Nov 09, 2004 - Sale 2021

Sale 2021 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 4,370
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(BUSINESS.) Large archive of several hundred items related to the New York Chamber of Commerce, comprising three distinct collections: 1) correspondence to the Chamber, including letters sent by its members, American business leaders, federal government officials, Cabinet members, state and local officials, and communications from other Chambers of Commerce (including San Francisco) 2) a large group of letters to Hermann Oelrichs concerning a dinner for Delancey Nicolls and 3) a large group of condolence letters and sympathy card to Nicolls upon the death of his daughter. Format and condition vary. should be seen. Vp, mostly 1860s-1920s

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The correspondence to the Chamber includes letters by John D. Rockefeller Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt (the grandson), George W. Vanderbilt, William Seward, John Hay, Charles M. Schwab, Lewis Cass, James Lenox, W. C. Bryant, John Dix, J. J. Astor Jr., John J. Pershing, Elihu Root, Carl Schurz, Joseph Choate, Chauncy Depew, Bernard Baruch, Stanford White, James Blaine, Henry Ward Beecher, Hamilton Fish, William Evarts, Joseph Henry, Cyrus W. Fields, Henry Vail, William E. Dodge and many more.