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Scrawls, scribbles, and signatures are more
than stains on a page. Like snapshots, they capture moments,
preserving the pieces of thought that form the grand puzzle of human
experience. They reveal the
breadth and depth of personality and emotion. They are truly
History In Ink.
“Men don’t change,”
President Harry S.
Truman observed. “The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t
know.” The letters, photographs, and documents
of the famous and influential people of the past are great teachers.
The words and the handwriting connect us with yesteryear and bring history
to life.
Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, among others, collected
historical letters and documents. Queen Victoria was an avid autograph
collector, and years later her great-grandson, King George VI, requested Truman's
signature for his daughter, now Queen Elizabeth II. Today there are thousands of
autograph collectors worldwide.
We want to share
with you the thrill of owning a genuine piece of history. So
please browse through our site.
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Featured Items
Aaron
Burr
Rare, likely unique, bill
of exchange representing financing for Burr’s alleged treasonous
scheme to sever American territory for a new country under his own rule, 9-17-1806,
unframed
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Archive
We are privileged to offer an archive of personal
letters by Madame Chiang Kai-shek spanning the years from 1959 to 1975.
The letters range from routine to outstanding political and philosophical
content. Madame Chiang remains as relevant and popular as she was when
she died at age 105 in 2003. We will be posting the letters online as
we can.
Click here to see them on our World
History page, or
Contact Us to inquire.
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway signs a
photo to one of his hosts
during his 1959 trip to Spain to gather
new material on bullfights, which led
to his last published work before his
death, Life
magazine’s “The Dangerous Summer,” unframed
Learned Hand
Previously unoffered archive of drafts of Hand’s
remarks at the dedication of a bust of Supreme Court Justice Felix
Frankfurter at Harvard Law School, expressing Hand’s own view of the proper
role of a judge, 1960, unframed
Ronald Reagan
Outstanding political
typed letter signed, dated the day after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, discussing the effect of Johnson’s show
of force in Vietnam on the 1964 presidential campaign, 8-11-1964, unframed
Ronald Reagan
In
his only letter with racist terms ever to come on the market, Reagan calls “the black community” the “enemy,” 5-8-1978, unframed
Signer of the Declaration of
Independence:
William Williams - extremely early autograph document signed as
the town clerk of Lebanon, Connecticut, to note the recording of a deed,
2-20-1753, unframed
Laura Ingalls Wilder and
Almanzo J. Wilder
Exceptional archive of contracts and
deeds for the sale of Rocky Ridge Farm, where Laura wrote all
of the Little House books, unframed
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Recent
Additions
Harry A. Blackmun -
Justice Blackmun
recounts his experiences with scouting, concluding, “We need so
much of this kind of thing these days,” 3-17-1981, unframed
George H. W. Bush -
typed letter signed by former President Bush to congratulate a
recipient of the “Daily Point of Light” award, which he created to recognize volunteerism, noting that he “utilized
the power of the Presidency to call Americans to service,”
1-13-06, unframed
George W. Bush -
nearly pristine inscribed and signed first edition, first printing copy of
Bush’s memoir, Decision Points
Laura Bush - encouraging typed letter signed as First Lady, mailed
the day after the 9/11 attacks, thanking an organization for its work with
pediatric cancer patients, 9-6-2001, unframed
Salmon P.
Chase -
autograph letter signed in which the Chief
Justice sends
“real regret that I found
myself obliged to remain in Wash[ington],” perhaps because
of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, 6-24-1868, unframed
Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon - scarce vintage photograph of the 1930s
Hollywood power couple signed by both, unframed
John A. Dix -
autograph letter signed by the Union Civil War
general seeking to help a man find a job, 1-15-1877, unframed
Charles W. Fairbanks - scarce
handwritten letter by Theodore Roosevelt’s Vice President commending “the Golden Rule as a rule of action,” 5-17-1898, unframed
Stephen J. Field - exceptional cabinet
card portrait of Justice Field, President Abraham Lincoln’s
longest-serving appointee, unframed
James A. Garfield - autograph note
signed early in the pivotal year of 1876, when Garfield’s political
power was on the rise, 2-25-1876, unframed
John Glenn - vintage signed photograph of Glenn in his silver Mercury astronaut spacesuit
with an early form of his signature, unframed
Rudolf Hess -
virtually pristine signed photograph of Hess, Adolf Hitler’s Deputy Führer, together with cover letter from Hess’s adjutant, 5-5-1936, unframed
Herbert Hoover -
beautiful warm handwritten letter to his close
friend Jeremiah Milbank, February 1948, unframed
Rudolf Höss -
extremely rare letter by Höss, the
Commandant at Auschwitz, requesting the assignment of more staff
officers for the infamous Nazi extermination camp, 7-16-1944, unframed
John A. Logan -
signature of the Union Major General, who
fought at Bull Run, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, and Atlanta and in Sherman‘s
Carolinas Campaign and
later helped to prosecute the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson,
unframed
Queen Mary of Teck -
early autograph letter signed in which the future British queen,
consort of George V, asks for help with a garden party for friends and
neighbors, unframed
John McLean -
on the cusp of the Civil War, the anti-slavery
Supreme Court Justice replies to a Massachusetts lawyer, 5-7-1860, unframed
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
early letter by Nasser, sending his autograph,
