Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (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, one page, lightly-lined both sides, 8.25 x 10.75, June 14, 1851. Letter to J. W. Brashear. In full: “I thank you for your message which you sent me requesting me to take a ride in your stage. Mrs. H. and myself did intend to go down about this time but changed our design to visit Independence at the Convention but there was not stage on last Thursday so we did not go. We may go to Houston after the 24th inst. and be there on the 4th of July if it suits. We must contrive to take Master Sam and two young ladies who wish to go with Mrs. H. when she goes down. If this can be arranged we may go. There are no good private carriages here to procure and the weather is too hot to ride on horseback for ladies. I have been invited to go to Dallas…I think it is too far this hot season.
I write in haste as the mail is about closing. What is the cost of the Passg. As my friend, call on Rice & Nichol, and get a bundle left there by Judge Johnson of Galveston, and send it to me by your driver to the care of Roger Perkins of this place. The bundle contains vests and must be kept dry and safe. Write to me soon. Salute your Lady & family for me.” Under his signature, Houston adds a short postscript reading: “Tell me all the news! We hear you have cholera in Houston. Have you? Houston.”
In very good condition, with intersecting mailing folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered mild toning, a couple small separations along folds, some light wrinkling, and text from opposing sides slightly showing through. The Texas references in this letter are amazing, with mention of a potential visit to the city that bears his name, as well as the Big D (though he confesses it may be too hot), and Galveston…a virtual ‘Who’s Who’ of historic Texas town names.
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