Jun 25, 2024 - Sale 2674

Sale 2674 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MISCELLANEOUS--POLITICIANS--MILITARY.) Group of 20 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, most on loose card or slip of paper, most 3x5 inches or smaller. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd

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Politicians: Herbert Hoover. On Stanford University visiting card • Henry L. Stimson • Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. "Very sincerely," on "Doubleday, Doran and Company" stationery. ½ page, 8vo. Garden City, 14 February 1936 • Ogden L. Mills. TLS, sending autograph. 1 page, 8vo. New York, nd • John Hampton Moore. "Very Truly Yours / J.H. Moore / Fe'y 19/35" • Frank B. Kellogg. "To / Mr. Eric Brett / with sincere regards" • Patrick J. Hurley. "With kind regards and / best wishes" • J. Edgar Hoover (2). TLS, sending his autograph. 1 page, 8vo; Signature, on "Federal Bureau of Investigation" stationery correspondence card. Washington, 19 September 1935; Np, nd • Charles Evans Hughes. Signature • Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Brief TLS, "HMoregenthau Jr," as Secretary of the Treasury, sending autograph. 1 page, 12mo, "Secretary of the Treasury" stationery correspondence card. Washington, 5 March 1936 • Cordell Hull. Signature • Charles G. Dawes. Signature • Charles Curtis. Brief TLS, sending his autograph. ½ page, 4to, personal stationery. Washington, 26 February 1935.
Military: Edgar Britten. ALS, to Eric L. Brett, remarking that "30% of the seamen in England are unemployed at the moment." 1¼ pages, 8vo, written on folded sheet. [London], 18 January 1931 • Herbert Victor Wiley. "H.V. Wiley / LtCom'dr U.S. Navy" • William S. Sims. ANS, "WmS. Sims": "Read Elbert Hubbard's 'Message to Garcia'." 1 page, 16mo. Marion, MA, 17 September 1935 • David Beatty. AMS, "Beatty," a poem beginning: "Grant me it this day with zeal and / skill." 1 page, 12mo. Np, nd • Edmund Allenby. "Allenby / F[ield] M[arshal]" • Charles Francis Adams III. "C F. Adams."