Fine Books & Manuscripts

Description:

(Autograph Album, 19th Century), Collection of autograph cards laid into an blue cloth album, [c. 1875], and including, Ulysses S. Grant, Caleb Cushing, King Kalakaua of the Hawaiian Islands, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edward E. Hale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (with sentiment and date 1874), Charles Sumner, Carl Schurz, Benjamin Butler, Wendell Phillips (autograph note signed), Oliver Wendell Holmes, James T. Fields (with sentiment), Wilkie Collins, Thomas Nast, Samuel Clemens (signed as Mark Twain as well), Gideon Welles, Brigham Young, Alexander Stephens, Andrew Johnson, and others, (all tipt in, binding cocked).
Estimate $3,000-5,000

approximatelt 78 total. Other notables include Mary Siddons and P.T. Barnum.

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