American Historical Ephemera and Photography

RIVES, John C. (1795-1864). Influential journalist and editor, co-founder of the Congressional Globe, and strong Unionist. Autograph letter signed ("John C. Rives") to Maine Senator Hannibal Hamlin. Washington, 21 December 1854. 2pp, 9 x 11 in. "Written at the Capitol in great haste," an interesting letter in which Rives offers to plant an article in the Globe to explain Hamlin's absence from the Senate. 

PIKE, James S. (1811-1882). Republican from Maine, Chief Washington correspondent and associate editor of the New-York Tribune from 1850-1860, appointed minister to The Hague during the Civil War, and author of newspaper articles on Reconstruction-era South Carolina. Autograph letter signed ("James S. Pike"), to "Mr. Greely[sic]," presumably Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. New York, 23 August 1852.

FORNEY, John W. (1817-1881). Newspaper publisher who served as clerk of the United States House of representatives from 1851-1856 and 1860-1861, then as secretary of the US Senate. Founder of the Daily Morning Chronicle, an organ of the Lincoln administration. Letter signed ("Jno W. Forney"), possibly secretarial. "Clerks Office house of Reprs." 31 December 1851. Autograph letter signed ("J.W. Forney") to Congressman E.B. Hart. 22 July 1856. Also with undated note signed ("J.W. Forney").

BURR, Alfred E. (1815-1900). Connecticut newspaper editor who headed the Hartford Daily Times from 1841-1900, and was a prominent figure in the Democratic Party. Autograph letter signed ("A.E. Burr"). Times Office, Hartford, 28 April 1843. 

BENJAMIN, Samuel Greene Wheeler (1837-1914). American Minister to Persia who later worked as a journalist and covered the Crimean War with the London Illustrated News. Autograph letter signed ("S.G.W. Benjamin") on "United States Legation, Teheran" letterhead. 2 April 1885.

NAST, Thomas (1840-1902). Editorial cartoonist and sharp critic of Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall. Check signed ("Th. Nast"), 11 March 1897.

[With:] HARPER, James (1795-1869). Founder of Harper Publishing Company, and later Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazaar. Check signed ("James Harper"), 1 August 1844. -- "Address on Religious Intolerance and Political Proscription, Delivered at Lancaster, PA., on the Evening of the 24th of September." by John W. Forney. Washington [PA?], 1855. 51pp. Ex-library copy.

Together, 10 items.

Conditions vary but generally good. All documents with expected toning and wear given age, some with creasing, folds, spotting, chipping and/or dampstaining. Nast signature with feathering to ink.