typed letter signed “Dwight Eisenhower” on “The White House” letterhead. Eisenhower wrote a lengthy letter to Clifford R. Hope, the Representative from Kansas who was Chairman of the House Agricultural Committee. Eisenhower expresses concerns about the contents of a “farm bill”: “Dear Cliff: This letter is prompted by my conviction that decisions to be reached in respect to several items in conference on the farm bill will very seriously affect the well-being of our farming population. I hope my views can receive your colleagues’ earnest attention in conference. I refer, first, to the support level on dairy products. To me, it is inescap- able that an increase in this level would be injurious, not helpful, to the dairy industry, for it would diminish the consumption of dairy products, increase the accumulation of surplus stocks, and add needlessly and therefore wastefully to the cost of this program to the public. This would also result in excessive wind- fall profits to the handlers of dairy products. Any objective analysis of the facts relating to this matter makes it clear, I believe, that the sound course is to continue in the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to keep the support level at seventy-five to ninety per cent. The two-price plan for wheat is another item oc- casioning apprehension. I strongly suspect that the House plan would not achieve the desired result. Following preliminary studies on three different occa- sions, the National Agricultural Advisory Commission recommended against the adoption of the two-price plan. It is obvious that the matter needs further study. I go hope, therefore, that the two-price provision will be eliminated in conference, although retaining direction to the Secretary to study the plan for wheat and possibly rice and to report his findings to the Congress early next year. Another item of concern is the bill, introduced at my request, relating to management of forest lands used for grazing purposes. The Senate provision is fair to all users of the national forests and a forward step in the management of forest lands. Because its approval would complete the several conservation measures recommended to the Congress by this Administration, I am especially hopeful that it can receive the approbation of your colleagues. You are aware, of course, of my interest in legis- lation to promote the production of wool. The House provision would limit the duration of this Act to two years and require the Secretary to maintain about the same level of support for mohair as for shorn wool. Because both of these provisions are clearly at variance with the objec- tives being sought, I hope they can be withdrawn in your conference deliberations. By restricting the Secretary’s authority to limit the number of terms which a county committeeman may serve, a provision in the Senate bill would unto progress toward broader farmer participation in committee activities. You may recall that the recommendation for improvement of the work of the committees was made following a thorough study in which State ASC committees and the CCC Advisory Board participated. I very much hope, therefore, that this provision in the Senate bill may be eliminated in conference. I am sending a similar letter to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture. With warm regard, Sincerely, Dwight Eisenhower”. The letter is in fine condition with two mailing folds. $750 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

MILLARD FILLMORE’S HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL DETAILING EXPENSES FOR HIS 1866 EUROPEAN TOUR

38) Manuscript book. 5 ½” x 8”. 110 numbered pages. Europe. 1866. A manuscript book in the handwriting of former President Millard Fill- more. He recounts the money his wife spent on their 1866 European vacation, as well as the places they visited. He signed the inside front cover using his wife’s name, “Mrs. Millard Fillmore At Paris, May 18, 1866”. In Fillmore’s handwriting on the very first page, he writes about “Bonnets”, “Shawls”, “Handkerchiefs” and “Laces”. A few pages later, under the heading “Milliners”, Fillmore writes that his wife visited “Mm. Rivet 52 Notre Dame de Lorette By Miss Soule” and “Ms Diels 23 Boulevard des Caperciaes by Nellie Bam”. There are similar pages for “Dresses & Dressmakers”, “Shawls” “Laces” and “Jewelry”. The majority of pages are headed, but not filled in. There are also newspaper printings from a religious sermon pasted into the early pages; some of the titles include “Every Man’s Friend”, “The Only Savior” and “Shut Out Of Heaven”. This manuscript book was an artifact of their second European tour. The book is in good condition. The spine is falling apart – part of the spine strip has already detached – and many of the early pages are in the process of detaching from the binding. The first few pages also show damage, perhaps from where a newspaper was once glued over and then removed. A most unusual Presidential collectible! $1,500

A GERALD FORD SIGNED OATH OF OFFICE

39) DS. 1pg. N.d. N.p. A souvenir copy of the Presidential Oath of Office signed “Gerald R. Ford”: “I, Gerald Rudolph Ford, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States”. It is in very good condition. There is a stamped Pennsylvania address, which has been whited out, below the signature. $250

TWO WEEKS AFTER THE BATTLE OF TORGAU, FREDERIC THE GREAT THANKS A WOMAN FOR HER KIND WORDS ABOUT “THE GREAT VICTORY OVER MY ENEMIES THAT PROVIDENCE KINDLY GRANTED ME”

40) LS. 1pg. 7 ¾” x 9 ½”. November 11, 1760. Meissen [Germany]. A letter signed “Frederic” addressed to Margrave Henry: “I am delighted to see from your letter, dated the 6th of this month that you are taking part in the great victory over my enemies that Providence kindly granted me on the 3rd of this month. I thank you from the bottom of my heart…”. The Battle of Torgau took place on November 3, 1760; it pitted Frederic the Great with 44,000 men against an Austrian army of 65,000 soldier led by Marshal von Daun. In a costly and bloody battle, Frederic’s forces emerged victorious. The letter is inlaid and is in very fine condition with dark ink. $1,800 (photograph right)

SHORTLY AFTER PRESIDENT GARFIELD WAS SHOT, FIRST LADY GARFIELD WRITES ABOUT HER HOPE THAT ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL CAN LOCATE THE BULLET WITH A METAL DETECTOR: “THE DEAR MAN GIVES US REASON TO HOPE MORE SURELY THAN EVER BEFORE FOR HIS RECOVERY”

41) ALS. 2pg. 4 ½” x 7”. August 9, 1881. Washington. An autograph letter signed “Lucretia R. Gar- field” as First Lady. She wrote to Mr. Bancroft: “Your kind note came at a time when there was a return of that anxiety which delayed all responses. Now the dear man gives us reason to hope more surely than ever before for his recovery, and I am very glad to say it to you, my dear friend. We can only pour out our whole heart in gratitude to you and to all the world for the sympathy and loving kindness shown us in this sore trial...”. Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau on July 2, 1881. As he lay sick, inventor Alex- ander Graham Bell offered to use an early metal detector to try to locate the bullet. Bell made a second visit to the White House on August 1, and thought he heard where the bullet was located; it turned out to be the springs in the bed. Garfield died of severe complications arising from his initially treatable gun- shot wounds on September 19, 1881 at the New Jersey shore where he had been moved in hopes of es- caping Washington heat. The letter is on separate sheets and is in fine condition. $2,500

TWO WEEKS AFTER FORT SUMTER, CONFEDERATE GENERAL STATES RIGHTS GIST COMMISSIONS TWO MEDICAL OFFICERS

42) DS. 1pg. 7 ¾” x 9 ¾”. April 29, 1861. Charleston, South Carolina. An early Confederate commission signed “S R Gist Adjutant Genl of So Ca”. Gist signed the document appointing “A.A. Talley MD…Surgeon with the Rank of Major, and Jno. S. Buist Asst. Surgeon of the S.C. Army, will be obeyed and respected accordingly.” The letterhead is from the “Adj. & Insp. Genl’s Office” and is embossed. There is light staining to the left margin and minor repairs to the verso. A scarce autograph, particularly war-dated. $2,000

A GRAND OLE OPRY PROGRAM SIGNED BY DOZENS OF THE STARS OF THE EARLY 1960s ON THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS

43) (GRAND OLE OPRY). SB. 64pg. 8” x 10”. N.d. [early 1960s]. N.p. [Nashville]. A soft cover booklet entitled WSM’s Official Grand Ole Opry History-Picture Book signed by many country stars. The book was owned by a young fan named Mike, and he inserted many small black and white photographs of himself with the stars, who then signed the booklet. Some of the signers include Roy Acuff [full sized page], Chet Atkins [smaller image], June Carter [full sized page], Grandpa Jones [smaller image], Hawkshaw Hawkins [smaller image], Ferlin Husky [full sized page], Lester Flatt [smaller image], Minnie Pearl [full sized page], Jim Reeves [full sized page], Marty Robbins [full sized page], Hank Snow [full sized page], Ernest Tubb [full sized page], Porter Wagoner [smaller image], Faron Young [full sized page] and Roy Drusky [inserted 8” x 10” signed photograph]. It is also signed by lesser stars such as Carl Butler, Archie Campbell, Cowboy Copas, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, Skeeter Davis, Roy Drusky, Billy Grammar, George Hamilton, Cousin Jody, the Jordanaires, Stringbean, Billy Walker and Del Wood. There are also a few color interior pages. There is some fading to the green cover and a tear halfway up the spine. A fine memento of the hey- day of country music. $1,000

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ZANE GREY ADVISES A STARVING ARTIST THAT HARD WORK “IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE WHEN YOU ARE STARVING”

44) ALS. 1pg. May 6, 1932. Altadena, California. An autograph letter signed “Zane Grey” on his personal stationery. Grey sends some advice for a starving artist and mentions the Great Depression: “Dear Miss Bratton: I have your letter, and am sending a book for Miss Meacham. I would be pleased to have her dedicate a wild horse drawing to me. I can offer no suggestion to you or Miss Meacham save hard work. That is the secret of success. It is almost impossible when you are starving, I know, but you have to in spite of all. When I come out of this awful financial depression myself I will help you help her.” The letter is in fine condition and written in his traditional purple ink. $350

HORACE GREELEY REQUESTS A $1,000 LOAN

45) ALS. 1pg. 5” x 8”. September 3, 1868. New York. An autograph letter signed “Horace Greeley” on his “Union League Club” letterhead. He scrawled to Charles Gould: “I am obliged to go out of town today, and want One Thousand dollars. In my father’s absence, I ask you to send it to me for thirty days on the note in care of W.O. Bartlett herewith presented.” The letter has light wrinkling in the top right, a drop of ink in the middle of the page and is in very good condition. $250

FANNIE LOU HAMER SIGNS A PHOTOGRAPH OF A MISSISSIPPI SHARECROPPER’S FARM WITH THE PHRASE “WE SHALL OVERCOME”

46) FANNIE LOU HAMER (1917-1977). Hamer was a Civil Rights leader and community organizer from Mississippi. She began her career in 1962, and it only lasted a few years until poor health forced her to retire. In 1964, she co- founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to stop the state’s all-white delegation from attending the Democratic National Con- vention. She is best remembered for her speech at the Convention, in which she said “All of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Demo- cratic Party is not seated now, I question Ameri- ca. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives are threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings in America?”

PS. 14 ½” x 12”. N.d. N.p. [presumably Missis- sippi]. A photograph signed “We Shall Over- come Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer” on the mat in black ink. It is signed “SNCC Photo Lab Julius Lester” in red ink on the back. The black and white photograph, measuring 11 ½” x 6 ¼”, shows a sharecropper’s farm in the Delta and was taken by Julius Lester; he was a photographer and Civil Rights activist who worked with SNCC in the early 1960s. Of all the major Civil Rights figures of the Sixties, Hamer’s autograph is by far and away the rarest. By comparison, Dr. King’s signature is uncommon, John Lewis and Coretta Scott King are plentiful, Malcolm X is scarce, etc. Because of her late fame and poor health, very few people asked Hamer to sign materials, such as this photograph. The image is in very fine condition. There is light staining to the mat, two pinholes in the upper corners, and three of the corners at bumped. The RareBookHub shows only one Hamer signed item ever selling at auction, attesting to its rarity. $5,000

AN INVITATION TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON

47) Document. 1pg. N.d. N.p. A dining invitation to Alexander Hamilton, but not in his hand: “General Hamilton will have the pleasure of Dining with Mr. Rutherford agreeable to his polite invitation.” Walter Rutherford was a former Royal Army officer turned businessman, who settled in New York and New Jersey. He tried to remain neutral during the American Revolution but was briefly arrested as a Loyalist. The document is in very good condition with folds and minor soiling. $750

VICE PRESIDENT HAMLIN WRITES TO SECRETARY OF WAR SIMON CAMERON IN 1861

48) ALS. 1pg. 5” x 8”. September 20, 1861. Hampden [Maine]. An autograph letter signed “H Hamlin” as Lincoln’s Vice President. He wrote to Secretary of War Simon Cameron: “Some two weeks since you Tel[egraphed]. me to forward you the name of a man for a clerkship. I did so, and sent you the name of John W. Brown of this town, a very good man. Since then I have heard nothing from you. Can you give him a place? I sincerely hope so – and you will oblige. Yours Truly H. Hamlin”. The letter has faint mailing folds, dark writing and ink spots to the blank lower edge. $750

THE PROOFS OF THE WARREN HARDING BIOGRAPHY, THE SHADOW OF BLOOMING GROVE

49) Proof copies. 1968. N.p. The proof copies of Francis Russell’s 1968 biography The Shadow Of Blooming Grove. The controversial biography is best-remembered for a lawsuit brought by the Harding family against Russell. He discovered letters between Harding and his mistress, Carrie Phillips, and Russell intended to publish excerpts of the correspondence. The Harding family successfully sued to block their disclosure, and it boosted the pre-publication publicity for the tome. The proofs are in two bound booklets and housed in a custom-made green box. There is at least one handwritten correction and the pages have the usual wear to the edges. Perfect for the Warren Harding completist! $1,000

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THOMAS HARDY CONTRIBUTES A SHORT STORY TO THE INDEPENDENT

50) ALS. 1pg. 4 ½” x 6 ½”. November 10, 1883. Shire Hall Place, Dorchester, Dorset. An autograph letter signed “Thomas Hardy”. Hardy wrote to someone at the New York City magazine The Independent, enclosing a story to be published in that periodical (the manuscript is not included): “Dear Sir, I beg to accept your offer of one hundred dollars for a story to be published in the Independent, & enclose copy of the same herewith. I believe you will find it to be about the length specified, & of a character in harmony with the tone of your paper. I am, Dear sir, Yours faithfully Thomas Hardy”. The work that Hardy submitted was a short story published on February 7, 1884 as “Emmeline; or Pas- sion versus Principle”. The story is better known as “The Duchess of Hamptonshire” under which title it was first published in 1877. The letter is in very fine condition with light wrinkles. $850

A LONG WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON HANDWRITTEN LETTER: HE WAS “SUFFERING UNDER A SEVERE INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM IN THE KNEE FROM HAVING FOOLISHLY EXPOSED MYSELF TO RAIN WHEN UNDER THE OPERATION OF MEDICINE FOR A PREVIOUS COLD. I HAD HEARD OF THE GLORIOUS RESULTS OF YR ELECTION…THE EX PRESIDENT WILL UNDOUBTEDLY DO ANYTHING IN HIS POWER FOR HIM”

51) ALS. 2pg. 8” x 12 ½”. November 20, 1837. North Bend. A lengthy autograph letter signed “W H Harrison” addressed to Gulian C. Verplanck, a New York Congressman and author. Harrison, writing a year after he lost the 1836 Presidential election to Martin Van Buren, penned: “Your letter of the 13th Inst unfortunately arrived in Cincinnati when I was at this place. It was sent…yesterday & found me suffering under a severe inflammatory rheumatism in the knee from having foolishly exposed myself to rain when under the operation of medicine for a previous cold. I had heard of the glorious results of yr Election. It is more acceptable because unexpected. I had really supposed that the discipline of the party would have scared them the…in your State for some time to come. I know that they would be met my talents zeal & energy on the part of our friends but like the same quibbles which were so often unsuccessfully oppressed to the compactness yet suppleness of the Roman military formation. I feared a like result. I enclose two letters for your brother [not included]. The Ex President will undoubtedly do anything in his power for him. When I was at Bogota Santander was in banishment in Europe but I became acquainted with him in New York on his return home. He continues honestly as I have learnt in several ways under obligations to me for the countenance I have his friends at Bogota by receiving them in my house when the doors of the other foreign ministers were closed against them. Colo [Joaquin] Accosta whom the other letter is directed is a man of unbounded hospitality which his great wealth enables him to support without enchantment. His Valley & town ganders was on of the more delightful chronicles in the world & is exactly…the capital is as you know as unfavorable. It is however not more than 35 miles from Guaduas [Columbia]. I have more friends in the bounds of the former Columbia to whom I could have written but it would take me some time under any circumstances to find their names & locations & both my mind & body are in a situation very unfavorable to do any thing. The former occasion by the Situation of a beloved son [William Henry Harrison, Jr.] whom...incurable disease is hurrying to his ground & the latter from my highly inflamed knee which is exceedingly painful. Luckily a son who lives 5 miles form me has just called & I will detain him to act as my amanuensis un the two letters yet to write. I will send my letter tomorrow morning to Cincinnati to be put in the express mail as the ordinary mail does not pass this upwards…truly yours W.H. Harrison PS I wrote to my friend Alderman Stilwell about six weeks ago on some present business buy have received no answer. If you should note him be good enough to ask him if he received it.” Harri- son died after delivering the longest Inaugural address in the cold and while not wearing a hat; this letter, written four years earlier, seems to predict that since he complains about his health problems . Verplanck was a strong Harrison supporter, and Harrison congratulated Verplanck on his first political victory, his election to the New York State Senate. William Henry Harrison, Jr. died three months after this letter. In 1828, Harrison was appointed by President John Quincy Adams to be the American diplomat to Bogota, Columbia. It took Harrison over a year to arrive at Bogata and he remained in that position for a short time. It is written on lined paper with repairs to the seal tears. The writing is dark throughout. $3,500

