Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 213

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LONGSTREET, JAMES. Autograph Letter Signed, to A.S. Bacheller, declining to write a speech and sending instead his speech delivered on the most recent anniversary of General Grant's death. 1 page, 8vo, ruled paper; folds. (AKF) Gainesville, 21 January 1897
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". . . I am . . . in doubt if I can find the opportunity to write as you would like. The speech on Gen. Grant's last anniversary delivered at Boston may meet your wishes."
with--James Longstreet. Secretarial copy of his speech commemorating the fallen Union and Confederate soldiers, closing with a conciliatory quotation from Grant's Personal Memoirs. 5 pages, 4to.