Price: $15,000 President. Typewritten Letter Signed, one and one-half pages, quarto, Augusta, Georgia, December 30, 1953. On White House stationery, to Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C. Dwight D Eisenhower voices his clear centrist political agenda: “As 1953 comes to an end I have the impulse to attempt, once again, … [ Read More ]
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Eisenhower, Dwight D
Price: $12,500 President of the United States; Supreme Allied Commander. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, quarto, [Algiers], March 1, [1943]. To his wife Mamie, with the original envelope, bearing Eisenhower’s “censored” stamp and signature. Dwight D Eisenhower, as the newly appointed Allied Commander-in-Chief in North Africa, had planned and directed the Allied landings which the … [ Read More ]
Eisenhower, Dwight D
Price: $8,500 President of the United States; Supreme Allied Commander. Printed Broadside Signed, one page, quarto, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, [undated]. To the “Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!” Eisenhower signs a printed D-Day Order of the Day containing his famous address to the forces preparing to depart for the Normandy … [ Read More ]
Eisenhower, Dwight D
Price: $4,750 President of the United States; Supreme Allied Commander. Autograph Letter Signed, Ike, two and one-half pages, octavo, [London, September 22, 1942]. To his wife Mamie, with the original envelope. Dwight D Eisenhower “A note just arrived from Johnny which I will send along with this. I’ve had later ones from him & have … [ Read More ]
Eisenhower, Dwight D
Price: $12,500 President of the United States; Supreme Allied Commander. Autograph Letter Signed, Ike, four and one-half pages, quarto, [Algiers], March 15 [1943]. To his wife, Mamie, with the original envelope. Dwight D Eisenhower “I’ve written many notes during the past few days but since I expect to be away from my main headquarters for … [ Read More ]
Eisenhower, Dwight D
Price: $20,000 President of the United States; Supreme Allied Commander. Autograph Letter Signed, (“Ike” and “D”), 2 * pages (8 x 10 * in.; 203 x 266 mm.), “Versailles” January 15, 1945, to his wife Mamie Eisenhower on blue-lined paper. Minor toning on edges. Dwight D Eisenhower Ten days before the end of the Battle … [ Read More ]
First Presidential Inauguration
Price: $75,000 THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION THE ONLY KNOWN PRIVATELY OWNED COPY OF THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR INAUGURATING GEORGE WASHINGTON THE THIRD DOCUMENT PRINTED BY THE NEW UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Printed Broadside, The Committees of Both Houses of Congress, appointed to take order for conducting the ceremonial of the formal reception, & of the President of … [ Read More ]
Grant, Ulysses S
Price: $27,500 President. Autograph Letter Signed, U.S. Grant, two pages, octavo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1879. To Frank T. Weldon. “On this day, recognized as a Holiday by all Christendom, I acknowledge the receipt of the beautiful table, facsimile of the center table on which Gen. Lee & myself signed the terms of the formal … [ Read More ]
Grant, Ulysses S
Price: $12,500 United States President; Union General in the Civil War. Document Signed, Ulysses S. Grant, one and one-half pages, quarto, Washington, March 3, 1875. “House Bill No. 3341, is herewith returned without my approval for the reasons; first, that it appropriates from the treasury a large sum of money at a time when the … [ Read More ]
Harrison, William Henry
Price: $12,500 Autograph Letter Signed, twice, in full at the conclusion (William Henry Harrison) and with initials, after the postscript), three full pages, quarto, Frankfort, August 25, 1812. To “His Excellency Isaac Shelby, Govr. of Kentucky.” “Having explained to your Excellency in conversation the motives which induced me to call upon your venerable predecessor to … [ Read More ]
Hoover, Herbert
Price: $7,500 President of the United States. Typewritten Quotation Signed, seven lines on a 3 ¼ by 5 ¼ inch card, from Herbert Hoover’s address to the Centennial Committee Dinner of the YMCA, in New York, November 2, 1939. “At no point is free government more on trial today than in the opportunity and faith … [ Read More ]
Jackson, Andrew
