RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 18 x 14, January 7, 1922. President Harding appoints Peter Thomsen to be postmaster of Fulton, Illinois. Sig

Signed book: Have Faith in Massachusetts. Later printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 8, 275 pages. Signed and

Scarce ALS, one page, 6.5 x 8, personal letterhead, January 7, 1954. Letter to Professor Wallace B. Amsbury. In full: “General Hawley tells me you wan

Massive archive of 170 TLSs from Herbert Hoover to Lewis Strauss, spanning 1920 to 1964 (none from his presidency), signed in a number of manners, inc

TLS as president, one page, 8 x 10.5, White House letterhead, September 7, 1939. Letter to Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, director of the Democratic Natio

World War II–dated TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, May 6, 1942. Letter to Senator Lister Hill. In full: “Ever so many th

Fountain pen signature, “Franklin D. Roosevelt,” on an off-white 6 x 9.5 sheet, to which was later added a typewritten Oath of Office and the date of

Matte-finish 8.25 x 11.5 Harris and Ewing photo, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen as president, “For Air Marshall William Bish

TLS as president, one page, 6.75 x 9, White House letterhead, February 2, 1939. Brief letter of thanks. In full: “You were more than kind to send me s

Desirable 11 x 14 engraved portrait of President Roosevelt, signed below the vignette in bold fountain pen, “Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Moderate uniform