Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (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 in Hayes’ florid hand, one page both sides, 4.25 x 7, August 2, 1889. Writing just a month after the death of his wife, ‘Lemonade Lucy,’ the former president writes to a woman in a letter marked “Confidential” at the top in his hand, 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. M. 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. Begging your pardon for extreme caution,” and adding the post script, “Excuse me for saying further: I do not see the importance or necessity of your taking on controversial and irritating questions in a Memorial Service. Can we not be in harmony on such an occasion?,” initialing “H” at the conclusion. In fine condition, with a uniform block of light toning over most of the text, and a strip of mounting remnants along the bottom border of the reverse side. Accompanied by a steel etching of the 19th president. Although a supporter of anti-alcohol legislation, Lucy “was tolerant of the opinions of others. She did not, as so many do, think herself infallible.” Frances Willard, president of the WCTU, and the organization as a whole, was endlessly irritated at this sentiment, and Hayes makes a directed gesture in deflecting their ridicule when he states, “I have plainly written ‘Confidential’ at the head of this note,” adding, “I do not see the importance or necessity of your taking on controversial and irritating questions in a Memorial Service.”
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