FIRST LADY ANNA HARRISON WRITES A LENGTHY LETTER TO HER GRANDSON ABOUT FAMILY NEWS; IT INCLUDES TWO FREE FRANKING SIGNATURES

52) ALS. 1pg. 8” x 12”. August 5, 1848. North Bend [Ohio]. A lengthy autograph letter signed “A Harrison” with an integral address leaf bearing two franking signatures by her; both “Free / Anna Harrison”. She wrote to her grandson, Cleves S. Harrison [I left in her phonetic spelling]: “The Month has arrived, in which you thought, you could visit us. I hope you have not given up your intended visit, you must remember, that I am very old, as none of us know the time of our death, yet to one, threescore ten of course, but a few Months, perhaps days are alotted to them. My health has been quite poor, most of the summer, but I am now better. It will afford all your relations, in this part of the Country, very great pleasure to see you again. I have not heard a word, from your dear Mother, since I received your letter, you should not my dear, wait for me to answer every letter, but remember I am too old, to write much & it always affords me very great pleasure to hear often from my friends, your Aunt & Uncle Taylor, & some of their children, one on a visit to the City, your cousin Sally Harrison, is staying with me...The remains of your cousin Symmes, was brought up, from Mexico about two weeks ago, buried in the Family grave yard, at Mr. Pikes place. Mr. Hunt who married Zebuline, now lives there...The House, a portion of the Land, belongs to Pike, who has not yet returned from Mexico. William Henry, staies with his Sister over the River. Clara who married Dr. Banks of Cincinnati, has lived until! this summer, at Fort Wayne - but now, they expect to live in Cincinnati. Anna Maria, lives in Indiana…”. Those mentioned are various grandchildren, cousins to her correspondent. Mrs. Harrison did not go to Washington during her husband's brief term in office. She outlived all but one of her ten children. There are folds and normal wear with some soil on the address leaf that has separated from the page with the letter. $1,750

JULIAN HAWTHORNE PROMOTES THE STOCK SALES THAT GOT HIM IMPRISONED FOR FRAUD

53) TLS. 1pg. March 21, 1910. A typed letter signed “Julian Hawthorne” on his personal letterhead. The missive likely concerns the fraudu- lent stock sales for which Hawthorne and his friend William J. Morton were imprisoned in 1913: “...I wrote the ‘Solomon’ booklets in order that we might make each other’s acquaintance...It is straight business all the way through...I say, that the opportunity here offered you to make a great deal of money at the expense of very little, and to be, in the meanwhile, secure from loss, is such as seldom occurs to the most fortunate investor. But the allotment of shares is in three parts, the second part costing more than the first, and the third more than the second…”. The letter is in very good condition with toning and other faults, and is encapsulated. $450 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

RUTHERFORD HAYES HANDWRITES A LETTER ABOUT HIS ANCESTOR AND HIS “ATTEMPT TO ARREST WELLS & KNOWLTON OF VERMONT BY LIEUT. ISRAEL SMITH…MY GR. GRANDFATHER”

54) ALS. 2pg. 5 ½” x 8 ½”. November 17, 1887. Fremont, Ohio. A lengthy autograph letter signed “R.B. Hayes” and “H” as former Presi- dent. He wrote to the English born historian Henry B. Dawson: “…Enclosed please find $10 in payment of the enclosed bill. I have a number of the volumes in your memorandum, but will take others as follows…”; he then lists six history books, several of them from New England. The former President continues: “Perhaps you can help me to find a document or letter of Washington sent to Congress between November 27, 1782 & January 27, 1783, informing Congress of an attempt to arrest Wells & Knowlton of Vermont by Lieut. Israel Smith. See pp. 722-3 Vol. 2 Halls Hist. of Eastern Vermont. It is referred to in many other places. My interest in it is due to the fact that Lt. Israel Smith was my gr. Grandfather. You correctly interpret my former letter. I meant to say that it would give me the pleasure to take from you books of the value of $25. I send me ck for the remaining am’t to be billed heretofore. Sincerely R.B. Hayes P.S. I never lost anything in the mail & for small amounts always take the risk H”. Hayes was interested in his family’s genealogy. Army officer Israel Smith was ordered to arrest the Ver- monters Wells and Knowlton as a result of a Congressional resolution dated November 27, 1782. The duo was suspected of corresponding with the enemy and fled to Canada. Smith implicated the Rhode Island Congressman Jonathan Arnold of having tipped off the pair, although he strenuously denied it. The letter is in fine condition with dark ink and two faint mailing folds. $1,100

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES SIGNS A CABINET CARD OF HIS WIFE, LUCY WEBB HAYES

55) PS. 4 ¼” x 6 ½”. N.d. N.p. A cabinet card signed “R. B. Hayes”. The cabinet card depicts Hayes’s wife, Lucy Webb Hayes. Hayes signed the bottom left corner of this slightly faded image taken by Sarony. It is in fine condition. $850

THE RARE AUTOGRAPH OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO NICHOLAS HERKIMER

56) DS. 1pg. 8” x 3 ¼”. August 5, 1767. Burnets Feald [sic] [New York]. A document signed “Nicolas Herchimer” at the conclusion. Herkimer, who was barely literate, signed as witness to a payment: “Rcd of the Oversears of the Church for this Place the sum of fourteen Pounds in full of all Demands for working at the Church at this Place…”; it was signed with an “x” by Paul Seekner. Burnet’s Field was the original name of that area along the Mohawk River later known as German Flats because of the many German settlers there. There are spots and some wear, leaving the item in very good condition. There are very few known Herkimer signatures since he was killed in action at Oriskany on August 6, 1777; The Autograph Collectors Checklist rates his signatures are “very rare.” $5,000

AERIAL IMAGES OF JAPAN AFTER WORLD WAR II, INCLUDING SEVEN MARKED AS “HIROSHIMA”

57) (HIROSHIMA). An archive of 22 original aerial photographs of Japan at the end of World War II; seven of them are marked “Hiroshima” on the verso. The photos were likely taken by a bomber crewman who flew over Hiroshima and other parts of Japan. The near-total flattening of Hiroshima is obvious in some images, and there are images of horrific destruction, perhaps from firebombing. Each image measures 4 ½” x 4”. Some has some minor scuffing and loss to the image, and all have mounting remnants to the verso from where they were once attached to an album. $1,500 for the lot

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SIGNS AN AUTOGRAPH STANZA OF HIS MOST FAMOUS POEM “THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS”

58) AMS. 1pg. October 16, 1875. Boston, Massachusetts. An autograph manuscript signed “Oliver Wendell Holmes”. The text is the last stanza of Holmes’s poem “The Chambered Nautilus”: “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shall by life’s wresting sea! Oliver Wendell Holmes”. The manuscript is in very fine condition. It is matted and framed alongside an image of Holmes. $800

A SCARCE HOOVER HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MCADOO: “I SEND HEREWITH A FIRST DRAFT OF MY IDEA OF A APPEAL. ON FURTHER CONSIDERATION I AM CONVINCED IT WILL HAVE MORE FORCE AS A JOINT DOCUMENT”

59) ALS. 2pg. 6” x 8”. N.d. [circa 1917]. Washington. A very scarce autograph letter signed “Herbert Hoover” to William G. McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law and Secretary of the Treasury. Hoover wrote on “Food Administration” letterhead: “I send herewith a first draft of my idea of a appeal. On further consideration I am convinced it will have more force as a joint document. No doubt - if you agree - it can be polished up by your better command of our native tongue. Would you let me know in the morning? you approve or otherwise or amend or what not – I can arrange for its widespread publicity, not only directly through the Press but through the public bureau that we have established in each state. I believe it will even stop the whistles in the present attitude of the public...”. President Wilson appointed Hoover to be the United States Food Administrator where his successful work to conserve food needed by the army and European allies, based on volunteer efforts and without rationing, added to his growing humanitarian credentials. It is written on the first and fourth pages of one sheet, and is in mostly fine condition. Hoover is very scarce in handwritten material. $1,250 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

HERBERT HOOVER RECEIVES ADVICE AS AMERICA’S FIRST QUAKER PRESIDENT AND HE REPLIES

60) Two letters concerning President Hoover’s Quaker faith. They are: a) TLS. 1pg. 7 ¼” x 10 ½”. January 27, 1929. Miami, Florida. A typed letter signed “Herbert Hoover” as President-elect responding to the aforementioned letter: “I have your kind letter of January 19th. I deeply appreciate the suggestion you make.” Written on Hoover’s personal letterhead, this letter is in very good condition with mounting remnants on the verso. b) TLS. 2pg. 8 ½” x 11”. January 19, 1929. Washington, DC. A typed letter signed “Moses R. Lovell” giving advice on to the recently elected President Hoover, the first Quaker President, on how to use his faith in his position: “I believe that all of us rejoice to see, for the first time in history, the elevation of a Quaker to the chief office of the land, knowing that so much that is inherent in Quaker philosophy and character can greatly benefit our day and generation by being done in the course of the next four years that would minimize in any way your connection with the religious faith that is yours and that of your family’s tradition...if during your Presidency you should find it possible to adopt relative to church attendance the following suggestions: (1) Never to announce previously what place of worship you will attend on Sunday. (1) More frequently than anywhere else to attend one of the two Quaker churches in Washington. (3) Draw a circle one mile and a half in radius from the White House (this excludes my own church else I might be accused of selfishness in the matter) and on any given Sunday attend one of the various denominational edifices within that circumference. Thus insuring to the church of your own connection an atmosphere of worship un- broken by the presence of the merely curious. Thus establishing more fully the chief principle of Quakerism - the free and non-sectarian moving of the spirit in the hearts and minds of men.” The letter is in very good condition with light toning. $400

DRAMA UNFOLDS IN THIS VERY EARLY MENTION OF NEW YORK RACETRACKS: “MR. COLDEN WROTE…AN OFFER FOR THE COURSE…THE OTHER PARTY AND RENTED THE COURSE TO BURR’S MAN MR. BOTTS DURING THE NEXT RACES FOR THE TRIFLING SUM OF $350”

61) (HORSE RACING). ALS. 3pg. 8” x 9 ¾”. February 7, 1833. New York. An autograph letter signed “Eliza Colden” to William P. Haskins of Troy, New York. The letter regards a racetrack rental gone wrong. This is a very early mention of American racetracks, since they were not in common use until after the Civil War. In part: “I understand that Mr. Colden wrote yesterday to Mrs. Wells making an offer for the Course but at the time he did it he had no conception that Mr. Dey had gone over to the other party and rented the course to Burr’s man Mr. Botts during the next Races for the trifling sum of $350. I feel hurt to think that while we were doing every thing in good faith to aid and assist and after having spent my money that we should be thus treated Mr. Dey, not even thinking it worth while to mention the subject to either myself or Mr. Colden. Had Mr. Dey done his duty and got possession and you wished to have rented the property you might have got $1000 for it during next May Races. I write this letter without the knowledge of Mr. Colden, in order if possible to prevent mischief which I fear it will be too late to prevent. He is outrageous and says that as the other party have acted treacherously and gone over too Burr he does not see why he should not make terms with Burr also Burr had made overtures to him which he has here to fore rejected with disdain as I am told but I now fear your will be the sufferers…”. Many early racetracks were operated by the rich to showcase their horses. Eliza Colder may have been related to Cadwallader Colden, the mayor of New York City from 1818 to 1821. Aaron Burr was Vice President and the killer of Alexander Hamil- ton in a duel; later in life, he served as a New York attorney. The letter is in fine condition with light toning and folds. $350

BRITISH GENERAL HOWE WRITES UPON RETURNING HOME FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

62) ALS. 4pg. October 14, 1778. Cholderton, Wiltshire, England. An autograph letter signed “W Howe”. It was written shortly after Howe returned to England following his resignation from the position of Commander-in-Chief of British Land Forces in the American Revolution: “My Dear Sir - I am much obliged to you for the list of Corporation & for your favors of the 7th. - I conclude Smith is now with his Colleague & my hopes are that he will find it in his interest to be a Tory Member in the case we may still keep the peace upon a future occasion. - Be assured did not my sentence upon your conduct perfectly coincide with your determination, I should most readily have given up my own opinion to your Judgement that has not to my certain knowledge was erred in your influential services you have been to good together to my late brother - I freely own to you and am much concerned that Lt. Gen. Howe should have written to Mrs. Geo. Bromley without your necessary consideration upon a matter of such importance - but she has suffered so much distress from it since she has apprehended your consequence from the receipt of your letter that I have given her every comfort I could & will. Your letter, which she sent to me, is extremely proper & as she has explained herself to you how it came about, I am hopeful you have given her the satisfaction of knowing that you consider her inadversity in no other light than that in which he has mentioned it to her. -- It is very unfortunate that medically I should have declined after he had recd. her letter, as it will appear to the world before the find view of it that not informed is extremely weak & that we have diverted me fact friends the Corporation to join the Tories. I see a Multitude of evils that may arise from that letter, as the true reason is what she has given you will not be sufficiently known. It appears to me to have been rather Sufficient in my Cousin - but my private opinions & investigation was from his ill will to qts. Something. I have only a word for her to trouble you with upon this subject, which is that I shall be ever ready to give Jay be all for Not- tingham when my friends shall have a wish for another Representative, get all we give it began under my hand. I never will decline their service as long as I receive encouragement from them to continue it, & no efforts on my part shall ever be wanting in the protection of their inclina- tions. Obediently Dr Sir - Most Humbly - W Howe”. Howe had resigned from his position as Commander-in-Chief of British land forces in 1777, but it had only been made official in the spring of 1778, a few months before this letter. The last page is dated October 15 and is written by somebody else. The letter is in fine condition with dark ink. $750

A REVOLUTIONARY WAR-DATED CONNECTICUT DEBENTURE DOCUMENT SIGNED BY SEVERAL IMPORTANT CONNECTICUT POLITICIANS – DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNER SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, DAVENPORT, DYER, GRISWOLD, AND PITKIN

63) DS. 1pg. February 3, 1779. Connecticut. A handwritten document signed by several important Revolution-era Connecticut politicians, “Matthw Griswold”, “Elipht Dyer”, “Wm Pitkin”, “Sam Huntington”, and “Abrm Davenport”. It was also signed “Wm Pitkin for M Shel- don” on behalf of an Elisha Sheldon, who may have been a Colonel in the Continental Army, and “Geo. Pitkin, Clerk”, likely by William Pitkin’s son. Written in the midst of the Revolutionary War, the document records payments on a debenture: “Superior Court Debenture on the Council in August, September & Oct’r 1778, viz. The Hon’ble Matthew Griswold Esq. 60 days £324:0:0 Matthw Griswold Eliphalet Dyer Esq. 30 days £162:0.0. re’d £25:10.0 recd the Balance April 15 1779 Elipht Dyer Wm Pitkin Esq. 60 days £306:0:0 Wm Pitkin Sam’l Huntington Esq. 53 days £270 6:0 Sam Huntington Elisha Sheldon Esq. Assistant 4 days £20:8:0 Wm Pitkin for M Sheldon Abraham Davenport Esq. As- sis’t: 3 days £15:6:0 Abrm Davenport £1098:8:0 Cr as paid pr order 181:10:0 £916:10:0 To John Lawrence Esq Treasurer of the State of Connecticutt [sic] Sir please to pay to The Judges of the Sup’r Court and Assistants the Balance due on the foregoing Debenture being the sum of Nine Hundred & Sixteen Pounds Ten Shillings & Charge the State in Account therefor. February 3rd, 1779. Per the order of Court Geo. Pitkin, Clerk”. Docket: “Sup’r Court Debenture. Fall Circuit 1778. £916:10:0. Charged 4 Feb’ry 1779. No. 2 No. 241”. The document is in good condition with some light foxing and small tears in the folds. $1,000 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

A LENGTHY HANDWRITTEN TREATISE OF HYPNOTISM

64) (HYPNOTISM). Journal. 140pg. 5” x 8”. 1900. N.p. [probably New England]. A lengthy manuscript entitled “Hypnotism” written in blue ink by J.H. Bergeron. It gives instructions on hypnotism, hysterical people, clairvoyance, telepathy, mesmerism, etc. The first lesson is “How to hypnotize & how to awaken the subject” and states “The first thing to do before attempting to hypnotize anyone is to give him a good, clear explanation of the subject. Impress upon the patient’s mind that hypnotism is harmless, that he cannot be hypnotized if he resists or fails to concentrate his attention upon your suggestions, and that if he is hypnotized you will acquire no power over him beyond the temporary influ- ence exerted. Tell him not to wonder whether he will go to sleep or not, but to make up his mind that he is actually going to sleep. Ask him to repeat mentally the words: I am going to sleep, I am going to sound sleep, or something of this nature. Many are afraid they cannot go to sleep. Tell them not to think of this. Get them to control their thoughts and concentrate them on the one idea of sleep. First test For this test use the hypnotic ball. The effect may be to produce without it. Place the subject in a standing position, his head up, heels together, and hands at the side. Tell the subject to close his eyes and stand with the muscles relaxed. When the subject is standing with eyes closed and muscles relaxed, put the ball against the back of his head and the base of the brain, holding the ball in the right hand. Now put your left hand on the subject forehead & push his head against the ball a little. Hold the ball still for a few seconds (pressed tightly against the head), and say in slow & decided tones: When I draw this ball from you, you will slowly fall backward. Now remove the ball from the subject’s head very slowly. If the subject does not fall backwards, try again…”. There is much more content throughout and an index . The pages are in very fine condition, written in a clear blue ink. The spine is worn and loose but the condition is very fine. A most unusual subject and manuscript. $750

