Apr 21, 2011 - Sale 2244

Sale 2244 - Lot 20

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH. Autograph Letter Signed, "W.T. Sherman / General," to General F.A. Walker, stating his intention to send copies of the U.S. Census Bureau's Vital Statistics to European military leaders with an interest in the U.S. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet, "Headquarters Army of the United States" stationery, ruled paper; remnants of prior mounting at corners of terminal page. Washington, 3 Ap[ri]l 1873
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". . . [I] would send my 2nd volume of the Census Vital Statistics to Colonel Chesney if I thought it appropriate, but the subject matter seems more valuable to a civilian than a military man. . . .
"Col [Henry Moore?] Harrington promised very soon a dozen copies of the 1st volume and I will send them to such men as Von Molkte [Moltke], Raum, Kuhn, General Schwanitz . . . all men of the first order in Europe, men who have watched . . . our country with an interest hardly second to that felt by our own citizens abroad."