Apr 23, 2009 - Sale 2177

Sale 2177 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
LONGSTREET, JAMES. Autograph Letter Signed, to Colonel [William Miller] Owen, regarding the ". . . transfer of franchise of the original New Orleans and North Eastern Railway. . . ." 4 pages, 8vo, lined paper, written on two sheets; folds, minor soiling. Gainesville, GA, 25 June 1889

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". . . The Franchise I was told was worth half a million of dollars and as I understand was more regularly transferred to the new Company.
"I have been under the impression that the transfer was duly made, but am now informed that it was not. . . ."