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GARFIELD, James A. Letter signed ("J. A. Garfield"), AS PRESIDENT, to Rhode Island Senator Henry Brown Anthony (1815-1884), Washington, 28 June 1881. 1 page, 4to, Executive Mansion stationery. FINE.
A GARFIELD LETTER SIGNED AS PRESIDENT, ONLY FOUR DAYS BEFORE HE WAS SHOT
In a rare Presidential letter from the Executive Mansion, Garfield discusses his impending, in the end fatal, journey--one that never proceeded beyond the waiting room of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad station: "I had hoped to be able to visit Yale and thence to Rhode Island," President Garfield writes, "accepting the kind invitation of your Governor but Mrs. Garfield's health was not sufficiently restored to enable me to do so, and I have been compelled to abandon that part of the trip altogether. I hope sometime to be able to visit your state."
Charles Guiteau, a crazed, frustrated office-seeker who had been stalking Garfield for weeks, shot the President as he walked alongside Secretary of State James G. Blaine in the B & P waiting room. Grazed in the arm and shot in the back, Garfield's wounds should not have been mortal. However, in the series of operations conducted by his doctors, and by their exploration of his wounds with unsanitary fingers and instruments, the physicians introduced deadly bacteria into the President's system (see following lot). He became infected and died of pneumonia on 19 September 1881. GARFIELD'S LETTERS AS PRESIDENT ARE VERY RARE.
Provenance: Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 3 June 1980, lot 913).
A GARFIELD LETTER SIGNED AS PRESIDENT, ONLY FOUR DAYS BEFORE HE WAS SHOT
In a rare Presidential letter from the Executive Mansion, Garfield discusses his impending, in the end fatal, journey--one that never proceeded beyond the waiting room of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad station: "I had hoped to be able to visit Yale and thence to Rhode Island," President Garfield writes, "accepting the kind invitation of your Governor but Mrs. Garfield's health was not sufficiently restored to enable me to do so, and I have been compelled to abandon that part of the trip altogether. I hope sometime to be able to visit your state."
Charles Guiteau, a crazed, frustrated office-seeker who had been stalking Garfield for weeks, shot the President as he walked alongside Secretary of State James G. Blaine in the B & P waiting room. Grazed in the arm and shot in the back, Garfield's wounds should not have been mortal. However, in the series of operations conducted by his doctors, and by their exploration of his wounds with unsanitary fingers and instruments, the physicians introduced deadly bacteria into the President's system (see following lot). He became infected and died of pneumonia on 19 September 1881. GARFIELD'S LETTERS AS PRESIDENT ARE VERY RARE.
Provenance: Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 3 June 1980, lot 913).