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NEW YORK AND AMERICAN POLITICS. Approximately 55 items: 1. CLINTON, DEWITT. Autograph Letter Signed ("Dewitt Clinton") to Henry Remsen, transmitting a note, 1 p, annotated "the enclosed note returned to Mr Clinton the same day," bifolium, with address and return address to last leaf, tear from seal removal, folded. 2. CALHOUN, JOHN C. Autograph Note Signed integrally ("Mr Calhoun") to "Mr [James] Lanman of the Senate," being a dinner invitation, [Washington, DC,] December 29, some soiling and tears. 3. FISH, HAMILTON. Check signed ("Hamilton Fish"), to William Evarts for $300, New York, June 9, 1875. 4. TILDEN, SAMUEL J. Autograph Letter Signed ("S.J. Tilden") to President Andrew Johnson regarding the passing over of A.J. Bleecker for an appointment, 3 pp, New York, Jan 27, 1868. WITH: additional autograph material from Richard Olney, William Stead, Thomas Bayard (ALS, 6 pp) and Charles Dudley Warner on the Olney-Paunceforth Arbitration Treaty; Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes (4 TLS, DS); Judge Herald Medina (Autograph on envelope); Judge Mahlon Pitney; William Travers Jerome; Joseph Hodges Choate (4 LS); George W. Wickersham (2 LS); Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller; Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite; Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (2 TLS); Syngman Rhee; Elihu Root (9 TLS); Edward John Phelps; Seth Low; Prof. Francis Lieber (2 ALS); William J. Gaynor; John Bigelow; Mayor Alfred E. Smith (4 TLS); William Frye; George B. McClellan (3 TLS); Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. and the Secretary to the Governor [Josh?] Graham; George Bruce Cortelyou; Warren R. Austin; William Windom (2 TLS); AND Amory Houghton signed absentee ballots for Phyllis Dodge and for Cleveland Dodge.