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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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| Clara Barton’s Tribute to Julia Ward Howe Signed [Famous Women]
Signed "Clara Barton". Three pages. New Year, 1911, Glen Echo, Maryland. Very fine condition. Rare. 5.25 x 6.75 inches. Printed tribute to Howe given at the Memorial Meeting held by the League for Political Education at the Hudson Theater, New York, November 12, 1910.
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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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| Golda Meir Miniature Publicity Sheet for First Israeli Stamp Signed [Famous Women] [Judaica]
Signed “Golda Meir”, as Prime Minister to honor the 25th anniversary of the state. First printed in 1948 to publicize the first Israeli stamp issued. May 15, 1973, Jerusalem.
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| ww: Clara Barton Typed Letter Signed Regarding Her Desire to Help the First Aid Association [Famous Women]
Signed “Clara Barton” to General Roscoe G. Wells, First Aid Association of America. Three and one-third pages. February 17, 1910, Glen Echo, Maryland. Fine condition.
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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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| Helen Keller Autograph Letter [Famous Women]
Helen Keller, Autograph Letter, January 17, 1889, first 4 pages (incomplete letter), written in pencil at age 8 1/2 from her childhood home, thanking her friend for gifts and letters. Written after she had been working with her teacher, "miracle worker" Anne Sullivan, for less than two years, it is addressed to a friend she met during a trip with Sullivan to New England. On that trip, she attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston beginning in May 1888, and in July 1888 was photographed in a now-famous image with Anne Sullivan vacationing at Cape Cod, holding a doll. “Doll” was the first word spoken by young Helen, taught to her by Sullivan. Helen’s letter conveys thanks of accessories for her doll collection, and mentions her beloved doll Nancy who had been badly tattered during the New England trip. On page 3, Helen makes a remarkable spelling correction, neatly changing "fliss" to "flies,” as she writes about the birds who have taken the place of her escaped pet canary Tim.
Full of attention to detail, vivid imagery and imagination, her letter is a charming and rare surviving artifact from her earliest formative period.
In her autobiography, Helen would later write of the friendships she formed during that first trip to Boston: “As I recall that visit North I am filled with wonder at the richness and variety of the experiences that cluster about it. It seems to have been the beginning of everything. The treasures of a new, beautiful world were laid at my feet, and I took in pleasure and information at every turn. I lived myself into all things. I was never still a moment; my life was as full of motion as those little insects that crowd a whole existence into one brief day. I met many people who talked with me by spelling into my hand, and thought in joyous sympathy leaped up to meet thought, and behold, a miracle had been wrought! The barren places between my mind and the minds of others blossomed like the rose.”
This letter, from young Helen, bears witness to that blossoming.
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| ww: Willa Cather Signed Book "Obscure Destinies" [Arts & Entertainment] [Famous Women]
Signed Willa Cather. "Obscure Destinies" Copy #224 of 260. Printed on Nihon Japan Vellum.
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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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| ww: Mary A. Livermore Autograph Letter Signed. Framed [Famous Women]
Signed "Mary A. Livermore" to Mr. Peck with card. October, 1871. April 12, 1892.
In sample frame. Add $150 for shipping framed.
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| ww: Belva Lockwood Card Signed. Framed [Famous Women]
Signed "Belva A. Lockwood" with printed photograph card.
In sample frame. Add $150 for shipping framed.
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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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| ww: Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah, Typed Letter Signed. Framed [Famous Women] [Judaica]
Signed “H. Szold” regarding payment for teachers and accepting congratulations, to Charles Schwager. February 2, 1930.
In sample frame. Framing is extra shipping charge of $150.
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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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| ww: Alice Stone Blackwell Women’s Suffrage Association Stock Certificate Signed. Framed. [Famous Women] [Finance]
Signed by Alice Stone Blackwell to National American Women’s Suffrage Association. October 31, 1910. One share of “The Woman’s Journal” stock.
In sample frame. Add $150 for shipping framed.
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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.
| | | | | 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
| | | | | ww: Woman Tries To Enroll in Civil War [Famous Women]
Note addressed to Col. J.K. Murphly, n.p., n.d. "Having desire to enroll my name in your Regiment and unable to know how I am to do so I have taken this method hopeing you will favor me with your knowledge and earyliest attention. I inscribe myself. Louisa Stewart. P.S. I am strong hearty able & willing and can give the best of references if you have any use for me..." A fine example articulating the fact that quite a few women sought active service during the War.
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