Auction Date:2011 Jan 12 @ 16:00 (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 “Z. Taylor,” one page both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, February 19, 1824. Taylor writes to a Colonel Hamilton. In part: “When in N. Orleans a short time since, I saw Majr. Genl. Scott, who was just on the eve of leaving there for Mobile & Pensacola. He requested me if I visited this neighbourhood before leaving the country, that I would call at your house & say to you from him, that on his return to N. Orleans…that you would meet him at Baton Rouge; & if it was not in your power to do so he would visit you at your residence, as he was determined on not leaving the country without seeing you.” He has added the postscript: “I called at your house on Tuesday last, & was informed by a servant that you was [sic] not at home.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, a few small holes in the paper, edge chips, smudges, old tape reinforcement to three fold lines on the back, and professionally inlaid into a slightly larger sheet.
At the time, Taylor was assigned to a command at Baton Rouge, where General Winfield Scott visited on an inspection tour in January 1824. In addition to the message for Colonel Hamilton, Scott also brought word to Taylor that he had been ordered back to Louisville as superintendent of recruiting services. Surprised, Taylor nevertheless followed orders, settling his Louisiana affairs—including the delivery of this message—before leaving Baton Rouge five days later.
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