Auction Date:2013 Nov 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Collection of four letters, various sizes, 27 pages in all, all written to New York photographer Charles D. Fredricks, one dated 1864 and three 1865. A selection from the letters follows:
Letter from his wife Louise, dated April 18, 1865: “I suppose before you receive this you will have learned the awful news with which we were all so shocked on Saturday morning…I refer of course, to the shooting of the President and the attempt upon the life of Seward who was confined to his bed having been thrown from a carriage. You will of course see some papers so it is unnecessary for me to scribe particulars. The feeling of indignation is almost universal, and the two or three voices which have been raised against it have received very summary treatment at the hands of the people. There will be no business done until after the President’s funeral which takes place to-morrow. Thursday had previously been appointed as a day of rejoicing & illumination to-gether with Thanksgiving-Services in all the churches. I suppose the order of the day will be somewhat changed. Mr. Mather told Lige that it was doubtful if the Steamer sailed on Wednesday, as there had been so little freight shipped from the general stagnation of business on account of the Presidents death.”
Second letter from his wife, dated April 25, 1865: “The day upon which your letter was written ‘Viernes Santo’ [Good Friday] was an eventful one for the U.S. and about which you already know. To-day Mr. Lincoln’s remains pass through the City of N.Y.—There has been scarcely any business done since the President was killed. To-morrow the Theatres will be opened and every thing resumed as usual.” The third letter is from Oliver Taylor dated April 19, 1965, about Fredricks sending Royal Havana lottery tickets to Taylor; and the fourth is a 15-page letter from Henry Avery, dated December 21, 1864, decribing the supplies he’s bought for Fredricks’s studio, as well as items he’s sold and on the current business situation, “I send by Purser of Eagle [steamship] the Passepartouts [French term for mats] ordered and by him also the Engraving of Lincoln and Lithograph of Franklin which are the largest heads I could get as for the Spanish.” In overall fine condition.
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