Auction Date:2011 Oct 12 @ 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
ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 3.75 x 6, personal letterhead, January 3, 1901. Letter to Colonel Edward Jay Allen, organizer of the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company. In full: “So glad to get your delightfully personal book—Takes me back to those letters in the Dispatch which I read as a youngster. This leaves you very senior, thank the Fates for that! Your preface is a gem—shows the literary gift & I'll take up the volume at night & go over it I'm sure with rare pleasure, one which only the few ‘far heu’ [?] friends of lang syne can feel. Glad to think of you as still the old happy genial man in his prime. Many happy New Years to you [and] to that little woman you prize.” In very good condition, with Carnegie’s closing, written vertically, affecting a few letters of text, uniform toning, some heavier spotting to first page, and a bit of trivial feathering to signature. Allen was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and a member of the staff of General Fremont during the Civil War. One of the first settlers of Seattle, he organized the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph company and was a dear friend of Carnegie.
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