WASHINGTON IRVING WRITES TO HIS NEPHEW, APPROVING OF HIS ENGAGEMENT TO HELEN SCHERMERHORN: “I EXCLAIMED TO YOUR AUNT PARIS AND SARAH ‘OH HOW DELIGHTFUL I SHOULD BE IF HE WERE TO TAKE A FANCY TO HELEN!’…YOU ARE ABOUT TO CONFER A KINDNESS ON ME IN GIVING ME HELEN FOR A NIECE, FOR WHICH I SHALL BE THANKFUL TO YOU AS LONG AS I LIVE”

65) ALS. 4pg. 5” x 8”. Greenburg [New York]. April 2, 1837. An autograph letter signed “Washington Irving” to his nephew, John Treat Irving, Jr. “Treat” has recently been engaged to Helen Schermerhorn: “…the tidings it contained I had already heard. I shall begin to believe in presentiments, for some weeks since, on hearing of your extreme intimacy with the Schermerhorns. I exclaimed to your Aunt Paris and Sarah ‘Oh how delightful I should be if he were to take a fancy to Helen!’ I don’t know what put the idea into my head, but it struck me as if it would probably happen and to the next news I have of you, you are actually engaged! I cannot express the heartfelt gratifi- cation it gives me. She was a…partner with me; almost rivaling her sister Annie, and was every day growing more and more on my regard as her character developed itself. I delighted in her bright joyous look, and shall never forget the warmth of heart she showed when about to leave her friends and home; clinging to them…instead of anticipating the wonder and gaieties among which she was to mingle. I have represented to your father and mother what a prize you have got and they each seem highly gratified. The Judge only hopes you will not hurry into matrimony until he gets easier in money matters, having reduced himself to great extremity by building two large stores. However, as they are about to bring him in great costs, I trust they will create a spring tide…I would advise you to cut in before he is seized with another architectural paralysis, for her has two or three vacant lots calling loudly for houses, and two or three houses calling loudly to be turned into stores…I have been wintering in my cottage on the banks of the Hudson, and have passed by time most happily… [brother] Peter has been quartered with me and I have occasionally had some of the girls to enliven the house. Tell my friends Schermerhorn I hope to have him here toe to toe with me, discussing old times and recounting his adventures and all the marvels he has seen; and I anticipate the times when I shall have the bright face of Helen beaming…I hope Mrs. Schermerhorn has found traveling of service in relieving her from those dismal headaches which used to…her…Farewell my dear Treat, you are about to confer a kindness on me in giving me Helen for a niece, for which I shall be thankful to you as long as I live. Your affectionate uncle Washington Irving”. Helen was the sister of the famous “Mrs. Astor.” The letter has dark ink and light chipping to the top and bottom margins. A fine and warm family letter. $1,350

ANDREW JACKSON HANDWRITES A LETTER ABOUT HIS NEPHEW, ANDREW JACKSON DONELSON

66) ALS. 1pg. 8” x 10”. February 23, 1817. Nashville. An autograph letter signed “Andrew Jackson” addressed to Thomas Berkman of Philadelphia. The future President was seeking assistance for his nephew and ward, Andrew Jackson Do- nelson who was sixteen. In 1820, Donelson graduated from West Point, ranking second in his class. He later was his uncle’s private President secretary, envoy to Prussia and a Vice Presidential candidate in 1856. Jackson penned: “My nephew Andrew Donelson, who has obtained a warrant for admission to the military academy but from a regulation unknown to me at the time of his departure, cannot gain admittance until next September, this will occasion greater expense than was anticipated when he left me, has induced me to apply to Mr. James Jackson, that through your friendship he might be supplied...Mr. James Jackson has wrote you on this subject which I have inclosed to Andrew to be by him presented to you, any sum advanced to him will be punctually repaid...all supply of clothing can be furnished him by Andrew's leaving his measure with your Taylor in Philadelphia… for all supplies thus furnished, I will with pleasure pay you on notice. I have to ask for Andrew your attention and patronage whilst in your city. He is young but ami- able, without any experience of the world…”. The letter is tanned and the folds are repaired on the blank interior pages internally professionally. The condition is very good with dark ink. $1,750 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

VICE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON WRITES TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S GRANDSON, DR. WILLIAM BACHE: “I HAVE MADE THESE OBSERVATIONS MERELY TO ENABLE YOU TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF WHICH OF THE TWO SPECIES OF SACRIFICE YOU WOULD PREFER…WE HAVE HAD MOST DISASTROUS RAINS LATELY. OUR TOBACCO & FODDER ARE MUCH REDUCED IN QUANTITY & QUALITY, THE WHEAT IN STACKS SUBJECTED TO GREAT LOSS, AND THE SEEDING THE ENSUING CROP SO RETARDED AS TO LESSEN OUR HOPES FROM THAT. MR RANDOLPH’S BUILDINGS & MINE HAVE GONE ON MOST SLOWLY”

67) ALS. 2pg. September 20, 1799. Monticello. An autograph letter signed “Th:Jefferson” and free franked “Th:Jefferson” on the address panel. The Vice President wrote to Dr. William Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin: “We have been long in expectation of seeing you, but mr Trist’s return & information puts off that indefinitely. in the mean time your carpenters have gone on tolerably well. they will finish the ensuing week all their work except some small matters which will need further instructions from you, and which can be done in about a fort- night. I do not know what arrangements you made as to the brickwork. I do not hear of any person entering on that, & in the mean while the season for it is passing off. mr [James] Key called on me some days ago & wrote to me yesterday, he has purchased in N. Carolina adjoining his father in law, and his paiment is to be made in October. he represents that a failure will be entirely disastrous. mr Trist has lost his purchase; mr Lewis having had a ready money offer at the same price on the day of forfeiture & availed himself of it. mr Trist pays 600. D. forfeiture, & it was lucky for him it had been so settled. your bargain is absolute. you are entitled to keep the lands, & as no damages have been previously settled on failure in paiments (as was done in Trist’s case) they will be settled by a jury. it is very uncertain to what sum they may be wrought up by a loss of Key’s purchase, delay of his removal, loss of the preparations for it, loss of a crop the ensuing year by removing too late to put one into the ground, & other considerations which they will take care to swell. as you are not of the craft of the law, and I have been, I have thought it best to apprise you of this, because possibly (if your delay proceeds from a disappointment in collecting your own monies as mr Trist supposes) you may obtain money where you are on lesser sacrifices than the damages assessed by a jury would amount to. it would be better to pay almost any interest per month which could be asked, than to incur this risk. I understand that your first paiment would secure Key’s purchase, so that that sum with as much as would remove his family being furnished him I have no doubt he would wait a little for the balance. I have made these observations merely to enable you to decide for yourself which of the two species of sacrifice you would prefer. Key has declared himself ready to make a deed at any time. We have had most disastrous rains lately. our tobacco & fodder are much reduced in quantity & quality, the wheat in stacks subjected to great loss, and the seeding the ensuing crop so retarded as to lessen our hopes from that. mr Randolph’s buildings & mine have gone on most slowly. I have not been able to get a single room yet added to my former stock, and I now see that little will be added this season. there are considerable symptoms of a rise in the price of lands here. tobacco is in the dust. the computation is that this state loses this year five millions of dollars by the suspension of commerce with Franc; for the purpose of starving Frenchmen in the article of tobacco. in the mean time the same law, so far as it can affect the interest of other produce (say other states) is repealed. be so good as to present me respectfully to your father & mother, and to mrs Bache, and to give us hopes of seeing you soon added to our society. health, happiness & Adieu. Th:Jefferson”. Per Founders.gov, Jefferson had made an indenture for the sale of 603 acres in Al- bemarle County by the Keys to Bache. The address panel was handwritten by Jefferson, and he free franked it. There are the usual mailing folds and the ink is dark. The letter comes in a custom made case. $28,500 (photograph front cover)

A FEW DAYS AFTER THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION, THE NEWLY INSTALLED PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON SIGNS A MILITARY COMMISSION

68) DS. 1pg. April 23, 1865. Washington. A military commission signed “Andrew Johnson” as President and co-signed “E.M. Stanton” as Secretary of War. The newly installed President commissioned Douglas H. Dyer as Assistant Quartermaster General of Volunteers with the rank of captain. The vellum document was folded a few times and one crease goes through the Presidential autograph that is somewhat light. The overwhelming majority of President Johnson commissions are signed using a rubber stamp so this format is uncommon. $1,350

PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON SENDS AMBASSADOR WILLIAM BLAIR BIRTHDAY WISHES DURING THE 1966 MANILA SUMMIT CONFERENCE

69) TLS. 1pg. 6 ¾” x 9”. October 24, 1966. The White House. A typed letter signed “Lyndon B. Johnson” as President on “The White House” letterhead. Johnson wrote to the Ambassador to the Philippines William McCormick Blair Jr. on Blair’s fiftieth birthday that occurred during the historic Manila Summit Conference: “Dear Bill: What a happy coincidence for you to have a birthday on the convening of this historic conference in the city of your Ambassadorial assignment! I am sure this birthday will be one that will seldom be surpassed either for the hours you have worked, the contributions you have made, or the illustrious company with whom you have participated on this occasion. I want to wish you many more birthdays – less hectic than this perhaps, but certainly filled with the warm good wishes of so many friends as you have with you today. Sincerely, Lyndon B. Johnson”. At the 1966 Manila Summit Conference, Johnson and leaders from six other nations met to discuss the Vietnam War. The letter is in very fine condition with a faint mailing fold. $600

LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNS A PHOTOGRAPH TO AMBASSADOR WILLIAM BLAIR

70) PS. 6 ¾” x 9 ½”. N.d. N.p. A black and white photograph signed “To Bill Blair with high regard Lyndon B. Johnson”. It shows LBJ and Ambassador Blair walking down a corridor. It is mounted to a thick board and there is a diagonal crease that runs through the inscription; the condition is very good. $450

UNION ARMY BRIGADIER GENERAL HENRY MOSES JUDAH SIGNS MILITARY ORDERS IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

71) DS. 2pg. May 22 & 25, 1865. Chattanooga, Tennessee. A two page military report signed “H.M. Judah” by a secretary on the first page. He appoints a board of three officers to inspect a quartermaster’s store, while the second page details their findings in favor of the quartermaster in question: “Proceedings of a Board of Survey convened at Chattanooga Tennessee in obedience to the following order…Special Orders No 56 A Board of Survey...at the office of Capt. S. P. Bradford aaqm to examine and report upon Forage for which he is responsible. Capt. C.H. Bryant 68th Ind. Vols, “ Wm Abdill 16th U.S.C. Inf. 2nd Lieut M Buzzell 16th U.S.C. Inf By Order of Brig. Genl. H. M. Judah…[dated May 25] The Board met pursuant to the above order. Present Capt. C. H. Bryant 68th Ind. Vos. Capt. Wm. J. Abdill 16th U.S.C. Inf and 2nd Lieut M. Buzzell 16th U.S.C. Inf The Board then proceeded to inquire into the condition of the following articles of Quartermaster stores for which Capt. S. P. Bradford A.A.Q.M. is responsible. Viz:- (72.00) Seven Thousand Two Hundred lbs. corn. It is the opinion of the Board after a careful examination of the above mentioned Quartermaster’s stores, which were found to be utterly spoiled, and totally unfit for use, caused by heating in bulk, that Capt. S. P. Bradford A.A.Q.M. is in no way responsible for said damage, and that he should not be held accountable for said Q.M. stores…”. Judah himself signed “HM Judah Brig Gl” below one of the dockets on the verso. The date of May 1865 is significant because the Civil War officially ended earlier that month. The two pages are adhered together at the top. It is in very good condition. $300 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

A RARE ROYAL HAWAIIAN CAVALRY COMMISSION SIGNED BY KING KAMEHAMEHA V

72) DS. 2pg. 17” x 14”. December 24, 1863. Hawaii. A partly-printed document signed “Kamehameha R” as King. It is countersigned by Mataio Kekuanaoa, the father of Kame- hameha, in a position approximating Prime Minister, and he was Governor of Oahu at this time. It was additionally signed by Secretary of War R. C. Wyllie, a Scottish born coffee planter and cabinet minister. This is the appointment of William H. Dimond as “Second Lieu- tenant of First Honolulu Cavalry”. Hawaii native Dimond came to the United States later and served briefly as a Union army Captain in 1865. The last of the Kamehameha rulers, Kame- hameha V was new to the throne at this time, having succeeded his late brother less than a month earlier. He reigned during a period of expansion in the islands, but the small military establishment makes documents such as this almost unheard of in the collector market. Kekuanaoa, descended from Oahu chieftains, was the last Kuhina Nui; the position was abol- ished in the constitution of the following year with the King assuming much of its powers. The document is printed in both English and Hawaiian side by side, but with only the English side executed. It comes with an embossed seal, and is mostly fine with only normal wear and a dealer’s ink notation in one corner. $3,500

JOHN KENNEDY INSCRIBES AN OVERSIZED PHOTOGRAPH OF HIMSELF TO WILLIAM BLAIR, HIS AMBASSADOR TO DENMARK

73) PS. 11” x 14”. September 9, 1961. N.p. [likely Washington]. A black and white photograph inscribed “For Ambassador Bill Blair – with the esteem and warm regards of his friend John Kennedy”. The President signed on the lower mount. It is in its original silver frame with “9 Sept 1961”, “C.B.W.” and “N.D.H.” engraved on it. There is light waterstaining and toning to the right side of the mat, but it mostly can be seen under strong light. This was bought directly from the Estate of Ambassador Blair and has never been on the market before. A terrific and stunning President Kennedy signed portrait. $7,500 (photograph back cover)

CORETTA SCOTT KING SIGNS HER BOOK ABOUT DR. KING

74) Signed book. 372 pg. N.d. N.p. Coretta Scott King’s My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr., inscribed and signed “Coretta Scott King” on the first front end-page. “To Theodore D. Nienberg with deepest gratitude for your support of SCLC, Coretta Scott King”. The inscription and signature are boldly written in dark, thick ink. It is in fine condition. $450

CONTINENTAL ARMY GENERAL EBENEZER LEARNED PETITIONS THE COURT ON HIS TOWN’S BEHALF

75) DS. 1pg. September 1783. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A document written in another hand and signed “Ebenezer Learned”. Learned petitions the Boston court on behalf of his town of Oxford, which he claims was undeservedly fined: “Commonwealth of Massachu- setts To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled at Boston September 1783 - The petition of Ebenezer Learned of Oxford in the behalf of Said Town of Oxford humbly Sheweth that Said Town is fined for one man in the Requisition of men of December 2nd 1780 – and whereas Said Town have furnished the full quota of Said men therefore your humble petitioner prays that Said Town may be abated Said find [sic] and allowed the Bounty for Said one man as in Duty bound shall ever pray. Ebenezer Learned”. The document is in fine condition and is mounted to another sheet. Learned is a rare signature. $1,000

ROBERT E. LEE THANKS THE SUPERINTENDENT OF A NEWLY REOPENED VIRGINIA RAILROAD “FOR THE FREE TICKET OVER THE RICHMOND, YORK RIVER & BALTIMORE LINE”

76) ALS. 1pg. 5” x 8”. August 6, 1869. Lexington, Virginia. An autograph letter signed “RE Lee” addressed to Thomas Dodamead, the Superintendent of the Richmond, York River & Baltimore Railroad. Lee, then the President of Washington College, penned: “Dear Sir I am very much obliged to you for the free ticket over the Richmond, York River & Baltimore Line, enclosed in your note of the 31st Ulto: which I recd this…With my best wishes for the Success of the Line, your own happiness & prosperity. I am very respty your Obest Servt R E Lee”. The Richmond and York River Railroad was incorporated in 1853 but was decimated during the Civil War, particularly during the Peninsula Campaign. The line reopened in 1867 after a new round of funding. The letter is in good condition with mounting remnants on the top margin, some tanning and a couple short fold separations. The original envelope is included. $5,500

77) Signature. 8” x 3 ¼”. June 10, 1869. Washington College. The conclusion of an autograph letter signed “RE Lee Pres: Washn. College”. It starts on the front page with “Mr. Frank Preston the asst: Profr. of Greek at this Institution, is a gentleman of fine attain- ments” and it concludes on the back with “I can recommend him as a gentleman teach- er…”. Frank Preston resigned from the Washington College faculty to accept a full profes- sorship at William and Mary but died suddenly not long after starting at his new duties. He had been a Confederate artillery volunteer. Lee was grieved by his death and took the unusual step of suspending classes for a day. There is one repaired short tear, and the condition is fine. $2,500

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VIRGINIA GOVERNOR LIGHT-HORSE HARRY LEE TRIES TO PLACATE GEORGE WASHINGTON’S NEPHEW, TO WHOM LEE WAS IN DEBT

