The First Lady Visits Isabella Stewart Gardner’s “Palace:” “One leaves Boston the moment that the door of the Palace closes behind one”

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(1839-1876). American cavalry officer best remembered for his “last stand” at the Battle of Little Bighorn. DS. (“G.W. Custer”). As Brevet Major General. 1p. Folio. Fort Abraham Lincoln, March 29, 1874. A partially printed discharge, emblazoned with the Great Seal of the United States, issued for Augustus Rathman, serving under Michael V. Sheridan’s Company L of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry. Countersigned by Custer’s younger brother, First Lieutenant THOMAS WARD CUSTER (1845-1876, “T.W. Custer”), who also died at Little Bighorn. Thomas Custer was the first two-time recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor and the only Civil War veteran to have been awarded the medal twice for combat during the war. Prior to making his name as an Indian fighter, Custer had been a distinguished cavalry officer in the Civil War. 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(1869-1948). Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, revered as the father of modern India. ALS. (“MK Gandhi”). 1p. Postcard. India, May 3, 1935. To Mrs. J. Boy Salmon of Wilmington, Delaware. “Dear Sister, Faith is not a thing to grasp; it is a state to grow to. And growth comes from within…. Yours…” In 1888, Gandhi began his law studies in London where he immersed himself in various religious traditions and philosophies including Christianity, Theosophy and vegetarianism. Adding this eclectic mix to Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and his own sense of asceticism, Gandhi created a personal philosophy that guided him through the rest of an extraordinary and meaningful life. After earning a law degree that brought him little success as an attorney in India, Gandhi journeyed to South Africa in 1893 where he spent the next 20 years. He immediately learned of the nation’s officially sanctioned prejudice against his countrymen and his firsthand experiences prompted him to embark on a political career that focused on non-violent resistance to the government’s racist policies." 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(1770-1838). American explorer and Indian agent famous for co-leading the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806, which explored the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase territory, beginning in Missouri and extending to the Pacific Coast. Manuscript ADS. (“Wm Clark”). 1p. 4to. St. Louis, August 7, 1810. “Invoice of Sundry packages to be delivered by George Ingels Esqr. to William Linnard Esqr. Mility agent for transportation by the way of Pittsburg to Genr. Clark at St. Louis Marked & Numbered as pr. Margin. U.S. Arsenal May 8, 1810 [Followed by a list of items with their value noted, which include:] “Blankets… Pocket Looking Glasses… Black silk Handkfs… Beads… Scalping knives… Vermillion… Flints… Callico… 8 Guns or fowling pieces… Casks powder… [Total] Dollars $600.26” Clark has written out his receipt at the invoice’s conclusion: “Received the articles mentioned in the above invoice all in good order – signed duplicates – Wm Clark U.S. Agt. For In. Afrs.”" ["post_title"]=> string(111) "Shortly after the Lewis & Clark Expedition Ends, Clark Signs off on Articles to be Traded with American Indians" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(108) "shortly-after-the-lewis-clark-expedition-ends-clark-signs-off-on-articles-to-be-traded-with-american-indians" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2021-03-15 11:51:15" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2021-03-15 15:51:15" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=38697" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [4]=> object(WP_Post)#6990 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(38706) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2021-03-15 12:21:23" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2021-03-15 16:21:23" ["post_content"]=> string(630) "DICKENS, CHARLES. (1812-1870). Novelist and one of the best-loved writers in the English language; author of A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities. AQS. (“Charles Dickens”). 1p. 4to. Pittsburgh, March 31, 1842. A quotation from The Olde Curiosity Shoppe. “‘Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird--a poor slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crushed--was stirring nimbly in its cage; and the strong heart of its child mistress was mute and motionless for ever.’ – (Olde Curiosity Shop)”" ["post_title"]=> string(150) "Dickens in America: “Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead,” from The Olde Curiosity Shoppe: Penned in Pittsburgh during his First U.S. Tour!" 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(1858-1919). Twenty-sixth president of the United States. AMs. Unsigned. 