Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
SOON AFTER EVACUATING FORT SUMTER ANDERSON, ROBERT. Autograph Letter Signed, "Robert Anderson / USA," to Charles A. Davis, acknowledging receipt of his check for $250 which he was to distribute to his Fort Sumter comrades and thanking him for his charity. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, ruled paper; left edge unevenly trimmed. (AKF) "Bravoort House" [New York], 25 April 1861
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"I have not acknowledged the rec'pt of . . . your check for ($250) . . . which you ask me to distribute among my gallant comrades 'at Fort Sumter', because I have been hoping that I might have the pleasure of . . . thanking you personally for your disinterested kindness to my brave little band. . . ."