90 / 194
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(FIRST LADIES.) Group of 8 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by wives of
19th- and 20th-century presidents. Format and condition vary. (MRS)
Vp, vd
[350/500]
Lucretia R. Garfield. Clipped Signature, removed from an envelope. 2x4
1
/
2
inches. Cleveland,
30 January [circa 1900; from postmark] * Grace Coolidge (2). Autograph Letter Signed, to
“Dear Mrs. Shipherd,” thanking for her hospitality. 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery.
Northampton, “Monday morning”; Clipped Signature. 1x3
1
/
2
inches. Np, nd * Lou Henry
Hoover. Signature, on a small card, below printed “Stanford University, California.” 2x3
1
/
2
inches. Np, nd * Bess Truman (2). Photograph Signed, showing her and Harry S. Truman
standing outside their house in Independence, MO. Signed in the image at lower center.
9
1
/
4
x7
1
/
2
inches. Np, nd; Autograph Note Signed, “Bess”: “Hope this will entertain you for a
little while, anyway.” 1 page, 12mo, personal stationery. Np, nd * Maime David Eisenhower
(2). Signature, on a White House card. 2
1
/
2
x4 inches. Np, nd; Signature, on a first day cover,
commemorating Dwight D. Eisenhower, with cachet showing him and scene from Battle of
Normandy. 3
1
/
2
x6
1
/
2
inches.Washington, 6 August 1960 [from postmark].
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GRANT, ULYSSES S. Autograph Letter Signed, “U.S. Grant,” as President, to
Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont (“Dear Judge”), making recommendations concern-
ing the chief justiceship of Utah. 2 pages, 8vo, written on rectos of two sheets; horizontal
folds. (MRS)
Long Branch, NJ, 26 August 1875
[700/1,000]
“
Mr. Bennett has been here with a lawyer formerly from Galena, in his interest for the Chief
Justiceship of Utah.
“
Mr. Bennett may be all very well but his endorsements are against him, in my estimation, for
that particular Judgeship. It looks to me as if what are known in Utah Territory as “Jack
Mormons,” men making a “dead set” to get in one of their men.
“
Of the men named for the place so far I would give the preference to Judge [Alexander]
White, of Ala. or Judge Crozin[?] of Kansas. I am very desirous to do something for Judge
White, and I look upon him as a very upright man, and [is] possessed of considerable ability. . . .”
In 1850, Congress passed An Act to Establish a Territorial Government for Utah, according to
which the U.S. president appointed (and the Senate ratified) a chief justice and two associate
justices to the Utah Supreme Court. Beginning with Utah’s statehood in 1896, the justices
have been elected.
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GRANT, ULYSSES S. Signature, “U.S. Grant,” on a visiting card. 2x3
1
/
2
inches;
inlaid. (MRS)
Np, nd
[300/400]
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HARDING,WARREN G. Two Typed Letters Signed, “WGHarding,” as Senator,
to Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton. The first, promising to send her the names of the delegates
to the State Convention. The second, assuring her that his office could not have been
responsible for leaking information about her telegram to him, and noting that he knows
nothing “relating to the Columbus situation.” Each 1 page, 4to, “United States Senate” sta-
tionery; folds, faint scattered staining to 1916 letter. (MRS)
Washington, 13 April 1916; 2 August 1917
[400/600]