HILARY A. HERBERT - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/03/1895 - HFSID 26399
Price: $300.00
HILARY ABNER HERBERT
Secretary of the Navy Hilary Abner Herbert signed this typed letter
to author and Robert Burns scholar James D. Law in 1895, saying that he was
"sure that we both feel content not that we have run down the
quotation."
Typed letter signed "HA Herbert". Red pencil marks on bio and
lead pencil marks on verso in unknown hand. 1 page, 8x10½, on Navy Department
stationery, with two binder holes at left edge. April 3, 1895. Addressed
to James D. Law, Esq. Camden, New Jersey. With 4¼x1 bio affixed to bottom right
corner. In full: "My dear Mr. Law: I have yours of the 1st inst., and am
sure that we both feel content not that we have run down the quot-ation. I
forgot to say in my last that I know Mr. Smith quite well, and have often talked
with him about Burn, although I have not seen him for some time now, as our
lines do not run in the same direction. When I was in the House I saw him very
frequently. Yours very sincerely". JAMES D. LAW was aScottish
immigrant to the United States and the author of several books, including
Dreams o' Hame, The Seashore of Bohemia, Lancaster, Old and
New and Here and There in Two Hemispheres. He was also a scholar of
Robert Burns and Scottish literature in general. HILARY ABNER HERBERT
(1834-1919),a former Captain of the Greenville Guards and a Colonel
in the Confederate Army, was a Democratic Congressman from Alabama
(1877-1893). In Congress, he served as the Chairman of the Committee on
Naval Affairs before becoming President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of the
Navy (1893-1897). Lightly toned, soiled and creased. Signature has bled
lightly. Adhesive residue around bio. Mounting residue on verso with light
show-through (do not touch signature). Folded once horizontally and twice
vertically and unfolded. Otherwise in fine condition.
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