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Lucretia Garfield

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Lucretia Garfield

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Auction Date:2012 Aug 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
ALS signed “Lucretia R. Garfield,” eight pages on two sets of two adjoining sheets, 4 x 6, black-bordered mourning personal letterhead, June 9, 1895. Letter to Mrs. Calvin Rodgers. In part: “Brother Joe was in to see Cousin Mary Curtiss yesterday and found that she had been very ill after we saw her. She is up again now, but she really feels that she has very little to live for. I am glad you saw cousin Elizabeth Norton. It is very sad that she is left so destitute in her old age. But she has two sons who ought to see that she is provided for; and no doubt they will. Our little whoopers are getting along very well. Rudolph and Ruth cough only now and then, and sleep all night. Helen’s boys are just in the midst of it, but even they have fewer paroxysms in the twenty four hours.

I shall remember always our day in Cleveland–our rides, and our talks. You asked me to give you the titles of some of the books we talked about, but I forgot to do so before we parted and I write them down for you now. We are just reading Benjamin Kidd’s ‘Social Evolution’ and I would recommend that you read that before Drummond’s ‘Ascent of Man’. The others we mentioned were ‘God and the Bible’ by Matthew Arnold and ‘The Idea of God’ by John Fiske. We do not necessarily accept all these men may say, but their great strong thoughts hold so much of higher truth and a better understanding of life and its possibilities that we feel them to be safe guides. I believe you and Mr. Rodgers will enjoy them very much.” In fine condition, with a couple small separations along central horizontal folds, and a bit of scattered light toning and soiling. Accompanied by the original hand-addressed and free franked mailing envelope.
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