Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (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 lightly-lined page, both sides, 4.5 x 6.75, no date. Letter addressed to Jones. In full: “I write to you in answer to the letter of the 30th of March, signed by the Vice President, Senator Conkling & yourself, and only just rec’d. I regret exceedingly I did not get it at Galveston in time possibly to have had some effect. Please read my letter to you, and the one to Garfield to the signers of the letter of the 30th, and use your combined judgement as to whether the latter should be delivered or not.
I am likely to remain here another month. The work I am engaged upon is one which I believe is to result in great benefits to my own country, and of course to this. No personal consideration would tempt me to engage in what I am now doing, but I believe sincerely that by building these people up we will establish a market for our products which will stave off, for years at least, a panic which is otherwise inevitable from the rapidity with which we are going on.” One moderate central mailing fold, otherwise fine condition.
The references here to President James A. Garfield and to the work in which he is engaged being of importance to the United States date this letter to 1881. Upon his departure from Galveston, Grant embarked on a tour of Mexico in support of a railroad link between the US and its southern neighbor. “I am likely to remain here another month. The work I am engaged upon is one which I believe is to result in great benefits to my own country, and of course to this,” he tells the recipient. Genuinely fond of the Mexican people ever since the Mexican War, Grant—who had recently become president of Jay Gould's Mexican Southern Railroad—believed that their best interests lay in commercial expansion, with a railroad connection a means to that end. And as Grant stresses, such a line, which never came to fruition, would benefit American interests, too. “I believe sincerely that by building these people up we will establish a market for our products,” he said.
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