Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (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
ANS signed “J. A. Garfield,” one page, lightly-lined, 5 x 8, no date. Short note written at the bottom of a February 12, 1878, letter to Garfield from O. K. Harris, on House of Representatives letterhead. Harris asks for proof slips of Garfield’s speech. At the bottom, Garfield writes: “Will the Public Printer please send as requested above after slips are corrected.” In very good condition, with uniform toning, a vertical crease to body, and some scattered light soiling.
Accompanied by Garfield’s unsigned personal copy of Counting the Electoral Vote, Proceedings and Debates of Congress, 6.25 x 9.25. Washington. Government Printing Office: 1877, 807 pages, bearing Garfield’s personal bookplate “Inter Folia Fructus Library of James A. Garfield” affixed inside the front cover. Book rates very good with professionally restored boards and spine, scattered wear to covers, and rubbing to edges and joints. Inside pages are lightly foxed.
Garfield was serving another term in Congress and in the midst of his tenure as the Republican floor leader of the House when he made this request. One wonders whether the accompanying 1877 volume replaced an earlier, potentially well-worn edition, as the Ohio Republican was a member of the Electoral Commission that awarded 20 hotly contested electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes in his contest for the presidency against Samuel J. Tilden. An always desirable item from the man who a few years later would be elected the 20th president of the United States.
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