Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (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 signed “W. T. Sherman,” four pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, personal letterhead, February 7, 1884. To Mary Audenried, widow of Sherman's aide, Col. Joseph C. Audenried. Sherman had taken Mary and her wayward underage daughter Florence under his wing, and congratulates Mary for putting Florence in a convent. In full: “I have this minute returned from a breakfast at Mrs. Kelifers…with Madam Willson who is a splendid type of woman. We go to hear her tomorrow in her new play of Giaconda. I find…that you had safely deposited Florence in the convent at Manhattanville, I congratulate you in thus having solved a difficult problem. At that convent they will make her conform to their rules and will stop her correspondence with the boys…I think you had better exercise your right to inspect those letters and notify the parties that…they should cease to correspond with your daughter till she is full 18 years old. If Florence has been corresponding with some boy under cover to Miss Daily Ricketts, I advise you to call on Mrs. Ricketts…to assist you in stopping this clandestine channel of communication. After Florence is 18 years old I would let her marry as soon as she pleases, and the natural law of maternity will soon tame her proud spirit. It is infinitely better that she should be at Manhattanville than Washington where she would worry your life out of you. It was too bad she should have spoilt your visit to Saint Louis…The Sisters at Manhattanville have large experience with such willful girls.” In fine condition, with light intersecting folds and a couple of corner creases. According to the book Citizen Sherman by Michael Fellman, President Rutherford B. Hayes wrote to Sherman in June 1880, asking him to pay a visit to Mrs. Audenried and give the President's condolences on the death of her husband. Thereafter, the married Sherman and Mrs. Audenried entered into an affair within six months.
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