78) ALS. 2pg. November 29, 1803. Spotsylvania Court House, [Virginia]. An autograph letter signed “H Lee” to William A. Washington, George Washington’s nephew and one of Lee’s many creditors. Lee uses effusive language, seemingly in an attempt to placate Washington; he also mentions slavery (“the negro law”) and his wife’s poor health: “It is painful for me to enter into a narrative of the transaction to which yr. letter refers as my unexpected embarrassments thru the treachery of some of the misfortunes of others have prevented me from doing to you what my friendship has never failed to urge & what my heart will never cease to wish …no occasion ever offered when in my power to serve you but what I did so & such was yr. confidence in it that you have more than once taken from my house & mill whatever you wanted deemed by you spareable to me. I recur to this fact only to show how much you know my heart, not to reproach you for taking a disagreeable liberty… My heart is unchanged & so would remain was I in a Dungeon or in a palace…finding my expectation of a sale illusory unless I could get the negro law amended which last year I vainly attempted, I determined to sacrifice all my property sooner than stay longer from my wife whose delicate health requires every care…all my just creditors I made over property…among the first which drew my attention was you, I made a deed and sent it to my brother R.H.L. explaining my sentiments…H Lee”. Lee was imprisoned over debt. The letter is in very good condition with some ink showing through the page. $1,200

VIRGINA GOVERNOR JOHN LETCHER COMMISSIONS ROBERT E. LEE’S BROTHER SIDNEY A CAPTAIN IN THE NAVY OF VIRGINIA

79) DS. 1pg. 9 ¾” x 8”. May 2, 1861. Virginia. A partly printed commission signed “John Letcher” as Virginia Governor. Just weeks after Fort Sumter, Letcher commissioned Sidney Smith Lee, the older brother of Robert E. Lee, a Captain in the Navy of Virginia. The document states “To S.S. Lee Greeting: Know You, That from special trust and confidence reposed in your fidelity, courage and good conduct, our GOVERNOR...doth commission you a Captain in the NAVY OF VIRGINIA, to rank as such from the 23rd day of April 1861.” It is co- signed by George W. Munford as the Virginia Secretary. Sidney Lee entered the Navy at age eighteen and fought in the Mexican War and went with Perry to Ja- pan . He commanded the Philadelphia Navy Yard and was commandant at the United States Naval Academy. He resigned his Navy commission and became a captain in the Confederate Navy, where he commanded the Norfolk Navy Yard. The document has an intact, fresh green seal, dark writing and a few faint folds. There is light staining, including purple marks, to the top margin. A search of RareBookHub shows no similar Navy of Virginia commissions selling since 1985. A most unusual Confederate document. $4,000

A SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPER DETAILING THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION

80) (ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSASSINATION). Newspaper. 4pg. 10 ¼” x 13 ¾”. Sunday, April 16, 1865. San Francisco. The Flag’s Evening Dispatch from San Francisco detailing the death of President Lincoln. It is printed in four columns with mourning borders and front- page coverage of the assassination and its aftermath. The left column has headlines, including Booth being the killer and that Johnson is the new President. There is an announcement by the San Francisco mayor that there will be a funeral for the President and news from the country’s interior. An editorial argues that the assassination argues “Let the fires of retribution sweep across the land accursed by treason. Let the sacri- ficial fires be lighted, and the bodies of the hellish monsters who originated and took part in the conspiracy be offered up as a partial though tardy atonement for the destruction of the nation's peace.” There are the usual folds and a few minor edge tears and repaired fold separations. Extremely rare with only a few institutional holdings. $1,000

A CONTEMPORARY DRAFT OF GENERAL BENJAMIN LINCOLN’S ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION OF CHARLESTON: HIS “GARRISON SHALL AT AN HOUR APPOINTED, MARCH OUT WITH SHOULDERED ARMS, DRUMS BEATING, AND COLOURS FLYING TO A PLACE TO BE AGREED ON, WHERE THEY WILL PILE THEIR ARMS”

81) (SURRENDER OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA). On April 2, 1780, 10,000 British soldiers under General Henry Clinton sieged 3,000 Continental Army soldiers at Charleston. On May 12, the over-matched forces surrendered, marking the largest Continental Army capitulation of the American Revolution. Lincoln was eventually traded for a British general. When the British surrendered at Yorktown, Ben- jamin Lincoln was there to accept Cornwallis’s sword.

D. 2pg. 8” x 10”. 1780. Charleston. A contemporary draft of General Lincoln’s articles of capitulation for Charleston: “Article of Capitulation proposed by Major General Lincoln – Art. 1 that all acts of hostilities and Work…Between the Besiegers and Besieged Until…of Capitulation shall be Agreed on, signed…Executed, or be collectively Rejected. Art. 2. The town and fortifications shall…[be] surrendered to the Command- er in Chief of the…Forces, such as they now stand. Art. 3. The Continental Troops and Sailors – with their baggage shall be Conducted to a Place to be Agreed on – where they will Remain Prisoners of War – until Exchanged – While Prisoners, they shall be supplied with Good and Wholesome Provisions in such quantity as is Served out to the Troops of his Britannic [sic] Majesty. Art. 4. The militia now in garrison shall be permitted to return to their respective homes, and…[be] secured in their persons and property. Art. 5. The sick and Wounded shall…be continued under the care…Art. 6. The Garrison shall at an hour appointed, march out with shouldered arms, Drums beating, and Colours Flying to a place to be agreed on, where they will pile their arms. Art 7. That the French Consul, his house papers, and other movable property shall be protected and untouched, and a proper time granted to him for retiring to…that may afterwards be agreed upon between…Commander in Chief of the British forces. Art. 8. That the citizens shall be protected in their persons and Property. Art. 10. That a twelve months time be allowed all such as do not choose to continue under the British Government, to dispose of their Effects, real and personal in the State, with out any mo- lestation, or to remove such part thereof as they choose, as well as themselves and families, and that during that time, they, or any of them may have it as their option to reside occasionally in town or country. Art 11. That the same protection to their persons and properties, and the same time for the removal of their Effects be given to the subjects of France and Spain as required for the citizens in the previous articles...”. This likely is an early draft, since Article 6 is not included; that stated “The officers of the army and navy shall keep their horses, swords, pistols and baggage which shall not be searched and retain their servants.” It is in an unknown hand, and is not in the writing of Lincoln’s aide-de-camp Hodijah Baylies. The document just underwent a professional restoration to remove silking and improve the overall condition, although I would still rate the document’s state as fair. There are paper losses that affect some words but the legibility has improved considerably. $2,500

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ROBERT TODD LINCOLN IS DELIGHTED THAT HIS WIFE HAS JOINED HIM TO GO TO LONDON SOON

82) ALS. 3pg. 4 ½” x 7”. January 1, 1891. An autograph letter signed “Robert T. Lincoln”: “I am not so happy as I have Mrs. Lincoln with me – She & our girls will come…later reaching London at the start of February. It is with great regret that I find myself engaged both for lunch & dinner for any day until I go away at midnight Saturday. My friends including yourself have overwhelmed me with kindness here & I am very sorry that I cannot stay longer to enjoy their hospitality. Hoping to find you at home tomorrow. Most sincerely yours Robert T. Lincoln”. The recipient appears to be Lily Macalester Berghmans Laughton, the second Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. It is written on black-bordered mourning stationery and comes with a matching envelope in Lincoln’s handwriting. It is in fine condition. $750

BRITISH GENERAL ALEXANDER LINDSAY, EARL OF BALCARRES, SELLS PENNSYLVANIA BONDS

83) DS. 2pg. June 14, 1804. [London]. A partly-printed document signed “Balcarres”. The Earl of Balcarres makes a financial transaction involving Pennsylvania bonds. This was something of a surprising choice for a British man who once fought against the United States during the Revolution. He made this transaction while living in London; having returned there after a stint as Governor of Jamaica. “...I Alexander, Earl of Balcarres, of Haigh in the Count of Lancaster, in Great Britain (but at present in London) for Value, received, have bargained, sold, assigned, and set over; and by these Presents do bargain, sell, assign, and set over unto John Bowden Crewsell of Exeter Merchant his Execu- tors, Administrators, or Assigns, the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars of the funded six per Cent stock, standing in my name in the Books of the United States Loan Office for the State of Pennsylvania, being the amount of two Certificates thereof, No. 1470 and 1475 for Five Thousand Dollars each granted by Stephen Moylan Commissioner and I do hereby ordain, make, constitute, and appoint Henry Thuhl by assistant cashier of the Bank of the United States or his Successor in Office my true and lawful Attorney...Balcarres…”. The document is also signed by witness- es on recto and verso. It is in very good condition with minor toning and residue from several wax seals. Interesting financial history. $750

A JACK LONDON ARCHIVE MENTIONING THE CALL OF THE WILD

84) Archive. 4 pieces. A small archive of ephemera related to Jack London, his social activism, and his best-known work, The Call of the Wild. All four include autograph writing by London. Pieces are in very good condition; a few have small filing holes or tears: a) ANS. 1pg. December 20, 1904. Oakland, California. London’s brief autograph note signed, concerning a speaking engagement. “(a) Lecture – The Class Struggle (b) Readings from ‘Call of the Wild’ Jack London”. b) AN. 1pg. N.d. N.p. A brief, unsigned note by London, written on the back of an empty envelope. “My Outlook on Life – How I became a Socialist”. This was the title of a 1903 essay by London. c) An autograph note by London on a typed sheet with recipes for horse medicines. In the recipe for “Tonic Digestive”, London circled quinine and added “for exceptionally run-down condition & severe cold.” There is no signature, date, or place. d) A typed list of seven miscellaneous articles, under which Lon- don handwrote an addition: “That Dead Men Never Rise Up, never republished in U.S. and in Eng.” He also crossed out the word Seven in the heading and handwrite “Eight”. There is no signature, date, or place, but it must be after September 1908. $1,500 for the lot

PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY OF THE PHILIPPINES DIOSDADO AND EVA MACAPAGAL SIGN A PHOTO

85) PS. 8” x 10”. N.d. [1964 to 1967] N.p. [Manila]. A black and white photograph signed “Diosdado Macapagal” and “E. M. Macapagal”. The photo depicts Macapagal and his wife Eva at a dressy diplomatic event with Ambassador to the Philippines William McCormick Blair Jr. and his glamourous wife Deeda. The President penned on the lower margin: “To Bill and Dida [sic] with affection and appreciation for their friendship for Filipinos Diosdado Macapagal E. M. Macapagal”. The image and inscription date to the end of Macapagal’s time as President of the Philippines or shortly afterwards. $500

A BUSINESS LETTER FROM INDIAN AFFAIRS BUREAUCRAT AND AUTHOR THOMAS McKENNEY

86) ALS. 1pg. June 20, 1817. Office of Indian Trade, Georgetown. An autograph letter signed “Tho L McKenney” as Superintendent of Indian Trade. Writing to McKenney requests a change in record-keeping format at a Tennessee factory. “Sir, Your accounts have been received up to 31st March – 1817 - . This is to request the favor of you to vary your method of keeping your produce acct. – and state what the articles are you receive in exchange, what their prices, and what their quantity. This will enable us at the office to detect any errors that may make you at the factory. Without this, it is impossible to do so. Respectfully Tho L McKenney”. Up until 1822, the Federal government controlled trade with Native Americans. McKenney co-authored History of the Indian Tribes of North America. The letter is in good condition, though somewhat wrinkled. There is a hole in the bottom of the page that does not affect the text. $500

WILLIAM AND IDA McKINLEY SIGN A REAL ESTATE DOCUMENT

87) DS. 1pg. 11” x 17”. August 19, 1889. Canton, Ohio. A partly printed document signed “Wm McKinley Jr” and “Ida McKinley”. It is a single page warranty deed form on which the McKinleys have conveyed a lot in Canton to Josephine Colle for $101.00. McKinley was a member of the House of Representatives at the time. The invalid Ida McKinley is one of the scarcer First Lady autographs. There is some soil and considerable fold wear, and there are professional tape repairs to the verso. An uncommon real estate document in that it involves a later Presi- dent. $700

MEXICAN PRESIDENT FRANCISCO MADERO HANDWRITES A QUOTE “LIBERTY IS FRUITFUL ONLY WITHIN THE LAW”

88) AQS. 1pg. 4 ½” x 4”. N.d. N.p. An autograph quotation signed “F Madero” in Spanish. He wrote “Liberty is fruitful only within the law.” The quotation is matted with a portrait to an overall size of 8 ½” x 15 ½” and the condition is very fine. $900 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

A FOUR LANGUAGE SHIP’S PAPER SIGNED BY JAMES MADISON AS PRESIDENT

89) DS. 1pg. 20” x 16”. March 20, 1810. New York. A four language ship’s paper signed “James Madison” as President and “R Smith” as Secretary of State. The document, printed in English, French, Spanish and Dutch, is for the brig Rose In Bloom from New York City. It was commanded by Jedediah Olcott, bound for Santillan, and laden with cotton, segars [sic], logwood and ashes. The large document is in very good condition with the usual folds, an intact seal, and a very large but slightly light James Madison autograph. There is a repaired tear in the upper left corner, and the overall condition is fine. $1,500

JUST BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR, THE FUTURE CONFEDERATE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WRITES A RECOMMENDATION FOR A NAVAL POSITION

90) ALS. 2pg. 8” x 10”. August 23, 1859. Pensacola, Florida. An autograph letter signed “S.R. Mallory” to Isaac Toucey, the Secretary of the Navy: “Having been requested by the friends of Mr. James F. Scott, of Washington to give him a letter to you, to further his application for a clerkship, I take great pleasure in invoking your kindness and consideration in his behalf. He is the son of a former Navy Agent at Washington, (now deceased) is an able and accomplished clerk of much experience, and one in whose welfare, from the interest I feel in his sister Miss Rebecca Scott...I feel much interest. She is a fine woman, and what is more important just now, she is a pious, good Catholic, and whose prayers and intercessions in behalf of Democracy and harmony we ought to secure…”. Mallory opposed secession but being well versed in naval matters and having been Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, he was Jefferson Davis’s choice for Secretary of the Navy. Florida was accorded an important Cabinet post in recognition of its early secession, therefore this Irish Catholic joined the Confederate government and served creditably throughout the Civil War. His correspondent here, Secretary of Navy Toucey, a former Connecticut Gover- nor and Senator, was accused of Southern sympathies. The letter is in fine condition. $600

A MUSTER ROLL FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS GUARDING THE BRITISH “TROOPS OF THE CONVENTION”; THESE WERE THE PRISONERS OF WAR CAPTURED IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA AND MARCHED TO BOSTON

91) (MASSACHUSETTS MUSTER ROLL). DS. 2pg. 15 ½” x 10 ½”. January 1778. N.p. [near Boston]. A “Muster Roll of Capt. Ford Company of Militia, now in Service of the United States for the Purpose of Guarding the Troops of the Con- vention Commanded by Col. Eleazer Brooks Taken to Jany 1778”. The roll of American officers and soldiers lists one captain, three lieutenants, four sergeants, four corporals, two drummers and fifty privates. After the British defeat at Saratoga in the fall of 1777, the British prisoners of war were marched to the Boston area; they were later marched to Richmond, Virginia. It is signed on the back by Captain Ford, Secretary Reed and a Justice of the Peace. Eleazer Brooks was a farmer and an official in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He served as a colonel in the militia and marched on Dorchester Heights. He was later promoted to brigadier general, and he represented Lincoln at the Massachusetts ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1778. The document has the usual aging and wear and dark, legible ink. A most unusual Revolutionary War manuscript. $1,750

IN 1778, A MASSACHUSETTS OFFICIAL ORDERS “SERGANT OF THE GUARD TO THE POWDER MAGAZINE IN WATERTOWN…SEE THAT EACH MAN DO HIS DUTY AS HEREAFTER MENTIONED ...THAT THERE NEVER BE LESS THAN THE MAJOR PART OF THE GUARD PRESENT”

92) (MASSACHUSETTS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION). ADS. 2pg. 13” x 8”. July 3, 1778. Watertown [Massachusetts]. An autograph document signed “Jona Brown” of the Massachusetts Council. Just about on the second anniversary of the Declaration of Independ- ence, Brown ordered Stephen Whitney, Sergeant of the Guard, to protect the powder supply at Watertown: “...You are to take care that the following Rules and Orders be Observed by yourself the guard under your Command…See that each mans Arms accoutrements are good, Clean in good order agreable to the promis in the Inlistment…See that each man do his Duty as hereafter mentioned...that there never be less than the Major Part of the guard present, from Sun Sett till Sun Rise each Night... and your to take care that there be one Centery allways on Duty, or more if need be in the Night time, and to take particular care that they do not leave their post, or Sleep, When on Duty. You are to take care that there be no Damage don to the Powder House or any Buildings belonging to the Same, or to the Fences or other property of the owner of the Lands whereon the Same do Stand. You are to hail any Stranger that comes within the Fence…and in the night time to hail all persons that Come within Said limits, and if they are Strangers Suspected persons you are to secure them till morning and Acquaint me with it…take care that no person approach to enter the powder House by day or night Except the Commissary General or other under his Direc- tion…You are to See that on any alarm that may happen your men be all at the Guard House immediately well equipt. You must take care not Suffer any of the Prisoners of Conventions to come near the Magazine…take particular care that no Gun is fired…within the limits before Described…”. There is normal wear and dark writing. $600