2pp. Written in pencil on two separate sheets with extensive holograph corrections. Small Folio. N.p., N.d. [1912]. A lengthy fragment from the conclusion of Roosevelt’s epic, two-hour long speech, History as Literature, delivered at the occasion of the American Historical Association’s annual presidential address in Boston on December 27, 1912. The transcription below does not include the struck-through sections of TR’s manuscript. “Beyond the dim centuries we shall see the banners float forward to victories that have changed the course of time. We shall listen to the prophecies of forgotten seers. Our shall be the dreams of dreamers who dreamed greatly, who saw in their vision peaks so lofty that never yet have they been reached by the sons and daughters of men. Dead poets shall sing to us of the deeds of men of might and the love and the beauty of fair women. We shall see the dancing girls of Memphis. The scent of the flowers in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon will be heavy in our senses. We shall sit at feast with the Kings of Nineveh when they drink from ivory and gold. With Queen Maeve in her sun-parlor we shall watch the nearing chariots of the champions. For us the war-horns of King Olaf shall wail across the flood, and the harps sound high at festivals in forgotten halls. The frowning strongholds of the barons of old shall rise before us, and the white palace-castles from whose windows Syrian princes once looked across the blue Ægean sea. We shall see the terrible horsemen of Timur the Lame ride over the roof of the world; we shall hear the drums beat as the armies of Gustavus and Frederick and Napoleon drive forward to victory. Ours shall be the woe of burgher and peasant, and ours the stern joy when freemen triumph and justice comes to her own. The agony of the galley slaves shall be ours, and the rejoicing when the wicked are brought low and the men of evil days have their reward. We shall see the glory of triumphant violence, and the revel of those who do wrong in high places and the broken-hearted despair that lies beneath the glory and the revel. We shall also see the supreme righteousness of the wars for freedom and justice, and know that men who fell in these wars made all mankind their debtors. 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(1902-1984). American photographer best known for his stark Western landscapes. TLS. (“Ansel”). 1p. 4to. Carmel, February 27, 1966. On his personal stationary. To Sidney (possibly SIDNEY ROBERTSON COWELL, 1903-1995, American Ethnomusicologist and wife of ultra-modernist composer Henry Cowell, 1897-1965)." 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(1888-1976). German abstract artist and art theorist. ALS. (“J. Albers”). 1p. 4to. New Haven, February 1, 1963. On his New Haven stationery. To Art historian and director of the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, Germany, UDO KULTERMANN (1927-2013). In German with translation. “Your letter dated January 29 arrived at noon today, so it took only 3 days! What is more, it contained the good news that you now have one of my works in your museum! And from 1925, meaning an early and very rare glass painting, Most likely a sand-blown one. But which one? As far as I know, Mme Bollag recently had none of my glass paintings. I will surely hear from her, but probably not for a while. So, I would be glad if you could soon tell me more about it." 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(1808-1889). American secretary of war and president of the Confederate States. ALS. (“Jeff. Davis”). 4pp. 4to. Washington, D.C., January 3 and 4, 1848. To “My Wife,” VARINA BANKS HOWELL DAVIS (1826-1906). “After long expectation and painful anxiety I have just received your letter of the 19^th of December, and have realized as much of pain from it, as you could have anticipated. Your suspicions and threats are equally unjust and unnecessary. I have not, that I am aware of, under the pressure of ‘grave and important matters’ ever shown myself unmindful of your comfort or your welfare, nor disposed to withhold pardon from you until ‘too late to save from suffering,’ nor exhibited a willingness that any one should take from you your ‘rights as a woman and a wife,’ nor sought to test your ability to love one who degraded you which you say ‘would not render me better, and I should cease to lose one who did so.’ You had an opportunity when I came to you crippled, so as to be confined to the house, to quarrel with me as much as would have satisfied any ordinary person, and I might have expected that you would have spared me from querulous letters, during my absence." 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Wife of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States. ALS. (“V. Jefferson Davis”). 1½pp. 8vo. New York, June 19, 1892. On black-bordered mourning stationery. To Mrs. M.L. Oglesby in New Orleans. “Yours of the 15^th just was forwarded here from Beauvoir. My daughter has asked me to answer your note, as it was unpleasant to be obliged to refuse a request of yours. Mr. James S. Richardson is one of our oldest friends, and the acquaintance began when my daughter was a very small child and he just returned from college. She holds no nearer relations to him than this, and could not take the liberty of soliciting, or presenting the request of another, for a contribution of money from him for any purpose. We feel assured that no intervention on the part of any one could add to his desire to accede to a request preferred by you in your own personality. With the hope that you may meet with success in your effort and much regret that misfortunes in quick succession here prevented our offering our mites [a small coin of little value]. I am with my daughter’s kind regards…” Born in Natchez, Mississippi, Varina Banks Howell was the granddaughter of New Jersey Governor Richard Howell; her mother came from a wealthy family of Virginia planters. Varina was educated in Philadelphia, an experience that further served to divide her loyalties between Northern and Southern family and friends. After returning to Mississippi, Varina met Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate, owner of Brierfield Plantation, and a widower; his wife, Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of future president Zachary Taylor, had died three months after their wedding. Varina’s parents objected to Davis’ courtship of their daughter because of their differences in age and in politics, but they were married in 1845, when he was 37 and she 19." 