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HENRY "MARSE HENRY" WATTERSON - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 12/03/1912 - HFSID 3776

Henry Watterson sends an autograph letter letting a friend now when he is in town. Autograph Letter signed: "Henry Watterson", 1p with blank integral leaf, 5x8. New York, New York, 1912 December 3. To "Augustus [last name illegible].…"

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HENRY WATTERSON
Henry Watterson sends an autograph letter letting a friend now when he is in town.
Autograph Letter signed: "Henry Watterson", 1p with blank integral leaf, 5x8. New York, New York, 1912 December 3. To "Augustus [last name illegible]. In full: "I shall be in town a week or ten days. Am at the Manhattan Club. Want to see you. Your Friend." Pencil note (unknown hand) in upper left: "Called/Dec. 8, '12". Henry Watterson (1840-1921), a prominent US journalist, founded the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1868. A Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Elected to the US Congress as a Democrat (1876-1877), Watterson advocated a popular march on Washington in support of Samuel Tilden during the prolonged dispute over whether Tilden or Rutherford had won the Presidential election of 1876. The author of several books, including a history of the Spanish-American War, Watterson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for editorials supporting US entry into World War I. Mailing folds. Mounting tape remnants at left edge. Otherwise, fine condition.

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