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| Catherine De Medici Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Sending Her Son’s Armies To Battle, And Advising (Threatening) Him To Rule Wisely [Famous Women] [World History]
“Yesterday I was very hurt that my daughter was offended and I fear that you have had a hand in it. I beg you to rule so wisely that I find you in one piece and that I have no occasions to be displeased with my army...” The Queen of France writes this to her nineteen-year-old son, King Charles IX, during the French religious wars between the Roman Catholics and the Huguenots (Protestants). Three years later, Catherine plotted unsuccessfully to assassinate a Protestant leader, sparking the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 20,000 Huguenots, and rekindling the religious wars.
Autograph letter signed “Caterine”, as Queen of France, to her son, King Charles IX, one page in French; Saint-Golie, June 3, 1569.
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| Helen Keller Typed Letter Signed Re Recent visit with actress, Katherine Cornell [Famous Women]
Typed letter signed “Helen Keller” to Katherine Cornell, the noted actress, two and one-half pages; Newmarket, New Hampshire, January 21, 1939.7.25 x 10.5 in.
Truly a magnificent woman in any age! Excellent condition.
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| Pearl S. Buck Review of "Hallet Absurd" Signed [Famous Women]
Signed "Pearl S. Buck". One and one-half pages. Circa June 1941. Fine condition. 8.5 x 11 inches.
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| Abigail Adams Autograph Letter Signed regarding the nature of politics [Famous Women] [First Ladies]
Autograph letter signed by Abigail Adams to Mrs. Hannah Cushing, February 3, 1802. "The golden age is past. God grant that it may not be succeeded by an age of terror"."the ax is already laid to the root of the Tree; if it destroyd only those which brought forth bad fruit; we ought to rejoice, but when we see a spirit of party, deaf to all reasoning, all argument, determined with rooted malignity to destroy all that is good wise and just, merely to glut their resentment; what a hopeful prospect for the future!... The golden Age is past - God grant that it may not be succeeded by an age of terror ..."
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| Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed on the Scarcity of Her Book, "The History of the Red Cross" [Famous Women]
Signed “Clara Barton” to Edward Peterson. Three pages with original envelope. August 28, 1910, Oxford, Massachusetts. Good condition, Excellent signature. 5.24 x 6.75 inches.
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| Pearl S. Buck Manuscript of Short Story , " Little Joe", Signed [Famous Women]
Signed “Pearl S. Buck”. Twenty-eight pages. August 20, 1966, Madison, New Hampshire. Manuscript for original short story about a woman who discovers her Army officer husband fathered a child while stationed in Korea.
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| A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General, Typed Letter Signed Supporting “The Woman Suffrage Amendment” [Famous Women]
Signed “A. Mitchell Palmer", as U.S. Attorney General, to Robert H. Hollet. One page. March 18, 1920, Washington. Good condition. 20.1 x 26.3 cm.
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| Mary Todd Lincoln Free Frank with Photograph [First Ladies] [Famous Women]
Signed “Mary Lincoln” on small mourning border envelope to Henry C. Deming. Postmarked December 16, circa 1865, Chicago, Illinois. Very fine. 11.3 x 7.3 cm. An extremely rare and desirable presidential widow’s free frank.
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| Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed Thanking Her Secretary for a Report [Famous Women]
Signed “Clara Barton” to “My dear Secretary”. Five pages. July 28, 1906, Oxford [Massachusetts]. Good condition. 11.1 x17.6 cm.
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| Alice Stone Blackwell Sending Christmas Wishes [Famous Women]
Good condition. Beautiful Christmas design on front. 9cm x 14cm
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| Janet Scudder, Sculptor and Painter, Autograph Manuscript Signed Regarding Suffrage and Women’s Work [Famous Women]
Signed “Janet Scudder”. Three pages. n.d.
With autograph letter signed “Janet Scudder” to Mrs. Scribner. Two pages. April 28, [no year.], [New York].
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| Belva Lockwood Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Train Fare to a Convention in Denver [Famous Women]
Signed “Belva A. Lockwood” to Mrs. Julia Babbitt. One page. August 4, 1906, Washington.
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| Eleanor Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed [First Ladies] [Famous Women]
Typed letter signed, reply to friend, regarding “Miss Lynn Curtis,” one page to “Dorothy” on White House Stationery, March 17, 1943
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| Henrietta Szold Autograph Letter Signed Regarding First Jewish-American Encyclopedia [Famous Women] [Judaica]
Signed “Henrietta Szold” to Mayar Sulzberger. One page on The Jewish Publication Society of America letterhead. September 20, 1896, Towson, Maryland. 6 x 9.5 inches.
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 edition [Famous Women][African American]
Both volumes are inscribed, “The Crawford’s/ Ithaca/ New York/ Presented in 1881 by Mrs. Ann Lewis, a colored friend, as her choice treasure.” With later pencil inscription, “Given to Mr & Mrs E.M. Newton by Mrs Crawford/ Setp 16 1924.” Boston: John P Jewett & Company, and Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. The first edition was issued in Boston by the same publisher earlier in the same year. Its immediate success is witnessed by an additon to the imprint above the publisher’s name”: “Seventieth Thousand.” Both volumes in original brown cloth binding with embossed image of a slavery scene, each in new brown cloth archival case. Spines have discreet archival repair at tops and bottoms.
A pivotal work, often cited as a book that helped change the course of human events. This is a fine and early set, with an interesting association.
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| Walter P. Chrysler Typed Document Signed Describing Eleanor Roosevelt’s Custom Plymouth [Misc. Americana] [Automobile Industry] [Famous Women] [First Ladies]
Signed by Walter Chrysler. July 31, 1933.
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| Mata Hari Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Unavailability of Her Military Friends [Famous Women]
Signed “Marguerite elle McLeod”. Eight pages with transcript and photograph of her in full costume. August 20, 1916.
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| Eliza Stephens Autograph Letter Signed [Famous Women] [African American]
Autograph letter signed by the former slave of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, ex-Vice President of the Confederacy. 4 pages, 8vo, on single folded sheet with small blind-embossed capitol on upper left corner of first page. Crawfordville, GA, 14 January 1883.
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| America the Beautiful [Famous Women]
Very rare autograph transcript signed, complete four verses of the final edition of the poem. One page. Exhibit Information:
11/2003- Atlanta History Center
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