Five items: an ink signature from P. G. T. Beauregard, “G. T. Beauregard, 1878,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2.5 slip; an untranslated ALS in French, signed “Francois, Prince de Salm Salm,” one page, 8 x 10.5, June 9, 1839; a large ink signature, “Alexander H. Stephens, M. C. of Ga, Residence, Liberty Hall, Crawfordville, Georgia, Ho. of Rep, Washington D. C., 25 Jan., 1881,” on an off-white 7.5 x 4.5 album page; an ALS signed “Winfield Scott,” July 27, 1830, in part: “The day before yesterday I carried a package containing two military books from the press of Hilliard to Boston…I had not before seen either book. I knew an act of Congress had passed for printing &c, but did not know that any competent person had been appointed to superintend the press”; and a draft TLS from Jonathan M. Wainwright, signed “J. M. Wainwright,” stamp-dated January 2, 1946. A hand-corrected draft for a fundraising form letter, in part: “During the war so recently ended by Allied victory, our troops fought to establish four freedoms throughout the world. In our quest for a fifth freedom—freedom from disease—victory is still to be won, and the fight must continue unabated in laboratories and research centers everywhere.” Scott addresses his letter in his own hand, and Wainwright handwrites the campaign’s end date on his draft, “and terminates on Jan. 30.” In overall fine condition, with show-through from writing to opposing sides on the Scott letter, and trivial show-through from tape remnants to reverse corners of the Beauregard signature.