Price: $25,000 President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, legal folio, Hermitage, June 25, 1827. To Henry Daniel. Andrew Jackson outlines his belief and policy that a strictly even-handed approach was the key to maintaining harmony in the Union; he wanted a bill fair to both North and South, who were drawing … [ Read More ]
Jackson, Andrew
Price: $17,500 President. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, quarto, Hermitage, November 30, 1844. To William Prescott, the American historian and conservative Whig, defending James K. Polk, the Democratic president-elect, against false accusations made by the Whigs concerning his slave holdings in Mississippi. “Your letter of the 7th instant reached me under course of mail, and … [ Read More ]
Jefferson, Thomas
Price:$85,000 President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, full page quarto, Washington, January 8, 1801. Thomas Jefferson. Written as Vice President (soon to be President) to Richard Richardson, his overseer at Monticello. “I received a few days ago your letter of Dec. 22. and on the 5th. inst. I wrote to Mr. [George] Jefferson … [ Read More ]
Jefferson, Thomas
Price: $100,000 JEFFERSON’S FAITH IN THE NEW GENERATION “…SO ENTIRELY AM I WITHDRAWN FROM…PUBLIC AFFAIRS…TO LEAVE THEM TO THE GENERATION IN PLACE, IN WHOSE HANDS FROM THE ADVANCING STATE OF KNOWLEDGE, THEY WILL BE AT LEAST AS WISELY CONDUCTED AS THEY HAVE BEEN BY THEIR PREDECESSORS.” President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, quarto, Monticello, … [ Read More ]
Kennedy, John F and Jacqueline
Price: $17,500 President and First Lady. Their Christmas card for 1963, signed by each, “John Kennedy Jacqueline Kennedy” beneath the printed words, “With our wishes for a Blessed Christmas and Happy New Year.” The gold embossed presidential seal appears at the top of the card. The card shows on its front cover the crèche in … [ Read More ]
Lincoln, Abraham
Price: $7,500 President of the United States. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, one page, oblong octavo, undated, framed with a fine signature, Lincoln & Herndon, mounted below. As a young attorney, Abraham Lincoln pens a legal manuscript concerning a case of arson: Besides the title papers, one of which I have, and the other of which, Officers … [ Read More ]
Lincoln, Abraham
Price: $27,500 President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, A. Lincoln, one page, octavo, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1863. On imprinted stationery of the Executive Mansion, to Capt. Isaac R. Diller. “I must decline to take charge of Dr. Wetherell’s interests. If he presents a claim to Congress or to the Court of Claims, … [ Read More ]
Lincoln, Abraham
Price: $37,500 President of the United States. LINCOLN WRITES DURING THE CRITICAL DAYS BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR CONCERNING THE SITUATION AT FORT SUMPTER. Autograph Letter Signed as President, one page, octavo, April 6, 1861 to Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles, the letter partially damaged by fire. Abraham Lincoln became President on March … [ Read More ]
Lincoln, Abraham
Price: $15,000 President of the Unites States. Autograph Letter Signed, A. Lincoln, one page, octavo, Executive Mansion, May 5, 1864. To Hon. Jno. A.J. Creswell. “I shall be pleased to receive the gentleman named at 2 p.m. today.” Abraham Lincoln’s appointment was with one of his staunchest supporters. John Angel James Creswell of Maryland was … [ Read More ]
Lincoln, Abraham
Price: $20,000 President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, A. Lincoln, one page, octavo, April 2, 1862. “I would suggest that Hon. Stephen T. Logan of Springfield, Illinois, and Col. James Mitchell, of Freehob in the same state, be appointed a commissioner to examine into claims etc. at Cairo — the said commissioners to … [ Read More ]
Reagan, Ronald
Price: $37,500 President. Typewritten Speech delivered at the Detroit Economic Club, in caps on large index cards, 63 pages, oblong octavo, Detroit, May 15, 1980. With 249 words corrected and revised in Ronald Reagan’s large “block print” hand (shown in italics). Ronald Reagan delivered his speech in Detroit, one month before the Republican convention, which … [ Read More ]
Reagan, Ronald
Price: $37,500 President of the United States. Autograph Manuscript Signed, six and a half pages of writing (seven actual pages), 8 inches wide by 10 inches high, Pacific Palisades, California, summer of 1960. Reagan’s proposal for a General Electric Theater special program on the evils of communism, written in heavy, dark pencil. (The engraved stationery … [ Read More ]
