Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(JEFFERSON, THOMAS.) Blank printed invitation card, with accompanying provenance letter. Engraved card, 3 x 4 3/4 inches, reading "Th: Jefferson presents his complements to and requests the favour of his company to dinner on next at half after three o'clock. The favour of an answer is requested"; minimal foxing, small tape remnant on verso. Np, nd
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With an Autograph Letter Signed from Mrs. E.W. Harrison to Miss [Rose] Cleveland, Keswick, VA, 15 March 1886. Ellen Wayles (Randolph) Harrison (1823-1896) was a great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. She sent the card to the sister of President Grover Cleveland, hoping to get a similar card of Cleveland's in exchange for use in a relic exhibition at the local YMCA.