Sale 2502 - Autographs, March 21, 2019

172 c   TYLER, JOHN. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, military commission appointing Augustus Cook Brevet Second Lieutenant of Dragoons. Countersigned by Secretary of War William Wilkins. 17x13 1 / 2 inches; minor staining along folds, docketing written vertically at upper left, paper seal intact. Washington, 26 February 1845 [500/750] with — Cook’s U.S. Military Academy diploma, signed by Superintendent Richard Delafield and 10 of his instructors, including Hudson Valley painter Robert Walter Weir. 18x16 3 / 4 inches. West Point, 26 June 1844. 171 172