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PROFESSOR “HELL AND THUNDER” JACKSON GRADES HIS 14 STUDENTS IN VMI’S CLASS OF 1859: ALL WENT ON TO SERVE AS OFFICERS IN THE ARMY OF THE CONFEDERACY
(JACKSON, Thomas J. “Stonewall”). Virginia Military Institute Grading Sheet [Autograph Document signed]. Lexington, June 17, 1859. Scarce partly printed 1859 class report signed “T.J. Jackson / Prof.” to Col. F.H. Smith, Superintendent, Virginia Military Institute. Completely filled out by Jackson, with the names and grades of his 14 students, all of whom went on to serve as officers in the Army of the Confederacy, and docketed by Jackson on verso. Jackson taught at Virginia Military Institute—where he was known to cadets as “Hell and Thunder”—for ten years before the outbreak of the Civil War. $32,500.
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SIGNED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, RARE OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENT DATED JULY 9, 1863, ONLY DAYS AFTER GETTYSBURG AND VICKSBURG
LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. City of Washington, July 9, 1863. Fine July 9, 1863 official presidential order signed by Lincoln shortly after the Union’s powerful but costly victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, here calling for Maine to draft thousands of men under the controversial March 3, 1863 Conscription Act, a law that would provoke the bloody New York draft riots that erupted only six days after the date of this rare Civil War signed document. $22,500.
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“I DAYDREAM THAT SUDDENLY, BY SOME MIRACLE, I WILL BE ABLE TO COME HOME TO YOU…”
DAYAN, Moshe. Archive of autograph letters signed. Acre, Palestine, 1939-1941. 13 original signed autograph letters by Moshe Dayan, consisting of 47 handwritten pages to his wife, parents, and parents-in-law, in Hebrew and English, written on fragile prison toilet tissue while held prisoner by the British. $79,000.
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“THE LADY-BEARER OF THIS—A QUAKERESS—WISHES TO DO SOME ACTS OF HUMANITY FOR SECESSION PRISONERS…”
(LINCOLN, Abraham). Autograph album. Washington, circa 1844. Stirring and very unusual autograph note signed by Lincoln from 1863 authorizing the bearer, a “Quakeress,” to tend to Confederate prisoners of war, whom he here describes as “secession prisoners.” The recipient tipped this note into her original mid-19th-century autograph album that contains more than 250 original historic signatures, including those of Presidents Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and John Quincy Adams, as well as many other figures important in politics leading up to and during the Civil War, both in the Union and in the Confederacy, most signed during the years 1843-1845. Also with a warm letter from the owner’s cousin, Dolley Madison, tipped in. $55,000.
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TWICE SIGNED BY TWO AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THEN SECRETARY OF STATE THOMAS JEFFERSON
WASHINGTON, George, JEFFERSON, Thomas et al. Document signed. Alexandria, (Virginia), Philadelphia, 1793-1794. Rare official document, twice signed by both Washington as the nation’s first president and by Jefferson as America’s first Secretary of State, circa 1793, consisting of ship’s papers—the manifest, passport and request for safe passage—for the sloop Abigail, subsequently officially engrossed and countersigned by Vincent Gray, Deputy Collector of Customs, and Robert Mease, Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia in August 1794. An exceptionally rare document twice signed by America’s first and third presidents. $50,000.
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“TO HAVE SUBMITTED OUR RIGHTFUL COMMERCE… WOULD HAVE BEEN TO SURRENDER OUR INDEPENDENCE”: EXCEEDINGLY RARE 1808 LETTER SIGNED BY JEFFERSON AS PRESIDENT
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Letter signed. No place, August 26, 1808. Rare August 26, 1808 circular letter signed by Jefferson in answer to one of three leading petitions sent him earlier the same month from Newburyport, Massachusett (along with one from Boston and one from Providence), petitions organized in a Federalist campaign to protest his Embargo Act, whose enactment provoked such fury that “Jefferson grimly mobilized the troops to enforce it.” Here, in the closing months of his presidency, Jefferson speaks of America as facing a time, “in which the history of nations presents no parallel,” and defends the Embargo Act as a means of avoiding a costly and deadly war with Britain and France. $48,000.
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SIGNED BY GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE, VINTAGE ALBUMEN PRINT OF LEE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY MATHEW BRADY AFTER APPOMATTOX
[BRADY, Mathew] LEE, Robert E. Photograph signed. Richmond, circa 1865. Rare vintage albumen print, circa 1865, of General Robert E. Lee, boldly signed by him in the lower portion of the image, from a photograph by Mathew Brady—“the “Father of American Photography”—a distinguished bust-length portrait of Lee in uniform taken on his porch in Richmond only days after Appomattox and the death of Lincoln from an assassin’s bullet. $27,500.
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RARE, EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENT SIGNED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
DATED THE SAME DAY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION PROPOSED “A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO BE ESTABLISHED CONSISTING OF A SUPREME LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE & JUDICIARY”
FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Manuscript document signed by Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia, May 30, 1787. Exceptional May 30, 1787 original manuscript document in a secretarial hand, boldly signed by Benjamin Franklin as President of Pennsylvania, in a magnificent signature of over two inches and with his multi-looped bold flourish. This rare official document, granting the sale of land to Peter Millhouse, is dated only two days after Franklin made his first and much heralded appearance, as a Pennsylvania delegate, to the Constitutional Convention, and is signed by him the same day the Convention, newly convened in Philadelphia, proposed “That a national Government ought to be established consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive & Judiciary.” With original fragile embossed paper Seal of Pennsylvania. $26,000.
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SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG, THE SAMUEL HEIMAN COPY, WITH MILNE’S PERSONAL SIGNED BOOKPLATE
AND FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ERNEST SHEPARD REGARDING ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FOR THE POOH BOOKS
MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. London, 1924. First edition, first issue, of Milne’s first children’s book-the scarcest of the “Pooh Quartet”—in original dust jacket, with autograph letter signed by illustrator Ernest H. Shepard regarding original drawings for When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as Milne’s bookplate, signed by him, on the front pastedown. The copy of noted bibliophile Samuel Heiman. $25,000.
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SCARCE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY “STONEWALL” JACKSON DURING THE CIVIL WAR
JACKSON, Thomas J. “Stonewall” Autograph letter signed. Camp Stephens, June 24, 1861. Autograph letter signed “T.J. Jackson,” writing to his banker regarding money matters before leaving with his brigade for Martinsburg with orders to destroy the town’s railroad shops—upon his return he is promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General. $22,500.
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