Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG.) Custer, Elizabeth Bacon. Group of 26 Autograph Letters Signed by Custer's wife. Various sizes, mostly excellent condition. 13 are addressed to Mrs. Gilbert Colgate, and the remainder to a variety of recipients. Vp, 1863-1926

Additional Details

Includes letters to her father, 2 September 1863 (before her marriage to Custer); to Mrs. Col. Edwards, 24 December [1864], accepting a Christmas invitation for Gen. Custer; to Sgt. John Ryan, a veteran of Custer's 7th Cavalry, discussing efforts to rename the Little Bighorn as Custer River, 30 December 1922; and to Mrs. Deming, re Edwin Willard Deming's effort to paint a Custer battle scene, 30 May [1926?].