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Title: Letter from W.C. Ralston to F.D. Atherton, inviting him to dinner Author: Ralston, William C. Place: No place Publisher: Date: Thursday Morning [August 1874] Description: Autograph Letter Signed, in pencil. 21x13 cm. (8¾x5¼"), single sheet of lined paper. Rather hastily, and sloppily, written letter from one California business magnate to another, "My Dear Atherton, Will you feel able to join us at dinner at Belmont tomorrow (Friday) evening to meet Senator Cameron? Yours, Ralston. No Swallow Tails." Senator Cameron would be the notoriously corrupt Simon Cameron from Pennsylvania, who briefly served as Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or better condition. Item number: 256635