Signed Index Card, 3” x 5”, dated as governor on the blank reverse, “LeRoy Collins, Governor of Florida, 1959.”

Excellent, with light, even toning.

Signature, as U.S. Senator, “Benj. Harrison, Ind[ian]a,” on a 5 ½” x 8 ¼” album page, above the signature of Daniel W. Voorhees, Harrison’s Indiana colleague in the U.S. Senate; the large signature of U.S. Senator John A. Logan, Union general from Illinois during the American Civil War, is on the reverse.

Excellent, with light, even toning and a few superficial stains and light surface creases.

Signature & Rank, “John A. Logan, Maj[or] Gen[era]l,” on a 1” x 2 ½” slip of paper.  Affixed to backing from a period newspaper.

Evenly toned, with minor staining; diagonally clipped at the corners.

Signature, “B.H. Grierson,” on a 1” x 3” slip of paper, removed from a larger document or letter.

Lightly and evenly toned; somewhat closely clipped; excellent otherwise.

Civil War-Date Letter Signed – early in the Vicksburg Campaign

Letter Signed, 7 ¾” x 9 ¾”.  From encampment across the Mississippi River in Louisiana during the campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, General Grant acknowledges communication from Wisconsin Governor Edward P. Salomon regarding 14^th Wisconsin Infantry Private Isaiah R. Idell.  Private Idell received a disability discharge on September 12, 1863. 

“Headquarters Department of the Tennessee, Millikens Bend, L[ouisian]a, April 14, 1863.  Hon[orable] Edward Salomon, Gov[erno]r of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.  Governor: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Communication addressed to Maj[or] Gen[eral] [Samuel] Curtis under date of March 16, and by him referred to me, in reference to the Descriptive list of Private Idell, 14^th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, and to inform you in reply that I have caused the matter to be investigated, and have this day forwarded to Private Idell, at Mound City Hospital, his Descriptive Roll and Account of Pay and Clothing, together with your letter on the subject.  I enclose herewith, for your information, a copy of the letter of Capt[ain] Henry, of Co[mpany] E, 14^th Wis[consin] Vol[unteers].  I am, Governor, Very Respect[fully] Your Ob[edien]t Serv[an]t, U.S. Grant, Major General.”

Excellent, with light, even toning and the expected vertical and horizontal folds.

Civil War-Date Signature

Signature, with rank in another hand, “William Hays, Brig[adier] Gen[era]l & A[ssistant] P[rovost] M[arshal] Gen[eral],” on a 1” x 3 ½” slip of paper, removed from a larger letter; affixed to larger backing.

General staining and wear throughout; there is a diagonal tear, with no loss of paper, through a portion of the signature.

Franked Envelope, 3 ¼” x 5”, “Florence Kling Harding,” sending her deceased husband’s autograph, no longer present, and bearing a March 10, 1924, Washington, D.C. postmark; black-bordered, in mourning of the death of President Warren G. Harding on August 2, 1923.  Accompanied by a typed note of the same date, dimension, and bordering on a card, signed by a secretary.

Both pieces are lightly and evenly toned, with light soiling and wear and minor chipping to the borders; the reverse of the envelope is irregularly cut and torn.

Civil War-Date Autograph Letter Signed - from Leavenworth, Kansas

Autograph Letter Signed, 5 ¼” x 8 ¼”.  From Leavenworth, Kansas, the vicinity of his father’s actions at the Pottawatomie Massacre and the Battles of Osawatomie and Black Jack in 1856 “Bleeding Kansas,” Brown conveys details of his return home to his wife in Ohio.  Accompanied by the transmittal envelope, imprinted “R. Stevenson, Photographic ARTIST, 40 Delaware Street, Leavenworth, Kansas”; addressed by Brown, to “Mrs. Wealthy C. Brown, Jefferson, Ashtabula Co[unty], Ohio, Box 125,” with a three-cent U.S. postage stamp and a June 6, 1862, Leavenworth City, Kansas Territory postmark at the upper right corner.

“Leavenworth City Kansas, Thursday, June 5 1862.    

My Loved Wife,

I have this moment got yours of the 28^th.  All in a hurry this morning as a Boat for St. Louis has just come and is off in a few minutes.

It will take me about five days to Chicago including one Sunday – say two days there then, one perhaps at Cleveland when I will be home as fast as I can.  Every thing is waiting and I must say good bye. 

Your own, John.”

Lightly and evenly toned, with a few minor stains and smearing of ink to several characters; chipping at the upper right corner and at the edge of the lower of two horizontal folds detracts very little.  The envelope has the expected wear at the edge and the right edge has been torn somewhat irregularly in opening.

