Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 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
Wife of Benjamin Harrison and First Lady from 1889 until her death in 1892 ALS signed “Mrs. Benjamin Harrison,” one page both sides, 4 x 6, Executive Mansion letterhead, June 18. Letter to the Postmaster of Washington, D. C. In full: “By mistake a package for Mr. Alburtus [sic] Shelley was sent to 839 N. 5th St. Washington the correct address being 839 N. 5th St. Philadelphia. Will you kindly make inquiry & have it forwarded & oblige.” In fine condition, with some light soiling to first page and a couple trivial brushes to signature. On May 17, 1891, 19-year-old violinist Albertus Shelley was invited by First Lady Caroline Harrison to perform at the White House. Present were the President and Mrs. Harrison, several members of the Cabinet, and other distinguished guests. Rev. Abraham James Fretz wrote in A Brief History of Bishop Henry Funck… (Elkhart, Indiana: Mennonite Publishing Co., 1899), which included short biographies of descendants of Funck who had come to America in 1719, that ‘Mrs. Harrison presented Shelley with a diamond scarf pin.’ Fretz does not say when the pin was given to Shelley. It is possible that the diamond pin was mailed by Mrs. Harrison to Shelley a few weeks later in the package that mistakenly was sent to an address in Washington instead of the same address in Philadelphia.
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