Autograph endorsement as president, one page, 3.5 x 7.75, clipped from the second integral page of a request letter sent to Grant on September 28, 1869. The president's endorsement, in full: "Please call special attention to this application when appointments come to be made. U. S. Grant." Matted and framed with a large portrait of Grant and the original request letter from J. R. McGunnigle, written to the president on behalf of her son, to an overall size of 28.5 x 17.5; the letter, sent from Annapolis, Maryland, reads, in full: "I most respectfully renew my application for one of the Naval Academy Appointments 'at large' for 1870, for my son G. Kennedy McGunnigle. My claims in the services of my husband the late Lt. W. McGunnigle U.S.N. who lost his life from exposure during the late war." In fine condition.
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