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William Henry Harrison

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William Henry Harrison

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Auction Date:2020 May 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:15th Floor WeWork, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108, 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 “W. H. Harrison,” one page both sides, 6.25 x 7.75, December 25, 1821. Letter to Ohio politician Micajah Terrell Williams, soliciting his support in his campaign for the United State Senate. In part: "I have written a sort of official notification to Captain Brown as the Senior of the Hamilton Delegation to communicate my wish to be considered as a candidate for the Senate of the U.S. I rely with confidence on the support of all of you. Mr. Short will be prevented by our commission from taking an active part but the rest can & I am sure will. You & Genl. Webb got so well acquainted with the members last year that you will have more in yr power than the others but the exertion of all will probably be necessary. There were a number of the upper members who last year voted against me solely from local considerations. Amongst these were Baldwin, Mt. Millan, Ogwatt, Stone, Jennings & Wheeler of the Senate and Harper, Galt, Lannon, House, Sloan, Whittlesey, Wilson &c &c of the House. Some of these (particularly Wilson) assure me of this in strongest terms. Will you be so obliging as to remind them of it in as Delicate Terms as possible—not that I consider them in the smallest degree pledged to me. But they all strongly disclaim any personal Hostility and on the contrary possess a friendship for me & a willingness to have served me if an obligation to what they concern to be the interests of their immediate Constituents had not forbade it. Make my particular respects to Col. & tell him that I rely upon his aid. I would have written to him but I thought it would be better to write as few letters as possible." Addressed on the integral leaf by Harrison. In fine condition. Although Harrison was denied his wishes in 1821, he would be elected to the US Senate three years later.