CONFEDERATE OFFICER DABNEY MAURY TO GENERAL MARCUS WRIGHT

93) ALS. 1pg. N.d. N.p. An autograph letter signed “Dabney Maury”. Maury wrote to Confederate General Marcus Wright asking for copies of a southern magazine. “My Dear General Can you let me have the Southern magazines for May 1872 – for November 1872 – for October 1873 -? and the number of the Bivouac containing account of Forrest’s covering the escape of Hood’s Army from Nashville Your friend Dab- ney Maury”. The letter is in fine condition and is inlaid. A printed portrait of Maury accompanies it. $350 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

AN EARLY MEXICAN LETTER IN WHICH A MAN INVITES A PRIEST TO TRAVEL FROM MEXICO CITY TO CHRISTEN HIS GODSON

94) (MEXICO). ALS. 1pg. 6” x 8”. December 5, 1766. Tlayacapan [Mexico]. An autograph letter signed “Nicolás Morquecho” addressed “To our most Reverend Priest Señor and my very dear friend Gerónimo”. Morquecho wrote: “The day has come for you to honor me with your arrival, to do us the favor of christening your godson. My friend Juan Francisco de Ariza has now come from Mexico [Mexico City] and today is the day we have set to baptize our son. I hope that you will fulfill your promise, which you made to me eight days ago. The delay [of the baptism] is due to my friend, who has now arrived. We are waiting now for your arrival, by the time, or before, the sun sets. I will be delighted to find you enjoying the excellent health that my heart desires for you on this day. I offer all that I have, hoping that you will let me know of anything you desire, so that I, with great affection, can best serve you. With this, praying that you will oblige me with this favor, knowing your importance, May you be able (to fulfill your word), December 5, 1766 Your friend and mentor, who kisses your hand and through Christ loves you, Nicolás Morquecho”. The verso states “To our Most Reverend Priest Señor and Beloved Brother, my highly esteemed Godfather Brother Gerónimo”. The paper has a few small, round insect holes and the top margin has darkening. $400

AUTHOR HENRY MILLER WRITES ABOUT FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS: “I WANT VERY MUCH TO BE PUBLISHED IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE”

95) ALS. 1pg. 7” x 12”. April 11, 1954. Big Sur, California. An autograph letter signed “Henry Miller”. Miller wrote to an Argentinian pub- lisher about Spanish-language versions of Miller’s books: “Dear Mr. Dickman Thank you for your good letter. Sorry I do not write Spanish. How about French – est-ce que vous lisez français? All my books are now appearing in Japanese. I have a good literary agent in Paris, whom I asked to get in touch with you – at your old address. – Dr. Michael A. Hoffman 77 Boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris (5) He handles all foreign placements for me now. My last book – ‘The Books in My Life’ (New Directions, N. Y.) ought to appeal to your readers. Have you seen it? What is the situation with regard to getting dollars? I ask because ‘New Directions’ seem to insist on that. However, you might be able to work out another arrangement – francs pesos – with Dr. Hoffman. I want very much to be published in Spanish and Portuguese. Hope you can find a way. The whole South American continent is like a myth rather than a reality. Whose fault is that? Ours, most likely. All good wishes. Henry Miller”. The letter is written on green airmail stationery and is in fine condition. $350

A LETTER FROM FRENCH NOVELIST OCTAVE MIRBEAU

96) ALS. 1pg. 5” x 8”. April 30, 1908. N.p. An autograph letter signed “Octave Mirbeau” in French: “Dear Colleague, I recently ran into one of our common friends. Léon Vacher told me afterwards that you were coming back to Paris. I would like to get some information from you and also have you clarify some things about the article you asked me to do. We agreed that we have to get together and talk about it when you return. So could you take a day to come to see me? I prefer between 2pm and 3pm any day but next Monday when I have to be out of town for the day. Respectfully yours, dear Colleague, Octave Mirbeau”. The letter is in very fine condition with dark, bold ink. $500

ARTIST PETER MORAN SIGNS A CABINET CARD

97) PS. N.d. N.p. A cabinet card signed “Very Truly Yours P Moran” on the lower verso. The image was taken by Philadelphia’s Scheiber & Sons. There is staining on the verso and marks to the borders on the front. RareBookHub.com shows no other Peter Moran signed photographs ever selling. $300

A DOCUMENT CONCERNING ROBERT MORRIS’S WARTIME MANAGEMENT OF THE CONTINENTAL NAVY

98) Document. 2pg. 8 ½ x 14”. 1782. N.p. [presumably Philadelphia]. A document in an unknown hand concerning Robert Morris’s management of the Continental Navy, a post he started in 1781. In 1781, Morris sent his aide, John Brown of Philadelphia, on a fact-finding mission throughout the Middle Atlantic and New England colonies. This is a contemporary copy of Brown’s expenses from that trip. The document is headed “The Honble Robert Morris Esq To John Brown – The following Expenses in a journey to the Eastern States on the business the Navy department…”. The first expenses are in Philadelphia for oats, cleaning pistols and saddles, and then Brown mentions the various locations from his 1781 and 1782 trip. He lists Trenton, Princeton, Morristown, and Fishkill before arriving at Boston on October 9th and eventually in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, site of a major shipbuilding yard. Some of the more interesting expenses include “printing advertisements for Seamen…Advertising Contract in five papers…”. The total expense for Brown’s trip was over 300 pounds. There is some chipping to the right margin, some fold separations, and handwritten mathematical calculations covering the fourth page. $600

CONFEDERATE GENERAL JOHN MOSBY WRITES: JOHN “FLOYD LEFT BUCHANAN'S CABINET ABOUT DEC. 1860. A FEW WEEKS AFTERWARD HE WAS INDICTED HERE BY THE GRAND JURY…THE INDICTMENT WAS DISMISSED”

99) ALS. 1pg. 8” x 10”. January 3, 1911. Washington. An autograph letter signed “Jno S Mos- by” to Lawrence Washington. Mosby, then an United States attorney, wrote about Confederate General John B. Floyd, who was indicted for illegal activity while Secretary of War, but the charges were later dropped. Mosby penned: “Floyd left Buchanan's cabinet about Dec. 1860. A few weeks afterward he was indicted here by the Grand Jury...I want you to look up for me in the National Intelligencer the date of his indictment. He came on to Washington my recollec- tion is that he pleaded that as he had been examined on the subject of the indictment he was im- mune - the indictment was dismissed…”. Mosby went from being idolized in Virginia to being vilified when he became a Republican. The letter is fine condition with light folds. $850

A DOCUMENT RELATING TO THE NEW JERSEY MILITIA IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

100) (NEW JERSEY IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION). DS. 2pg. August 2, 1780. N.p. A document signed “Joseph Cosgrove Lieut” relating to the New Jersey militia during the Ameri- can Revolution. “A return of those warnd to Appear the Second Septem At Coalts [sic] Neck for their monthly Tour of Duty [26 names appear] Duly Warned to Appear the Second Aug 1780 Jo- seph Cosgrove Lieut”. The document is in very good condition. Colts Neck is in Monmouth County. New Jersey Revolutionary War documents are uncommon. $750 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

A PAIR OF RARE NEW YORK LOYALIST DOCUMENTS – ORDERS FOR THE QUEENS COUNTY MILITIA

101) (NEW YORK IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION). A pair of rare New York Loyalists documents. Both are orders for the Queens County Militia, a Loyalist force that fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War. The orders are from Archibald Hamilton, Com- mander of the Queens County Militia and were sent to Major Kissam of the same force. They are: a) ADS. 2pg. May 1, 1778. Innerwick, [Queens County, New York]. An autograph military document signed “Arch Hamilton” as Commander of the Queens County Militia. “Governor Tryon has been pleased to make the following promotions in the Regmt. Of Queens County militia whereof Gabriel G. Ludlow Esqr. is Colonel. John Wooley Junr. Esqr. to be Captain of a Company in the room of Stephen Thorne Esqr. who has leave to resign upon account of his health. Edward Throne gentleman to be first Lieut. Robt. Sutton gent. to be second Lieut. and Joseph Thorne gentleman to be Ensign in said Company. Any Soldier of Queens County … who neglects or refuses his Guard to be fined five pounds for every offense the Capt has to take care that this order is strictly put in execution. For neglect of smaller dutys they are to be fined twenty shilling for every offense, the Cap … to be answerable that this order is complied with. Arch Hamilton Cols Commandr Queen County militia”. William Tryon was a British colonial governor of New York. The document is in fine condition. b) Document. 2pg. June 6, 1778. Innerwick, [Queens County, New York]. A contemporary copy of a military order, with two added autograph lines by Archibald Hamilton, sent to Major Kissam. “Orders for the Militia of Queens County. The Captns and Officers of the Regt. of Queens County Militia are immediately to Meet and Settle the Number of Fascines each Company must make to furnish One Thousand for the use of his Majestys [sic] Works at Brooklyn, they are likewise to furnish one thousand Pickets or Palisades between seven and eight feet long sharpened at one end from four and five to six inches diameter either round or iglit, and two thousand Sod Pins about one foot or fifteen inches long sharpened at one end and about half an inch or three quarters of an inch in diameter. They must be as expedient as possible that His Majestys [sic] Service may not be retarded, the Fascines and Pickets are to be carried and delivered at Brooklyn by the Waggons [sic] of the County Gratis, the Drivers will be Allowed fatigue rum; The reason of this alteration by order of His Excellency Governor Tryon is owing to the working Partys [sic] not having carried Provisions with them tho positively ordered, the Fascines and Pickets are to be cut from Rebel Woods, or from the Woods of those who have been in Rebellion as may be most convenient for dispatch; Colonel Hamilton earnestly recommends it to the Captains and Officers to be very attentive to this duty as he is determined to fine those who are backward or neglectfull [sic] in a most exempla- rily manner, Major Kissam to be answerable that the Companies…Arch Hamilton Colonel Command: Queens County Militia To Major Kissam of the Queens County Militia a copy…”. Hamilton added two autograph lines to the bottom of this document. “The fascines are to be from eight to ten feel long and tied together with three or four others, cut square at one end with four pins to.” Fascines and pickets were both used to create defensive structures. The document is in good condition with some repairs and a large ink stain across the bottom of the verso. $950

HUNDREDS OF COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 1995 NEW YORK CITY GAY PRIDE PARADE

102) (NEW YORK CITY GAY PRIDE PARADE 1995). Archive. 1995. New York City. An archive of approximately 350 4” x 5” color snapshots of the New York City gay pride parade that occurred on June 29, 1995. There are images of banners, floats, participants, rainbow flags, signs and effigies of Mayor Giuliani, President Clinton and Governor Pataki. The photographer is unknown. There are a few extraneous photos of two women at home. The images are stores in ten small silver albums, and the top of each photograph has an attachment to keep it in the album. A fine vernacular archive. $1,000 for the archive

ROSE O’NEILL HANDWRITES AND ILLUSTRATES HER VIKING-THEMED POEM “THE THREE MAGICAL HEARTS”

103) AMS. 1pg. 11” x 8 ½”. N.d. N.p. An autograph illustrated manuscript signed “Rose O’Neill”. It is her original poem “The Three Magical Hearts” and the drawings have a Viking theme. She created this for Christian Birger Matta, presumably a youngster. O’Neill wrote “Three magical hearts of Norge / Came over the world in ships / And brought the night suns of their eyes / The liquid of their lips / They brought their sea souls wildly wise / The Viking dream enclose / And the flowing flame of the northern skied / To redden a western rose / And all the hearts were sea-hearts / Wise as worlds are wide / Enchanted well with olden tales and tunes / And floods of stars that rose along the tide / And fleets of full-rigged moons…”. The manuscript is tanned and slightly fragile; there is archival tape on the verso to reinforce the vertical fold. There is light chipping to the margins, and one near the conclusion of her autograph. A beautiful illustrated letter. $2,000

WRITER JUSTO SIERRA O’REILLY SEEKS SUPPORT DURING THE CASTE WAR OF YUCATAN – “YOU DEFEND SO STRONGLY THE CAUSE OF YUCATAN, MY UNHAPPY COUNTRY”

104) ALS. 1pg. June 11, 1848. Washington City. An autograph letter signed “Justo Sierra” by the Mexican historian and writer. From 1847 to 1848, Sierra O’Reilly traveled to Washington D.C. to ask for help from the American military in the Caste War of Yucatan. He wrote this letter during that time, imploring somebody to help the Yucatan cause: “Gentleman. I am proud of the honor of your personal acquaintance; but you defend so strongly the cause of Yucatan, my unhappy country-, that I am bold enough to write you and request of you the acquaintance of your journal in behalf of that state. Peace is made with Mexico, and therefore great many persons say, or believe that Mexico can help us. It is a cruel mockery, sin, harrowing, an every-body-knows very well the unwilling and the incapacity of Mexico of giving to unfortunate Yucatan any acquaintance, after the events of this war fraught still with so many important bearings. You must, sir, insist on this point and urge for a speedy and efficacious relief. The exitment [sic] of the...in part; the diying [sic] cries of Yucatan ought to be heard by the people up the United States. Excuse me, sir, as my English is very bad; and overall, excuse me for my boldness. I am yours, very respectfully Justo Sierra”. Sierra O’Reilly was ultimately unsuccessful in his quest for American aid. The Caste War of Yucatan, in which the local Maya revolted against Europeans, would last until 1901. The letter is in very good condition. The last line and signature are on a separate page; both sheets are attached together to a larger sheet. $750 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

NEW MEXICO TERRITORY GOVERNOR MIGUEL A. OTERO SIGNS A LARGE PHOTOGRAPH

105) PS. 12” x 15½”. N.d. N.p. An oversized photograph signed “Cordially Yours, Miguel A. Otero”. The black and white image shows Otero, the Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1897 to 1906, sitting in a chair with a book. He signed on the bottom margin. There are substantial chips on the right edge of the border; the image is in good condition overall. I could find no other Otero signed photographs ever selling. $500

SAMUEL OTIS NOTIFIES TOBIAS LEAR, PRESIDENT WASHINGTON’S SECRETARY, OF THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL FOR THE NATION’S FIRST CENSUS

106) LS. 1pg. 8” x 10”. February 10, 1790. New York. A letter signed “Sam A. Otis” addressed to “The Secretary of the President of the United States” Tobias Lear. Otis, the Secretary of the Senate, wrote to Lear, President Washington’s private secretary: “The Bill for ‘the actual renumeration of the inhabitants of the Unit- ed States’ having passed the House of Representatives was sent to the Senate for concurrence and by them ordered to be printed. The enclosed Copies are sent to the President of the United States…”. The first Census Day occurred on August 2, 1790 and the population was just under four million; Federal marshals on horseback were the tabulators. Article One of the Constitution states in part “The actual Enu- meration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.” Congress still had to pass a law to enforce this census and, on March 1, 1790, Congress authorized the bill and the count cost $45,000. The letter is docketed by Lear on the verso with “From Mr. Secy. Otis Feby 10 1790”. There are professional restorations to the verso, the writing is dark, and the condition is very fine. A terrific letter showing the establishment of the nation. $10,000

A PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY PIONEERING AVIATORS WILEY POST AND HAROLD GATTY IN THE YEAR THEY CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE

107) PS. 8” x 5 ½”. 1931. Springfield, Massachusetts. A black and white photograph signed “Wiley Post” and “Harold Gatty”. It shows Post speaking at a microphone on a bunting draped platform. Gatty is shown off to the side along with five others. This was clearly during a celebration marking the successful around-the-world flight on which Post and Gatty shattered the record that had been established by the Graf Zeppe- lin. Their flight, leaving New York a month earlier than the date on this photo and returning on July 1st had made them popular heroes in a time infatuated with such adventures. There are notes in an unidentified hand on the back of this candid photo that provide the date and location. The photograph is slightly trimmed which has cost a portion of the notes, but otherwise it is mostly fine. The aviators are uncommon autographs together. $850

AN ATTRACTIVE PUCCINI HANDWRITTEN LETTER, ASKING TO HELP A LOCAL LANDSCAPE PAINTER

108) ALS. 1pg. 6 ¼” x 9 ¾”. April 16, 1902. Torre Del Lago. An autograph letter signed “Puccini” to Magante. He wrote on “Torre Del Lago” letterhead in Italian: “Dearest Magante, I returned from New York 20 days ago and after some rest and welcome boredom I am finally writing to you. I will send you the 4 works as soon as I reach Milan, that is, at the end of the month. I never received the Indian macca you promised me. Would you also be so kind as to let me know how much I owe you for the pelts/fur you sent me? You can find me at this address: Milan, via Verdi 4. Now I'd need a favor. Mr Paqui, the painter living in Milan who you met him at my place at the Brensa wants to have a little exhibition of his works, landscape impressions. I need your help in recommending him to Diario and your other colleagues so that he can build a good reputation and sell some of his works. I will write to Deke too, so that he recommends him to the Prensa. Greetings from Elvira too. We are fine. Sincerely yours Puccini”. There is some light staining, a central fold and slightly irregular edges. The letter is framed with a translation on the back. $1,250

A RARE MARCUS RENO SIGNED CARTE-DE-VISITE

109) PS. 2 ½” x 4”. N.d. [Civil War date]. N.p. A carte-de-visite of a youthful looking Marcus Reno signed “M.A. Reno Capt 1st Cavy.” on the verso. There is a back stamp of Broadbent & Company in Philadelphia. American Book Prices Cur- rent shows only one Reno signed image ever selling, and that was in 1991 for $5,750. This rare signed image is in very fine condition with light spotting. $3,500

