Western Union Telegraph Reporting The Shooting Of President Garfield

$550 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Boston, 21 July 1881. Manuscript in ink on printed form, 8” x 5.125”. CONDITION: Good, torn in two across top half of sheet and rejoined with document repair tape. A telegraph announcing the assassination attempt on President Garfield, sent the day of the attack by a businessman in Boston’s India Wharf to his wife at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.This

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