Auction Date:2013 May 15 @ 18:00 (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
American military officer (1784–1869) who served in the War of 1812, Mexican-American War, and Civil War. LS, one lightly-lined page, both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, April 20, 1853. Letter to E. H. Derby. In part: “I deeply regret that I cannot avail myself of your flattering invitation. I am ordered to Washington, to attend a meeting of the Commissioners of the Military Asylum. I trust my absence will do no injury to the great enterprise you have in view. It seems to me that the sagacious Legislature of Massachusetts cannot for a moment hesitate to grant all you require. They certainly would not if they would consult the interest of the State and more especially the interests of the citizens of Boston. The completion of the tunnel will give you not only a continuous but the easiest and the shortest road from Boston to the Mississippi River. To attain this object, in order to obtain a share of the vast trade of the great West, many millions have already been expended but without success. The route through the projected tunnel is the only one by which you can expect to complete with the Hudson River and Harlem roads. This cannot be done by the Western road. The high grade and distance from Albany, including the crossing of the river at the latter place, will ever prevent competition with anything like success. With the facts before the Legislature, the members must be convinced of the necessity of another road, that is, if they desire that the citizens should continue this prosperity and preserve this high character for enterprise & utility. Without the road contemplated the State will not keep pace with the other States in improvement and advancement. These hurried remarks are not made because I am personally interested in the road. Far from it. I have urged the completion of the road because I believe it would promote the general interest, and at the same time, the citizens of the northern part of Massachusetts and of Boston would receive their due share of the trade of the great West. They cannot obtain it by any other route nor by any other means.” Intersecting folds, tape reinforcement to central horizontal fold, and mounting remnants to one vertical edge, otherwise fine condition.
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