May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
SCOTT, WINFIELD. Autograph Letter Signed, to Joseph Blunt, inviting him over for games and conversation. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, ruled paper, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; small hole in left margin (not affecting text), folds. Elizabethtown, NJ, 23 August 1839
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". . . As you must, by tomorrow, have sufficiently figured in the Clay-reception, I can see no reason why you should not come over. For Sunday, I promise you two good sermons & one indifferent dinner, which--taking the bible & the cheese together--as your countrymen trade in the West Indies--I think I offer you no bad bargain, to say nothing of atonement.
"If you can bring our friend, Chas. L. Livingston with you, tant mieux for me. Having that ci-devant Loco foco with us, there will be no danger of our breaking the Sabbath by talking politics. Besides, we may do some chess, if not three-handed whist . . . ."