Jun 21, 2018 - Sale 2483

Sale 2483 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 4,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HOURS AFTER ASSASSINATION: "ATTEND TO THIS AT ONCE" (GARFIELD ASSASSINATION.) GUITEAU, CHARLES J. Autograph Letter Signed, "Charles Guiteau," to editor of Chicago Inter Ocean Byron Andrews, in pencil, requesting that he recover the papers taken from him by [Washington, DC, District Attorney George B.] Corkhill. 1 page, small 8vo; faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, folds, 5-line attestation signed by U.S. Secret Service agent Estes G. Rathbone on verso. "In Jail" [Washington], 2 July 1881
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"Please get papers from Col. Corkhill which he took possession of illegally & without my consent.
"They are intended for you & the other papers.
"Attend to this at once."