Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
11 FORMER CSA GENERALS OR GOVERNORS (BUSINESS--PANIC OF 1893.) Typed Letter Signed, by 35 Senators, to Senate Finance Committee member Daniel W. Voorhees, requesting him to ammend a bill to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. 2 pages, folio, written on two sheets, bound together with a paper fastener at top left, second page has been extended by pasting at the bottom a folio sheet; horizontal folds, identification notes in pencil beside most signatures. Washington, [circa June 1893]

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Included are signatures by John Brown Gordon, Zebulon Baird Vance, John Tyler Morgan, Alfred Holt Colquitt, Isham Green Harris, Francis Marion Cockrell, Matt Whittaker Ransom, William Brimage Bate, Edward Cary Walthall, Matthew Calbraith Butler, Eppa Hunton, Edward Douglass White, and others.