King Victor Emanuele of Italy. DS. 1 page. 9 3/4" x 14 1/4". Italy. September 13, 1874. A document signed by King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. It appears to be some type of award document. The overall condition is fine with light staining and a large, dark signature.

Norwich National Bank Check Signed by LAFAYETTE S. FOSTER (1806-1880) American politician and lawyer. Foster served in the U.S. Senate and on the Connecticut Supreme Court. 8” x 2 3/4” Norwich. April 1874. "Pay Town Tax or Bearer, Four hundred & seventy, 60/100 Dollars." Signed by Lafayettes Foster. Punch cancelled

LAFAYETTE SABINE FOSTER (1806 –1880) was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Connecticut. He served in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1867 and was a judge in the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1870 to 1876. ADS 1pp. 7" x 2 1/4". Norwich. Aug. 27, 1853. An autograph check signed “L. F.S. Foster”. The “Merchants’ Bank, Norwich” check paid “Backlin Matthewson or Bearer, sixty-two Dollars”. There is one slight cut cancellation but it is fine condition overall.

Lansing Stout (1828 - 1871). U.S. Senator From Oregon. Free Franked Envelope.7 ¼” x 3 ¾”. “L. Stout, M.C.” Addressed to George P. Moore, Ednay, Pocahontas Co., Virginia

Levi Lincoln Jr. (1782 - 1868).American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. Served as governor and in the congress. Cut signature. 3 1/4" x 1 1/4". Mounted to a larger sheet with an engraved portrait measuring 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" overall. Fine.

LOUIS SWIFT. DS. 2pp. 8 1/2" x 14". April 27, 1912. A partly printed agreement signed "L F Swift" between Swift and the Maine Central Railroad to have additional railroad track built at the end of the so-called "Armour track". It is in fine condition with two rust marks at top and one rust mark at bottom from paper clipping; they do not affect the signature.

LOUIS MCLANE (1786-1857) American lawyer and politician. McLane served as U.S. Representative and Senator from Delaware, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State, Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Autograph Letter Signed, “Louis McLane.” One page, 7 3/4” x 9 7/8”. Annapolis. March 9, 1851. McLane writes, in part: “I wish to subscribe in the name of Louis McLane Tiffany for the ‘Iconographic Encyclopedia,’ described in the enclosed prospectus and I hope you will so far oblige me as to direct it through some of your New York correspondents … For that purpose, I enclose you a check for $25, which will be in advance of the entire subscription …” Usual folds. Overall Very Fine.

Erasmus Weaver. Chief of Coast Artillery during World War I. TLS. 1 page. On imprinted Coast Artillery Division, Washington letterhead. To Major Alston Hamilton; “I want to express to you, in a personal way, the very great gratification and pleasure it gave me to see the splendid condition of the Coast Artillery troops in the Inaugural Parade. It was a matter of general comment in my vicinity that our troops were the most soldierly, the trimmest, and showed the best discipline of any troops in the column. Very Truly yours, E. M. Weaver”.

HARRY FOOTE HODGES (1860-1929), US Army officer. Served in the Spanish-American War and with the AEF in WW I. Also served as engineer in charge of locks, dams, and regulating works on the Canal, 1907. Autograph Letter Signed. Washington, D.C. March 21, 1915. 2 pp 5" x 8". On "War Department Office of the Chief of Engineers" letterhead to a Mr. Wheeler as he is about to command the North Atlantic Coast Artillery district: "...Thank you many times for your note of congratulation. It was very welcome. Of course we are greatly pleased with the promotion and circumstances surrounding it, albeit it takes me away from my engineering duties. We go shortly to Fort Fulton, at Willets Point, where I am to command the North Atlantic Coast Artillery district, extending along the coast to include Portland, Me. and the Southern entrance to New York Harbor. The news you give of David is rather startling. We hope most sincerely that his service will prove of benefit to himself, as it will to others, and that he will suffer nothing in person from his effort to be of help." Mounting traces to last empty page. Very Good.