Signed portrait, holograph inscription to Richard Harding Davis, being an the Vanity Fair portrait

by Spy titled U.S.A. by John Hay

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

Inscribed in the margin below the image. Lithographed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son. 15 x 9 1/4 inches. Mounted to board. Toned, crease through the top of the image. Item #320026 An autographed Spy portrait of Hay, with a nice inscription to journalist and writer Richard Harding Davis, a close confidant of Theodore Roosevelt.Hay 1838-1905 Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and later biographer, served as Secretary of State

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