Auction Date:2011 Jul 13 @ 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
Rare LS as president signed “J. A. Garfield,” one page, 5.25 x 9, Executive Mansion letterhead, June 7, 1881. Letter to Vermont senator George F. Edmunds. In full: “Yours of the 3rd inst. Came duly to hand. Accept my thanks for your congratulations on the recovery of Mrs. Garfield. This is her thirty-fourth day in bed. She is just able for the first time, to sit up for half an hour. Her appetite has returned and I think her recovery is now certain. About ten days ago I appointed young Lyman as a Cadet to West Point. Thanking you for your letter…” In fine condition.
Lucretia Garfield’s active public role came to an abrupt halt in May 1881 when she contracted malaria and nearly died in the White House. During her illness, the president found himself unable to conduct the affairs of government, distracted by the thought of her demise. Here, however, he expresses a great deal of optimism as her improved physical strength and increasing appetite gave him hope that “her recovery is now certain.” To aid in Mrs. Garfield slow recovery, she was sent to the New Jersey seaside, escorted to the Washington train station by her husband. She appeared so weak and thin that Charles Guiteau—a disappointed office-seeker who had been stalking the president for several weeks—could not bring himself to fire a fatal shot, as he had intended, to spare the first lady the anguish of witnessing his possible assassination. No such obstacle existed for Guiteau on July 2, not even a month after this message was dispatched. Anything composed by Garfield during his brief tenure in the White House is understandably very scarce.
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