RR Auction: Rare Manuscripts, Documents and Autographs

Signed book: Profiles in Courage. Later printing. NY: Harper and Brothers, 1956. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 266 pages. Signed and inscribe

Twenty-five letters to presidents, one typed, various sizes, ranging in date from 1767 to 1929. Letters to Presidents John Adams, James Madison, James

Partly-printed war-dated DS as president, one page, 14 x 13.25, November 12, 1861. President Lincoln appoints David Hodgson a “Third Lieutenant in the

ALS signed “A. Lincoln,” one page, 7.5 x 12.75, Springfield, November 16, 1858. Lincoln’s letter appears on the lower half of a letter to him from Mar

LS signed “W. McKinley Jr,” one page, lightly-lined, 5 x 9, Committee on Ways and Means letterhead, April 19, 1890. Letter to Selover and Atwood, nurs

Partly-printed vellum DS, signed “James Monroe” as president and “John Quincy Adams” as secretary of state, one page, 10.5 x 15, November 29, 1817. Sc

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 16 x 10, March 18, 1834. President Monroe grants 80 acres of land in Ohio to Henry Friesner. Signed at the c

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 13.5 x 17, May 25, 1854. President Pierce appoints Charles S. Winder as “First Lieutenant in the Thir

Partly-printed scalloped-top DS, signed as president, signed “James K. Polk” as president and “James Buchanan” as secretary of state, one page, 10.25

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 14.5 x 17.5, May 24, 1847. Polk appoints Samuel H. B. Vance “First Lieutenant in the Third Regiment o