Presidential Autographs & First Lady Autographs
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JOHN ADAMS. Two Autograph Documents Signed on one sheet: an Autograph Document Signed in the text, Halifax [MA], 12 August 1767, and an Autograph Document Signed, Plymouth [MA], December 1767. An early manuscript in which the future Signer of the Declaration of Independence and President records a loan and its payment. Full Description
JOHN ADAMS. Letter Signed to Charles Holt, "Montezillo" [Quincy, MA], 4 September 1820. Adams ardently defends his political writings, explaining how many of his detractors - including Thomas Jefferson - have come to accept his views, and notes the wide-ranging influence of his treatises. Full Description
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Letter Signed to Elisha Whittlesey, Washington [DC], 14 December 1847. Just two months before his death, the venerable statesman writes to the Washington Monument Society, which had asked him to speak at the laying of the Monument’s cornerstone, and returns letters by the Society’s former president, James Madison. Full Description
CHESTER A. ARTHUR. Autograph Letter Signed to the Military Committee of Richmond County, New York [NY], 5 September 1862. An uncommon Civil War-date letter, written when the future President was Quartermaster General of the New York State militia, recommending a lieutenant colonel for a regiment being raised in Staten Island. Full Description
JAMES BUCHANAN. Autograph Letter Signed, Washington [DC], 18 December 1828. Just after the 1828 elections, Buchanan, then a Congressman, speculates on President-elect Andrew Jackson’s Cabinet choices, mentioning Martin Van Buren as a possibility. Full Description
CALVIN COOLIDGE. Signed Photograph, no place, no date. An exceptional, oversized signed photo of the taciturn President. Full Description
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Typed Letter Signed to Ethel Folkard, no place [England], 16 June 1944. Shortly after D-Day, and as the Allied commander-in-chief, this future President replies to a London woman who has asked to serve overseas. Full Description
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Signed Portrait, no place, no date. An attractive bust portrait of the general and President, inscribed to a president of Princeton University. Full Description
MILLARD FILLMORE. Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, The Hague [The Netherlands], 2 November 1855. With original envelope addressed and also signed by Fillmore. A fine letter, written during the former President’s tour of Europe, thanking the Grand Duke for a gift and expressing America’s regard for the nobleman. Full Description
GERALD R. FORD. Autograph Letter Signed to U. S. Senator Paul Simon, no place [Rancho Mirage CA], 13 June [1992]. The former President comments on his nomination of John Paul Stevens to the U. S. Supreme Court and expresses his admiration for the Justice. Full Description
JAMES A. GARFIELD. Partly Printed Autograph Manuscript Signed in the text, no place, no date [ca. July or August 1863]. A remarkable biographical questionnaire, filled out by the Union general and future President during the Civil War, detailing his war-time military service at length. Full Description
JAMES A. GARFIELD. Letter Signed as the Republican candidate for President to General S[tephen]. A. Hurlbut, Mentor OH, 27 August 1880. Garfield promises to intercede with the current President, Rutherford B. Hayes, on General Hurlbut’s behalf and asks for the general’s help with his own Presidential campaign. Full Description
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES & WILLIAM McKINLEY. Autograph Letter Signed by Hayes as President on the back of an Autograph Letter Signed by McKinley as a Congressman, both to Edward F. Noyes and both Washington DC, 21 March 1878. These two Republicans, each of whom would serve as Governor of Ohio and as President during his career, write to another former Ohio Governor, asking him to assist an Ohio businessman seeking business abroad. Full Description
HERBERT HOOVER. Typed Document Signed, no place, no date. An attractive transcript of the statement issued by Herbert Hoover upon the death of former President Theodore Roosevelt on January 6, 1919. Full Description
THOMAS JEFFERSON. Partly Engraved Document Signed as President, no place, 18 January 1805. Also signed by seven other American men of science. A very scarce membership certificate for the American Philosophical Society, signed by Jefferson as the Society’s President at a time when he was also President of the United States. Full Description
ANDREW JOHNSON. Document Signed as President, Washington DC, 25 July 1865. A very scarce parole given by the President to an important Southern politician and former Confederate. Full Description
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Autograph Letter Signed to Alexander K. McClure, Springfield IL, 6 September 1860. A rare substantive letter about the 1860 Presidential campaign, in which Lincoln passes along a report of a scheme to funnel out-of-state money to his opponents in Pennsylvania. Full Description
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Autograph Letter Signed as President to the Secretary of the Treasury [Salmon P. Chase], Washington [DC], 2 March 1863. With an autograph docket by SALMON P. CHASE on the integral leaf. A fine, full-page Presidential letter showing Lincoln's handling of an ominous patronage dispute between a key Cabinet officer and Republican members of Congress. Full Descripton
