?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
SENDING REMORSEFUL THANKS TO BUSINESS LEADERS AND ARTIST HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY GARFIELD, LUCRETIA. Two Autograph Letters Signed, "Lucretia R. Garfield." The first, to Representative Horace Davis, accepting resolutions from San Francisco commercial associations commemorating her late husband. The second, to Howard Chandler Christy, thanking him for sending a drawing of a schoolhouse where her husband once taught. Together 4 1/2 pages, 8vo, each written on a folded sheet of monogrammed mourning stationery; some minor chipping at edges of second, short closed separations at folds of second repaired verso with tissue, minor scattered staining to each. Cleveland, 3 February 1882; Mentor, 20 February 1893
3 February 1883: ". . . Pray present to these Associations my very sincere thanks for these tokens of the high esteem in which General Garfield was held and of the sorrow over his untimely death. . . . "To you especially as a dear friend, I wish to express my gratitude for your loyalty to him we so mourn and for your kind words of sympathy. . . ."
