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U. S. Grant

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U. S. Grant

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Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (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 signed “U. S. Grant,” written on the blank integral leaf of a letter to Grant signed “Lewis Buckner,” one page, 4.75 x 8, December 8, 1881. Grant writes to an unnamed judge. In full: “I send you this letter & enclosure confidentially. I know the character of the letter written by the two women Snead—mother & daughter—but I did not know that they were receiving pay from the Government in addition to what they make as correspondents. I venture to say they return but little service to the government for what they receive.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds (several vertical folds, one touching first letter of Grant’s signature), one small edge separation to first page as well as a small separation along hinge, and scattered light soiling and wrinkling.

Buckner’s letter reads, in part: “I enclose you a slip cut from the Louisville Courier Journal of the 3rd inst. The writer of the article is a Mrs. Snead…. She has a daughter, Miss Austin Snead, who some times writes for the same paper over the nom de plume of Mrs. Grundy and her letters are generally of the same character as that enclosed. Now what I wish to advise you of is that these two women are now employed in the Treasury Dept…. They have persistently abused you, Mr. Conkling, and Gen. Arthur, until he came to the Presidency. These persons are but the instruments of Justice Harlan, and were doubtless first gotten places in the Treasury through his influence. They write letters for the paper named once a week and have made it a point never to omit to say something disrespectful about you, even when you were not in this Country. I have written this letter, thinking that if the attention of the present secretary of the Treasury was called to the fact, that he might take some proper step to have such an unseemly thing stopped—people drawing pay under a Republican administration, and at the same time writing the most villainous slanders against the Chiefs of the party.” Great content depicting a scandalous episode and showing the “unseemly” side of politics.
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