GRANT, Ulysses S. Manuscript signed ("U.S. Grant" as President, A DRAFT OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION ON THE NATION'S CENTENNIAL [issued 25 May 1876]. 1 page, folio, lined stationery, text in a secretary's hand . [With:] Letter (unsigned), text in the same secretarial hand as the proclamation, to Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), [Washington?], 18 May 1876. 7 lines plus date on verso of the preceding draft, neatly silked, clean horizontal fold separation. .
GRANT, Ulysses S. Manuscript signed ("U.S. Grant" as President, A DRAFT OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION ON THE NATION'S CENTENNIAL [issued 25 May 1876]. 1 page, folio, lined stationery, text in a secretary's hand . [With:] Letter (unsigned), text in the same secretarial hand as the proclamation, to Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), [Washington?], 18 May 1876. 7 lines plus date on verso of the preceding draft, neatly silked, clean horizontal fold separation. . PRESIDENT GRANT AND CONGRESS PROCLAIM THE NATION'S CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCES To his Secretary of State, Grant submits a formal draft proclamation, endorsing a Congressional joint resolution specifying national observance of the nation's Centennial: "I herewith send you an outline of my Centennial Proclamation which I will broadcast throughout the Nation in several days. Have you any suggestion or improvement to make on it. If so kindly do and return the document as quickly as possible...." The draft reads: "Whereas a joint Resolution...was duly approved," reading "'...Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives...in Congress assembled, That it be, and is hereby recommended...to the people of the several States that they assemble in their several counties or towns on the approaching Centennial Anniversary of our National Independence, and that they cause to be delivered on such day an historical sketch of said country or town from its formation, and that this day shall be a memorable one in the history of this Nation.' Given under my hand at the City of Washington, the twenty fifth day of May [1876]...and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundredth." Secretary of State Fish did suggest revisions to Grant's draft. For the final text of this historic Presidential proclamation, signed by both Grant and Fish, see Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents , vol.7, p.391 (with a photograph of the signature page). Provenance : Mrs. Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby's, 27 March 1985, lot 172).
GRANT, Ulysses S. Manuscript signed ("U.S. Grant" as President, A DRAFT OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION ON THE NATION'S CENTENNIAL [issued 25 May 1876]. 1 page, folio, lined stationery, text in a secretary's hand . [With:] Letter (unsigned), text in the same secretarial hand as the proclamation, to Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), [Washington?], 18 May 1876. 7 lines plus date on verso of the preceding draft, neatly silked, clean horizontal fold separation. .
GRANT, Ulysses S. Manuscript signed ("U.S. Grant" as President, A DRAFT OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION ON THE NATION'S CENTENNIAL [issued 25 May 1876]. 1 page, folio, lined stationery, text in a secretary's hand . [With:] Letter (unsigned), text in the same secretarial hand as the proclamation, to Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), [Washington?], 18 May 1876. 7 lines plus date on verso of the preceding draft, neatly silked, clean horizontal fold separation. . PRESIDENT GRANT AND CONGRESS PROCLAIM THE NATION'S CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCES To his Secretary of State, Grant submits a formal draft proclamation, endorsing a Congressional joint resolution specifying national observance of the nation's Centennial: "I herewith send you an outline of my Centennial Proclamation which I will broadcast throughout the Nation in several days. Have you any suggestion or improvement to make on it. If so kindly do and return the document as quickly as possible...." The draft reads: "Whereas a joint Resolution...was duly approved," reading "'...Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives...in Congress assembled, That it be, and is hereby recommended...to the people of the several States that they assemble in their several counties or towns on the approaching Centennial Anniversary of our National Independence, and that they cause to be delivered on such day an historical sketch of said country or town from its formation, and that this day shall be a memorable one in the history of this Nation.' Given under my hand at the City of Washington, the twenty fifth day of May [1876]...and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundredth." Secretary of State Fish did suggest revisions to Grant's draft. For the final text of this historic Presidential proclamation, signed by both Grant and Fish, see Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents , vol.7, p.391 (with a photograph of the signature page). Provenance : Mrs. Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby's, 27 March 1985, lot 172).
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