 |
|
Manuscript LS: "Henry L. Abbot" as Major
of Engineers Commanding, 1p, 7½x10.
Special
|
$120.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$108.00
|
|
 |
|
James Lusk Alcorn wrote this letter to an autograph hunter from
Friars Point, Mississippi in 1873. This letter includes his term as Governor of
Mississippi.
Special
|
$360.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$324.00
|
|
 |
|
This rare Civil War-dated letter was signed by Confederate General
William Wirt Allen in 1865, less than two months before the Confederacy's
surrender. It was written for a soldier who accompanied Union
prisoners-of-war, at a time the Confederacy didn't take too many enemy soldiers
prisoner.
|
$3,000.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,550.00
|
|
 |
|
Iowa politician William B. Allison wrote this letter to James S.
Lehmaier, Chairman of the Committee for the New York Republican Club.
|
$220.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$198.00
|
|
 |
|
SEVEN WEEKS AFTER SURRENDERING FORT SUMTER, COLONEL ROBERT ANDERSON WRITES TO
GENERAL LORENZO THOMAS ABOUT A RECENT MEETING WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LIFELONG
FRIEND, JOSHUA SPEED
Special
|
$10,000.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$8,500.00
|
|
 |
|
Manuscript Letter signed by him as Governor of Massachusetts, writing to
Governor Fenton of New York to vouch for a woman seeking pardon of a
convict
Special
|
$650.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$585.00
|
|
 |
|
Letter to Chicago real estate develop Samuel E. Gross, praising his
wife's appearance at a Washington, D.C. event held in honor of Anthony's
eightieth birthday. She has added a handwritten postscript, remembering to thank
him for a gift.
Special
|
$3,200.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,720.00
|
|
 |
|
ALS: "DR Atchison", 1p,
7¾x9½. Washington, 1853 March 30. "To the Hon Sec.
|
$2,800.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,380.00
|
|
 |
|
The Civil War Union officer penned this handwritten letter and signed it in ink
|
$460.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$414.00
|
|
 |
|
Grant's chief of staff, involved in many of the scandals of that
Presidency and indicted in two of them, requests a $110 check from Jay Cooke
& Co., whose bankruptcy would later trigger the Panic of 1873.
|
$440.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$396.00
|
|
 |
|
Orville E. Babcock, President Ulysses S. Grant's secretary, signed
this letter on White House stationery in 1871. In it, he says that Grant
couldn't attend a ball in honor of Russia's Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, who
was in the United States as a goodwill ambassador.
Special
|
$440.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$396.00
|
|
 |
|
THEODORUS BAILEY
|
$220.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$198.00
|
|
 |
|
The politician and soldier from Massachusetts signs this handwritten
letter to a Mr. Bright
Special
|
$575.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$517.00
|
|
 |
|
Banks sends a letter to Governor Ramsay in regards to introducing a
constituent
|
$575.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$517.00
|
|
 |
|
Nathaniel P. Banks wrote this letter from his lifelong home of
Waltham, Massachusetts in 1889, at the beginning of his last term in Congress,
about his appointments and to apologize for not being able to make it to
Washington, D. C. that week.
Special
|
$800.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$720.00
|
|
 |
|
Banks sends a letter in regards to the volumes of Perry's Japan
Expedition
Special
|
$800.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$720.00
|
|
 |
|
Banks sends a letter in regards to Prisoners that attended the State
Reform School
|
$575.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$517.00
|
|
 |
|
Nathaniel P. Banks signed this manuscript letter to a friend in 1870
to say that "I was glad to get your letter assuring me, that you were still
in the land of the living."
|
$575.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$517.00
|
|
 |
|
Letter written as Chief Marshall of the Garfield Memorial
Association
|
$360.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$324.00
|
|
 |
|
As President of Cleveland's First National Bank, the Union veteran
writes about a matter affecting the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, of which
he was a Director.
|
$280.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$252.00
|
|
 |
|
ABOUT THE PRINTING OF A RED CROSS BOOK
|
$4,150.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,527.00
|
|
 |
|
Special
|
$4,650.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,952.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter of thanks for the
picture.
|
$6,250.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$5,312.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter about some official papers she
has.
|
$4,800.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$4,080.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter on behalf of the Red Cross
asking to meet Major E. A. Burke.
|
$3,950.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,357.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton writes sending a check that is much needed and to say
that she is not able to see any more for long periods of time.
|
$3,650.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,102.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter of regret that she will not be
able to meet some people.
|
$2,050.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$1,742.00
|
|
 |
|
TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS WRITTEN TO HER SISTER HARRIETTE TWO DAYS APART
FROM NEW YORK CITY, ONE ON EACH SIDE
Special
|
$4,150.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,527.00
|
|
 |
|
87-YEAR-OLD CLARA BARTON REQUESTS "AN ITEMIZED ACCOUNT OF ALL THE
INDEBTEDNESS" OF THE NATIONAL FIRST AID ASSOCIATION
|
$4,450.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,782.00
|
|
 |
|
|
$4,150.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,527.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter about her desire to get her
notes into shape for publication.