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MENTIONS THE FAMOUS SONG “KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN”

110) ALS. 5” x 4”. 1pg. July 15, 1892. Indianapolis. An autograph letter signed “J W Riley” to Thomas Donaldson: “Your appreciate of my little tribute to the author of ‘Kathleen Mavourneen’ is most gratefully received, and your request for auto- graphic copy of the same – I gladly answer as desired – This being my earliest opportunity as your letter (mistakenly directed) has but just now found me.” In 1837, the English composer Frederick Crouch wrote the song “Kathleen Mavourneen.” The letter, on his imprinted card, has light soiling and is in very good condition. $350 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

FINANCIER DAVID RITTENHOUSE WRITES TO JOHN NICHOLSON ABOUT TAX DODGERS: “I KNOW OF NO BETTER WAY OF PREVENTING THEM FROM CHEATING THAN TO ALLOW INTERST TO THE COUNTY TREASURER”

111) ALS. 1pg. 8 ¼” x 6 ½”. January 20, 1787. N.p. [likely Philadelphia]. A rare autograph letter signed “D. Rittenhouse” addressed to John Nicholson, the business partner of Robert Morris. Rittenhouse was then the Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania: “I think it will be difficult to prevent the Collectors from taking the Dollar Money in Taxes and I know no better way of preventing them from cheating than to allow Interest to the County Treasurer to the first of January 1787 only. I had already recommended this to the Treasurer of Bucks on his application to me on the Subject.” It is addressed to Ni- cholson on the verso, and he docketed it “Letter from David Rittenhouse Esqr Jany 20th 1787”. There is a professional tape repair on the verso to a vertical tape separation and other lesser defects. Rittenhouse ALsS are rare. $2,000

BILL “BOJANGLES” ROBINSON SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

112) PS. 10” x 8”. 1935. N.p. A photograph inscribed and signed “Just a few ‘Taps’ for Fulton King with very best wishes Bill Robinson 1935”. The black and white image shows Robinson in performance. It is in fine condition with slight toning and wear on the edges. $350

A YEAR BEFORE SAILING TO AMERICA TO FIGHT IN THE REVOLUTION, COMTE DE ROCHAMBEAU GIVES MILITARY ORDERS ABOUT PATROLS: “PLACE A NUMBER OF RATHER STRONG POSTS ABLE TO PROVIDE PATROLS COVERING THE VARIOUS EXITS…WHEN OUR TROOPS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY CAVALRY EACH ONE OF THESE STANDSTILL PATROLS SHOULD BE ESCORTED BY TWO HUSSARS”

113) DS. 2pg. 6 ¼” x 8”. August 3, 1779. Paramé [France]. A document signed “Le Cte. de Rochambeau” in French. He issued orders to Bar- on de Morangies, the Comte de St. Alban, respecting patrols: “At the entrance of each village...place a number of rather strong posts able to provide patrols covering the various exits. The officer on watch will then guide some of these patrols to various points…these soldiers must stand still there fully armed...not move, not speak but listening constantly to be relieved every two hours. These small patrols have the advantage not to be easily detected compared to the larger posts which are noticed and found out through campfires...such standing patrols can detect noises of advancing enemy troops better than the so-called moving patrols...in case the enemy advance it is required that such patrols fire while withdrawing slightly. When our troops are accompanied by cavalry each one of these standstill patrols should be escorted by two hussars...”. Within a year, Rochambeau sailed for America where his performance was indispensable. He is the most underrated major figure of the American Revolution. The letter has dark ink, mailing folds and remnants of old tape on the address panel. $1,500

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRAISES THE MERCHANT MARINES AND NEW SHIPS FOR THE WORLD WAR II EFFORT: “THE NECESSITY OF MAINTAINING AN ADEQUATE MERCHANT MARINE…THE ECONOMIC VALUE TO THE NATION OF USING SUCH MERCHANT MARINE FLEET TO HELP EXPAND OUR COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH OTHER NATIONS”

114) TLS. 1pg. September 9, 1944. Washington. A typed letter signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt” as President. Using “The White House Washington” letterhead, Roosevelt wrote to Arthur M. Tode, Honorary President of the Propeller Club of the United States, an organization for maritime professionals. The letter concerns the Merchant Marines, the use of their ships in economic activities, and the Propeller Club’s efforts. “Dear Mr. Tode: The great expenditure of manpower and materials during the past three years in building a large number of vessels as an auxiliary to our Navy and to carry the needed supplies for the United Nations’ war effort should, I believe, have made clear to all Americans the necessity of maintaining an adequate merchant marine for this purpose. There is not, however, such a clear understanding of the economic value to the nation of using such merchant marine fleet to help expand our commercial intercourse with other nations, and to carry our domestic water-borne commerce. The patriotic efforts of the Propeller Club of the United States in striving to educate the public on this point are most commendable. The coming annual American Merchant Marine Conference should furnish the marine industry with an opportunity to formu- late and put into effect plans which will enable the industry to be of far greater service to the nation than ever before. It should do so. Very sincerely yours, Franklin D. Roosevelt”. The letter has been professionally restored to remove a backing and it is encapsulated. It is accompanied by a Harry Tru- man facsimile letter distributed to attendees of the Propellor Club meeting. A fine re- minder of a branch of the military that lost between 8,000 and 12,000 sailors during World War II. $1,750

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WRITES “I TOO HAVE FOR MANY YEARS ACCUMULATED AUTOGRAPHS”

115) ALS. 1pg. 7” x 8”. April 22, 1913. Washington. An autograph letter signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt” on “The Assistant Secretary of the Navy” letterhead. He wrote to George C. Hale of Brooklyn: “My dear Sir: I have a fellow feeling for you, as I too have for many years accumulated autographs. Very truly yours Franklin D. Roosevelt”. This was written when he was in his first Federal job for only a month. This letter is reproduced in Charles Hamilton’s book American Autographs (volume 2, page 533). There are minor mounting remnants on the verso but the blue ink is bright. $1,250 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, RUNNING FOR AN UNPRECEDENTED THIRD TERM, WRITES TO A NEW YORK LAWYER: “I…AM SO GREATLY OCCUPIED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL AND DEFENSE PROBLEMS THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE LITTLE OR NO ACTIVE PART IN THE CAMPAIGN”

116) TLS. 1pg. 6” x 6 ½”. August 3, 1940. The White House. A typed letter signed “Franklin D Roosevelt” on “The White House” letterhead. He wrote to David Hirshfield, a New York lawyer, as Roosevelt is running for his third Presidential term: “Your letter has come to me safely in person and I am very glad indeed to have your generous offer. It is, of course, going to be a difficult campaign with all kinds of cross currents and I am confident that your help will be of great value. As you know, I, myself, am so greatly occupied with the international and defense problems that I will be able to take little or no active part in the campaign. You know Eddie Flynn and I am sure you are a good friend of his. Will you run in and see him as soon as may be convenient. I am telling him to expect you.” Edward J. Flynn was a lawyer and a powerful New York Democratic politician who was close to Franklin Roosevelt. The Roosevelt letter is accompanied by the original “The White House” envelope. The letter is framed in wood that is painted silver, and it is in very fine condition with a faint mailing fold. $1,000

A THEODORE ROOSEVELT SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL PHOTOGRAPH

117) PS. 8” x 11”. July 7, 1903. N.p. [presumably Washington]. A black and white studio portrait signed “with best wishes from Theodore Roosevelt July 7, 1903” on the lower margin. The studio photograph, taken by George Prince, shows the President in a chair with a book on his knee. The writing of the name is slightly faded, but legible. It is matted in gray and framed to an overall size of 13” x 16”. A fine and handsome example. $2,500

WESTERN ARTIST EDWARD BOREIN ILLUSTRATES CHARLES RUSSELL’S TRAILS PLOWED UNDER

118) A first edition Trails Plowed Under, authored by Charles M. Russell, with an original, full page pen and ink sketch by Edward Borein. On the front free endpaper, Borein illustrated a mounted cowboy on a hillside, silhouetted against the sky. The book, printed in 1927 by Doubleday, Page & Company, is bound in red buckram and housed in a brown cloth covered slip case. The inside front cover has a Christmas 1927 inscription to Nancy, and Russell’s wife was named Nancy (it could possibly be inscribed to Mrs. Russell, but I cannot guarantee it). There are five color plates and five half-tone illustrations. A fine illustrated Western art book. $3,500 (photograph left)

DECLARATION SIGNER EDWARD RUTLEDGE LEGAL DOCUMENT COMPLETELY IN HIS HANDWRITING AND TWICE SIGNED BY HIM

119) ADS. 1pg. 12 ¼” x 7 ¼”. February 1774. N.p. [likely South Carolina]. An autograph document signed “Edward Rutledge” two times, once on the front and once on the back. Rutledge penned in part: “And the said Thomas Adam by his attorney aforesaid saith that notwithstanding anything by the said Thomas Farr above alleged he ought not to be precluded from fairly maintaining his action against the said Thomas Farr because he saith that the said replication of him the said Thomas Ad- am…Edward Rutledge”. The document is in good condition with professional repairs to the verso, overall browning to the document and spotting. $1,500 (photograph below)

A LEGAL DOCUMENT ENGROSSED IN THE HAND OF CONTINENTAL ARMY OFFICER ARTHUR ST. CLAIR

120) ADS. 1pg. 13” x 4”. October 18, 1771. Bedford, Pennsyl- vania. An autograph legal document signed “Ar St. Clair”: “George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To the Sheriff of Bedford County, GREETING. We command you, that of the Goods and Chattles, Lands and Tenements of John Mar- tin late of your County yeoman otherwise called John Martin Peddler living in Allen Township in Cumberland County in your Bailiwick, you cause to be levied as well a certain Debt of fifty seven pounds four shillings and three pence which William and Samuel Corey lately in Our County Court of Common Pleas, before Our Justices at Bedford, recovered against him as also sixty five Shillings and nine pence which to the said William and Samuel in Our said Court, were adjudged for their Damages which he had sustained, by Occasion of the Detention of that Debt, whereof the said Jonnie convict, as appears of Record, &c. And have you that Money before Our Justices at Bedford, at Our County Court of Common Pleas, there to be held the fourteenth Day of January next, to render to the said William and Samuel for their Debt and Damages aforesaid. And have you then there this Writ. WITNESS John Fraser Esquire, at Bedford, the eighteenth Day of October in the eleventh Year of Our Reign. Ar St. Clair”. The document is in very good condition with browning. $400

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A 1787 LETTER ABOUT THE AFTERMATH OF SHAYS REBELLION: “I PERCEIVED TWO MEN IN A SLEIGH WHO LOOKED LIKE PRISONERS…IT WAS A BOSTON COMPANY UPON THEIR RETURN HOME… HAD MADE THEMSELVES OBNOXIOUS TO GENL. LINCOLNS PARTY…”

121) (SHAYS REBELLION). ALS. 3pg. 6 ½” x 8 ¼”. February 26, 1787. Cambridge [Massachusetts]. An autograph letter signed “B. Beale” addressed to James Warren, Jr., the son of the statesman and his wife Mercy Otis Warren. Beale was likely a Harvard student, and he wrote about the armed uprising that took place in western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787: “As I was perusing with delight; & with earnest attention meditating the friendly contents of one of those incomparable epistles with which you favoured me the last year. My attention was drawn of by the sound of warlike instruments, I got up to the window & saw a company marching across the common & the scholars running up to them, at first I thought I would not go, but after had - & I perceived two men in a Sleigh who looked like prisoners my curiosity was excited and I joined in the concourse, it was a Boston Company upon their return home they had two men Harvey & Right the first a Representative & the other a justice who had made themselves obnoxious to Genl. Lincolns party of any particulars Respecting their conduct I am not able to inform you. But to return to my subject Feby. was the first of our correspondence and June put a period to that friendly intercourse and effectu- ally deprived me of the pleasure resulting from the communications of one I esteem as a sincere friend & a most valuable correspondent. What have I been about these seven long months past - Did I break up the friendship that before subsisted by any loose unfriendly sentence? My conscience charges me not with this, nor did I suffer any letter to pass unanswered: If I was in fault grievously have I suffered for it, in loosing what before I counted my chiefest pleasure; but you have been relaxed from the painful task of. In Feby. 1786 I opened the way by a letter, you have another in your hands unanswered & now if I again should write will it not seem intruding? in former letters you have told me, no, but you have pleasure in reading what I write, and for the sincerity you profess I must believe by a speedy return confirm it, & beginning where we left of in June let us Reckon it as one might only in which such a period was put to our communion & now awake with fresh vigour to renew the pleasing task if such that can be called which we delight in, Hope that this present will be more durable than that which commenced in - 86. That no great chasm will interrupt the course by crowding in seven long months of silence, but our friendly pens portraying both our hearts, may we in each line as in a mirror read the dictates of a sincere heart sympathizing in the distress and partake of every joy that may be impart- ed; thus beguiling time of half his days and doubling every pleasure. But I trust have said enough & have not overshot the mark on this head, however I may have erred on one side or the other, and to make an apology for this not being to the purpose, would be adding to the fault & lengthening your fatigue in traveling thro this tedious letter. Now after wishing you Health & prosperity in every future undertaking…”. Obvi- ously, a young person's letter; he has referred to seeing captured Shays supporters Moses Harvey and another man arriving as prisoners, they having made themselves “obnoxious to General Lincoln's party...”. James Warren, the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representa- tives, was suspected of being in sympathy with the rebels of 1787. There is little available with any connection to the Shays affair. There is some light wear, short fold breaks and professional repairs to the folds. $350

SAM SNEAD: “MY GOLF HAS BEEN GOOD EXCEPT PUTTING. THAT DEPARTMENT STINKS”

122) ALS. 2pg. 5” x 8”. 1947. South Africa. An autograph letter signed “Sam” to John and Peg Derr of New York City. Snead wrote from South Africa on “Deal’s Central Hotel Co. Ltd.” stationery: “Well we are having a hot time and a fairly good one. Only we don’t stay put long enough to get acquainted. My golf has been good except putting. That department stinks. There are certainly enough black men. Gosh, what a place. Outside of Johannesburg & Cape Town you can give it back to the blacks. I received a terrific sun burn on my arms. However they are O.K. at present. We leave today for Queens Town and then Port Elizabeth, after which we come to Durbin and a few more places before heading back to Joe burg. Then we go to Salsberry. Leaving for the States nite of the 27th of Mon. Do hope to see you on my return. I haven’t run into any of your girl friends. You must have been true. I’ll say so long for now. Please give Reg my love. Your friend Sam”. The letter has mailing folds and is in fine condition. The mailing envelope is included. $325

A GEORGE WASHINGTON BIOGRAPHER JARED SPARKS SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

123) Signed CDV. March 1862. N.p. A carte-de-visite signed “J. Sparks March, 1862” on the lower margin. There is no backstamp and the photograph is in very fine condition. I could locate no auction records for another Sparks signed photograph. $350

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN AUTHOR HARRIET BEECHER STOWE SIGNED CABINET CARD

124) PS. 4 ¼” x 6 ½”. N.d. N.p. A cabinet card signed “Harriet Beecher Stowe” on the lower margin. The card has a backstamp by Hastings. It is in good condition with professionally repaired corners (as seen on the verso), and a significant crease that goes through the image and autograph. $500

CONGRESSMAN ALEXANDER H. H. STUART DISLIKES PRESIDENT TYLER AND ADMIRES HENRY CLAY IN A LETTER ABOUT WHIG POLITICS

125) ALS. 7pg. August 28 [1841]. Washington. An autograph letter signed “A. H. H. S.” and “A. H. H. Stuart” as a Congressman. Stuart wrote to Staunton, Virginia newspaper published Kenton Harper (1801 -1867), discussing national politics and the Whig party at length. He particularly mentions his great esteem for prominent Whig and Senator from Kentucky Henry Clay. By contrast, Stuart clearly did not have a high opinion of President John Tyler. “Dear Harper I received your very welcome letter on yesterday, & I now hasten to reply to it. So far as the Bank is concerned our prospects continue gloomy, but in all other respects they are bright & flattering. The Bank bill will be certainly vetoed, & the cabinet will go out, & a new one come in. I am also of the opinion that your conjectures as to the ulterior views of the president are too well founded. The Whig party however is like an arch, the heavier the pressure, the firmer are they knit together. The land bill will be passed & become the law of the land. Our House will refuse to concur with the amendment of the Senate making the distribution upon the basis of representa- tion in the two houses, instead of the House only, & the Senate will recede from their ground. I saw the Spectator this morning in the possession of Mr. Moorehead, to whom it had been sent by Mr Calhoun. Mr. Clay mentioned your editorial to me with evident satisfaction & said that it was the best written article which he had seen. He spoke with enthusiasm of your figure that ‘The President had fired on the flag of truce’ I said he regarded it as one of the finest things he had ever seen. Oh! He is a glorious fellow! I wish you could have seen him during this session, like a noble bull tossing his assailants on his horns almost without an effort! Such as he has stood heretofore his reputation as a patriot & a man of talent is fifty per cent higher now than at any previous period. I hope we shall be able to adjourn about this day week, but it is by no means certain that we can do so. Our House can clear its table in two days & the only danger of delay is in the Senate…With best respects to Mr. H. & Mr. Calhoun I remain your friend A.H.H.S.”. Stuart also free franked the back of the letter. The letter is in very good condition with some wear and a small loss to the left margin of the last page. $750 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