Reagan, Ronald
Price: $15,000 President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, “Love / Dutch,” as President, December 7, 1981, one page, quarto, on White House stationery. To “Hup” (the widow of the Iowa radio station program director who gave Ronald Reagan his first job 49 years earlier). With the original White House envelope [postmarked December 7, … [ Read More ]
Reagan, Ronald
Price: $6,750 President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, “Ron,” one page octavo, no date. To Chuck [Luckman]. “Thanks for sending me your speech. I know your audience so know how well it must have been red’d and deservedly so. I might as well be completely honest and warn you that you may find … [ Read More ]
Reagan, Ronald
Price: $850 President. Document Signed Ronald Reagan, ten pages, large quarto, June 18, 1952. Headed Minutes of the Meeting of the Motion Picture Industry Council, Held in the Board Room of the Association of Motion Picture Producers. Reagan signs the minutes as secretary of the MPIC. The minutes report on various items, including the proposed … [ Read More ]
Reagan, Ronald
Price: $15,000 President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, “RR,” two pages, octavo, [August 30, 1968], as Governor of California. A retained draft with a line drawn through after his secretary had types it and, generally, signed his name to the types version. Dear Mr. Chandler, I hope you’ll forgive me for not complying … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Price: $17,500 President. Autograph Letter Signed and Typewritten Letter Signed, each one page, small oblong quarto and quarto, January 1 and January 22, 1934. To Walter J. Cummings, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. On New Year’s Day Franklin D Roosevelt writes: “I congratulate you and Mr. Bennett and Mr. O’Connor because you have … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Price: $15,000 President. Partly printed Document Signed, one page, narrow oblong quarto, November 4, 1932. Franklin D Roosevelt signs a “Return Receipt” acknowledging that the candidate’s name is correctly placed on the ballot: “To Burt E. Burnett, County Clerk for the County of Jackson / I hereby acknowledge receipt by registered mail, of proof copy … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Price: $17,500 President. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, April 7, 1932. On his name-imprinted State of New York Executive Chamber stationery, to Mr. J. Osborn Brink in Monrovia, California. Headed “Personal” at the top in Franklin D Roosevelt’s hand. With original envelope and a letter from Roosevelt to U.S. Senator Robert F. Wagner, dated … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Price: $25,000 President. Typewritten Manuscript Signed, one page, small quarto, Washington, D.C., January 25, 1936. On White House Stationery. “Abraham Lincoln was not a son of the North or of the South. Born in Kentucky and nurtured in the very heart of our land, the scope of his intellect and of his sympathies was co-extensive … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Price: $4,750 President. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, quarto, Hyde Park, New York, September 14, no year. On his name-imprinted stationery, to Dear Mr. Roberts. “I’m sorry, but still I don’t understand about the certificates. These are for 6,000 shares, the full amount to go to the organizers-and I understand that while they were to … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Price: $1,250 President. Typewritten Letter Signed, FDR, two very full pages, quarto, Hyde Park, August 10, 1929. As Governor of New York, to Carp. After thanking Carp for his letter, Franklin D Roosevelt notes that he is home for “three comparatively quiet days interspersed by only one speech each day before I leave on Monday … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Price: $1,750 “Knights of the Air” by Lester J. Maitland, New York, 1929. A heavily illustrated history of the development of early airplanes. The book is signed on the endpaper by Maitland, and below that Franklin D Roosevelt has written “given me by Peter Brady / October 1929 / Franklin D. Roosevelt”. There is slight … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Theodore
