Lot 644: Felix Grundy Autograph Letter, Prints and Biography

1st item: Rare Felix Grundy (1777-1840) ALS dated Nashville, TN, June 11th, 1818, addressed to Thomas T. Armstrong of North Carolina: "Dear Sir, We have the smallpox in this place and the Federal Court has adjourned in consequence of it, having done no business – your suit stands on a rule for a new trial…" The letter goes on to urge Armstrong to "come to this state immediately – Mr. McCall has been with me yesterday and today, in consultations respecting that part of your father's estate now lying in the Indian boundry and not already sacrificed…" 10" x 7 1/2". 2nd item: Lithographed portrait of Felix Grundy after a painting by W.B. Cooper, published by Duval, Philadelphia, with facsimile autograph. Likely from an early book. Under glass in an antique wide giltwood frame with inscription, "direct descendant from Grundy W.A. Bass family." Sight – 8 1/2"H x 7 1/2"W. 16" X 15". Late 19th century. 3rd item: lithographed portrait of Grundy with facsimile signature, 11 1/2"h x 8"w, 20th century. 4th item: FELIX GRUNDY: CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY by Joseph Howard Parks, Louisiana State University Press, 1940. 368 pages. Previous owners inscription detailing relation of Grundy to the Bass family. Blue cloth covers, paper dustjacket. Note: Felix Grundy was an attorney and politician who served as the 13th United States Attorney General. He also served as a congressman and U.S. Senator from Tennessee.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville Collection.

CONDITION: Letter: smearing and crease across signature, some separations at fold lines. Lithograph in frame: heavily toned with foxing and dampstaining upper right, not examined out of frame. Unframed lithograph: toning, edge loss. Book: Dust jacket heavily toned, with chipping and sunning. Pages toned.