three years after the revolution that overthrew Egyptian King Farouk I,
5-11-1955, unframed
Richard J. Oglesby - handwritten letter by Senator Oglesby, a
former Union Brigadier General, sending copies of his memorial address for a
deceased Missouri Senator, 12-19-1878, unframed
Alfred E. Smith - large-format signed portrait photograph of
Smith, the first Catholic nominated for President by a major party, unframed
Reed Smoot -
scarce letter by Smoot, the first Mormon and only church Apostle ever
to serve in the United States Senate, 12-22-1919, unframed
Roger Brooke Taney -
early partially printed autograph document signed in which Taney, as
a young lawyer, files suit to collect a debt owed to his client, circa 1807,
unframed
United States Supreme Court, 1954 -
complete set of engraved Supreme Court
cards signed by the Justices of the Warren Court who unanimously decided
Brown v. Board of Education, the
landmark school desegregation case, in 1954, unframed
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
receipts written and signed by Laura Ingalls
Wilder for payments on the sale of the Wilders’ Rocky Ridge Farm,
unframed
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Featured Collections
The Justice Tom C. Clark Collection
We are privileged to offer
the personal autograph collection of Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark.
Justice Clark served as Attorney General of the United States from 1945 to
1949, when President Harry S. Truman appointed him as an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States. Shortly after he arrived at
the Court, Justice Clark began assembling a collection of autographs of
Supreme Court Justices that included those of his colleagues and extended
back into the 19th Century. The collection includes personal letters that
Justice Clark received from other Justices, including those congratulating
him on his appointment to the Court, and internal Supreme Court memoranda
among the Justices—material that is extremely rare on the autograph market.
None of this material has ever been offered for sale before.
click
here to see the items that we are currently
offering from the collection. They include a congratulatory
handwritten letter from Justice
Stanley F. Reed, two typed letters by Chief Justice
Fred M. Vinson (1-4-1950
and
1-27-1950), extremely rare handwritten internal Court memoranda
from Justice
Harold Burton to Justice Clark and between
Justices Clark and Reed regarding cases, internal handwritten
notes from Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes and Justice
James C. McReynolds, an official Supreme Court document signed
by Justice
Willis Van
Devanter, and signatures of Justices
Joseph R.
Lamar,
McReynolds, and
Mahlon
Pitney.
Autographs From the Estate of Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr.,
The United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson
This outstanding Cold
War collection of letters and documents had never before been offered
for sale on the autograph market until we offered it. It contained
letters from five American Presidents—Harry S. Truman, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon—as
well as First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, and Jacqueline
Kennedy and others such as Robert F. Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Dean
Rusk, and even Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin.
Thompson was one of the
greatest and most important American diplomats of the 20th Century.
He was the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union at the height of
the Cold War, under Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. A man with
velvet gloves but a backbone of steel, he played a critical role in
dangerous times. His advice to Kennedy as a member of the ExComm
during the Cuban Missile Crisis was largely responsible for avoiding
nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He was also with Johnson at his
1967 summit with Kosygin at Glassboro, New Jersey, and advised Nixon on
and represented the United States in the negotiations over the SALT I
treaty.
click here to see the remaining
items from this special collection.
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Here you will find
History In Ink—beautifully
framed and unframed letters, documents, and signed photographs as well as
signed books and other autograph items. You
will also find
much more: Our listings include biographical information and often
explain the historical context of the autograph item itself. We also
offer information on caring for historical autographs and
links to several interesting and helpful web sites.
History In Ink®
offers a wide variety of historical autograph material, both framed and
unframed, for sale in a broad range of prices. We give you personal
service to help you find just the right piece to help build your collection
or give the perfect gift to a history buff.
If we do not have it in stock, we are always glad to help you find it.
We specialize in the autographs of United States Presidents and First
Ladies, Supreme Court justices, European royalty, and World War II military. We also have
items from many other notable persons in American and world history. Those
include statesmen and world leaders; presidential cabinet officers; members of Congress; military figures from the
American Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I,
and other conflicts; artists; authors; inventors; scientists; aviators and astronauts; and personalities from
law, business, politics, vintage entertainment, and occasionally vintage sports.
We take care to make our framed displays some of
the best—wonderful conversation pieces for the home or
office. They include one or more photographs or portraits and usually
include one or more engraved plates identifying the person and, if
appropriate, the event. Most of our unframed items can also be framed.
We also offer
several payment options to make it as easy as possible for you to build your
collection or give the perfect gift. We can ship both framed and
unframed items virtually anywhere in the world.
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