Auction Date:2014 Jan 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : 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
Endorsement, in French, signed within the text, “Mr. de Lesseps,” at the bottom of a one-page calligraphy-penned notice, 8.25 x 10.5. Notice reads, in full (translated): “Leave the Gare du Nord (North Station) for Calais at 9:55 AM on Friday, June 30. Lunch at Amiens station. Arrival Calais at 3 o’clock—Board Sir Ed. Watkin’s steam yacht—Channel Crossing. Disembark at Dover. Visit construction site ‘Castle Dover.’ Dinner and overnight at Dover Where rooms are reserved—July 1, morning train to arrive in 1/4 of an hour at the channel construction sites—Dinner and departure for London…the guests can return the same day by the night train Dover-Paris.” At the bottom, de Lesseps writes: “The guests will not get their tickets for Calais themselves. They will ask for the saloon car reserved for Mr. de Lesseps thanks to the good offices of Mr. Cousin, Inspector of the Northern Railroads.” Intersecting folds, toning to bottom half of page, and some label remnants to left side, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, signed in the lower left, “Ferdinand de Lesseps.” In 1881 the Anglo-French Submarine Railway Company began excavations for a Channel Tunnel. De Lesseps, and his chief engineer at Suez, Alexandre Lavalley, joined British tycoon Sir Edward Watkin in the project. Watkin planned to link the canal to his railroads in England and France. The project was plagued with financial and political problems and was abandoned in May 1882. Nevertheless, on June 26, 1882, (postmark on envelope of transmission) a determined de Lesseps sent out the above attractively penned notice to invited guests, presumably investors.
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