Sale 2502 - Autographs, March 21, 2019

129 c   WEBSTER, DANIEL. Autograph Letter Signed, “Dan’l Webster,” as Senator, to his former law partner Timothy Farrar, Jr., recommending Albert Smith to superintend a railroad. 1 1 / 2 pages, 4to, with integral blank, pale blue paper; faint scattered bleedthrough, folds. With the original envelope, addressed in his hand and with Franking Signature (“Dan’l Webster / U.S Senate”). Franklin, NH, 28 August 1849 [250/350] “The Hon’ble Albert Smith was appointed, in 1842, Commissioner on the part of the United States to run & mark the Boundary line between Great Britain or her Provinces, & the United States, in pursuance of the Treaty of that year. I am happy to say that he executed the duties of his office faithfully, ably, & most acceptably. I had constant intercourse with him so long as I remained in the Department, & I always found him to possess much knowledge of men, & things . . . . I hardly know anyone to whom I would more readily confide the superintendence, I trust, of a large Rail Road Corporation than Mr. Smith.” Albert James Smith (1822-83) was a politician in New Brunswick who, in 1842, was appointed U.S. Commissioner for the purpose of establishing the boundary between the British North American colonies and the U.S. according to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. The Treaty settled the late 1830s dispute—later known as the Aroostook War—over the border that fell between present day Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Though militias were called out on both sides, no shots were fired. WRITTEN DURING U.S. OCCUPATION OF CUBA 130 c   WILHELM II; EMPEROR OF GERMANY. Letter Signed, “Wilhelm / I.R.,” as Emperor, to President of the Cuban Republic [Provisional Governor Charles Edward Magoon?], in German, informing him that his minister Dr. von Humbracht is to be recalled for health reasons and assuring him that a replacement would be appointed soon. Countersigned by Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernhard von Bülow. 2 pages, tall 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; laminated on recto and verso, moderate scattered foxing, remnants of prior mounting along one edge recto and verso, horizontal folds. Berlin, 28 October 1907 [500/750] 130