Large group of more than 70 items, ca 19th-20th century, constituting autograph letters signed, typed letters signed, letters signed, photographs signed, clipped signatures, and more, from politicians at the state and national level, as well as other influential persons from business, legal, religious, and other backgrounds.

Lot includes, in part: Lyman TRUMBALL, James THOMPSON, Daniel WALKER, Elihu B. WASHBURNE, "Uncle" Joseph CANNON, William B. MCKINLEY, Emily Taft DOUGLAS, John C. MCKENZIE, Louis Lincoln EMMERSON, Richard YATES, Potter PALMER, Marguerite Stitt CHURCH, Richard YATES, Sidney BREESE, William McKendree SPRINGER, Edward J. Kelly, John WENTWORTH, John McAuley PALMER, Richard James OGLESBY, Ernie BANKS, Earl D. THOMAS, Robert "Bob" MICHAEL, Charles H. PERCY, Paul H. DOUGLAS, Richard J. DALEY, Philip KLUTZNIK, John R. BLOCK, John B. ANDERSON, "Walking" Dan WALKER, John ROONEY, Cardiss COLLINS, Paul SIMON, Edward H. LEVI, Frank ANNUNZIO, Tom RAILBACK, Phil CRANE, William G. STRATTON, Abner J. MIKVA, and Dan ROSTENKOWSKI,

Other items include: letter from Adlai E. STEVENSON as U.S. Representative to the United Nations, addressed to author Pearl S. Buck, December 13, 1863, in which Stevenson apologetically declines Buck's offer to serve as an honorary chair for an event Buck was hosting. -- Group of 6 American politician playing cards signed by Carol Mosely BRAUN, Robert BYRD, Carl LEVIN, Bob GRAHAM, Wesley CLARK, Fritz HOLLINGS, and Dennis KUCINICH.