Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 168
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
BURNSIDE, AMBROSE E. Autograph Letter Signed, as Senator, to J.S. Dunnell, reporting on some business matters and that he will be home soon, and conveying his sympathies "in the dreadful loss of your dear wife--I know just what your loss is--God only knows why such fearful visitations should fall upon us." 2 pages, small 8vo, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; U.S. Senate stationery. With a portion of the original envelope. Washington, 11 April 1878

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with--Three items: Two carte-de-visite photographs, unsigned, one with an image of Burnside, the other with an image of his wife, Mary Richmond Burnside Mary Richmond Burnside. Brief Autograph Letter Signed, to Sarah Pearce, accepting an invitation. Np, nd.