Special
|
$4,450.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,782.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter about how busy she is.
|
$5,250.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$4,462.00
|
|
 |
|
CLARA BARTON FORWARDS A $275 CHECK FROM HER NEPHEW TO HER NATIONAL
FIRST AID ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA; SHE'D LIKE $75 OF IT "FOR MY PRESENT
USE"
Special
|
$4,150.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,527.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter about the sickness going
around.
|
$3,950.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,357.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter from her home in
retirement.
|
$3,600.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,060.00
|
|
 |
|
AFTER BEING FORCED TO RESIGN AS PRESIDENT OF THE RED CROSS, 82-YEAR-OLD CLARA
BARTON FORMED THE NATIONAL FIRST AID ASSOCIATION AND WRITES, FOUR MONTHS LATER:
"I TOLD HER OF THE FIRST AID, AND MY CONNECTION WITH IT, AND INTIMATED THAT
HER AUXILIARY WOULD BEAR THE SAME RELATION TO ME IN THE FIRST AID THAT IT DID IN
THE RED CROSS WITH THE ADVANTAGE OF WORK ALWAYS AT HAND...."
Special
|
$4,450.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,782.00
|
|
 |
|
Special
|
$4,650.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,952.00
|
|
 |
|
ABOUT HER WORK: "I CANNOT TELL YOU...THE GREAT GLADNESS THERE IS IN
MY BREAST...BECAUSE IT MEANS SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE WORLD...THAT THERE BE MORE OF
COMFORT AND LESS OF PAIN AND MISERY FOR HAVING WALKED THE TRACKS ALONG WITH
THEM...."
Special
|
$4,650.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,952.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter about travel to raise funding
for the National First Aid Association of America.
|
$4,150.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,527.00
|
|
 |
|
"I BEGIN TO FEEL THAT THEY DO NOT FEEL LIKE TAKING UP FIRST AID AT
PRESENT, HOWEVER THEY MAY APPRECIATE IT"
Special
|
$4,150.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,527.00
|
|
 |
|
"I DO NOT AT ALL THINK IT WAS - OR IS LACK OF INTERST OR OF
APPRECIATION NOR ARE THEY LOST TO THE FUTURE OF FIRST AID"
|
$4,450.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,782.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter of thanks that a friend came
to visit.
|
$3,600.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,060.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an important autograph letter.
Special
|
$4,650.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,952.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter of acknowledgment that the
photos and negative have arrived.
|
$3,600.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,060.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter about her photographs and
thanks for the letter.
|
$3,600.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,060.00
|
|
 |
|
CLARA BARTON.
Special
|
$4,150.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,527.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter of thanks for the
entertainment.
|
$3,600.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,060.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter to a friend discussing the
news.
|
$3,950.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,357.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends an autograph letter of thanks for the
help.
|
$3,950.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,357.00
|
|
 |
|
Album page containing two items signed by Barton: a 4x6 photo and a 4x7
autograph letter circa 1895. On verso is a typed letter signed by general and
politician Benjamin F. Butler in 1890.
Special
|
$5,500.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$4,675.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends a printed letter that was sent to the hundreds of
people who sent messages during her illness.
Special
|
$3,800.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,230.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends a typed letter sending her check for
$75.00.
Special
|
$4,150.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,527.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends a typed letter about the Red Cross work in
Galveston, the refusal of the Kansas Governor to permit her to help after a
flood and opposition from "our deluded President", Theodore
Roosevelt.
Special
|
$4,850.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$4,122.00
|
|
 |
|
Clara Barton sends a typed letter about it being a while since she
wrote.
|
$4,550.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,867.00
|
|
 |
|
THE 78-YEAR-OLD FOUNDER AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN RED
CROSS, WHO HAS JUST RETURNED FROM RELIEF EFFORTS IN GALVESTON, TEXAS, WILL NOT
ATTEND RED CROSS MEETINGS IN WHICH HER LEADERSHIP ABILITIES MAY BE QUESTIONED IN
ORDER TO GIVE HER FRIENDS "AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK FREELY"
Special
|
$5,250.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$4,462.00
|
|
 |
|
Pierre G. T. Beauregard sends an autograph letter of regret that he
will not be able to attend a dinner to honor the soldiers fallen during the
Civil War.
