Collection of 30 ink signatures of 19th and early 20th century notables—including military figures, businessmen, politicians, and authors—on individual slips and cards, including: John Jacob Astor, William T. Sherman, Horatio Alger, Benjamin Butler (2), John A. Dix (2), William Marion Jardine, Curtis D. Wilbur, Dwight F. Davis, Roy O. West, Maggie Mitchell, William Dean Howells, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Silas Weir Mitchell, Joseph Holt, John G. Sargent, Celia Thaxter, Andrew Lang, Frank B. Kellogg, James J. Davis, Channing Pollock, Joseph Dickinson, William Winter, Julian Hawthorne, Mary Mapes Dodge, William F. Whiting, John B. Gough, Thomas Nelson Page, and Harry S. New. Also includes a 1775 document signed by William Franklin, the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin and last colonial governor of New Jersey. In overall very good to fine condition.
