Auction Date:2012 Dec 16 @ 10:00 (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
Co-owner of Macy's department store who perished, along with his wife, on board the Titanic. TLS, one page, 4.75 x 7.75, personal letterhead, December 14, 1899. Letter to Harvard professor D. G. Lyon. In full: “I enclose herewith my check for $50., in order to enable the student in question to do the work he is engaged in without the drawback of lack of nourishment. When this is exhausted, let me know.” In very good to fine condition, with a central horizontal fold, some light soiling and creasing, and a notation below letterhead. Also included are letters from his oldest son Jesse and his brother Oscar. Oscar served in President Theodore Roosevelt’s cabinet from 1906 to 1909, becoming the first Jewish United States Cabinet member when he served as United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
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