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Partly Engraved Document Signed as President, Washington [DC], 24 May 1864. A military commission, in excellent condition and with a superb Lincoln signature, reinstating an officer, who had been cashiered for drunkenness, as a second lieutenant. Full Description
JAMES MONROE & JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Partly Engraved Document Signed by Monroe as President and by Adams as Secretary of State, Washington [DC], 16 March 1819. Also countersigned by WILLIAM WIRT as Attorney General. A very rare patent for a gun, in this case, for an “improvement in the Rifle.” Issued to Obadiah Stith, the patent includes the accompanying schedule which fully describes his invention. Full Description
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. Signed Photograph, no place, no date. An elegant, attractive photo of the First Lady, taken in the White House in 1941, that she has signed. Full Description
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Typed Letter Signed to Frank Joyce, New York [NY], 21 July 1924. A letter about the outcome of the 1924 Democratic National Convention, where FDR nominated Al Smith for President in a speech that marked his re-emergence as a national public figure following his attack of polio. Full Description
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Typed Document Signed, no place, 1924. A fine transcript of the tribute issued by Franklin Roosevelt upon the death of Woodrow Wilson, who had a significant influence on FDR’s political beliefs and career. Full Description
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Typed Document Signed twice, New York [NY], 1 February 1927. A promissory note for a loan of $5000 made by this future President to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, which he established in 1927 to provide rehabilitation to polio victims like himself. Full Description
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Typed Letter Signed to Colonel [William C.] Church, Headquarters 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, “In camp near Santiago de Cuba,” 5 August 1898. In this extraordinary, unpublished letter, written while still in Cuba, the future President offers an impassioned defense of the conduct of the Rough Riders in battle. Full Description
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Letter Signed to Colonel William C. Church, Camp Wikoff, Montauk Long Island [NY], 27 August 1898. As Colonel of the volunteer Rough Riders, Roosevelt praises the troops of the regular U. S. Army. Full Description
ZACHARY TAYLOR. Autograph Letter Signed to General John E. Wool, Camp near Monterey [Mexico], 22 May 1847. A Mexican War letter from the general and future President about Alexander Doniphan's Missouri volunteers, troops that won key victories in northern Mexico. Full Description
BESS W. TRUMAN. Typed Letter Signed as First Lady to Mrs. K. S. Axtater, Washington, DC, 23 June 1948. The First Lady expresses her regret that she was not able to meet an old friend during a recent trip to California. Full Description
HARRY S. TRUMAN. Typed Letter Signed as President, Washington, DC, 19 June 1951. The first President to call for national health insurance, Truman thanks a doctor for his efforts in support of the health plan. Full Description
HARRY S. TRUMAN. Signed Photograph, no place, no date. A photo that shows the former President standing with Pennsylvania Senator Joseph Clark and that is signed by both men. Full Description
JOHN TYLER. Partly Printed Document Signed as President, Washington [DC], 14 August 1844. As part of an early initiative to expand U. S. relations in the Far East, President Tyler authorizes America’s first commissioner to China to enter treaty negotiations with Japan. Full Description
GEORGE WASHINGTON. Partly Printed Document Signed as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, “Head-Quarters,” 5 June 1783. Countersigned by JONATHAN TRUMBULL JR. A classic Revolutionary War document, this is a discharge for a soldier in the Continental Army, signed by Washington at the end of the conflict. Full Description
GEORGE WASHINGTON. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, no place, no date [Mount Vernon, VA, early in 1789]. A significant fragment from Washington's handwritten draft of his first Inaugural Address, providing insight into his thoughts as he prepared to assume the Presidency. Full Description
GEORGE WASHINGTON. Letter Signed as President to Thomas McKean, New York [NY], 24 January 1790. A significant letter, written during his first year as President to a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, in which Washington sets out his fundamental policy on appointments to federal offices. Full Description
GEORGE WASHINGTON. Letter Signed as President to C[harles] Hall, Philadelphia [PA], 22 February 1797. Writing on his 65th birthday, his last birthday as President, Washington transmits his thanks to a group of citizens for their message of tribute. Full Description
WOODROW WILSON. Partly Printed Document Signed as President, Washington, DC, 5 March 1919. Countersigned by Acting Secretary of State FRANK L. POLK. A very rare Cabinet appointment, in which the President names A. Mitchell Palmer, of "Palmer Raids" fame, the U. S. Attorney General. Full Description
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