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Item Details
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| Heading: |
AAA |
| Author: |
Belmont, August |
| Title: |
Autograph Letter signed by August Belmont, to Senator Arthur Pue Gorman |
| Place: |
New York |
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| Date: |
1884 |
| Item # : |
202648 |
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| Sale Number |
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403 |
| Lot Number |
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7 |
| Sale Name |
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| Americana with Manuscript Material; Travel & Exploration; Maps; Photographs |
| Sale Date |
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05/14/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 300 |
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| Description: |
| 6 pp., in ink, on two 4-page lettersheets 7x4½. |
| August Belmont (1813-1890), banker, businessman, diplomat, and a power broker in the Democratic Party, writes to Senator Gorman of Maryland with regard to the 1884 presidential campaign, attempting to find an alternative to Grover Cleveland, the eventual nominee. "...I expect to see Kingsley again tomorrow & I want him to be the candidate for chairman of the opponents of Cleveland in our Delegation..." |
| Condition: |
| Vertical crease, very good or better. |
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