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(1834-1917). French artist and one of the founders of Impressionism. ALS. (“Degas”). 1p. 12mo. (Paris), July 26, 1897. To Monsieur Baudin [possibly French porcelain maker, labor activist and member of the Chamber of Deputies EUGÈNE BAUDIN (1853-1918)]. In French with translation. “If you are still at Mont Dore the 3rd or the 4th, we are going to see one another. I am going there for a cure. 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(1798-1863). France’s greatest Romantic painter; precursor of both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. ALS. (“E. Delacroix”). 3pp. 8vo. N.p., N.d. (“Saturday”). To Polish Princess CAROLYNE SAYN-WITTGENSTEIN, (1819-1887); longtime lover of Hungarian-born composer and pianist Franz Liszt (1811-1886). In French with translation. “I do not know how to express the confusion I feel at this renewed attention I have received and at the kindness of our dear great artist: I reserve the right to write him regarding this subject, as well as to the cordial invitation he has extended for me to visit him in Weimar… Unfortunately my plans have changed on account that I am required to be present here for the exhibition jury and since I cannot disengage myself from being, in three or four days’ time, in the South of France, in other words at the opposite end, I will not have time to go embrace the friends I have in Strasbourg. 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(1932-2016). Italian academic, critic and novelist best known for his works The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. TLS. (“Umberto Eco”). 2/3p. 4to. Milan, November 2, 1983. On his personal stationery. To New York bibliophile PHILIP SPERLING (1912-1997). “Thank you for your letter. I think that the best award for having written a novel is a passionate response on the part of one’s readers. In writing my novel I felt, first of all, a great pleasure. I am delighted when I discover that my readers feel the same pleasure. It is a way to establish a sort of sincere friendship with many persons, all around the world. As for the title, the rose is so overwhelmed with symbolic meanings that everyone can fill it up with every possible interpretation. 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(1901-1987). Russian-born, American violinist. SP. (“Jascha Heifetz”). 1p. 4to. N.p., 1935. [To American cartoonist and photographer Sam Hinerfeld]. A fine sepia bust portrait of a mustachioed Heifetz gazing directly into the camera. Broadly inscribed with “Best wishes” across the lower, light portion of the photograph in jet black ink." 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(1792-1871). English polymath, astronomer and photography pioneer; son of the astronomer Frederick William Herschel. ALS. (“JFW Herschel”). 2pp. 4to. N.p., N.d. [1822 or later]. To GEORGE BURGESS WILDIG (1784-1853)]. “I have delayed a long while answering your letter, but the whole matter appearing to be likely to take an unsatisfactory turn, I did not know exactly how to proceed. The fact is that the present  Astronomer Royal is exceedingly averse to the new appointments – so much so that it is very doubtful whether the change proposed in the system of the observatory will ever be made – or at least ever be acted on with any confidence. 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Babbage desires to be k[in]dly remembered & I am, dear Wildig, yours sincerely…"" ["post_title"]=> string(131) "Autograph Letter from the English Polymath, Astronomer and Photography Pioneer, Mentioning Digital Computer Pioneer Charles Babbage" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(144) "autograph-letter-from-english-polymath-astronomer-and-photography-pioneer-sir-j-f-w-herschel-mentioning-digital-computer-pioneer-charles-babbage" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-07-24 15:37:58" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-07-24 19:37:58" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=37001" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [15]=> object(WP_Post)#7001 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(38505) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2020-12-03 11:42:51" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-12-03 16:42:51" ["post_content"]=> string(984) "JACKSON, ANDREW. (1767-1845). Seventh president of the United States. LS. (“Andrew Jackson”). Written as president. 2pp. 4to. Washington, July 1, 1834. A draft letter in the hand of Jackson’s nephew and private secretary ANDREW JACKSON DONELSON (1799-1871), himself a vice presidential candidate in 1856, in which the president responds to an invitation from a Pennsylvania Democratic committee’s Fourth of July celebration. “I have your polite note of the 20^th ulto. On behalf of the Democratic citizens of the first congressional District of Pennsylvania, inviting me to participate with them in the celebration of the anniversary of our Independence. It being out of my power to unite with you on this occasion except in the indulgence of those sentiments of joy and gratitude which it is so well calculated to inspire, I can only tender you my thanks for the honor conferred upon me by the invitation.  " ["post_title"]=> string(161) "President-Elect Joseph Biden Couldn’t Have Said It Better; America’s First Democratic President, Andrew Jackson, Toasts Pennsylvania on Independence Day 1834" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(152) "president-elect-joseph-biden-couldnt-have-said-it-better-americas-first-democratic-president-andrew-jackson-toasts-pennsylvania-on-independence-day-1834" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-12-03 12:03:03" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-12-03 17:03:03" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=38505" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [16]=> object(WP_Post)#7002 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(37580) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2020-07-02 11:47:03" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-07-02 15:47:03" ["post_content"]=> string(1300) "CARRÉ, JOHN LE (DAVID CORNWELL). (b. 1931). British intelligence officer and author of some of the best-known works in the espionage genre. ALS. (“David”).  Le Carré’s name appears in full within the letter. 2pp. 4to. Penzance, August 28, 2008. On his personal stationery. To his friend Willard J. Morse Jr., an obstetrician in Maine. “No idea who James Wood is. It reads thus: John/le/Carré, three words, lower case l, & who gives a damn? McCain is nobody, which makes him eligible. I love ‘Memorial Day? Thanks. My heart is so much with you, and I understand the wretchedness of seeing so much & feeling impotent. Read ‘The Dark Side’ – Janet Mayer – ‘The Torture Team’ – Philippe Sands – ‘The Looming Tower’ – forget who by, & felt bemused. Wrote a book called ‘A Most Wanted Man,’ coming out in US in October. I don’t expect anyone but you to get it. We’ll see. 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(1807-1873). Wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, her father being George Washington’s adopted grandson. ALS. (“M.C. Lee”). 4pp. Folio. N.p. (Baltimore), “Friday night” (April 22, n.y., but before 1853). To her mother, MARY LEE “MOLLY” FITZHUGH CUSTIS (1788-1853). “My dearest Mother, I should have written before but waited till I could see about your bonnet. I have got you a very nice one white straw & very pretty ribbon & shall send it on the first safe opportunity. It will probably go thro Aunt Lee who is here so you had better let Lawrence take the band box over there ready for it & leave it as I may not be able to send it for 5 or 6 days. Ann says she is sure you cannot resist the temptation of exhibiting it in Broadway this summer. It cost only $2.50 so if you are very anxious to make payment & can conveniently get 2 of those evergreens from Douglass etc. so I have them planted but do not give yourself any particular trouble about them. I have also got a pair of clocks for my Annie & daughter & can get them some more in New York if necessary. I send on some cotton for my other two chemises. Tell Rose it had best be washed as it is so stiff. I spent today with Cousin Mary Thomas. She seems to me much stronger & more cheerful tho she coughs a good deal. John & his wife are in Virginia. She said she would keep the violets for the little boys. She says she regrets so much your not coming on & that you must go & see me this summer & call by & make her a visit & I say so too. 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(1902-1974). American aviator; made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight. TLS. (“Charles”). ½p. 4to. (Darien, February 3, 1954). To actress and author EMILY DAVIE (1915-1989). “Enclosed -- the letters about the bomb inscription. How about using some quotes from Williams Ernest Hocking? They’re pretty good – I think he is top, in philosophy and otherwise – Anne discovered him for me, as usual. I see you have Whitehead’s name in the outline, now. have [sic] you read his Adventures of Ideas? I think the first two or three and the last chapters are wonderful. The middle of the book is too much for me – or at least it was the last time I attacked it, several years ago. I enclose a book Hocking gave me the last time I saw him. Please be very careful of this one. I went up to Cambridge to talk to Whitehead once, years and years ago. He was an extraordinary man. 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(1846-1928). American architect and principal of McKim, Mead & White. TLS. (“Wm. R. Mead”). 2pp. 4to. New York, August 7, 1895. On McKim, Mead & White letterhead. To HENRY MACCRACKEN (1840-1918), chancellor of New York University. “I am in receipt of yours of August 5^th containing instructions in regard to procedure on the plans for the proposed University Library. My first step has been to ask Mr. Brush to come to the office, as before we are able to determine the thickness required for the retaining terrace wall, we must know accurately its height at the different points. I was unable to find Mr. Brush’s office address and the letter was sent to his house, #113 West 69^th St. He has not made his appearance, and I am to-night sending a messenger to his house to see if he is in the city. I have hesitated to employ our usual surveyor because Mr. Brush must be in possession of much useful data in connection with the work. We shall proceed as far as we can on the general lay-out of this wall without this survey, but shall be hampered until we obtain it. If we can get it soon we shall be able to send you the plans you ask for by August 15^th, but if there is any considerable delay this will be impossible. We shall also proceed with the general working drawings of the Library proper, and when we get them far enough advanced shall obtain the preliminary estimates in the order you desire. We are always hampered at this time of year by the vacations we are obliged to give our men, and unfortunately two of the men I had selected to put upon this work are taking their vacation, but I have made arrangements so that others shall be working upon the plans until they return. " ["post_title"]=> string(176) "William R. 