Civil War-Date Autograph Letter Signed – from the site of the “Palmyra Massacre”

 Autograph Letter Signed, 7 ¼” x 9 ¼”, from the northeastern Missouri post most dubiously remembered for the Palmyra Massacre of later in the year, concerning the conveyance of prisoners to the provost marshal in St. Louis.  

"Head Quarters, Palmyra, M[iss]o[uri], 9^th January – 1862. 

Lieut[enant] Charles Knowles;

You are hereby ordered to take the members of Co[mpany]s C.D.F.G. & H. now in Palmyra, and take them as an escort to the prisoners, that will be entrusted to Your Charge.  Go to St. Louis via Hudson & N.M. Rail Road.  They will take their equipments & 3 days cooked rations in their Haversacks.

When You shall have delivered your prisoners into the hands of the Provost  Martial [sic] of St. Louis, You will march the men to the Depot of the Pacific R[ail] Road & by the first train send the men to join their Co[mpany]s at the town of Syracuse, there reporting to Lieut[enant] Col[onel] Gildbert, You will return without delay to your Co[mpany] here. 

John Groesbeck, Col[onel] Comm[an]d[in]g Post.”

Lightly and evenly toned, with the expected folds.

Franked Envelope, 2 ¾” x 5 ¼”, “James Chesnut, U.S.S. fr…,” as U.S. Senator from South Carolina, also addressed by Chesnut to “Hon[orable] J.L. Manning, Willard’s Hotel, Washington.”  Dated 1860 vertically at the left edge, quite possibly by the recipient, John Laurence Manning, former South Carolina governor, 1852-54, who later served as a colonel in the Confederate Army.

Torn irregularly in opening at the upper right corner, affecting the last few characters of Chesnut’s frank.

Civil War-Date Document Signed – an imprinted 142^nd New York Infantry Pass

Document Signed, 3 ¾” x 5”, West Point, Virginia, May 4, 1864, “A.M. Barney, L[ieutenan]t Col[onel] Commanding Regiment,” a desirable, partly printed pass; dated one day before the fighting began at the Battle of the Wilderness and countersigned by 142^nd New York Lieutenant Joseph Hastings Hays, who was wounded at Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia the following month.

Lightly toned, with the expected folds; general wear and staining throughout.

Civil War-Date Autograph Letter Signed – seeking a pass “to reclaim the remains of a dead Soldier.”

Autograph Letter Signed, on beautifully imprinted 6” x 7 ½” official stationery as Massachusetts governor.  During the second year of war, Andrew seeks the assistance of Franklin E. Howe, an officer in the 36^th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, in procuring a pass for a colleague in the regiment, to reclaim the remains of an unnamed dead soldier.  Modern records indicate that Howe died of disease on May 5, 1864 in Westminster, Massachusetts.

“Boston, April 29, 1862, L[ieutenan]t Col[onel] Howe.  My d[ea]r Col[onel], If you can help Mr. A.S. Tuttle to get a passage to Roanoke Island to reclaim the remains of a dead Soldier you will confer a favor.  I am unaware about the regulations nom a sick passenger to N[orth] C[arolina] not in military service.  Your serv[ant], John A. Andrew.”

Accompanied by the imprinted transmittal envelope, addressed to Howe.  The letter is excellent overall, with light, even toning and two horizontal folds; the transmittal envelope bears heavier staining, with irregular tearing at the edges from opening.

Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, front and reverse of the first leaf of an imprinted, folded 4 ¾” x 8” letter-sheet, expressing condolences to a friend upon the death of a brother.

“September 18, 1889.  My dear Bob, I did not know when I wrote today what you were passing through.  I had not heard about your brother’s death.  May I tell you how I am sorry for everything which brings you pain with all my heart & will you believe how earnestly I ask for the highest help.  God bless you & give you His best light.  You will not want me to care to you on Monday as I proposed.  If so, you will tell me so & I shall wholly understand.  Be sure that I am always Your old friend, Phillips Brooks.”

Lightly and evenly toned, with a horizontal fold at the center; pencil notations in the upper right corner.

Autograph Letter Signed, two pages on front and reverse of a single imprinted 3 ½” x 4 ¼” card, declining a request to attend a meeting.

“March 28, 1886.  My dear Mr. Bertrand, I am sorry to say that all my Tuesday Evenings now are hopelessly engaged, so that I must not hope to be at your meeting, which I doubt not will be very interesting & successful.  Yours most sincerely, Phillips Brooks.”

Lightly and evenly toned, with several minor stains and light creases.