Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 500
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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(POLITICIANS--NEW YORK.) Group of 14 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, including mostly letters and 5 signatures on cards or slips of paper. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd
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Alfred E. Smith (2). Two Brief TLsS, "Al" or "AlfredESmith": The first to Franklin D. Roosevelt, suggesting that Kenneth O'Brien be appointed to the commission to revise tax laws, the other to Arthur J. Baldwin, declining to write an article because of a commitment to New Look Magazine. Each 1/2 page, 4to, personal stationery. New York, 2 June 1930; 3 February 1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia. TLS, "Maje [The Major]," to Collier's writer Ray Tucker: ". . . You keep on worshiping this guy Roosevelt as you do and . . . you will . . . be excommunicated . . . . [H]e was . . . misled on the interest rates and certain other provisions of the bill which favors the bankers absolutely. . . ." 1 full page, 4to, personal stationery. New York, 13 May 1933 Nelson Rockefeller. Typed DS, as Governor, requesting an immediate vote on an amendment to Senate health bill 884. Countersigned by attorney Robert MacCrate. 1 page, 4to, "Executive Chamber" stationery. Albany, 24 March 1961 Bernard M. Baruch. Brief TLS, to Wendell Tamburro, promising to do his best. 1/2 page, 4to, personal stationery. Washington, 13 August 1942 Elihu Root. TLS, to Mrs. Samuel Gompers, praising her husband's "breadth of view" despite his opposing political philosophy. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery. Clinton, NY, 11 July 1932 Hamilton Fish. ALS, to George F. Edmunds, vowing not to vote against the Republican Party in the 1884 presidential election but expressing some reservations about James G. Blaine. 3 1/4 pages, 8vo, personal stationery with mourning border. "Glenclyffe" [Philipstown, NY], 27 September 1884 William L. Marcy. ANS, "W.L. Marcy," as Secretary of War, to Adjutant General Roger Jones: "Will the Adj Gen'l come over to the Pres't immediately for a few moments." 1/4 page, oblong 8vo, with integral address leaf. [Washington, 1847] Roscoe Conkling. ALS, as Senator, to Elizabeth Broden, in purple ink, declining to recommend her for a clerkship renewal without references. 3 1/4 pages, 8vo, written on two sheets; remnants of prior mounting covering edges of first and nearly all of terminal pages, moderate scattered staining. Utica, 28 October 1876.

Signatures: Roscoe Conkling (2). One on verso of a carte-de-visite portrait of him by Brady, the other on a slip of paper. Each 4x2 1/2 inches. Np, May 1866; nd Hamilton Fish. "Respectfully yours / Hamilton Fish / Sec'y of War / Apr 24 '75," on a small card. 2x3 1/2 inches. Np, 24 April 1875 Thurlow Weed. On a slip of paper. 3/4x4 1/4 inches. Np, nd Francis E. Spinner. On a slip of paper. 1x2 1/4 inches. With a 10-cent fractional currency note. Np, nd.

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.