Oct 29, 2009 - Sale 2192

Sale 2192 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
TO HIS NEPHEW, SIGNED "UNCLE WILL" CODY, WILLIAM F. ("BUFFALO BILL"). Autograph Letter Signed, "Uncle-Will," to George Cody Goodman and Anna Josephine Bond ("Dear Georg [sic] Anna Bond & Sweet Hawkers[?]"), sending his love, remarking on the many rehearsals that performance requires, reporting that a doctor treating him claimed to be able to cure his deafness, and promising to send a key for unlocking a trunk of film. 2 pages, 8vo, "Irma Hotel" stationery, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, horizontal fold touching signature, minor scattered soiling on verso. (JAR) Pittsburg, KS, 23 Apr[il] 1916
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"Uncle loves you all. We are getting started so far allright. Johnny is the hardest worked man--as he keeps on rehearsing. It requires lots of rehearsals to get the company drilled. I am feeling very well. But want to feel better. And I had quite [a] surprise yesterday in Tulsa. I let Dr. Will Goodman give me a treatment. And he done me more good than all the great doctors who have treated me before. He also treated Johnny. And we were so pleased that I got him to close his office and come with me. He will be with us until we leave St. Louis. He says he can cure deafness. If that sawed off cures my deafness he must cure Anna.
"George, Johnny will send you the key of the film trunk. I thought you had it. I'll see you soon and if you still care to e[x]hibit the pictures this summer it can be arranged.
"If I don't write I want you to know I often think of and pray for you."