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Lot 189
[FIRST LADIES] Collection of signed or manuscript items by sixteen First Ladies.
An interesting assortment, comprising: Dolley Madison. Docketting on letter from David Bailie Warden, Paris, 1812, the letter sending portraits of the President and warning about a certain Mr. De Gruye who is a "suspicious character", the letter with Warden's name ("D.B. Warden") docketted at head in Mrs. Madison's hand, fine; Sarah Polk. Signed sheet as First Lady, 1848, full sheet of stationery with signature at center "Sarah Polk/President's Mansion/June 22 1848", spotting; Julia D. Grant. Signed mourning card dated 1899, the recto imprinted "Mrs. Grant" and with her 2111 Massachusetts Avenue address, the verso signed; Caroline Scott Harrison. Signed card; Lucy W. Hayes. Signed card, spots; Mary Lord Harrison. Autograph postcard, 1905, slight fade; Lucretia Garfield. Card signed as First Lady, April 15th 1881, a rare signature from the period between the inauguration in March 1881 and Garfield's assassination in July; Frances Cleveland. Signed Executive Mansion card; Helen Taft. Signed note "I have given all of Mr. Taft's signatures"; Florence King Harding. Inscribed White House engraving; Edith Roosevelt. Signed Executive Mansion Albany sheet, folds; Edith Bolling Wilson. Signed slip, mounted to card; Grace Coolidge. Signed White House card; Lou Henry Hoover. Signed White House card; Eleanor Roosevelt. Signed White House card; Bess W. Truman. Signed White House card. Generally sound condition, a few with tape or mounting remnants on versos.
A fine large collection of First Lady signatures.
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