Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (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, one page both sides, 4.5 x 7.5, August 27, 1856. In part: “Had I imagined my disability was to wear away so slowly, I should have tried long ago to reach Mass. But I was in constant hope of a change, & was unwilling to get far from Washington, as my first longing was to get into my seat, & I wished to keep within easy distance. Day by day this opportunity has passed from me. My physician imposed upon me still and the mouth of inaction, & will not allow me yet to leave the mountain. Oh! The crime which is now waging against Kansas! I yearn to denounce it again & to point my finger at its author.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, and writing showing through on opposing sides. On May 22, 1856, Sumner was famously assaulted and severely beaten in the Senate chamber by South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks after Sumner had denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act and verbally attacked its authors, Stephen A. Douglas and Brooks’ uncle Andrew Butler. Sumner’s injuries were so severe that he was unable to attend sessions of Congress for the next three years, with this correspondence written from Cresson in the Alleghany Mountains of Pennsylvania, where his physician had sent him to recuperate.
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