Welles gideon 1802 (4 Ergebnisse)

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unbound. 2 pages (front and back), 8 x 5 inches, Washington, July 14, 1868. Complimentary letter signed in full by the Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War, declining an invitation to a banquet in honor of Reverdy Johnson, in part: ".I shall not be able to attend the Banquet given to your distinguished fellow citizen.but I embrace the opportunity of expressing my high praise for him as a man.and in so many important positions made useful to his country." Natural folds and one crease; still very good condition.…

Single sheet, folded. 17 cm. 2 pp. of text, rectos only, approx. 85 words, on stationery with the blind embossed stamp of Philps & Solomon, Washington D.C. [stationers and book publishers]. Welles addresses Wildman, in response to a letter from him, on the subject of candidates for the Collectorship: "On many accounts I regretted the [course?] taken in one or two of the appointments. There were, I believe, but two of the eight candidates of democratic antecedents as presented, and you were one of the two. I thought improperly & injudiciously excluded. In all these appointments of the different states, the senators have assumed very much to themselves." Welles goes on to say he hopes to hear from Wildman again. He also briefly mentions the war: "The war news of the day is interesting and exciting." Gideon Welles, a Connecticut native, was appointed Pres. Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy in 1861, a position he retained in Pres. Johnson's administration. The news of early September 1862 included Confederate General Robert E. Lee's army advancing into Maryland, and Stonewall Jackson's men moving towards Harper's Ferry, Virginia. The Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg) in Maryland was fought on Sept. 17. Frederick Wildman (1805-1893) was a prominent banker in Danbury, Connecticut. He served in both the state house and senate before the Civil War, and was state treasurer from 1857-58.…

This Connecticut legislator and civil servant served as Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson (1861-69). ADS, 1p, 8" X 9½", n.p., 1848 August. Very good. Attractive pale blue lined sheet. Welles, at this time chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing for the U.S. Navy, requests a $150 advance for costs incurred in traveling from Washington to Auburn, New York, to attend the case of United States vs. L. Caldwell, as well as reimbursement for two past trips. Signed with his usual cramped "GWelles." This item is accompanied by an exceptional and scarce 8" X 10" glossy photograph, a full-length portrait (possibly from a Mathew Brady negative?) made circa 1950 by pioneering photography historian FREDERICK HILL MESERVE (1865-1962), "America's first great photograph collector" who assigned numbers to Lincoln photographs ("Meserve numbers") that are still used today. This striking image was quite likely made from the original glass plate negative, as was Meserve's habit. It is identified on the verso in pencil in Meserve's distinctive hand: "Gideon Welles / The Meserve Collection." A handsome document and a highly desireable accompanying image. …