[CIVIL WAR]. Autograph book identified to Lucritia Taft Flagg, featuring signatures of assorted 19th-century figures including D.L. MOODY, Lewis CASS, Charles SUMNER, William H. SEWARD, and others.
8 1/8 x 6 3/4 in. autograph album with embossed leather-covered boards and gilt title, identified to Lucritia Taft Flagg of "Kennilworth Castle, Holyoke Mass." (Front cover fully separated from album, portion of spine missing, wear to extremities, spotting, chipping, and toning to pages, few loose pages.) Album contains 103 autographs, some clipped and pasted to album pages, other written directly on album pages. Autographs include Jenny Lind ("Jenny Lind. New York. June. 1851") -- Lewis Cass ("Lew Cass") --
Winfield Scott ("Winfield Scott, Major Genl. [?]") -- Charles Sumner ("Charles Sumner of Boston, April 9th 1851-") -- Charles K. Williams Gov. of VT (Note dated 27 November 1850 in Rutland. Signed "Ch. K. Williams") -- John Quincy Adams autograph cover signed ("J. Q. Adams") inscribed to Edwin Harriman? Esq of Methuen, MA. -- William H. Seward ("William H Seward") -- Oliver Otis Howard ("O.O. Howard, Maj. General, Chairman Buildg. Com.") -- And 94 others, including a "Washington Irving" signature, that does not apear to be in his hand.
Lucritia Taft Flagg was the daughter of Edward C. Flagg (1846-1897), founder of the Albion Paper Company in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Edward had Kenilworth Castle built, modeling it after Gladstone Castle in England, before his fortunes evaporated with the downturn in the paper manufacturing market. Lucritia (sometimes spelled "Lucretia") later married William D. Flagg, whose business was lumber, and the two of them bought the castle in 1897 and lived in it until Lucritia's death 60 years later.
The album includes the following decipherable signatures:
John Baldwin Thayer Mead (?)
Name difficult to discern (captioned “New York Lawyer”)
Clipped signature, difficult to discern, beneath partially printed “[U]nited States Patent Office, Official Business”
P.T. Hubert
J. Hunt
Willard L. Marey
Charles Sumner
F.F. Lord
? Briggs
Winfield Scott
Lewis Cass
H. Marshall
Edmund Burke
Jeff Davis
G. Whittlesey
P. Clayton
Isaac Hill
Harry Hibbard
J.L. Edwards
Jenny Lind
Euphrosyne Parepa
Charles K. Williams
J.Q. Adams
John G. Saxe
Benjamin Hale
John H. Hopkins
Josiah Perry
Caleb Lyon
Mrs. Francis Murphy
Francis Murphy
J.R. Giddings
Thomas J. Hurley
R.S. MacArthur
William H. Seward
F.F. Low
William Twiming
J. Collamen
Levi Woodbury
J. Mattocks
L.H. Seymour (or T.H. Seymour)
D.L. Dickinson
C.H. Peasler
Rollin H. Neale (?)
Martin F. Tupper
L.H. Sigourney
J. Fenimore Cooper
Wulf Fries
N.K. Hall
J.P. Towne
Lewis M. Strobel, “Brazoria County, Texas”
William H. Greenwood
Ch. Denniston
H.O. Herrick
S. Shedd
P. (?) Curtis Simonds
T.E.G.(?) Ransom
Dunbar R. Ransom “at large”
H. Marshall
? David Neal
S. ?, “Franklin”
R. Yates
N. Niles
T.B. Ransom
Washington Irving (not original to the author, Washington Irving)
C.G. Eastman
Roswell Park
J.D. Williamson
Horace Webster
D.T. Disney (?)
“Free Dillingham John C” (difficult to discern)
J.W. Bowdon (?) (difficult to discern)
? Wayland
F.W. Hopkins, Adj. Gen.
Denison Almsted (?)
O.O. Howard
Elihu Burritt
Theodore Parker
Charles W. Burrage
Charles T. Crocker
B.F. George
Geo. P. Greeley
S.H. McCollister / McCallister?
S.E. Woodward
N.A.C. Smith
? G. Brooks
D.L. Moody
?P. Gould
W.H. Hubbard
Geo. R. White
Edw. Bowns
O.H. Leland
Henry H. Howard
Harry W. Emery
C.S. Averill
Ira Davis
D.L. Moody
J.H. Jacobs
W.J. Sampson
Curtis Guild, Jr.
J. Washburn (?) (difficult to discern)
A. Felch
Geo (?) Putnam
S. Batchelder Jr.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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