THE RARE AUTOGRAPH OF PAINTER GILBERT STUART

126) DS. 1pg. 7 ½” x 1 ¾”. April 3, 1797. N.p. [likely Philadelphia]. A document signed “G Stuart” that states: “Rec'd April 3 1797 of Joseph Anthony Co. One Hundred dollars…”. This manuscript was cut from the firm's receipt book. Joseph Anthony was Stuart's uncle, but the payment is probably for a portrait of his cousin, Joseph Anthony, Jr., a noted silversmith. Stuart’s signature is of great rarity, with only a few examples appearing at auction in the past several decades. $4,000

PRESIDENT TAFT IMPLORES THE SENATE TO RATIFY TREATIES WITH FRANCE AND ENGLAND

127) TDS. 1pg. February 20, 1912. The White House. A typed statement signed “Wm H Taft” as President. On “The White House” stationery, Taft wrote the following statement to the Senate, with the intent to convince Senators to ratify arbitration treaties with France and England. “I consider that the ratification of the pending arbitration treaties with England and France by the Senate of the United States will complete the greatest step that has been taken within the last fifty years toward the securing of the settlement of all international controversies by arbitral methods. Any progress toward the abolition of war and the upholding of civilized, peaceful and Christian treatment of the issues that arise between the countries of the world should be welcomed by all friends of mankind. Wm H Taft”. Having been left out of the negotiation process, the Senate did not ratify the treaties. The document is in fine condition. $1,750

FUTURE CHIEF JUSTICE ROGER B. TANEY SEEKS A DEBT OWNED TO HIS CLIENT IN AN AUTOGRAPH LEGAL DOCUMENT SIGNED

128) ADS. 1pg. N.d. [c. 1804] N.p. [Frederick County, Maryland]. An autograph legal document twice signed “R. B. Taney”. The legal document pertains to a debt owed by a Henry Leatherman to one of Taney’s clients in the private Maryland law practice he ran early in his career: “Frederick County to wit Henry Leatherman late of Frederick County yeoman was attached to answer unto George Schnertyell in a plea of Trespass on the case and so forth and where upon the said George by Roger Brooke Taney his attorney complains that whereas on the twenti- eth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and three and Frederick County aforesaid the said Henry was indebted unto the said George in the sum of fifty four pounds eight shillings and five pence current money for sundry matters and articles properly changeable in account as by a particular account thereof herewith into court exhibited may appear and bring so thereof indebted the said Henry in consideration thereof afterwards that is to say on the same day and year aforesaid at the county aforesaid upon himself assumed and to the said George then and there faithfully promised to pay him the said sum of current money where afterwards he should be thereunto required – never thereas the said Henry tho after thereunto required afterwards that is to say on the same day and year aforesaid and often afterwards at the country aforesaid, hath not yet paid to the said George the said sum of current money or any part thereof but to pay the same on any part thereof to the said George he the said Henry hath hitherto wholly required and still doth refuse. To the damage of the said George in the sum of one hundred pounds current money and therefore he brings suit and so forth. R. B. Taney”. There is an additional autograph on the verso. The document is in fine condition with folds and dark ink. $500

ZACHARY TAYLOR, THE LAST PRESIDENT TO OWN SLAVES WHILE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, SIGNS A MILITARY RECEIPT AND MENTIONS TWO OF HIS LONG-TIME SLAVES, CHARLES PORTER AND TOM

129) DS. 1pg. 15 ½” x 9 ½”. October 31, 1831. N.p. A partly printed requisition document signed “Z. Taylor Lt Col” in the lower right corner. The document shows that Colonel Taylor was owed $337.40 for two months of pay, clothing and food. In the lower left corner is a mention of his two “servants” as the document labels them. They were Charles Porter and Tom, both of black complexion. In 1829, Zachary’s father Richard died and left his son two slaves, Charles Porter and Tom. These two men remained with Taylor for the next twenty years, including going to Mexico during Taylor’s military service. It is believed that they went to the Execu- tive Mansion with Taylor. Porter’s 1849 obituary ap- peared in The Alexandria Gazette, and labeled him as the “faithful body servant of the President.” A search of RareBookHub shows no Taylor documents mentioning his two slaves ever selling. The document has been professionally restored and encapsulated. $4,000

THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS LOOKS FOR SOUTH CAROLINA’S SUPPORT AGAINST MEXICAN INVASION

130) ALS. 1pg. June 3, 1842. Charleston, South Carolina. A letter relating to the Republic of Texas. Sent to a P. D. Tone Esq of Charleston, the letter asks Tone to appear at a meeting of an organization called the Friends of Texas and make a speech that will convince Carolinians to help Texas against Mexico: “Sir You are requested to attend a meeting of the friends of Texas, called for the 7th inst at Jame’s at 8. O.’C. In further- ance of the Call, of that meeting, you are hereby particularly requested to make an address on that evening for the purpose of arousing the dormant generosity of Carolina, that she may be induced to come forwards & aid the suffering cause of a thankfull [sic] people & not allow the radiant lone star of Texas to be swept from the firmament, without fielding her some aid, in this her time of need. By so doing, you will confer a great favor on a…nation, as well as on Your Obt St. John Wilson…”. Although Texas claimed independence from Mexico in 1836, Mexico tried to reclaim the territory. It was probably in response to a March 5, 1842 Mexican invasion of the Republic of Texas that Tone was asked to plea for aid. It is in very good condition, with an insubstantial chip in the left edge. $650

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A RARE HARRY TRUMAN HANDWRITTEN LETTER AS PRESIDENT TO THE BLIND MARINE MAJOR GENERAL MELVIN MAAS: “CONGRATULATIONS ON RECEIVING THE MEDAL. YOU DESERVE IT”

131) ALS. 1pg. 6 ¼” x 9 ¼”. February 12, 1952. Washington. A rare Presidential autograph letter signed “H.S.T.” on White House stationery. The Commander In Chief wrote to Maas when he was given his Commander In Chief award: “Memo to Col. Melvin Maas: Congratulations on receiving the Medal. You deserve it. Wish I could be present. I am sorry I can’t come. Best of luck to you H.S.T.”. The letter has two mailing folds and is in very fine condition. At the time of this missive, Maas was blind, but still gave important service to his President. The 1952 Truman letter is accompanied by the original envelope in Truman’s hand addressed to “Col. Melvin Maas”. $1,750

NEWLY INAUGURATED PRESIDENT TRUMAN APPOINTS AN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT TO ARGENTINA

132) DS. 1pg. 23” x 19”. May 8, 1945. Washington. A large commission signed “Harry S Tru- man” as President . The new President appointed the long-time diplomat Spruille Braden to be the American ambassador to Argentina, a post that lasted a mere four months since he opposed Juan Peron’s presidency. The document has folds and is in very fine condition otherwise with a dark signature (bisected by a fold) and a large seal. $950

THE TRUMANS SIGN WHITE HOUSE CARDS

133) Signed White House card. N.d. N.p. Three White House cards signed “Harry S Truman”, “Bess W. Truman” and daughter “Margaret Truman”. The Bess has light waterstaining to the left margin and the Margaret has light smudging toward the right side. They are on thick stock and in fine condition overall. $550 for the trio

PHILIP VAN CORTLANDT, WRITING FROM FORT TICONDEROGA IN JULY 1776, FORWARDS A LETTER TO HORATIO GATES AND MENTIONS A LACK OF SUPPLIES

134) ALS. 1pg. July 23, 1776. Ticonderoga, New York. An autograph letter signed “Philip Cortlandt L Col” and early Revolutionary War dated. Only nineteen days after the United States had declared its independence from Great Britain, Van Cortlandt forwards a letter concerning the need for supplies. “I herewith send you a copy of a letter from Ph. V. Rensselaer Esqr to Major General Gates the purpose of which you will please to observe. As the articles therein mentioned are much wanting and I know not anything of their being sent to this place as Capt. Dow informs me he knows nothing about them and must inform you it is the Generals Express Orders that they be forwarded which you will please to do immediately. Your Hum. Sert. Philip Cortlandt L Col”. Fort Ticonderoga was taken by Ethan Allen and the Green Moun- tain Boys in May 1775, and the captured cannons were used in the Siege of Boston. The fort remained in patriot hands until June 1777, when British General John Bur- goyne threatened it and the Continental Army withdrew. Van Cortlandt mentions Continental Army storekeeper Philip Kiliaen van Rensselaer and Continental Army General Horatio Gates. There is some toning and corner chipping, and the condition is very good. $2,500

NEWLY-CONFIRMED SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WILLIS VAN DEVANTER ORDERS JUDICIAL ROBES

135) TLS. 1pg. December 20, 1910. Cheyenne, Wyoming. A typed letter signed “Willis Van Devanter”. Just having being appointed to the Supreme Court, Van Devanter wrote to Supreme Court Clerk James H. McKenney, asking McKenney to order his new robes: “My dear Mr. McKenney: If it conveniently can be done, I will appreciate it if one of the gentlemen in your office will procure an appropriate gown for me. My height is 5 feet 9 ½ inches. My weight is 178 pounds, and I am otherwise of usual proportions. When I became Circuit Judge a seamstress in Washington, who had made gowns for some of the Justices and Circuit Judges, made one for me, but it is worn too much to permit of further use. I will be glad to have the new one made of good material, and am writing on the supposition that I must pay for my own gown, which will be done promptly upon reaching Washington. I contemplate being there in time to enter upon my new duties January third...”. The letter is in very good condition with a stain and a “Received” stamp. $500

A RECEIPT “FOR TEN TONS OF HAY WHICH IS TO BE DELIVERED AT THE STABLE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AS IT MAY BE WANTED”

136) (GEORGE WASHINGTON). DS. 1pg. 7 ¼” x 9”. October 10, 1792. N.p. [Philadelphia]. A document signed “William Crouch” attesting the he delivered hay for President Washington’s horses. The document states “Received October 10 1792 of Tobias Lear Sixty pounds in full for ten tons of Hay which is to be delivered at the Stable of the Presi- dent of the U.S. as it may be wanted, said T. Lear giving the Subscriber two or three days notice previous to his delivering each load or loads as may be requested – and the weighing of the said Hay to be Settled by T. Lear after the same shall have been delivered. William Crouch”. The manuscript lists the actual dates and amounts of hay delivered to President Washington, and the verso lists the revised amounts paid and notes this is receipt 336. Tobias Lear served as Washington’s private secretary from 1785 until his death. William Crouch was a Philadelphia-area farmer who supplied straw and hay to President Washington for his horses. The document has filing folds and some dark spots, including one horizontal line. $2,000 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

AN AMERICAN EXPRESS STOCK CERTIFICATE SIGNED BY WELLS AND FARGO

137) Signed stock certificate. 1pg. 12” x 8”. April 18, 1863. New York. An American Express Company stock certificate signed “Henry Wells” as President, “Wm G Fargo” as Secretary and “Alex Holland” as Treasurer. It certified that James Manning of Syracuse owned three shares. On the verso, Manning has assigned his shares to Holland the following year. A manuscript cancellation touches the signatures of Far- go and Holland and there is some light dampstaining; otherwise fine. $950

ARTIST BENJAMIN WEST WRITES ABOUT THE DEATHS OF CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS AND REFUSES OTHER FAMILY FINANCIAL AID: “THERE IS NO ONE ON EARTH THAT LOVES THEIR RELATIONS BETTER THAN MYSELF BUT IT IS HIGH TIMES FOR ME NOW TO KNOW THAT SELF PRESERVATION IS THE FIRST LAW OF NATURE…I AM IN A DELICATE STATE OF HEALTH”

138) ALS. 3pg. 8” x 12 ½”. September 17, 1818. Newhouse. A lengthy autograph letter signed “B West” to Mrs. Babcock of London; this is most likely Martha Babcock, granddaughter of the American painter John Singleton Copley who lived the last decades of his life in London. The artist wrote: “…I am happy to find that you are arrived safe and I trust in good health. It is with great regret that I am under the painful necessity of telling you that poor Betsy and John are removed from this miserable world, the former departed this transitory life in Novbr 1817 the latter in March 1818 after three days illness in consequence of breaking a blood vessel. Poor Betsy was worn to a skeleton they both left this world with full assurance of being in a more happy state tis impossible for me to describe what I have had to undergo dear Mrs. West is inconsolable and in a very dangerous state of health – she has taken a small cottage 30 miles from this place and sees no person except Lady Pole and myself. We visit her occasionally…and that part of the House is shut up as he breathed his last in that room in her Arms. His dear remains are under our Pew in Colyton Church. I can say no more at present as it brings to mind the most melancholy scene that ever was witnessed you shall know particulars in a future letter. I hope my dear Harriet will summon all her fortitude at the unfortunate event it is a debt we must all pay. I am well assured that they are in a much happier state as they has said and hope in a blessed Redeemer. After this tale of woe I am not very equal to the task of writing on business but I know it is necessary to answer your Letter relative to the American business. In the first place I must tell you that I have received Mr. Thomas’s letter wherein he desires me in positive terms to come to yours immediately… can you suppose for a moment that I should post off to Town to meet a person that I do not know or ever heard of, I thought you knew me better. I shall not think of meeting or corresponding with any Person or the subject till I am well assured that the property can be sold and to be ascertained to me with precision what the value is and who is to be the purchaser and how the money is to be paid as I do not mish my name on any…Books therefore in future I hope I shall not receive any more letters on the subject ‘till I am fully satisfied. I am in hourly expectation of seeing an eminent lawyer from London a friend of L.P. I shall consult him and show him all my documents you know my dear Harriet that my father did not mention you in his will but left his property to his three unmarried daughters therefore what you claim was a free gift from us. My expenses have been very great paying…Betsy postage of Letter attorney bill for making out Power, that were never intended that it is not in my Power to pay anything in future or can I ask my friends to assist me to pay for Letters…I have a great horror of Lodgings and nothing but dire necessity would make me enter one particularly of low order therefore…There is no one on Earth that loves their relations better than myself but it is high times for me now to know that self preservation is the first law of nature…I am in a delicate state of health…”. The letter has mailing folds, dark ink and short fold separations; the condition is very fine. $1,500

CONFEDERATE GENERAL “FIGHTING JOE” WHEELER WRITES TO HIS CHILDREN FROM MEXICO

139) ALS. 2pg. February 11, 1905. City of Mexico. An autograph letter signed “Joseph Wheeler”. Wheeler wrote to his children on letterhead of The American Club in Mexico City. The missive primarily concerns money. “My darlings Rudies letter of Feb 3rd but Postmarked Feb 2nd has only just come since writing the above I find it reach the city Feb 7th at 3 P.M. I think it went to the Consulate as it was badly directed. Letters addressed to the American Club come promptly. I enclose a check for $100 & will send more. I don’t know how my account is in New York but I will fix it as I have more than a thousand dollars due in my pay & will send you another check. McClean now says we will leave Tuesday but I fear it will be later in the week. Have been at work with a great lawyer this morning about arranging to get a concession from the Government. With all my love Your devoted father Joseph Wheeler…”. It is in fine condition with mailing folds. $350

CONFEDERATE GENERAL WILLIAM H. C. WHITING WARNS GENERAL BRAXTON BRAGG ABOUT WEAKNESSES AT WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA A YEAR AHEAD OF THE UNION’S VICTORY THERE: “I BEG LEAVE TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE NECESSITY OF PROVIDING FOR THIS POST A SUFFICIENT GARRISON TO INSURE IT AGAINST SURPRISE”

140) ALS. 1pg. February 28, 1864. Wilmington, North Carolina. An autograph letter signed “W. H. C. Whiting”. During the American Civil War, Whiting wrote to Confederate General Braxton Bragg concerning the need for additional support for the garrison at Wilmington: “General, I beg leave to call your attention to the necessity of providing for this post a sufficient garrison to insure it against surprise. This necessity always exists & that it may be fully considered, permit me to lay before you this in these letters on the subject addressed to the Adjt Inspector General of the army – memoirs, maps & correspondence with the war dept will serve for a full under-standing of the character of this portion, its importance, the means of defense & their application. Upon these letters Kemper’s brigade was assigned to me, but the New Bern expedition being ordered of which that formed part. Since then I am not aware that it is at my disposal. My great need is to have such an addition to the permanent garrison as to enable me to prevent the [guns] at the mouth of the river from being turned or surprised. I cannot do this as things now are. Very Respt W.H.C. Whiting Maj Genl”. In late 1864, it was obvious that the Union would attack Fort Fisher, the massive earthwork fort that protected Wilmington, the last open Confederate port. Bragg was sent from Richmond with troops to protect the fort, but assigned too few defenders. The first Union assault in December failed, but they captured the stronghold in January 1865. Despite Whiting’s February 1864 warning here, the underdefended Wilmington fell to the Union about a year later. Whiting was wounded, captured in the process and died as a POW at Fort Columbus, New York. The letter is in fine condition. $2,200

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PENNSYLVANIA CLERGYMAN WILLIAM WHITE THANKS ELBRIDGE GERRY ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA; GERRY DOCKETS IT ON THE VERSO