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(1761-1826). Colonial theologian, Native American scholar and geographer. Father of telegraph pioneer Samuel Morse, and often referred to as the “Father of American Geography.” ALS. (“Jedh Morse”). 2½pp. On two Folio sheets (formerly joined). Philadelphia, December 23, 1795. To his wife ELIZABETH ANN FINLEY BREESE MORSE (1761-1828). “I arrived in this city yesterday at 1 o’clock a.m. Went directly to Mr. Hazard’s where I am now writing and was made very happy by your letter of the 13^th which was waiting for me. Was very sorry to hear of the death of the children you mention. They must have been sudden. Tell the afflicted parents I sincerely condole with them. Am very glad to hear that you and the children and family and people in general are well. Thank Dr. Larkin for his friendly toast – he is a good man and they are good people who drank it – my regards to them. Dear little Edwd does he then think of his Papa and go up in the study to find him? I can easily conceive how you must feel by my own feelings – I often think most tenderly of you and them. I long for a time to come when I shall meet you. May God preserve us all to this desirable event. I do not I trust forget to pray for you – and often feel a pleasure in the belief that though we are absent, in body we can yet meet at the throne of grace, in spirit and in heart. I shall not fail to visit Grandma Finley – I dined here yesterday – drank tea last evening at Dr. Green’s – and am to breakfast with him this morning – where I shall finish my letter. I saw Rev. Mr. Baleh – soon after I came into town – he was right glad to see me and shook hands as heartily as ever. I saw poor Miss Sproat, who has ever since her arrival in this city been in a continued scene of trouble – the sickness and death of her only Brother, and an accidental lameness of her dear little Nephew, of whom she is dotingly fond, have occupied her whole attention and for me a sufficient apology for her not writing us. Mr. Blythe has gone. He went some time ago. You request me to look out for a maid. They are I assure you with much more difficulty obtained this way than with us. You will not therefore expect me to be successful in procuring you one. I am now writing in Dr. Green’s study. All well here and at Mr. Hazard’s and desire love to you. I am going with Dr. Green to Congress this morning and am obliged to conclude as it is time we were going. Tell Mr. Putnam I will if possible write him next Post. I have not yet possessed myself of the information I wish to communicate. Tell him, however, that Mr. Goodhue says there is a decided majority of Democrats in Congress. Others think it doubtful, however, as a number appear neutral. Both parties however act with caution as if afraid of each other. The prophecy is there will be a peaceful session. ‘Randolph’s Vindication’ is considered here as a vindication of the President and a condemnation of Randolph himself – without the merit however, of desiring either. Mr. Pickering intends to answer Mr. Randolph. I enclose a copy of Randolph’s Vindication to Judge Russell – which may gratify him. Till I write you again – adieu. Remember me very affectionately to all friends – love to the dear children and to the rest of the family, I am, as ever, your very affectionate husband...” " ["post_title"]=> string(154) "Rare ALS by the “Father of American Geography” Referring to the Political Troubles of Virginia’s Governor Edmund Randolph and his Famous Vindication" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(145) "rare-als-by-the-father-of-american-geography-referring-to-the-political-troubles-of-virginias-governor-edmund-randolph-and-his-famous-vindication" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-11-19 12:50:48" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-11-19 17:50:48" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=36780" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [21]=> object(WP_Post)#6999 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(38522) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2020-12-03 14:11:45" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-12-03 19:11:45" ["post_content"]=> string(1472) "PASTEUR, LOUIS. (1822-1895). French chemist and microbiologist; discovered the process, named pasteurization in his honor, through which bacteria in liquids are destroyed by heating. Signed image. (“L. Pasteur”). 1p. Small folio (11”x15”). N.p., February 26, 1893. A steel cut bust engraving of Pasteur inscribed to Madame [?] Chalvet in French. After successfully vaccinating animals against anthrax and chicken cholera, Pasteur, who had witnessed a horrifying fatal outbreak of rabies as a boy, chose in 1882 to focus his research on developing a rabies vaccine. After several years of experimentation, he used a weakened form of the virus to save the life of a nine-year-old boy who had been attacked by a rabid dog. The success of his vaccine, his most celebrated achievement, was recognized with the 1888 opening of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Pasteur remained at the head of the institute, the mission of which was to research the treatment and prevention of rabies, until his death in 1895. In 1861, Pasteur’s contemporary, French physician Pierre Chalvet (?-1871) published an influential paper entitled Des Disinfectants. Eight years later, he published Physiologie Pathologique de L’Inflammation. Our commanding image is possibly inscribed to his widow or another female member of his family. Some dust staining and wear. In overall fine good condition. Uncommon in this form." 