Auction Date:2011 Nov 09 @ 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
Statesman from Massachusetts (1740–1814) who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. ALS signed “Sam A. Otis,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, January 5, 1811. Letter to William Sumner upon the death of his mother. In part: “I cannot suffer the mail to pass without obtruding on your grief & joining my tears with yours & those of your weeping sisters, on the loss of a mother so amiable, & of a lady who to her friends & acquaintances became so endeared by all estimable qualities. The tender hearts of the poor young ladies, twice orphaned, must be deeply pierced. But to you & to them what avail the small consolations of my sincerest sympathy? Those of religion & the healing hand of time can only mitigate the anguish of such wounds…she is gone to join her sister Seraphs in the mansions of peace and felicity—Where pain & death shall know no more.” Second integral page bears an free franked address panel in Otis’s hand, franked in the upper right, “Free Sam A. Otis.” Intersecting folds, mild toning, and show-through from writing on opposite side, otherwise fine condition.
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