Excellent and eclectic collection of signed items, some housed in a leather bound 6.25 x 8 autograph album. Signed items consist of signatures on cards and slips, pages in the album and hand-written letters. Signers include: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Ward Beecher, Mrs. Tom Thumb, Julia Ward Howe (AQS), John Greenleaf Whittier, Louis Agassiz, Edward Everett, Nathanial P. Banks, Ambrose Burnside, William Cullen Bryant (2), George McClellan, Wesley Merritt, Wendell Phillips (2), John Sedgewick, a Daniel Webster check, a healthy dose of Union Generals and Edward E. Hale. In very good condition, with expected toning and age wear and wear to spine and binding to album. Very nice assortment of writers, military minds, politicians and other noteables. R&R COA.