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(1856-1920). American admiral and explorer; widely recognized as the first person to reach the North Pole. ALS. (“Peary”). 3¼ pp. 8vo. Washington, June 2, 1915. On Army and Navy Club stationery. To Dr. Jones, likely DR. E. LESTER JONES (1876-1929), whom Secretary of Commerce William Redfield, had recently appointed the 11^th Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. “The Mayor’s Committee & the Chamber of Commerce of New York, have gathered me in for receptions luncheons etc. for the Chinese Commissioners Thursday & Friday & I am leaving on the 3 - p.m. train today. I could not raise you by phone at your house last evening, & thought I would not call you at your office this morning.  My address in New York, Thursday & Friday will Imperial Hotel, B’Way & 32^nd St. Saturday it will be [Hotel] Everett Chambers, Portland Maine, & Monday, South Harpswell, Maine…”" ["post_title"]=> string(97) "Letter Regarding His Meeting with China’s Delegation on its Historic 1915 Trip to New York City" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(5) "36808" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-04-15 09:38:15" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-04-15 13:38:15" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=36808" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [23]=> object(WP_Post)#7010 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(36817) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2019-11-19 13:16:08" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-11-19 18:16:08" ["post_content"]=> string(661) "PERRY, MATTHEW C. (1794-1858). American naval officer whose 1853 visit to Japan helped open that country to the world. ALS. (“M.C. Perry”). 1½pp. 4to. Aboard the USS Concord at Gibraltar Bay, November 29, 1830. To JOHN RODGERS (1773-1838), the highest ranking American naval officer in the War of 1812 and Secretary of the Navy in 1823. [caption id="attachment_36822" align="aligncenter" width="325"] Matthew C. Perry[/caption]" ["post_title"]=> string(73) "Early and Rare ALS to John Rodgers while Patrolling the Mediterranean Sea" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(73) "early-and-rare-als-to-john-rodgers-while-patrolling-the-mediterranean-sea" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-06-09 16:17:35" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-06-09 20:17:35" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=36817" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [24]=> object(WP_Post)#7005 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(37106) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2019-11-20 13:51:51" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-11-20 18:51:51" ["post_content"]=> string(1602) "PROKOFIEFF, SERGEI. (1891-1953). Russian composer and pianist. AMusQS. (“Serge Prokofieff”). ½p. Small 8vo. N.p., 1935. One measure of the first six notes from the opening melody of the first movement of his Piano Concerto No. 3, Opus 26. A musical prodigy, Prokofiev began his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory at the age of 13, by which point he had already composed four operas. Though he found much of his education boring, it was during this time that Prokofiev began experimenting with composition, producing a series of modernistic works, including his First Piano Concerto, which took first prize in the his conservatory’s piano competition. His iconoclastic and dissonant works earned him world renown and led to several compositions commissioned by the Ballets Russes. His fame grew following the 1917 revolution as he performed and conducted throughout the United States and Europe. Prokofiev composed a total of five piano concertos, of which the third, completed in 1921, is his most popular. Among his other well-known works are Peter and the Wolf, Ivan the Terrible, The Fiery Angel, and Romeo and Juliet. Penned in the upper half of a blank album page. A small paper remnant is pasted several inches below the signature and can be easily framed out or trimmed as can a slightly irregular right edge where the page was removed from the album. There are several unidentified signatures on the verso; in fine condition. A beautifully penned example from one of the composer’s most famous works." 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(1820-1891). Union Civil War general. ALS. (“W.T. Sherman”). 4pp. 8vo. Washington, D.C., October 14, 1879. On “Headquarters Army of the United States” letterhead to “Strong” [WILLIAM E. STRONG, 1840-1891]. “I have just received yrs of 11^th and with you regret we did not meet in Chicago, as a few words would have been more satisfactory than a letter, – but I saw Loomis there and Logan at Topeka. I am sure we will have a good meeting and what we must avoid is the cutting in of Strangers to take from the Society the absolute management of our own business. You must take all due precaution to prevent the intrusion of the crowd – before all the members are provided for at the Day as well as night meetings. I think our morning meeting should be as usual for preliminary business. Grant should be introduced at the night meeting with a few very few words from him as President, and then Gresham’s formal speech. After Gresham’s speech we can make it opportune for him to speak or read anything he may choose. Individually we can see him before – but that occasion will be most appropriate and can be best witnessed by Members and the Public. Your list of invitations is certainly very full – no one entitled to membership can be an invited Guest. The officers of kindred societies of course ought to be invited. On general principles I would not make too many invited guests. As