PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PEGGY N. AND ROGER G. GERRY, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE GERRY CHARITABLE TRUST
[AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION]. A fine collection of approximately 180 letters, documents, signed calling cards, etc., signed by Presidents, cabinet members, generals, admirals, English and American authors, actors and actresses, singers, scientists and others, mostly 1790-1900. All tipped or mounted in a folio Victorian album. Collection was begun in 1845 and continued by several subsequent family members resident in San Francisco. Sold as a collection, not subject to return.
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[AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION]. A fine collection of approximately 180 letters, documents, signed calling cards, etc., signed by Presidents, cabinet members, generals, admirals, English and American authors, actors and actresses, singers, scientists and others, mostly 1790-1900. All tipped or mounted in a folio Victorian album. Collection was begun in 1845 and continued by several subsequent family members resident in San Francisco. Sold as a collection, not subject to return.
Select contents: Elbridge Gerry, J. Buchanan (ALS, 1835), U.S. Grant, R.B. Hayes, Kalakaua, C.A. Arthur (White House card), G. Cleveland (same), W.H. Taft (same), T. Roosevelt (plain card), W.T. Sherman, R.E. Lee (clipped), J.A. Early, P.G.T. Beauregard, C. Sumner (check signed), Jefferson Davis (brief ALS, 1885), G. Bancroft, Washington Irving, R. Gatling (on card), Horatio Alger (1-page poem signed, 1887), Thomas A. Edison (fine umbrella signature), E.E. Hale, L.M. Alcott, H. B. Stowe (on card), E. Caruso, Richard Strauss, P. Mascagni, King Norton I of California (check signed), Albert A. Michelson (ALS, 1901), Brigham Young, Cyrus W. Field, C.A. Lindbergh (TLS, 1953),
Select contents: Elbridge Gerry, J. Buchanan (ALS, 1835), U.S. Grant, R.B. Hayes, Kalakaua, C.A. Arthur (White House card), G. Cleveland (same), W.H. Taft (same), T. Roosevelt (plain card), W.T. Sherman, R.E. Lee (clipped), J.A. Early, P.G.T. Beauregard, C. Sumner (check signed), Jefferson Davis (brief ALS, 1885), G. Bancroft, Washington Irving, R. Gatling (on card), Horatio Alger (1-page poem signed, 1887), Thomas A. Edison (fine umbrella signature), E.E. Hale, L.M. Alcott, H. B. Stowe (on card), E. Caruso, Richard Strauss, P. Mascagni, King Norton I of California (check signed), Albert A. Michelson (ALS, 1901), Brigham Young, Cyrus W. Field, C.A. Lindbergh (TLS, 1953),