141) ALS. 1pg. December 10, 1813. Philadelphia. An autograph letter signed “Wm. White”. On behalf of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, White wrote to Founding Father Elbridge Gerry, thanking him for donating a book to the university. “Sir, At a late Meeting of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania there was laid before them the letter which you did them the Honour to address to them, and accompanying a late Work on Physiology by Richard Saumarez Esq of London. The official President of that Board, is the Gouvernor of the Common- wealth; whose distant Residence presents his Attention to the Concerns of the Institution. In Consequence of this, the Trustees instructed me, being Chairman of the Meeting, to express their Thanks for the valuable Present; & for your polite Attention, Sir, in the Transmission of it. I am, Sir, with great Respect, Your very humble Servant, Wm. White”. Richard Saumarez was a British surgeon. A docket in Elbridge Gerry’s handwriting is affixed to the verso; it was done on a separate slip of paper and glued to the White letter. The letter is in very good condition with toning throughout and remnants of an adhesive on the uneven right edge of the verso. $400

POET JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER WRITES OUT LINES FROM “THE RED RIVER VOYAGEUR”

142) AQS. 2pg. N.d. Oak Knoll, Massachusetts. An autograph quotation signed “John G. Whittier”. Whitter wrote out a few lines from his poem “The Red River Voyageur” and apologizes for not writing out the rest of it due to an illness. “‘The bells of a Roman Mission, which call from their turrets twain To the boatman on the river To the hunter in the plain’…Dear friend I am ill and unable to copy the entire poem of which thy letter speaks. Thanking thee for thy very kind letter…John G. Whittier”. It is in very good condition with mailing folds. $400

A CONNECTICUT LEGAL DOCUMENT SIGNED BY THREE STATE NOTABLES, DECLARATION SIGNER WILLIAM WILLIAMS, JONATHAN TRUMBULL JR. AND JOSEPH TRUMBULL

143) ADS. 2pg. 12” x 7 ½”. June 25, 1762. Lebanon, Connecticut. A partly printed document signed “Wm Williams”, “Jona Trumble Jr” and “Jos Trumble”. Williams completely handwrote the portion above his name: “Windham County To wit Lebanon 25th June 1762 Then Mr. Jedediah Strong, the Grantor of the Foregoing Deed, personally appearing Acknowledged the Same to be his Free Act & Deed Wm Williams Justo”; Williams was a Justice of the Peace. The deed is witnessed by Joseph Trumbull and Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., as well as Jedediah Strong. The deed is for property in Lebanon being conveyed by Jedediah Strong to the later Governor Jonathan “Trumble.” That was “Brother Jona- than’s” name until he changed it for his entire family to “Trumbull” in 1766; the original spelling is unusual. The deed has a description of the property being transferred. It has a red wax seal by the Strong autograph and professional repairs to the central fold. $950

WOODROW WILSON HANDWRITES A BIBLICAL QUOTE…AND THEN EXPOUNDS UPON IT

144) AQS. 1pg. 5 ½” x 8 ½”. 1911. N.p. [presumably New Jersey]. An autograph quotation signed “Woodrow Wilson” when he was Governor of New Jersey. Expanding upon the famous quote from the Book of Matthew, Wilson penned: “No man can serve two masters and he will try to serve two if, in any case, he seeks to serve himself.” Wilson was a deeply religious man who read the Bible every day and frequently attended church. The manuscript is in near mint condition. $2,000

145) TLS. 1pg. 6” x 8”. October 26, 1910. Princeton. A typed letter signed “Woodrow Wilson” to John McCarthy of Chicago. Writing on “President’s Room” letterhead, Wilson stated: “On returning from a speaking tour I find your interesting and important letter of October 22nd. I wish most unaffectedly that I could comply with the request it contains, but unhappily it is literally impossible for me to come to Chi- cago before Election Day, or even to write such a letter as I would be willing to have read. I have time only to send my very warm greetings and to express my great regret that I cannot lend my small aid to the thing you are trying to accomplish.” Wilson was then running for Governor of New Jersey. The letter has toning from a previous framing and a horizontal tape remnant to the top margin. $400

A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF 1932 OLYMPIC CHAMPION AND LPGA STAR BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS

146) PS. 6 ¼” x 9 ¼”. N.d. N.p. A photograph signed “Best Wishes ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias”. The black and white image, which was cut from a magazine, shows Zaharias holding a large trophy. It is in good condition, with several visible folds. Since it was removed from a magazine, the edges are uneven. $650

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FIRST LADY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WRITES ABOUT RELIEF EFFORTS FOR THE GREEK FAMINE DURING WORLD WAR II

147) TLS. 1pg. January 6, 1944. The White House. A typed letter signed “Eleanor Roosevelt” as First Lady, dated during World War II. On “The White House” letterhead, Roosevelt wrote to about the problem of providing relief to Greeks who were starving due to a war-related famine. “Dear Mrs. Butler: I have your letter and a copy of Senate Resolution 100. Such a resolution would have no value. Everyone would like to be able to feed the people of Europe. The State De- partment and Governor Lehman’s committee are doing everything they can. The pattern for Greece cannot be followed because Greece has nothing the Germans could take out. The difficulties of transportation add greatly to the problem. It is heartbreking [sic] to think of starving children and I know every effort is being made to work out some plan which will not prolong the war. Very sincerely yours, Eleanor Roosevelt”. Lehman refers to former Governor of New York Herbert Leh- man, who was working with the State Department and United Nations on such relief efforts. The letter is in very good condition with some folds. $850

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AT THE HEIGHT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, WRITER JAMES BALDWIN RESPONDS TO A POWERFUL LETTER OF PRAISE

148) TLS. 1pg. February 1, 1963. N.p. A brief typed letter signed “James Baldwin” written in reply to a powerful letter in praise of Baldwin’s writing at the height of the civil rights movement. “Dear Mr. Hughes, Thanks for such a kind and warm letter. It is always a pleasure to hear from good people. Gods Speed. Sincerely, James Baldwin”. The letter to which Baldwin was responding is also included. Dated January 5, 1963 in New York City, it reads: “Dear Mr. Baldwin: We are not black, we are not white, we are human. Your love and my love are one, I can not but love you. Thank you for what is the most profound – tragic and beautiful – commentary on the American tragedy that has ever been read by these eyes. Why so? Because we, you and I and untold millions, are there, here, now, right in the middle of that drama, and the climax of our drama will soon unfold, for better or for worse, as you well know. Some weeks ago the unforgetable [sic] – I repeat, unforgetable [sic] – spectacle of the German concentration camps was again presented to me. My only sad reply was that on this very night a Southern church had been set ablaze with two dozen children in it. One can not but feel remorse for the whole human lot whose fatality seems to be cruelty even beyond immediate technical means. Yes, Mr. Baldwin, the American dream – and life – must be re-examined, must be re-evaluated, in short, must become mature. But how? Is your voice alone in the wilderness? Is love to be denied? Are hearts, bigger than the American dream itself, to burst with fatigue? Ours is a task burdened with both human frailty and misunderstanding: How are we to accomplish on a human, national, international scale, a communion, a love, that transcends color, creeds, national boundaries, and all the baggage that constitutes sad history? Is our task impossible? Your last lines are encouraging. Let’s go – I can but badly quote you: that from what I know of you I can trust you even with my life which I can’t value except in the terms in which friends value it. Thaks [sic] again for you and for the thoughts that should and must set our country ablaze…Sincerely Francis J. Hughes”. Hughes may have been responding to Baldwin’s November 17, 1962 The New Yorker contribution “Letter from a Region in My Mind” on the subjects of racism and religion. Both letters are in fine condition; the Baldwin letter has two mailing folds and a couple stray stains. $850

LINDBERGH PRAISES THE SPEED OF AIR DELIVERY: “I BELIEVE THAT IT IS OF DEFINITE ADVANTAGE TO THE AIRLINES WHENEVER THEY CAN RENDER A SERVICE OF THIS KIND, WHICH IS APPARENTLY NOT POSSIBLE IN ANY OTHER WAY”

149) ALS. 2pg. 5 ¾” x 7 ½”. November 27, 1932. New York. An autograph letter signed “C.A. Lindbergh” to C. P. Ryman of Eastern Air Transport. The famous aviator penned: “I want to thank you for the cooperation Dr. Wychoff has received from Eastern Air Transport in getting his specimens up from Miami. He tells me that they arrive in excellent condition. I believe that it is of definite advantage to the airlines whenever they can render a service of this kind, which is apparently not possible in any other way. I understand that the research Dr. Wychoff is carrying on necessitates that his material arrive in considerably less time than the train takes from Miami.” It is written on two separate sheets; there is light toning and it is accompanied by the original envelope in Lindbergh’s handwriting. $1,500

LINCOLN’S SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY SALMON CHASE WRITES TO SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN STANTON ABOUT “THE TRANSPORTATION OF GOVERNMENT STORES ON UNSEAWORTHY BOATS”

150) LS. 1pg. 8” x 10”. Treasury Department. April 2, 1864. A letter signed “S.P. Chase” as Secretary of the Treasury to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Chase communicated on “Treasury Department” letterhead: “I transmit herewith, for such action as you think proper, copy of a letter of the Surveyor at Louisville and of accompanying report of Agency Aid Smith, relative to the transportation of Government stores on unseaworthy boats.”. The letter is inlaid and is in very fine condition. $600

CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY PLACES AN ORDER FOR LUMBER

151) ALS. 1pg. 7 ½” x 9 ¾”. April 23, 1821. Pinckney Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. An autograph letter signed “Charles Cotesworth Pinckney”. Writing to Mr. Petit De Villiers in Savannah, Pinckney placed an order for lumber. “Dear Sr: I will thank you to send me by the first good opportunity to the old place landing, 3000 feet of inch pine boards 6 flank of white oak, 2 inches thick [missing] inches, 6 Boards of white oak, 12 Inches wide, & three quarters of an Inch thick. And let me know how [missing] account stands. Have you obtained a Bill of Mr. Benj. Stead as you told my nephew Col. Pinckney you would endeavor to do? I remain with great regard & esteem. Your most obedt sert. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney”. The letter is in very good condition, with dark writing, even browning, an attached address panel and losses to the text on the right edge. $750

ANDREW JACKSON SIGNS AN UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE DIPLOMA, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER PROMINENT TENNESSEANS

152) DS. 1pg. 22” x 17”. October 5, 1842. Nashville. A large vellum diploma for the University of Nashville. The document was signed by several “curatores”, such as “Andrew Jackson” as former President, John Bell, Phil- ip Lindsley, James C. Jones, G.W. Campbell and R.J. Meigs. The diploma was for “Johannem Sean”. Lindsley was the President of the University of Nashville; John Bell was a Senator, Secretary of War and 1860 Presidential candidate; James C Jones was then Governor of Tennessee; G.W. Campbell was both a Senator and Secretary of the Treasury; Ephraim H. Foster was a Senator; and R. J. Meigs III was a Tennessee jurist. Princetonian Philip Lindsley came to Nashville to assume the Presidency of Cumberland College (soon chartered as the University of Nashville) in 1824 and, during a more than quarter-century tenure, built the school into the pre-eminent mid-South educational institution. Jackson strongly supported the school and solicited funds for it from others. Its prestige can be surmised in this document from the joining of political rivals; for example, Bell, originally a Democrat and later a Whig, was normally at odds with Democrat Jackson, while Jones was also a Whig who defeated Jackson's favorite James K. Polk for Governor. After the Civil War the university lost ground to newer competitors and, late in the Nineteenth Century, it split into three ongoing separate institutions. The vellum has a dark Jackson autograph, some edge wear to the vellum but is in fine condition, and two long white silk ribbons attaching a seal. A most unusual Jackson signed document. $2,000 www.HistoryDocs.com Toll Free Phone 1 (877) 428-9362

A VERY EARLY COLONIAL DOCUMENT FROM BOSTON – A YOUNG MAN IS FINED FOR LYING TO AVOID PUNISHMENT

153) (BOSTON – COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS). ADS. 1pg. 7” x 4”. 1654. N.p. [Boston]. An autograph document signed “Jonath: Hayne Clerk”. The document states: “Att a meeting ye Sixteenth Day of ye eleventh month 1654 Captain Keayne, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Stoddard being prsent Henry Messen- ger was fined ten shillings for affirming that he had corected his sonn John for playing in ye meeting house which appears to be a lye, to prvent the Commission- ers of laying any punishment upon him, ye boy himself said he was corected by his mother...”. It is marked at the conclusion “This is a true copy of the record”. The Town Commissioners were chosen to adjudicate minor offenses; the first named is probably Robert Keayne, an English militia officer and early Boston official. Na- thaniel Duncan, Richard Parker, and Anthony Stoddard are all listed as Commis- sioners. “Sonn John” was born in 1641; his younger brother Henry Messenger, Jr. became a joiner and a chairmaker of note. The practice of seating boys together during religious services might have contributed to, John's problem. An interesting example of colonial punishment during Boston's third decade. Mostly fine with paper tape repair to a fold separation on the verso and minor discoloration in a blank area. Pre-1670 American documents are scarce. $1,500

DECLARATION SIGNER CHARLES CARROLL SIGNS A PROMISSORY NOTE

154) DS. 1pg. 7 ¼” x 2 ¼”. March 21, 1758. N.p. [likely Maryland]. A document signed “Charles Carroll Jur”. It is at the conclusion of a promissory note: “I promise to be accountable to Mr. William Roberto of Annapolis for Nine Lottery Tickets Received from John Ormsby…”. The document is in good condition with a chip to the top margin that affects one word and a mounting strip to the top of the verso. $500

DURING THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, MASSACHUSETTS LISTS MEN WHO COULD “REPRESENT THE COMMONWEALTH IN CONGRESS”; THE LISTS INCLUDES JOHN HANCOCK AND SAMUEL ADAMS

155) AD. 1pg. 8 ¼” x 9”. June 26, 1787. In Senate [likely Boston]. An autograph manuscript in the handwriting of Massachusetts politician Aaron Wood. Written during the Constitutional Convention, the state was considering who they could send to the new Federal Congress. Wood wrote: “The Committee of both Houses Appointed to consider and report the Number of Persons which it will be expedient to Chuse [sic] as Delegates to represent the Commonwealth in Congress, and also to consider the Federal ability of those Gentlemen who have been Elected Delegates to Congress within Six Years last Past – Ask have to report as their opinion, That four persons will be a sufficient number to represent this Commonwealth in Congress: And that his Excellency John Hancock Esqr, The Honble Samuel Adams Esqr, Honl Artemas Ward, Honl James Lovell, Honl John Lovell, Honl Jona Jackson, Honl Timo Danelson, Honl Stephen Higgenshon, Honl James Sullivan, Honl Tristam Dal- ton, Honl Francis Dana, Honl Theodore Sedgwick, Honl Nathan Dana Esqrs are of federal ability to be elected Members of Congress the present year.” The four Massachusetts representatives to the Constitutional Convention were Elbridge Gerry, Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King and Caleb Strong. The first two Massachusetts Senators, first elected in 1788, were Tristam Dalton (mentioned in the document) and George Cabot. The first eight Massachusetts Congressmen were Fisher Ames, Elbridge Gerry, Benjamin Goodhue, Jonathan Grout, George Leonard, George Partridge, Theodore Sedgwick (mentioned in the document) and George Thatcher. The document is missing the lower left corner but it has been professionally repaired. An interesting foundational document. $750

A DAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER, GENERAL ORD SIGNS A DOCUMENT FROM PETERSBURG

156) DS. 2pg. 17” x 14”. July 31, 1864. Near Petersburg [Virginia]. A large, partly printed document signed “E O C Ord” as Major General commanding. It concerns “Unserviceable Ordnance Stores” from the Second Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. The Second Regiment was involved in assaulting Petersburg from June 15 to 19, 1864, and sieging Petersburg from June 16, 1864 to April 2, 1865. This document is dated the day after the famous Battle of the Crater at Petersburg. There is also a rubber stamped signature of General Benjamin Butler. It has mailing folds and is in fine condition. Ord signed on the verso. $350

INDEX

African-American - 4, 8, 12, 46, 74, 112, 129, 148 Art - 22, 31, 97, 103, 118, 126, 138 Aviation & Space - 13, 107, 149 Business - 7, 111, 137 Civil War - 12, 23, 24, 25, 30, 42, 48, 71, 72, 76, 77, 79, 90, 93, 99, 139, 140, 150 156 Foreign - 6, 10, 16, 17, 19, 20, 35, 40, 50, 85, 88, 96, 104, 113 Literature - 10, 17, 19, 20, 35, 36, 44, 45, 50, 53, 58, 65, 84, 86, 95, 96, 103, 104, 110, 123, 124, 142, 148 Military - 9, 11, 16, 56, 57, 62, 71, 72, 76, 77, 79, 90, 91, 92, 93, 99, 100, 101, 109, 113, 114, 120, 121, 134, 139, 140 Presidents - 2, 3, 21, 28, 37, 38, 39, 49, 51, 54, 55, 60, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 73, 80, 87, 89, 114, 115, 116, 117, 127, 129, 131, 132, 133, 136, 144, 145, 152 Revolutionary War & Colonial - 9, 26, 33, 47, 56, 62, 63, 75, 78, 81, 91, 92, 98, 100, 101, 106, 113, 119, 120, 121, 134, 143, 151, 153, 154, 155 Supreme Court & Legal - 15, 128, 135 Western - 5, 8, 32, 72, 88, 105, 109, 118, 130 Women - 1, 6, 41, 46, 52, 74, 103, 124, 146, 147

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