?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH. Autograph Letter Signed, 'W.T. Sherman,' to Mrs. Joseph C. Audenried ('Dear Mrs. Audenried'), on personal subjects. 4 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet, ruled paper; minor scattered staining to first page, horizontal folds. New York, 10 February 1888
'. . . [O]n my 68th birthday came from Philadelphia by Adams & Co an express package containing a . . . handkerchief with my initials embroidered in the corner . . . . Inside was an envelope addressed in your hand . . . . Even without this I would have known the Source of this Kind Compliment . . . . Ever since you went abroad I have expected to hear from you about Florence [her daughter] and your plans, but not a word. '. . . I am very well indeed—so is Lizzie. Rachel is on a visit to Washington . . . Mrs Sherman is here considering herself a hopeless invalid but is not as sick as she supposes . . . . Here my life is keenly social, dinners, clubs, theaters, an idle life but somehow it agrees with me, and people say that I have earned repose. . . .
