Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
"ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE" TO LECTURE IN WARTIME (CIVIL WAR.) SEWARD, WILLIAM H. Letter Signed, as Secretary of State, to Chairman of the Lecture Committee J.R. Sypher, declining an invitation to deliver a lecture. 1 page, 4to, "Department of State" stationery, with integral blank; remnants of mounting stub along right edge verso, horizontal fold. Washington, 26 January 1865

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". . . I regret to state that it is absolutely impossible for me to accept the invitation to deliver a lecture before the Linnaean Society of the City and County of Lancaster, Pennsylvania."