Two Autograph Letters Signed (both 'B. H. Bristow') to E. R. Robinson.
Author:
Benjamin Helm Bristow (1832-1896), first Solicitor General of the United States
Publication details:
Saturday May 22' [no year] and 25 June 1880; second letter on letterhead of the 'Office of Bristow, Peet, Burnett & Opdyke, 20 Nassau St., New York.
£150.00
SKU: 8904
Letter One: 12mo, 12 p. Fourteen lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Asks to 'rescind' his promise to go with Robinson to the races, as 'One of those troublesome fellows whom we call clients, but who are sometimes called victims by the ignorant & vicious, has made an appointment for me this afternoon'. Letter Two: 12mo, 1 p. Asking Robinson to join him and two others at a dinner with General Burnett at the Union Club. Docketed and initialled in pencil by Robinson at the head, with biographical information about Bristow, including the claim that he was 'a gallant Union officer during the war'.