Special
|
$3,800.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$3,230.00
|
|
 |
|
The Confederate General writes a letter to Washington's Agent for the Collection of
Confederate Records, Marcus Joseph Wright, from New Orleans, Louisiana on
November, 17 1882. Saying "I have ordered Gen'l Hapgood's report copied & the
original copy forwarded to you." Matted with a photograph and biographical plaque to
22x25.
Special
|
$3,500.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,975.00
|
|
 |
|
Pierre G. T. Beauregard signs a war dated manuscript letter of thanks
for forwarding the letter from his wife.
Special
|
$7,000.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$5,950.00
|
|
 |
|
Pierre G. T. Beauregard signs a manuscript letter discussing the
accounts for the New Custom House.
|
$1,800.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$1,530.00
|
|
 |
|
Beaver writes a letter saying he would be glad to be at the first
Annual Dinner of the Republican Club, if nothing else comes up
Special
|
$220.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$198.00
|
|
 |
|
A letter from the Pennsylvania Governor saying he will be unable to
attend a Republican Club of New York dinner due to a prior engagement in
Ohio
Special
|
$220.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$198.00
|
|
 |
|
A letter from the Governor on Executive Department letterhead to an
associate, saying he will be unable to meet for dinner due to prior
engagements
Special
|
$220.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$198.00
|
|
 |
|
War-dated letter to a US Paymaster about a payment owed a soldier's
dependent, and offering to help locate deserters
|
$220.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$198.00
|
|
 |
|
Letter from the Secretary of War dated 1875, transcribing a previous
letter sent confirming the shipment of seeds to a Captain in Wisconsin
Special
|
$500.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$450.00
|
|
 |
|
ALS: "Wm. W. Belknap" as Grant's
Secretary of War, 1½p, front and verso, 5x7¾.
|
$500.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$450.00
|
|
 |
|
Just a year before his resignation and impeachment, the Secretary of
War declines an invitation to speak to the Chamber of Commerce.
|
$500.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$450.00
|
|
 |
|
William W. Belknap sends an autograph letter forwarding
information.
|
$500.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$450.00
|
|
 |
|
Writing to a former foe, Confederate General M. J. Wright, Belknap
looks forward to a veterans' reunion. Discredited politically, he could still
find satisfaction in the fellowship of fellow soldiers.
Special
|
$675.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$607.00
|
|
 |
|
Two weeks before Congress launched the investigation which would lead
to his resignation and impeachment, the Secretary of War signed this transmittal
letter to the Attorney General.
Special
|
$600.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$540.00
|
|
 |
|
Manuscript LS: "Wm. W.
|
$500.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$450.00
|
|
 |
|
The American Rear Admiral pens this letter in which he discuss the value of
some belongings, in iron gall ink
Special
|
$380.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$342.00
|
|
 |
|
|
$360.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$324.00
|
|
 |
|
As Commander of the US East India Squadron, he issues orders to the
commander of the flagship Hartford to read a General Order to all
officers and crew.
Special
|
$900.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$810.00
|
|
 |
|
Admiral Henry H. Bell signed this manuscript letter, written in Hingo
Japan in 1868, as commander of the U. S. Navy's Asiatic Fleet. In it, he
instructs a ship commander to send all future communications to him to Hong
Kong. Bell was Fleet Captain of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron for two years
during the American Civil War. He wrote this letter less than two weeks
before drowning near Hyogo, Japan.
Special
|
$1,200.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$1,020.00
|
|
 |
|
Unitarian minister Henry Whitney Bellows wrote this letter to actor
Edwin Booth in 1869 to express interested about an actress who had joined his
company. Bellows was president of the United States Sanitary Commission, which
improved the lives of Union soldiers and helped treat the wounded during the
American Civil War.
Special
|
$650.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$585.00
|
|
 |
|
Unitarian minister Henry Whitney Bellows wrote this letter in 1879 to
tell the recipient that he didn't have any copies left of his Cornell
baccalaureate speech. Bellows was president of the United States Sanitary
Commission, which improved the lives of Union soldiers and helped treat the
wounded during the American Civil War.
|
$460.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$414.00
|
|
 |
|
Unitarian Minister Henry Whitney Bellows wrote this letter of
introduction for the Japanese Minister to the U. S. - a warm friend of mine,
and a man deeply interested in the religious education of his country" - in
1873. Bellows was president of the United States Sanitary Commission, which
improved the lives of Union soldiers and helped treat the wounded during the
American Civil War.
|
$2,500.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,125.00
|
|
 |
|
The politician and statesman who served as Lincoln's Minister to France pens this letter
arranging a appointment
Special
|
$460.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$414.00
|
|
 |
|
The American statesman, Lincoln's ambassador to France, writes as President of the
New York Public Library, trying to track down old associates. A rare signature!