the invitation will include the Banquet tickets – i.e. after inviting a gentleman to the meeting you could hardly ask him to pay for a ticket to the banquet. I will enclose a list of such naval officers as wd. be complimented with an invitation and if you will see Capt. Walker, U.S. Navy at the Grand Pacific – now employed in the Chicago & Alton RR Co. – he can tell you more for he served with Porter’s fleet up the Yazoo. Although Mr. Palmer has kindly and graciously tendered his hospitality to the Society Members. I fear I must from old habit stop with my friend Drake. Two of my daughters will accompany me probably Elly & Rachel. I cannot stay long as November is a busy time with us...” " ["post_title"]=> string(63) "ALS on Grant and the 1879 Army of the Tennessee Chicago Reunion" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(63) "als-on-grant-and-the-1879-army-of-the-tennessee-chicago-reunion" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-11-20 15:16:41" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-11-20 20:16:41" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=37164" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [26]=> object(WP_Post)#7016 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(35141) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2019-04-04 17:56:47" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-04-04 21:56:47" ["post_content"]=> string(1066) "TURGENEV, IVAN. (1818-1883). Russian novelist, poet, and playwright; his novel Fathers and Sons is a masterpiece of 19^th-century Russian literature. AMsS. (“Ivan Tourguineff”). 1p. Small 8vo. Bade[n], 1869. In French with translation on stationery blind-embossed with his initials. A quatrain from part of a longer work (“Stances Irregulières”) that Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778) sent to King Frederick the Great’s sister, Princess (later Queen) Louisa Ulrika of Sweden (1720-1782), in January 1747. “S’occuper c’est savoir jouir L’oisiveté pèse et tourmente; L’âme est un feu, qu’il faut nourrir Et qui s’éteint, s’il ne s’augmente”  [Translation:] “To keep busy is to know how to enjoy Idleness weighs and torments; The soul is a fire, which must be fed And which goes out, if it does not grow”" ["post_title"]=> string(107) "The Russian Novelist, Poet and Playwright Writes Out and Signs a Quotation from French Philosopher Voltaire" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(106) "the-russian-novelist-poet-and-playwright-writes-out-and-signs-a-quotation-from-french-philosopher-voltaire" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-06-09 16:27:17" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-06-09 20:27:17" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=35141" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [27]=> object(WP_Post)#7000 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(38513) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2020-12-03 13:16:18" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-12-03 18:16:18" ["post_content"]=> string(955) "WAGNER, RICHARD. (1813-1883). German opera composer of Götterdämmerung, Tristan und Isolde, Der Fliegende Holländer, and other monumental stage works. AQS. (“Richard Wagner”). 1p. Oblong 12mo. N.p., N.d. In German with translation. A remarkable quotation that appears in Wagner’s 1851 book Eine Mitteilung an meine Freunde (A Communication to My Friends), celebrating Wagner’s reaction when he first heard Franz Liszt’s interpretation of Tannhäuser. “What I felt as I was composing this music is what he felt as he was performing it; what I was trying to say as I was writing it down, he said as he was bringing it to life. 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(1840-1902). French novelist; author of the famous newspaper article, J’Accuse…! written in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish officer unjustly convicted of treason in 1894. AQS. (“Emile Zola”). 1p. 8vo. N.p., N.d. The closing lines of his novel Le Rêve. In French with translation. “Félicien was left holding only a very soft and very tender form, this wedding dress, all lace and pearls, the handful of light feathers, still lukewarm, of a bird. For a long time, he had felt certain that he had a shadow. The vision, come from the invisible, was returning to the invisible. It was merely an apparition, which was fading, after having created an illusion. Everything is but a dream. And, at the height of happiness, Angélique had disappeared, in the little breath of a kiss.”" ["post_title"]=> string(77) "Touching Full-Page Manuscript Quoting the Final Lines of his Novel, "La Reve"" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(74) "touching-full-page-manuscript-quoting-the-final-lines-of-his-novel-la-reve" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-04-15 09:39:34" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-04-15 13:39:34" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=37153" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [29]=> object(WP_Post)#6988 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(38732) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2021-03-29 11:41:32" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2021-03-29 15:41:32" ["post_content"]=> string(2143) "HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. (1755-1804). American revolutionary, statesman and the nation’s first secretary of the treasury. ALS. (“A. Hamilton”). ¾p. 8vo. Philadelphia, November 24 [1790]. To JAMES MADISON (1751-1836), statesman, Founding Father, author of the Bill of Rights and fourth president of the United States. Hamilton and Madison were, of course, the principal authors of The Federalist