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Lot 441
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-410
Nov 8, 2022
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Lots 411-717
Nov 9, 2022
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Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
McKINLEY, WILIAM (1843-1901). Signed menu from a dinner given in honor of President McKinley by the Commercial Club of Chicago on October 10, 1899, at the Auditorium Hotel. [10 October 1899].
4 pages, 235 x 180mm. Original cloth-backed engraved card covers, tied with original red, white and blue ribbon (minor soiling, slight toning on rear cover); slipcase.
INSCRIBED BY MCKINLEY on leaf facing title-page: “With Every good wish / William McKinley”. Additionally signed by members of his cabinet, Secretary of State John Hay (in pencil, below McKinley’s signature) and Secretary of Treasury Lyman Gage (on cover). Also signed by Ignacio Mariscal, the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (in pencil), and businessmen Richard Dobell and A. C. Bartlett.
Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota