Auction Date:2011 Jan 12 @ 16:00 (UTC-5 : 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, one page both sides, 4.25 x 7, August 2, 1889. A month after the death of his wife, Hayes writes a confidential letter to an unidentified woman. In full: “The information you call for is, I think, correctly given by Miss Willard in her ‘Women and Temperance.’ Mrs. Hayes mourned over the divisions and controversies among Temperance workers. Of decided convictions herself, she was tolerant of the opinions of others. She did not, as so many do, think herself infallible. She was a Republican. I do not know when she joined the W.C.T.U. [Women’s Christian Temperance Union]. Was no doubt a member. Now if you quote me, or refer to me as authority it will be a violation of confidence. I have plainly written ‘Confidential’ at the head of this note. I am to be excused for saying this, because a person of good repute has just done what ought not to have been done in this respect.” In fine condition, with two blocks of even toning on the front side, mounting remnants on the lower margin of the back page, and writing showing through from opposing sides.
The former president’s concerned sensitivity in the letter about the temperance movement and his concern about how his wife’s memory might be used by Frances Willard, who served as WCTU president. Although Lucy Hayes did not personally drink alcohol and supported anti-alcohol legislation, “she was tolerant of the opinions of others,” as Hayes states here, and was not adamant about abstinence in others—an opinion that irritated Willard and the often militant stance taken by the WCTU. Very interesting content and an opinion that Hayes did not want shared with many, hence his emphatic restatement of having “plainly written ‘Confidential’ at the head of this note.”
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