4 pieces.
Autograph Material - American Civil War & related material: Banks, N.P., General. Autograph endorsement signed. Waltham, Mass., Sept. 19, 1876. On verso of letter to Banks from Ben. Perley Poore, Washington, Sept. 13, 1876, relating to the reinstatement of Wm. H. Wormersley as a clerk in The Dept. of Quartermaster. * Phillips, Wendell. Autograph letter signed. N.p., Dec. 26, [18]61. 1 p., 12mo. To Senator Sumner. Framed. * Porter, David D. Autograph letter signed. Washington, D.C., 1879. 2 pp., 4to, with integral leaf; some splitting along folds. To W.K. Rogers, Esq., private secretary to The President, soliciting a position for his nephew. * Washburne, E(lihu) B(enjamin). Autograph letter signed. Galena, Ill., Aug. 13, 1862. 2 pp., 4to, with integral leaf. To E(dwin) M. Stanton, Sec. of War, recommending Captain Moore. Docketed, creases along folds.
Banks, Nathaniel P. (1816-1894), Civil War General, congressman, Speaker of U.S. House. * Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884), prominent abolitionist. * Porter, David D. (1813-1891), Naval officer, Civil War Union Admiral. * Washburne, Elihu Benjamin (1816-1887), Whig & Republican congressman from Ill., diplomat.