Apr 21, 2011 - Sale 2244

Sale 2244 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
LINCOLN'S SECRETARY HAY, JOHN. Group of 3 Autograph Letters Signed, "John Hay," to F.A. Walker ("Dear Walker" or "My dear Walker"), on mostly personal subjects, one mentioning Washington Gladden. Together 4 1/2 pages, 8vo. Vp, 1881-86
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5 June 1886: ". . . [a] large majority in favor of Dr. Washington Gladden . . . eloquent speaker, deep thinker, wants the world made better & wiser . . . . Two of us for Hardy . . . . I think he must be the sort of man we want. . . ."
19 Feb[ruary] 1881: ". . . They call on me, some of them, every half-hour; and they are all very worthy."