SULLIVAN JOHN LAWRENCE Autograph Letter Signed John L Sulliv

Sale 2446 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 1,105

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

"BOSTON STRONG BOY" SULLIVAN, JOHN LAWRENCE. Autograph Letter Signed, "John L. Sullivan," to John Wilson ("My Dear John"), sending New Year wishes, reporting that he spent Christmas in Toledo with an old friend, sending newspaper articles [not present], sending regards to his family, and, in a postscript, giving plans to be in Buffalo the following week at the Iroquois Hotel. 3 pages, 8vo, "The Hollenden" stationery, written on rectos of separate sheets; creases and small holes in terminal page with minor loss to text touching signature. (MRS) Cleveland, 30 December 1907

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". . . I spent a fairly good Xmas with a friend of mine in Toledo . . . and took dinner with him and his Family. I have known him twenty seven years, and a fair fellow just like yourself. . . . Well, old Pal, I am enclosing you some reading matter about myself so you can see how your Uncle Johnny is Handling the Newspapers and in this section of the country I have a fine chance to become quite an Newspaper artist when I quit the stage. I can fix the dope all to the good and will have a chance to down my enemies by saying nothing about them. . . ."