Papers. “You will oblige me by taking the trouble to peruse the report which accompanies this; and if the weather permit, I will call upon you sometime tomorrow or next day to converse on the subject of it. I remain with great esteem and regard D[ear] Sir Y[ou]r Obed[ient] Serv[ant]… It will not be disagreeable to me if after perusal you hand it over to Mr. Jefferson.” An orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean colony of Nevis, Hamilton was involved in revolutionary politics while studying at King’s College, now New York City’s Columbia University. When the American Revolution closed the college’s doors, Hamilton enlisted in a militia, became a captain of artillery and joined General Washington’s staff as an aide-de-camp. After participating in the victory at Yorktown, he returned to his law studies and started his political career by representing New York in the Congress of the Confederation. During his tenure, he advocated, with Madison as his ally, for congressional power to collect taxes. As the country’s financial situation grew worse and mounting discontent among unpaid Continental soldiers threatened the nascent republic, Hamilton continued to advocate for a strong federal government until his resignation in 1783. A year later he founded the Bank of New York, and in 1787 he was chosen a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention where he began, with Madison and John Jay, to write and publish a series of 85 essays collectively known as The Federalist Papers, which argued in favor of the Constitution’s ratification. Scholars believe that Hamilton authored 51 of the articles, Madison 29 and Jay the remaining five." 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(1904-1983). American choreographer considered the father of American ballet, co-founder and long-time artistic director of the New York City Ballet. A pair of black leather children’s ballet slippers each signed on the insole. (“George Balanchine”). N.p. [New York], N.d. [c. 1970s.] Trained at the Imperial Ballet School and the Petrograd Conservatory, Balanchine fled Soviet Russia for Paris in 1924, where famed impresario Serge Diaghilev invited him to join his Ballets Russes as choreographer that led to collaborations with composers Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, and artists Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse. Following Diaghilev’s death and the demise of the Ballets Russes, Balanchine settled in the United States, where he established the School of American Ballet, the Ballet Society dance company and the New York City Ballet. In addition to elevating the art form of ballet in the United States, Balanchine choreographed for Broadway and Hollywood. Created in 1954, Balanchine’s staging of The Nutcracker is performed every Christmas season and widely performed throughout the world. Our shoes were worn by a young student at the School of American Ballet who was cast in Balanchine’s productions of The Nutcracker at the New York City Ballet during the 1970s. Signing of ballet slippers as mementos was customary among the “Nutcracker Kids” but it was unheard of for Balanchine, who at the time still attended the dress rehearsal. During a break, the 10-year-old owner of our slippers approached the esteemed choreographer and asked him to sign both his slippers and he graciously agreed. As the shoes have been worn, the elastic is stretched, and the toes and soles are somewhat scuffed; the blue ink signatures are a bit light. Contained in their original Capezio box which is in very good condition. Rare and desirable." 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(1809-1882). English naturalist; first to suggest a theory of evolution by natural selection. ALS. (“C. Darwin”). 1p. 8vo. Kent, March 15. N.y. On Darwin’s personal Down stationery. To a gentleman. “I have thought you would like to possess a few bees & comb (a wretched specimen, but a … would show size) sent to me & Mr. Mann from Fernando Po or opposite mainland of W. Africa. I have no other information whatever on specimens…” From 1831 to 1836, Darwin served as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, a Royal Navy brig-sloop commissioned to survey the South American coast. Despite near constant seasickness, Darwin collected fossils as well as marine and zoological specimens and made copious notes that contributed to the publication of the five-volume Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N., during the Years 1832 to 1836. Darwin’s achievements brought him fame, added to by his publication of numerous works of natural history, most notably his 1859 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, which outlined his theory of evolution. This work was followed by his most controversial theory – that mankind is descended from the anthropoid group of mammals – published in The Descent of Man in 1871." 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(1893-1976). American aviator. SP. (“Clarence D. Chamberlin”). 1p. 12mo. N.p., N.d. An informal black-and-white photograph of Chamberlin standing outside with a car and house in the background, darkly signed in the lower portion of the image. In 1919, French-born American restaurateur Raymond Orteig offered $25,000 to anyone completing a solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris or vice versa, renewing his offer seven years later. Chamberlin was among those who took up the challenge, joining the ranks of naval commander and arctic explorer Richard Byrd and aviator Charles Lindbergh, who famously won the competition when he landed at Paris’ Le Bourget Airport on May 21, 1927." 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