Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 75
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
BEECHER, HENRY WARD. Autograph Letter Signed, to President Ulysses S. Grant, recommending Judge Charles L. Benedict for appointment to Circuit Judge for the Southern District of New York. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, written on a single folded sheet, ruled paper; some smudging to signature (but still legible), horizontal folds. Brooklyn, 21 October 1869

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"The friends of Judge Charles L. Benedict are about to ask you to appoint him Circuit Judge . . . .
"I know him personally and have the highest opinion of his integrity, industry, and acceptability. Among all the excellent names . . . there is not one that will more fully satisfy at once the bar, and the Community than that of Judge Benedict. . . ."