Price: $8,750 President. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, New York, May 9, 1918. On imprinted stationery of The Kansas City Star, to William M. Stuart in Canisteo, New York. “That’s a very kind and friendly letter. Believe me I appreciate it to the full. I am particularly pleased to hear from you because as … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Theodore
Price: $17,500 President of the United States. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, New York, September 1, 1914. To H. W. Temple in Washington, Pennsylvania, with corrections in Roosevelt’s hand (shown in italic). “Permit me personally to congratulate you upon your activities in the 63rd Congress. I have more particularly in mind your unusually scholarly … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Theodore
Price: $15,000 President. Typewritten Letter Signed, two pages, quarto, on White House stationery, dated from Oyster Bay, New York, July 2, 1908. With original envelope to the Rev. William Potts George, in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The President sends an expression of his very deep appreciation of the action of the New York Preachers Meeting … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Theodore
Price: $10,000 President of the United States. Attractive sepia tone photograph of the twenty-sixth president of the United States, Signed on the mount (which is an integral part of the photograph) below, “Theodore Roosevelt / Sagamore Hill / 1918.” The photograph measures 4 inches wide by 6 inches high; overall measurements are 7 inches wide … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Theodore
Price: $17,500 President. Typewritten Manuscript, unsigned, sixty pages, small quarto, June 30, 1914. Entitled Speech of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Pennsylvania Progressive Conference, with extensive corrections on one page in Roosevelt’s hand. ROOSEVELT OUTLINES THE PLATFORM OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY. Theodore Roosevelt’s holograph corrections appear on page 37, where he had made extensive revisions, in pencil, … [ Read More ]
Truman, Harry S
Price: $8,750 President. Typewritten Manuscript, twenty-one pages, large quarto, [Washington, D.C.], November 1, 1946. Entitled Memorandum on the Organization of Staff Assistance to the President. With corrections comprising seventeen words in Harry S Truman’s hand in red crayon (shown in italic), and with corrections in the hand of Dr. John R. Steelman in ink (shown … [ Read More ]
Truman, Harry S
Price: $12,500 President. Typewritten Letter Signed, one and one-half pages, quarto, Independence, Missouri, October 5, 1960. On his name-imprinted stationery, to Congressman Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown, Ohio. “This is an urgent plea that you do everything you possibly can to help the Democratic ticket and the Honorable John F. Kennedy and the Honorable Lyndon … [ Read More ]
Truman, Harry S
Price: $12,500 President. Typewritten Letter Signed, one and one-quarter pages, quarto, Washington, D.C., March 19, 1946. On White House stationery, to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, president of the National Republic of China in Chungking, China. With the original envelope. “You will recall that your Government has on several occasions through Dr. T. V. Soong expressed the … [ Read More ]
Truman, Harry S
Price: $12,500 President of the United States. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, Washington, D.C., September 17, 1952. On White House stationery, to Edmund F. Gibbons, Bishop of Albany, New York. “I am sure that the commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the dedication of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany will … [ Read More ]
Tyler, John
Price: $17,500 President. Letter Signed, five pages, quarto, Washington, D.C., July 11, 1842. To Lewis Cass, the prominent Michigan politician who was serving as United States Minister to France. AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AND GOVERNMENT FINANCE, wherein President John Tyler introduces a special agent sent to Europe to help sell a U.S. … [ Read More ]
Washington, George
Price: $67,500 President. Autograph Letter Signed, G:Washington, one page, square quarto, Mount Vernon, April 6, [1786]. To William Heth, treasurer of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati. “An honest confession of the truth, is the best apology I can make for my not acknowledging the receipt of your favor of the 24th of Decr. before … [ Read More ]