Apr 23, 2009 - Sale 2177

Sale 2177 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CABINET MEMBERS.) Group of 14 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by members of 19th-century U.S. Cabinets. Format and condition vary. Vp, 1804-80
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James G. Blaine. Three items: the first, ALS, as Senator, to attorney Robert G. Ingersoll, introducing the daughter of a friend. 1 page, 8vo. Washington, 9 April 1880. The second, ALS, to Mr. Orton, regarding the passage of a bill. 1 page, 8vo; mounted to board. Np, nd. The third, Clipped portion of Document Signed, as Secretary of State. Approximately 4 1/2x7 1/2 inches; mounted, fading to signature. Washington, 11 June 1881 John C. Calhoun. ALS, promising to deliver some tobacco. With a 1/2-page postscript, Signed with initials. 2 pages, 16mo. Washington, 22 July 1848 Albert Gallatin. Two items: the first, LS, as Secretary of the Treasury, arranging a deposit for pensions. 1 page, 4to. "Treasury Department," 13 February 1804. The second, ALS, requesting that an item be forwarded. 1/2 page, 4to. Paris, 27 July 1816 John B. Floyd. LS, as Secretary of War, to Jeff[erso]n Davis, expressing his opinion on the rank, position and command of Signal Officer. 1 1/2 pages, 4to. Washington, no day March 1860 Edward Everett. Two items: the first, ALS, to C. [Astor?] Bristed, praising his essays. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo. London, 15 Feb[ruary] 1844. The second, Autograph Quotation Signed, a 4-line stanza from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." 1 page, oblong 8vo. Boston, 26 April 1856 John Henry Eaton. ALS, as Secretary of War, arranging for a bank deposit. 1 page, 8vo. Np, 6 Nov[ember] 1830 Amos Kendall. LS, reporting on the accounts of H.M. Breckenridge. 1 page, 4to. "Treasury Department," 25 Feb[ruar]y 1830 Daniel D. Thompkins. ALS, as Governor of New York, to P[eter] B[uell] Porter, inquiring about appointments for Sheriff, Division Inspector, and Division Quarter Master. 1/2 page, 4to; holes in left margin. Albany, 11 March 1815 John C. Spencer. ALS, to Peter B[uell] Porter, replying to a letter regarding his [law]suit. 1/2 page, folio. Canandaigua, NY, 11 Decem[be]r 1833 Mahlon Dickerson. LS, as Secretary of the Navy, discharging a "colored lad" as a minor. 1 page, 4to. "Navy Department," 7 September 1837.