2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Autograph Letter Signed, “W.B. Franklin” as Vice President of the Colt Arms Co., 1p. quarto, on “Office of Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co.” lettersheet, Hartford, Connecticut, no dated though c. 1871, in pencil, addressed to A. Katikasy, the Russian Minister, in part: “...Understanding that his Highness the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia will pass through Hartford in teh course of his journey through the United States and as this Company has done much work for the Government of His Majesty...we are anxious that if it will be found convenient the Grand Duke...may visit our Factory...” A nice draft letter on Colt statationary. About VG. The third son of Emperor Alexander II, Grand Duke Alexis toured the United States in 1871-72 in the most important Russian official visit to America to that time. This trip highlighted a warm contemporary relationship between Russia and the United States and became a major public-relations event--Alexis was continually greeted by large crowds and newspaper reporters who published mostly favorable accounts of the grand duke in the local and national press. Although he toured a good part of America, the high point of his trip was his sojourn in the West. There this European nobleman engaged in rugged American diversions, hunting buffalo with General Sheridan and Buffalo Bill and thrilling at riding and shooting demonstrations by Sioux Indians--all to the delight of an enraptured public.
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