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In this fascinating letter, Alexander Hamilton's son thanks U.S. Senator Jacob M. Howard for his report on President Andrew Johnson's attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. That attempt and the refusal of the Senate to endorse it led the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Johnson just six weeks after Hamilton wrote this letter.

John Hamilton also jokingly refers to Howard's thinly veiled criticism of Thomas Jefferson, whom Hamilton characterizes as the "Machiavel of the U States." Italian Renaissance man Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) wrote The Prince
(1513, published 1532) in which he commends an amoral expediency in the ruthless exercise of power, exactly the view the younger Hamilton held of Jefferson. Hamilton also commends his father's plan for funding the nation's Revolutionary War debt as a model for funding the Civil War debt. JOHN C. HAMILTON.
Autograph Letter Signed, to Jacob M. Howard, January 11, 1868, New York. 2 pp., 5 x 7⅞ in.
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A unique and important artifact of his childhood.
[ALBERT EINSTEIN]. Ephemera. Set of Anker-Steinbaukasten children's building blocks by F. Ad. Richter & Cie., Rudolstadt, [Germany], c.1880s. Approximately 160 composite quartz sand, chalk, and linseed oil blocks in red, limestone and slate gray, in various sizes and shapes, together with three or more sets of building plans, all contained in two wooden boxes with printed Anker-Steinbaukasten labels.
Einstein spent his childhood building "complicated structures" with these Anker-Steinbaukasten blocks. Accepting his later theory that "Imagination is more important than knowledge," the toys that encouraged his imagination became building blocks for the most important scientific theories of the last millennium.
His sister Maja Winteler-Einstein, describing his childhood, recalled that "The games he played … were very characteristic of Albert's capacities. These were mostly puzzles, fretsaw work, the erection of complicated structures with the well-known… Read More

CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT.
Autograph Document Signed. Check. New York, N.Y., December 31, 1899. 1 p. "Received from Harriet Taylor Upton Eight & 75/100 Dollars balance on Indianapolis expenses… Carrie Chapman Catt"

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was a pivotal figure in the fight for woman suffrage. She was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which made the final push for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

Condition

Two short fold separations, mended.