Final page of Guiteau's manuscript for the preface to his 1882 justification of President Garfield's assassination The Truth and The Removal, one page, 4.75 x 7.75, bearing just two words of the text, "is insanity," signed below, "Charles Guiteau, United States Jail, Washington D.C., March 14, 1882." In very good to fine condition, with intersecting folds and light overall soiling. Accompanied by a letter from one of Guiteau's admirers, beginning: "You do not know how many ladies there are here who believe that you did right to remove the president. I am one of them." Several letters from Guiteau's admirers were published in the book. From the family of printer William Gibson, whose firm printed the book in 1882.
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