WHITMAN WALT Autograph Letter Signed to My dear Sir

Sale 2446 - Lot 425

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

WHITMAN, WALT. Autograph Letter Signed, to "My dear Sir," promising to visit, giving travel plans, and mentioning the promotion of a mutual soldier friend. On verso is written, in unknown hand, a fragment of a letter, probably to him, concerning the commissions of mutual friends. 1 page, square 8vo; moderate marginal discoloration from prior matting, short separations at folds repaired with paper recto, paper and cello tape remnants along each edge verso. Brooklyn, 6 January 1865

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"I shall try to look in at the De Soto & see you. Next week, or week after, I leave for Washington. Frederick McReady is promoted to Captain. I have seen his commission."
The USS De Soto was a wooden steamer employed as a gunboat during the Civil War. The ship was sent for repairs from Portsmouth, NH, to Baltimore, MD, on January 12, 1865. "De Soto" might also have referred to a hotel; at the time of writing, a hotel by this name was active in Savannah, GA.
Beginning September 12, 1861, Frederick B. McReady served in Company "G" of the New York 51st Infantry. He was promoted to Captain on October 13, 1864.
with--Two cabinet card photographs, unsigned, showing Whitman, including one by Sarony.