Apr 21, 2011 - Sale 2244

Sale 2244 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 900
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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
A SECRETIVE FAVOR? GRANT, ULYSSES S. Autograph Note Signed, "U.S. Grant," as President, to Postmaster General James N. Tyner, in pencil, instructing him to give a large salary advance or to repay a loan from a third party for the same amount. 7 lines on the terminal page of Tyner's letter to him. 1/2 page, 8vo; matted with a portrait and framed. [Washington], 26 Dec[ember 18]76
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Tyner's letter: "Nathanial Page, whom I have appointed a special agent at your request, desires an advance of two or three hundred dollars on his salary. It is unusual to grant such applications, but I will do as you wish about it. You can, if you please, address me a private note by my messenger who carries this to the Executive Mansion . . . ."
Grant's reply: "If the advance asked can be made without inconsistency I wish you would make it. If not Mr. Page should borrow the money and leave his act. with the Dept. in settlement. . . ."
Published in the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, ed. Simon, vol. 21, p. 349, 1998.