Special
|
$420.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$378.00
|
|
 |
|
Civil War-dated letter to Secretary of War Stanton, recommending the
appointment of a Presbyterian minister and classics instructor as a military
hospital chaplain. (The applicant's son was a Union Major-General.) As a legal
advocate for President Lincoln's emergency war measures, Binney had a right to
expect that his recommendation would carry some weight.
Special
|
$260.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$234.00
|
|
 |
|
TLS: "William H. Bisbee", 1p, 6½x9.
Brookline, Mass., 1939 February 14. To John E.
Special
|
$850.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$765.00
|
|
 |
|
Congressman Black responds to an invitation to attend a function
Special
|
$460.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$414.00
|
|
 |
|
James V. Bomford signed this manuscript letter to a Washington, D. C.
auditor as commander of the 8th Infantry regiment in 1868. It accompanied a list
of deceased soldiers. Bomford was a Union officer during the American Civil War
and brevetted a brigadier general at war's end.
Special
|
$320.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$288.00
|
|
 |
|
As Governor of South Carolina, he writes Confederate Secretary of War
James Seddon, requesting that a South Carolina cavalryman serving in Virginia be
returned home to stand trial for murder. Docketing reports that this letter was
sent on to General Robert E. Lee.
Special
|
$3,000.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,550.00
|
|
 |
|
As a Lt. Colonel in the US Army (1849), Bragg signs an autograph letter
commending in vivid detail an artillery sergeant who fought with him at Buena
Vista in the Mexican War, a battle that forged an enduring connection between
Bragg and Jefferson Davis.
Special
|
$5,000.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$4,250.00
|
|
 |
|
Recommending applicants for office while criticizing the practice:
"The custom is always done and half the time is a fraud upon the public & an
impertinence to the party addressed."
Special
|
$220.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$198.00
|
|
 |
|
As Commandant of the Confederate Navy Station at Savannah (1862), he
instructs a lieutenant to transfer a marine private from a barracks in the city
to the CSS Savannah.
Special
|
$3,400.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,890.00
|
|
 |
|
As Commander of the Confederate Navy Station at Savannah, Georgia, he orders
a reduction in the number of petty officers serving aboard the steamer
Savannah.
Special
|
$3,400.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,890.00
|
|
 |
|
As Commander of the Confederate Naval Station at Savannah (1862), he signs a
manuscript letter ordering Lt. John Rutledge, in command of the defensive
battery and gunboats, to submit a small arms inventory, determining what if any
weapons he can spare.
Special
|
$3,400.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,890.00
|
|
 |
|
As Commander of Savannah Naval Station (CSA) in 1862, he authorizes Lt. John
Rutledge to assigne new, specified petty officers to the gunboat CSS
Savannah.
Special
|
$3,400.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,890.00
|
|
 |
|
THE UNION CIVIL WAR GENERAL WRITES HOME WHILE RECOVERING FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED
AT THE BATTLE OF SEVEN PINES (FAIR OAKS)
Special
|
$2,800.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,380.00
|
|
 |
|
Abolitionist and lead crusader of the Pottowatomie massacre signs a
handwritten letter of receipt for his brokerage business with Simon Perkins in
1846.
Special
|
$6,000.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$5,100.00
|
|
 |
|
The Governor of Connecticut from 1858-1866 signs his name on this
letter and mentions that the recipient found out a good way to acquire his
autograph
Special
|
$340.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$306.00
|
|
 |
|
This handwritten letter introducing his predecessor to the American
Minister in Paris is signed by the Connecticut Governor a year before his
death
Special
|
$340.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$306.00
|
|
 |
|
The Union cavalry commander, whose decision to "hold the high ground"
on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg may have saved the Union, prepares
to inspect the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry in the first year of the war.
Double-matted and framed with a biographic plaque to an overall size of 20½x22½.
Buford died less than five months after Gettysburg. A very scarce war-dated
document!
Special
|
$18,000.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$15,300.00
|
|
 |
|
"I offer as reward of $25 to any soldier who will capture a Horse thief or
marauder, dead or alive."
|
$2,400.00
Sale Price: 15% Off
$2,040.00
|
|
 |
|
In a lengthy ALS written shortly before his death, the Union general
advocates a single organization uniting Union and Confederate veterans, and also
claims that the battle of Chickamauga would have been won if he had been
present.
Special
|
$650.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$585.00
|
|
 |
|
ALS: "A.E. Burnside", 1p, 4½x7.
Liverpool Adelphi Hotel Company Limited, Liverpool. No date. To Reynolds.
|
$800.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$720.00
|
|
 |
|
Autograph Letter signed as US Senator (1880), accompanied by his
hand-addressed mailing envelope
|
$600.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$540.00
|
|
 |
|
Written from London after he tried, unsuccessfully, to negotiate the end of
the Franco-Prussian War.
|
$800.00
Sale Price: 10% Off
$720.00
|
|
